Chapter 14 - Negotiation

Well, here's the next chapter. Finally. I'm still not 100% happy with it, but at this point I just have to post it, otherwise I'll keep tinkering with it forever.
There's a lot of dialogue here, and it doesn't flow quite how I'd like, but it's servicable. Lots of plot, with a short sex scene at the end. Not that there's some m/m content, the first I've ever written.

Content: mf mm hj oral

Jake blinked and shook his head. He was standing in bright sunlight, and now that the surprise was fading her recognized the place. This was Greg's back yard, just outside the garage. There were faint voice audible through the door. As he turned around slowly, seeing no-one else around, he realized he was holding a piece of paper in his hand. It was in his own handwriting.

DON'T PANIC, it said at the top, in big letters. Jake smiled to himself. That sounded like something he would write.

Kailani has taken amulet from stalker guy that blocks memory. Works on everyone in about 10 ft. Questioning in progress. Wait for others to come out & explain this. DON'T GO BACK IN GARAGE until K gives OK.

Underneath, in Mary's neat handwriting, were the words, Get some soda ready for discussion afterwards. We'll be right out.

Jake frowned as he thought about this. They'd taken the amulet that the guy used to erases their memories, and were now using it while questioning him. Did that mean they also had whatever he'd used to make them answer his questions?

Still thinking, he got the kitchen table ready for them to talk things through, and got out a couple of glasses and bottles of soda. Then he went back outside to wait for the others to come out.

***

The girls came out after a few minutes. Shayla and Mary looked confused, but Kailani waved off Jake's attempt to explain the situation.

"Don't bother, Greg had a better idea. I was the one wearing the amulet in there, so I still remember everything," she explained. "I've handed the amulet to Greg, and he'll stay in there to make sure our guest doesn't remember anything. Come on, we'll go sit down and I'll explain everything."

When they were settled at the kitchen table, Kailani launched into her explanation.

"Well, from what the guy has told us, the situation is worse and better than we thought." She turned to Mary, who, like Shayla, was still looking confused. "You were right about there being more than two people in this organization. The two people our guy talked about -- his name is Tom Wilder, by the way -- are just the two people in North America. Apparently they're spread pretty thin. The good news is that we got a lot of info out of Tom, and it's not as bad as we thought."

She took a long drink from her glass. Jake felt a knot in his stomach at the confirmation that his assumption about the number of people involved had been dangerously low, but Kailani went on to explain.

Their stalker -- Tom -- did indeed have an amulet that made anyone he talked to answer any question he asked. After they'd bundled him into the car and searched him, Greg had started asking him questions while holding the three amulets they had found, and the first things he had asked about had been the abilities of the amulets.

The first was the one that made people answer questions. As the five of them had noticed, it simply made people answer the questions that were asked and didn't make them volunteer information. It did make people more docile and less likely to act while they were answering, so Greg had kept up a constant stream of questions to keep Tom from trying to escape.

The second made people who got within about ten feet forget everything that had happened while they were near it as soon as they left its vicinity. An interesting wrinkle turned out to be that it worked backwards, as well; if someone was near it for five minutes, they forgot that time, plus the five minutes before they came close.

"That explains something," Jake said. "I don't even remember the guy walking up to me, even though he must have been further away than ten feet to start with."

The third amulet, Kailani went on to explain, made people who saw the wearer thing they knew him. It didn't turn them into friends or make them follow orders, but it made them act as if the wearer was a friendly acquaintance, and inclined to believe not-too-outrageous things the wearer told them.

"That's the one they stole from Herbert Green, right?" Mary asked.

"Yes. And it's how he got into the school," Kailani said. "He made people think he was an inspector from the school board. Anyway, that's what his amulets can do, but there are other people in his organization, and we don't know what exactly they can do."

"How many more people are there, and what kind of organization is it, exactly?" Shayla asked nervously.

