All characters in this story are at least 18 years of age.
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I was feeling pretty nervous when I agreed to be on my school's quiz bowl team. Not that I was daunted by the academics, of course; I was already a shoe-in to be my class's valedictorian. Nor was I worried about performing under pressure. I'd scored a 1560 on my SATs on my first time out and I hadn't even studied. Nor was it the time commitment; I'd been balancing my academics with my baby-sitting jobs and ballet classes since forever.
It was the boys.
Boys don't frighten me, mind you; I'm not one of those shy girls who always makes excuses about not knowing how to talk to them or something. If anything, they're the ones who are intimidated by me. I'm not built like Kate Upton or anything, but I'm pretty enough, I know, tall and leggy. Which boys are quick to notice, and from there, boys are quick to try to fuck me like I'm some desperate geek who'll spread her legs for any three-inch prick who has the guts to approach me.
This was why I was nervous. I was the only girl on the senior squad of the team this year; the rest of them were a bunch of horny adolescent males. If they weren't exactly knuckle-draggers like the jock squad, they still had all the hormones and libido that went with the turf. Today was our first team meeting, and I intended to establish right off the bat that I wasn't just some dumb piece of eye candy, and any sort of romantic or sexual entanglements were absolutely off the table. I was here for one extra item for my college applications, period end.
We were meeting in Mark Jasper's guest house, just the team members, for a sort of meet and greet/placement testing they'd set up, to determine what everyone's strengths were to place them. Per Mark's instructions, I let myself in and there waiting for me was the rest of my team β Dave, Aaron, Hayden, Victor and Brian, all of whom I knew from my honors classes. And JR.
Wait, JR?
"Hey, Cassandra," Mark said as I seated myself a comfortable distance from the rest of them.
"Yeah, hi guys. What's
he
doing here?" I pointed to JR. "We already have a full roster
and
an alternate. You're not even in most of the advanced placement track classes, are you?"
"Relax, relax," Dave said. "JR's kind of our guru β he's gonna guide us through a little pre-meeting meditation, then skedaddle. All right?"
"It's not a prayer thing, is it? This club is supposed to be entirely secular." I frowned.
"Nah, just to get our minds limber. Come on, now that we're all here, let's get going."
Everyone else seemed fine with it, and while I'm not one to blindly follow the crowd, it seemed harmless enough. They closed the blinds and turned out the lights, then lit a candle in the middle of the circle of us. I stared at the tiny flame, letting my attention get sucked in, the way candles will do to you.
"Welcome everyone," JR began. "We're all here to open our minds, so if no one objects, I'm going to burn a little incense here just to give our candle a little extra boost." No one objected, so he went ahead and lit a couple sticks of incense.
"Now just focus on the flame," he went on once it was going and the smoke was filling my nostrils. "Fix your eyes on it, and empty your minds. Your eyes, fill with the flame... your mouth, fill with the smoke... your ears, fill with my voice. There is nothing else... just the flame... the smoke... my voice..."
I was already tuning him out, honestly. The incense smelled a little weird to me at first, but it grew on me pretty quickly. I'd studied methods of Zen meditation once for a report on multiculturalism, so it was easy to switch my brain off and lose myself. There was nothing else but me. And the flame. And the smoke. The voice.
Just flame, smoke, voice.
I guess whatever he was doing must have worked, because when the lights suddenly turned back on, I felt like a totally new person. I squinted in the sudden brightness, slowly regaining my eyesight to see the room full of boys all looking at me.
"How do you feel?" Mark asked me.
I thought about it. "Weird. Sorta like I had some kind of out-of-body experience, only... I didn't return. Like my mind went somewhere else, and didn't come back."
The guys all looked around at each other, big grins lighting up their faces. I didn't know why, but then, that made sense. They were boys. Boys knew tons of things.
"So... do you remember who you are?" he asked.
"Um, ya. I'm Cassie." I beamed at them, then lowered my voice to a whisper. "I'm your secret weapon."
Dave turned to JR. "Why is she whispering?" JR shrugged, so he turned back to me. "Why are you whispering?"
"Um, 'cause I'm a
secret
weapon," I whispered. "Like, duh."
"Holy shit, it actually worked!" Aaron cried. The guys all took a moment to congratulate one another, especially JR. I just took off my glasses and casually chewed on one of the arms while they talked. (Not like I needed glasses β what was I gonna do with them? Read?)
They went on and on congratulating one another β Hayden for talking me into joining the team, Mark for providing a quiet space, Aaron for bringing the nose plugs they boys had put in to protect them from the mind-altering fumes, Dave for providing the special incense. And JR, especially, for hypnotizing me.
Finally Mark quieted everybody down. "Now, Cassie, I'm going to level with you. The rest of the team already met and figured out our spots. We won't actually need you to be one of our primaries."
"Oh thank goodness!" I said, relieved. What the heck would a dunce like me do in a smart-person competition?
"But, just to put us all at ease, why don't you tell us about how you can still help us. Come on, Cassie. Tell us how the secret weapon works."
This was easy. I had a super smarty brain, after all, but JR was smarter and tricked me into making all my thinky thoughts focused on sex and cock and boys and fucking and sucking dick and getting my cunt stuffed and having boy after boy pound my pussy like a cheap little slut andβ
"Cassie?" Mark prompted.
Oh. Oopsie. "Sorry boys. So, um, I was thinking that, like, even though I'm not smart enough to take tests and do words and number stuff, like, I could still help everyone out!"
"Help us how," Hayden said, smiling patiently.
"Well, like, however you want. Like, if you get thirsty, I could bring you drinks. Or if you get bored, I could give you a lap dance. Or if you get stressed, I could suck your cock. Or if you get horny, I could bend myself over a table and beg you to fuck my creamy little slut pussy until you explode inside me!"
"Um, I think I might be feeling stressed," Victor said.
Brian slugged his shoulder. "Not yet, dude. Remember, we gotta run diagnostics first, make sure she's tuned right."
Dave nodded. "I did my research, and that shit is
potent