I never used to be this promiscuous.
I swear I was a good girl in high school. I never stayed out late with boys or went to any wild parties. I wanted my first time to be special; with someone I loved. And for a time, it did go that way. I lost my virginity to a long term boyfriend in my senior year, far later than many of the other girls in my grade.
And as we enjoyed the thrills that only young love could bring, a thought was planted deep in my subconscious. Something that I could only describe as regret that I had put this off. I mean, I was glad that I had waited for the right guy. Perhaps I just wished that he had appeared sooner.
But a few years later things went awry and we broke up. And for the first time in my life I found myself single with the knowledge of how great sex could be.
But I didn't sleep around.
That wasn't who I was. If I had to wait for another guy to come along, that's what I planned to do. And I did stick to that plan, for a while.
It wasn't entirely my fault that things changed. Well, they sort of were, but not entirely. It all started when my co-worker, Anna, introduced me to a mobile game.
'It's just a fun little timewaster,' she had said, showing it to me on her phone, 'but it's so addicting!'
'What do you do?'
'It's easy, see, you make a character and buy items to increase their attractiveness rating. Then you send them out and they try to hook up with other people's characters. It's just fun to turn it on in the morning to see how many points my character scored overnight.'
I had always been a sucker for fun little games like this. Especially when I had friends playing it too to swap stories.
'Okay, what's it called?'
'Sexville.'
I snorted as I unlocked my phone.
'Really?'
'I know, it's silly. Oh, and can you put my username in as the person who recommended it to you? I get some bonus points for that.'
'Sure, sure. Hey, why is it asking to connect to my chip implant?'
It was odd for a phone app to want to connect to that. My doctor was the only one who ever connected when reading my vitals for a check-up. As far as I knew, the only thing on there was that and my personal info.
'Is this thing trying to steal my identity or something?'
'No! Not at all! I've been playing it for a while and it's safe. It just needs... There's a reason why it wants to connect. Just say yes and you'll find out later.'
'I'm not pressing yes unless you tell me.'
'Oh, fine. I guess you could call it... a full immersion kind of game. Pretty much, it tracks your vitals... and when you have sex your character gets points too.'
My mouth had dropped at her words.
'Anna!'
She giggled back at me, blushing slightly.
'What? I think it's fun. If I get lucky one night, I have a little more to look forward to the next morning than an awkward conversation and some burnt bacon. It sort of feels like a loophole in the game. Even if my character fails that night, I know I won't.'
I shook my head.
'I think that's a little too much for me.'
'Oh, come on, Emily! You don't have to do any of that stuff. It's still fun to play just by itself.'
'I don't know, can I just get it without the chip connectivity?'
'It'll be fine. Just think, you'll eventually meet the right guy, and when you two get lucky, you'll get extra lucky. It's an investment in your future!'
She waved her phone in front of me, the bright logo of the game on her screen. It looked far too cutesy for its content.
'Okay... I suppose I could give it a try.'
'Yay! Don't forget to say I recommended you.'
And so that was how it all started. I got sucked into the game almost immediately. Customizing my character to my liking, learning which areas were 'popular' on each night of the week to send them to. Yet, still, my character failed most times, and even when they succeeded, they only scored once during the night. Anna had told me stories of her character scoring multiple times in one night.
I had asked her for advice, and she told me that she saw a turnaround after buying a few items for her character that boosted their attractiveness. However, I was nowhere near having enough points to buy anything.
'Just come out with me for a night and we'll see if you meet someone. You get to have some fun and you'll get a head start in the game. Win-win.
I hesitated on her offer. If the game was going to be this much effort, maybe it wasn't worth it. But I had only scratched the surface of the game. It looked like fun and I wanted to experience what it was like after my character started succeeding out at night. Maybe she was right. It couldn't hurt to get out.
So that night we went to a nearby bar. I was almost in shock to see Anna. She wore a tight revealing dress that left little to the imagination. I couldn't help but feel self-conscious next to her. I had just thrown on a t-shirt and a skirt causing myself to look incredibly plain comparatively.
We started off with a few drinks between the two of us, but as the night wore on it turned into many drinks, bought by the scores of men who approached Anna. I wasn't sure if they were buying me a drink just so as not to appear rude or as an actual offer.
As my head grew heavy from the drinks, Anna slid over beside me. Her breath was doused in alcohol and her words slurred ever so slightly.
