This is my first erotic story – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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.
"Okay, hop in," I patted the empty passenger seat. Still dazed, Jake walked around the car, opened the passenger door, and climbed in. I started the car, backed out of the parking spot, and pulled onto the street. I looked over at Jake. "You don't look so good. Do you want me to drive you home instead?"
"Uh ..." Jake was too disoriented to mount a coherent reply.
"Where do you live?" When Jake told me his address, I asked if he lived alone – yes was the reply. "I'm taking you home."
Jake lived in a low-rent high rise. Not much else is affordable to a minimum wage stock boy living alone. I parked on the street, and chirped the doors locked on the open top convertible as I walked Jake to his apartment building. Thankfully I have had enough experience in other women's bodies to know how to navigate high heel shoes.
"I'll go up with you." I told him. He offered no resistance. I am willing to bet Jake has never spoken more than three words to a girl as beautiful as Fiona (technically he still hasn't). Fiona going up to his apartment vaulted Jake into a whole new sphere of bragging rights.
The elevator smelled dank and dirty. It clunked and groaned as we rose uncertainly to the eleventh floor. After the doors opened, Fiona's high heels clicked down the concrete hallway – any semblance of carpeting that might have donned these floors was long gone. The mosaic of stains on the concrete floor reminded tenants of better days. Jake pulled his keys out as we approached the doorway marked 1107. I followed him through the opened door, closing and locking the door behind me.
It was a tiny studio apartment – no separate bedroom. A single living/dining/bed room with an open kitchen, and a separate bathroom. No balcony. Most motel rooms were larger. To Jake's credit, it was tidy. A sofa (sofa bed?), one table, two chairs, a TV stand, and a small book case was everything Jake owned. It all looked like third generation hand-me-downs – I'm guessing not a stick of furniture was built after the Beatles broke up.
"Listen, thanks" Jake offered. "I'm okay."
"You look awful," I told Jake. "You need help," I cautioned.
"No, really – I was just a little confused back there. I don't know ... well, I ..." he was still trying to fathom how he got from the Food King parking lot to the Mermaid Princess parking lot in what would seem to him to be in the blink of an eye. Later he might realize he lost nearly an hour of consciousness, but I was hoping that detail would evade him, as it invites all sorts of questions.