Tommy didn't really think he was doing anything all that bad. A little fucked up, maybe, sure-the kind of thing that you confessed during a drunken game of 'Never Have I Ever' ten years down the road when time and distance made it seem foolish and thoughtless instead of weird and creepy. Not that it was all that creepy, because if it was really creepy, he wouldn't be doing it. It was just... kind of uncool, that was all. Dear Prudence probably wouldn't approve. But Shauna almost certainly would, and her opinion was the only one that mattered. It was her apartment. And her Boy(tm).
Even so, his hands trembled nervously as he pulled out the key, and he had to wipe his palms on his jeans before he could get the doorknob to turn. He almost yelped when he opened the door and saw his reflection in the closet door at the end of the short hallway leading into Shauna's living room-he knew that Shauna was at work, pulling another double shift to save up for a second Boy, but Tommy couldn't escape the fear of being seen. More than that, of being known. The skinny, pasty, stranger with the unkempt blond hair and nervous blue eyes looked just different enough from what Tommy usually saw in the mirror to freak him right the hell out for a few seconds until he realized he was looking at himself.
Once he figured out what he was looking at, Tommy closed the door carefully behind him and headed directly for the mirrored door. He wasn't sure exactly where Shauna kept her Boy, but the hall closet seemed like a pretty good guess. She probably didn't leave it out in the living room... did she? She certainly talked about it like it was the first thing she looked for when she got home and the last thing she glanced at before she walked out the door every morning. Tommy usually liked Shauna's frank and open attitude toward sex, but the Boy thing... it was getting to be a bit much.
Or maybe he was just a little jealous. He had to admit, before Shauna got her Boy he was beginning to think that maybe he might have a shot with her. They'd become close friends, close enough to trade apartment keys-that had to be a hint that she was into him, right? Women didn't give a guy a way to get into their place unannounced if they weren't at least okay with him bumping into them while they were coming out of the shower or something. Or maybe it just meant that she trusted him not to make it about sex. Tommy had just been waiting for a clearer signal when she came into his store one day and said, "Oh my god, you have
got
to get yourself one of these..."
Ever since then, Shauna had become almost monomaniacal in her enthusiasm for her new sex toy. It was all, 'Fuck, my Boy(tm) fills me up so good', 'I was up all night with his cock inside me', 'You don't need to make it a gay thing', 'They have these amazingly talented mouths', 'You would cum so hard', 'It's a Revolution product, and you know how good they are', 'They're totally discreet, nobody has to know', 'I promise, you won't regret it', 'I've never had so many orgasms in my fucking life'... there was practically no topic Shauna couldn't turn into a discussion of her amazing Boy and all the ways he made her scream with pleasure. Tommy couldn't help feeling like there was no way a human could compete with that.
But that wasn't why he was here. Tommy opened the hall closet, his breath momentarily hitching in anticipation, but all it contained was a new vacuum cleaner and a single winter coat. Tommy closed the door and went through the hallway into the living room, hoping to find Shauna's hot pink sexbot waiting for him, but all he found was a new sofa and a new television set sitting on top of a new entertainment center. A vague sense of consternation passed through him-no wonder Shauna had to work double shifts every day if she was spending money like this.
Reluctantly, Tommy turned and headed toward the bedroom. He'd been hoping to avoid going into Shauna's actual room; somehow, the weirdness of it seemed a little less weird if he could pretend that he was just stopping by on his way home from work and just happened to notice her Boy plugged into the wall or something. Searching her apartment made it feel a little bit more... intentional than he was comfortable with. It forced Tommy to actually think about what he was doing. He didn't like that.
When he thought about it, Tommy had to admit he was here entirely on purpose. Because he knew that Shauna was almost never home these days. Which meant that nobody was in her tiny apartment except for her Boy. Which meant that if Tommy were to go into her bedroom, instead of just pausing on the threshold with his sweaty hand poised just over the doorknob in sudden indecision, he would be all alone with a Boy and nobody would ever know about it except him and the perfectly discreet sex toy with the buzzing mouth and big, satisfying cock. Tommy's breath caught in his throat as he imagined all the implications of that thought.
He wiped his hands on his jeans again, then reached down to the doorknob before picturing it covered in his greasy fingerprints and thinking better of it. pulled down his jacket sleeve over his palm instead, then opened the door carefully to Shauna's bedroom. It had a bed, also new, another television set... and slumped on a stool in the corner, a hot pink robot with sculpted muscles and a massive, jutting cock. Shauna's Boy. Tommy closed and locked the door behind him, his erection throbbing in his pants like a second heartbeat.
It wasn't creepy, he told himself as he crept across the room, his feet seeming to move of their own volition to bring him closer and closer to the motionless male form in the corner. Shauna would almost certainly be happy to let him try out her Boy if she knew, and she would be the first to tell him that it didn't... mean anything about him. It didn't commit him to identifying as bisexual, it didn't even commit him to liking guys. It was a robot, that was all. Anatomically masculine, sure, but there was nothing weird or strange or perverted about wanting to, to explore a little. Privately. Without anyone knowing. Not even his best friend. Not even a customer profile at Revolution. It didn't mean that he had to admit anything. It was perfectly normal. It was perfectly reasonable. It didn't mean anything at all.