Words with Fiends - 17

Sienna tapped her pencil against her notebook. She was barely paying attention to this lecture, although she was actually trying to. For once.

In fact she was trying to do anything except think about this morning. She didn't know how far MAXED would go, but she was doing poorly enough in class without edging herself.

Still, the way Kayla had looked at her when returning her underwear...no. She couldn't think about it now.

"AUGH!" She groaned loudly. The silence that came after was deafening. She looked up and saw her professor, and most of her class staring at her.

"Is there a problem miss?" The professor asked.

"N-no. Not at all." Sienna said, "Sorry."

The professor smiled, though it didn't reach her eyes, “Well, I suppose the concept of strategic message coherence can be terribly challenging for some people. Stay after class, I think you need the extra help."

Sienna nodded but stifled her groan. She needed this credit to graduate and her finances wouldn't tolerate having to re-do a course. She needed this class so she could finally get out of here.

So she dutifully stayed behind as everyone else filed out. When she was alone with the professor she got up and walked to the front.

And then it happened.

"Oh no, not now!" She hissed. But of course her body didn't listen. Compelled, her hands gripped the bottom of her skirt and...whoosh! There were her panties on full display.

To her surprise Dr. Moreau looked. No, she didn't look. She stared.

When the compulsion ended and she was able to drop her skirt she coughed, "Um, I'm-"

Dr. Moreau cut her off, "If you are trying to...well I'll pretend I don't know what you were trying to do. It won't work. How shameful."

"I'm sorry, it's not my fault. It's..." It's a magic fucking app. Yeah right, like she'd believe her, "It was a dare. I'm sorry. It is my fault, but I wasn't trying to seduce you."

"A dare...alright. You're Sienna, right?"

Sienna nodded.

"You aren't doing too well. You're passing, for now, but you won't make it just going through the motions."

"I know, I'm sorry..." Sienna stared at the professor and for whatever reason felt like she could unload the tension she'd been feeling for a long time. It wasn't the time or the place, but once she started she couldn't help herself, "I'm just so tired all the time. I work at a bar to pay rent and tuition and I'm always getting home super late. I work most nights because I'm flat broke and I've been feuding with my roommate over stupid things and there's this app...nevermind, but that's just another stress of me and on top of all that I'm single and all the guys in this city are assholes..."

The professor was silent for a while. Then she smiled, for real this time, "Well...how about you kill two birds with one stone? I was about to recruit a research assistant, but you'll do just fine."

"Me? But I'm..."

"What? I don't need a top student, just a warm body. It's not charity mind you. If you fail to do the job I'll give you the boot, but I'm sure you can handle it."

"What...what would I have to do?"

“It’s simple,” Professor Moreau said. “You’d schedule interview participants, send reminder emails, handle consent forms, it won't be much work ”

“And you’re sure you want me?”

“Like I said, anyone can do it. But I expect you to pay attention to the project itself. Learning about it will teach you about this course and hopefully help you pass. It might not pay as much as a Friday night shift at the bar, but I hope it will let you take a few nights off."

Sienna gulped, "I almost hate to ask...how much does it pay?"

"22$/hour, but probably only 10ish hours per week. So you want it?"

Sienna nodded. It was above her hourly rate at the bar, although on a good night tips would bring her well above that. It did mean she could drop some weeknights where the tips weren't as good. "Yes. Definitely."

"Good. Come by my office tomorrow during my office hours and we'll sort everything out. Oh, and Sienna? No more dares."

"Yes, no more dares! Thank you so much."

Sienna hurried away before Dr. Moreau could change her mind. As soon as she was out of the door she heard a buzz on her phone and pulled it out.

A notification. From Words with Fiends.

Special Offer
Send link to Words with Fiends to Liana Moreau for a whopping 1000 gems!
(Yes/No)

1000 gems? Enough to remove 10 punishments...that was a lot.

And the cost? Betraying someone who just showed her kindness.

She didn't hesitate. She tapped no immediately.

A new notification.

BORING!

Another one.

Special Offer
Send nude photo to Liana Moreau for a whopping 1000 gems!
(Yes/Also Yes/Definitely Yes/Send two!)

This time there was no option to click no, but eventually she noticed a tiny x in the corner and dismissed it altogether.

Do you really want to risk flashing your panties again?
Final Offer
Send Liana Moreau a sex dream involving you for a measly 50 gems!
(She'll experience the dream next time she sleeps, with no way to know you were involved)
(Yes/OMG Yes/I'd be stupid to reject this offer so of course yes!)

This time she did hesitate. A sex dream? There was no way she'd think Sienna had anything to do with it, and it wouldn't be that big of a deal...would it? 50 gems wouldn't remove a punishment, but she could play the game with some bonuses and hopefully win...

She tapped Yes. The yes suddenly greyed out but the notification remained. She groaned and tapped OMG yes. The same thing happened. Finally she hit the third yes and the notification disappeared and her gem count shot up.

She hoped she'd made the right choice.

She found a nearby bench and sat down. Time to clear the game. She booted it up.

She started off with a Q, but no U or anything else to play off it. She placed down VENT for 14.

Belial immediately played KERN, also for 14 points.

She'd picked up an X and took her whole timer trying to find a spot for it. Then she saw the perfect spot, LYNX on a double word for 28 points.

Or not so perfect. The X was above the PW tile and Belial plopped down XIS for 40 points.

She didn't want to play her U without her Q, but she couldn't find anything else and put down FOURS for 24. Belial played ADEPT for only 11 points, but the board was looking very closed off and there weren't many spots to go. With that word it was obvious it was trying to tempt her into using the PW tile. With one word each left it was 66-65 in her favour.

She actually had a good word to use the PW tile. She'd looked up Q words without U and knew she could play QAT. It would be worth 48 points. Except also a punishment and she didn't even know the definition...

Wait. She had gems. She navigated to the store and bought Fiend's Favour, to play QAT without trigging the PW tile.

The little demon on her screen looked awfully upset, and she couldn't help but smile. It played ZED, good, but not nearly good enough.

"YES!" She'd won. She could finally stop flashing her panties!

Or wait...should she get rid of MAXED instead?

Her list of rewards popped up.

• Remove 1 punishment
• $1000 dollars
• Give Kayla a punishment

She had no need to punish Kayla right now. $1000 would be good, but she'd rather keep her new part time job. That left the punishment. She tapped it and then had to decided which one.

She tapped on PANTY. MAXED and DENIALS were both bad, but losing control of her body was awful. She hoped she'd be able to control her arousal on her own, but she had no control over PANTY.

She sat back against the bench and smiled. Things were looking up.

Her phone buzzed again.

She scowled, "Leave me alone Belial...oh..." It wasn't Belial. It was Kayla.

"Heyy! Want to have dinner together tonight? I'll cook."

Heyy? Two y's? What the hell was going on with her?