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 A World of My Choosing   An Out-of-this-World Story by Gil Gamesh   Chapter
Fifteen

   "I want to try to answer your questions."

   "Why now?" I asked, genuinely surprised.

   "David, when you told me about killing all those guys, those seven
jihadists and then al-Badr and those other guys, I was afraid of you.  I
mean I was really afraid.  I thought if I told you what you wanted to know,
you might get mad enough to kill me too.  Then when James arrived, I saw a
different you - a kind and gentle and caring man.  And when we played
together the other night and I had more fun than I've ever had, I saw
another side of you - a fun-loving kid.  You may be a warrior and a big man
but you're really just a kid like me and James.  I think you'll be a good
leader for us and do your best to protect us.  I made a big mistake by not
answering your questions when you first asked me.  You just need to know my
story so you can understand why I didn't want to tell you."

   I managed to stay calm while we ate our evening meal.  When I suggested
that James should see Aimee for another lesson, he grinned and ran out of
the kitchen.

   "Aimee, would you keep James occupied for a while?" Iain asked.  "You
can give him another lesson in sex and show him another sexy movie.  I'm
going to tell David something he wants to know."

   "Yes, Iain," Aimee answered from somewhere.  "May I listen to what you
tell David or do you want privacy?"

   "You may listen, Aimee," he said.  "Perhaps you would like to know what
I tell David."

   I hung up the pots and pans we had used for supper and turned towards
Iain.  He and I walked over to one of the tables and sat down facing each
other.

   "I think I can answer most of your questions, David," he started.  "Just
don't sidetrack me with too many questions.  I've been trying to organize
everything in my mind and maybe I can tell you what you want to know."

   I nodded in the affirmative.

   Suddenly I heard something out in the hallway and I knew that it had to
be James.  I held up my hand to stop Iain from telling his story and then
held one finger to my lips.  I closed my eyes and let the cool response
enhance my hearing.  I heard something again and I knew James was
listening.

   "You can come back, James," I said.  "Iain's about to tell me something
I've wanted to know since I came here.  Perhaps he won't mind if you hear
his story if you don't start asking questions."

   He quietly came back in the dining area and sat down beside me.  As
usual, I put one arm over his shoulders and hugged him against me.  I
looked at Iain to see what he wanted to do.

   "You can stay, James," he said.  "Just don't ask me any questions until
I get through.  I've got my story organized in my mind and I don't want any
interruptions."

   "OK," he said, "but may I say something before you start?"

   Iain nodded ascent.  James looked at me so I nodded too.

   "Please don't cut me out when you guys talk about important stuff," he
said.  "I want to know why I'm here just as much as David does.  I may be
just a kid but I'm not a dummy.  I know when to keep my mouth shut and when
to open it.  I joke a lot but I can be serious too."

   "You're right, James," Iain said.  "I apologize.  It's just that I've
got a lot of stuff organized in my mind and I don't need any distractions."

   "OK," James said, and mimicked zipping up his lips.

   Iain started.  "First I need you two to understand some stuff about this
universe.  I'm not a physicist or a cosmologist like my dad and granddad. I
didn't get that gene from them.  I got a love of music gene from my mother.
Anyway, this is roughly the way my granddad explained it to me."

   "First, there's Earth and the other planets revolving around the sun. 
The sun is just one of a multitude of stars in the galaxy called the Milky
Way.  Then that galaxy is part of a local group of galaxies and the local
group is part of a super cluster of galaxies.  There are lots of super
galaxies.  Beyond that is the edge of the known universe.  Are you with me
so far?"

   "Yeah, I've done a little reading about cosmology," I answered.  "It
blows your mind, doesn't it?"

   "Yes, but just wait for the next step.  This universe is just one of
multiple universes and they all seem to exist in the same time-space.  The
planet we're on now is just another Earth, existing in a parallel universe
to the one of your Earth.  It's almost identical, except that human beings
haven't evolved on this planet.  That's what is really mind-blowing."

   "I don't understand that but go ahead."

