Chapter 12 - Interviewed

Content: mf, ff, fingering, bj

Jake woke because something was tickling his nos. His eyes opened, slowly, to the sight of Mary's head tucked under his chin, her unruly hair sticky up and brushing against this nose with every breath. He breathed in deeply, luxuriating for a moment -- in his not-quite-fully-awake state -- in the smell of her hair and the feeling of her warm body spooned against his.

They hadn't wanted to split up to sleep, so instead of offering her the guest room he'd offered her his own bed, intending to put a mattress on the floor for himself, but she'd simply laughed and pulled him into bed with her. Sharing the narrow bed had taken a bit to get used to, but eventually they had both drifted off to sleep.

Now, the last vestiges of sleep left him, and he craned his neck, careful not to wake her, to look at the alarm clock. Only a few more minutes until they had to get up.

"You awake?" The sound of Mary's voice, indistinct because her face was half-buried in the pillow, startled him.

"Oh, you're awake, too?"

She shifted position, drawing Jakes attention to his arm, which was trapped under her. Her movement set off an intense pins-and-needles feeling and he extracted with some difficulty, then tried to massage some life back into it.

"For a while, but I didn't want to get up. I was pretty comfortable."

She yawned and, stretching, got out of bed. Jake took a moment to lie back and admire her nude body. Her tan-lines had faded almost completely after her recent time walking around undressed in the sun.

 Mary looked over her shoulder and smiled at him. "You should get up too," she said. "You can't keep lying there, looking at me all day."

Jake grinned back up at her, yawned theatrically, and got to his feet as well. "Unfortunately."

Mary giggled, then turned to the door. "Now I need to go to the bathroom. See you downstairs for breakfast?"

"Sure."

Jake collected some clothes -- an task which he was getting unused to -- and took his phone of the bedside table. A quick look showed that he had a message waiting.

It was from Shayla: I have an idea. Talk to you all at lunch.

***

The car that had been outside the previous evening was gone by the time Mary and Jake got into Jake's car, but as they approached the school Jake was pretty sure he spotted it in his rear-view mirror. So, they probably hadn't been under surveillance all night. Maybe it was just the one guy following them, and whatever organization that had its eye on them didn't have enough people to watch them all the time.

He drew Mary's attention to the mirror, but neither of them said anything. Jake was feeling paranoid enough already; there might be a microphone in his car or something.

He was impatient all through the morning classes. He didn't get a chance to really speak to any of his friends, wary of being overheard even in class. Greg did catch up to him between first and second period to whisper, "Behind the gym at lunch."

He ran into Angela too, and told her that he wouldn't be able to meet during the day, but that he would call her that evening. Her smile was a welcome moment of normalcy during a stressful day.

***

As soon as the bell rang for lunch, Jake and Kailani -- who had joined him for his class, under their buddy system -- were out of their seats and on their way to the meeting spot behind the gym. They arrived, looking around for people watching them, before the others and sat back against the sun-warmed wall.

Jake was reminded that he was skipping lunch again by the growling of his stomach, and Kailani responded by rummaging through her bag.

"Oh, wait, I've got something for that. I was expecting us to have to skip lunch. Here."

She held out an energy bar to him, then opened one for herself after Jake took it. They sat together for a few minutes, munching on the bars while they waited for the others to arrive.

Which they did,  after what seemed a long time to Jake but was really only a few minutes. He noticed that everyone was fully-dressed again.

As soon as everyone was settled, they all turned to Shayla expectantly.

"You had an idea?" Kailani prompted.

Shayla looked around nervously, though none of them had seen any sign of anyone watching them all morning, and said, "I do, yeah. I'm not sure if it's a good idea, to be honest, but it's all I could think of."

"Well, none of us has had any ideas, so let's hear it," Greg said.

"OK." She turned to Jake. "I think you should let the guy talk to you again."

Jake raised his eyebrows. "But who knows what he'd do?"

Shayla sighed. "It's a risk, yes, and I know that I'm asking you to take it, but I think it's manageable."

She raised a hand and counted on her fingers. "One: we know from what you overheard that he tried to 'interview' you, but that you were interrupted. So I'm thinking that he has some way of making you answer questions or something, and we could learn a lot from the questions that he asks. Two: he doesn't know how many of us there are, and from what he said he doesn't want to tip us off too soon, so this time should still be safe. Three: he was scared off last time when someone else got close, so we'll have to be ready to jump in and it'll probably be OK."

