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(Rheyna's POV)
[Yesterday.]
Getting home from school, I took off my shoes and lay back-first on my bed. My uniform can come off later.
Without wasting another breath, I grabbed my phone outta my bag. With the familiar shape in my right hand, I press the power button with my thumb.
"Let's see what FB (Facebook) has today..." I mutter as I punch in my pin code.
"Huh?? What's this?" I furrow my brows in confusion at the unfamiliar pink prompt on my screen.
["Thank you for owning and using a HyPhone for 5 years straight. As our heartfelt sincerity, please accept this mandatory software update."] the prompt read. Below it is a single button, "Update."
"What the fuck? Didn't HyPhone go bankrupt 4 years ago? How can they still send out updates?? Unless this was programmed in the very start, but why wait 5 years??" I wondered.
For a couple breaths, I stared at the pink button before finally pressing it. "Eh. If this bricks my phone, I'll just go get a new one." I reason to myself.
After pressing the Update button, my screen immediately went black. "Shit! Did it actually break my phone?!" I curse out loud as I sit up on my bed.
Not long after, my screen finally turned back on to my lockscreen. "Is the update over already?" confused, I punch in my pin code again.
Unlocking my phone, I'm greeted by a familiar homescreen. "Huh? Nothing has changed, though. No update log even??" Increasingly confused by the lack of notice, I began to look through my phone for anything new.
"For a 5 year loyalty update, there's nothing he-" the word dies in my throat as my eyes land on a peculiar app that I don't recognize.
"Hypnosis App..? What the fuck? I don't remember downloading- No, there's no way the update is a fucking hypnosis app."
In disbelief, I tap on the Hypnosis App. "There's no way this is real..." I mutter to myself, but there's a small part of me that hopes this is real, bona-fide Hypnosis app that I've read about in porn.
[Fingerprint Scanning...]
"Fingerprint scanning?! My phone had this feature?!"
[Fingerprint Recognized.]
["Welcome, New User, to HyPhone's exclusive Hypnosis Application."]
"... Okay..." though skeptical, I'll still play along.
Tap
["To use this application, press the "Hypnotize" button and show the screen to your designated Target."]
After tapping on the screen again, the prompt went away and what came next is a still pink & white spiral with a "Hypnotize" button at the bottom.
"... Yeah, there's no fucking way this is real..." with that said, I press the Home button and go to find the Facebook app so I can scroll through my feed for an hour.
I continued on with my life as usual; I got a snack and relaxed for a few hours, my parents came home with dinner, and an hour after that I'm back here on my bed.
Yet... in the back of my mind, there was a nagging voice that kept telling me to try it out. Just to test if it's real or not.
"No... I'll just embarrass myself..." I push aside the thought and close my eyes. Signaling my body it's time to shut up and sleep.
[The next day, at school]
'Fuck... Of course I had a wet dream last night. Just, fucking great...' I curse at the early morning memory of waking up with my blanket drenched in my own juices. 'I'll have to do the laundry when I get home...'
"Ortega?" Mrs. Ignacio called out, currently taking down attendance. "Ah, here!" I snap out of my thought and quickly raise my hand. "Are you lacking in sleep? You better not doze off later." the middle-aged teacher warned. "Opo..." I mutter a response.
'I'll forget about that stupid hypnosis app soon... There's no way I'll ever use it-'
"Sanchez?"
I immediately perked up after hearing that particular last name.
"Ha... Is he late again? Why is it that students who live near the school are almost always late..." Mrs. Ignacio sighed.
'Sanchez... Mark Sanchez the famous school tomgirl...'
We've been seatmates for our entire 12th grade year. 'And I... have a crush on him...'
He's friendly to everyone, even me. We even share an interest manga and anime. Like, really! Anime has become mainstream recently, but manga not so much! So for a boy to like both is very rare. And him being single makes him even more rare. 'I've heard he's rejected everyone who's confessed so far... Even that famous girl a number of boys swoon over. Is he just not interested in dating? Or could he be...gay?'
The thought of my crush being gay makes me feel sick, like there's something heavy in my stomach.
Suddenly, I could see something moving at the corner of my eye. I turn to look at it and my eyes go wide soon after. 'Mark!?' I scream internally. My crush is crawling on the floor right now, likely trying to sneak past the teacher.
However, he ultimately failed. Mrs. Ignacio has gotten used to his antics since she's been our homeroom teacher since 11th grade.
"I swear... you're more girly than some girls..." I say quietly, but not long after, Mark turned to me and smiled. "Good morning, Rheyna." he says with a wave. I could feel my cheeks begin to heat up, so I darted to look out the window and away from him. "Good morning, Mark..." I mutter.
'Why am I like this today?? It's just a greeting. He's just being nice, so why am I-' that's when a certain idea popped into my head. 'Should I... try out the hypnosis app on Mark...?'
'Mark is really friendly, so- I-If the hypnosis app is fake, I can just play it off as a joke and he'd laugh along with me.' I reasoned to myself. I slowly turn back to face Mark. He's currently digging into his bag. My eyes drift to his lightly glistening neck. 'And... if it does work, then...'
Gulp
"Hey, Mark, could you... come with me after class? I have something to tell you..."
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