John Whitley - University Student

"UGH!" I said heaving my books down on my bed.

"I know it's fucking brutal. Hansen even said that we never needed a book but then he said he was gonna check for it so... what the fuck?" Rebecca, my roommate's girlfriend agreed.

"They're just doing this to make money. I'm sure Hansen gets a cut down the line for this. Stupid asshole." Rick sighed. "This fucking women's studies book is ridiculous."

"No it's not! God, you need that class. You'll both learn a lot." Rebecca folded her arms. The resident feminist got her jab in. yay. I sighed and put my books away.

"What the... Creator's Manual?" I said under my breath. The couple had moved back into the living room and couldn't hear me. I read the first paragraph. God? God wrote this? God's voice sounded like a nihilistic 30 year old. I shrugged. I could see that. I read through the rules, this shit was crazy!

"Hello!"

I looked up at Rebecca. "Huh?"

"Ugh! Pizza? We wanna order one?" She said in her normal bitchy tone. I was too distracted.

"Yeah, fine." I said dismissively looking back at the book. It dawned on me that she was still in my doorway. I looked up to see her hand outstretched. "Ugh! Get a job you filthy scrub!" I shouted playfully, handing her my credit card.

"I'll think about it!" She smiled and twirled back to the living room. I didn't mind Rebecca despite her politics. Mostly it was the adorable face and the blonde hair. I wanted to fuck her so badly. I looked through the Creator's Manual. If this was legit, there was definitely something in here to make that happen. I flipped through the section on humans, then other animals, then chemistry, then physics. Some of this was deep. I could change gravity of objects, size, density. Those were like crazy specific. I had to draw a square with exactly 100,000 atoms on each side. Okay, fuck those ones.

Even the human ones seemed tough. There were sections for men and women. They had similar effects but different procedures. I looked at the first manipulation for women, Pacify.

Pacify - Type: Instant - Effect: Subject instantly drops to default emotion - Procedure: Fold Subject's left nipple inward around User's right ring finger until it barely makes contact with left breast - Cooldown: 1 hour - Penalty Time: 7 days

Okay or how about Shed.

Shed - Type: Instant Timed - Effect: Subject will shed all clothing for 5 minutes - Procedure: Lick from tip of the nose back to halfway between the bottom of the nose and lip without breaking contact - Cooldown: 30 minutes - Penalty Time: 4 days

Seriously, how the fuck was I going to lick someone like that? Wouldn't they freak out? This seemed like a waste of time. However, if I got good at this I could actually be God. I can make men impotent and pathetic and their girls won't know why. I can make girls strip down and get on their knees and serve me without questioning it. The potential was nuts but the manipulations were really tough. I had to practice on some hookers or something. I would figure that out tomorrow.

I discovered a small section just after the preface called "warm up spells. Men and Women." I read through those and I smiled. These were definitely doable. In fact...

I went to my room and fired on my laptop. Two spells caught my attention.

Attention - Type: Duration - Effect: Subject will pay attention to User - Procedure: Play a tone at 665 Hz - Cooldown: 5 minutes - Penalty Time: 15 minutes

Arouse - Type: Instant - Effect: Double Subjects current arousal - Procedure: Press your tongue against the tips of all upper teeth and click downward - Cooldown: 30 seconds - Penalty: 15 minutes

These two were safe. At least, making a tone with 665 Hz was easy enough. I could call Rebecca in and make her pay attention to me. Then if that worked, I could try to click my tongue and see if I got it right. I should practice it first.

Clicking from the teeth was tricky, air could get in so you couldn't form a good seal. Still, if you pulled in hard enough you could manage a click. This would be really handy if it worked.

"Rebecca can you come check this out?" I asked into the living room. I turned on the tone as I heard her sigh and trudge into my room.

"What?" She asked, as she got to my room.

"TITS!" I shouted at her. This was a game we played when we walked through the apartment and she showed up abruptly.

"Ha!" I heard Rick laugh from the living room.

"Very funny. What is it you wanted to show me? Or was it that?" She asked looking right at my face. That was odd. She would normally storm off having gotten got so good. She was still here, I smiled as I accepted the Creator's Manual as my new God. "What are you smiling about?" She asked. She was really paying attention to me.

I put my tongue up onto my teeth and I tried to click it but the tongue slipped before it could make a solid noise.

"That's fucking retarded. What. Did. You. Want. To. Show. Me?" She sounded really pissed. Interesting so she was still paying attention to me even though the click failed. "What? What is it?" She asked as I turned back to my computer. I rolled my eyes while facing away from her. "Don't sass me!" She said. I quickly turned off the tone.

"Oh my god, you can go. I was just fucking with you." I said laughing with fake annoyance. She huffed and stormed off. If she knew that paying attention to me incessantly would irritate me, she could get me back for all the pranks I pulled on her. I chuckled at that. I had more important shit to think about though.

The book was real. It actually worked. So this was definitely worth practicing and getting really good at. I could manipulate my way through life without every working for a second. I just needed test subjects so I could get this shit into muscle memory. That would be for tomorrow. Pizza had just arrived.