09: Monday, July 13, 1145 hours CST: Berte Sets Things Right
When his alarm went off, Zach awakened from his nap on his bed at the base. He saw a text message from Berte, "Sweet dreams sweetheart! Text when you wake."
Zach texted to Berte, "Here I am. Just woke up."
A moment later, he got a text from Berte. She must have had it already composed. The message began, "Jill and I have been thinking constantly about tomorrow, so I want you to know first of all that everything's okay and I love you," it read. Jill was the name of her favorite vibrator.
"Oh-oh, here it comes," thought Zach to himself.
"Although I admit that the nasty bad stuff you did to me last time excited me to a degree I've never experienced before, I want something else tomorrow. I want you to tell me you love me with your words, because you're neurotypical, and that's how I know you mean it. I want to hear from your voice that you'll take care of me and guide me and that everything will be okay and my baby will be healthy and strong. You should cum in me too, of course, for the insemination part. But I want you to make love to me like I'm a neurotypical woman, even though I know I'm not, unless you can't get excited for me unless we do it the dirty way. Then I need to understand why."
It was clear to Zach then that Berte had been disturbed by what he'd done with her. He texted, "This is a misunderstanding easily fixed."
"I love you with all my heart and soul,"
"and I'm overjoyed and excited to make love to you"
"and cum in you any way you'll have me."
"If you were a neurotypical woman I would have done the same thing,"
"but it was an optimization error."
"You'll understand this, because you're an engineer."
"Like I said I would,"
"I was paying close attention to what excited you sexually"
"and doing more of that."
"What I didn't take into account"
"is that you wanted more than just good sex from me,"
"because I'm an idiot."
"Please forgive me."
"I forgive you," Berte texted quickly.
"You want more than just good sex from me, right?"
"I do," Zach texted.
He continued, "But this is where my unconscious bias crept in."
"I ached to make love to you face to face"
"and shower your face with kisses"