   "There are lots of different forces at work in each universe, David. 
Some are attractor forces which pull things together, like gravity, and
some are detractor forces which keep things apart.  There's a detractor
force which normally keeps the multiple universes apart."

   I nodded.  "Go on."

   "Imagine two soap bubbles floating in the air and assume there's some
force which keeps them apart.  Imagine lots of soap bubbles.  Now assume
each soap bubble is a universe.  This is not really the way it is because
in reality all the universes exist in the same time-space.  There's just
some force which keeps them apart."

   "Now imagine that the detractor force can be manipulated on a tiny scale
in one universe.  If it can be eliminated in one universe, say universe A,
just the tiniest bit for just a split second, the attractor force of
another universe, say universe B, will draw part of universe A toward it."

   He looked at me with a questioning expression on his face.  At first I
wasn't sure where his story was going and then it dawned on me and I knew.

   "You're saying that's what happened to me, aren't you?" I asked. 
"You're saying something here drew me from my universe."

   His facial expression changed to a big smile.  "Yes, David, and it drew
me too.  And James."

   James was nodding his head occasionally but he remained quiet.

   "OK, how do they do it?" I asked.  "How did they draw us here?"

   "What's behind the door at the end of the hallway, David, the one you
won't let James and me enter?"

   "There are three pieces of machinery or equipment.  There's a big
monster on the left with no opening, no visible controls, no dials or stuff
like that.  I don't see any way to get into it and I don't know what it
does.  It's the biggest piece of equipment in there."

   "What else is there?"

   "At the back of the room there's more equipment.  I think it's the
source of our power and our air flow and our water and maybe some other
things.  It has pipes and wiring going through it.  I can't get into it
either but I can hear it humming and I can hear water moving."

   "OK, what else?"

   "On the right, there's another huge piece of equipment.  It has a
monitor like the one in Aimee's room but I can't get it to respond.  Maybe
it's like a computer but, if it is, it's like none I've ever seen."

   "OK, here's what's in there.  On the left side is the device which
brought you here and put you in Aimee's chair.  In Ireland, there's a town
called Graystones, on the East coast below Dublin.  Near Graystones,
there's a huge old house that has been there for hundreds of years.  It has
43 rooms.  I've lived there for four years.  In what was the ballroom,
there is another device like the one here.  I'm not a scientist but I know
there's some way the device can lock onto you no matter where you are. 
Once it's activated, it eliminates the detractor force surrounding you and
that picks you up in one universe and puts you down in another."

   "What's the piece of equipment at the back of the room?  I still think
it's the power supply for us and anything that helps to provide us with a
comfortable place to live.  Is that right?"

   "I haven't seen it but I think you're right."

   "What's on the right?"

   "That's the library.  That's where all of Aimee's knowledge is stored.
It has trillions of books and music and all sorts of knowledge from your
Earth in it."

   "And that's where Aimee is."

   "Yes, David, it is.  I wish she was real but she's not."

   "You're wrong, Iain.  She's real to me and I want her to stay that way."

   "She's real to me too, Iain," James interjected for the first time. 
"Please don't try to tell me she's not."

   "OK.  She certainly seems real to me too," Iain said.  "Maybe she is."

   "Of course, I'm real, Iain," Aimee said, from a side of the dining area
to my right.  As usual, my reflexes made me look in that direction.  "I
exist in my own universe and it's as real as the one in which you exist. 
I'm having a lot of fun learning about you three guys.  Now, go on with
your story.  It's fascinating."

   "I apologize to you, Aimee," Iain said, shaking his head.

   "Apology accepted," Aimee said.

   "But why is that library here?" I asked.

   "David, this is where it gets hard to believe.  I'm not from your planet
Earth.  I'm from a planet Earth in another parallel universe that is
inhabited by humans just like you.  That's where the machine that holds
Aimee's library came from.  It's like a giant computer except that it
doesn't have any moving parts and should last forever.  Its primary purpose
is to preserve as much of your Earth's knowledge as possible.  I think
Aimee's primary purpose is to act as an avatar, a human face to the
computer to make all the knowledge more accessible to us."

