His first inclination giving chase, but it was pointless. The Asshole would freeze Gary again, if not something worse. Like the man said, he was going to need some serious "voodoo". The second notion was to just walk away and get as much distance as possible, but Gary'd also just make a fool out of himself when his bladder burst. The third option, ditch Angel and go into hiding, never even occurred to him. Actually, dumping Angel and running far, far away bounced around in some deep self-preservation concerned portion of his brain, but the rest of the brain ganged up and beat the shit out of it in a dark neural alley before the conscious got wind of the option.
He was just finishing up when the washroom door opened and Angel called out.
"Gre--Gary?"
Angel, we have to get the hell out of here, run far away and hide for a while. There is a crazy asshole screwing with our minds. He wants to ruin everything for us. We have to go! didn't make it all the way to the vocal cords. Something blocked it. The Asshole had done something else.
All he could do was stiffen at the thought of being alone in a bathroom with Angel. What happened last time . . . woo! Taking the asshole up on his offer and fucking Angel in the library flashed through his brain. She'd be worth it.
No she was worth more. A lot more.
"Angel? Uh. Be out in a sec," Gary said, stepping out of the cubicle and zipping up. Angel stared at the diminishing gap in front of the growing bulge and licked her lips.
"Mmmm, you want to . . .?"
"In the library, Angel?"
"Yeah, but not here. Somewhere private. Wash your hands and let's go!"
Angel led the way, hips swaying even more than usual, to the reference section. Deep within the bowels of ancient and new knowledge, Angel glowed.
"You were right," she said, "we should go slow. Make sure getting married so young really is a good idea. Grandma always says 'marry in haste, repent in leisure', but that's because she hates dad for some reason."
Angel's hands lifted her tee shirt up to expose a firm abdomen. "First, though, I want you to see what you'll be getting. If we do this your way, I'm not taking any chances with you getting away."
Her hips swayed softly to her own internal music as the shirt inched up, over the bottom of the bra and stalled while Angel smiled. Up, up slowly, then, in a smooth motion, the shirt was over her head and dropping to the floor.
Gary could feel his eyes glassing over, but was it really him or the Asshole? Angel's bra came loose as she reached back and popped a catch. Angel, it was definitely Angel that was firing him up, but would she be stripping in a library without being prodded by the Asshole? Probably not. She probably wasn't this good a stripper normally either.
Like I know what a good strip show is like, realized Gary. Oh man. How do know Angel really looks like this? She could be five hundred pounds and ugly as hell. Nah, that's garbage. The Asshole wanted to watch porn. Nobody likes to watch porn with ugly people it, I've seen that much on the internet. Angel has to be a walking wet dream in real life. Does it matter if she is or isn't if she can make me hard with a smile?
Angel smiled and he stopped thinking so clearly. She looked just as turned on as Gary felt. Angel's face combined happiness and focus as she worked the bra straps down her arms, ever so slowly revealing more and more. Her lips mouthed something. It looked like "something right". "Do it right"? "So right"? The injected "God I need it" was pretty easy to translate.
The bra slipped completely away and she whipped him with it to pull his attention away from her face. He was almost ashamed, here she was stripping for him and he'd been staring at her face. He could see that any time and what she really wanted him watching now was her body. He dutifully looked down and didn't regret it at all.
It's was strange really. Gary thought years of web surfing and jacking off over pictures of women with bigger, rounder tits would have jaded him in some way, but his first real pair drew him in. They weren't porn star tits, more conical than he had expected capped with swollen pink nipples. Maybe they weren't big or round enough for porn tits, but they were Angel's and Angel was just a kid like him. Not really like him; she was the most beautiful woman in the world and she wasn't even done growing up yet. No porn star, fashion model or teenybopper pop idol would stand up under comparison in another year or two. They didn't have a chance with Gary now.
"You like them?" she asked, smiling as Gary nodded wildly before she even finished. "Kind of wish they were a bit bigger."
"They're perfect Angel. T-take my word for it."
"You're just saying that to get in my pants."
"No!" Gary tried to whisper. This was a library after all. "Well yeah, sort of. I've been in your pants, kind of, and I'd like to visit again. Do you really want to keep me out?"
"Not a bit. I want you to lay me down and make love to me until I can't stand up anymore. I want you to fuck me forever, but I can't have that right now so . . ."
Angel struck a defiant pose, her weight on one leg, fists resting on her hips. This might have been for intimidation, but, without her shirt on, it just served to thrust out her breasts. Deliberate or not, Angel cocked her head to one side and put on a smug, saucy and, above all, expectant grin. "Next year we commemorate today by getting married?"
Gary could only nod as his Angel leaned in just enough for her nipples to dance on his chest. Her hands untucked his shirt and slid under while her lips bushed against his. "Say it. Say I do again."
"I do, I will, I promise." Angel stepped back and ran a finger up her body, stopping to tease an already rock hard nipple. She stepped to the side to flaunt a long, slender leg. Her hips rolled for a moment and then she bent forward to let gravity extend her breasts. She looked up right into Gary's eyes and her face showed nothing but lust.
"You're pretty good at this, Angel."
Angel giggled, jiggled, stepped into his arms, and wriggled. "I do stuff like that in my room at night, practicing in front of the mirror. It's real sexy and even better with an audience."