"Right," Jake said, slowly, "but the big problem is that I don't remember meeting him the first time. So how can I learn anything from questions I won't remember?"

"You have a phone, right? Start up a call to us before you go out, and put it in your pocket. We'll listen in and take notes, and if it sounds like he's going to find out something we don't want him to, we'll 'happen to walk past,' and hopefully he'll let you go and try again later."

"It's risky," Kailani said, hesitantly.

"Yeah, it is," Jake said, a ball of nervousness in his stomach, "but Shayla's right that we need more info." He took a deep breath. "I'm going to try it, if you all back me up."

"Of course." The others nodded, and Jake felt a little of the anxiety that had been hovering over him since he'd found out about their spy's presence lift. It was almost immediately replaced by worry about what he was going to do, but having an idea about what to do still felt better.

"Give me your phone," Greg said, after a moment when no-one spoke, "I'll set it up so that we'll be able to hear you and it'll record at the same time. In case even hearing this guy makes us forget, or something."

Mary looked alarmed. "You think that's possible?"

Greg shrugged. "How should I know. I only recently found out about our amulets. I mean, turns out there's what I can only call actual magic out there. I don't know what's possible."

Mary looked at Jake. "Well, if you're going to do this, it'll have to be after school. We'll listen in, but maybe it's a good idea if there's one person who doesn't."

Another round of nods. Kailani looked around and laughed nervously. "Well, let's go get some lunch, then."

As a group, they made their way back to the school building. Jake handed Greg his phone on the way.

***

The ball of anxiety in Jake's stomach had only gotten larger by the time their last class let out and the five of them gathered by the exit to the parking lot.

"Here's you phone," Greg said, handing it over. "It's recording already, locally and also uploading. Just call me and put it in your pocket before you go out."

"I had a look through the window just now, and his car is parked across the street. Let's wait a few minutes until it's less busy, then you can go to your car. We'll stay here and listen in."

Mary suddenly rushed forward and hugged him briefly. "I'll be a couple feet away so I can't hear, just in case." She stood on tiptoe and peeked over the crowd of students leaving the building. "You sure you want to do this? We can try to think of something else..."

Jake tried to breathe deliberately and to look calm. "We need to found out more."

They waited a few minutes more in tense silence until most of the rush of students had cleared. Then Jake, resisting the urge to look back at the others, set off across the parking lot to his car. Fortunately, it wasn't too far away. He tried to avoid looking at the car across the street and to keep his face composed and keep acting normally while he unlocked his car.

***

"You okay?"

Jake looked around, bewildered. He was standing next to is car, in front of his house. Greg's car was parked next to the sidewalk, and he and Shayla were just getting out. In the distance, Mary and Kailani were approaching along the sidewalk, while a familiar car was driving away in the other direction.

"What? How did I get here?"

"You don't remember? The guy didn't even get close to you until you got here!"

Jake scratched his head. "No, last thing I remember I was getting ready to get in my car, and  then suddenly I was here!"

Greg and Shayla exchanged looks.

"Maybe we can talk about this somewhere a little more private?" Shayla suggested.

Jake, still bewildered, waited for the girls to arrive and then led them into the house. He could hear loud music from his brother's room, but his parents weren't home yet. After a moment's thought, he took his friends to the office upstairs and closed the door.

"What happened?" He asked. "Last time I didn't even really notice I'd forgotten anything, but this time I was suddenly somewhere else."

After another exchange of glances, Greg spoke. "Well, the guy didn't even get out of his car this time, he just followed you home. Then when you got out of the car, he walked up and started talking to you."

"But why- No, first things first. Did we find out anything useful?"

"I think we did. I'll let you listen to the recording first, so you can get your own first impression."

He took out his phone and played with it for a bit. "I need to jump ahead a bit. The first part is just you driving and talking to us about how the guy must have noticed something off, since he didn't come up to you right away. Ah, here we are."

Greg put the phone on the desk. They all gathered around it. Jake heard the sound of his car door slamming, then a voice he recognized: "Excuse me, do you have a minute?"

It was a strange experience, hearing his own voice answer, having no memory of it. He was satisfied to hear that he sounded pretty normal, greeting the guy like a complete stranger. Then the questions started coming, and he was disturbed to hear himself answer promptly and in a slightly monotone voice.

