*contains: mild incest, anal stimulation, non-consensual elements*
"Is that how you've been measuring flour?" Laura said.
Memirellin held the measuring cup she'd just finished packing.
The teacher was busy helping someone else, so Laura popped the cup on the bottom to return its contents to the bag.
"That's why everything is coming out so dense, hun, you have to sprinkle it into the cup with a spoon, then use a knife to scrape off the mound. Keeps it aerated."
Memi bit her lip. If she'd known the teacher would be this disinterested in the class, she would have simply asked Laura to her own kitchen for a lesson. Maybe homemade pasta had been a high bar to clear for someone who still hadn't made a decent pot of the dried stuff.
It was worth it, though, to see Laura in an apron. The girl was the very image of human loveliness: curvaceous, bright-eyed, and bearing a lovely, natural tan. Memirellin's newfound appreciation of mortal beauty made it feel like a matter of course that Laura's father had appreciated those same traits.
And compared to her, Memi couldn't help feeling too small, too pale. Her ineptitude in household chores was just another deficiency to toss atop the pile.
"It says to put in one cup of flour," Memi said. "Why would they write that down if they wanted you to put a lot of air into it? So you tamp it down until it's actually a cup of flour. Or did the writer not care about being accurate?"
Laura laughed behind her hand. "It's not inaccurate, hun. This is one of those times where any decent baker will know what he's referring to. Trust me, the flour needs to be loose like that or our dough will be way too dense."
"Of course I trust you, it's the rest of these humans I don't trust." Memi took up the cup again and measured her flour loosely in the way Laura had described. "If I were writing a recipe, I wouldn't leave out important details like how much flour to actually use."
"By the way, how did those cookies come out?" Laura asked.
"Harry liked the last batch... it turns out there is a difference between the oven and the convection oven. And they came out really floppy at first, but they got stiff as they cooled. Thanks for your help, you're the only person I knew to ask."
"You were cooking them until they were hard? And why not ask Harry? He might be a guy, but he seems decent enough, must be able to cook."
Laura began mixing ingredients, getting her hands dirty with the sticky dough.
Only able to watch and learn, Memi took a good look at the other students, mostly couples. The novelty of an albino in class had worn off in the weeks since she and Laura had signed up and Memi was more than fine without a dozen human eyes to witness her inability. She had to remind herself that, like Harry and Laura, there were likely some decent humans out there.
The teacher made her way around to their table in time to nod at Laura's skill and leave again without doing a bit of actual teaching.
Memi said, "What kind of familiar leans on their master like that? I would call up one of my mother's chefs, but they would only know recipes for semen."
This was enough to turn the teacher's head, still in earshot.
"You do eat normal food, though..." Laura said.
The dough had formed and Memi took it to knead, at least understanding that much.
"I eat human food, yes. Semen isn't as necessary as humans believe. I don't know how your people got the idea that mine rely on 'sexual energy', whatever that is. Of course you would feel drained after being drained, it's exertion."
Again, Laura laughed, wiping goopy fingers against her apron. "I suppose I shouldn't be worried about Harry's health?"
Memi growled at the thought. "Anyone who threatens my master... no, you need not worry." She hugged her friend, rubbed her cheek against those warm, pillowy breasts to calm herself. "I do thank you for your concern."
They ran their dough through the pasta roller. The rest of the class had already begun on their sauces.
"Laura, could I ask for some advice?" Memi took to cleaning and cutting tomatoes. "I'm not sure Harry still loves me..."
"What!? What makes you think that? Last time we talked, he had nothing but good things to say..."
"I mean... there was this thing a few weeks ago. We only have sex a couple of times a day."
Laura wrapped her arms around Memi's belly and rocked her. "Hun, you have no idea how much you're bragging, do you? What happened?"
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Harry was, once again, working at his desk on schoolwork while Memirellin entertained herself mere feet away on his bed. It had been easy enough to divert his attention with a coy look, but the boy had been more distant lately. With her pajama top unbuttoned to show off cleavage down to her navel and her delicate, pink panties, it felt odd that he could keep his eyes on the page. Was he already getting tired of her?
The bed was a comfort, smelling of them both even when its sheets were freshly washed. Memi's wiggling from one position to another puffed up scents that would never come out of the bedspread, sweat, soap, and perfumed shampoo. As she read from Harry's extensive collection, she was able to keep her mind off what he might be thinking. But looking over to him, hunched over his desk and ignoring her, pained her chest.
She thought she might start working on dinner, but frozen dinners only took so long to microwave and she didn't feel confident in trying anything new while Harry was there to witness her process. The only remaining option was scrambled eggs. She'd already had a shower and it would seem odd to take another just for the purpose of killing time. Then there was the television, which would require her to move away from Harry...
No matter how uncomfortable it felt to be in the presence of a disinterested lover, Memi would sooner kneel at his side and wait than lose sight of him.
He set his pencil down. "Memi, can I ask you something?"
"Yes!" She perked up her pointed ears and sat at attention on the bed. Her tail wagged behind her uncontrollably with excitement, whapping the wall. "I mean, master, I am mildly offended that you feel the need to ask."
Harry paused, he hadn't looked her way yet. "Sorry. Satilli was a man, right?"
"An incubus, yes." she said.
"So he had a dick?"
Memi had to think for a moment to suss out the meaning of the question. "Yes. Though, as I understand it, his is quite tiny."
"And Meliza had a dick too, right?"
"Quite often, yes." Memi said, suppressing a shudder at the memory of that three-foot, flared, blue cock.
Harry finally looked her way and Memi steeled her expression to avoid looking too pleased.
"Is Meliza a guy?" he said.
"Not at all, though she prefers to have sex from the male perspective."
"And I think I remember you telling me about what you did to Laura's dad... you have a dick too?" he said, hanging his head in thought.
Memi shifted uncomfortably on her knees. She had no clue why these things would bother him.
"I made one for myself with magic... Master, are you alright?"
He rubbed his temple and sighed. "I'm realizing how close I came to being forced to suck a cock. Good thing I avoided all of those word traps, right?"
There was a touch of sadness in his voice and Memirellin wanted so much to comfort him, but knew that sudden motion might scare him and restrained herself. Things should be easy now, they should be inseparable in their love nest, and they had been for the first few days. Harry had been preoccupied with other things more and more, accelerated after his days with Satilli. Now Memi could only count on two or three blissful diversions each day, teasing and goading each waking hour to obtain those.
For this conversation, she felt some tact was required, so Memi buttoned herself up to the collar. "Master, I am sorry to say that he was going very easy on you. My mother would tell him to try in order to punish you for imprudence, as is common to most demons. Had you fallen for it, each of us would consider it a cheap lesson in speaking correctly. The same is true of the contract's other provisions. Had you read and understood it in full, you could have fully escaped humiliation."