Role Reversal

You look at Maisie, tapping away on her phone and grinning to herself. You have known her all of your life, done everything she has ever asked of you (and it's been a lot). have the power over her to make her do absolutely anything you wish. And yet, somehow, you are still less important to her than Johnny Random who she met last night at a club.

You already know you aren't going to use your new power over Maisie to **** her. She can be infuriating at times for sure - thoughtless, self centred, spoiled. But you know deep down you have defined your relationship dynamic with her just as much as she has. On top of that, she can be very sweet to you and, when you both hit puberty and she was ushered into the cool crowd and you, to put it mildly, weren't, she stuck with you anyway. You know that wasn't just because of her plan to tell you about the curse.

But you have to do something with it. You can't just be the pathetic doormat she has taken you for, who will do whatever he is told even with total power over her in his hands. You have to show Maisie she has underestimated you without letting this curse turn you into somebody you never were and have no intention of becoming.

More than anything, you want Maisie to know how this feels. The pain you have consistently experienced whenever the two of you have hung out together, ever since you hit puberty and started crushing on her - right around the same time she started to get a lot of attention from other boys who were somehow of more interest to her. The consistent agony she puts you through without meaning to. It is time for a classic movie style role reversal. You can only alter Maisie's mind and actions, not your own. Keeping up your end of this is going to be tough, the temptation ****, but you have to stay strong. You need her to finally understand.

"Maisie" she turns to you only as a natural reflex from having heard her name. and looks a little irritated that you have disturbed her texting, but you continue "Until further notice, you will think I am the hottest man you have ever laid eyes on. You will be **** to please me, determined to win my approval. You will want to spend every waking minute in my company. It will pain you to see me flirt with other girls or talk about how cute I think they are right in front of you, like you don't count as a woman somehow. You feel sure you can never be good enough for me, but that won't stop you from dreaming that somehow, if we spend enough time together and you keep saying and doing whatever I want, that one day I will magically fall in love with you and your life will be perfect. Finally, you feel too inadequate to ever tell me how much I mean to you, or that you think you may be in love with me, because you feel sure I would just laugh at you"

Maisie looks at you for a moment, then places her phone down on the seat next to her. It is still buzzing away, but she has lost all interest.

"So, wanna go for that walk?" she asks hopefully.

"I dunno, a river walk was your idea wasn't it? It's kind of a lame thing to do" you shrug.

"Yeah, you're right" she agrees instantly "What would you prefer? Shall we head over to your place and play video games? I have a bit of cash from my weekend job. If there was a new game you wanted to try out maybe I could grab it for you?"

Oh God. Is that what you are like around Maisie? No wonder she doesn't respect you, This was supposed to be a lesson for her, not you, but you guess it cuts both ways. You keep up the act.

"Nah, I'm not really in the mood"

You pick up your phone and pretend to start typing on it while smiling to yourself.

"Hey who is that?" Maisie asks with concern, trying to look at your screen.

"Jane from college" you reply while continuing to tap away, not even bothering to glance back at Maisie.

"Jane Greenwood? That slut?" She asks angrily "Why would you want to talk to her? She's practically brain dead"

"Nah, she's pretty funny, and cute too" you continue to fake type on your phone while half ignoring your passenger. Maisie is getting increasingly **** to win your attention, and finally she pulls out the big guns.

"We could play with my curse"

Okay, that did get your attention. You place your phone down for a moment and look at Maisie.

"What do you mean, play with your curse?"

"You have complete and total magical control over me now, there must be stuff you would like to do" she tells you "I don't mind, as long as it is nothing too harsh or permanent"

You are almost certainly going to agree to this, but first you can't resist teasing Maisie a little more.

"Hey, if all the women in your family are cursed does that mean Holly is too? Could I control her instead?"

"No, the curse doesn't work like that!" Maisie looks and sounds genuinely wounded by this remark and you start to feel a little bad, while keeping in mind she says thoughtless shit like that to you all the time "Anyway, my sister is too old for you isn't she? You have me to control, however you want. Isn't that enough?"

She seems so pathetic like this. You are actually losing some of your attraction to her. But not enough not to take her up on her offer.

"Okay Maisie, I'll drive you back to mine" you tell her "Let's see what this curse of yours can do"