The man started out asking about his amulet, about what it did. Jake heard himself described the effects, and was a little gratified at the frustration in his questioner's voice as he kept asking the question in different ways and getting the same answers. It was clear that even when Jake described what the amulets allowed them to do, their effect still prevented the man from seeing anything strange about it. He heard a burst of laughter from Kailani, and let out a snort of his own as, after he'd explained the way they'd had sex in the middle of a diner, the guy exclaimed, "But that's nothing special!"

He sobered quickly, however, when the guy, in his frustration, stumbled on the right question to ask. The tinny voice from the phone blurted out, clearly rhetorically, "I can't see anything unusual here! Why is that?"

Jake, his heart sinking, heard himself explain, in the same monotone, "Because you're not wearing one of the amulets."

Jake heard himself, at the man's prompting, begin to explain that only people wearing one of the amulets were immune to their effect.

"We were too far away at this point to interrupt," Greg explained, pausing the recording, "otherwise we would have. This was the kind of thing we didn't want him to know."

"Still, it's good to know that our amulets' effect is strong enough that people can't grasp it even if it's explained to them," Mary said, hopefully. "It means we have an advantage."

Jake nodded distractedly and gestured to Greg to continue the playback. He listened as his questioner struggled with the concept he was explaining; finally, he seemed to grasp the fact that the amulets did do something useful, but that he was simply unable to understand it without wearing one. He moved on to questioning Jake about where the amulet had come from. Fortunately, whatever means he had to make Jake answer his questions, it just seemed to make him answer the questions, briefly and concisely. He wasn't volunteering any information, so the fact that Kailani had found them and given him one had to be dragged out little by little.

Jake winced as he revealed Kailani and Mary's names, but his questioner didn't seem to realize that there were more people involved.

"You noticed?" Shayla said. "He asked how many people knew about the amulets at that point. He didn't ask how many know now. I'm pretty sure he's not an expert at this, and now he doesn't know about Greg and me."

Jake nodded, attention still fixed on the recorded voices. Now his questioner was having him dictate his weekly schedule, and as much of Kailani and Mary's as he could remember. He was relieved to hear himself describe it as it normally was, without mentioning their current agreement never to go anywhere alone.

"We'll have to talk this over," he heard the man's voice say, seemingly to himself. "Make sure we get you all at the same time. Now, where are the unused amulets?"

He really wasn't a professional at this, Jake realized, as he heard himself say that he didn't know. If only he'd phrased it a little differently, Greg and Shayla's involvement might still have been revealed.

"This is when we reached the corner," Greg said. "We dropped off Mary and Kailani first, to make sure he didn't associate us with them, but then we got over to you as quickly as we could."

Jake listened to the last few minutes of the recording, hearing himself explain that no, they hadn't told anyone without an amulet about them. What would be the point, he thought to himself. Then there was the sound of an approaching car, a shout of, "Hey, Jake!" and a muffled curse from his interrogator.

"And this is where we came in. He took off at this point," Greg said, leaning forward to turn off the recording. Jake stopped him.

"No, go back a little, I think he said something else." He rewound a few seconds and listened sharply. "Yeah, he says something to himself, but I can't make it out over the sound of your car."

The others leaned in close as well, and replayed the last few seconds a couple more times.

"He does say something," Shayla said, "but I can't make it out, either."

Greg picked up his phone again and put it back in his pocket. "I'll try to clean it up," he said, "but I'll have to do that at home."

Jake sighed and dropped into the desk chair. "OK. But we'll have to be careful still." He turned to Mary and Kailani. "You shouldn't be alone. I think we can all guess that he's going to try to get to you, next."

The girls looked at each other and nodded. "I guess it's best if we stay here tonight."

Shayla slung an arm around Greg's shoulders. "I'll stay with Greg tonight, then. See you tomorrow?"

"Sure." Jake followed them to the door and showed them out.

Greg looked around before walking to his car, but their stalker's car was nowhere to be seen. "I'll try to get that recording cleaned up tonight, so we can plan tomorrow," he said, then started his car. Jake watched them go, then went back inside.

***

A few minutes and three phone calls later, they had arranged for Mary and Kailani to stay the night at Jake's. They had dragged one mattress into the computer room and were struggling with the other -- none of them wanted to sleep alone and this was the best way for all of them to have a reasonably comfortable night that Jake could think of -- when Kailani suddenly dropped her end and dragged a hand through her hair.

"We know that the amulets still work on our mystery man, and anyway we're inside now. I'm not going to get all sweaty in these clothes," she announced, and begin stripping down in the hallway.

Mary raised her eyebrows at Jake, smiling, and began pulling at her own clothes.

