Jenna smiled at him. "Well, come on!" she said, smiling slyly. "I want to see how it feels. You certainly seemed to be having a good time..."
"Yeah..." John said, his mind drifting back over the experience. It had been incredible. "Um, yeah," he said, suddenly snapping back to reality, remembering that the girl he loved was waiting for him.
They made love again. There was less fumbling this time, since both knew the ins and outs a little better as their original sexes, but for some reason it didn't feel quite as good to either of them. Jenna found it interesting how her tail moved, but it didn't really do much for her. Instead, she kept finding herself thinking of how it had felt when John in the mermaid's body had wrapped it around her in John's body; how the scales felt surrounding her strong, manly legs, the feel of the caudal fin brushing against her calves, and the one tip even reaching up to her buttocks...the feel of the mermaid's supple breasts pressing against her chest...
John, for his part, was experiencing something similar. It didn't make sense; he had been with Jenna before, and while neither of them were experts, it had still felt good...so why was it that it was so hard to get worked up now? The mermaid's body that housed his girlfriend was certainly beautiful in an aesthetic sense. It wasn't as perfectly flawless and clean as the popular depictions, but then, what real, living person was? Yet despite her beauty, and the fact that she was naked and willing, it just didn't seem to get him going. Only the thought that it was Jenna in there really meant much to him. Sure, it had been good as the mermaid, but he was really a guy, right?
Only half-consciously, Jenna began to think about what this body had looked like when John was in it, when they were in the height of passion; suddenly, she found herself reacting more strongly. She wondered what the implications of that were, but decided she didn't care. Closing her eyes, she reached up and pulled John in for a kiss, picturing him as the mermaid he had been a few minutes ago. Though she didn't know it, John was doing the same as he responded to her embrace. Things began to pick up, and soon they were nearing climax again.
It came and went, and when John opened his eyes, he realized that he...no, it was she once more...was nestled against the chest of his own body. "Oh, good," she murmured, then realized that Jenna had heard her. "Um, that is, uh..." But the young man who had been his girlfriend shushed her. "It's all right, lover," he said. "I understand."
"Y-you do?" She looked up at him, nervous. This feeling...she herself had only just realized it, how could he possibly understand? Jenna nodded. "I do," he said. "I feel the same way."
John gaped, barely believing what she had heard. Jenna wanted to stay this way, too? It couldn't be true...but it was! She embraced him tightly, sighing happily, and he held her just as tight. They laid there for quite a while, resting. Finally, she lifted herself up off of him, and lay back on the beach, propped up with her elbows behind her. "Do you think you have one more round in you?" she asked.
"I...I don't know," Jenna said. "What if we...?"
John shrugged. "Well, if it happens every time, I guess we can live with that," she said. "But I don't plan on never loving you again just because we might swap. Come on!"
Jenna nodded, and rolled over on top of her. They went at it again, this time with everything they had. They were still unused to their new bodies, but everything that had been missing previously was back in full force; it all felt right, somehow. Again they reached and passed the point of climax, but this time, when John opened her eyes, she still saw the body that used to be hers. She gave a cry of joy, and embraced Jenna.
Jenna smiled and hugged her back. "I guess this is us now," he said. "I wonder why we only swapped the two times?"
"I don't know," John said. "Maybe there was just some residual energy from the ring; maybe it's all used up now."
Jenna nodded. "Could be. But we still have to figure out what to do about the mermaid..."