Kacey's first few days of college were some of the most exciting days of her life. No-one in her family had ever been to college before. A poor family, with five kids, there had not been much joy in her house, other than the camaraderie of each other.
The other side of that camaraderie had been constant crowding and no privacy. Now in her dorm she only had one roommate and that seemed like luxury.
The reason Kacey was first was because she had been the only one determined to do something more with her life than simply exist in her small town and get married. Kacey had applied for any, and every scholarship, bursary and financial aid package she could find on the computer in the library in her high school.
It had paid off big time. An essay she had submitted to one foundation had been all about how she would do anything to change her straits and make something of her life. They had given her a full ride, tuition, dorm, a small living allowance and even a laptop which had been in her dorm with a bow and card congratulating her on arriving.
Going to classes and learning about her new world had been thrilling beyond anything she could have dreamed. The people she met were urbane and sophisticated to the small town girl, and she reveled in the shared ideas everyone seemed to throw out without hesitation.
Things took a real turn for the worse on day three.
As she studied, a chat window popped up on her laptop from a site she had never been on, Live Web Gals. The window had a streaming view of her face staring back at her and a conversation below it that said.
"Hello Kacey."
Kacey stared at her own surprised face, her green eyes wide, her pale blonde eyebrows almost reaching the matching hairline above. Hesitantly she typed "Hello" back.
"You're very pretty." Came the reply.
Kacey blushed, she felt plain. She never wore makeup and kept her hair short and effortless. In a small town, in a family with no money, she had never been popular. No-one had ever asked her on a date, she had never even been kissed, so compliments were very foreign.
"You're cute when you blush."
"Who is this?"
"I work for the Chenwith Intellectual Association." The foundation that had given her the scholarship.
"Oh, hello! Thank you so much for everything." Her face in the little window beamed happily back at her, gratitude for her new life radiating along every delicate line of her face.
"Your gratitude is much appreciated. Now, please, take off your top."
Kacey gaped at the last line of typing for several seconds, until a new line popped up.
"Do what I say, or things will get very ugly for you. You will need convincing of that, I'm sure, so let's start here." Suddenly her laptop mouse began to move on its own. Files opened and Kacey lifted her hands from the desk, as if proving that it wasn't her doing anything.
The mouse moved quickly and in moments a file of photographs opened. In each photo Kacey was nude in her dorm room. There were shots of her dressing, but each one timed to show her nudity to the camera on her laptop, which sadly she had always left open.
The last few shots showed her in bed. Kacey had been watching porn for the first time in her life, her house had been too small and crowded for that kind of entertainment, and in the images her bared A cup breasts were exposed. With an open mouth and half lidded eyes, Kacey looked aroused as she masturbated, the computer beside her on the bed.
"That was quite the show. I recorded everything on video. "
The mouse moved some more and a video of her dancing in her bra and panties appeared. The music blaring from her laptop now was from a CD her roommate Nicole had lent her. An upbeat song by an independent musician named Cory Woodward.
Kacey saw herself as never before. Looking voyeuristically at herself dance uninhibitedly around her room, overjoyed to be so free, Kacey immediately saw that she was actually rather attractive.
Working hard as a cleaning lady with her two sisters for years had made her body firm and toned from labor, and she was quite small at five foot two. A petite girl, Kacey's nubile body looked good on screen, appealing and sexy.
Unfortunately this discovery happened the moment her life was shattered.
"I'm just going to upload this one to the live feed."
"No! No, no, no!" Kacey screamed at the computer as the mouse quickly dragged the video of her dancing to the Live Web Gals window. Before she could think of what to do the video was streaming live.
Kacey reached out and slammed the laptop shut, a childish gesture of fear, but it helped to not have to see herself humiliated live.
Her phone began to ring.
Chenwith Intellectual Association had provided her with a phone as well, a brand new iphone6. Kacey picked it up and saw an incoming FaceTime call. Automatically she answered even though she had never signed into FaceTime before.
The caller's screen was filled with the feed of her dancing; her own face in the little window to the side crumpled and began to cry.
"Why are you doing this?" she sniveled at her phone.
A digitally altered voice answered, sounding terrifying from her phones speakers. "Turn your computer back on or the nude shots go up next."
The FaceTime feed went dead giving her no room to bargain.
Kacey slumped to the floor sobbing, at a loss as to what to do.
A text dinged on her phone. Kacey looked at the suddenly fearful object in her hand and saw a photo text. Sliding it open Kacey saw a photo of herself drying her hair after a shower, her body was stretched taut, the muscles of her abdomen showing, her trimmed pubic hair obvious, her perky breasts soft and smooth over her ribs.
The image was very good, enhanced in some way to look far better than the laptop camera should have been able to do. It looked like she was posing for a magazine, the light from her nearby window caressing her pale skin and making her look seductive.
It would get a fair amount of attention on the internet, she thought.
The picture jumped up the screen as another text appeared.
"That just went online. I think your face is rather adorable, and utterly recognizable. I have the football team's contact list ready. I will email this photo and the link to the Live Web Girls feed in thirty seconds if you don't open your laptop again."
Instead Kacey dialed 911.