"Wait I still don't get it. Can you read it again?" Sophie asked from the other couch. I rolled my eyes and wrapped my arm around Damon's. "You just want Damon to read it again because you like listening to his voice."
"Maayybee. It's just so relaxing. I feel like I can just turn my brain off and relax." Sophie said sheepishly.
Bella threw a pillow at Sophie. "Girl. Get your own man. Leave Damon to Alyssa." Sophia blushed. "I just said I liked his voice. I wasn't hitting on him."
It didn't bother me. Besides Sophie didn't know the half of it. Damon's voice wasn't just soothing it was hypnotic. He was the first and only hypnotist I'd been with. Sophie could never imagine the things we'd been getting up to.
Damon Chuckled "Ladies please. I never thought I'd have so much demand to read the instructions of a card game. But I'll go through it again." He shot me a sly look out of the corner of his eye.
"Now listen very carefully. Give me your complete and undivided attention. Just let everything in the room fade away until you find yourself totally focused on my words. Now you know these games can be complicated so it's very important that you pay attention.
I focused on Damon's word. It was easy since he'd hypnotized so many times. Though I could see looks of studied concentration on my friend's faces too.
"But I'm here to explain everything and make it easy for you. So knowing that you can let yourself relax. Relaxing down completely and just trusting me to handle this. You trust me. You listen to me."
My eyes blinked a few times. Of course I trusted him and listened to him. He was my boyfriend after all. It was nice to have him here to explain these games. My friends and I liked doing game nights but learning new games was always such a pain.
"That's very good. As you hear me you know you can just turn your brain off. You don't need to think. You can just turn your brain off and follow my voice.
Sophie had a distant look on her face. "Follow..." with a few strands of her long blonde hair falling into her eyes. She didn't seem to notice.
A self-satisfied smirk on his face, Damon continued "That's it. You're all doing so well. Now you find the game is easiest to play if you just stop thinking completely and let my words drift directly into your minds. All you have to do is just obey all the rules of the game as I explain them to you. Don't think. In fact you're much too sleepy and relaxed to think. You couldn't think if you tried. Isn't that right Bella?"
Bella's deep brown eyes stared straight ahead with a glassy vacancy. She was hunched forward, giving a nice view down her low cut top. She absently shook her head. "That's right. All you have to do to play is follow and obey." His voice grew firm and commanding on those last words.
"Follow and obey..." Three voices whispered in unison.
No thoughts. Follow. Obey. Wait. Something's wrong. This feels familiar, the warm sleepiness washing over my mind. I blinked a few times trying to rouse myself from my stupor. This is gentle warmth of a trance. Damon is hypnotizing me, hypnotizing my friends. But he wouldn't do that would he? Sure we'd joked about it before they came over, how hot it would be if he hypnotized all of us and had his way with us. But it was just a joke. He wasn't seriously hypnotizing us right now.
I looked across the living room at my two best friends. Bella was practically bend over at the waist with her head her lap. Sophie kept snapping he head back up just for it to loll limply back to her chest a few moments later as Damon continued guiding us down.
He was hypnotizing us. Bella and Sophie had no idea. I had to do something. Had to stop him. Had to follow and obey. Had to not give it away. No that's not right.
I limply tugged at my boyfriend's arm. "Babe. What are you doing? You need to stop." I mumbled, barely able to get the words out."
He turned to me calmly and began running his fingers through my hair. It felt nice. "Don't worry. I'm almost done. In fact I think it's time for the games first rule. "Babe don't." I offered meekly, barely able to remember why I had wanted him to stop. This felt nice.
"You will always obey the rules." He reminded my mind. "The first rule is that you need to SLEEP!" He pulled my head towards him on the word sleep.