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."
I had a sudden thought, and took a moment to think. "And all that is assuming that they're not recording or watching or at least listening, and I'm sure they have to be. Most likely watching, but at least listening, in fact. Think a bit. What could possibly go wrong if you stick two random seniors in a bedroom together with no more specific instructions than we had. If one of them is someone like Wagner, it could be pretty nasty."
She looked at me, and said, "You know, I'm really glad to hear you say that, except that—that it's going to be really hard, for both of us, to try and try if you can't."
I said, "Look, earlier, you pointed it out yourself, things got easier and worked better, for me I mean, as I did them. I could hold you longer the second time, a lot longer the third. And it really was easier. I mean it. I owe it to you to try and keep trying, and I'm sure I'll respond more as we go along.
"So let's get started. Well, first off, is there anything from your instructions that's much different than what I told you mine said, anything I should know about?"
"The instructions sound pretty much the same, Phil. I don't know what the techniques you referred to are, and I don't know whether I need to tell you about what he told me about making love."
"We'll bring that stuff up if it seems to matter. For now, come over here and kiss me, then."
Holding her and kissing her was kind of strange. On the one hand, she was beautiful, and she had a wonderful figure, and her body was pressed against mine. All this would have had me painfully erect and hard right away, if it weren't Bruja. Samantha. My heart would have been pounding and my breathing harder and faster, practically from the start. None of that was happening. Or, maybe my heartbeat was a tiny bit faster, and my breathing a little irregular, but I thought it was just that kissing was disrupting my breathing some. I'd never thought about it before, but that probably did play a part normally. And maybe something like fear went into it, this time, too.
In any case, I did my absolute best to kiss her like my heart was in it, and it seemed pretty clear it was having an effect on her. I was glad of that. I hoped she would be able to ignore my own lack of response enough that I could make it good for her, even if I couldn't make it all the way.
After a minute or two, I broke off. "Bruja," I started, and then caught myself. I looked her in the face and said, "Samantha, I'm so sorry. I promise, I'm not doing it on purpose. Please forgive me if I forget, and it looks like I probably will again." I hesitated, to make very sure I had the name right before I went on. "Samantha, I forgot, one other instruction was that we were supposed to go through that door over there, into the bedroom that's there. I'm sure it doesn't matter that we got this far in here. Would you mind too much if, um, if I carry you in, over the threshold? Another little trite bit of symbolism, like sealing things with a kiss, to really say I mean that I want to want you. That I'm happy to have you for my partner, except that I can't seem to respond."
She looked at me, and again there were tears in her eyes. "Oh, Phil, please do that. I can't think of a better way to try to move ahead. And please, please stop agonizing over the name. I mean, I want you to call me Samantha, but honestly, you're entitled to call me all sorts of really awful names, anything you want, and have me accept it. How could I ever complain because you're using my last name, especially when I know perfectly well it's just a slip?" She held me tight for a moment, and kissed me again, not so long.