Chapter 7: Part 4/5

The previous day I had returned to two tiny skirts and two pairs of hold-up stockings. This time the skirts were their usual size, but there was an excited energy in the room.

My window was open, the incense was out, and there were a few candles burning. “What the hell is going on?” I said.

Alice jumped into my arms, and kissed me. “I missed you,” she said, lust in her eyes.

“You are going to kill me,” I said bluntly. Alice shushed me, then kissed me again. Her victory still seemed to be a secret. “Are you summoning something?”

“We’re summoning one of my friends,” Lily said. “I told you there was a way to find out what’s going on down there, and this is it.”

“How are you going to do that?” I asked.

“Inside me,” Alice said.

“Oh, okay,” I said. I guess there’s no point in being worried about any of this stuff anymore. “Is this what happens when you two get time alone?”

“It’s the best way to find out what’s going on. I just needed to figure out exactly how to summon a specific person. I wasn’t even sure it was possible,” Lily said. She had the computer turned on, and there was some unrecognisable language on the screen.

“Who is your friend?” I asked.

“He’s an incubus,” Lily answered. “Dorian.”

“Another one that’s obsessed with you?” I asked, worried it was going to be a Tim or Winston type.

Lily laughed. “Not quite, but he might be obsessed with you.”

“What’s that mean?” I asked.

“He’s gay.”

“I didn’t even know it was possible to be a gay sex demon.”

“He’s not a sex demon. He’s a human.”

I sighed, dropping my bag and finally sitting on the bed. I was just going to relax and let them have their fun. “Another one of those types. I thought one of you was annoying enough.”

“Just sit back and enjoy the show,” Lily said. “He’s my friend, and he’s normal, unlike some of those other incubimbo’s.”

Salem and Scully were hanging out on the bed. I started to wrestle the cat, because he was mine and even in his old age he enjoyed a good fight. The fox just sat and watched.

“Before we do this,” Lily said, looking at Alice. “Just don’t forget there’s a chance he will have his own body if you have a spare soul. Do you think there’s any chance of that?”

“How exactly does it happen?” Alice asked.

“Lots of depressing ways. Have you lost anyone?”

Alice looked at me, and laughed. The sort of awkward laugh that only someone who knows loss can manage. “Almost everyone,” she said.

Lily grimaced, and looked at me for some kind of support. “You should get to know your friends before you start having threesomes with them,” I said.

“I’m sorry,” Lily sheepishly said. “It would only be a male soul anyway, otherwise it wouldn’t work that way.”

“It’s okay,” Alice said. She found the fun in stressing other people out when they didn’t know. “I’m prepared if it happens.

“Uhm, and yeah, remember to do a nice easy contract so he can go back after we’ve talked.”

“I’ll just do some smooching,” Alice said, which reminded me of Lily’s first summoning, the one in LA with Zach. “What if he wants to stay?”

“He won’t. He accepts loads of summomings in the hope he ends up inside a gay man. It happens one in every 50, or maybe it was one in every 500.”

“Okay, let’s do it,” Alice said.

The girls did the summoning. It was simple enough. Lily knew what she was doing. She chanted for a while, in a language that differed slightly from the one she used when she returned to the underworld, but also differed from the one that I used to summon her. Alice took over when instructed, and formed a sacred contract that would only end when she kissed me on the lips.