And so my appeal to Katherine got me absolutely nowhere. Just as Katherine said, I was stuck in slavery to Mandy Murphy. Now my helplessness was even more acute, since now every time I passed Katherine in the hallway, she greeted me as "Davey" (if no one else was around) to rub in my suffering.
The next week, on a Wednesday afternoon, I was in the student center helping one of Mandy's students with homework when I glanced up to see two familiar figures at a table about 30 feet away. I did a brief double-take. There, across the student center, drinking cappuccinos and chatting, were Mandy and Katherine. I lost concentration momentarily, but then went back to helping the student.
When the student left, I sat at the table alone and nervously regarded Mandy and Katherine, wondering what they were up to. I didn't have to wait long to find out. Seeing I was free, they picked up their cappuccinos and came over to my table. I just eyed them suspiciously as they sat down. Mandy spoke: "Well, how are office hours going for my little teaching assistant?"
Oh, Christ. My mouth went dry. From embarrassment, you ask? No. From fear. Mandy's choice of words, in front of Katherine, meant that Katherine had already revealed to Mandy her knowledge of the blackmail. There had to be some terrible price to pay for going behind Mandy's back to try and escape her. She would exact that price, and she would have an influential adviser to help her.
I cleared my throat. "Fine," I said.
Katherine said, "It must be so convenient to have a teaching assistant. That must be just wonderul."
"Oh, it is," said Mandy. "This way I can concentrate on the important tasks of handling student complaints, and, you know, just overseeing everything. I mean, grading and all that is so hum-drum."
"Mmm, yes," said Katherine. "It does become quite a chore. Well, that's what they pay these low-level people to do. They make a pittance to do all of that tedious gruntwork so we can concentrate on more important matters. And you know, since they want to get ahead, and stay in the good graces of their superiors, you can just pile more and more on them, and they'll do it, you know, to kiss ass."
"Yes. Yes, that's so true," Mandy agreed.
"Wow. That's just great. Just great, I'm so happy for you. You know, I sure wish I had someone to relieve some of my grading burden. You know? It would be really nice to have someone to lighten my load."
"Oh. Well, you know you're welcome to have Davey do some of your grading."
"Really?"
"Oh, yeah, that's no trouble at all. You wouldn't mind taking on some of Katherine's grading for her classes, would you, Davey?"
"Um." Mandy raised her eyebrows at me, daring me to refuse. "Um, no ... uh ... Miss Murphy. I wouldn't mind."
"See? He doesn't mind. I'm pretty sure he doesn't work EEEEvery waking moment of EEEEvery day. So he has time to do some grading for you. You just feel free to let him know, any time, that you have some papers for him to do, and he'll be happy to do them."
"Oh, thank you, Mandy," said Katherine. "That will be a big help. Yes, Davey, if you could just follow me up to my office, I have a couple of stacks of homework. I'll need you to get those done by tomorrow morning."
For the next two weeks, Mandy and Katherine dominated my mind ... EEEEvery waking moment of EEEEvery day. Their haughty faces seemed like ghosts encircling my head and taunting me continually, whether I was at home or on campus. At home, I would sit, grading paper after paper, stewing in my powerlessness... with a hard-on. On campus, they smirked at me knowingly every time our paths crossed. In bed, I would lie on my back, watching the blanket poke up and down from my twitching boner, while a woman who COULD actually provide me with a little bit of relief from my suffering, lay fast asleep beside me. It was excruciating to realize that even Becky served Mandy and Katherine's interests, though unwittingly, in that her disinterest in sex with me only amplified my helplessness.
The hours I spent in the classroom, teaching my own classes, should have allowed my mind brief opportunities to escape the influence of my tormentors. After all, during those hours, students called me Mr. Thompson... not "Davey". These students had respect for me, whereas Mandy's students regarded me as a semi-competent boob. But the hours and hours of mind-numbing clerical tasks heaped upon me, coupled with the incessant distraction of horniness, was having a crippling effect on my proficiency even there. I began to make careless mistakes, either in the organization of my lessons, or on scoring my students' papers, or even in the actual math I was teaching. My students had enough confidence in my professionalism to overlook a little of this, but if it continued at a regular rate, all semester long, they would stop being so forgiving. As for my professional performance in Mandy's classes, it was even worse, because I knew the students had little confidence in me to begin with.
About two weeks after Katherine established herself as a co-conspirator in my terrible predicament, Mandy called me on my cell phone and told me to come to her office at a certain time. When I got there, she and Katherine were chatting away inside. They told me to come in and close the door. Mandy said since it had been several weeks now since the last time she "emptied my balls", it was about time to do that again. I shouldn't have been mortified by her saying this in front of Katherine, since I had already told Katherine about this practice. But I was. Then Mandy explained that Katherine would LOVE to see me pitifully squirting over a month's worth of cum, only to have me get down on the floor and slurp up the mess. And Mandy, for her part, would LOVE to show Katherine this humiliating ritual. (As for me, I felt that I would have LOVED to be struck down by lightning at that moment.)
"In fact, David, I think from now on the decision as to whether you're allowed to have your balls emptied is something Katherine and I will make together. I think maybe when I decide it's about time, I'll tell you, but then send you to Katherine to ask what she thinks. I mean, for all I know, Katherine might not be pleased with the grading you're doing for her, or something like that. She may not think you deserve to have your balls emptied. And I think maybe the three of us will have to coordinate our schedules for this from now on."
I could only answer, "Yes, Miss Murphy."
"So, why don't you tell him what we were talking about earlier, Katherine."
"Yes," said Katherine. "Mandy and I have been talking, and we think this Saturday night would be an excellent time for your ... ball-emptying ... or whatever. Randall is out of town this weekend for a conference, so Mandy and I thought we'd spend the day together. We're gonna go shopping ... you know, as it turns out, Mandy makes pretty good money for being a first-year teacher. I was surprised when she told me how much she makes. Anyway, we're gonna go shopping, go out to lunch, whatever. Then she'll come over to my house, we'll have a nice dinner, have some wine. So we were thinking around 8:00, you could come to my house. And ... well, we had some other things in mind, too. So I think you should plan to spend the whole evening there. Basically from 8:00 untilllll ... what time do you think, Mandy?"
"Uhhhh... I don't really know. I guess just 'til whenever. I couldn't really say."