Try to make both of you invisible

You have your doubts, but Zack is insistent. You take a deep breath and think, “Don’t see us.” You open your eyes and look around.

“Did you do it?” Zack asks. “I don’t feel any different.”

“I tried, but I don’t know if it worked.”

Zack thinks a moment. “Let me try something.” You watch as Zack steps onto the sidewalk, directly in the path of two co-eds. The girls are deep in conversation, but as they approach Zack, they look up, see him, and step around him to avoid a collision.

Zack returns to you. “Well that was less than impressive. Not only did they see me, but I was too focused on whether this would work that I forgot to ask either one for their phone number.”

“I’m not so sure I can actually make us invisible,” you say, upon reflection. When Zack looks at you questioningly, you explain. “I think what happened was that I changed the perception of those I was focused on. They saw me, but I convinced their brains that they didn’t see me. Does that make sense?”

“You mean like when my sister walked in on me and Melinda Hammond when we were getting it on in the shower? She just covered her eyes and said, ‘I did not see this,’ and never spoke of it again.”

You nod. If that helps Zack understand, it’s close enough. “Anyway, for this to work, I can’t just will us to be unseen — I need to direct that toward someone; if I don’t send that mental command to a particular mind, then that person will be unaffected.”

Zack agrees that this makes sense and urges you to put it to the test. You see another pair of students approaching — this time, a male and female. You point them out to Zack and say, “Let’s try it with them, but don’t just stand in front of them this time; that’s really going to freak them out if they bump into something they can’t see. The last thing we need is undue attention.”

“Got it,” says Zack. “Just call me Mr. Subtle.”

You roll your eyes. If you had to assign 100 attributes to Zack, subtlety wouldn’t be anywhere on that list. Nevertheless, you focus on the couple and think, “You don’t see us.” You then glance at Zack and nod.

Zack walks out in front of the couple, close enough that they should see him, but far enough distant to get out of their way. They continue talking to each other, without paying any attention to Zack. He takes a few steps back, and starts jumping up and down, waving his hands, and it still fails to elicit a response from the couple.

Emboldened, Zack steps behind them and follows closely behind, close enough to crane his neck and put his face right between the two of them. Once again, he appears to be unnoticed.

Zack smiles broadly and starts to walk back to you, when he suddenly stops, looks back over his shoulder, and hurries back behind them. You watch aghast as he reaches to the girl’s bottom and begins to gently rub it with his palm. You brace yourself for the inevitable scream, but instead the girl looks up in surprise before smiling at her companion and reaching over to grab his butt. He, too, is surprised, but has a similar reaction of a smile and a returned caress.

Beaming with excitement, Zack practically skips back to you. “It worked!” he says.

“What the hell are you doing? Who said anything about sexually assaulting anyone?”

“Oh, don’t be such a wuss,” he says. “Just look at them. I did them a favor; I bet they have forgotten all about studying tonight. Ten bucks says they don’t even make it back to the dorms before they start getting freaky.”

You look at the couple and decide that would be an unwise bet for you to take. They can’t seem to keep their hands off each other, and any thoughts they may have had about going to the library seem to be long forgotten.

“I feel like Cupid,” said Zack, watching them grope each other. You glance at him and see that his hand seems kind of busy, too, as he rubs at a growing bulge between his legs. You grab his elbow and say, “Can you please save that for later? I only made us invisible to them; if you start beating off Here on the sidewalk, someone is going to notice, and that pretty much negates our strategy of staying under the radar.”

Zack looks down in surprise. “Oh yeah... Sorry about that. Not sure what came over me. She wasn’t even particularly hot, but I feel like I’d love to let her ride the Starship Zachary for a while.”

You roll your eyes, but you have to admit he has a point. “This is probably the horniness side effect of using the powers. Look what’s happening from this little experiment. I’m not so sure this is a good idea, after all.”

“Don’t be ridiculous! So what if this is a side effect? So I have to beat off three or four extra times a day? What’s the big deal?”

Admittedly, 3 or 4 extra jerkoffs for Zack is akin to tossing a cup of water into the ocean, but you still have misgivings and you say so.

“We probably just need to bust a nut real quick,” says Zack. I don’t know about you, but I can wank it in under 45 seconds if I need to. How much time do you need? Hey, I don’t suppose your powers include the ability to turn statues into sex robots, do they, because that statue there in front of the library of Martha Washington has always turned me on.”

You put your hand over Zack’s mouth at that moment because you look up and see the lab techs, Jeff and Amy, emerging from the library. Amy is talking on a phone, and Jeff is carrying some books and files.

“Those are the medical students who did the experiment on me,” you say to Zack.

He looks at them and says, “Well, no wonder you got a boner while she was standing over you. Is she wearing a bra, because if so, those nipples must be hard enough to cut glass. Look at them!”

“Will you shut up for a second? We’ve got to hide before they see us.”

“Well.... Technically, only you have to hide,” says Zack. “They don’t know who I am. But maybe you should Jedi Mind Trick them, anyway. I’d really like to see about those nipples....”

“I wonder if they can see me, anyway,” you say. “I mean, in the lab I made myself invisible to them. I wonder if that wears off over time.”