Terri Marx walked on auto-pilot as she shuffled down her apartment building's carpeted corridors. Despite the significant rent she paid each month for a loft that had its own port for her car, it never seemed to be working. In fact it had never worked for more than two days in a row the whole two years she had lived there. Threatening to take her apartment lord to court granted her what would be an expensive loft out of her price range to just barely below it; this fact still did not make her distant parking space and long walk seem as anything other than the fault of a cheap lord.
One hundred floors on an elevator and a quick turn to the right later, Terri arrived home. Pressing her thumb to a sensor pad in the middle of the door to apartment 10079A, she soon heard the metallic clanks of the releasing dead bolts and the deactivation of a sensor net. Very much the opposite of the illuminator in a Cool-Air machine, she never saw the net on as she opened the door and, if going by appearances alone, could assume it never activated just as she could assume the the illuminator never turned off.
Kicking her heeled shoes off her feet to a nearby disguised air intake vent, she quickly walked the ten yards past her middle class modernly decorated and furnished apartment to her bedroom and immediately stripped herself of her clothes. Her rank within her temp agency's middle management pressured her to dress for the part; one requirement being an old fashioned mini skirt and even more out dated panty hose which she had to special order from a company that had been making them since 2014 and had somehow managed to stay in business. Relieving herself of her bottom restraints, she was left with simply the power suit of the modern woman. First removing her cell, PDA, pager, auxiliary stylus, and self defense stunner from their appropriate charging locations within her jacket, she slid out of it and the white undershirt with built in bra.
Terri took her skirt and shirt, placed them within the hamper machine, closed the lid, and bent over to press the largest button on its display. It ran so quietly as it washed and dried her clothes that she made note cards to remind her she even used it. Yawning greatly and with her arms reaching into the air, Terri noticed herself in the mirror and immediately changed her demeanor from tired to frisky as she stared at her body.
No humans were legally genetically engineered but sometimes Terri wondered if her parents had broken that law. Of course only the very poorest women would get pregnant without first going thru the DNA screening to pick out the best sperm for the best egg. At nearly two and a quarter meters she was a bit taller than most women she knew. Her breasts were proportional to her body as they were over 80 centimeters; she vaguely recalled someone telling her that, 200 years ago, they would be size '38 double D.' or some such nonsense. "What an archaic system," she thought to herself as she placed her left hand upon her hip, turned to her left side, jutted her hips forward, and squeezed her shoulder blades together to stick her chest out.
"82 centimeters sounds way more impressive," she said to herself with wicked pouty lips.
Aside from her height, she was by no means a big woman. Though she did not purposely make it so, her thighs never rubbed against one another nor did her skin ever sag or jiggle. While her waist and legs were thin, her hair was anything but. It was a bit curly and nearly jet black calling to her mixed black and Asian backgrounds but her western European stock diluted her skin color to little more than a Greek's. She did however retain the large lips and fatty eye lids of the two races respectively.
Her ears perked up as clanks and shudders from the door told Terri of an arrival. Without any inhibition, she walked out of her bedroom and gazed lovingly at the man at the door poring over colorful envelopes. He was not as tall as Terri but he had more muscle. That is not to say she was tall and skinny and he short and bulging but rather something in between the extremes for each of them. Though he was extreme in one regard; he was the only person Terri knew who was full blooded anything.
"Happy birthday, Terri..." he trailed off mockingly as he continued looking over the envelopes.
"Huh?"
"These envelopes..." he looked at her as he raised them with one hand and replaced his thick framed glasses on his face with the other "...are all addressed to you. I assume they're wishing you a happy birthday. That's all anyone ever sends mail for anymore." He deliberately did not stare deeply of her nudity for he believed her simply to be playing a game with him which he did not intend to let her win. Or was losing it the way for him to win? With her he was not sure anymore but he still thought it best to let his mind smile instead of his prick.
"There must be a mistake," she said as she shrugged her bare shoulders. "My birthday was two months ago. Remember? We went to Cancun for the day."
"Oh I remember all right..." he said and remembered with his cock. "I was just wondering if we had checked the snail mail since that time."
"Whoops!" Terry shouted then laughed uproariously as her breasts, and only her breasts, jiggled. To that he could finally smile and drop the mail onto a table in the Foodprep area. He impatiently walked to the naked Terri. She arched her back slightly forward and lowered her neck as she received a hungry kiss. Their arms wrapped around each other and held tightly until they had difficulty breathing. A few moments later they stopped and the man, walking past her to go into the bedroom, gave Terri with the back of his hand a gentle spank on her butt before he undid the paisley plumage knotted at his collar. That accomplished, he removed his power suit and pants.
"So wah er we gunna do too-nide Bart?" she asked as she yawned.
"What?"
"What are we gonna do tonight?" she repeated this time coherently.
"Don't tell me you don't remember what today is?" His voice sounded stifled and Terri, still standing near the main room gazing at the front door, assumed he entered his private bathroom.
"No, I guess I don't!" she shouted to compensate for the wall barrier.
"It's leap month tomorrow! We can go down to Montpelier tonight to shop at North American Underground and sleep in all day tomorrow!" He too was clearly shouting yet she could barely hear him. Perhaps to mock his Quebecois heritage, he pronounced the city as "mon-pel-ee-eh" as if he knew a lick of the language his people gave up by his grandparents' generation.
Terri furrowed her brow and counted the days in her head. Yes. He was right. Nearly one-hundred years earlier when an asteroid on course to hit the Earth was diverted by a salvo of the world's Inter-Cosmos Ballistic Missiles, it hugged the planet. After a year passed, some egg heads realized the Earth's revolution now took longer. Conveniently it was roughly four days longer. Since then, April, June, September, and November had thirty-one days instead of thirty. The Social Democrats had, for a large part at least, won the last elections by promising to make those days bank holidays. Whether this would keep them in Columbia come the next North American Union elections would be uncertain.