Rick groaned as his alarm rudely awoke him to the stream of sunlight breaking through his curtains. Reaching for his phone he tried and failed to unlock it twice, finally getting it on the third time and silencing the alarm. Rick stayed in the bed, eyes closed for a few moments, savoring the peace of the early morning, a smile on his face as memories from the previous night floated through his thoughts.
Rick was considering shooting Olivia or Tessa a message for further "ring experimentation" when his phone alarm went off again.
"I already turned you off, why the hell- oh, shit!" Rick shouted, dropping his phone and jumping out of his bed. He grabbed a few clean clothes items and ran out the door for the showers. A moment later the door burst back open as he picked his phone up off the floor, closing out the calendar warning that read "Shift- 15 minute warning", as he sprinted back out again.
Rick quickly showered and changed, luckily very few students were even awake at 7:30 on a Saturday to impede him, then headed for the exit. Walking swiftly up the street he cut a path through a side alley between a few buildings, reached Main Street, then headed for Pease Hall, home of the Psychology Department.
Rick was a psychology major, mostly due to his interests in hypnosis even from a young age, and as such he ended up choosing a work-study position under the department head. He did this for two reasons mainly. First, to get some face time with the department head for future networking, and secondly, because the head of the department was an absolute babe.
Kate Glutting was widely respected throughout her field due to her body of work on abnormal psychology, and she was also widely ogled for her actual body. She was about 40 years old, had freckles, crystal clear blue eyes, and curly brown hair that bounced off her shoulders. Her defining feature, however, was her utterly impressive backside. There was no delicate way to phrase it; on a campus that held roughly 10,000 women at any given time, Professor Glutting had the greatest ass most people had ever seen. This led to her possessing the nickname of "Glutes" among the student body, a nickname as appropriate as it was predictable.
As Rick finally made it to the hall he was pleased to recognize her car in the lot. Rick went through the halls and stairs until he found himself in the basement office being used as the data collection and processing point for their work. Rick walked in and was surprised to see only two people today
Professor Glutting was standing bent over one of the desks, hurriedly signing her name to a few documents, the curve of her ass on full display in her tight black pants. Once Rick was able to tear his gaze away, he realized with a bit of a shock that sitting at that same desk was Jessenia, one of the volunteers from the previous night.
Rick starred for a moment, temporarily lost in the memories of Jessenia's full curves on display during the show last night. Professor Glutting turned around, catching Rick's eye and giving him a harried smile.
"Didn't get the email, Rick?" she asked, turning back to the papers.
"Umm, no, I'm sorry, I was a bit behind this morning so I didn't have time to check- oh god, I'm not fired, am i?" Professor Glutting laughed.
"No, Rick, you're not fired. You're here bright and early, I like that. No, I just sent out an email canceling processing today."
"Oh... why's that?" Rick asked, a bit disappointed to lose potential one on one time with her.
"I had a last second invitation to a benefit this weekend and the Dean wants me there to try and schmooze. There's only about a few hours of work left you guys can do without me, so Jessenia is going to knock it out and you can just make the hours up Monday."
Rick looked over at Jessenia and she gave him a warm smile. Her hair was up in a ponytail and she was wearing a simple yellow dress that showed off a fair bit of cleavage. Rick felt the ring tingle on his finger and was struck with inspiration.
"Well, I'm already here, why don't i stay and help? It's no fun staying inside on a Saturday morning when everyone else gets a break, I bet we could have this done within the hour."
Professor Glutting looked at Jessenia, who nodded quickly.
"Yeah, it would be great to get out early, it's fine with me!"
A few minutes later Rick was sitting behind a laptop across from Jessenia as the professor was walking out the door. They worked for about 30 minutes, making pleasant enough small talk while Rick waited for his moment. Eventually the conversation turned to plans for the rest of the weekend.
"I already went to a show last night, so I don't really have anything planned for later, I might stop in at my sister's sorority if they finish pledging early enough, what about you?" Jessenia said, closing her laptop.
"Just a relaxing weekend of homework and enjoying the last bits of summer. Funny enough though, I uh, actually went to the same show you did last night," Rick said, trying not to sound to awkward or forced.
Jessenia froze and looked down at the table and began blushing furiously.
"Oh, yeah...I didn't realize i knew anyone else at the show, other than the friends I went with..." she said in a low voice. She was clearly embarrassed by what happened, but Rick thought there was a little more to that blush than just embarrassment. Regardless, he felt bad for making her uncomfortable and pressed on.
"I thought you were great! Really shows a lot of courage to get up there, and intelligence and creativity are staples of a good subject for a hypnotists. It was really impressive how well you did," Rick said enthusiastically, trying to be kind.
"Yeah?" Jessenia said, picking her head back up. "You think so? I was terrified that I came off as some kind of attention whore or weakling."
"Not at all, hypnosis has nothing to do with being weak or strong, just openness to the experience," and the magical influence of a brainwashing ring, he thought to himself. "Besides, no one could have looked like a bigger attention whore than my friend Olivia that night."
"Oh, god," Jessenia laughed, "that pretty blonde girl who thought it wouldn't work? Poor girl, I thought she was going to collapse after all those orgasms at the end."
"She persevered- she's been humbled now, though."
They both chuckled, then a heavy silence settled between them.
"So," Jessenia said, cheeks flushing again, "how do you know so much about hypnosis?"
"Just an interest and a hobby," Rick offered, trying to play it cool.
"So you can hypnotize people too?"
"Yeah, absolutely, I've hypnotized dozens of people," he lied. "I've done it for helping people study harder, stop smoking, even more fun things like you saw and experienced last night."
"Even things like the orgasm suggestions?" Jessesnia eagerly asked before she could stop herself. "I mean, obviously i know it's real, it happened to me, and it's not like I'm asking you if you could do- or if you'd every be interested, I mean-"
"Yes," Rick laughed, interrupting her rambling. "Yes, I can make suggestions like that, and have many times." Technically Rick wasn't lying, he had done it plenty of times online before.
"Wow," she said, her eyes widening. "That...must be quite the rush, knowing you can do that," she said, not meeting his gaze.
"It really is. I'd like to think I've gotten pretty good at it over the years, if only I had someone to practice more on these days," he said, staring right into her eyes.
