The single most frustrating thing in Maddy's life was that everyone thought she was boring. It's not like they didn't have reasons to think that - she was not a risk taker, she could admit it. She played it safe - she had played it safe all her life.
She came from a troubled home (a nice way to put it, and she was always nice), but never got into trouble. She had studied hard, spending her high school years at the library, not touching a drink during the school months, never staying up past nine during exam season, all so she could get the perfect grades for the perfect scholarship for the perfect ticket out of the hellhole she was raised in. And it paid off. She got a full ride to an Ivy League and she was out of there. You could think the sudden freedom of being alone for the first time in her life would lead to some bad choices, but she remained as before - focused, diligent, hard-working. During her years at uni, she didn't make one single impulsive decision.
Not taking risks is not the same as not doing fun things. It just means you try to avoid all the negative consequences that could come from it. It's not like she never got piss drunk - she did, several times. But the first time, she did it in the comfort and privacy of her own home, where she logged what she was drinking in her little Excel document and kept a detailed record of the "symptoms" she was exhibiting, so she knew how well she could handle alcohol before embarrassing herself in front of others. Every time she got drunk after that, it was during the holidays and she felt in complete control, even when puking in a stranger's bathroom.
And it's not like she never had a stupid one-night stand - she did, more than several times. But she would always look for the right person, someone she knew was good in bed without being a fuckboy (or fuckgirl), someone she knew was discreet.
And it's not like she never did drugs - she probably did more drugs than half the people in that school. She was a good student because she was curious, and curiosity doesn't go away with a bit of danger. The difference between her and the stoners and cokeheads that she frequently encountered at the few parties she attended was that she didn't go into it after a breakup or impulsively once her fun night out had started to die down. She did her research - how much, how long, how strong. Every time she had decided to try something new, she made sure she was in a good headspace, got her room ready with snacks and activities, made sure she had someone on call in case things went awry, made sure her vibrators were all charged and ready to go, and locked all the windows and door. You would never catch her drooling in a common room or maniac in a corridor - she was not a risk taker. But you would also have some trouble finding something she hadn't tried before.
She was now in her last year. Exam season had passed, and she was just waiting for the results to come in, results she knew would be good. She had a few interviews lined up, a nice comfortable path in front of her, and two weeks free of any responsibility to spend doing whatever the fuck she wanted. And she knew exactly what that was.
Maddy had an interest (a fixation, if we were being honest) in mind control. It wasn't surprising at all - the control freak wishing for a break. Every time she touched herself, that was the fantasy that played in her mind - she had read every story, watched every video, listened to every audio. Unfortunately, it didn't work for her. No matter how much she tried to get into it, to convince herself to go under, her mind, her awful focused controlling mind, could not let go of the wheel.
At first, she tried to make her peace with it. Maybe it was for the best - sometimes, the intensity of her cravings scared her. If she wanted this that much, who knew how she would react when she got it? She didn't have an addictive personality, never had problems with alcohol or drugs or saying no to things, but she never wanted anything as badly as she wanted to be controlled, and not any type of control - the one so absolute you don't even notice it. She craved it desperately, the blank look slack-jawed bliss, the unawareness, the brain free from thought now able to take it all in, every little input. Would she want to go back? Would she be able to? The risk was high, but that's what made it so delicious.
Maddy wasn't willing to give up on this particular fantasy, so she made a plan - a simple plan, really, divided into two parts. If her mind wasn't budging, there were two possible reasons - either the outside influence was too weak, or the inside resistance was too strong. Her plan was to attack her mind from those two points - increase the outside influence by getting a real person to hypnotize her, and reduce inside resistance by using some kind of drug.
There were two problems with her plan - first, she would have to find someone experienced in the art of hypnosis and willing to hypnotize her while she was under the influence. It seemed to her like anyone in that category would also belong to the category of "creeps she would never trust to be in control of her". She had never told any of her partners about her kink - to trust a stranger with it... It would have to be a very special stranger. She had joined some online groups and had been to some in-person group meetings, but no one seemed to fit the part. Even when she found people it seemed like she could trust to not take advantage of her, she didn't trust them to be good at their jobs - not their fault, but most hypnotic subjects are so eager to be hypnotized they just slip into it, no resistance. She was a complicated case.