"Well, he said that there were about fifteen people worldwide. According to him, they call themselves 'the Jewelers,' and they've existed for about a hundred years, as an organization. It started when a couple of people with their own jewelry -- apparently, not all of them are amulets -- became aware of others who had them, too. He says that a few of them teamed up to stop some owners who were using theirs for... bad things. We didn't go into too much detail, but apparently the memory loss amulet was being used by a rapist." She made a face. "I can see that it would very well for that."

"So, they're like cops?" Jake asked. That didn't sound too bad.

"It's how they think of themselves, yeah. But they seem to assume that everyone will use their amulets unethically. The worst they knew about Herbert Green was that he used his amulet to get into movies without paying once, but they still took it away from him."

"Oh," Mary said. "That's less good. Still, we haven't used ours unethically, have we? I mean, we haven't hurt anyone."

"From how he talked, he was already planning to take them away anyway, even though he couldn't wrap his mind around what they do."

"So what do we do?" Shayla looked around the table.

"I'm... not sure."

"Let's hear all of it before we start making plans," Jake suggested. "Kailani, did we get more out of him?"

"Not much. There's a woman he's working with who has some kind of in with a couple of tech companies. That's how they traced the email we sent to Green. She has an amulet that makes it so that people can't see her. Not like ours, it only works on sight so she has to be careful people don't walk into her and everything, but it doesn't have the limitations ours do, either. About people objecting when we try to hurt someone or steal stuff, I mean." She scratched her head. "That's about it, really. Greg is keeping him busy by asking more questions, but I don't know if that's going to lead anywhere. Bu the point I came out we were at the point that we were just getting a lot of repetition of stuff we already know."

Jake leaned back in his chair and scratched his head.

"We can't let this turn into a big fight," he said. "There's more of them than there are of us, they're adults and we have to assume that they have some kind of influence. More than we do, anyway. So-"

"We're going to have to negotiate or something. I mean, they must get new members sometimes, so there has to be a way to make contact with them that won't make them take our amulets away, right?"

"I think it's the only thing we can really try," Mary said. "Because the only other option I see is trying to get his partner here, too, hope they haven't told any of the others anything that can identify us, and try to keep them in range of the forgetting amulet long enough that they forget all about us. And that would take weeks." She shrugged helplessly.

"So we just let him go?" Kailani looked angry. "They were going to steal our amulets!"

Jake looked around at the others. No-one seemed to have a better idea. "I think we should try to think of any way we can get some leverage, but I think we're going to have to. I'm thinking we hold on to his amulets for a while, so at least he can't make us forget stuff, and then maybe volunteer to sign on with them? I mean, it sounds like at least they do genuinely try to stop bad people with amulets, I wouldn't mind helping with that..."

Mary looked thoughtful. "We're going to have to explain what our amulets do, and convince him that we haven't done anything bad with them. That might be difficult. Even the first part, that is."

Shayla pushed her chair back and dragged a hand through her hair. "Yeah, it's gonna be hard. But I can't think of anything else, so I think we're going to have to try Jake's idea."

"Let's talk it through with Greg, first. Maybe he has a different idea," Jake said, though he couldn't really think of any other options.

***

In the end, Shayla switched places with Greg so that he could be brought up to date as well. He had no better ideas, and eventually they found themselves sitting around the table in silence, none of them willing to move first.

"We should just go ahead and hope for the best," Jake said, eventually, pushing back his chair.

"Yeah," Greg sighed. "How, though? Not to throw you under the bus, but he doesn't know us, yet. I asked. He didn't get a good look at us just now, so he only know you two."

"OK, then Jake and I will drop him off somewhere in town. We'll keep his amulets but leave him a note about how to get in touch with us, and hope he's willing to talk."

She stood up and touched Jake on the shoulder. "Come on," she said.

***

They drove, with Jake next to 'Tom' in the back seat keeping up a constant stream of inane questions. Their captive answered everything in a toneless voice, with a dazed look on his face. Eventually they reached the parking lot of the mall. Kailani stopped the car by a bench, and Jake maneuvered Tom onto it, making sure he was facing away from the car.

