It has been about two months since I had transferred into my new college, and while my powers were hidden, I had noticed little by little that some people were catching on.

At first, it was easy to start to lay a foundation of people very tangent to the public eye. Giving my professors a loose set of commands to not call on me in class and pass me with at least a B caused no commotion, and I could get any of them alone whenever I wanted, because every college student hates office hours here. My roommate Amy was no match for my sway, under my power on move-in day, and became a constant excuse for my hypnotic escapades. I also kept a loose grasp on our two close friends- Jenny and Jamie- making them both oblivious of any suspicious noticing and extremely willing to follow Amy and I to any plans we came up with.

I took two weeks before attempting to expand my control further, just watching from a safe distance how my new small school worked. Among the guys our age, there were four frats and the basketball team that handled most of the parties and headed the campus's night life. And for the girls, the cheer team, volleyball team, two sororities, and one popular group of girls dominated the social circle, basically controlling who got invited to any campus nightlife. All others were basically outcasts of the main social orbits, throwing their small parties and hoping to get on the list for the bigger parties in the popular orbits.

What stirred me to inject my girls into the spotlight actually wasn't my idea, it was Jenny telling me she had a major crush on the president of the Kappa Nu frat, a senior named Jake. I found him one afternoon with one of his friends throwing a football around one of the side quads on campus. All I had to do was wait for an overthrow, and that’s exactly how his friend ended up right in front of me.

He looked up from picking up the ball and stared right into my eyes. He was swarmed by my power instantly, and I watched the few seconds where his body tensed, and then completely released into my hold. I spoke to him, authoritatively but quietly “Make up an excuse to leave, something Jake will not question. You won’t remember being here today.” He walked over to his friend and told him something before grabbing his bag and leaving in a hurry. 

Before Jake could leave with his things, I walked up to him from a different angle and grabbed his attention. The gleam in my eyes disoriented him quickly, his resistance toppling in mere moments. I had him drive us to my apartment, linking his obedience to me and my three close friends. When we got back to our dorm room, I gave him a full ninety minutes of conditioning to make sure everything related to us would all be as under the radar as possible. Then I invited Jenny over to

From that day on, Jake was Jenny’s boyfriend. He wouldn’t cheat on her no matter what dumb blonde wanted him to, and we’d all get invited to any of his parties. I also took note of the fact that he used to be a bit of a womanizer and a stronger personality, and it would be risky to change too much of that personality at once. To combat this, I let him keep his rugged persona, but I added a craving for submission to his new girlfriend that he'd express whenever they were alone, or just with us girls.

I realized that this was my first sloppy mistake when Jenny teased Jake into showing us how he used to talk to girls, before we changed him for the better. There were dozens, maybe over hundreds of cocky messages to girls, obviously trying to use them for sex. But one stuck out, with one of the girls on the cheer team to get dinner. Their dinner date was on the night I fixed him.

The cheerleaders were a tough piece to clean up. Luckily, she was already pretty brainless and chalked it up to Jake being an asshole. But around the time I found out about her, she also started to notice that Jake was taking more time away from the frat to hangout with his new girlfriend. One afternoon, I found her and her friend berating Jenny to the point of tears, yelling that she was a skank and would be socially dead from now on.

Fortunately for Jenny, she had a friend that controlled minds. I grabbed the sidekick first, leaving her in a state that seemed not too different than she was already, just a good bit quieter. The main attacker wasn't any different, sinking into a docile doll in which I controlled the strings.

I put the two bimbos' punishments on hold and dropped Jenny into a trance. She then went home, cleaned herself up from the scuffle, and would forget about the two cheerleaders' harassment altogether. I'm sure that Jake's tongue will help her along with finishing her day back on a high note.

With Jenny on her way back to her place, I went back to the two thorns in my side, still slack-faced and waiting to be given direction. I told them to look normal and we started walking towards the cheer house. My new cheer-sluts were quick learners due to their history of doing whatever their captain said, and revealed that they had captain's interviews that night. I smiled as I hatched another plan for increasing my control and popularity.

When we arrived at their base of operations, I had dumb and dumber lead me right to the three captains, who were busy in the house's office preparing for the night. I had my helpers guard the doors to their office, stepped inside, and took the three without more than forty-five seconds of challenge, and they were more than happy to help me accomplish my bad idea. The controlled cheer captains called their teammates in, and one by one they fell under my command. After a night of fun, the cheerleaders were her sleeper servants. 

The semester had finally begun to heat up and I couldn’t build my hypno empire at all hours of the day. Between Jenny’s boy toy and the sluts in short skirts, we always were able to swing weekend plans at one of the main houses. Jamie became a favorite guest at the cheer house parties due to her willingness to boss around and make out with all the underclassmen cheer girls. Jenny and Jake were the king and queen of the Kappa Nu. 

