"I mean what the FUCK Hanna. Where the hell were you? Grace continued, pacing back and forth. "You ignore me for weeks, then you come and hang out and seem kinda weird and distracted, and then you ignore me for another few weeks and THEN use me as an excuse to go somewhere and lie to your parents? Where the HELL were you?" Grace demanded.
Grace was furious. Hanna was sitting on her bed, looking shamefully at the floor while her friend yelled at her. Earlier that day, Grace had been walking out of her house when she had seen Mrs. Liu. When Hanna's mother had asked how their trip was, Grace had responded enthusiastically. When she had thanked Grace for taking Hanna with her, saying how badly she thought Hanna had needed the trip, the shocked Grace could only nod. Grace had further covered for Hanna when Mrs. Liu had asked about where Hanna was, saying that she had gone out to meet up with another friend.
Hanna sat there, her shame at the way she had been treating Grace too much to handle. She felt her phone vibrate in her pocket. What if it was a text from Master! Her heart raced for a second. She forgot about her friend, and quickly checked her phone. It was just a text from her group project mate. Her disappointment was immeasurable.
"Are you going to answer me? Or just check your phone? Is it a boy? Is that why you've been so weird? Hanna, please, you have to tell me what is going on." Hanna looked at her friend, seeing the genuine concern on her face. She couldn't tell her, it was too shameful. She wished Master was here, he would know what to do. He would have the perfect spiral to calm her down. But he wasn't, only Grace was. How much longer could Hanna keep lying to her friend?
"Grace... I'm sorry. I'm so sorry I've been such a bad friend." Hanna said earnestly. She had been so focused on the spirals, on following her Master's every command that she had forgotten about the things that used to be important to her. It made her feel awful. Her best friend from childhood was staring at her, the concern in her eyes very real. Hanna had let her down, had caused her to worry, to fear. She used to tell Grace everything, they were each other's closest confidants. And yet, even in that moment, Hanna wished more than anything else to return to the spirals.
"Hanna, please. Please just talk to me." Grace begged, tears in her eyes. Hanna could hardly look at her, couldn't meet her friend's gaze. "I just want to talk - to know that you are ok. You're really scaring me right now." she said.
Hanna wished she was back at her Master's house, back serving him. That world was easy to live in, there was only one choice: submission. Everything else, all the other mundane decisions and tribulations of life didn't matter - it wasn't her place to decide how to deal with them. Except that wasn't the case here. Master was not here, only Grace. Hanna couldn't just ignore her oldest friend. She felt tremendous guilt. Coupled with the fact that her mind had been broken again and again over the last week, she simply did not have the mental fortitude to keep it a secret any longer.
"I met a guy." Hanna said quietly, as if speaking above a whisper would cause it all to spill out immediately. "Well, we met online... I've been looking at these, these videos." Hanna started to explain, trying to not sound insane. Grace sat down next to her, listening intently: "What videos?" she asked.
"They're, they're hypnotic, these spirals. They're so nice, they make me feel so warm and fuzzy." And with that, the floodgates opened. Hanna explained everything, the website she found, the routine she started to follow, how good it all made her feel. "It's like nothing else I've ever experienced Grace, you would not believe how relaxed I have been. They make me feel soooo calm and happy" Hanna said in a dream-like voice, a distant look of bliss coming over her face.
"And you went to meet this guy?" Grace asked, incredulously. After a few moments, she had to tap Hanna on the shoulder to get her attention. Hanna shook her head, trying to bring herself back into the present. "Well.. yea. After a while he wanted to meet up at a hotel, and... well - the excitement got the better of me." Hanna said as she started to tell the story of the night she first met Master. With a longing in her voice, she explained how he had told her she had to chose to follow him up, how she had, and how the sex she had that night was by far the best of her life. Then she had come home - she had thought she didn't want to look at the spirals anymore, but she couldn't stay away. "The spirals, you don't understand, they make me feel so blank and empty, it feels soooo good." she finished whimsically.