Then he put the letter they'd written into Tom's pocket and jumped into the car. Kailani drove off immediately and merged into the stream of traffic. Jake looked out through the rear window. Their ex-captive was looking around wildly.

Jake took off the charms they'd taken. Next to him, Kailani blinked and then looked behind her at the back seat.

"Oh," she said, turning to Jake. "We dropped him off?"

"Yep. Now we just need to hope for the best."

Kailani looked around unhappily. "Can you stay at my place for the night? We can't stay in contact with the others, but I don't want to be alone..."

"Sure." Jake patted her on the knee, trying to sound more confident than he felt.

***

Jake slept badly, on a mattress next to Kailani's bed. He kept looking at his phone, expecting it to ring at any moment, but it didn't. Nor, as Kailani was half expecting, did anyone burst through the door in the middle of the night.

School the next day seemed to take forever. He kept his phone on him and turned on, counting on his amulet to make sure that no-one would object if it rang, but it didn't. At lunch, he and Kailani sat apart from the others, trying to make any connection between them look as tenuous as possible.

When the final bell rang, they walked to Kailani's car together. As soon as Jake sat down in the passenger seat, his phone rang. Kailani looked at him as he took it out of his bag. It was an a private number.

He looked at Kailani, seeing his own nervousness mirrored in her eyes. He swallowed, put the phone on speaker, and answered it.

"Yeah?" he said, his voice sounding high and unsteady.

"Mr. Young?" It was Tom's voice on the phone.

"Y-yes," he answered.

"I was a little surprised to find myself miles away from your school yesterday." His voice was perfectly level. It was impossible to tell what he was feeling. "And further surprised that my... jewelry was missing. Also, my phone and phone battery were in different pockets and I have a collection of new bruises. I was most surprised, however, by the note in my shirt pocket."

Jake exchanged a look with Kailani. Taking the battery out of his phone had been her idea, to stop him from immediately calling for help.

"Er..." Jake stammered. "I'm sorry about that. The bruises, I mean."

"Are you? Sorry?" He sounded a little patronizing, and Jake felt himself get annoyed.

"A little. But you were the one following *me,*" he added.

The sound from the phone might have been a suppressed laugh. "You know why I was," the man went on. "Your letter was very informative. I see that you got quite a lot of information from me. My colleagues aren't happy about that, you know."

"We had to do *something,*" Jake said, defensively. "Who knows what you could have been planning."

There was a sigh. "This did not work out well at all," the voice said. "You do know we weren't going to hurt you, right?"

"Your amulet doesn't work very well on hypothetical questions, so no, not for certain. We could only ask about what you'd done before, and we know you stole other people's amulets!"

Another sigh. "All of this jewelry is powerful," he said, levelly. "And we've found that this kind of power goes to people's heads. And your jewelry has to be particularly powerful, since I couldn't figure out what it did even after I questioned you. Some kind of confusion effect, maybe?"

"We've never used it to hurt anyone!" Jake said, hotly.

"So you say. But if you did, would I be able to figure it out? We're trying to protect people. You know that, right?"

"That doesn't mean you can just take our stuff! Anyway, we talked about how we're using them. We're trying to make sure we don't do anything unethical, we just, well want to have fun." He exchanged a look with Kailani. "Mostly we've been using them to get out of boring classes. And, well, to... have sex in public." He could feel his ears burning.

"there's nothing strange about that," The voice said. He sighed again. "And I'm sure that you're wearing it right now, since I suspect that there is something strange about it that I'm not seeing right now."

Jake looked at Kailani in surprise. That was further than anyone else had gotten. "Yes, I am," he admitted. "And I'm not taking it off right now. I can use every bit of advantage I can find right now, I think." He looked at Kailani again. They were talking in circles, and he didn't know a way out.

"Hey, Mr... Tom?" Kailani interjected. "Do you know how we can solve this? Right now we're stuck, and we just want to get on with our lives. Please? We're not trying to hurt anyone."