   "Well, why are you here with us?"

   "David, my grandfather was the first to be transported from our planet
Earth in our universe to your planet Earth in your universe.  Then a group
of people went to help him study your world.  He stayed three years and
then came back.  Then my parents, my mother and father both, volunteered to
go to your Earth."

   "How many people from your Earth have come to my old Earth?"

   "I don't really know, David.  I just know there were twenty-four of us
at the place in Ireland.  I know there were lots of others in other places.
All of the ones at Graystones were older than me and most were wives and
husbands.  My father was the leader of the group but they made most
decisions by meeting around a big table.  They let me sit on the side of
the room as long as I didn't say anything."

   He looked at James.  James stuck his tongue out at him and gave him the
finger.  They both laughed.

   "OK, you say you lived in that house for four years.  How do you fit
into this?  You still haven't told me why you're here."

   "David, have patience.  I'll get to that," he said.  "I was fourteen
when my parents went to your Earth and I thought it would be a grand
adventure if I went too.  They wanted me to stay with my maternal
grandparents but I hardly knew them.  I begged to go and they almost
relented when I proved that I had learned to speak your language.  My
father really didn't want me to go but I talked my mother into letting me.
She took me to my father and I swore in front of both of them that I would
never tell anybody from your Earth what I'm telling you.  I didn't want to
break my oath to them, David."

   "But why did they pick me?  I've got a few extraordinary abilities and
I'm reasonably intelligent but I'm just a soldier who's good at killing
people.  Why did they choose me?"

   "David, at one of the meetings I heard them discuss you.  One of the
names they called you was The Warrior.  They thought you had the ability to
be a leader and defender for the group they will send here.  They've done
everything they can think of to insure our survival and they think you can
protect everybody against each other and the wild animals on the mainland.
They think you can be a leader who guides everybody to do the hard things
they will have to do to survive and prosper.  They want this colony t0
succeed and they expect you to lead it."

   "But why did you come here?  If you were having a grand adventure on our
old Earth, why did you want to come to this one?"

   "David, I came here because I couldn't have Caitlyn.  About a year ago,
I met an Irish girl, slim, beautiful, long blond hair; oh, she was so
beautiful.  We fell in love and I wanted to marry her.  My parents didn't
approve.  They wanted me to find somebody who was my own kind.  They meant
from my home planet.  I told them I was going to marry Caitlyn and they
couldn't stop me.  They said they'd send me back home first.  My father's
quite a domineering man and he's used to being obeyed.  We argued and I
finally thought of a way I could get away from them.  I arranged to be sent
here and I left them a note telling them where I'd gone."

   "I don't know whether to believe you or not, Iain.  You told me you were
a singer, not a scientist.  How did you arrange it?"

   "I'm coming to the part you're going to like, David.  It's about Anna.
After they arranged to have you sent here, they were going to send Anna
next but they lost her.  The device can track you anywhere but somehow it
lost her.  I was afraid my parents would use the device to send me back
home so I got a friend to keep the setting for the destination here instead
of changing it to home in the universe I came from.  Then if they started
tracking me, instead of Anna, I would be sent here instead of back home. 
My parents thought they were sending me home but they sent me here instead.
I left them a note telling them where I had gone."

   "If you loved Caitlyn, you wouldn't leave her behind, Iain," I said.

   "I didn't.  I think she's going to come to me soon.  I told her
everything I've told you and she said she wanted to go with me.  I told her
that as far as I knew only one person at a time could make the journey but
then I fixed it so my parents would want to send her.  I told them Caitlyn
knew all about them and she was going to tell everybody in your world if
she couldn't come to me.  And then I told them to arrange for Caitlyn to be
sent to me if they ever wanted to have grandchildren."

   "You say they lost Anna.  Do you know if she's still alive?"

   "I think so.  They talked about her like she was still alive.  I know
they were still trying to locate her when the time came that the device
could be used again."

   "How did they know so much about me and Anna?  They must have had
somebody feeding information about us to them."

