"So, who has number 2?" Trisha said, eyes gleaming as she looked out at her audience.
The room was silent as the others looked down at their tickets. Finally, Cheyenne and Laura both slowly began to raise their hands as both of their faces turned red with embarrassment. "Well don't just sit there, come on up. Move it, move it, move it!" Trisha shouted playfully, clapping her hands in an attempt to get them up and moving.
Both girls slowly moved to the front of the room and looked around, glancing at one another nervously. "You ready for this?" Laura asked, smiling as her nervousness began to give way to adrenaline.
Cheyenne, however, was having a very different reaction to their situation. "I guess." she replied, shrugging off her own embarrassment. "Just don't hold it against me if this doesn't work the way you expect it to."
Trisha smiled and stepped between them, balancing the quarter on her thumb. "Heads it's Cheyenne, tails it's Laura. Ready?" Trisha asked as she looked between the two. Both shook their heads in agreement and, without further adieu, the older girl flipped the coin. The two blondes at center staged watched intently as it rose into the air and hit the floor with a 'ting!' It spun a few more times before it finally fell on its side and landed on...
Tails.
Cheyenne rolled her eyes as she looked up at the ceiling and gave a long, labored...and exaggerated...sigh. "Yippee...hooray...you won. Can we get this over with please?" She lowered her head to look at Laura and raised an eyebrow at what she saw. "What the hell are you doing?"
Laura, meanwhile, was busy waving her hands back and forth in front of Cheyenne's face as her hips swayed from side to side like a belly dancer's. "I'm putting a spell on you." she said while her hands moved in a criss-cross pattern before Cheyenne's eyes, her fingers wiggling each time they passed.
"You're going to...put a spell...on me?" Cheyenne asked hesitantly. "You know that's ridiculous, right?" Although even as she said it, the blonde couldn't help but get distracted by Laura's hands continuously moving back and forth in front of her face. And as much as she hated to admit it, the more Laura swayed her hips and torso from side to side, the harder it became for Cheyenne to focus on just one thing among the array of movement in front of her.
Laura's dance continued as her hands moved side to side, then up and down in an ever confusing display of motion. "The more you resist, the more the magic persists. The more you struggle, the deeper your trance will bubble. Everything you do helps the spell to be sealed. You can see the energy in my hands...imagine it as it moves from side to side...back and forth...and then up and down...all around. There is magic everywhere, Cheyenne. Even you have delved into that mystical world from time to time, if only in your fantasies and your cosplays...you can't deny that...you know that to be the truth now...don't you Cheyenne?"
Eve leaned over to Rayne and whispered "Did she really just say 'the more you struggle the deeper your trance will bubble?'" She was trying, and failing, to hold back laughter as much as she could.
Rayne had to bite her tongue to keep herself from giggling as she whispered into Eve's ear. "Shhh...it seems to be working..."
The two girls watched as Cheyenne started to slowly sway on her feet while she watched Laura's hands, still moving side to side then up and down as they criss-crossed in front of her. The image of Laura's body swaying to a beat that only she could hear was causing Cheyenne to lose focus, and her face had become a mixture of relaxation and confusion. Every so often she squeezed her eyes shut and shook her head to try and clear it, until finally she answered Laura's question. "Yes..." she said as she shook her head again, harder this time as if that would break the influence Laura was starting to have. "Why is this...? This can't be...you're messing with my head..." the younger of the two blondes said in confusion.
"Of course, silly." Laura giggled as she started to move her hands diagonally in front of Cheyenne's face. "I'm hypnotizing you...I'm supposed to be messing with your head. That's the point...isn't that right, my dear?"
"Yes..." Cheyenne responded softly. She started another half-hearted attempt to shake her head, but her resistance was fading by the second. "But...hypnos...hypnosis... isn't real..." she struggled to get out, just as Laura cut her off by quickly clapping her hands together directly in front of Cheyenne's face. Her body jerked back in surprise, a split second before Laura reached out and grabbed her head with both hands and pulled it forward.
"Sleep!" Laura commanded as Cheyenne's taller frame came crashing into her waiting arms. Laura held her victim close, keeping a firm hold so she wouldn't fall, and couldn't help but smile as she let out a devious laugh. "That's it..." she said between cackles "just sink deeper and deeper for me...under my spell completely and totally now, isn't that right?"
A soft "...yyyyeeessss..." slipped out of Cheyenne's mouth as Laura gently lowered her to the floor and knelt beside her to support her sleeping friend's body. Once Cheyenne was on the floor, she grinned up at Trisha as the rest of the girls erupted in applause. All except for Carly, who was still hypnotically frozen from the last chapter.