Mei Lin
I couldn't believe I'd just done that. Alice was my girlfriend and now... She was my sex pet? The words had poured out of my mouth way too easily, and yet again my memories divulged. I still remembered the first split, though it was most definitely fading. Meanwhile, Alice seemed to have mostly no recollection of the unaltered timeline, even with her supposed ability to recognize what was specifically influenced by the cube.
Most immediately worrying to me was that Alice wasn't my girlfriend in this version of reality. She was my pet, I owned her. I had collared her, figuratively and literally. The primal urge inside my head to reach my hand upwards to her neck and hook my finger through the metal ring on her pink leather collar wasn't lost on me... I needed to act fast before I became too used to it.
This feeling of dominance welling up within me was stronger now than it was before the shift. Then, I was shy and easily flustered. Alice was the one who had all the confidence. She helped me feel comfortable holding any form of authority in the first place. I didn't want to lose that, but I still needed to make sure she wouldn't use the cube to undo our bond. That's why I made her my submissive in the first place. Alice is a certified genius, she was the only one who had whatever abilities administrative access to this device provided. She was the key to increasing its already unlimited capabilities. Keeping it out of her possession wasn't reasonable, ethical, or moral. Neither was turning her into my sex slave... I can fix this.
"We've been dating since... H-highschool?" I blurted out, my eyes widening as my stomach dropped. I was just attempting to preserve our romantic relationship but this was ridiculous. I shouldn't be so frantic while wielding unlimited power. I screwed up, but maybe it wouldn't take?
"We've been dating since highschool? Of course, we have?" Alice repeated confusedly. She was entirely submissive to me so of course she accepted the command without resistance.
Things were already different, Alice wasn't shorter, but she did seem a bit younger... Since we were the same age.. Before she was in her early thirties.. Now we're both 28..
Glancing around the room it didn't look like a lot had changed, at least not too much. Definitely not as drastic as teleporting from one room to another like before. The flood of alternate memories wasn't as harsh this time either, which surprised me. I understood that we owned the house, having bought it with our savings instead of renting out dorms. A lot of the down payment came from my family back in China, which was actually new to this reality... Maybe it was required in order for me to attend our prestigious private highschool? Alice got in on recommendation alone while I came from money.
I couldn't focus on sorting out the discrepancies in the multiverse. I had to make sure my original goal carried over into our new lives. It was time for the hail mary. Close up any loose ends, so we can be happy together without sacrificing our relationship, our identities, or worse... but also why not have a little fun with it? That wouldn't be too risky right?
"You have always been confident and sexy. You're just as sexual and kinky as I am, and you're Switch too, and.. and our relationship is perfect." I said in one breath, as it slowly dawned on me just what I'd said.
"I have always been confident and sexy. I'm just as sexual and kinky as you are, and I'm a switch too, and our relationship is perfect." Something was off. Alice repeated my words in an eerily robotic tone, scaring me enough to immediately regret being so overzealous
"ε!!" I screamed, dropping the cube from my hand. It had turned searingly hot all of a sudden and nearly burned me... Wait, did I just..