Deliver Me
By: Zyris De'Lat
Chapter Seven:
Jerrica Benton entered the Starlight Mansion tired and drained form a day's work. She heavily leaned against the door to shut it.
"Jerrica, is that you?" a voice asked from the kitchen. Kimber's head peaked around the corner and lit up with excitement when her eyes lay upon Jerrica's tired face. "Oh, it is you!" Kimber exclaimed. Kimber quickly ran over to Jerrica to greet her with a leaping hug. "How was your day at work today? You must be exhausted. Why don't you lie down for a bit while I finish dinner? I was planning on us going out later tonight to a new club I discovered…
Kimber's rambling faded away into the distance and a vision of Rory appeared before her. "Remember Jerrica, you were the one who entered my life first." Jerrica started to feel faint and put her hand on the wall for support and balance. Jerrica then closed her eyes and shook her head to try to dismiss her troublesome encounter with Rory this afternoon. Jerrica then felt two hands on her shoulders trying to support her. Jerrica was pulled back into reality and realized the two hands belonged to Kimber Benton, her sister.
"Jerrica, are you feeling okay? I thought for a moment you were going to faint on me," Kimber said with a great deal of concern in her voice. "Why don't I help you upstairs so you can lie down for a short nap?"
"Thank you Kimber. I really appreciate your help and concern, but I feel better now. I think I am just over worked and need a nap." Jerrica turned towards Kimber and gave her a smile while stopping on the fourth step of the stairwell. "What time did you say the concert was tonight?"
Kimber's face lit up with a smile. Jerrica knew her sister had her heart set on tonight's concert for them to spend some quality sister time together.
"The concert is at eight. So would you like me to wake you up at seven? That will give you some time to freshen up before we go out," Kimber responded with a huge grin on her face waiting for Jerrica to reply.
Jerrica couldn't help but chuckle. "That sounds great. I will see you then." Jerrica then gave her sister a hug and then continued up the stairs to retire for her nap. Before Jerrica could notice, she fell into a heavy sleep.
Jerrica opened her eyes and gave a yawn. 'I never thought a nap would feel so good. I better not get used to this otherwise I will always be sleeping.' Jerrica chuckled to her thought and then turned over on her side to look at what time it was. The clock read 7:30pm. 'Why didn't Kimber wake me up? I hope she is okay.'
Jerrica sat up in bed and pulled her housecoat on and slipped on her slippers. She opened the door to her bedroom and stepped out into the upstairs central hallway. The mansion appeared very dark and empty, almost as if the mansion itself was one big shadow. Jerrica walked over to the open stairwell and started to slowly walk down the stairwell when she caught a flicker of light out of the corner of her eye from behind her. Jerrica froze in place and clutched the banister railing with her right hand so hard her knuckles started to turn white. Jerrica slowly turned around, her heart beating rapidly. 'Why do I feel scared and frightened? I have to get a grip on myself, it is probably Kimber. But why do I feel that something is just not right…'
Jerrica started to walk cautiously back up the stairs while running her hand along the banister railing for support. Jerrica reached the top step of the stairs and started to move across the large central hallway that had three rooms, one bathroom, and a narrow hallway with two more rooms and a linen closet connected to it.
Jerrica's eyes scanned the central hallway from the top step of the open staircase, searching for the source of where the light came from. Jerrica started to walk across the hallway towards her master bedroom to the far right corner of the central hallway when her eyes caught the flash of light again. The light came from the far left room of the central hallway. Jerrica let out a small sigh of relief. 'I knew it. There is nothing to worry about. That is Kimber's room.'
Jerrica turned around to walk towards Kimber's bedroom door and suddenly brook out into a jog. Panic started to rise in Jerrica's throat. She reached Kimber's door and noticed it was open ajar. Jerrica stood outside the bedroom doorway and placed her hand against the door. She was about to push the door open when she heard a faint sound of giggling and moaning. Jerrica's eyes lit up in alarm and her palms started to sweat. Jerrica's heart started to race again. 'What am I afraid of? Who's there? It is probably Kimber with Sean Harrison. She has been spending more time with him since he last proposed to her and she said yes. Then they both decided to wait with the wedding and to take the relationship slower. Well, Kimber being in her room with Sean is the most logical reason, right? But why do I feel something is really wrong here? I…'
Jerrica pushed the door open and tried to call out, but she couldn't find her voice. Heart racing, face flushed, Jerrica's eyes scanned the dark room. Her eyes fell upon the sole candle that was casting shadows and a cinnamon fragrance throughout the room. The candle rested on a small table beside an old fashioned canopy banister bed against the far wall of the room. Jerrica started to approach the bed silently while trying to focus on the two slowly moving figures in the bed. The moaning was getting louder as Jem approached the bed, and then it stopped. Jerrica froze in place, afraid she was discovered. Jerrica was straining her eyes, trying to find out who was in Kimber's bed when a figure suddenly sat up in bed and turned towards Jerrica.
The candle cast a silhouette of light against the figure's smooth, curved, naked body. The figure's shoulders where slender, her breasts where smooth and plump enough to generously fill a hand's grasp, and her stomach was slim and soft in appearance with the silk royal purple bed sheet resting below the navel.
