***
Sonja sat on the bus, staring at her feet. She was riding home from her second session with her new hypnotherapist, Dr. Victoria Dotz. She had a car, but the bus system in the city of St. Britney was fairly safe and reliable, as long as you were riding during daylight hours. After dark was generally a different story, which is why she generally only used the car for night errands and going to work. Long days meant late nights at Van Black and Sons, the legal firm she worked for as a paralegal, and besides that, the pressure of the job meant she'd often sought refuge in her car when she was succumbing to a panic attack.
She wasn't thinking about any of that, though. Sonja was staring at her feet. Not the first time she'd done that on the bus, as shy as she was, but this wasn't out of shyness. Today she was staring at her feet because something felt... different. The way they felt inside her heel-less black loafers was wrong, but she was struggling to place what was wrong. Maybe because nothing was wrong? They didn't hurt, they weren't uncomfortable, they just felt... different, somehow. Even good, perhaps.
What happened to my socks?
she thought to herself. She had been wearing some, hadn't she? She plucked one of her feet out of its shoe, inspecting it as she mulled it over. It looked like her normal foot, it just didn't have a sock on it.
I always wear socks,
Sonja thought to herself.
Where are they?
She thought back, but just like after the first meeting, Sonja had a hard time remembering any specifics from her hypnotherapy sessions with Dr. Dotz. All she could remember was how content she felt during each session, somewhere far away from her daily anxieties. Somewhere she couldn't remember now that she was conscious. Sonja sighed longingly,
And now I can't remember my socks either!
Sonja slid her foot back into the black loafer.
Fine,
she thought,
Who needs socks anyway?
***
After she arrived at home, Sonja took off her shoes and when her bare feet touched the carpet she stopped what she was doing, marveling at how soft and
sweet
it felt under her toes. She balled her toes against the carpet several times before proceeding to walk to her room. As she walked she became suddenly aware of the warmth between her thighs, and how it increased as her legs brushed against each other. She felt a wetness as well, working in tandem with the warmth she was feeling.
"Okay, Sonja," she said to herself, alone in the apartment. "Time to take a cold shower, get your composure back. This isn't you." And it really wasn't; Sonja rarely indulged in sexual fantasies, she almost never masturbated, and she hadn't had sex since college. The experience had left a bad taste in her mouth, literally, and she had never sought it again.
Sonja walked to the bathroom, doing her best to ignore the strange tickle on the bottom of her feet as her toes dug deep into the carpet with every step. She wasn't sure if the pleasure she derived from each step made her comfortable or uncomfortable, but she hoped the shower would sort her out either way. Sonja closed the bathroom door behind her and began to undress, first peeling off her shirt and then her pants, tossing each in a pile.
She paused to look herself over in the mirror, something she didn't normally take the time to do. She felt cute, despite her desire to cool off those sorts of thoughts, and she caught herself standing on her tippy toes, turning slowly in each direction as she gazed at herself in the mirror. She shook her head at herself, and turned on the shower. Cold.
Then Sonja pulled off her bra, one of the new ones she had purchased last week, and set it on the pile. Though her breasts were not large, it was still a relief to finally have it off now at the end of the day. She fought the urge to look at herself in the mirror again, and this time she won. Now she began to slide her panties down from around her waist, and it was only now that she truly realized how soaking wet they were. She was puzzled, not for the first time that day, and wondered how they could have managed to get this wet since she got home. What she did not realize is that she had soaked through them during her session with Dr. Dotz, and every little stimuli since then had only added to it.
She watched -and felt- as three beads of her own juices trailed down her inner thigh.
This is ridiculous,
she thought. She finished peeling the soaked fabric down, lifting her legs out of it one at a time. She threw it down, and the wet slapping noise it made against the floor made the hair on the back of her neck stand up.
Now she plunged herself into the shower, letting the cold water settle her nerves and
cool her off.
