This story was produced by acute insomnia, twisted imagination and a hyperactive libido and as such is best enjoyed under similar circumstances. The Earl recommends that no reader should progress beyond this point unless under the influence of sleep deprivation, hallucinogens and a porn star named Davina.
Great thanks to Master Hypnotist, whose How-To on erotic hypnosis provided both the idea and a lot of the facts for this story. It can be found
here
and is well worth reading. Thanks also to WildSweetOne who as usual performed sterling editorial work. Anyone who spots the Red Dwarf reference is to be commended, but probably not encouraged. Iâll put money on Chicklet finding it.
I hope you have fun reading this story. I certainly had fun writing it. Several times in fact. Feedback is always welcome and make sure you vote before you leave. Remember to reach for that 5 at the end. If you like the story, I recommend looking at Seducing Dawn or The Training Ch 03.
Tess looked over the small kit she had put together and considered her position. She knew she could do it; the question was whether she should, or even whether she ought to do it. Her head reeled with the conflicting arguments and she considered how she had arrived at this dilemma in the first place.
***
It had all started with a throwaway comment by her friend, Amanda, about hypnotism. Amanda was blonde, petite and sickeningly beautiful. She considered herself an expert on sex, having first âdone itâ when she was 15 and gone through 7 boyfriends in the next three years. She had adopted Tess and made it her personal mission to help her lose her virginity.
They were lying in Tessâs room, idly flicking through magazines, when Amanda suddenly piped up, âDid you know that you can make people do pretty much anything with a spoon and a clock?â
âSorry?â
âItâs a hypnotism thing. You get a special type of clock that ticks back and forth every secondâŠâ
âA metronome?â
âSomething like that. Anyway you attach the spoon to the moving bit on the clock thingy and apparently you can put people into trances and get them to pretend theyâre chickens and stuff.â
âAmanda, everyone knows you can do that with hypnotism. Havenât you ever seen the Paul McKenna show?â
âI just thought youâd be interested.â
âAny particular reason?â Tess rolled over to fix her gaze on her friend. âWhere did you find this staggeringly new piece of information then?â
âThereâs an article in here about erotic hypnosis and I thought it could help you.â
The reference finally clicked for Tess as she realised that Amanda was making the most of her skill at working the conversation around to her three favourite topics: Tess should be getting sex, Why isnât Tess getting sex and How can I help Tess get more sex. It wasnât as if Tess was unattractive; her long dark hair and deep brown eyes allied to a fairly curvy body, had earned her several suitors, but sheâd rebuffed most and been too shy to go anywhere with the others. Amanda seemed to regard her hesitancy as a challenge.
âGee thanks sweetie, Iâm flattered. I know Iâm a couple of pounds overweight, but I donât think Iâm desperate enough to resort to hypnotism.â
âItâs not about desperation, itâs a serious pulling technique.â
âWhy would
you
need to hypnotise people to go out with you?â
âOh come on look, my arse is huge. Look at it.â Amanda turned to display a flawless backside. âItâs massive.â
Tess rolled her eyes and tried to ignore her transparent attempts to get compliments. Amanda picked up her magazine and offered it to her. âAt least have a read. Itâs quite interesting.â
Tess plucked it out of her hands and lobbed it into the corner of the room, quite hurt that Amanda would consider that she needed it. âNo thanks, not quite that desperate yet. Come on, letâs get something to eat.â Tess resolved not to give the article another thought.
***
Tess tossed and turned in bed. Her mind was working ninety to the dozen, making it impossible to sleep. Her mind kept going back to that copy of Cosmopolitan that she had tossed so carelessly in the corner of the room and how it wouldnât hurt just to read it. After all reading it wouldnât mean anything. And after sheâd read it, she could go to sleep.