"You're right," he said. Five minutes later they had all put their folded clothes in Jake's room and had maneuvered his mattress into the other room, naked this time.

"I suppose we should get some revision done," Mary said.

"Only until dinner," Kailani decided. Then we'll relax here for the rest of the evening. We've got planning to do, tomorrow.

Mary hooked her arm in Kailani's and led her to Jake's room. "I have a feeling that by 'relaxing,' you mean that we'll be getting some exercise."

***

They had dinner together with Jake's family a while later. Jake's mother cheerfully interrogated the girls about their plans for college while Jake tried to suppress a smile at the way his brother's eyes kept wandering over to the two naked girls at the table.

Afterwards, the three of them volunteered to do the dishes, then moved upstairs. Jake waved the girls toward the computer room while he went into his own room. He got dressed, then took off his amulet and put it on his desk before taking out his phone and calling Angela.

"Hey, Jake!" she said excitedly, as soon as she answered the phone.

"Hi! We talked about prom clothes and stuff yesterday. Can I send you some pictures of what I'm considering?"

"Sure. Let me take a look."

In the next few minutes, they found a style of tux that they were both happy with. The conversation then moved to talking about the upcoming prom before drifting into talk about the upcoming finals and general school stuff.

More than half an hour later, Jake put down his phone, smiling. Angela turned out to be easy to talk to, and eventually the conversation had turned to topics unrelated to the prom or school; it turned out they liked similar kinds of movies, though with enough difference in taste to make conversation interesting. Without the amulet, she was far more ready give her opinion on his choices. They really had to be more careful with them -- if everything turned out OK with the current situation.

When he arrived back at the door to the office -- amulet on and clothes off again -- he heard the sound of giggling from inside. He opened to door to find Kailani sitting on Mary's hips, pinning her hands to her sides and ticking her mercilessly.

"Hey Jake," she said, turning to him as he entered, "turns out our girl here is ticklish!"

Jake stepped inside and closed the door as Kailani turned back to Mary. She was too late, however. Her momentary distraction had given Mary enough time to get an arm free, and now she squirmed and twisted and managed to turn over, taking Kailani with her. Kailani hit the mattress with a thud, and Mary was on her in a flash, swinging a leg over her torso and pinning her hands against the mattress over her head.

"I think she deserves some payback," Mary called out, giggling, to Jake. "Grab her hands, will you?"

"No!" Kailani said, dramatically, between her own giggles.

Jake shrugged and sat down next to them, then leaned over and took Kailani's hands from Mary's grip, holding them firmly in place. "Fair's fair," he told Kailani, with a grin.

She mock-frowned on him before Mary began her own assault, hands going to Kailani's ribs and tickling her as mercilessly as she had tickled Mary, moments earlier. Kailani bucked and thrashed, trying to throw Mary off or free her hands from Jake's grip, but her lack of coordination and gales of laughter meant that she didn't have much success.

Eventually, Mary slowed down, only tracing a few fingers down Kailani's sides to keep her twitching slightly.

"I think that's enough payback, don't you think?" Mary asked Jake, her hair sticking to her sweaty forehead.

"I suppose," Jake said, not letting Kailani go yet. His eyes kept being drawn back to Kailani's heaving chest.

"Yeah, I think so," Mary said, stopping entirely as Kailani began to get her breath back. Then, in a quick movement, she sat up straight and swung an arm behind her back. "I think she liked it, though," she added as Kailani squeaked. "She's all wet..."

Jake sat back and let go of Kailani's hands, then nodded toward where Mary's shaved pussy was pressed against Kailani's stomach. "So are you," he said, at the glistening evidence of her fluids.

Mary might have blushed -- it was hard to tell, with her face still red with exertion -- but she moved her other hand, tweaking one of Kailani's nipples before slipping a finger between her own nether lips. "Huh, I am," she said. "Want to help me with that?"

Jake didn't have the opportunity to answer before Kailani twisted suddenly, stretching out a hand to grip his stiffening cock before bringing her head forward and wrapping her lips around the head. His surprised gasp turned into a moan as Kailani pumped his cock a few times, making it come to full hardness in her mouth and flicking her tongue along the underside.

Jake dragged his attention away from her as Mary leaned back, holding herself up with one hand while she spread her legs and showed off her wet pussy, canting her hips to rub it on Kailani's stomach. He took the invitation, reaching out and cupping her pussy with his hand. The heel of his hand pushed against her just above her clit while his fingers lightly stroked the outside of her pussy.

