Desires in the Dark - Part 7
Heather and Cam were lying close together in the dying light of day, naked, sweating, and talking softly. Heather had been telling Cam about what she had learned, about her father being a monster under the bed, her mother's relationship with her father, and the reason she'd never been allowed in darkness. He'd asked some questions as she'd talked, but mostly had just listened to her, taking everything in, nodding as things made sense to him and shaking his head at the tragedies of the story.
As she wrapped up, he looked at her and said, "Shit, Heather, that's a lot of craziness to swallow. I wouldn't believe a bit of it, except it all makes sense with what I've seen. Well, not seen, you know what I mean."
"I know," she sighed, "And I keep thinking about my poor father, who I've never even gotten to meet, and poor Mama, who was making all these scary decisions all alone with nobody that she could talk to, not even my father really."
"Do you want to meet him?"
"I'm scared to, and I need to." She rolled to wrap an arm around her man to anchor her. "I'm scared to, because I don't know what happens when a bed monster meets another bed monster, and I don't know what that will mean for me as a half-monster."
"Like maybe he'll try to fight you or something?" Cam's voice was serious, not joking.
"Exactly! Maybe as soon as we get in the same room, it'll be like, my territory bitch, and we'll start biting each other! Or maybe bed monsters don't have any incest taboo, and he'll try to hit on me and that would just be horrible." She frowned, "Mama wouldn't know, since she's not a monster, and anyway she can only sort of talk to him. She's never seen what happens when two monsters are together. I'd like to think that me and my father could just be friends, but I don't know if I'll be able to communicate any better. And I'm only half a bed monster, so my monster self is only partly like him anyway. But yeah, if you'd never met your father, and you had the opportunity to do so, you'd want to, right?"
"Yeah, it makes sense. I mean, you've got to know."
"I do. And I'm so mad at Mama, even if I also kind of understand and definitely feel sorry for her. But finding this all out by surprise is definitely not OK. I'm still surprised that you're not running from me." She hadn't meant to be so serious, but there it was.
He was silent for a while, just holding onto her as she held onto him. Then finally, he simply said, "I guess I'm not."
"Are there things," she asked, "that I should do to make this easier for you?"
"Explaining things helps a lot." He thought a bit. "And I do want to have sex with the lights on sometimes too."
"That's fair enough," she nodded. "I liked the sex that we just had a lot. I don't want to lose the other ways that we have sex, just because I want to get my monster on."
"I get it, though." He waved a hand vaguely. "I mean, I understand why you're so into the monster thing right now, because it's new and different and feels real good."
She looked at him skeptically.
He caught her look and went on. "No, really. It's like, when I was hitting puberty, and when I was playing with myself and I ejaculated for the first time ever, well there's a little muscle down there underneath a guy's balls that I think is sort of like a little pump for sperm. I felt that muscle start flexing as I was coming, these little pulses that were a good feeling that I had never had before, and it was like this magical new thing that I wanted to feel again. So I got off a lot, I mean really a lot, like getting off five times a day, and I was all about that little muscle, that totally surprising part of my body that felt so good and that I hadn't even known was there before. I swear I gave myself a cramp down there."
Heather giggled a little, then felt bad about it, and apologized. Cam waved it off, "I'm just saying I've never been a monster under the bed, but I can sympathize with getting really focused on new sex things for a while."
She looked at him seriously, though, and tentatively said, "I don't know if it will be a phase or not. I might find that I really do like monster sex better than normal human sex."
"Yeah, I guess so. But I guess it's not like I've really got all my own sexuality shit sorted either." His voice had gotten kind of low and reluctant sounding by the end.
She looking at him quizzically, and he closed his eyes, his body tensing up beneath her arm. "I'm not quite straight."
That was a real surprise to Heather, who thoughtlessly blurted out, "You can't be gay! We fuck too much!"
That drew an honest laugh and his eyes popped back open. "Yeah, I'm not faking interest when I'm fucking you. No, I'm definitely into ladies. But I'm also into guys as well. Well, sort of."
"Sort of?"
"Well," he said, that nervous look again, "It's mostly I like sucking cock."
"Huh." She didn't really know just what to make of that. She didn't know how she felt about it. And she felt stupid for that, since she was asking him to be OK with monster sex. But she could still be a normal woman too, but she could never be a man. Even her monster self was clearly female.
How could she feel so insecure about this? But a thought struck her, and she thought that maybe, just maybe, she could get around this thing. She had to ask. Her voice was shaking. "Would... maybe... could one of my tentacles be like a cock for you?"
He laughed, clearly surprised, and Heather felt absolutely crushed. "Oh, Heather, it's OK, you don't have to have a cock for me."
"Well, don't I?" She felt foolish saying it, she knew better than this, but she kept going anyway, withdrawing and crossing her arms defensively. "I mean, you want to be able to suck cock, and I don't have one."
Cam sighed, a deep sad sound, and slowly rolled to face her. "Heather," he began, then seemed to think better of it.
"I could get a strap-on, and you could suck on that." She was feeling almost frantic, even as she knew that what she was saying was just making things worse.
"Heather, please." The pain in his voice caught at her, and it felt like a bubble of emotion popped. She burst out crying and rolled back to him, putting her arms around him, hugging him close and wetting his smooth chest with her tears. She didn't know what to do or feel.
He held her close, strong arms tentative, like a person holding something delicate and explosive. As she ran down, she felt ashamed for what she'd said to him, how hurtful and terrible her words had been. She lifted her face to look at him. As daylight faded from the room, she could no longer see his face well, but she felt his body tensing from the pain of his emotions.
Another crying jag hit, and when she came up again, she almost broke down a third time, but she caught herself and spoke. "Oh, Cam, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said those things to you. That was really thoughtless and hurtful of me."
"Yes," he simply said, "it was."
"I don't know why I felt so panicked. And that's no excuse. I mean, I should really know better." Her guilt was wrenching at her. She tried to think of how to make things right.
He waited, listening, mercilessly leaving the ball in her court. She almost wished that he would yell at her, so she could be angry back at him. But that wouldn't solve anything either.
She pulled herself together and drew back a little from him to be able look straight into his shadowed eyes, hurting deep inside. "Cam, I'm sorry for what I said. It was selfish and hurtful, and I want to make it up to you."
She could see his wry, half-hurt grin even in the falling dark. "Yeah, not exactly the best first coming-out experience."
That shocked her. "What, haven't you told anyone before?"