After Adam got home that afternoon, he had a lot to occupy his thoughts. "
What was that voice? Where did it come from? Was it even real? Did any of that actually happen? Am I losing my mind? And if it was all real - does that mean I can do things with my mind?"
Janis Taylor, Adam's mother, noticed her son's distraction. "Adam? Are you OK? You seem a little lost. Anything you want to talk about?"
"No," he answered a little too quickly, "no, just... uh... thinking about some of my homework assignments."
He blushed. "
If she knew what I was really thinking about, she'd freak out. Me, having sex with Beast Gaynor?!? I definitely don't want her to ever find out about that. And I sure don't want to ever,
ever
repeat that. But... still... it felt so... so good, if I'm being honest. But knowing what I did to the Beast... He had it coming! He totally deserved it, the way he picked on me nearly every day. But... the voice was right. I can never feel proud that I did that to him."
"Adam, why are you blushing? Are you still being teased at school about your weight?"
"No, mom, nothing like that. I mean, yes, but I'm used to it by now."
"Trouble with your teachers?"
"No, mom, it's nothing."
"Is it something about... sex?"
"MOM!!" Adam blushed even harder than before.
"I'm sorry, sweetie. I didn't mean to embarrass you. I know you're getting older and... and it's natural for things like that to come up at your age. I know... I know it's hard for you to talk about it with your mother, but... Oh, if only your father were here."
Adam's dad, Bill, had been an accountant making a decent living until he was killed by a drunk driver while on his way home from work 6 years before. The life insurance paid for the house and provided enough for him and his mother to get by, but his absence was deeply felt on a daily basis. Janis had returned to work as a secretary to cover the things the insurance couldn't, but she could never replace the masculine presence her son needed. She had never remarried, in part because she didn't want to replace the memories of Bill in Adam's life, but more because she wasn't at all certain that any of the men she was meeting these days could live up to the standards Bill had set as an example.
"No, mom, it's nothing like that. I... I think I had better get going on my homework."
Adam retreated to his room and attempted to work on his school assignments, but found his mind drifting back the memory of Gaynor's mouth on his cock, and of the sensation of pumping spurt after spurt into the other boy's ass.
Dinner that night was filled with an uneasy silence, with neither mother nor son willing to reopen the uncomfortable conversation they had had earlier. Adam's sleep was a little troubled, but dawn and breakfast came at the usual time, and he was eventually on his way to school.
As he walked along, he thought about his (possible) new-found abilities. "
Does this mean I can get a girlfriend? Or get laid? Maybe start getting some good grades? I need to start checking this out!"
As he approached his locker, Adam put his saddest expression on his face while mentally yelling,
"Somebody come ask me what's wrong! Somebody care about me!"
**click**
[It doesn't work like that. You can't force an idea into someone's mind. At most, you can increase the attention someone already has on a particular thought. Right now, you haven't given anyone a reason to think about you at all, let alone sympathize with you. You've spent so much time trying to avoid attention, you can't expect anyone to concentrate on you.]
"But how do I start?"
[If you want attention, the easiest way is to give some away. Find someone who wants or needs attention and offer them some of yours.]
**click**
For the rest of the morning, Adam went through his time at school looking at his fellow students. He saw many faces he recognized, some of whom he could put a name to, but mainly just familiar strangers he had previously ignored. In his second-period Physics class, he was supposed to find a lab partner and as usual, he was among the last to get paired up with anyone. He approached one of the remaining girls and asked, "Want to partner up?"
She looked back with dull eyes and said, "I guess."
"I'm Adam. I guess we haven't met before."
"Tina."
