In Which Une joins in the study of Algebra; the properties of Twelve are examined by Algebra; and Chastity returns to Innocence.
After their one session of lovemaking, Algebra was disappointed to find that despite her attempts to repeat it Dodie was decidedly unenthusiastic to do so. Algebra soon came to conclude that her brief love affair with Dodie had finished almost before it had begun, and resigned herself to her studies as a means of keeping her mind off her continued passion. Her assumption may well have proved to be true, but events interceded. An old lover of Innocence's, Une, had arrived in Congress and had decided to stay in the flat with them.
Algebra was attracted to Une, although she was much older than anyone whom she'd made love to before, except for one of her lecturers, who in any case was a man. Une dressed very simply in a long white dress to her ankles and paid absolutely no attention to the fashions of the city. She soon re-established her intimacy with Innocence, showing rather more modesty than Dodie by restricting her lovemaking to the bedroom. Dodie was clearly not at all delighted by this intercession in her love life, and particularly in the way she was excluded from participating in it in any form at all. Despite Innocence's occasional sexual activities with her lover, these were clearly too few and too brief to satisfy Dodie. Algebra watched Dodie from a distance, her head generally immersed in text books, although her mind focused on Dodie's beautiful hairy cunt and the slim breasts with the nipples so prominent against the fabric of her tee-shirts. She hoped and hoped that Dodie's apparent frustration would be relieved on her ever-waiting self.
Her hopes were eventually rewarded, but Algebra sensed that Dodie's lovemaking was almost certainly from a perverse sense of revenge than from any feeling of passion towards her. Although Algebra was expressly forbidden from pissing on Dodie, her lover felt no compunction about releasing volumes of urine onto Algebra's body and into her mouth, a diet which was soon supplemented by a more solid and horribly smelly alternative. Algebra didn't really enjoy the long messy turds as they squeezed out of Dodie's buttocks and plopped onto her face or her chest. She certainly didn't enjoy the taste and felt rather humiliated as she bent to Dodie's demands and took them into her mouth. She felt a disgust which somehow drinking urine never provoked. Although superficially her desire for lovemaking with Dodie was being satisfied there seemed to be very little genuine passion and it made her feel rather unhappy.
She sat down in the living room with Une on a night when Innocence and Dodie were out together to see a concert which Dodie insisted Innocence would enjoy, though even Algebra knew that there was too much of a gulf in the two girls' musical tastes for this to be particularly likely. Une was reading a rather thick hardback book which seemed to be several centuries old and was turning the pages from right to left on occasion. Algebra glimpsed the print in the book, but to her eyes it appeared to be nothing more than illegible scribbles in a very unfamiliar alphabet. She was immersed in the meantime in a book of attractors and fractals, and paused on occasion to muse on the more bizarre conclusions that the author was deriving from the various equations.
It was on one such occasion that Algebra caught sight of Une who was studying her with a certain amount of curiosity. Algebra looked across and wondered if Une's interest might not have been stimulated by her nudity, which seemed quite strange contrasted with the long white dress Une wore. Une smiled back.
"You're a student aren't you?" Une asked. "What is it you're studying?"
"Chaos theory," answered Algebra. "It's about how there is chaos in order and order in chaos."
"That seems a fairly accurate description of life," mused Une. "And in your life as well, I dare say. Dodie treats you rather badly doesn't she? Why's that, do you think? Is it because she thinks I'm taking Innocence away from her?"
"I think that might be why," Algebra answered. "Though I wouldn't say she treats me badly..."
"Do you like eating shit then?"
"Well, not really, but..."
"That sounds pretty cruel to me. You poor girl. You really need a better lover than Dodie. You know that she'll return to Innocence when I've gone."
"She will?"
"You know she will!"
Algebra looked across at Une, and became conscious of a welling of tears in her eyes. Barely had she noticed this than the trickle overwhelmed the lid of her eye and trickled down her cheek, followed by a sudden and unexpected sob. Une smiled sympathetically, and this suddenly triggered off a sudden outbreak of tears and sobs, which Algebra felt had been inside her for years and just then felt the need to be expressed. She put her head in her hands, dropping Fractal Facts and Friction to the floor with a dull thud. She felt a raw wound gape inside her as she shuddered with the strength of her feelings of frustrated love and dark realism.
Algebra felt an arm around her shoulder and looked up to see a naked Une behind her, smiling sympathetically. She turned her head and buried it deep into Une's chest, who clucked understandingly as Algebra moaned her wordless desires and fears. Une stroked her shoulders and soon allowed her hands to wander about the young student's body, expertly changing her sobs from ones of despair to ones of desire.
It was perhaps inevitable it would result in this, mused Algebra, as the two women rolled about on the thick rug in front of the gas fire, Une's tongue deep inside her vagina (from which Algebra courteously forbore urinating), and her own tongue and fingers exploring the caverns of Une's cunt. How could a vagina be so large? wondered Algebra, whose area of specialisation had never been biology. Her whole fist, and very probably her arm as well, could fit into the capacious recesses parted by the elegantly shaped but spacious lips. Algebra prised it open with the fingers of both hands and pushed her tongue and teeth as deep inside as she could. Meanwhile, her own much tighter cunt was being nibbled and licked and stroked with such expert care that despite her misery she came and came again, feeling an ecstasy that had always been denied her by Dodie and which none of her other lovers had ever achieved.
And so it was that the two were found, buttocks raised above faces and legs stretched out, when Innocence and Dodie returned later that night, Dodie quite clearly the more enthusiastic about the music of Sigmund Gamma.
"Well, Innocence, sweetest," Dodie cooed, clearly not at all disappointed, "it looks like we'll be spending the night together. Une is obviously too wrapped up to offer you her company."
Algebra heard Innocence sigh slightly, and watched the two lovers' bare legs stride out of the living room, leaving her with Une, but really not caring. Somehow she felt that her uncharacteristic release of emotion had led to a deeper and more satisfactory experience than any amount of Dodie's urine could ever provide.
Une soon left, but before Algebra could feel sure that life could return to normal, another friend of her landladies, Twelve, found need to stay at the flat while she was between being evicted from her last bedsit for fucking too many people too loudly and finding a more tolerant landlord. Twelve was clearly much more like Dodie in character than Innocence, just as Une had been to Innocence, and it came as no surprise that it was with Dodie that most of her lovemaking took place. Twelve was a skinny freckly girl who wore nothing but a long white gown which somehow never succeeded in hiding either her breasts nor her cunt, and she had a single long strand of hair which fell coquettishly from her forehead down over her face and onto her shoulder. She had a thick bush of red pubic hair fashioned into the shape of a heart and was otherwise waxed extremely hairless. It wasn't long until Algebra found herself as just a toy in the two girls' sexual games, while Innocence remained, it seemed, quite unaware that her lodger was treated with anything other than the respect normally accorded to a gifted student of mathematics.