Author's note:
This is, in all its seven parts and their many chapters, one very,
very
long story. If long stories bother you, I suggest you read something else.
No part of this story is written so as to stand on its own. I strongly suggest that you start with
the beginning of Part 1
and read sequentially—giving up at any point you choose, of course.
All sexual activity portrayed anywhere in this story involves only people at least eighteen years old.
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I returned to the office where I had been that morning. I did not sit at the desk, certainly not behind it. I observed that someone had changed the cushions on the sofa during lunch—and, I presumed but did not verify until later, the sheets on the bed. I thought those cushions must be designed to repel stains and clean up easily. I sat down to wait.
I was very much on edge when there was a knock at the door. I called, "Come in." The door opened, and someone I had never expected walked in: Samantha Bruja. My immediate reaction was to feel as if I had been kicked in the belly.
She hesitated a moment when she saw me, but then closed the door and came over to me. I didn't know whether the hesitation was because it was me, or because of my expression, whatever exactly that was. I must have stood up, because I was standing, facing her. She said, "I'm sorry, Phil. And I hope it's OK to call you Phil—I was told we were to be on first name terms for this week. I had put in my request for you as partner before you said what you did, about not knowing how you'd do if you had to kiss me or take me to bed. I don't think they would have let me change it if I had asked, but I thought that it was unlikely that I, out of all the girls who might request you, would be the one assigned to you. I should have said something to you then, but, well, I did think it very unlikely, and I was afraid of tearing down the little bit of friendship we seemed to be building. But I'm very sorry, as it is."
"I wonder whether whoever made the final assignments—yes, I know it was a committee—was laughing at the thought of this, Bruja. I'm sorry, it is Samantha, and I really will try to remember! But what I put for my partner selection amounted to asking that it be someone reasonably attractive, in particular not fat. I was told that I would be given extra consideration for my choices, and in fact my instructor is the one I asked for, and I felt that requesting a particular partner was a little unfair to everyone else. You're beautiful, very much so. You're certainly not fat. I was given exactly what I asked for.
"And I'm sorry. I certainly will do the best I can! It's what I said last week. I meant it when I said I forgive you, I mean it with all my heart. But somewhere in me, something seems to be kind of frozen. I don't know why, and I hate it, but I see the results. If any other girl as beautiful as you had walked in, I would have been pretty much erect just at the thought that I was about to make love to her, ready to go with almost no more preparation, the problem being only to slow down enough, despite some, um, exercise this morning.
"And it's not your fault, it's mine! You've done everything you possibly could to make things right, and I really do accept that, and as I say you're everything I could ask for in a partner.
"We're going to have to go ahead, anyway. I don't know your instructions. Mine were to make love to my partner, making use of all the techniques I was taught and learned this morning. I hope I can manage the final part, somehow, but most of the earlier parts I should be able to do. I can even hope they'll be pleasing to you, even if I feel kind of like I'm just going through the motions. As I say, I really want to offer you what you're entitled to, but I'm afraid I won't be able to."
"Phil, listen. You don't have to do a thing, if you like. I'll tell them that we did it, and that it was the most wonderful experience of my life. We can take some time getting our stories straight, about what we're supposed to have done."
"Bru—Samantha. I'm sorry. That's not acceptable. First off, we couldn't possibly keep it up, they would figure it out in time. Probably in no time at all! Second, we really do need to practice this stuff, as best we can, and they can't help us if we're not telling them what works and what doesn't. But what really matters most is, I'm not willing to lie, not to that extent, not indefinitely. After a while it would just kill me to do it. I couldn't keep it up. I'd have to tell."