Greg grinned to himself. She was using her innocent tone of voice, the one that had worked so well on her parents until they'd got wise to it.

"That would be miss Hale, then?" There was a pause. Jake almost wanted to check if they'd lost the connection when the man spoke again. "You've hidden my jewelry somewhere, haven't you?"

"Yes," Kailani said. It was buried in the behind the boiler in the basement. Not the greatest hiding spot, but they hadn't wanted to travel too far in case they were being followed again. "It's somewhere safe, where you won't find it." She sounded more confident than Jake knew she must be feeling.

There was a groan from the other end of the line. "I really need those back."

"Not until we know you won't just use them to steal our amulets and wipe our memories," Jake said, trying to keep his voice from shaking.

"Look, I..." He paused again, then went on in a more brisker tone, "If you told me what your jewelry did while you weren't wearing any, would I be able to understand then?"

"Er..." Jake exchanged a look with Kailani.

She reached out to mute the phone, and said, in a low voice, "He should. Mary understood when I told her, that first day. But should we tell him that?"

"We have to risk it, I think." Jake tapped the screen again. "Yes, I think so."

"OK." There was a rustling of paper. "Look, can we declare a truce for a day or two? I can maybe figure something out so we'll all get out of this unharmed." There was a hissing intake of breath. "Or at least, without further harm. One of you really got a good it in on my ribs. Anyway, I'll have to talk it through with the others and put it to a vote. I can't decide this on my own."

"That sounds... good," Kailani said, slowly. "Look, we're not looking for trouble. We wouldn't be opposed to some kind of... oversight, OK?" She raised her eyes and shrugged helplessly at Jake. "That's part of why you have this organization, right? To keep an eye on each other?"

There was a chuckle. "Sort of, yes." A chair creaked. "All right. Truce for two days. I'll let you keep my jewelry in the meantime, as insurance. I'll call you when we've decided, but we'll have to meet in person, then."

"Why?"

"Not to ambush you or anything. You can pick the spot. Somewhere public, and it won't have to be both of you. Or all of you, I'm pretty sure there's more people involved on your end. That's part of the difficulty, you know. It's not often that we find larger sets of jewelry."

"Well... We'll see."

"I hope so. I'm going to try to convince the others that you be allowed to ask me some questions with the Ear, then, so you know I'm being truthful. And-"

"The ear?" Kailani interrupted.

This time he laughed. "It's what we call the questioning jewelry. The pattern kind of looks like an ear. Most of them have nicknames. Anyway, miss Hale, I'm going to propose your 'oversight' idea. The fact that you came up with it on your own will hopefully convince the others."

"I... hope so," Kailani said.

"Good. I'll call in a day or two. Bye."

"By-" Jake said, but the connection was broken abruptly.

"That went... well, I think," Kailani said.

Jake shrugged. "I hope so. Think we can trust his 'truce'?"

"Let's hope so. Anyway, we still have his amulets, so he has a reason to play nice."

They drove t Kailani's in silence, both of them busy with their own thoughts, though Kailani did remember to send the others a quick text that they were OK. They had already decided to keep anything more for a face-to-face conversation. For the rest of the evening, they tried to keep their minds off the subject of magic jewelry and secret organizations, with some success. They even managed to get some homework done.

Jake spent the evening on Kailani's floor again, after a brief attempt at joining her in her bed, which, with the narrow bed and the heat, turned out not to be very comfortable.

***

The next day, they joined the others at the lunch table and explained the talk they had had with Tom.

"That's better than we'd hoped the day before yesterday," Shayla said in the end, summarizing the group's mood.

When Jake and Kailani tried to get up again, Mary stopped him.

"No, stay. We're gambling on these people being reasonable, so I don't want to go to the point of not speaking to you just to hide the fact that we're friends."

Kailani looked at her. "It's just for another day or so, hopefully," she began.

