Clementine:
Now I was really stunned and wondering what he was about to do next. He reached my side and leaned down, his hand grabbing my neck very faintly, and then he crashed his lips against mine in a way that hitched my breath. Now my body was being touched and sucked by the Alphas, with all the gnomes standing around us watching with smiles and gossiping about everyone’s actions.
Ian’s lips tasted so good that I began to hungrily suck them. And when he inserted his tongue into my mouth, I went crazy for it. But the moment Haiden’s tongue tip penetrated my entrance, I gasped and moved my hand on the counter, accidentally hitting one of the gnomes. It fell off the counter, and then a loud crack pulled us all apart. I broke the kiss with Ian and gasped. Haiden swiftly came out from under my dress, looking shocked too. Everything had turned so silent and dull.
The happy feelings from before were gone. I noticed my squadmates shaking their heads, like clearing their vision. I had quickly fixed my dress, and it did not escape my attention that I was standing in such a compromised state with them. I quickly adjusted my panties and then my neckline. I just don’t know. It was all hitting me at once. I suddenly realized that this was all fake, that we had been fooled by those ugly little things.
Ugly? I asked myself as I looked at one of them. It was Toby. He did not look like Toby. His face was uglier, weird, creepy, scarier. Then I saw where Toby was looking, where all the genomes were looking. And it was at the broken pieces of one of them. I followed their gazes and looked down to see Tilly shattered in pieces. I realized what had happened. I had accidentally tripped her, and when she broke, all the hypnotism and the weird stuff they had filled in our heads started to fade.
"My wife," Toby, let out a loud cry. The others started crying with him, the same dramatic, over-exaggerated cries that made me cover my ears. Their voices were so loud and harsh, almost like drilling holes through my ears.
Then my eyes moved to the side, and my squadmates’ eyes met mine. They looked as taken aback as I felt, probably because what happened was so inappropriate. I began to hyperventilate, unable to hold full eye contact with them. But now that I was out of the trance, I realized what had happened. These things, these norms, were not friendly. They were as evil as they could be, and they used hypnotism to bring out the deepest, darkest desires in someone.
It wasn’t over yet. Soon the grieving gnomes stopped crying and turned to look at us. Toby took the lead. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂
"You killed my wife," he grunted, hissing.
"It—-it was an accident," I stuttered, watching its eyes change color. All of them started to get these weird big pimples on their skin. Then their smiles turned creepy, more like frowns. They were not gnomes. They were something very ugly.
"Well, then how about we accidentally hurt you, huh?" Toby hissed, the others standing behind him, making a little army, and clenching their fists.
"Listen to me. It’s okay. Everything is fine." I noticed Yen beginning to change back into the ceramic thing. His fingers were shifting, and it hit me, they were trying to regain their ability to hypnotize.
"We need to keep running and avoid making eye contact with them," Troy said, loud enough for all of us to hear. Even the gnomes heard him. Soon, Yen was back in its ugly state. I guessed that if we didn’t give in to their powers, after one of them broke, they would remain as these ugly things.
We didn’t even know what else we were supposed to do. Where were we supposed to go? Once we were out of the house, I noticed the sky turning into an ugly purplish-brown mixture.
"Come on, we know you don’t want to leave. You want to wait, you want to enjoy every touch," I heard Toby say. My mind started to feel numb again. I wanted to get away from here because I knew what they were doing to me was not something I wanted.
However, my steps began to slow down. Thankfully, Haiden was holding on to me, shaking me back to reality and reminding me that I didn’t really want this.

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