'I'm gonna go home with this guy, okay? And he has a friend who would
really
like to go home with you, okay?
My heart beat faster in my chest as I looked back at her. This was it.
'Uh... yeah, okay, I guess.'
'Good!'
She hugged me before fumbling to grab my hand and pulled me along behind her. The next half an hour seemed a blur, but soon I found myself in a room alone with the guy's friend. If I was to be completely honest, he wasn't that bad looking. Although, I was too horny and too drunk to really care.
We both stripped down while he fumbled with a condom, and soon I was on my back with my legs wrapped around him. His cock deep inside me, rubbing against every sensitive nerve that had gone so long without this as he moved in and out of me. Thrusting deeper and deeper in a sweat infused haze. His breath growing heavier until he stopped, his cock pulsing; the condom filling up with his cum.
As he pulled out of me, I lay there, satisfied beyond what I could have hoped. It had been too long since I had done that. And once more, I was filled with that strange thought of all that time spent not having sex.
Though, I didn't become a slut overnight. Over the next month I slept with maybe two other guys. Each time enjoying the experience more than the last. I could see why Anna did this so often, and the fear that I had built up in my mind of going out to pick up seemed to erode.
And so I found myself going out to pick up a fourth guy.
We collapsed back onto the bed. My hair stuck to my back with sweat. His cock still inside me. He slowly withdrew from me, a trail of my juices still clinging to him. I rolled over onto my back as he pulled the condom off. It was filled with so much creamy, white cum. He tied the end off and threw it into the bin before laying down beside me.
'That was incredible.'
I moaned in approval as I reached over to the bedside table and grabbed my phone. He let out a long sigh.
'Leave the phone, love. It can wait.'
'Don't you want to see how many points you got?'
He let out a sigh.
'Eh, I suppose.'
The bed shook as he heaved himself over to the other bedside table to retrieve his phone.
'I didn't do too bad, love. Almost at a new upgrade.'
I, on the other hand, had reached an upgrade.
'Yes!'
I jumped up from the bed and found my panties scattered on the floor.
'You're up in a rush.'
'You don't mind if I head home, do you?'
'Uh... no, no that's fine, if you want.'
'Cool.'
I slipped my panties back on and grabbed my dress. He settled back onto the bed, browsing his phone.
'Heh, usually I'm the one to duck off early.'
Once fully dressed I headed out, my eyes glued to my phone as I followed the stairs down out of the apartment building. The cool night air stung my cheeks as the neon nights of the night life glowed above.
I browsed through my character's stat sheet. What did I want to upgrade? She could always use more attractiveness, maybe some seduction. No, I know. She had lost a few guys around the
chat up
phase, she needed more charm. I felt almost giddy to send her back out on the prowl with a new upgrade. I could only imagine what rewards lay in store the following morning.
A billboard loomed overhead as I turned onto my street. Written across it in big, bold letters it read:
Do your part for your country
. Below it there was a picture of a smiling family with three kids. I wasn't sure how well that ad worked. It had been a nationwide campaign for a few years and there hadn't appeared to be any noticeable difference in the birth-rate.
I lived in a strange time. I had heard a friend refer to our current international climate as a 'population arms race'. When I was very young, too young to truly understand what was going on, a war erupted. The title of world war three had finally been claimed, and it was as devastating as anyone could have predicted.
I could remember learning in school that the population of the world was halved in just a few years from the fighting. Peace was reached more out of necessity than resolution. Some countries were on the verge of collapsing from such a limited work force, Britain included.
The fear now is that a country will reach enough of an expendable population before the others and war will break out again. Every country wants to be the first, whether through corny billboards or vitals chips to reduce deaths from disease.
~
The cool air had remained the next day as I headed into work. I bundled my coat around me as I stood waiting for the bus. I had just pulled my phone out as it arrived. Finding a seat, I set back into checking sexville.
A grin spread across my face as my character returned. Two successful conquests in just the small hours since I crawled into my own bed. I would have to think about going out again and finding another guy. I could only imagine how much better my character could become.
I looked around me, seeing others with their faces buried in their phones. I could see the familiar sight of sexville on the phone of the woman in front of me. I wondered how many people had this app? How many people did I pass through my day that led lives like me at night, powerleveling their character with nocturnal activities? Had my character visited any of the men on this bus?
The thought sat with me through the day as I worked at my desk. Right up until lunch time when I found Anna in the cafeteria.