***
Ten minutes later, Sonja was sitting in her bedroom with a towel wrapped around her, covering her from her torso down almost to her knees. The shower had helped immensely in centering her and helping her regain her composure, but no matter how she scrubbed she felt like she couldn't shake the sensation in her feet. That feeling of sweet newness that she couldn't explain or get rid of.
But why are you trying to get rid of it?
She had shaken the thought while she was in the shower, and she tried to shake it now.
Sonja had already pulled out a clean set of clothes and set it on the bed, and now she reached for the pair of socks she had grabbed, forgetting her declaration on the bus. She put them on quickly but immediately frowned. They felt all wrong. They were too coarse, and Sonja swore she felt them chafing. She ripped them off and threw them in the corner of her room and went back to her dresser. Grabbing another pair blindly, she put them on, only to find that one refused to stay up and the other felt like it had been stretched out. She threw these in the corner and grabbed another pair. Both had holes in the heels. The next three she tried each had the same problem as the first, and the last pair was perfect, at least until she got back to her bed to continue dressing, and she realized they were too tight. They squeezed her feet in just the wrong way and she could feel her anxiety spike.
"No!" She cried aloud, as she bundled them up and threw them in the corner with the rest. "Okay, fine! No socks!" She exhaled loudly and flopped backward onto her bed, resting there for several minutes in her towel.
She took a deep breath as she was laying there, and fell back on the same trick she had used the week before when her anxiety was getting out of control at work. She pictured herself laying on the couch in Dr. Dotz's office, and she pictured the doctor's face above hers, smiling down sweetly at her, guiding her through the exercises.
A deep inhale, and a deep exhale. And again, several more times. She thought about the way Dr. Dotz looked at her, how it always felt like the doctor could see something that Sonja couldn't. She wasn't sure why she trusted the older woman so much, probably because it felt like Dr. Dotz believed in her. Sonja remembered how good she felt as the session ended, but she wished that she could remember more about the trance itself. She tried for a moment to pierce that barrier, but it was no use. She couldn't remember what happened during the trance proper, but she did suddenly remember more of what happened after.
The lotion!
Sonja sat up, searching for the small, lightweight backpack she normally used as a purse. She had stowed the glass bottle in the bag to keep it safe on the way home and had forgotten about it. The pack was hanging on the back of her door and she went to it, fetching out the bottle and returning to her seat on the bed.
"Maybe this will help, it's my feet that feel weird after all."
Had she realized at that moment what she was holding in her hand, she would have thrown it away. But she had no idea what it was. She had no idea who the doctor really was, or what she was capable of. Even without the doctor's little
addition
to the concoction, it was far from regular lotion. Dr. Dotz had developed it herself at University as part of an experiment to increase the libido of women. The experiment had been a resounding success in mice and rats, but the research had been shut down for further experimentation over ethical concerns.
But Sonja didn't know what she was holding, and she easily twisted the cap away and dropped a large dollop of the lotion into her hand. She lifted her hand to her nose and sniffed it, but it had no scent. She lightly touched the substance with a finger from her other hand, and then pressed her finger experimentally into her forehead, easily rubbing it in until both finger and forehead were dry.
She didn't feel anything. But to her, that was to be expected. She tried to bring one foot up to cross her other leg, but her towel was on too tight for the maneuver, and she quickly unclasped it and let it fall away from her still-damp form. Now she could cross her leg, and she brought her foot up and began rubbing the lotion into her foot. She didn't know it was the second time her feet were getting this treatment today, but she did know that it felt exquisite. She almost moaned out loud with the pleasure, and she slowly rubbed each foot in turn.
Sonja had closed her eyes at the feel of her own hands on her feet, at first because of how good it felt, and then because she had let herself slowly slip into the illusion that it was not her hands at all that were doing the rubbing, but Dr. Dotz's.
It's not sexual
she thought to herself immediately, ignoring the heat that was rising in her stomach. As she rubbed and rubbed, her hands eventually dried, and she reached back to the bottle for more, dropping another large dollop onto her hand, but she didn't go back to her feet. They already felt so good, but what about the rest of her?