This is the 4th installment of an ongoing story about Michele a and Tim. For sure, it is a disturbing relationship and is in no way intended to describe something healthy or ideal. Emotional sadism is central to it all. If this bothers you, this is not the story for you and I suggest you venture elsewhere.
What makes the story interesting to me is what takes place in the minds of the characters. Withouts words and ideas and the feelings that go with them, it's all just mechanics and honestly, that's not so interesting to me. Simple, pure fucking is a great thing to do. I don't need to read about it. Perhaps when I was verrrrrrrry young, that alone would have intrigued me. Now...yawn. This is a dark, emotional journey. I hope you enjoy it.
The following preface is cut and pasted from installment II. For a more comprehensive understanding of their world, you can venture back to the first installment. Read it or skip it.
This story takes place in a very male dominant society, one which is even more patriarchal than our own. Our hero, Michele, is enchanted by the discovery of her own sexual super power. Poor, lucky Tim, on the other hand comes to realize that he falls under Michels's spell, he does not measure up to societal expectations. These two young people are discovering and becoming as they grow together as a couple.
Psychological conflict and tension are central themes in this saga.
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The story has been formatted to meet the publishing requirement of our host and I am hopeful the necessary kinks have been worked out.
A more complete preface can be found at the beginning of the first installment and if you did not read it, it could be helpful to do so. Here are some of the contextual parameters of the fictional world the story takes place within.
* People are legal adults at 18 years of age.
* People usually live to about 2,000 years of age.
* The cultural norm has almost all legal adults living with their family of origin until they turn 200 years old.
* Young people between the ages of 18 and 200 are treated as and referred to as children when they choose to continue living with their parents.
* Young people between the ages of 18 and 200 often behave much as we would expect teenagers to behave here in our world. They are kept in a state of arrested emotional development.
* Young people between the ages of 18 and 200 years customarily consume "blockers" which prevent them from having sexual feelings or impulses.
* Often young people will begin to "date" around 160 yers of age and while they are expected to continue to take their blockers, some will surreptitiously stop taking them while a few will stop responding to them.
* Age and masculinity are revered in this world. Everybody looks up to their elders and few seriously question the patriarchy.
All characters in the story are over 18 years of age.
It is customary for those below the age of 200 to demonstrate their status by wearing clothing which signify to others that they are off limits. They would wear what we would think of as children's clothing. Remember, an 18 year old and a 1,900 year old would look exactly the same age, so children's clothes are very useful for signaling to those over 200 years to abstain from any romantic or sexual pursuit of another who was deemed of an inappropriate age.
Lastly, sex is not technically illegal for people between the ages of 18 and 200 years. It is considered profoundly taboo. Adult-children (18+) do have sex but it is kept very quiet. Some parents punish their children for engaging in this sinful pleasure and adult-children almost never tell-on one another in this regard, even those who might not like one another. Adult children live by a code and violation of said code subjects one to complete ostracization. Almost none experiment until they are well over 160 years old.
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They were well into the spring and Michele felt a little anxious, a little behind. She did not like realizing she'd not kept ahead of things. Money was an issue she suddenly wanted to address. Tim had not accepted her vision of a future for him quite as she'd hoped. Of course he acquiesced, because anything else would have ended painfully for him. She was disquieted.
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Dear Diary,
OK, so if doers do, I'd better start doing. Right now I'm a big do-not. I have what I want so now I have to start dealing. School is about learning and planning for the future so that is how I am going to use it. I have a lot to work to do on moving into the kind of future I want to have with Tim so I better get clear on how to get to that kind of future...
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"I want a career that makes really good money. I'm considering medicine, law and investment banking."
"So how can I help?" replied Ms. Krista, brightly. Thank you, thought Krista Lucas, Michele's assigned guidance councilor. Krista was more often dealing with drugs, bullying, eating disorders and girl after girl with low self esteem. And ALWAYS apathy. It seemed under-schoolers only cared about their peers and NOTHING else.
Together the two discussed various career paths, levels of commitment and the subsequent financial rewards. The more the two talked, the more impressed Krista was by this young, optimistic and pragmatic woman who'd come to her. She was so mature and focused and she found that she actually enjoyed Michele's company.
As their conversation progressed, Michele revealed that her boyfriend was having some difficulties with their respective roles and Michele's expectations of him. She told Krista that she'd recently explained to her boyfriend that he'd not be attending school, at any level, and would instead be more of a 'househusband' and therefore it fell to Michele to be the bread winner.
Prior to this last disclosure, Krista was surprised and super impressed with Michele as she found Michele's outlook totally refreshing. Yet Krista was also amused and almost relieved to realize once more that she was not dealing with a 120 something year old peer, but instead a 120 something under-school girl after all; although she did have to throw the girl a bone for wanting her boy in the barefoot and pregnant role.
At least her heart's in the right place.
Krista was used to speaking with girls this age who where chomping at the bit to discover romance. They watched romantic movies where everything worked out great in this way. They studied older girls who were venturing into the world of dating. Naturally they looked up to 200+ women and wanted to be them. They were all convinced their lives would be more interesting with a boy in it.
Many confided that they wanted to try going off their blockers. This was craziness and she always talked them out of it.
Girls were so clueless about men, it really was silly. In spite of the novel and cool idealizing of the househusband, pie in the sky romance was a joke at this point in a young person's life.
That's a little deviant.
It was more than deviant.
Krista felt her nipples harden with the consideration.
In an unwittingly, though very gently patronizing tone, Krista said, "Now Michele, let's not go worrying about things that are decades and decades away. So much can change in that time." She smiled at Michele as though the proffered context would cause Michele to see how silly she was being.
