locket to interfere with her girlfriend at all.
“What’s your name, honey?” Emma asked.
“ Diana.”
Fighting not to succumb to Diana’s stunning looks and eye-catching cleavage, Emma took a deep breath. Her face was youthful and soft, with high cheekbones, expressive eyes, and full lips that just screamed sexuality … “Well, Diana…” Emma said quietly, reaching into her pocket to touch the locket. She felt the strange energy tingle her arm.
The girl’s enthusiasm blanked into a neutral expression, and the locket’s energy turned subtly titillating.
Emma quickly glanced around, but nobody else seemed to be looking at them for the moment. If she did this quickly enough, even momentary accidental trances among people in the crowd would go unnoticed.
“Are you interested in girls at all?” she asked.
“No,” Diana replied.
Emma grimaced. “Well, you’re a lesbian now,” she ordered quickly, adrenaline and nerves making it hard for her to think. “And you’re going to do anything I say, or my girlfriend Lydia says. I will introduce you to her. Is all this clear?”
“Yes.”
“I’m going to buy the round of drinks I talked about. You’re going to say goodbye to your friends, close your tab, come over to me, and we’re going to go to a hotel room and have sex. Is that clear?”
“Yes.”
She let go of the locket, looking around for anyone else in a trance, but she saw nothing out of the ordinary.
Diana blinked and smiled at her. “You know, you’re really pretty…”
“Thanks,” Emma replied, her heart pounding painfully.
She ran through her plan in a daze, barely controlling her nervousness, and returned to the table alone.
“No luck?” Lydia asked, rubbing her shoulder supportively.
“I wouldn’t say that…”
A moment later, Diana appeared out of the crowd, walking up to the table with a slightly confused look.
“Hey Diana, this is my girlfriend, Lydia.”
The younger girl nodded as if she’d expected the introduction, and then seemed a little more confused - as if she was uncertain about her own actions.
“Nice to meet you, Diana…” Lydia said, eyeing the girl up and down. “What’s up?”
“I think we should get out of here,” Emma interjected. “You ready, Diana?”
The blonde nodded. “Yeah, I closed my tab and said goodbye to my friends.”
Amazed, Lydia just raised her eyebrows.
The taxi couldn’t seem to go fast enough. Lydia paid and practically pushed them out and into the hotel lobby, where she paid for a room with haste.
“What did you say to her?” Lydia asked her during their walk through the halls. Diana walked behind them, just far away enough not to hear them.
“ I just laid it out,” Emma said, unhappy about lying to her girlfriend, but deeming it necessary. “I said, you’ve fantasized about women, who hasn’t? My girlfriend and I will fuck you if you come with us. No strings attached. And she went for it.”
Lydia raised her eyebrows again. “That’s hot. I would probably have gone with you, too.”
Emma poked her and smiled. “Damn right.”
The door to the room closed behind them with a little click. The room seemed the same as ever; Emma felt as if every hotel room in the world was the same, and that she’d been here before. Two midsized beds rested on either side of a night table with a lamp. A television sat on a big set of drawers, and a door led to the small bathroom.
“Let’s just close these…” Lydia said, sliding the window curtains together. She turned and faced Diana, who stood at the other end of the room in a defensive posture. “You ever been with a girl?”
Diana shook her head and nervously bit her full bottom lip.
“We’ll try to show you a good time then.” Lydia smiled hungrily and pulled the blonde gently to the middle of the room.
Emma stepped closer, her discomfort fading as her excitement grew. Now that they’d actually gotten the girl here, there was little left to do but to
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