Gary's eyes widened in surprise. Either the Asshole was wrong about something or lying. Lying probably, he was an asshole after all. "Ever seen real strippers perform?"
"Not really, but I doubt you have either. That sexy baby face of yours wouldn't fool any bouncer. I know they don't really do this, but I want to." Angel slid down Gary's torso, letting her breasts rub against him as her hand slid his zipper down.
"And now I know why. Your shirt's kinda rough on the nipples; next time you take it off first." She fingered the button on his pants. "You game for another round?"
"In the Library?"
"Sure, I already did you on a busy street, what's the worst that could happen? We get thrown out?" Angel was already working his pants down. "I think the first one hooked me for life. God, the only time I've ever felt better was at the bus station when you . . .. Relax Gary, schools out. No one's coming back here unless they have an encyclopaedia fetish."
Angel waddled him backwards to sit on the window sill. She didn't have the sense of confidence she had earlier, nor the perfect knowledge of what to do and when, but she came close and this time she really was Angel. And this time she used her breasts along with her hands. It was clumsy, but it felt so good. So natural now that it was imperfect. They had a whole year to practice. A year with each other was worth it.
I can do this, thought Gary as he and Angel snuggled afterwards. If you're listening, you asshole, I'm not used to getting laid whenever I feel like it. Seventeen years of virginity. I can do another because the long term payoff is sure worth it. But what if the Asshole wasn't lying and Angel really is a bitch? She is sort of domineering. Gary met her eye before kissing her, but she's worth that too.
On the way out, the library was at a standstill, the librarians were missing.
Gary couldn't talk about the Asshole. He couldn't write about it, leave any sort of message or do anything of the sort. He'd tried, but nothing ever came out. To make things worse, he couldn't even discuss it with Angel and she needed to know what was going on as much as he did. They were in a battle of wills and minds and, compared to the Asshole, they were unarmed.
Psychology and the study of the mind became his after school passion, almost more important than Angel because what he learned might help him keep Angel. Graduation and marriage both were approaching and time was not on his side. His after school job vanished. The restoration work on his Mustang dried up. And he had other commitments.
School for one. Keeping up with Angel was a major concern. She had her sights set on going to a big league school and if Gary was going to go with her, or at least not disappoint her by being a slacker for the rest of his life, he was going to have to get his butt in gear. So he did and it paid off. Between almost non stop studying and studying with Angel and her very special incentive plans, Gary moved from near the bottom of the pack to near the top.
He could have been the top, but his extra curricular work took up time. He studied and discarded hypnosis. The Asshole never had a chance at using it on either of them. Subliminal messages had no documented evidence of actually working and would have taken too long anyway. Conditioning was likewise out since it was way too slow. There was no rational scientific explanation for the Asshole so it might as well be telepathy. The guy was a mutant or used some sort of device. The internet had hundreds of fanciful tales on the subject, all of them impossible. Not impossible, Gary had experienced first hand what the Asshole could do.
The research and the work were paying off though. Gary's plan was taking shape and all it required was for him to do something he wanted to do anyway: Spend more time with Angel.
By meeting Angel's family and friends, he'd pieced together the 'old' Angel. She had been an uncomfortably cold and arrogant bitch who always got what she wanted through persistence and wilful anger. Everyone agreed love suited her; she was a lot warmer a person now, but she was still just as driven. With most of that drive being focused on their wedding Angel could at times be frighteningly intense, but a few hours alone reminded both of them of the stakes and relaxed her. Or maybe it just released a load of built up tension. Gary was learning a lot about tension these days.
When he aced the winter semester, his parents sprung for the ring. Angel and Gary were engaged on Valentine's Day and selecting the wedding day was a no brainer. Angel wouldn't tolerate anything else even though it meant they had to look a bit harder for a hall. Angel's dad's construction company was booming so he greased things by putting up way more money for the wedding than he needed to. Angel was getting the big wedding she wanted, which was nice, but to Gary it just meant more possible targets for the Asshole.
Lack of legal alcohol and a math final the next day made for what Gary's best man, Jason, called the Lamest Stag Ever. It probably was, but to Gary it was just another day in the countdown. One less day until he either married Angel or the asshole ruined his life.
Angels' bridal shower was a blast or a bust, depending on who you talked to. Someone had ordered male strippers and a couple of the other girls apparently went home with the entertainment. The Bride's maid got drunk and screwed one of the servers on a table. Angel was a bit upset over her friend's behaviour, but she took it in stride. Not everyone was as committed to abstinence as she was.
"Carrie was always a bit of a slut," Angel confided before she went down on him with skill almost matching their first encounter. And she had her glasses on; it hadn't taken her long to figure out that trick. "Besides, who am I to complain about a bit of public sex?"
As she reached over with a free hand and dropped the window blinds, Gary wondered if it really was Carrie's idea or just the Asshole playing games? Carrie hit on Gary a lot, and just about anything else that moved, so it was anybody's guess. With Angel at work, it hardly mattered. Later, as Angel sang out her pleasure and bucked against his mouth, Gary decided it could be a lot worse.
Both families, and a few dozen friends, converged on Vegas for the wedding just like Angel wanted. Then it was showtime.