"Nah, I say we just take the risk," Greg interjected. "We've finally gotten closer again recently, and I don't think they can take that away even if they find a way to steal our amulets."

Jake looked between his three friends and at their determined expressions. Then he shrugged and dropped down again. After a few moments, Kailani sat down between him and Greg.

"Oh, what the hell," she said.

Jake kept looking around during the lunch period, half expecting someone to be spying on them, but he didn't see anyone.

***

By the time people were starting to filter out of the lunch room in anticipation of the bell, all five of them were feeling more relaxed. The general mood seemed to be that things were mostly out of their hands now, and they just had to wait to see how things would turn out.

The bell rang, and none of them were in a hurry to get back up.

"I'm thinking we don't really need to get to class, right?" Shayla said.

"It'll be mostly revision, again," Mary agreed. She shifted in her seat, closer to Shayla. Jake couldn't see exactly what she did since her hands were below the table, but Shayla let out a squeak and jumped in her seat, then giggled.

Jake felt Kailani lean into his side. "We've all been stressed the last couple of days. Let's blow off some steam."

"Good idea," Shayla said, squirming in her seat, both of her hands also disappearing below the table. "Bot not here, it's not exactly clean."

Greg laughed, looking around a the room, strewn with the debris of half the school eating their lunches.

"That's true. Come on then, at least one gym should be free."

***

It turned out there wasn't a gym free. Even with the good weather, both teachers had chosen to have their lessons inside. After a moment of hesitation, Shayla shrugged and urged them into the girls' side, pulling Mary along by the hand and leading them to the equipment room attached to the main room, past a class of juniors who were playing volleyball.

Shayla pushed Mary onto a pile of gym mats and crawled after top of her, straddling her hips and leaning down to pull at her shirt. Jake barely had time to take this in, to the sound of the gym teacher coaching the girls behind him, before Kailani pressed herself against his back and, giggling, tripped him so that they both fell onto a gym mat in front of them.

A moment later there was a heavier weight as Greg pressed himself on top of Kailani, trapping her between the two boys until they all rolled over, laughing.

"As long as we've got these amulets, let's take advantage of them," Kailani murmured before bending forward and nipping at his collarbone.

Jake let his head fall back as fingers tickled his side, and let his worries fade away, for as long as he could. He caught his fingers under the bottom of her skirt and, nudging Greg's hands aside, managed to pull it up over her head.

While he threw it aside Greg unhooked her bra with surprising speed and tossed it onto a pile of basket balls.

"Hey, not so fast! I want to see you naked too!" Kailani said, slapping aside Jake's hands on her shorts and pulling his shirt up over his head. It took only a few moments before all three of them were naked. They were only interrupted by a cry of "Hey, watch it!" from one of the volleyball players when Kailani tossed aside Greg's boxers with a little too much enthusiasm and they landed on the court.

Jake immediately found himself pressed back onto the mat as Kailani put her knees on either side of his head and lowered her pussy to his face. He had a brief moment to look up along her athletic back before the toned globes of her ass blocked his view. He lay still for a moment, breathing in the scent of her growing excitement until a pinch on his nipple encouraged him to get to work. The first probing lick made her jump slightly, but soon she settled down, allowing Jake to again explore the pussy he was quickly becoming familiar with.

With his view blocked, he could only concentrate on the giggle from Mary and Shayla and on the way shifted on top of him and let out increasingly loud moans. Occasionally she would jump with a yip when he or Greg touched a particularly sensitive spot. One of her hands trailed over his torso, playing with his nipples and stroking the skin. He giggled, muffled by her pussy, when she touched his sides, then laughed when she tickled him in earnest.

He licked at her lazily, not really trying to build up to an orgasm but simply exploring her and trying to keep her pleasure ticking over. He kept his eyes just barely open, watching the her toned ass move an inch from his face with every flick of his tongue. Soon the sights and sounds, the taste of her pussy and the feeling of her hands, all blurred together in a simple haze of pleasure. He drifted as the tiredness from the last few days overtook him, the sound of the voices above him not really registering even as he kept up his grip on her thighs and the licks at her pussy.

