Trashy Desires - Part 41

There was no way to resist as the machine forced Jewely’s mind open like a book and began tearing out each page of knowledge it could find. Still exhausted from her first session, Jewely didn’t even find any strength within her to feel panic in the face of the destruction of everything she had worked so hard for. She was about to lose the very basis of her former life and knew that there was nothing she could do to stop it.

Everything she had learned in Junior High School was gone within a few minutes. Next up was her knowledge of Elementary School. Jewely’s parents had spared no expense to ensure their daughter received the very best education from her first day at school. It had shaped Jewely’s life early on and set her on the path of success.

Now, it melted away into nothingness.

Once it was gone, memories from Kindergarten began flashing before Jewely’s eyes, and the contents faded away, never to be seen again.

It was just when Jewely was about to lose the memory of using her fingers to count to ten for the first time that the machine suddenly stopped its rampage, leaving her with this as the peak of her retained knowledge.

The pressure inside her head faded, leaving her with a feeling of fluffy lightness. Jewely felt exhausted but relieved at the same time. Like a huge burden had just been lifted off of her, and she saw life through rose colored glasses for the first time. At that moment, her mind was too scrambled to even begin to grasp the consequences of what had happened to her.

Instead, she sat in her chair with a dopey smile while everything around her felt like it was engulfed in a soft layer of cotton.

“Constance? Can you hear me?”

Amelia’s words sounded too distant to suggest they were meant for Jewely. Besides that, Jewely didn’t even know someone with that name. So, she kept smiling and enjoying her soft and fluffy new reality.

“Shit, shit, shit!”

If Jewely were aware of her surroundings, she would see how Amelia’s expression changed from concern to horror as she checked over her control board and saw the settings the machine had just worked on. Within a moment, her dream of curing a wealthy businessman’s daughter and securing a hefty donation for her research turned into the very real possibility of her career abruptly ending in disgrace.

In her panicked state, Amelia didn’t notice that the machine’s protocol showed two procedures being done in quick succession. Instead, she took a thorough look at Jewely, assuring that her patient was still too dazed to realize what was going on around her before Amelia began furiously deleting all entries about their sessions. Within minutes, all traces of Jewely ever entering the facility were erased. For good measure, Amelia also blocked Jewely’s number on all phones around the facility.

Taking a deep breath to calm herself down, Amelia looked at Jewely again. Her patient kept staring into the distance with a dopey smile on her face, completely unaware of her whereabouts. For a quick second, Amelia felt a pang of guilt about what she had done to Jewely. She was aware that the woman in front of her would face a lifetime of struggles.

But that moment vanished as she took in the looks of Jewely. Her bloated figure, tacky fashion and make-up style, and ridiculously oversized lips on their own were enough to make Jewely’s life a constant struggle. And none of that was Amelia’s doing. The girl before her had been on a steep downward path for a while now. Amelia’s oversight had merely accelerated it.

There was no reason to let this stop her promising career. You had to be willing to make sacrifices for significant scientific breakthroughs. And in this case, Amelia’s sacrifice was taking Jewely’s intellect and matching it to her trashy exterior. In a way, Amelia had only applied the finishing touches to a painting Jewely had created long before stepping into her facility.

“Here,” Amelia said as she grabbed Jewely’s arm and helped her out of her seat, disgusted by how hard it was to get the obese woman to her feet. Still disoriented, Jewely followed her guidance without any concern. “Let me call you an Uber so you can recover at home.”

Amelia led Jewely outside and into the waiting car. As the door closed, she instantly turned around and made her way back inside, desperately hoping to never hear from her biggest failure again.