I have to say 'yes'

Tanya is speechless at first. It feels like a cloud has settled down onto her brain. Slowly though, the cloud begins to part, and she admits the truth. "I have to say 'yes.'" She's shocked when she hears herself admit it. Of course, that explains everything that she's been doing over the last few days.

"You have to say 'yes'? To who? Are those nerds blackmailing you?"

"N-no, no one is blackmailing me. I just..." she pauses and finds it hard to believe the words pouring out of her mouth. "I just need to say 'yes' to anything anyone tells me to do."

"Suck your thumb," McKenzie commands. Tanya does exactly what she says. The impressionable high schooler starts sucking on her thumb as McKenzie watches. McKenzie pauses. That command was too easy. Tanya could fake sucking her thumb. She didn't want to do it but she needed to know for sure, so she came up with a harder command. "Lick my shoe," she says.

Tanya makes a grossed out face as she finds herself getting on her knees and placing her tongue on McKenzie's tan UGG. "Mac" Tanya says in between licks along the length of the top of the shoe, "please! Don't make me do this."

McKenzie is horrified that Tanya's going along with it, but she's also completely befuddled as to why Tanya would need to do everything someone says. She lifts up her foot and, feeling guilty, says "lick the bottom."

"You bitch!" Tanya says before running her tongue along the length of the sole. She makes gagging noises as she does so.

"I'm doing this for your own good, Tanya!"

As soon as the words hit her ears Tanya knows her friend is right. "Of course," she says continuing to lick, "this is for my own good."

"And...and you like it," McKenzie finds herself telling Tanya because she feels bad about making her do something so gross. She hears Tanya moan as she responds with a long slow lick. "Okay! Stop!" McKenzie almost yells.

Tanya stops and stands. She licks her lips and grins. "I didn't know I liked licking the bottoms of shoes so much. Is that weird?"

McKenzie shakes her head. "How did this happen, Tanya? What happened to you?"

Again, Tanya feels a cloud in her brain. This time it doesn't part so easily. She can sort of see the alley by the school. She remembers walking through it. She thinks she heard the voice of a woman but she struggles to pull it forward. "I-I think something happened in the alley by the school. I think. There might have been a woman. I-I'm sorry. I really want to explain but I can't. Something is stopping me."

Tanya's BFF is dizzy trying to process how something like this can actually be real, but it explains so much. She looks at the clock, they need to get to their next separate classes, but she doesn't want to leave Tanya alone until she figures out what's going on. She especially doesn't want to let the losers, who she was positive knew about Tanya's situation, get their hands on her again. McKenzie grinds her teeth.