Pleased with this logic, she scrabbled for her glasses and then flicked on the light. She stalked over to the corner where sheâd lobbed the magazine and scoured the article for information. Twice. She wasnât actually considering doing anything; it was just out of curiosity of how it would be done. Apparently, all that was required was a metronome, a spoon, a suitable subject and two keywords, one for start and one for stop. She flicked off the light wandered back to her bed, pausing only to trip over a chair. She got up, cursing her stupidity, the chair for being there and her toe for hurting, and limped back to bed.
Light flooded in as her door opened a crack and she saw her twenty year old stepbrother, Justin, silhouetted against the light. His long dark hair framed his face in disarray and Tess could tell sheâd woken him up. âWhat was that?â
âNothing.â
âI thought I heard a thud.â
âI justâŠnever mind.â Tess didnât want to admit that sheâd fallen over a chair. âIt was nothing.â
âOh. Goodnight then.
âNight.â
The door closed again and darkness returned to her room. She put her glasses back on the bedside table by touch and returned to her thoughts. Hypothetically she could do it, but on who? All of the men she knew were puerile, coarse or annoying. Some were all three. She racked her brains trying to think of someone whoâd sheâd want anywhere near her genitals. The only man her age who she really liked was Justin and although sheâd had an enormous crush on him since their parents had first married, he wasnât really a viable target. Shit, it wasnât worth thinking about anyway, it wasnât as though she was going to actually get a metronome and try it on anybody.
***
It had taken her ages to track down a metronome with the correct moving parts necessary. To read the article, which she had by now cut out of the magazine and carried with her, you would imagine that metronomes with hands were commonplace, but every music shop she went to only had digital ones. She tried telling herself to calm down; itâs not as though you were planning to do anything major with it, you were just going to see whether it worked, but her infuriation at the lack of useful metronomes soared until she finally located one in a magic trick shop, designed especially for hypnotism.
When she got home, she laid out her small hypnotism kit: metronome, shiny spoon and the dog-eared article, which had suffered from travelling around in her pocket all day. Now all she had to do was decide whether she should do this to Justin.
It wasnât as though she was going to do anything immoral; she was just going to see whether it would work. She went over the article one more time and decided on her start and stop words: yukimasu and shimata (Japanese for âGoâ and âI have made an errorâ). The article suggested using foreign words so that they didnât crop up in normal conversation.
Tess made one last check over her preparations and decided to go find her brother. There wasnât really any moral issue here. After all, itâs not like she was planning to do anything wrong.
Confident that sheâd made a logical and mature decision, she went to look for Justin. Unfortunately, Justin had left her a note informing her that he wouldnât be back till late. Frustrated, she sat down and watched TV to pass the time.
***
Tess woke up and took a second to work out where she was, then realised she had fallen asleep in front of the television. She crawled out of the chair and stretched her cricked neck, wondering what the hell sheâd stayed up for. The memory made its way through her drowsy synapses: Justin. She wandered upstairs to find out whether heâd come home yet.
She found him in the bathroom, brushing his teeth and gave him their ritual greeting. âHey bro.â
âHey sis. Did I wake you?â
âNah, I couldnât sleep.â Tess leaned on the doorframe and twisted a lock of her hair between her fingers. âDonât suppose you could do me a favour?â
Justin spat out the toothpaste and turned to look at her. âLike what?â
âIâve got this bet with Amanda. She bet me a fiver that I couldnât hypnotise someone and I was kinda hopingâŠâ
âThat Iâd be the guinea pig.â He sounded a little disapproving and Tess remembered that he didnât particularly like Amanda. In fact, he spent as much time as he could out of the house when she was around. She cursed her poor choice of lie, but she was stuck with it now and resorted to pleading.
âCome on Justin, Iâd only need to do it once.â
âIâm not doing anything foolish in front of Amanda.â
âI wouldnât make you look stupid.â
âIâm more worried about her.â
A sudden thought struck Tess and she blurted out, âWhat if I videotaped it?â
âWhat?â
âIf you donât want to be hypnotised in front of Amanda, then why donât we do it now and videotape it.â
âLook Tess, can we talk about it tomorrow? Iâm really tired and its not really worthâŠâ