NOTE: This story takes place in the future, but you'll be disappointed if you expect to read about two people having sex on a hoverboard or a woman using a hard-light hologrammatic dildo. (Feel free to use those ideas in your own story, though!)
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Very soon I'm going to tell you a story about my lover. In the course of that story, I related a couple incidents to him that I think you'll enjoy on their own.
I graduated near the top of my high school class. We still have the picture with the "Class of 2034" banner behind me. I was also an only child. Neither of my parents was ever formally told that they were infertile; they just never managed to get pregnant. I don't remember ever being told that I was adopted, but I can't remember a time when I knew what "adopted" meant and didn't know that I was.
I had a new boyfriend within a month of leaving for college. Todd was a sophomore in my organic chemistry class. I didn't piece it together until we studied together for the first test, but I was attracted to him because he's intelligent, and I knew he was intelligent because of how he spoke. It wasn't because he used big words; he used complete sentences, and he used words that conveyed the precise meaning he intended. Our first time was unusual, but I don't mean in a kinky way. Todd is really honest, or maybe "candid" would be a better word. Most guys do stuff to get you to go to bed with them. Todd did nice things because he was genuinely nice, but the first time he wanted sex, we were in my dorm room and he came right out and asked me, "Would you like to have sex?" I said yes, and we did.
A month or so later, we were at his apartment. Todd wanted to show me a fan site he was building for
Bloodhounds
, a TV show from the late '20's. "I'm surprised," I told him. "A cerebral guy like you watching a cop show?"
"Don't be," he said. "It only lasted two years, but it had authentic-sounding dialogue and realistic police procedure, and it followed the Fair Mystery rules. It doesn't hurt that I had a crush on Officer Brittany, the sidekick from the second season."
We had this conversation before he'd even turned his computer on. When he went to the browser history to open the webpage, I stopped him. "What's that?" I asked. I pointed to the line under "Bloodhounds_Kennel.fan."
Without embarrassment, he said, "That's a message board I go to for people who like to read about incest."
"Did someone mol-?" I asked, unable to finish the word.
"No, it's not that kind. This is about consenting adults who just happen to be related." The welcome page had flashy graphics but nothing obscene. He logged in and showed me a man's account of how he and his sister started a long-term sexual affair. I read it, and it ... didn't gross me out like I thought it would. "Wow, it's a pretty exciting story, and not disturbing at all, other than the knowledge that they'd go to jail if they were found out in most states."
"We're just taught to think it's gross, because the possibility of damaging a family relationship is all too real. As long as people understand the risk, it's no more immoral than dating your boss or a rich guy buying expensive jewelry for his girlfriend."
I read story after story. I could tell these weren't people being paid to make up titillating stories, in no small part because some of them clearly had never been edited. After reading one of them, I told Todd, "This one's pretty hot, but isn't it just a
little
convenient that a guy who had sex with his mom completely by surprise just happened to know of a website where he could write about it the very next day?"
"Yeah, I know," Todd agreed. "Back when
Penthouse
still had a print edition, their publisher said that the letters they ran were all real, with a little editing for readability and to take out references to minors, but he admitted that there was obviously no way they could verify that any of the incidents actually happened, and that was NON-incest stories."
"This one looks interesting," I said. Todd read it with me. When we finished reading the story, I looked at Todd and asked, "What do you think?"
"Let's do it," he said.
I made that head-bow that acting students sometimes do. I pulled out my cell phone and pretended to make a call. "Where are you, Steve?" I asked.
Todd deliberately sounded like he wasn't paying attention. "I'm beating some new guy at Manassas III. Why, what's going on?" It pleased me that Todd knew enough pop culture to know that Manassas is the most popular digital game of the 30's, but he wasn't up to speed enough to know that they were just getting ready to release III at the time.
I raised my voice. "We had a date, tonight, you jackass!" Then I pretended to press the disconnect button. I acted like I was stomping through the house. I deliberately knocked a real box of tissue onto the floor.
Todd changed characters. "What's wrong, Sherry?"
"I was planning on losing my cherry tonight, but my dumbass boyfriend is too busy playing a game online to even notice."
"Well, that's a shame," Todd said. "What are you gonna do now?"
"I don't know," I said. "Say, Brad, you're strong." I rubbed Todd's bicep, which was funny because Todd's not all that muscular. "And big, too!" Todd also is only an inch or two taller than me. Then I rubbed his crotch. "Well, where it counts anyway!" That part was real.
"But, Sherry, I'm your brother!" he protested.
"Aren't you supposed to love and protect me?" I asked innocently.
"Uh, yeah, I guess so."
"Well, I've decided I'm going to lose my virginity, preferably tonight." I unbuckled his pants. "If I can't get it from you or Steve, I'll just have to go out to a club and find someone else who might do horrible things to me while I'm vulnerable." I pulled his pants down to his ankles. "But you can protect me by taking my maidenhead!"