After a few minutes of this, when his face was slick with Kailani's juices, he felt a hand on his cock, which had by then come to full hardness. It took him a moment to realize it wasn't Kailani's hand, and just as he did, Kailani lifter herself higher, allowing Jake to see Greg looking at him. He was kneeling next to Jake, a hand gingerly touching Jake's cock with a curious expression on his face.

"Um..." he said, "Do you mind? I'm curious..."

Jake wasn't sure what so say for a moment, but then he shrugged. Kailani and Mary had played with each other and with Shayla plenty of times by now; in fact, the sounds of Mary and Shayla's moans where coming loudly from a few feet to Jake's left at that very moment. It would be hypocritical to not at least let Greg try.

"Go ahead," Jake said, smiling encouragingly.

Greg's hadn immediately wrapped around his cock and slowly pumped it a few times, making Jake's hips jerk upward. It felt just as good as when one of the girls did it.

"That's hot..." he heard Kailani whisper before she descended  and smothered him with her pussy again.

Even with his focus on licking deeply at Kailani's pussy and the occasional struggle for air, Jake could feel Greg's hand -- and soon, hands -- stroke his cock, quickly gaining confidence and speeding up as Jake felt his cock respond to the stimulation. Soon he felt it begin to leak pre-cum as Greg settled into a rhythm, one of his hands stroked the shaft while the other toyed and rubbed at the head.

 With Kailani's hands still at work stroking his chest, playing with his nipples and gently tickling his sides, it was not long before Jake ceased to care who exactly was doing what. He simple lost himself in the scent and taste of Kailani and the various pleasurable sensations coursing through his body.

 And then something smacked into his foot and bounced painfully off his toes. His sound of protest was muffled by Kailani's pussy, but he didn't need to struggle to see what had happened because Kailani quickly fell sideways, snorting with laughter.

 Jake craned his neck, to see Greg, his hands stationary on Jake's cock, holding back laughter as a volleyball spun to a stop by Jake's foot. A few seconds later, a girl in gym clothes came running up and snatched up the ball.

 "Sorry!" she said, her face red with embarrassment. Her eyes darted between the three of them. "It was an accident!" she stammered. She gave an apologetic wave before turning and running back to the volleyball court, looking back over her shoulder at Jake and his friends.

Kailani sat back up just after Jake did, just as he was rubbing his foot. "Dangers of having sex next to a gym class, I'm afraid," she giggled. Jake pushed her, making her topple over again. He smiled at her, then jerked as Greg's hand moved, drawing his attention back to his cock.

"Hey!" Kailani exclaimed at Jake's intake of breath, "No going back at it without me!" She poked Jake's shoulder, then went on, as she caught sight of Greg's fully-hard cock poking up from his lap, "In fact... Come on, lie on your side..."

A moment later Jake was on his side, his head back between Kailani's thighs with his nose poking into her pussy while his tongue lapped at her clit. Kailani was on her side as well, and Jake just had time to see her swallow down Greg's cock before her body blocked his sight again. A moment later, Greg's hand began to pump at his cock again.

They lay in their triangle for a few minutes, long enough for Kailani to tremble her way through what Jake thought was a little orgasm and for Jake to feel himself gradually approach his own peak, before Greg's hand paused its work on Jake's cock. It gripped him tightly around the base, pulling back his foreskin all the way, and then there was the feeling of hot breath on the pre-cum-dripping head.

Jake had a moment to realize what was happening, and to decide he wasn't going to object, before an unfamiliar pair of lips lightly kissed the tip of his cock. Kailani's thighs blocked most of his hearing, but he thought he could hear Greg mumble, "Different..." just before his mouth engulfed Jake's cock.

He couldn't take him as deep as either of the girls could, and the sound of his choking as the cock hit the back of his throat was unmistakable, but he didn't pull back, swirling his tongue around the head while his lips gripped the shaft. Slowly, he began moving back and forth while his hand moved up and down the base of the shaft.

