This is the sequel to 'For your eyes only'.
Having fun with Faith
Sunday
"When Sodom and Gomorrah were punished for their ways, the Lord made clear to the human race what is and is not acceptable to Him. But there are those people today that flaunt..." 'Blah, blah, blah,' Jack thought. He had left the two lovebirds not too long ago. Thanks to them he had dinned well but it was time for a change in diet. And in his search for his next meal he had stumbled upon this church. Apparently a sermon was going on but he wasn't really all that interested in it, his interest was in the churchgoers and one in particular.
She was hiding her boredom well but she was practically screaming it out for anybody who could hear. And she kept glancing at a girl that shared her dark brown hair sitting a few rows in front and to the left of her. He could tell that the bored one wasn't comfortable in the conservative clothing she wore. He took a closer look at the subject of her attention.
His eyes widened in surprise. 'Ah, I do believe I have my next meal. But the indirect approach is needed here.' He glanced over at the bored girl again and nodded to himself. He flew up from the bench he was sitting on and glided to the bored girl until he sat next to him. Nobody could see the young man in a brown trenchcoat defy the law of gravity, but that was because Jack didn't want them to.
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April let the words of the preacher wash over her doing her best to hide her mind-numbing boredom. Once again she cursed her mother for dying. Her father had grieved and then he had remarried. And because his new wife was evangelical he decided to become one as well. And he had dragged his daughter along with him. A 13-year old daughter who had sough support with a good friend of hers while she was coping with her mother's death. And who had found out in the process that she liked girls.
Shortly after the marriage they moved to this small town forcing April to leave her girlfriend behind and to hear how she was going to burn in hell every other Sunday. 'Thank God I didn't come out to my father.' Not that she actually knew what his reaction would have been. Her nascent love life had been flushed down the toilet along with the move and hadn't recovered since. Luckily it wouldn't be long until she would go to college.
She looked over at the Williams family who had moved in next door to them a few months ago. Their daughter was quite the looker and she had an uncanny resemblance to April. They both had the same chestnut-colored, wavy hair and the same dark brown eyes. Their built was similar as well as far as Faith could tell. The only real difference between them was their noses. Faith's was a small one that made her cute while April's gave her a very fierce appearance.
'Well, not the only difference,' April admitted to herself as she witnessed the rapt attention on Faith's face. 'She actually believes this bullshit. What I wouldn't give to show her how wrong that preacher is.' And Faith wasn't even really a bad person; she was actually very caring. She shook of the thought and resumed staring at the lectern, pretending she was actually listening. She was really getting good at daydreaming while pretending to pay attention.
While she wasn't paying attention to the words she did notice it when they stopped coming. The first thing she noticed when her mind returned to the here and now was that everybody was gone. The second thing was that wasn't exactly true, there was a man in a brown trenchcoat sitting next to her. The third thing she noticed was that he wasn't actually a man because no human had black orbs for eyes.
She scooted away from him, but he made no move and simply smiled. She studied him a little closer. He had a pleasant if unremarkable appearance and was lounging in the bench. When he opened his mouth and started talking April noted that even his voice was pleasant.
"I interrupt your usual boredom to bring you this once in a lifetime special offer. Are you feeling constricted, bored, are you unhappy with the direction your life has taken? Do you wish you could spice it up, have some fun? Well, you are in luck, because there might just be a pleasure demon near you that can solve all your problems!" He waggled his eyebrows at the end, clearly he wasn't taking himself very seriously.
April was amused too, until the word 'demon' hit her. That brought dread and the fear that maybe that preacher wasn't so full of it after all. "Demon?" she asked, hating how unsure she sounded.
He rolled his eyes. "Non-corporeal lifeform sounds so impersonal. Just relax, not a bad guy here. If you want you can think of me as a cupid. Only older, wingless, without a bow-and-arrow and a lot more handsome. And I do this work to get some food on the table. On second thought, pleasure demon really is the best description. But you can call me Jack."
"Okay," April said slowly. She didn't feel she was in danger but this was still the strangest situation she had ever been in. "Where is everybody?"
"Oh, they are still there. We're inside your mind, our entire discussion won't take more then a moment in the real world."
"I see, so this is all in my head." Was she going nuts?
Jack gave a tired sigh. "No, I am in your head. But let's get back to business. You want to have some fun and so do I. Together we can have lots of fun." He looked expectedly at April.
"Sorry, but I don't swing that way."
"Not what I meant and I'm not really a guy anyway." Jack morphed into a blond bombshell for a moment before reverting to his earlier form. "This is just my favorite appearance. Let me spell it out for you. I am a pleasure demon, I eat pleasure and the best pleasure, I have found, is sexual pleasure. You've never been past second base and I can change that for you. With my help you can show our little Faith what she's been missing. That's the deal I offer, interested?"
'Yes,' was April's first thought. It had been so long but there were still some concerns. And this being a church her first concern was of course for her soul. But Jack apparently had dealt with this concern before.
"You get to keep your soul. It won't be tainted, stained or shrunk by making this deal. And no, I won't be taking over your mind or body. Just think of me as a sidekick, the Robin to your Batman. Except I don't sound retarded and I will be living inside your head."