Amy started to get jealous of our friends’ popularity and asked me to get her a prize, and she wanted her Chem TA to be her fuckbuddy. And after she kept asking for nearly two weeks, it was my turn to give into the demands of someone at this school for a change.

It took a while to find him on campus, but I found the tall buff asian man walking out of the life sciences building, surely on his way to the gym. I grabbed his attention and abducted his mind, then we walked to an open grass area. It was a beautiful day for the first time this week and I decided I’d prime him outside. 

While I fiddled with his hair and told him how he’d only ever be horny for my sweet roommate, another girl came up behind me and muttered something about a class he taught. Pissed off that I was interrupted from an already long process, I decided I’d punish the girl who delayed my efforts. I flashed my powers, turned around, and the tall blonde went completely slack, swaying on her feet. 

Though when I looked up at her, I realized she had on aviator sunglasses, which reflected the image in front of her perfectly. I had never seen my eyes when they’d been lit up with the might of my power, and it was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. 

I couldn’t think of anything else for a few moments, or minutes, maybe hours, but I eventually regained a bit of coherence. I couldn’t move, and my eyes were still locked onto the glasses of the tall blonde. She was also slack-faced, and I had to assume that Amy’s interest was still on intake next to me.

I didn’t know how long the effects of my power would last. Would I be able to eventually break free from my stasis? Would someone have to prime me as I've consumed so many others, both at this school and before I came here? If I was to break out of this, would I break out of it before the pair in my vicinity?

My mental mania was broken when I heard another girl's voice. "Alex, we have to go prep for the game tomorrow." Observing more of the blonde's face, I realized she was on the Volleyball team, and I'd seen her at some of the parties that the cheer girls had gotten me into. That probably wasn't great for me, the volleyball girls tended to be the least welcoming of the social outcasts. I just had to hope this friend didn't recognize me.

"Lex? Hellooooo?" I saw a long-fingered hand waive in between myself and the reflecting glasses. "Be honest Alex, what are you doing? Standing still in the science green with these two?"

I felt her words hit me like a truck, and was pretty sure it did the same to her friends. It wasn't what she meant, but the commanding words stick with me. Be Honest.

Thank god, the blonde muttered her answer before I could. "I was trying to talk to my TA. Then..."

"Don't really care, we have to get going." The other voice cut her off, which I'm grateful for, because any hints towards my secret were still hidden. "Come on. We have to get ready tonight, and you and your roommate have to be ready to help Courtney before the game tomorrow."

None of us responded, as controlled subjects tend not to, but we were all listening. The glasses in front of me began to follow her savior, and I began to rise up to follow along as well. It was a dull sensation that I hardly registered, but the discarded man to my left bumped into me, working to come along with us.

Those few sentences buzzed in my head like a bee next to my ear. You and your roommate have to be ready to help Courtney before the game tomorrow. It was all I could think about as I stared at the back shoulders of the two volleyball girls. Until I heard the voice my own mind had grown to know. "What's wrong with you? Snap out of it."

It was like I got hit in the head with a dodgeball. All of my thoughts and senses came back to me at once. After a few blinks I looked around and regained my train of thought. I saw tall, dark, and smart and remembered I was priming him for Amy. But he seemed to shake my control, I must've gotten distracted. I hit him with a second dose of my power and put him back down, and finished what I had started with my friend's new fuckbuddy, who I found out was named Kai.

I walked into our apartment with Kai in tow, and Amy ran up to me clapping and hugged me. "Yes honey, you're welcome. You can spend all day with him, but we have the volleyball game tomorrow, and we have to be there early."

Amy gave me a quizzical look while testing out Kai's pecs. "Volleyball game, Ali? What're you talking about? You hate sports, especially the girls who play them here."

While she was right, I had already set a baseline for when I wanted to do something with Amy, I got my wishes. She caught them gleam in my eye and dropped to her knees, smiling like I told her I thought was so cute. I was going to just tell her she'd do whatever I wanted tomorrow afternoon, but then a hammering thought pressed against the front of my skull. You and your roommate have to be ready to help Courtney before the game tomorrow.

I shivered as the thought passed, and spoke out my commands as I needed her to hear them. "Amy, you and I must be ready to help Courtney out before her Volleyball game with anything she needs. We will be honest when helping her." Her cute smiling face nodded, so I woke her up and told her to have fun with her new toy.

The next afternoon, the two of us walked up to the volleyball girls' locker room in our college sweatshirts and skirts we rarely ever wore. We knocked on the door and a tall black-haired girl peaked her head out. "Sorry girls, it was closed before the volleyball game. Locker room opens at-"

I peered into her soul and told her that she would let us in to help Courtney, and she would also provide any needed help. Light returned to her eyes and she happily walked with us to her team captain. As she walked in front of us, I couldn't help but stare at her cute butt and how well it sat on her fit frame. Maybe I'd have another conversation with her after I helped Courtney out.