Kailani's hand faltered for a moment in its movements, and he saw that Mary's hand had not left its place between Kailani's legs and was now moving back and forth quickly behind her back. Jake rested his other hand on Kailani's hair. She took the hint and moved forward, her hand moving to caress his balls as she sucked his cock deeper into her mouth. He shivered at the sensation and thrust two fingers into Mary without further preparation. The slipped in easily; the earlier tickling had gotten her plenty wet. As he moved his hand, her tried to keep the heel of his hand in contact with her clit. From the way her breathing became ragged, he was pretty sure she liked it.

As Mary's fingers sped up, he felt Kailani moan around his cock, the vibration making it twitch in her mouth before she craned her neck further and, with a brief choking sound, swallowed him completely. He could feel her throat constrict around his head, milking it for the first drops of pre-cum. His hand closed in her hair and pushed forward involuntarily, making her choke again until her hand thumped against his leg. He looked down to see her looking up at him and removed his hand, mouth, 'sorry,' as he stroked her hair. She winked, then bent back down, her tongue licking the underside of his shaft as she sucked harder.

To removed temptation, he moved his hand to Mary's breast, kneading it softly while his other hand fell into the same rhythm as hers, finger fucking her in time with her movements against Kailani's pussy.

Mary must have been pretty worked up already, because after only a few minutes of this she shuddered, her inner walls contracting around Jake's fingers as her head fell back and she stared up at the ceiling. Her fingers in Kailani's pussy never stopped moving, however, and when Jake's own fingers slowed, she grunted, "Nuh, k-keep going!"

He did, trying to concentrate on keeping to his rhythm even as Kailani began bobbing up and down on his cock, swallowing it all the way down on every downstroke and sucking hard on the head on every upstroke. Her hand kept up its gentle fondling of his balls even as her head moved more and more violently.

He could hold out long like this, and after a little while he warned her, between panting breaths, "Gonna cum!"

Her hand shot upwards as she let his cock slip most of the way out of her mouth. She pumped him up and down rapidly as she sucked hard on his head, and a few moments later he felt his cock jerk in her mouth and his balls contract. His cum spurted into her mouth and she choked in surprise at the first load, then clamped her lips tightly just behind the head and caught the rest of his seed in her mouth, breathing heavily through her mouth.

He could feel Mary clamp down on his fingers as she came again, possibly set off by the sight of him unloading in Kailani's mouth. As soon as he finished, the feel of Kailani's mouth on his cock became too much and he pulled back, a little dribble of cum escaping Kailani's mouth and dribbling down her chin before she could close her mouth again. Mary reacted instantly, letting herself fall forward and grabbing Kailani by the hair. She turned the other girl's head toward her and closed her lips on hers, twisting awkwardly to keep her fingers in Kailani's pussy.

They kept moving even as Mary kissed Kailani deeply, fingers deep in Kailani's cunt bringing her to her own orgasm even as Mary sucked Jake's seed out of her mouth, allowing nothing to escape. Kailani moaned into Mary's mouth as she came. After a few moments, her chest heaved and she struggled against Mary, but she kept their mouths pressed together.

Eventually, the girls broke apart, gasping for breath, and rolled onto their backs, side by side on the mattress. Jake could see his cum shining on both their faces. He let himself topple over next to them.

"Knew I'd get a kiss for that," Kailani said, eventually, in a smug tone. Mary swatted ineffectually at her.

"Well, I'm relaxed now," Jake said, when he'd got his breath back.

Kailani giggled and kissed his cheek, leaving a sticky stain of his own cum. "We've still got a couple of hours before we nee to go to sleep," she said. "Movie?"

"Yeah, OK," Jake said. "We can watch something on the monitor here."

"Sounds fun," Mary said, struggling upright. "But I gotta clean up a little, first."

She opened the door, revealing Jake's brother, red-faced, in his own room.

"I think someone like the sound effects," Kailani whispered to Jake, making him snort with laughter.

As the sound of water running in the bathroom sink started up, three phones vibrated on the desk. Sighing, Jake sat up and groped for his.

There was a message from Greg, containing a short sound file. It was a familiar voice, now just audible over the sound of a car engine.

"'It's just a couple of kids,' she says. Easy for her to say. Two people isn't enough. I can't very well do multiple targets by myself..."

Jake's eyes met Kailani's as the clip ended.

"There's only two of them?" she said, surprised. "We might have a chance, then, even if they've got multiple different amulets."
