Hanna woke up the next morning feeling more well rested than she had in ages. She looked at the clock, which read 8:02am. Hanna had not woken up before 11:00am in 4 years. Clearly she should go to bed early more often.
Filled with an energy she could barely contain, going back to sleep was clearly not an option. She headed upstairs in search of breakfast, emerging from her basement bedroom to the shock of her parents. They could barely believe their eyes when she sat down, lively engaging her father in small talk about his work - Mr. and Mrs. Liu had long since given up on trying to force their daughter to be a morning person.
Hanna, completely unaccustomed to being up more than 5 minutes before her first lecture, was unsure of what to do next. She killed the time on the couch in the living room, aimlessly scrolling through Reddit as she always did. Between the various memes, she kept passing by gifs of spirals, posted to a subreddit she did not remember subscribing to. Confused, Hanna clicked into the community.
A feeling of warmth and familiarity greeted her as she opened the gif on the stickied post. Hanna relaxed instantly, the pleasantly alluring spiral spinning slowly on her phone. She stared at it, feeling her thoughts melt away one at a time. It was as if each individual worry, anxiety, fear, excitement and memory was being washed away by the flowing river of the spiral. She was starting to float down the river. It felt so nice.
Hanna was only knocked out of this lovely state when her mom came into the living room and practically knocked the phone out of her hand. Yelling something about chores and how she had been sitting on the couch for an hour and a half. Hanna very much doubted that, it couldn't have been more than 10 minutes. And yet her phone did say it was now 10:11am... weird.
The rest of the day was a scramble of household chores, Zoom lectures, and trying to organize a particularly useless group for a project due in two days. Hanna was quiet through dinner with her parents, and excused herself quickly. All she wanted to do was to return to her bed. Return to the river.
When she finally flopped into bed, she pulled out her phone and searched the subreddit up. It occurred to her that these videos were strange. That something felt slightly off about the whole thing. It was weird that there were no comments, no upvotes, just the numbered posts stretching on for pages. How did she even find this thing?
Without thinking, she clicked on post number 3. Soft music filled her headphones, and the addicting spirals returned. The river began to wash away her thoughts. This wasn't that weird. It was relaxing. Nothing this relaxing could possibly be bad for her.
She laid back in bed, her long black hair flowing around her, her phone held up above her head. The spirals were brighter this evening, more vibrant and colourful than before. It drew her in, deeper and deeper she fell, until all thoughts were gone and she was an empty shell floating down the lazy river. Words flashed on the screen:
RELAX
Hanna was relaxed. It felt so good to relax.
OBEY
She was obeying. It felt good to obey.
STRIP
If it felt this good to relax, and this good to obey, she should probably strip too. It was all she was capable of considering at that moment.
She looped her thumb around the waistband of her pyjama pants, pulling them off in one swift motion. Then she pulled her T-shirt over her head. Next she unclasped her bra, freeing her petite breasts, and discarded it. Finally, without taking her eyes off her phone for a moment, she pulled her panties past her ankles. A pleasant tingle shot up her spine. She had obeyed. It felt good to obey.
HORNY
The now naked Hanna's pleasure from obeying the previous suggestion was redirected to her pussy. She wanted to obey, she wanted to..
MASTURBATE
She felt a great deal of relief as her hand shot down to her increasingly wet pussy. Her clit danced with excitement as she applied pressure, her reward for obeying. God it felt good to obey.
HORNY