Passing through the other end of the locker room, we walked out to see Courtney and many other girls in various states of street clothes and volleyball uniforms were setting up their homemade decorations for what I had to assume to be senior night. The tall girl walked us up to the captain and spoke to her first.

"Hey Court!" The tall girl beamed with a smile wider than she likely ever had before. "These two cuties and I are here to help you with anything you need."

"Tess, you're a senior. Let the underclassmen help me out and get ready for the game." The skinny brunette barely looked up from the net ties she was putting together to see us.

The lack of care from my day's main interest put a pit in my stomach I've never felt before, so I spoke up. "Courtney, we have to help you. I won't leave until you're satisfied." I looked to my left and Amy had the same expression drawn across her face, one of need and desperation to please.

I looked back to the cheer captain and she had begun inspecting us. "What's the deal with you two?" All this time that I had kept my secret, I was worried that this was what was finally going to expose me.

I opened my mouth to tell her that we'd help her with anything she needed, but Tess spoke first. "These two girls came to the locker room door, and after we talked, I knew we had to help you." A bit suspicious of an answer, but I supposed it was all she knew.

Courtney threw a glare in the direction of my roommate, and Amy seemed more than happy to answer the question herself. I held my breath, knowing this "I didn't want to come here at first, but then Ali put me in trance and convinced me to help you."

The volley-queen raised an eyebrow in my direction, queueing me to provide further information. "Well, we were told we have to help you and-" I froze up mid sentence as I remembered yesterday afternoon. You and your roommate have to be ready to help Courtney before the game tomorrow. "Yesterday, I hypnotized myself. One of your teammates told me that I had to help you. I hypnotized Amy to come with me to help you, then Tess at the door."

Courtney just giggled a bit. "You're insane." She looked at the three of us, and noticed none of us reacted in a humorous manner. "Okay, Ali, prove it. Help me by hypnotizing them both now."

It was like I was given meaning for the first time. Help Courtney. It was something overarching over me. Something bigger than myself. With a quick glance to Tess, her eyes lost their life. I heard Courtney gasp in surprise, but I had a job to finish. I fired my powers towards my roommate, and as she sunk into her familiar trance, a motion of my hand kept her from kneeling down.

"Holy shit Ali! What did you do to them?"

"They're hypnotized. You can train them in any way you want." I folded my hand at my waist, assuming a docile position in front of the captain. "I can help you with them if you want."

While I waited for further instructions, I stared across the gym. None of the other girls had even seemed to notice. It gave me a view into Courtney's leadership style that even without hypnotic control, the brunette had a hold on these underclassmen. They already did whatever their leader commanded, imagine if she had the hypnotic abilities that I possessed.

The pretty girl in charge began to collect herself, and while observing her, I noticed a plan form in her eyes. "Tess, darling, go prep for the game and forget all about this. You'll perform your best, all you can think about is winning the game tonight until it's over." The fit beauty began to walk back towards the locker room, ass swaying more and more as she woke up. Even I could tell she had a single-minded focus as she departed.

"Amy, you're going to be our team's new assistant trainer. You'll fetch the things I need when I ask, and perform the massages I tell you to. And when I tell you 'time to train', you'll do anything I say." Amy's smile was full in her trance. Courtney snapped, and while the smile stayed glued to her face, a new purpose exposed itself within the rest of her expression. "Now both of you follow me please."

The new team helper and I followed our leader to the locker room. "So Ali, you hypnotized yourself? How?"

Be Honest. "I accidentally saw my own eyes in the reflection of someone's glasses. I got lost in their power." Telling her this made me feel a sense of bliss, I helped out Courtney. Though, the pleasant facial features I showed were nothing in comparison to that of Courtney's own as we passed through the doors to the changing area.

Courtney took a set on one of the changing benches, secluded from the rest of the team. "Trainer, my shoulders could use a massage, they're very sore." Without a vocal response, Amy's freshly manicured fingers began to rub at the shoulders of the volleyball captain, who relaxed into the hands she was certain to become fairly familiar with. "And Ali, would you please hypnotize yourself in the mirror? It would be a big help to me."

I might've thought to resist before, but I had something above myself, something even above anyone telling me something else. Help Courtney. I walked to the mirror, giving one glance back to Amy and the brunette in charge, and I saw a young woman who was beginning to understand the power she'd soon control. And I smiled to myself, much like a hypnotized thrall does, and poured my own power into the mirror, into my own eyes.

As the power overtook me, I gave into not only the glare, but also my own need to be helpful.