Disclaimer: This storyline is a fictitious account of a white married couple dealing with a reparations act being passed in a near future America. It will therefore delve into interracial cuckolding. If this is not your interest, please do not read this story and move on to a subject you prefer. For anyone still reading, I hope you will enjoy the following story.
I would also like to thank Literotica editor shy_girl_whore for giving it the once over and helping make this a better story.
The Metal Box
Steve put his key fob and ID in the bowl as he always had when returning home from work. It was then that he noticed, again, the metal box that was delivered several days ago sitting on the narrow table beside him. The government drone had required both of their retina scans to release it, and neither had moved it since. He wondered how impatient the drone had gotten waiting for both Karen and him to finally get home, but then remembered drones don't have patience to burn. It would have waited for days silently if it had to, maybe weeks. Just how long it would wait before alerting the authorities, putting them in violation had escaped his memory.
The box was not as patient as the delivery drone though, it had a timer ticking down on a display next to the RepAct logo. Steve defiantly left it there, not wanting to touch it. He wondered why Karen hadn't put it away though. It wasn't her way to leave things untidy as this, the bedroom was a better place, or perhaps the bathroom was most fitting. She simply said to Steve, looking deep in his even deeper blue eyes, "We both knew this day was coming." She immediately looked down at the floor almost before she finished speaking. He wasn't sure if it was because of some shame, or maybe something else.
Of course Steve knew eventually their number would come up, he was a numbers guy after all. By now more of their friends had gotten the box than hadn't. In some ways Steve was surprised at how long it actually had taken. They had attended the required counseling sessions to prepare for its arrival, what it meant, but his gut still filled with lead when it arrived. It gut-punched him again and again, every time he came home and saw it. Leaving it there for some reason would not make it such a big deal, a mindless "whatever" to them, but the effect was almost the opposite. Just sitting there by the door, not put away and out of place made it the big deal that it really was. And the timer just kept ticking away, counting down and chirping each day at 6:55pm and again at 7:00pm.
Karen called out from inside the house, perhaps the kitchen he thought, "Oh, Steve you're home." Her footsteps began to click louder, and she appeared from around the corner that did indeed lead to the kitchen, flowered apron over her vintage housewife dress. He loved her style, like housewives of old. She enjoyed dressing up a bit even when staying at home, sometimes wearing a pearl necklace like on the old shows he sometimes saw on the wall. Steve had told her more than a few times if she just wanted to wear sweats and a t-shirt, she could, that she didn't have to dress up. Heck, he even told her, go bare feet and braless. Karen had giggled but she wasn't that kind of women. And there was something in the way she tied her apron tight in the waist that really accentuated her curves. Steve had thought on more than one occasion it was sexier this way. It made him think of birthdays and Christmas.
The metal box chirped as she kissed him, welcoming him home. It made all her forward movement into him stop and she pulled away. Today was different than the past few days since it arrived. Instead of ignoring the chirp, she looked down at the floor and in a quiet voice said "Maybe it's time to start thinking about opening it. The clock is ticking..." Her voice almost fading away at the end. She was right, and he knew this was coming. The RepAct counseling had given them a chart to help couples through the process, they were a little behind in their steps according to the timer. Sticking to the steps on time they said works best and is economical.
"Each day we delay costs us more honey..." Again, her voice drifted off at the end. Steve just sighed, a slight defeat in his exhale. "It's just that it adds up and Janice said they ended paying 12% more." Playing the numbers on me are we Karen? So you weren't ignoring the box either his mind began thinking. Janice has seen our number come up and knows when our date is. They probably talked about it over coffee while I was at work today. His gut could not get much heavier. "It's just sort of silly to waste 12% like that is all, and Janice said Bill got used to it... to the point he regretted wasting the money over what, a few days? I mean, 12%!" Oh yes, Janice and his wife talked about it a lot it seems, and his mind wondered about what else she had told Karen about.
Steve looked at her all dolled up, her soft blonde hair up in a bun so she could cook. If one tuft would have come down and made her wrinkle her nose, Steve would have attacked her there. The Government would charge him if he did though, so he pushed the thought from his mind. Karen was cocking her head, anticipating a response. She had pulled the numbers card on him which almost always worked.
The box chirped again announcing 72 hours left. The wheels were spinning in his head and while they weren't poor, 12%, if that's what the timer would calculate their penalty at, well... that would hurt. Really, any percent would hurt; it would definitely limit some purchases and shorten a vacation next year, if allowed. Plus, Steve knew his wife of 16 years well enough by now to know though she phrased it as suggestion, it was a command. She would now be grumpy until the box was resolved. He told her after dinner, after a drink (which he knew they would both need), they would open it, and carried it to the bedroom.
Whitehill
Maybe we should move to Whitehill Steve had said after the RepAct started to go into effect. He had watched it all unfold on the vidwall over the years, thinking nothing would ever come of it. Even as it gained momentum, his mind couldn't fathom it being implemented, that anyone affected by the law would submit to it. How could they? Yet taxes and technology can be very motivating, and people get used to a certain way of life. The law didn't force anyone to do anything though really, but the cost and limitations were hard to ignore.