"I thought you said you weren't going to be stopping by here anymore," Ellen said mildly, glancing up from her book at the open doorway to her dorm room. Her big glasses magnified her wide hazel eyes--not that Chrissie noticed because she wasn't looking at Ellen's eyes, because looking at Ellen's eyes meant ceding a lot of power very early in the conversation, and Chrissie was already giving up a big advantage to Ellen just by showing up at her door. And anyway Chrissie already knew exactly what Ellen's eyes looked like. She saw them in her dreams now.
So instead she kept her gaze squarely on the floor at Ellen's feet, uncomfortably aware of how meek and simpering it must make her look, and sheepishly admitted, "I, um... I may have been a little bit hasty when I said that. I thought maybe we could, uh, y'know....?" Chrissie tried to tell herself she was letting the question hang flirtatiously in the air unfinished, but the truth was she couldn't quite bring herself to spell out the purpose of her visit. Ellen almost certainly knew already, and she would probably make a big deal out of it if Chrissie said it out loud after their--their disagreement, Chrissie equivocated to herself. Bad enough that she was here without having to make a big public confession out of it.
Ellen closed her book and set it on the little table next to her easy chair. It was the only piece of furniture in the room apart from her bed, and Chrissie knew from experience that was deliberate; any visitors would either have to sit on the floor or on the bed, both of which implied a certain dynamic that privileged Ellen's status in any interaction. "No, I don't know," the young white woman said, her voice still without a hint of anger or irritation. "Please, do tell me what you want." Her gaze was level, unblinking. Chrissie still couldn't bring herself to meet it.
She began to nervously fiddle with her long blonde hair, uncomfortably aware of the way Ellen watched her every twitch and fidget for signs of vulnerability. "Well, uhh, I was in my room, and, uhh, I was... I was, y'know, thinking of the good times we had together, and, uhh, I thought, well, maybe you and I could, ummm, y'know, we could maybe, uh, play together? Not, like, in a, in a serious way or anything. Just some light fun, the kind we had back when we first started." She could feel her cheeks going beet red, humiliated into a furious blush by her stammering incoherence. Chrissie was studying drama, practicing to become a star of stage and screen. If she'd ever blown a monologue like that, she probably would have given up and moved back to Nebraska.
Ellen watched the entire thing, studying her like an insect under a magnifying glass as she stumbled and squirmed her way through the entire pathetic speech. She waited a good ten seconds after the babbling stream of words dried up, just to make sure Chrissie was entirely finished. Then she spoke. "No," she said, picking up her book again and opening it to the place she left off. She looked down, making Chrissie feel entirely invisible.
"No?" she squeaked out, an incredulous whimper replacing the indignant shout she'd intended to let loose with. "That's all you have to say? I, I swallow my pride, I come back down here and admit I... I like you...." Another equivocation, this one eliding two desperate weeks of fruitless masturbation that only served to bring into sharp relief the difference between reminiscing with her fingers between her thighs and the way Ellen's caresses left Chrissie panting and moaning and helplessly, mindlessly cumming for what felt like hours on end. "And that's all you have to say, just 'no'? What about--"
Ellen cut her off. "I already told you, I'm not interested in casual play. I want a partner who's ready to really surrender to me, to let me inside her head and give me complete control of her mind and her will. You told me that was too much for you, and you'd rather give up the hypnosis and the sex cold turkey than enter into that kind of complete and total submission." She looked up from the book again, and this time Chrissie didn't lower her sparkling blue eyes fast enough. She found herself helplessly pinned by Ellen's cool, confident stare. "You haven't changed your mind about that, have you?"