This is a short - and ludicrously self-indulgent, even for me - story about a man convincing his girlfriend to try something weird out for him. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it, and if you think you might've, I hope you'll leave a comment letting me know! As is the case with most authors out there, I think, I do love feedback.
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Sitting in her bed, reclining against her pillows, Erin balanced her laptop on her thighs and looked again at the YouTube page on the screen. She was the video's thirty-first viewer, it seemed. Somehow, she didn't feel like she was getting in on a craze early, with this one. It had just about the silliest title she'd ever read. Erin cleared her throat. "Hypnotize yourself," she read aloud. "Open bracket - one day TOTAL obedience." She shouted the capitalized word, and her boyfriend - who was standing at her bedside - winced. "Exclamation point, exclamation point, close bracket. Ken, where do you even find this stuff? This is dumb! And it's... Twenty-three minutes of dumb, actually." She rolled her eyes. "That's too long to even ham up for a joke. Why do you think I'm gonna watch this, exactly?"
Ken bit his lip and looked away. Ken was a big guy - tall, well-muscled, manly - and looked especially big beside his short, redheaded girlfriend. But, when it came to this weird, kinky sort of stuff, he was as soft as a marshmallow. "C'mon, babe! You know this is, like, my other thing." His other-other thing was her feet, but they'd crossed that bridge a long time ago. They'd had to, because Ken could hardly even keep his eyes off them when her socks were off - as they were, right then - and there was just no way he was going to go without touching them some. Hypnosis, on the other hand, was still a confusing one, for Erin. It was pretty confusing for Ken, too, but thinking about it made him super, super horny. "It's just a few minutes. The time'll fly right by!"
"Oh, I'm sure. But what's in it for me?" She looks at the screen again. The video icon is just a big, stupid spiral. "I mean, it seems like a lose-lose for me, here. It doesn't work and I waste twenty minute, or it does and I'm brainwashed for the day." Fat chance of the latter anyhow, Erin figured. "That's what you're expecting, isn't it? How do those things go?" She fluttered her eyelids and pouted her lips, staring up at him. "A blank, mindless, obedient..."
"Hey," Ken interrupted.
Erin finished the thought anyhow. "Slave?"
Ken sighed. "It's not like I'd make you do anything, you know, bad. Even if it did work! I mean, it probably won't work, but I think it'd uh... Pretty hot, if you tried it."
At least he realized how dumb it was. "How about we make this thing go in my favor, at least? I watch it, and if it doesn't work, you have to be my slave. And, since you wouldn't be blank, mindless..." She paused and grinned up at him, watching his face get flush. "Any of that stuff - how about we say you have to do it for a week?"
"One week? If you watch the whole thing?" Ken didn't have to take too long to consider it. "Done!"
"Really? I'm gonna make you wear a cute doggy collar," Erin warned, still smirking. "We don't have a dog, so I'm gonna make you take me to the pet store and have you try some on. What do you think about pink leather? More comfortable than nylon, right?"
"Yeah, yeah! Done. Totally."
Ken's eagerness to accept those terms made Erin wish she'd pushed for something more. In whatever weird fantasy world of his where this stuff even plausibly worked, she was putting a lot on the line. Not that it would work, of course. If there really were brainwashing machines out there, people weren't putting them on YouTube for thirty - thirty-one, now - views. "Alright! Fine. Do I have to, like, wear headphones?"
"Yeah!" Ken looked from her to the laptop and back again. "Uh, probably. They usually do."
"You've watched a lot of 'em, huh?"
"Shut up and just watch the dumb spiral, please."
Smiling again - she'd never get tired of the fact that this stuff gave him a boner - Erin grabbed some earbuds off her nightstand and plugged them into her laptop. "Alright! Uh, if I'm bored at, like, 10 minutes, can we stop?" She started to put the earbuds in.
Ken shook his head. "Whole thing!"
Erin sighed. Twenty whole minutes... But then, a whole week, Erin reminded herself. "Fine. But you're gonna pay for it when I make you buy yourself that collar!" She giggled. "As long as I'm, you know, in a state to enforce it, or whatever." Settling back against her pillows with her legs stretched out on the bed, she clicked play, and the spiral on her laptop's screen began to spin.
Ken couldn't wipe the smile off his face at all. He hadn't mentioned to Erin that he had very good reason to believe that the video would work on her. He'd tried it himself, in fact. Erin glaced away from the video and poked at his crotch, and she rolled her eyes when she found him hard. "Hey, you gotta watch!"
Erin tapped an earbud. "Can't hear," she said. "Making a... Weird noise." Ken pointed at the screen, and she reluctantly looked back at it. The spiral spun around, and her blue eyes slid towards its center. Ken hurried around to the other side of the bed and hopped up beside her. He was more interested in her face than what was on the screen.
Watching her, It became clear rather quickly that his stubbornness was going to pay off. Focused intently on the screen, she looked anything but bored. It was just over a minute since the video had started, and she'd already stopped blinking almost entirely. Her arms were limp, one on the bed, the other folded over her belly. There was a weak look of concern about her - her brow was just a little furrowed, and her lips were pursed and frowning.
It was all because she couldn't stop staring, and it was, frankly, a bit concerning to her. She wasn't deep enough to not be aware of the slipping feeling - it felt like she was moving downwards and forwards at an accelerating pace. In her peripheral vision, the furniture in her room stayed still, but it still felt like she was hurtling forwards. It was troubling, and she almost wanted off the ride already. But she couldn't get off, and every time she tried to think about why, the thumping, crackling bass tone in her ears drowned out the thought.
After just a few minutes of slowly relaxing, Erin already looked a million miles away. The pupils in her half-lidded eyes had grown huge, her hands laid limply on the bedsheet, and, best of all, it looked like she was lazily mouthing along to something. Her lips were hardly even moving, so he couldn't tell what she was saying, but it did look like the video had her repeating something. Ken had a huge, huge boner. He took his pants off. This was definitely not a time for pants. Watching her fall into mindlessness, he started to jerk himself off, trying to guess what she was slowly repeating. It was just a short word - was it "obey?" Was it "blank?" He really didn't care. Whichever it was, watching it happen had him so close to cumming that he had to stop stroking himself. Just a little longer, he thought, watching her mouth the word. Just a little more...