On Friday morning in Candice's apartment, the naked girls woke up in each other's arms.
"Good morning, Camil," Candice said, stretching and yawning. "Thanks for staying over with me last night."
"Gladly, sweetie," Camilla said, kissing Candice on the cheek. "Did you sleep well?"
"Perfectly," Candice said with another yawn.
"Good. The psychic barriers are obviously working. Our troubles with horny ghosts are over. We just have to remember to set up the force fields every night, and we're safe."
"What if we forget one night?"
"Well, then the incubi will bother us again, and we'll be motivated to remember to set up the barriers again the next night," Camilla said; then she took her iPad out of her purse. She went online and checked out her Facebook page, hoping to find some enthusiastic reactions to her recently posted photos.
One of her long-time Facebook friends, Marcel, was a handsome 43-year-old Parisian who constantly complimented her on the sexiness of her pictures. For one new picture of her in a tight-fitting black and white striped dress, he called her '
Deesse!
[Goddess!]' For another recent picture, one of her sexily posing in jean shorts and a light green sleeveless top, he typed in English, 'Sweetie-pie!' She giggled her flattery at this new reaction, then said,
"Merci, monsieur,"
as she typed it.
"Who are you talking to?" Candice said as she got out of bed.
"This French guy, really good-looking, always tells me how much he likes my pictures."
"I'll bet he's a stalker," Candice said as she put on some pink underwear. "You know how many creeps are out there in internet-land."
"Yeah, it's obvious he wants to fuck me, but he seems nice; and I'll totally let him have his way with me if he comes over here, or if I go over there."
"Camilla, I really worry about you," Candice said as she put on some jeans and a T-shirt. "One day you won't be so lucky with all these guys you turn on. What if one of these creeps tries to rape you?"
"I'll use Nigrovum on him," Camilla said, totally unruffled. "I'll put his balls in a psychic vice; he'll be begging for mercy."
"Another thing I've been thinking about: we never use condoms--what if we get AIDS, or herpes, or something?"
"I'll bet Nigrovum can cure us. Ravinder said in a recent e-mail that he and his colleague scientists are looking into its healing powers. They're trying to isolate its good qualities and separate them from what it is in Nigrovum that makes people crazy: so far, no luck."
"That's just it, Camil: you're always using Nigrovum as if it were a crutch. What if we use it too much, and using it so much is what makes us go crazy?" Candice sat beside Camilla, stroking her hair.
"We don't use it all that often, sweetie," Camilla said, pecking Candice on the lips. "Don't worry so much about what's gonna happen to us."
"Actually, what's gonna happen to us is exactly what I've been worrying about: I'm lonely. I hate being here in this apartment all alone, knowing you're over there with your Dad and I can't have you. I miss having you in my arms in bed. I feel like I'm losing you." Candice was almost sobbing.
"You're not losing me; you just
had
me in your arms," Camilla said, kissing her again.
"And missing that tonight will make it hurt all the more."
"Baby, we'll make love onstage tonight, OK?"
"And what about Desiree?" Candice asked with a look of jealousy in her eyes.
"So
that's
what's bothering you," Camilla said. "OK, I'm sorry about eating her out so many times lately: I won't do it with her so much."
"How about
never
? And how about with fewer guys, too?"
"Oh, come on, Candice. I need cock like the starving need food."
"I need
you
like the starving need food."
"Candice, I've been screwing around so much because I'm starting to get creepy feelings for my dad; maybe it's the Nigrovum making me crazy, but I need all the other men to distract me from him."
"I thought us coming to Toronto would make you stop fucking so many men. Your mom said you were with all those teachers because they were substitutes for your dad; if you were with your dad again, you wouldn't need to fuck so much. Now you're fucking so much more." Candice started crying.
"Candice, my mom didn't know shit about me," Camilla said, hugging Candice. "She never listened to me. 'Substitutes for my dad' doesn't come close to explaining why I fucked so many of my teachers back in high school. It's not as simple as that. I worshipped those men, just as I worship Daddy. I'll bet I worship my university profs even more."
"And you'll fuck them too, eh?" Candice asked in loud sobs.
"Look, I'm sorry I'm making you so jealous, baby, but I'm a nympho: I can't help it. There's something about feeling a big cock pumping in and out of my pussy--there's nothing like it. I'm getting horny now just thinking about it. I love you, Candice, and will always enjoy making love with you, regularly, but I can't go without men. Cock drives me wild. What's more, I have my own jealousy: I get crazy every time Daddy sleeps with Carrie, as he did two nights ago when I went out with Father Josiah. Fucking the priest made my jealousy bearable."
"Eww! Camilla, with a
priest
? Have some boundaries."
"Sex is good for Father Josiah--he desperately needed to get laid, to relieve his sexual repression."
"Giving him Nigrovum will be
good
for him?" Candice asked with a sneer.
"It will if he uses it well: he's a priest; I'm sure he will use it for good. Dr. Singh is using it for spiritual enlightenment--successfully. Father Josiah can teach me to use Nigrovum the same way; we both can use it that way."
Not if you're fucking all the time, Candice thought. She went to the bathroom to brush her teeth.
Camilla, always fascinated with Marcel, her French Facebook friend, saw on her profile page a song he'd written and posted there. An electronic dance, funk-oriented song simply called 'Camilla', it was written in surprisingly fluent English. Marcel sang and played all the instruments, which were mostly keyboard sounds, with a guitar solo and some bongoes. Eager to hear it, Camilla clicked
PLAY