Thank you for reading my story, I hope that you enjoy it, and I would love to hear what you think. Mica xx West Yorkshire, England.
Leo hadn't left. He was supposed to, but there was some issue, not mechanical and he hadn't left. He just mooched around the room or wandered to the Mess to get some food. When I was in the room, he just expected to shag me. Dad was due back today from Murdoch and he would expect to shag me too, I had no idea what I was supposed to do. I went off to find Bill.
"This is unworkable Bill," I said when I eventually found him in the kitchen storeroom.
"What is Mica?"
"It is bad enough that I had to bunk with dad, but then he left and you shoved my brother in with me, and now dad is due back today and Leo is still here."
"And?"
"What do you mean 'and'?"
"Well, we are short of rooms due to the malfunction in 108 and 109 with failing window seals. I mean you could use one of those rooms but they might get to 40 below. Who do you want to send to their death? Your dad or your brother?"
"Don't be so dramatic, obviously none of them, but it is not right making me sleep with my brother or my dad."
"Well now Mica, no one is making you sleep with them, what you do in the room when the door is shut is entirely up to you."
"Don't be so crass."
"Well, what do you expect. The whole station thought that you were shagging your dad, and now they think you are shagging your brother, and you know what? No one actually cares. Who shags who doesn't matter down here. It's the end of the fucking world Mica, what happens here, stays here."
"It is not right."
"That doesn't come into right or wrong down here. Going out without a tracker, that is wrong, who you shag is just not important."
"Can't I bunk with one of the girls?"
"They are all in small single bunks. Share one of them and you will find rainbow flags appearing wherever you go. Mind you, as far as I know there are a few girls that would welcome you with open, well, more than arms."
This was getting me nowhere. As far as the station was concerned, I was shagging my dad and my brother, well, I was, but I don't really like everyone knowing. Technically it is illegal. My only option was to go into a lesbian relationship. None of the options were acceptable.
I mean, I don't mind girl on girl action, but, none of the females down here were exactly attractive, not to me. And it would be basically jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
"Is there work that needs doing at Murdoch? Perhaps I could go there for a few days?" It was all that I could think of.
"Let me make a call."
I went to the mess and grabbed a small plate of vegetarian lasagne. Made with grated carrot and mushroom rather than meat. It was actually okay, and whilst not a veggie, I actually quite enjoyed it.
"Wassup?" Linda asked. Linda is a technician and works in the labs. I think that she is technically a scientist, but there were no suitable roles for her, so she came down as a sort of tech support just to get the experience. It would help her when a role that she was suited to came up, either down here, or up top in the Arctic.
"Frustrating how I have to share my room."
"Ah well, you either shag your brother or shag someone else who you don't know. Yeah."
"Who said anything about shagging my brother?"
"Oh pretty much everyone actually."
"Oh."
"Well, last night you were either being murdered or shagged, the scream was pretty loud, and here you are, so not murdered."
"I thought the rooms were sound proofed."
"Who told you that? Bill?"
"Yes."
"Well, sort of, but the aircon is a great conduit for sound. Pretty much the whole station knows when you orgasm, and boy, do you ever orgasm."
I was mortified. What I thought was a private moment turned out to be anything but. I am glad that no one had asked me directly if I was shagging dad, or my brother, because I would have been caught out in a lie. They didn't ask because they didn't need to, they just heard.
"I would suggest that you could stay with me in my tiny bunk, but, well, it is pretty obvious you have a preference for a dick, and I prefer a fanny."
"Thank you for your kind offer Linda, right now I think I want space as a priority."
"Yeah, not much space in my bunk I am afraid, it's a small single."
After Linda wandered off I got back to my now cold lasagne and a low alcohol beer. I was pretty sick of tea and coffee, and as my job involved heavy machinery, alcohol in the system was not an especially good idea.
There was a tap on my shoulder.
"Right, I have spoken to Murdoch," Bill said. "There is a transport this afternoon, you can go on it, but I am guessing it will be the devil and the deep blue see."
"In what way?"