   "They did.  I sat in on the meeting where they talked about him.  They
were trying to decide who would be the first one to come here.  They kept
referring to him as the major and he sent them reports about you.  I don't
know anything else about him."

   "I do and I wonder why the hell he didn't tell me he was reporting to
somebody about me and Anna."

   "I don't know why, David."

   "Well, why did they send James?"

   "I don't know why they picked him, David.  Maybe it was because he had
no parents and nobody would care if he disappeared."

   "But you think they still want to send Anna to me?"

   "Yes, David."

   "Why were they so dead set against you marrying Caitlyn?"

   "David, somehow humans evolved on a planet Earth in your universe and
they also evolved on our planet Earth in our universe.  We look exactly
alike but my parents said nobody knew whether we could crossbreed.  Humans
from both planets have twenty-three paired chromosomes for a total of
forty-six.  My mother's one of the scientists mapping the genetic makeup of
the chromosomes in people on your Earth.  They haven't finished their work
and it may take years before they know whether the genetic makeup of my
people is compatible with yours.  If they're not and we crossbreed the
children might have all sorts of physical and mental disorders.  Now do you
see why they didn't want me to marry her?"

   "Why can't you wait, Iain?  You're young.  I didn't find my Anna until I
was twenty-five.  Maybe in a few years they will know if our people and
yours are genetically compatible."

   "David, I already know we are.  Once when Caitlyn and I were making love
in my bedroom, something strange happened.  It was really the second time
that night.  The first time I was on top of her making love to her and she
wanted to look in my eyes when I came.  The second time that night, she was
on top of me and her long blond hair fell around my face like some golden
curtain all around and I was looking in her eyes and we both came at the
same time.  It was so good, David.  It was like we were one.  We both
experienced it and somehow we both know that we can unite to create a
perfect child.  That's why I've got to have Caitlyn or I won't have
anybody. She's my other half, David.  She makes me whole."

   "Iain, why do you think I'm so adamant about having Anna?  We've
experienced the same thing.  Anna and I have fused into one on two
occasions and now I can't live my life separate from her.  I can't be whole
again until she's with me."

   "I've never heard of anybody experiencing anything like it, David.  Have
you?"

   "No.  But there's one big question you haven't answered, Iain.  Why do
your people want to transport twenty of my people to this uninhabited
world? There's got to be a reason."

   "There is, David," he said.  "My people have been studying yours for
years.  They've concluded that your Earth may be near a tipping point. 
That's what they call it.  They think that unrestrained population growth
and the pressure on resources and global warming and reliance on computers
which can be rendered useless causing economic chaos..."

   "And nuclear weapons and germ weapons in the hands of crazy people," I
added.

   "And stupid religious shit that just hurts people and makes them hate
each other and fight wars," James added.  I was surprised but I nodded in
agreement.

   "Yeah, those too.  Anyway, my people are afraid that your Earth has
reached a tipping point and that may cause it to slide back into the dark
ages or maybe cause an extinction of the human race.  My people want to
preserve a sample of yours.  That's about as much as they can do."

   "Why don't they reveal themselves if they're so knowledgeable?"

   "David, they don't want your people knowing about them because there's a
chance your people will want to escape to the Earth I came from."

   "Is your Earth that damn good?"

   "It's different, David, very different.  Don't ask me about it, please.
I've already broken part of my oath to my parents.  I'm not going to tell
you about it."

   "As fucked up as my people are, I can't blame them for not wanting us to
go to their Earth."

   "Maybe I've covered most of what you might like to know, David," Iain
said.  "Do you want to ask me questions now?"

   "No, I've got too much to assimilate now.  Let me think about everything
and let's get together tomorrow night and talk some more."

   "I'll try to answer your questions but remember I'm eighteen years old
and I'm not a scientist and I didn't understand a lot of what they talked
about.  For example, I can't tell you how the transporter works but we both
know it does."

