Ch. 01 - David learns the truth about his parents.
Eighteen-year-old David Cater was in the second-floor bedroom of his family's three-bedroom bungalow home pacing like a bull in a too small stall and worrying over how he was going to explain this. He was a wholly forgettable young man, five foot nine, one hundred fifty-two pounds, brown hair, brown eyes, bookish looking with a roundish face and completely normal appearance, if a little on the skinny side. His marks in his recently graduated high school career were nothing out of the ordinary and that was part of the reason for his current dilemma.
He had not qualified for any scholarships for university and he knew that his parents didn't have the money to send him to any fancy school. He had been sweating the prospect of having to skip higher education all together, but he knew that would break his parents' hearts. They wanted him to go to university and were willing to do whatever it took to make that happen. But it was the beginning of September, school started Tuesday and he had no options. None of the colleges that he had applied for had responded and he was looking at just walking in to the local community college on Tuesday and applying for whatever he could find.
Now he had another problem on his hands. He had received a letter, in a pure white parchment envelope, a rather thick letter. It was waiting on his bed when he got home from his summer job that day, but there was no post mark on it. He knew that his mother had not seen it, or she would have told him. But how it had gotten into his room without her knowing baffled him. Then there was the matter of the name on the envelope,
Soleil School of Sexual Magic
. He had never heard of such a place, but when he opened the letter, he was shocked by the contents.
'Dear Mr. Carter:
We are pleased to advise you that you have been accepted to the Soleil School of Sexual Magic for the upcoming semester.
Attached to this letter is your ticket from the Gainesville station that will take you to the school campus on September fifth of this year. Please be at the station no later than eleven a.m. as departure will be at eleven thirty sharp. The trip to the school will take several hours.
You will not require any clothing or personal items; other than any personal reading material you wish to bring for entertainment during the trip to campus as everything is supplied by the school.
Please note that all electronic devices are banned on school property and will not function in any way at all.
Looking forward to seeing you.
Ellen Cortez
Head of Admissions.
Soleil School of Sexual Magic.'
David read the letter several times, completely confused. This had to be a gag of some form, but how did the letter get here without postage? He didn't have any friends close enough to pull a stunt like this. Even the name of the school made him uneasy. David would never admit it, mostly because no one would ask, but he was still a virgin.
His only exposure to sex was what he read online. His parents had let him have a computer in his room and he had upgraded to a tablet recently. He surfed the net and of course as with any teenage boy with unlimited internet was an internet porn aficionado. For some strange reason, he always felt better after watching porn; it seemed to relax him and gave him energy and focus.
"David, come for dinner," his mother hollered from downstairs and David tried to put the letter out of his head and went down to the kitchen.
His father had returned from work and both of them seemed quite excited to see him.
"How was your day dear," David's mother Alice asked with a bright smile. She was obviously holding her excitement about something in. She was a petite woman, only five foot two, one hundred and four pounds with a pixie face and bright blue eyes. She wore an off-white blouse and a tweed skirt that came down to just below her knees, and low comfortable heels. David's father, John, was taller than David by one inch and had ten pounds on him, but other than that, they could have almost passed as twins. John still wore his dress shirt and slacks but had given up on the tie as soon as he got home. Both his parents were both in their forties and were very healthy and barely showed their ages.
"Nothing special," David grunted, settling himself at the table.
"Oh really," John commented dryly. "That seems strange. Oh well, what about you honey?" He questioned Alice.
"Oh, I had a wonderful visitor," she said brightly. "Miss Rose dropped by. It has been forever since she came for a visit."
"Oh good, how is she?" John said brightly.
"She is fine, still as bright and flighty as ever." Alice said serving the lasagna.
"Who is Miss Rose?" David asked.
"No one you have met dear," Alice said dismissively, patting his hand.
"What brought her to this neighborhood?" John asked picking up his wine.
"She had some deliveries to make in the area." Alice said vaguely. "For instance, she told me she had a letter for Karen down the street."
"Hey that is great news; we have to go congratulate her after dinner." John said smiling widely. "I am sure that she will be thrilled with the opportunity."
"Yes, I am sure that she will be." Alice said her excitement starting to get the better of her. "In fact, she also dropped a letter off here for David." David choked on his dinner at that comment.
"You know about that letter?" David demanded after he caught his breath.
"Well of course we do dear," Alice said beaming. "We hoped you would get accepted, it really is the best school for Sexual Mages. We submitted your name the day you were born."
"Wait a minute," David demanded. "You know about the school?"
"Certainly, we know about Soleil, where did you think we met?" Alice said grasping John's hand and smiling at him. "I am so excited that you are going. It is going to help you so much."
"Alice, slow down, slow down," John said squeezing her hand. "I think we need to explain in a little more detail." Turning to David he said, "What do you know about the school?"
"Nothing, I never even heard of it before I saw that letter. What do you mean that is where you met? Are you two some kind of..."
"David," John started slowly, "your mother and I are just like you, we are Sexual Mages."
"What the hell is a sexual mage?"
Alice opened her mouth to answer and John quieted her with a look.
"A sexual mage is a magical being that gets its power from sexual energy, either their own or those around them. We are just like normal humans, but a little extra. We have the ability to change our physical appearance at will, to look younger, for example, or in some cases, we have the ability to change into another of the magical races. We communicate with the other magical races that still exist in the world. We even have limited wish granting ability. Think of it like a genie but without being bound to an object and forced to grant wishes. We have the free will to say no."
"And we are recharged by sex," Alice jumped in, no longer able to hold herself back. "When you get to school, you will be taught how to tap into the enormous sexual energy available to people like us."