Jacob woke up naked and asleep on his bed. He noticed that he was wearing a watch. It read in plain numbers
6:32:2#. The # sign represents the seconds and was ticking by second after second. He pulled up his phone and texted Heather.
"What do the numbers on my watch represent?"
"That is the time down to the second since your last release. After 48 hours you should start getting worried. That is why I suggest you begin lining up your next partner. You don't want it to come down to the last wire. And remember, rape, is also out of the question."
"I wasn't planning on it." Jacob texted back.
"I forgot to tell you that last night. I wanted to make sure you knew though. If you get past 48 hours I want you to have a way to relieve the pain but I don't want you to break any laws."
"I'd rather die than force someone to get me off."
"Well since that is a very real possibility I suggest you start getting flirty or persuasive...or both. I am no longer allowed to bail you out. Last night was your only freebie."
Jacob's mind went to last night. He remembered quite vividly how amazing it had felt, just getting a hand job from Heather. His body seemed to genuinely crave being touched. He didn't want to procrastinate on this but he also didn't want to continue hurting people by pulling "Fuck and forgets."
Then again this person that was now in control of him had created the perfect situation in which he practically had to go from one "one night stand" to the next.
"Little hint: Check the social Media site and also check Clair's website she made about you."
This was again a text from Heather.
Jacob thought of going to the site but he decided he had a much better route, and her name was Taylor.
Taylor had practically molested him the night she had come over to visit. He thought he had drawn her off by slowly massaging her lady parts with his hands until she had came over and over again. Unfortunately it had only seemed to stoke her fire and she pounced on him like a jungle cat as he came out of the shower.
He texted her first.
"Hey Taylor. It's Jacob. How have you been?"
After a while she finally responded back.
"Pretty good. I've got a boyfriend now."
Jacob's heart sank. The one person he wouldn't have felt bad about having a one night stand with and she had a boyfriend now.
"Why you texting me out of the blue?"
"Can't I see how an old friend is doing?"
"I wouldn't exactly call us 'old friends'."
"Well I have seen more of you than I have of most of my friends. That's gotta be worth a few years."
"I'm not sure it works that way." She texted back.
"So who is the new guy?"
"Someone better than you :P"
Jacob paused as he read this last one. He didn't know how to interpret her emoticon. Was she messing with him, or was she truly trying to get a reaction out of him? He left it alone and simply texted "Good for you."
She didn't text him back so he decided to try and return to a life that was somewhat like the one he had known before Heather had come over the first time. He got ready for school and went through his daily cycle of classes.
He saw Rose and Alex but they seemed to ignore him. This hurt him quite a bit as he still wanted to at least be friends with both of them.
As the day wound down Jacob looked down at his watch. It now read 20:08 and a few seconds. He knocked out his homework quickly and then shot a text to Heather.
"What difference does it make to this guy whether or not I sleep with women? I don't see the point of this little game of his."
"Well on the most basic level, this is a live form of pornography."
"How is that? He can't even watch me getting it on with these girls."
He didn't get a text back immediately and he began to worry.
"He can see me somehow, can't he?" Jacob texted.
"He and I can tap into your ocular nerve to be able to see what you are seeing. I can do it at any time, he can only do it when I drop the firewall to the program he is using to monitor you and your other vitals. He can see all of your other vitals at any given moment. I can see your vitals and what you are seeing whenever I want to. Oh and of course the firewall automatically drops any time your vitals show signs of sexual activity."
"Why can you see what I see at any given moment?"
"Because he and I are both watching to make sure you are following his rules. But it is only fair to you that an unbiased party have the most control over you."
"Wow I didn't really think there would be any rules in my favor."
"We are not completely inhuman."
"You mentioned trying to remove the device could cause a fatal reaction from the device. Does that mean you wouldn't mind if I were killed?"
"Jacob...the punishment for removing the device has to be a drastic one. Would I be sad to see you die? Of course I would. I don't want to see anyone die. I'm not doing it for the greatest reasons, it does pay pretty well, but believe it or not I am rooting for you. For my boss it is nothing more than the opportunity to see pornography in its purest form."
"You people are something else." Jacob texted back. He hated the amount of pure control they seemed to have over him. Now he had to deal with knowing that at any moment Heather could be watching through his eyes and seeing what he could see. At least he had met her. That made it a little less creepy.
"Consult the two sites I told you about. They will have plenty of partners for you to get relief from."
It was the last text he would receive from Heather for the night. He put the phone on his coffee table and brought his lap top up into his recliner with him.
He looked at his watch. 23:34 and thirty something seconds were on the screen. One day without a release was almost over. He brought up the universities' social media site. He went to his inbox and began to scroll through messages. There were quite a few from names he didn't recognize. A good deal of these were from women. He started to read through the first one when he suddenly put the laptop down.
"Fuck this!" He said out loud. "I'm not in any hurry to go do this. I'll start searching when it comes down to the wire. For now I won't give them the satisfaction of knowing they can control me like this."
Another day went by and Jacob got his wish. He made it the full 48 hours without giving a way to complete his two mission a single thought. He felt defiant and victorious against his unseen master. And then the pain hit him.
It started just above his balls. It was as if someone had already kicked him in the testicles and the pain had already traveled up into his stomach. He doubled over and closed his eyes.
"It's all in my mind." He said out loud. His eyes closed from the pain. When he opened them again the world in front of him was spinning. His phone vibrated, indicating a text message had been received.