You have a question for the student.

After a period of reflective silence, you ask, "So... was this really a school project? Or were you trying to get us into a threesome?"

Melanie gets up and stretches herself before responding, "I honestly don't know what's gotten into me... I just saw Amina and had the urge to tear her clothes off and suck on her pert little breasts..." She traced her finger around Amina's nipple and leaned in to kiss the girl. Amina kissed back obligingly. "I've never felt this way before..." The sociology student curls up to Amina and nuzzles her neck. "It's some mysterious desire... I'd like to keep you around to study it further... would you like that, Amina?" She purrs into the genie's ear. "I could make it worth your while..."

Amina giggles and murmurs, "That'd be nice..."

"How is your comfort level on a scale of one to ten?" Melanie asks softly while gently massaging Amina's breasts from behind.

"It feels like a ten..." Amina moans back, nuzzling her back into the student.

"Good..." Melanie murmurs back as they snuggled close to one another.

You get the feeling that you're being left out. Aside from accepting your participation in the threeway, it's as if you're not even in the room with these two. The love spell that Amina is under must be really potent. How would a sociology student tackle this sort of problem? You don't want to outright explain the situation for fear that she'll blow off the whole idea as a joke, so you compose it into a thought experiment that she could sort her way through.

"Say, Melanie...." you start as you lean beside the two girls, not making any contact, but admiring the view all the same. "Suppose you were under the influence of maybe a ****, or hypnosis, to maybe fall in love with someone as much as you seem to have fallen for Amina... how would you go about breaking that spell?"

Melanie stops stroking her partner's hair and pays attention to you as if suddenly realizing you are there. She thinks to herself, "That's an intriguing question. If I'm under the influence through hypnosis, even if I know I'm under the influence, I'd still not be able to do something about it. There are cases of people breaking out of hypnosis by being **** to do something that would go against their own personal morals."

"So, if you were **** to do something that goes against what you, deep down inside, want, you'd break free of the control?" you summarize.

"That's the theory anyways. Like a contradiction in logic that crashes a computer." Melanie's attention goes back to cuddling with the petite redhead.