Start on [episode 1](https://www.reddit.com/r/Erotica/comments/j30q52/shy_girl_agrees_to_wear_slutty_halloween_costume/). This story builds.
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The host allowed Jane to choose the topic of her trivia duel with Valerie. It was a sympathetic gesture. Jane would have to play the game handcuffed, nearly naked. She meditated on the choice. Her emotions at this juncture, the center of attention at this surreal party, captured by unfamiliar desires for Valerie, were not stable. She experienced the superposition of wanting to revert to a state of helplessness and submit to Valerie, and (this part novel) wanting vindictively to put her in the same demeaned position, to shame her in front of these witnesses. The latter impulse was on Jane’s mind when she selected her most knowledgeable trivia topic, Tolkien.
Valerie looked up from her phone when she heard Jane’s answer. “Interesting choice.”
Jane saw something in Valerie through that reaction that she never had before: fear. Valerie had pulled Jane into the ring without hesitation, without even paying full attention. Apparently she hadn’t considered the unlikely possibility that Jane would stop shuddering long enough to think, let alone _win_. Suddenly the desire in Jane that she had played with, which had made Jane feel impotent and frustrated, became a real threat to her.