"Hanna, these sound really dangerous. Listen to yourself! You've been acting really weird, not like you normally do at all. These spirals are making you do things - this guy is controlling you!" Grace implored. Hanna listened to her friend. She understood what Grace was saying, Hanna had thought all of this before - back when she had doubts - before Master had broken her capacity for independent thought. Maybe her friend was right, maybe Hanna was being weird. Had she ever really considered how dangerous this could be? What if Master made her do things she didn't want to? Had he already done that? But she already knew Master was controlling her - of course he controlled her - she was a slave. Not only that, she liked it. She wanted to be controlled!
"What happened this week Hanna, where were you?" Grace asked seriously. She had taken Hanna's hand in hers. Grace couldn't believe what she was hearing. Hanna was acting like she was drunk, she kept losing focus every few moments, every time these weird spirals were brought up. She doubted Hanna was making this up, her friend had never been a good story teller or a good liar.
Hanna launched into the story of the past week. The amazing house, the wonderful pool, the spirals. Hanna could see her friend's face get more and more worried as Hanna described the week in explicit detail. Sucking Master's cock by the pool, taking his cock in her ass, the mind-melting orgasms she experienced while he fucked her with her headset on. Hanna was getting unnerved by Grace's reactions to what Hanna remembered as amazing experiences. Had she been tricked by Master? That was impossible, she wanted to obey Master. She HAD to obey Master.
"Hanna, you need to go to the police. This is not ok." Grace said seriously. Hanna was torn. She knew Grace had her best interests at heart, and a part of her even knew that what Grace was saying made sense. But Hanna was an obedient slave now, she was incapable of questioning her Master. Maybe if she just showed Grace the spirals, Grace would understand. She just didn't know how amazing the spirals made her feel. If Hanna just showed her one, it would make her understand. Grace needed to understand.
Hanna grabbed her phone from beside her. She found a text from Master waiting for her, with a link that just said "Use this one with your friend." Hanna opened the link and was immediately greeted with a breathtaking spiral. She recognised it as one of the ones Master had been working on during the past week. It was intricate, a blend of colours that seared the image directly into her retinas.
"Here" Hanna said vacantly, as she passed the phone to Grace. "Look at this.."
"No don't show me the spi..." Almost instantly, Grace's eyes glazed over. Hanna watched her friend with rapt attention. It was so exciting. Grace was finally going to understand how good it felt to be blank and vacant. Hanna thought back dreamily to the first time she had laid eyes on the spirals. Grace had been mad before, but she just hadn't understood how good it felt to obey. Master had broken Hanna's silly thoughts of disobedience before, now he would do the same to Grace.
Her friend stared at the screen, phone loosely held in one hand. Her eyes were unfocused, her jaw slack. Hanna felt so relieved. She had been carrying this secret for so long - it was nice to tell someone else. Meanwhile Grace was lost in the rapture of the spirals while Hanna felt the pleasant tingle of obedience run down her spine.
Soon Grace was laying back on the bed, one hand holding up the phone, the other was down her shorts. Hanna sat patiently on the bed with her legs crossed, her mind occupied with thoughts of serving her Master, thinking about how exciting it was that Grace was going to get to experience the same bliss. Right on cue, her friend moaned loudly, lost in her own pleasure.
Hanna desperately wished she could be staring into the spirals along with her friend, but she didn't want to interrupt. Grace looked so blissful, her eyes lazily following the spirals as they continued their delicious rotation. Watching her friend like this, Hanna kept getting the little pulses of pleasure that usually came from obeying her Master.
Grace came loudly, her arm falling to her side, Hanna's phone sliding out of her hand. Her legs shook as her back arched back. She whimpered for a few more seconds, shaking slightly before she went still, body splayed on Hanna's bed. Hanna reached for her phone, hoping to watch the spirals herself. Instantly, she was lost in their beauty. She didn't know how much time passed before Grace began to stir next to her.
"What, what was that?" Grace asked groggily.
