Jonathan Levinson

Kennedy smiled. "Hey, look, Amy! It's Jonathan! He's alive!"

"Kennedy!" exclaimed Amy.

"Er, why wouldn't I be alive?" asked Jonathan as he emerged from the shadows of the far end of the basement.

"Er, no reason," said Kennedy. "Just happy to see it's you and not some creep."

"Oh, okay," said Jonathan as he stared at Amy and Kennedy, focusing mainly on Kennedy because she was not only still naked but also standing before him with her hands on her hips without making the slightest effort to hide her nakedness. Almost as if she was a fugitive from one of those dreams he had late at night when he started thinking about all the girls he went to high school with.

"Should I know you?" he could not help saying.

"No, you don't," said Kennedy. "But if you play your cards right..."

"Don't tease the boy," said Amy. "He's not your type. And anyway, we have a mission, remember? So get dressed."

Kennedy sighed and asked, "What's the matter, Amy? Jealous?"

"Of you?" asked Amy.

"No, of Jonathan," said Amy. "Because he's obviously interested in me and you supposedly are not."

"Whatever," said Amy as she put on her blouse.

"How did you girls get in here?" asked Jonathan. "I mean, I was sitting over there, reading a magazine when I saw this big glowing hole in the air --"

"You were reading a magazine?" asked Kennedy. "What kind? Never mind. I've known enough straight teenage boys that I can guess what kind."

Jonathan blushed. "It wasn't that type of magazine."

"Sure, it wasn't," said Kennedy. "And right now you're really focusing on my eyes. It only seems like you're staring at my boobs."

"Kennedy!" exclaimed Amy.

"All right!" exclaimed Kennedy. "All right! I'll get dressed."

As she did so, Amy noticed that Jonathan was now staring at her.

"I know you," he said.

"Er, no, you don't," said Amy.

"Yes, I do," said Jonathan. "You're Amy Madison. You're in the same math class as Willow. I thought I saw you outside earlier so why are you --"

"Er, this has been real," said Amy, "but if you forgive me, Jonathan, my friend and I really have to go do something."

"Can I come along?" asked Jonathan.

"Not really," said Amy.

"Please," said Jonathan.

"Oh, let him come along," said Kennedy. "He's less likely to blab if we satisfy his curiosity a bit."

"Kennedy!" exclaimed Amy.

"That's my name," said Kennedy as she finished dressing.

"Okay, he can come," said Amy. "But he better not interfere."

"I won't," said Jonathan. "Though I would like to know what you're doing."

"We'd tell you but then we'd have to kill you," said Kennedy.

Then she noticed that Jonathan was staring at her with a pale expression on his face.

"I'm just kidding," said Kennedy hastily. "I'm just kidding. Jeez."

xxx

Five minutes after Amy, Kennedy and Jonathan left the high school basement, another figure emerged from the shadows and glanced at the basement ceiling. It was a black-haired woman in a white dress who waved her arms in imitation of Amy Madison and then recited some words in Latin. Then she reversed her gestures and said the same words backwards.

She was rewarded by the sight of a blue glowing circle in the air that seemed similar to the opening by which the two naked girls had entered the basement.

She smiled and then recited again the same spell she had heard Amy recite while again making the same gestures she had made.

This time the blue glowing circle disappeared.

"Interesting," said Drusilla. "I could probably use this."

She smiled again and crept back into the shadows.