   "Yeah, I know, Iain.  But there's something else I know already.  I'm
going to try to be the best damn leader and protector anybody could want
for the people who come here but only if Anna comes to me.  If she's not
one of the twenty, I'm out of here.  I'll explore this world and the rest
of you can just go to hell."

   "David, don't talk like that," he said.  "From what I understand, the
other people who come here will all be very young, maybe like children, not
more than about twenty years old at the most.  They're going to need
someone like you to lead them and to protect them.  Somebody at Graystones
once used the term `society's castaways' to describe them."

   "Then you think they know how I feel about Anna and they'll send her to
be with me?"

   "Yes, David.  And that's why I think they'll send Caitlyn to be with
me."

   "I've got a question," James said and Iain and I both turned to look at
him.  He waited until we both nodded our ascent.

   "If there had to be two machines, one here and one back where we came
from, for David to be sent here, how did your grandfather, the first person
from your Earth, how did he come to our Earth?  Did somebody send the other
machine first?"

   I finally grasped what James was asking.  How could the first person
from their Earth come to our Earth?  And how did James catch that point? 
He certainly wasn't a dummy.  Maybe he was smarter than I was.

   "I don't know, James," Iain said.  "My grandfather was a young man when
he made the journey.  I wasn't even thought of.  I don't understand how
it's all done but I know it happened."

   My mind was swimming with all that Iain had told me.  As fantastic as it
was, it all seemed to fit together and to explain why we were all here.  I
knew I had to ask him to help me to understand some of his story but I
didn't want to do it tonight.

   "Can we talk again sometime soon?" I asked.  "I think my brain is almost
overloaded.  I'm going to have a hard time going to sleep tonight."

   "Well, I think I can help you with that," Iain said.  "Let's go see if
Aimee will show us another movie.  Watching a good sex movie and having a
good wank always helps me sleep."

   "Damn, I think it's going to take two or three good wanks for me to get
any sleep tonight," I said.

   Iain grinned at me.  "Well, we can do it once or twice while we're
watching the movie and then we can have another wrestling match before bed.
That ought to wear you out."

   "Shit, we don't need a movie," James said.  "Let's go jump in David's
bed again.  We don't even need a wrestling match.  Let's just play like we
did the other night.  We can try again to make David have eight orgasms."

   "Oh, no, you won't," I said.  "You and Iain almost wore the skin off my
dick last time.  Aimee, can you pick out a good movie for us?"

   "Do you want to follow your usual criteria, David," Aimee asked, from
another corner of the dining area.  "I have one that is just a little
different that you and Iain and James might like."

   "How's it different?" Iain asked.

   "There are three people in the movie, two young boys and a young girl.
The movie portrays very tender loving sex, primarily between the two boys
and the girl.  There is not a word spoken.  The photography is astoundingly
beautiful and the movie is very erotic.  It is very romantic and slow and
gentle and has a soundtrack of beautiful classical music."

   "That doesn't sound like it's very different, Aimee," Iain said.

   "It also portrays sex between the two young boys in the same way," Aimee
said.

   "You mean anal sex?" I asked.

   "No, David.  Your usual criteria rule that out," she said.  "They just
do the same things Iain and James do sometimes."

   I looked at Iain and then at James.  They were both grinning widely.

   "Well, do you wankers want to watch the movie or not?" I asked.

   Iain smiled.  "Yes, let's watch it!"

   James smiled too.  "Yeah, I want to watch it too!  I'm going to lambast
my llama `til it spits on you guys."

   Iain pulled back and looked at James with a disbelieving look on his
face.  I suppose my face reflected the same wonder at his description for
wanking.

   "What?" he said.  "I liked the nature channel."

   The movie was mesmerizing and everything that Aimee had said.  On my way
to Aimee's room, I thought Iain's story would keep me from paying much
attention to the movie.  I was wrong.  I was soon engrossed in watching the
three young lovers but every few minutes the same thing made me momentarily
unconscious of what was on the screen: the realization that Anna was going
to join me in our new world, the world I would choose if only I c0uld be
with her again.

