'But how can she just do that? Is it legal?'
Noki started laughing at me and I looked in the direction of the woman to check if she had heard anything. It was getting easier to change my perspective as I practised doing it again, it was almost as if I had 360 degrees vision.
'Dick, she's a witch, she does what she wants.'
'But what happened to my body? Won't people look for me?' I felt some hope here at the thought that she might give me back my body when she would realize that people were looking for me, maybe even the cops.
'Anyone knows you were out with her?'
With dismay, I thought of how I had planned to go on vacation today and how even my landlady had been informed to care for my house plants. There would be no one looking for me before at least 4 weeks.
Then I looked at Noki, 'What about you? Were you cursed too?' My question seemed to plunge him in a reflective mode and he then finally sighed deeply.
'It's a long story my friend.'
'Well, it doesn't seem as if I would be moving for a long time, so you can tell me,' I coaxed him. I desperately needed to get my mind off my desperate situation.
'It wasn't Esmie, but her sister who cursed me,' he started with reticence and even though I couldn't see any facial expression, I could feel the pain. 'We were together for 2 years, but I didn't give her any attention, I was always on my phone.'
'So she cursed you to become the phone you loved so much,' I finished for him, feeling that in his case it was very unfair, of course, that didn't mean that in my case it was fair. If she didn't like the lack of attention, she should have left him, nit cursed him.
But Noki was not done with his story, 'That's not all, I often received messages from other girls while I was still with her. I was addicted to those online dating sites.'
'So, you mean you cheated on her?'
'Not in real, but virtually yes. One day she came across all the sexting and nudes I had received...'
I could guess the rest, having myself borne the brunt of the curse.
So that was it? We hurt these witches and in return they take our life away from us?
'So now what? Are we stuck like that forever?'
Noki gave me the equivalent of a shrug when he showed me a blank screen, at least that was my interpretation.
'Try to get some sleep, she will require your services agin tomorrow night' I was then told. Noki's screen was still off and I could feel that it had taken a lot for him to go down memory lane. But how do we sleep? I couldn't close my eyes or anything.
'How to sleep?'
'Visualization, like you did to turn around. Visualize you are in a soft bed and you are sleeping. Focus on that image and it'll work.'
That was easier said than done. Each time I tried to visualize my bed, I saw Esmie's naked body in it. Our last sexual encounter had been one of the best of our lives. After a long hour of foreplay where she was begging me to take her, I ad thrust in her, but not quickly as each time. I took the moment to make her savor each thrust in her, creating more friction and humping against her clitoris at the end of each deep thrust.
Her inner muscles had clenched so tightly around me that I thought I would come within the first minute, but we hadn't even worn protection yet. So I had pulled out of her to quell my excitement, then I had started the trip all over again. I loved the way she thrashed about on the bed, her hair spreading on my pillow like a fan.
Her chest had taken on a delicious pink hue and her nipples were tight as buds, moving up and down my chest as I moved about her. I didn't often adopt this missionary position as it brought me to close to women's eyes and I didn't like to be vulnerable at that time. But on that day, it had seemed right to take her like that.
I had pulled her close to me and after thrusting into her juicy centre, I had encouraged her to wrap her legs around me to allow me deeper entry. Her moans had grown louder and louder and when she peaked in her pleasure, I followed her and emptied myself within her.
After a quick trip to the toilet, she had fallen asleep quickly, spent and sated. That was that image that stayed in me as I tried to focus on a bed, as Noki had told me.
'It won't work,' I said to Noki, but as I turned to him, I saw that sunlight was filtering through the curtains.
It was already morning, which meant that I had slept and I wasn't even aware of it.