"What's the matter? It seems to me you can't take your eyes off of me…" a voice called out tauntingly to Jerrica. Jerrica blushed, and then her eyes lit up in alarm. 'I heard that voice before, but where?'
Then the figure leaned closer to the candle, letting the candle light up her features. Jerrica let a half muffled scream escape her lips as she backed up against the Oakwood dresser. 'No, it can't be. It is not possible. How?' Jerrica was staring face to face with herself. No, not with herself, with Jem. Jerrica was frozen in place, terrified.
"What's the matter, Jerrica? Don't like what you see?" Jem asked Jerrica in the same taunting voice as before while running her right index finger seductively from her breasts down towards her navel. Jem then locked Jerrica's immense purple eyes with hers while stating, "Remember Jerrica, I am you. And you are nothing without me. With me, you can have anything you want." A coy smile spread across Jem's face, "How about the love of your life, Jerrica?" Jem motioned behind her and pulled back the sheets to reveal Rio Pacheco. Jerrica gasped out in half shock and half hurt. She placed her hands to her mouth while trying to hold back the tears that started to sting her eyes. Jerrica's eyes then narrowed on Jem in anger and hatred.
"I know you have wanted him for years. That desire that resides in your body for him. How you get wet between the legs every time he touches your body. Why not give in to the desire? What are you waiting for Jerrica?" Jem's eyes then lit up with mischief. "I will tell you a little secret Jerrica. Rio is such a great lover in bed."
Jem then let out a wicked laugh as she sees the anger rise in Jerrica's eyes. Jerrica's knuckles started to turn white as she clenched her hands tighter into fists. Jem then slid off of Rio to lie in the middle of the bed and pulled the sheet back to her right to reveal Rory Llewelyn. Jerrica's mouth dropped open in shock as her heart jumped in her throat.
"How about the other love of your life, Jerrica? I know you also want him. You want to be with him even more than you do with Rio, but you make petty excuses not to be with him. Why Jerrica? You can have this wonderful man fulfill your dreams and sexual fantasies. Why, you could have both of them at the same time if you wanted." Jem leaned back against the bed's head board between the two males with both of their heads resting against her chest. Jem stared into Jerrica's eyes while letting the two men fondle her breasts with their hands and mouths. Jerrica turned away from the site of Jem with disgust, she felt like she was going to get sick.
Jerrica started to move towards the door when Rio suddenly got up out of the bed. He quickly walked towards Jerrica and grabbed her by the wrist. Jerrica couldn't help but notice that Rio was nude and how endowed he was below the waist. 'Once I think about it, Rio and I have never seen each other nude before.' Jerrica started to blush at that thought but was torn out of her thoughts quickly when Rio's grasp tightened around her wrist.
Jerrica looked up into Rio's eyes and noticed there was a wicked and cold glare looking back at her. Jerrica started to feel scared.
"Rio…" Jerrica barely said in a hoarse whisper, wincing in pain from Rio's tight grasp around her wrist.
"Jerrica, where do you think you are going? You don't want to miss the party, do you?" Rio said in a seductive but demeanor voice.
Jerrica's bottom lip started to tremble. Jerrica looked over to Jem. A wicked smile was displayed across Jem's face.
"Remember Jerrica, you are nothing without me. Now be a good girl and come to me." Jem said to a terrified Jerrica.
Jerrica started to feel lost in the purple eyes and pink hair along with the smell of cinnamon. Jerrica tore her gaze away from Jem while shaking her head back and forth and kneed Rio in the stomach. Rio loosened his grip on Jerrica's wrist. Jerrica then pushed Rio away from her and ran out of the bedroom door. Jerrica heard Jem shout from behind her, "Where are you going to go Jerrica. You can't run from me. I am everywhere in your life. I am you." Then laughter filled the hallway.
"Jerrica, wake up. It's seven o'clock," Kimber called out to Jerrica. Kimber couldn't help but notice that Jerrica was tossing and turning in bed with a distraught and troubled expression on her face. Kimber took Jerrica by the shoulders and started to shake her while yelling, "Jerrica, wake up! It is me, Kimber!"
Jerrica slowly opened her eyes to the worried face of her sister Kimber, who was sitting on the edge of her bed and shaking her by the shoulders.
"Oh, Jerrica! I am so glad you are alright. I thought something bad was happening to you! Don't ever scare me like that again," Kimber cried out to Jerrica while wrapping her in a hug.
A smile spread across Jerrica's face, then quickly disappeared. Something was troubling Jerrica, but she couldn't quite place a finger on it. It was something about her previous dream. Jerrica tried to grasp it, but only got bits and pieces of it. 'A lighted candle, a dark hallway, a door ajar… This doesn't make any sense. I will have to figure this out later.'
"Come on and get up! We have a concert to get ready for," Kimber exclaimed while pulling Jerrica up and out of bed. "And I am going to make sure that my sister has a good time," Kimber added with a wink.
Jerrica smiled at her sister while letting her troubled dream slip from her mind.
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