Jake realized he'd stopped his own efforts at Kailani's pussy and got back to it, stabbing his tongue deep into her while his nose nestled between her ass cheeks. He couldn't help mentally comparing Greg's efforts with the girls. Greg was a little more tentative than either of them had been, and the occasional feeling of Greg's light stubble rubbing against his thigh was unfamiliar, but Jake really didn't think he could complain about his efforts.

Greg quickly gained confidence, and soon his head was bobbing back and forth while one hand pumped the shaft and the other played with Jake's balls. Jake smiled into Kailani's pussy as he kept up his own movements, feeling her fluids drip down his chin, and reflected that, apparently, he might be a little bit bi. Or at least flexible.

Jake was pretty sure that Greg was the first of them to cum. Kailani jerked suddenly, her thighs pulling Jake's head back uncomfortably, just as Greg's throat vibrated around Jake's cock in what he was pretty sure was a moan. He faltered momentarily in his sucking of Jake's cock but rallied quickly, swallowing the shaft down further than before and speeding up his movements.

The thought was unexpectedly exciting for Jake, and only a minute or so later he felt his own orgasm approach. He managed to pull back just barely from Kailani's thighs pinning him in place, and got out a quick warning, "Gonna-!" just before he came.

Greg reacted quickly, pulling back his head and letting his hand take up the slack, continuing to rapidly stroke Jake's cock as his balls contracted and his cock pulsed. Jake had moved forward again immediately, and even as he felt his cock pump out the first jet of cum he sucked hard on Kailani's clit.

He heard her squeak as he continued to cum, spurting out two, three more loads while he concentrated hard to keep from slowing down, and continued to lick madly at her dripping cunt.

Finally, as he felt his cock jerk feebly in Greg's hand with the last few dribbles of cum, a deep thrust with his tongue pushed Kailani over the edge as well, her legs clamping closed hard around his ears and jerking his head around as her fluids gushed into his face. With his head pinned in place, he saw no reason to stop licking, making Kailani jerk and moan through her entire orgasm until she finally released him and rolled onto her back.

"Wow," Jake breathed, as he rolled over as well.

"Yeah," Kailani said, unsteadily. "That was hot!"

Jake's gaze was drawn to Greg, who was still lying on his side and was looking at his hand, which was splattered with Jake's cum. As Jake watched, he gingerly stuck out his tongue and touched it to the white jizz, then pulled back while he made a face.

"It was," he said. "But I'm not wild about the taste."

Jake chuckled. "Where did that suddenly come from, by the way?" he asked.

Greg looked a little sheepish as he sat up. "I've wanted to try something with a guy for a while now," he explained. "This was just the first opportunity with someone I trust."

Jake nodded. "So, you're bi?"

"Yeah. I mean, I knew that already, I've just never had any experience with guys. Not that I had much experience with girls, either, before we all started playing together..." He looked Jake in the eye. "Did you like it?"

"Well, yes! Look at your hand! Anyway, it didn't feel very different from one of the girls," he said. then, as Greg frowned, he continued, "That came out a little wrong. It was... interesting. I might have to try something like it, myself, one of these days."

"Yeah!" The exclamation came from Jake's other side, where Mary and Shayla lay tangled together on the stack of mats. "We didn't get to see too much this time," Mary explained, with a wide grin, "and I would really like to see you guys play together again!"

Greg snorted. "We're just entertainment for the girls, apparently!" he said mockingly.

"I feel objectified," Jake complained, smiling. He got to his feet and extended a hand to Greg. "Come on, let's go get cleaned up somewhere away from these perverts!"

They ran to the showers, laughing, as Kailani threw a wadded up pair of pants at them.

***

When Jake came out of the shower and checked his phone, he had a message.

Sunday, 1 P.M. Pick a place. I suggest somewhere public.

The giggly feeling immediately drained out of him, leaving a cold feeling in the pit of his stomach.
