He had liked the house when he first saw it. Very old fashioned, it would need a lot of up grades, but he felt it had something. He didn’t know what, but there was something that attracted him. Far too big, for his current needs, but the price was unbelievably low. It had been sitting on the market for over a year with corresponding drops in price as the months went by. His recent divorce had left him low on cash, but the real-estate agent had assured him that the owners would allow the deal to go through with minimum down payment. He had asked the agent why such a sweet heart deal and after much hemming and hahing the agent finally admitted to the history of the house.
Built in the late nineteen hundred’s as a bordello, it had served as such for over a hundred years while the neighborhood grew up around it. Finally, a developer had bought the land in the immediate vicinity and put row upon row of tract homes around it. Soon the people, taking up their new residencies, would not tolerate the business that was conducted inside it doors. The constant late night traffic went on to the wee hours of the morning. The women of the community, if the truth be known, feared that their men would fall prey to this community abomination. A petition circulated and finally due to the continuing pressure the house had closed its doors a little over a year and a half ago. Since then there had been no offers on the place. It seemed strange to John that no one had bought the place; he personally thought it would be a great conversation piece.
John was intrigued and allowed the agent to show him through the old house. Far too many bedrooms of course but he realized he could easy amalgamate many of them to serve different functions. There was a strange smell about the place, not unpleasant, just unidentifiable. When he saw the third floor, he saw, in his minds eye, the perfect master bedroom with an adjoining bath. It would be easy to pull down the existing walls that formed the multi-bedroom complex. Its half walls and gabled windows appealed to his sense of charm. John was an architect by profession and although temporarily cash poor, he had a substantial income that would allow the changes to take place over the years as he envisioned. The agent told him that he had just received orders to have the house torn down if it didn’t sell in the next week, so if he low balled the price he would probably still get it. Continuing to look around, a feeling pervaded him that the house itself felt it had a right to continue to exist having served well for over a hundred years. He felt compelled to buy it and made an offer low balling as the agent had suggested. By the end of the evening, he owned the huge old house. It was almost as though the house wanted him to have it.
John laughed rather bitterly at himself as he signed the papers of ownership. A few months ago, he was a married man with dreams of a future tract home with children playing in the back yard. A wife laying by the pool, scantly clad in her tiny thong bikini, waiting for him to come home so they could try to make more babies. Here he was at thirty his dreams shot by an ex-wife who didn’t love him, feeling a bit bitter about women in general. Now, he was a single owner of a whorehouse. A chill went up his spine as he thought whorehouse, almost as though the house took exception to his description. John didn’t know it then but he had bought far more than just a house. He had bought a new way of life. John returned to the small rooms he had temporarily rented.
The house stood quiet and still. Empty of all movement, it waited for its new owners return. It didn’t know when it had become self aware or that it was unique. It didn’t know that the many acts of procreation by as many as twenty girls working in the house night after night, had finally given it some semblance of pseudo life. All that it knew was that if it concentrated hard enough it was able to influence the acts of the human beings within its walls and beyond. It understood its function. It was to provide the best environment possible for the act of procreation. As the humans that had frequented the house had once said, it was to provide the best environment possible for a good fuck. It also understood it had enemies, the women of the community around it who had brought about the closure of its doors. It had spent the last year looking for the right owner, one who could restore it to its former glory. Influencing all who entered not to buy until the handsome architect, with his newly acquired jaundiced attitude about woman had entered its rooms. The house was satisfied. Its plans could now go forward.
John took a few days off from work and the following morning found him looking for a new bed. He had no furnishings for his new home, because he had given everything to his ex. The furniture had been in her taste anyways and he wanted a fresh start. At first, he thought he wanted just a simple bed, but as he looked, he felt unsatisfied with what he saw until in one shop he saw a magnificent king sized four-poster bed. It was way beyond his needs, but he felt compelled to buy it, providing himself with the excuse it was the perfect bed for the old house. He arranged for its delivery, and then went to the local home improvement store, pocketing a number of paint color swatches before buying the mops, brooms, buckets and cleaning products he would need immediately.