The second problem was the drug. There were some obvious choices, but she only considered options for drugs that were well-tried and tested. Weed made her incredibly horny, but it didn't make her any less controlling. Xanax made her very, very relaxed, but her libido was completely erased in the process. Ecstasy made her feel hot, which made her feel horny, but she became bratty and argumentative. LSD was the best thing she had - she became subdued, easy-going, open to new things and experiences, and her libido wasn't affected - but her experiences with it had been very unpredictable. Sometimes just a bit of it would affect her a lot, sometimes a bigger dose would barely do a scratch on her psyche. Sometimes she tripped for just a few hours, and once she was under the effect for almost a full day. She thought the problem was the supply - she needed something of better quality, more constant.
Maddy knew the chances of getting a trustworthy dealer, checking the new supply to calculate the dosage, and getting a trustworthy hypnotizer, all this in two weeks, were literally none. She had a rule against doing psychedelics twice in the same month, so it was completely impossible. At the same time, there was a small voice in her, a voice that had been missing most of her life, whispering "Come on... just this once... two weeks left... you know you want to do it...".
She did want to do it. She wanted it so badly that it hurt. She wanted it so badly she couldn't stop thinking about it. Eating her breakfast, a bit of milk running the side of her mouth, and she would imagine how sweet if it was her drool, how sweet if it was her mindless, subdued drool... Reading late at night, her tired eyes unfocusing, and all she could think about was how wet she would be if someone did that to her, made her unable to read, or maybe they could still let her spell out the words while unaware of their meanings. At night, getting ready to go out, choosing her clothes, wishing someone would choose them for her, wishing her response instead of intuitive annoyed opposition was just subservience, a sweet "yes master of course master take me master fuck me master right here master right here in my big open dumb mouth".
But she was still her, and her options hadn't changed, and so, though it hurt her very soul, she decided she had to postpone the plan. There just wasn't enough time to do it properly, and so she wouldn't do it at all. She decided that as she got ready to go out - a small house party a friend of a friend invited her to. Making a good decision doesn't mean you feel good about it: she was pissed, and horny, and worst of all sexually frustrated. She changed her outfit from a tight but still modest dress to a black tube top that could barely contain her breasts, a short skirt with frills underneath, a pair of fishnets, and the tallest heels she could find. With her heavy eye makeup and bleached blonde hair, she looked like a doll, a big-eyed innocent bimbo, and she was hoping someone would fuck her like one.
Everyone hates not getting what they want, but Maddy took it a step further. She was fine with it when it was other people's fault, but when it was because of her? She knew, she had proven it to herself time and time again, that she could do absolutely anything she put her mind to, and so not getting what she wanted had the added injury of knowing it was because she failed, in some stupid probably predictable way. Maddy thought about this as she walked to the party, as she bought a bottle of wine, as she irresponsibly drank it on the way. God, red wine went right to her head. She found herself in front of the address her friend had given her, a two-story house with a tiny little garden and a big red door. The party seemed to be a hit - the door was open and there were people everywhere, sitting in front steps, going in, coming out. Maddy was supposed to meet a friend at the entrance but the high heels hurt her feet and she needed more booze in her system, so off she went into the mouth of the wolf.
She went straight into the kitchen, but all they had was beer - this late into the night, she needed something stronger. She looked around the first floor, but no sign of clear liquor. She eyed the stairs... There was always the medicine cabinet. She started going up. There was a couple making out on the steps, and she carefully stepped around them. The second floor was darker, less people too, and she tried to pass unnoticed. She opened the first door - a teenager's room, and a couple making out on the bed. "Oops, sorry!" She opened the second door - king bed and old pictures. Jackpot.
She closed the door behind her and went straight to the bathroom. Opened the cabinet.
"What are you doing?" She almost dropped the bottle she was holding and looked at the mirror. There was a guy by the doorframe, hands in his pockets. Didn't seem like a cop, and certainly wasn't the owner of the house.
"Stealing pills. Hopefully something good." She checked the label - some antidepressants, useless. She took another bottle.
"What would you say is good?" he asked.
"Here, best I can find is probably some Xanax, but it's not looking great."
"I have something."
It was the way he said it. Ok, maybe it was the wine and the horniness and the annoyance, but it was also the way he said it. Like he wasn't interested in it for himself, like he was simply trying to help. She wasn't the type to accept drugs from strangers, but the way he said it caught her attention. She put down the bottle she was holding - it was useless anyway.