"It's time to wake up now."
With just those six words, I regained the ability to open my eyes. Regained? I guess that's not the right word. I'd only just dozed offânothing more.
"Well, how do you feel?" The hypnotist grinned at me. I didn't see why he was grinning, though. He was a friend of mine. His name was Kyle and he liked to think he was a master when it came to hypnosis. I guess in a sense he was. I did get into a trance, after allâwell, I did if that's what you call falling asleep from the weight of sheer boredom.
"No different, Ky. You suck at this." I really didn't feel any different. At that point I almost considered letting him call off the bet. You see, we had a bet going. He said he could turn me gay without making me less attracted to womenâhe thought he could make gay sex better than straight sex for me. I thought hypnosis was all bullshit, so I figured what the hell; it'd be an easy hundred dollars if nothing more.
"No different? Well, then, let's try this... faggot!" Right as he shouted that word, my right hand shot up in the air. I looked at it with what anybody who wasn't in my situation would consider a hilarious expression.
"What the hell!? How did you do that? Is thatâam I stuck like this?" Kyle was clearly enjoying my expression of horror which lasted even after my hand was able to go down again.
"Don't worry, that trigger only works for my voice. Think of it as your way of telling me just what a faggotâ"my hand shot up again"â you are. I hope you're ready to give me that hundred bucks." After that little show I considered begging him to let me off the bet right then and there, but a bet's a bet. They say hypnosis can't make you do anything you don't want to do so I managed to convince myself that I could still win it.
"Alright Ky, you made me raise my fuckin' hand. We'll see how you're feeling in a couple weeks when your wallet's a hundred bucks lighter." At that point it was time to head home. It was pretty late and I didn't want to get caught in traffic. I grabbed my jacket and was about to leave the house when Ky walked up to me holding a plain cardboard box.
"Here, take this box with you."
"What's in it?
"It's part of the hypnosis. Don't open it up until I tell you. "
"Alright, sure, whatever. A deal's a deal. I'll do whatever you ask until next week's up."
Box in hand I left his apartment and took the elevator to the first floor. It was raining outside but my car was in the parking garage next door. After I was safely inside it, I got curious about what he'd put in the box. I promised him I wouldn't open itâand I'm not the type to go back on his wordâbut I didn't say I wouldn't try to puzzle it out some other way. I gave it a shake, and there was a dull thud as whatever was inside of it moved around.
It was longer than it was wide, and made out of some kind of rubber. There were also a couple of other things in there. Some kind of can or something, and a smaller metal object. There might have been some other things in there but I couldn't think of any way of figuring it out without breaking my promise.
I sighed and set the box aside, then buckled in for a fairly uneventful drive home through the rain. When I got inside my house I checked my cell phone. I'd forgotten that I turned it on silent when I was being "hypnotized" by Kyle, so I turned the ring tone back on and set it aside.
After doing the usual house stuffâcleaning, cooking dinner, watching TV, and what-have-youâI decided to sit down and watch some porn. I got myself comfortable in bed and powered up my computerâit's set up right next to bedâand navigated to my favorite site, xhamster.com. It was only seconds before I started stroking my cock.
I'm reasonably proud of my dick. It's six-and-a-half inchesâseven on a good dayâwith a little bit of a curve to the left. At the base I had thick pubic hair which I did little to trim or maintain. I kind of liked the way it made me look. Manlyâpowerful.
While watching yet another video of some silicone monstrosity taking dicks up her ass like a champ, I noticed something was wrong. I wasn't really relating to the man doing the pounding. In fact I was kind of fantasizing about what the girl was feeling. Believe me, when you're straight as an arrow that's a terrifying realization.
After a few minutesâlong enough for my cock to fully deflateâI worked up the courage to test myself. I clicked over to some gay porn, picked at random, and waited for the video to load up. My heart was beating like shoes in a dryer at that point, but I calmed down a bit when the kissing and stripping didn't do anything to rouse my limp dick.
Needless to say I was pretty damn shocked at what happened when one of the men on the screen pulled the other's cock out and started sucking. My dick was standing at attention almost instantly and it was the hardest erection I've ever had. That was enough for me. I closed out the window and decided to go to sleep. It was an odd feeling, being sexually frustrated and yet disgusted with myself.
I checked my cell phone the next day, after work. Lo and behold, Ky had left me a message.
6:32PM Kyle Anderson: Hypno time. My place. Faggot!
My hand shot up in the air right as I read thatâluckily the parking garage was deserted. It took me a few seconds to force my hand back down. And with that a night of masturbation and soul searching had been replaced with a night of hypnotism that I feared would worsen my decline. A bet's a bet, though.