This is my first erotic story β I welcome all feedback.
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I stood facing my bathroom mirror. A spindly boy wearing a beige sales clerk's shirt stared back. That was not my shirt. That was not my body. That was not my face. That was Jake. Jake stocks shelves at the Food King grocery store a few miles away. I jumped his body (that is, I took over his body) in the Food King parking lot and brought him home. Jake is my mule. I need him to jump someone else's body β my real target for today.
I use mules for a couple of reasons. First, when I jump into someone else's body, my own body instantly falls unconscious, and stays asleep while I am "away". So I let my own body rest safely at home while I doppelgang. Second, even though my host has no recollection of the period while I jump him, he might remember everything right up to the instant before the jump, including the moment I touched him. I can only jump through physical contact, so there is always a chance the host will remember someone touching them the instant before their memory loss. Similarly, when I leave a host, their own conciseness returns, as if they just woke up from a very long sleep walk. Again, there is a chance they will see me as they come to.
I am not too worried about Jake β nothing bad is going to happen to him today, and he won't try to track me down. He will miss an hour of work and won't know why. Or maybe he'll take the rest of the day off β it's up to him.
Walking in Jake's shoes, I returned to my bedroom and checked on my real body sleeping in my bed β everything looked normal. I locked up the house and armed the alarms. After I pulled out of the garage, I verified the main garage door had closed, and then drove to a twenty four hour parking lot on Millison Road where my car would not look suspicious parked there all day, or even overnight. I locked my keys in a secret compartment inside the car, then retrieved a ticket from the automated parking attendant machine, and placed the ticket under the windshield wiper. I walked a few blocks down Millison and one block over to the Mermaid Princess Beauty Salon and Spa. I scanned the small parking lot β the car I was looking for wasn't there because I was early, which is to say, I was right on time. I leaned up against a Ford Expedition SUV, as if it was my car and I was waiting for someone. Hiding in plain sight.
After ten minutes of waiting I saw the white Mercedes E350 convertible approach from the north. The top was down β perfect. An open parking spot near the front door of the spa awaited, so I repositioned Jake behind the empty parking spot. Predictably, the Mercedes turned into the parking lot, and headed straight for the best spot. I felt my excitement grow when I confirmed it was her behind the wheel. Fiona.
Two weeks earlier, I had jumped Fiona's boyfriend, Jet, and discovered he abused her. I sent Jet an unmistakable warning that the abuse must stop. Today was his first check-up.
Timing is everything. I started walking toward the just parked Mercedes β approaching it from behind, walking up the driver's side. Even from behind she was gorgeous. Fiona wore a short sleeve pale yellow cotton dress with small roses printed in a burnt wine colored pattern. Her long honey blonde wavy hair caressed her delicate shoulders.
I watched her intently, never taking my eyes off the back of her head. I leaned Jake's right hip into the driver's car door, and braced myself with his right hand. In a single fluid motion I pivoted Jake toward Fiona and touched the bare skin of her arm with Jake's left hand. She never turned to face me. She never saw Jake's face. She never had a chance.
Instantly my vision collapsed into a straw sized tunnel with dull black walls. When I regained my sight, I turned to my left and looked up and saw Jake wobbling against Fiona's car.
"Can I help you, mister," I said to him, knowing he was just now regaining his own conciseness, and had no idea where he was or how he got there. I had jumped completely out of Jake β he was on his own now.
"I ... I, ah ...," he stammered, pulling away from the car, turning slowly to survey his surroundings, but he did not walk away.
"Are you lost?" I asked in Fiona's voice. For the first time Jake looked at my (Fiona's) face, and realized just how beautiful she is.
"I ... ah ... don't."
"Do you work at Food King?" Confusion and skepticism washed over his face. "You're wearing a Food King shirt."
"Oh ... right."
I looked around to see if anyone had noticed Jake standing beside Fiona's car. I didn't think so. "Do you want a ride there? Its five blocks over. I'm early for my appointment anyway."
"Uh, yeah ... ah ... sure." He looked in various directions, wondering which way to Food King.