Stories about high school nerds discovering mind control techniques the rest of the world missed aren't nearly as ludicrous as you might think. You don't have to be a government super genius to devise a route into the prom queen's panties. Most relevant information is online already, researched by universities with budgets more than both my parents make together. The trick to enslaving the prissy prom queen or cheerleader or class president might be the next link you click.
You should be a little resourceful. I mean, you can't just Ask Jeeves how to enslave pretty high school girls and make them horny for your dick. You have to know what research to look for.
For instance, is there a chemical that triggers the sucking reflex? Is there a hormone that facilitates bonding between a mother and her baby? What biological process allow a person to recognize an idea as good?
Barry researches this information. He’s the nerd in our little click, a friendly mad scientist type with stringy, unwashed hair and a manic grin that never falters. Barry is always interesting to listen to, even though he isn't the cutest guy I hang out with. That guy is Danny, who can almost grow a beard and who I make out with every chance I get. There are a couple other guys in our crowd too and I get along with all of them, except Ed, who is perverted and gross. He talks a lot of shit, and has sex with any girl who lets him (fat girls, skanky girls, etc) and makes us watch porno movies when we hang out at his place. Ed makes me uncomfortable, but we hang out with him because he's older and buys us beer. Once, Ed grabbed my tit, and Danny kicked his ass right there. Danny is so cool.
Being the only girl in our group, it’s my mission to help the other guys get girls too. Sure, I like the attention I get being the only female, but the guys need girlfriends of their own if they’re ever to clean up into the respectable young men I know they can be. Besides, they have such lofty goals for the girlfriends they don't have. Barry once researched condoms and knows which are really the thinnest (Beyond Seven). Mike keeps all the Victoria Secrets catalogs and a list of the sexy outfits he wants to buy a girl if he ever gets one. Greg reads Penthouse Forum and sends letters too, though we all know he’s still a virgin.
What is it about these guys that keeps them from meeting girls? Shyness, probably. They’re an antisocial bunch, well, to anyone besides each other. They avoid after school functions, preferring instead to play Dungeons & Dragons, though from what I see, they never do anything but make characters. I try to bring girls around when I can, but alas, they always leave. It’s pointless. Danny's friends are losers.
And so, when Barry asks if I'll participate in his experiment, I’m willing to play along. To hear him say it, this means the difference between godhood and dying virgins. He wants to mind control me.
"Sure," I agree, easily enough. I probably should think about it more, but Danny will be here. He watches out for me.
What’s something I ordinarily wouldn't do? When the guys ask, I’m not sure how to answer. Tons of things I’d never do, but blowing up busloads of nuns (for instance) isn’t something I want Barry mind controlling me for.
"Joanna won't have sex," Danny says, whiny, whiny, whiny. I hate when he whines. Certainly, it doesn't make me want to indulge him, yet this isn't a good test of Barry’s mind control formula, mostly since it’s not something I’m wholeheartedly against. In mine and Danny’s situation, it’s not if, but when. We’re waiting for the right time. We’ve been waiting for about a year.
No, if they’re going to test Barry’s formula out on me, we need to make sure it works. His commands need to be something I wouldn’t normally do.
Ed has an idea. "Tell Joanna to have sex with me. That's not something she’d ever do."
"Great idea," I say, but sarcastically, like saying fuck you. Danny comes to my rescue as I knew he would. "No fucking way," he barks and since he can kick anyone’s ass, that’s that.
"Tell you what then," Barry says, "let's just get you in a mind controlled state and see how suggestible you are. We can take it from there."
There’s the whole group of them and my boyfriend, and they’re all basically good guys (except Ed), so I figure it’s all right. "Okay," I agree and Barry gives me a Dixie cup filled with orange colored slop.
"This is an amino acid cocktail," Barry explains. "It's going to simulate the chemistry of your brain when you've just had a really good idea. You know how sometimes you recognize something's a good idea right off? That's cause of these amino acids."
"Will it hurt me?"
Barry sure it won’t. Every ingredient is over the counter, stuff you can buy at GNC if you know what you’re looking for. "It's not any different than what's normally in your brain," he explains. "Only this is a larger dose. You should be okay."
So I drink it. It tastes fucking nasty as hell and it’s all I can do to not puke it right back up. I grab Mike's cherry coke to chase it down. I think I’m more aware of the cold flavor of cherry and cola than ever before. Even so, the bitterness of that orange fluid lingers on my tongue.
They watch me expectantly.
"Am I supposed to feel something right away?" I ask.
Barry shrugs.
"Think," Ed says. "I should take off my clothes."
Danny punches him in the shoulder.
And then I feel something. A tingling in the back of my neck. It’s funny. I’m suddenly compelled to take off my clothes. I know they'll approve. Maybe Danny will feel weird, but it’s probably okay if all I take off is my shirt.
I take off my shirt. All the guys laugh, and I laugh too. It’s like we’re all in on the same joke.
"Okay," Mike asks the gang. "What's something she wouldn't normally do?"
"Besides taking off her shirt?"
That's right, I realize. I don't normally do this.
My taking off my shirt is positive proof that Barry's formula works. They can all have girlfriends now. Go forth and multiply. Yet, my being like this is interesting to them. Suddenly the new experiment seems to be what are Joanna's boundaries and how far can we push them?
Ed says, in the voice of a detached researcher, "I want to take off the rest of my clothes."
This time, Danny doesn’t punch him. I take this to mean it’s okay for me to take off the rest of my clothes. I strip slowly, and it feels freeing to do it. As I peel off my panties, I’m extremely conscious of where my pubic hair leaves off and the air begins. I don’t feel shy hardly at all. To the contrary, I am completely confident of the rightness of my being naked with five boys.
"I'd really like it if everyone here was naked," Ed says, like it’s supposed to be what I’m thinking. "We should always be naked around each other."
And he’s right when you think about it. If I’m naked, they should be naked too. After all, no one’s better than anyone else here.
I say as much. They all laugh nervously, but then Ed really undresses. Danny tells him to put his clothes back on, but I protest. "Danny, you take your clothes off too." I start helping him, which is something I have never done, and which he certainly doesn't want to put a stop to. I convince everyone to take off their clothes.
"Isn't this better?" I ask, and can feel the heat of us all in Barry's bedroom. It feels so good to finally be naked with them.