Conformity, Part 6

all characters in this story are pure fiction - similarities found 
with real people are pure coincidence. 

Conformity
by Blackbladder

Part 6
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Pamela Simpson returned to her class to see Angela already speaking 
with her class.  

"Where have you been, lady?" Angela stated at Pamela's intrudement.

"I was at the toilet...." Pamela responded.  She saw standing next to 
the headteacher, Skye.  

The class focused their attention on the former role model.  Pamela 
now despised this sort of attention.  However, she smiled when she 
saw Abby and Samantha sitting at their desks.  She now solely relied 
on her closest friends for support.  However, oblivious to her, Skye 
had already made seperate plans for her friends.

"Ms Simpson, Ms Jackson and Ms Mann Report to my office." Angela 
retorted.

Pamela knew exactly what that meant.  Another session with the 
headteacher from hell.  Having to watch her pollute her lungs with 
smoke once again almost made Pamela sick.  However, knowing who was 
in charge here, she swallowed her pride once again and made her way 
down the corridor to the office.  Now she felt sorry for her friends 
also having to accompany her.  Pamela and her friends made their way 
to the office to receive further instructions.

Skye whispered into Angela's ear and smiled at the rest of the 
class.  Her smile turned to a frown.

"Ms Henderson.  You will also report to my office immediately after 
this meeting." Angela feigned disappointment.  With the commotion 
ended, Skye shut the classroom door for the final group conversion.

Angela took out her glass ashtray and dumped the contents into the 
classroom's paper bucket.  She then casually laid the ashtray onto 
the teachers table.  She sat down on the chair, with the teacher 
looking approvingly. The class pupils were amazed at these events.  

"What is going on, miss?" a pupil shouted out.

Angela remained silent as she took out her pack of cigarettes, 
offered Mr Maple one, which he gracefully took, and placed her own 
cigarette between her lips.  As the class were about to leave the 
room, they all felt a shudder rip through their bodies.  

Skye held up her hands, beckoning for power to come from heaven to 
fill her with energy.  This pose increased the hold now occupied on 
her fellow students.  Skye then turned to face the latest captives.  
As Mr Maple took the offered light from Angela and inhaled deeply, a 
look of pleasure filled his face.  Angela lit her own cigarette 
whilst Skye leaned against the blackboard.

Smiling, she picked up a piece of chalk from the tray and wrote the 
words "Lesson - Smoking" in big letters onto the blackboard.  

"Today, i exact my revenge on you motherfuckers for all the shit you 
have all gave me in the past week.  However, I am prepared to let 
bygones be bygones, not without a couple of changes.  One of them 
will be that you will accept and enbrace me as the person I am.  You 
all think you are smart and funny because you all have your own 
social groups.  You all think it is fair to pick on an 'easy 
target'.  Today, that will all change.  After today's meeting, I will 
become your best friend."

The students were powerless to listen to every word the outcast was 
saying, whilst observing, to their disgust, the two teachers smoking 
contentedly in the corner of the classroom.  The light enhancing the 
life of the rising smoke, showing it had its own hypnotic routine.  

Turning back to the blackboard, Skye began writing down definitions 
of smoking.  She also wrote down the pleasures that came with the 
habit.  

"Read the blackboard very carefully as, within a couple of minutes, 
you will be living out the topic on the blackboard." Skye proudly 
stated, looking over towards the teachers, engulfed in their mingling 
smoke.  She knew the teachers were lost in this new,forbidden habit.  
She also knew they were mindless slaves towards nicotine now 
forever.  The sight of these teachers feeding on a smoking habit 
further fuelled her desires to fulfill her destiny at this school.

"Now open your minds, close your eyes." Skye demanded.

Reluctantly, the pupils fought the growing, unearthly force invading 
their bodies in vain.  Within seconds, all pupils fell into hypnotic 
trance, awaiting instructions, whilst breathing in the thick smoke 
around them.  Once under, Skye lit her own cigarette and joined the 
teachers for a moment's analysis.

The only sound now in the room was the exhaling on cigarettes from 
the three smokers in the corner.  

Skye admired the scene in front of her - people under her control.  
For once, people who would soon grow to like her. 

"A craving is inside of you growing at rapid speed.  You cannot 
control the craving any longer.  It is for nicotine.  It has invaded 
your systems and seeking pleasure.  From this moment onwards, your 
entire social activities will involve smoking.  The habit no longer 
seems disgusting to you all anymore.  It is the most pleasureable 
habit on the planet.  Nothing comes near Nicotine.  When I awake you, 
you will realise smoking is the missing thing in your lives.  You no 
longer worry about why the school has been changing in the last 
week.  You will now embrace your new dependency."

The class remained silent, the hypnotic words writing into each of 
their personalities and becoming their own thoughts.

Skye then stood in front of the class.

"Open your eyes. Close your minds."

Gradually, the students began to wriggle about in their chairs as the 
force lifted from them.  They took a second to assess their 
surroundings again and all noticed a hunger deep inside them which 
they did not understand.  Puzzled looks dominated the students of the 
class.  

As Angela and Mr Maple lit up their second cigarettes, Skye took a 
final puff off her own, putting it out in the glass ornament and 
exhaling a thick cone stream towards the ceiling.

"Ok Angela, its your turn."

Angela arose from the table, having been lost in her habit and faced 
the confused students.  

The headteacher held up a bag of cigarette packs in front of the 
dazed class students.  Mr Maple took out a box of disposable lighters 
and placed them beside Angela whilst smoking his cigarette.

"Now class, one by one, you will come forward to receive your free 
pack of cigarettes and lighter."  Even though this instruction seemed 
strange, the confused students complied to the directive and recieved 
a pack and lighter -despite their prior opinions on smoking.  As the 
final student returned to her chair armed with the cigarettes and 
lighter, Angela lit up again and addressed the class.

"Everyone take out a cigarette and light up.  Welcome to the world of 
nicotine."

All the dazed students hesistated for a second, until their hypnotic 
suggestions kicked in.  The students all lit up comfortably, taking 
instructions from Mr Maple on how to work their lighters.  Seconds 
later after lighting their cigarettes, the students confusion 
evaporated as they settled into indulging in their new habits. 

"There are going to be changes from this day forward at Haven High 
School.  First of all, there will be an open-smoking policy in all 
areas of the school complex.  We will also integrate Smoking 
Education classes into the criteria and there will be start smoking 
bonuses awarded every month for students who manage to get a friend 
or family member to start the habit too.  Our main policy from now on 
is to promote smoking within the community."

The students smiled approvingly whilst pulling on their cigarettes, 
constantly contributing towards the filling smoke in the classroom. 

Even though Skye thought that an open attitude towards smoking would 
get a respectable school closed, she knew she would be using her 
magic to ensure this school would remain open.

As Skye left for Angela's office, she heard the students cheer in 
unison when the headteacher officially declared the school open for 
smoking business.  

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