SSS 2 - Turn them on

You gaze at the remote, which has three buttons. One red, one green, one pink. The red one has an OFF symbol and the green one has the ON one. The pink one is unlabeled. Red and green seem straightforward enough. You hit the green ON button and brace yourself.

A green light comes on. Nothing else happens. Did you do it wrong? Maybe you don’t understand how this works. There are several buttons. You hit the ON button. Was that wrong? You thought that it would activate the vibe over your clit, or whatever it is that you feel inside you.

Behind you, the door unlocks. Relieved, you let yourself out into the corridor, still carrying the remote. You’re confused, but still standing. And still in one piece. You haven’t thrown up yet.

Another light comes on, farther down the passage. You advance cautiously and another door unlocks. You take a deep breath, swallow, and enter the room.

Kalyna is here. She’s kneeling on the floor, naked and trussed up in the cruelest, most elaborate shibari setup that you have ever seen. Thin, black ropes bite into her reddened flesh. Tears shine on her face. She can’t move a muscle, although she is not gagged or blindfolded.

Two handles hang from the ceiling above her. They must be meant for you, because her hands are tied.

You open your mouth to speak, but she shakes her head vigorously.

There’s a table beside you with a set of headphones. You pick them up and put them on, looking worriedly at Kalyna.

“Keep your voice down, Meri. If the noise level in the room rises above a certain number of decibels, it won’t be you who pays for it. This one’s smart. Careful. Diligent. Hungry. Just what you want in a pledge,” Peachface says in Meri’s ear. “But how was she selected? Was it her interview? Her grades? Her looks? I know the answer.”

Meri barely remembers, but there weren’t a lot of pledges when Kalyna came in.

“No competition,” Peachface says. “She made sure of that. Some would call her tactics despicable. I can’t throw stones. I like the ambition. But ambition is only half of being a CCL girl. And those elbows she threw with the things she said? Some of them left bruises. Some of your pledges never showed up because of rumors. It would be a shame if people found out where those rumors started. Of course, even if Kalyna didn’t have CCL, she’d still have her perfect grades. She’s a great student. I hope no one submits some final papers under the name that they used AI to write.”

As Peachface says it, another light comes on, showing a laptop logged into the university system.

So Kalyna made moves to make sure that she became a part of CCL, giving herself a leg up on the competition. Meri doesn’t approve, but it’s probably nothing that she wouldn’t have done herself. It’s hard for her to blame Kalyna. Peachface doesn’t blame her either. It’s not about Kalyna.

“She’s good at spreading rumors, but let’s see if that mouth is good for anything else. That thing you feel inside you, Meri? That’ll tell me if Kalyna’s a real CCL girl at heart. And don’t forget: Shhhh.”

The recording ends. There’s a timer running on the laptop screen: one minute. That’s not much, and it’s already ticking down. OK. This one doesn’t seem too hard to figure out: Peachface already kind of explained the thing inside you, some invention that can measure contractions. You look down at yourself, then at Kalyna. Peachface didn’t just leave her head free and ungagged for this sound gimmick. She wants Kalyna to get Meri off and use her tongue to do it.

But the belt is in the way. It’s impossible.

Well, no… it’s not about Kalyna, it’s about you. The device inside you is what will determine success or failure. The belt is still on, so that vibe is still pressed against your clit. It’s not turned on, but it could be. You look at the remote in your hand. Is this cheating? You don’t know. Thirty seconds are left on the clock. Kalyna cannot perform oral sex through a chastity belt. Your… backside is exposed because of the design of the belt, but nobody’s getting you off in thirty seconds that way even if you could make yourself put Kalyna in that situation.

You catch yourself before you can swear in frustration; you can’t make any noise.

Doing this the way that it was intended is impossible. Your only chance is to use the remote. There’s no more time. But you aren’t sure what this third button will do.

Press the third button on the remote?

Or don’t risk it?