Chapter 1

Finally. Finally he was mine. I had waited so long and been so, so patient, and finally my plan bears fruit. He caught my eye a few months ago, specifically three months, two weeks, five days, nine hours, and thirty-seven minutes ago. I saw him across the food court in the mall and knew I had to make him mine.

I went over to him and asked if the other seat at the table was occupied. It wasn’t and I was quickly able to strike up an amicable relationship and traded phone numbers with him. I called him that night and set up a bar outing for the next night. After the call I went out and bought a gps tracker to slip onto him at the bar and figure out where he lived. 

During the bar he said how much he likes mixtapes and a plan began to form in my mind. I could make a mixtape and add a subliminal layer to influence him. It took a few weeks as I wanted to make sure it was perfect and not to scare him away. We met up many times between then as I figured out what music he liked and was unable to stop looking at his lips.

The subliminal had rather simple suggestions, I could do most of the programming later. It just contained a trigger for easier trancing and the suggestions to trust me completely, to want a relationship with me, and to listen to it every night. He asked if I would go out with him three weeks later. He said how touched he was by me making a mixtape for him and how he listened to it every night before sleeping. Three months after our first encounter he brought up the topic of moving in with me. Hiding my excitement we had a conversation about it and I agreed.

And now he is here with his suitcase standing in front of me on my porch. I invite him inside and offer him a glass of water. The basement is set up for him and for me to mold him into complete perfection.

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I offered him a drink that, unbeknownst to him, was already drugged. I had him sit down on the couch and enjoy his drink while I brought everything he had in. Ten minutes later everything was inside and he was passed out on the couch.

I picked him up bridal style and carried him down to the basement and on to the table I had prepared for him. I stripped him naked and strapped him down with the leather I had attached to the table, it was sturdy enough not to break but it shouldn’t hurt him.

I turned on the screen that would display the visuals and set the headphones on him, now all that was left was for him to wake up.

—(POV Shift)—

I woke up to strange sounds and stranger sights. The sound was like a single note stretched out and shifting.

The screen in front of me displayed a black and white spiral like what you’d see in an old spy movie or something. I think words were flashing on the screen occasionally but they were gone so fast I couldn’t make anything more that a few letters here and there, typically the first and last, an ‘o’ and a ‘y’ then an ‘r’ and an ‘x’.

The noise that I was hearing had changed slightly. Where before it was just that one tone now there was something else to it sounded like far away whispers. I couldn’t really make them out. The confusion I was feeling must have shown on my face as the noise and visual suddenly cut out leaving me briefly in darkness. I didn’t understand any of what was happening and my dear friend appearing on the screen only confused me more. It began to make sense as he spoke.

“Hey, so I know you’re confused and probably a bit scared but just try and stay calm and listen. When I first saw you I knew we were just destined to be together. You felt that way too right?” he looked crazed as he said this and it felt like there was a rock sitting in my stomach. No one but him knew where I was.

“N-no. No, I don’t feel that way and even if I did then I don’t now. Let me go.” I was barely able to get the words out I was so scared.

He looked absolutely furious for have a second before he schooled his expression into one of resigned disappointment. “Ah, so that’s how you feel right now.” He grinned and my blood froze. “Well, don’t you worry one bit darling, once you’ve been in there for a little bit I’m sure you’ll feel differently. See you later, love you!” and with those final words the video cut out.

After a few seconds the original video was back on the screen and the weird noise were noises were coming through the head phones again. I resolved my self that I would not be bent to his will.

I don’t know how long had passed but a sigh came through the headphones and that I should really just do what I was told. Suddenly, I felt a prick of an IV in the crook of my left elbow. Despite him assuring me that it was just for nutrition it got harder to keep my thoughts in order. I needed to make a plan and fast.

Of course! I would just play along. I would act how he wanted me to and once he bought it I would leave and go to the police. That was the plan I would act be how he wanted me to and once he bought it I would leave and go to the police until I could get away. The plan was to be how he wanted me to be forever. That was my plan.