   The movie was set in a dream-like room where the only piece of furniture
was a king-size bed.  The room and everything in it was white.  There were
big windows on three sides covered by flimsy curtains which kept moving in
a slight breeze.  The lighting was soft and hidden.

   The movie began with a sweeping view of the room and with some music,
something classical, softly playing.  A few seconds later, a naked girl
walked into the room and crawled into the bed.  She was quickly followed by
one naked boy and then another.  The girl was an exquisitely beautiful
young creature, probably about sixteen years old.  The boys were just as
young and beautiful, two perfect compliments to the girl.  One of the boys
was about her age and the other was noticeably older, about Iain's age,
almost a man.

   The girl and both boys looked almost like each other, as though they
might be an older brother and a younger brother with a twin sister.  The
hair on their heads was a dark brown and was the same length and shape. 
The girl's face was devoid of any visible makeup.  As a result, I had
trouble identifying the sex of the younger boy and girl when I saw only
their faces.  But their bodies were clearly those of a young male and a
young female.  I wondered if they were actually siblings or just chosen to
give that appearance.  Either way, it seemed like they might be engaged in
an incestuous relationship.

   Over the course of the next hour or so, I saw a constantly varying
sequence of sexual play in which the three were engaged.  Most of the time,
the two boys concentrated on the girl but occasionally the girl and one of
the boys together tried to drive the other boy insane.  In one scene,
photographed close up from above, the younger boy was lying flat on his
back and the girl and older boy had their heads on his stomach and were
alternating in sucking his penis and playing with his testicles.  In
another scene the two boys tenderly and lovingly kissed each other while
one was on top of the other.  The most intense scene was perhaps one with a
lot of close-ups in which the older boy lay on his back while the girl rode
him with her back to his face and the younger boy used his tongue just
where the two were joined.  Each time she came down on the older boy's
penis, the younger boy's tongue was coming up the shaft of his penis all
the way around the stretched-tight lips of the girl's pussy and on to her
clitoris.  I made a mental note to try that with Anna someday.

   Throughout the movie, my penis was as hard as it has ever been but I
didn't want to come until it was over.  Most of the time, I simply held it
and stroked it a little and watched the clear drool run down the shaft.  I
was in Aimee's recliner and Iain and James were in straight chairs on each
side of me, long legs stretched out.  I quickly glanced at them
occasionally and saw that they were doing the same thing I was.

   When the movie ended, I rolled out of Aimee's recliner and started for
the door, not thinking of James or Iain.  They both ran past me, slapped me
on the butt, and yelled "Gotcha" but I didn't chase after them.  I walked
slower, thinking of Anna joining me, joyously believing that my loneliness
was about to be over.

   In our sleeping chamber, Iain and James were already in my bed alcove,
wrestling with each other.  I stood watching them for a minute or so.  Iain
clearly was bigger and stronger but James was quicker and slipperier.  He
constantly wiggled out of Iain's grips and then pounced.

   My day had been a full one, from the hours of hard work the three of us
spent in clearing the new garden space, to Iain's almost-unbelievable story
that I had yet to fully understand, and then to one of the most beautiful
and erotic movies I could imagine.  I could see Iain as the older boy and
James as the younger boy and the two of them lost in sexual play with
Caitlyn.  I didn't want to wrestle with them.  I needed the release that
masturbating would bring but I wanted it to be quiet and peaceful.

   "Come on, guys," I said.  "Let's not have another wrestling match
tonight.  I've got too much on my mind for that.  Let's just quietly jack
off and get some sleep."

   They both stopped their play and looked at me.  Their penises were just
as rampantly erect as mine and I knew they needed the release of orgasm as
much as I did.  James was the first to respond.

   "OK, David," he said.  "Me and Iain, I mean, Iain and I, we'll just go
to our own beds for a good wank."

   They both started to get out of my bed.

   "No, wait," I said.  "I don't want to be by myself.  I want you both to
sleep with me.  Maybe I'm like you, James; I want somebody touching me
tonight.  I want to be close to you but can't we just do it quietly?  Both
of you stay with me, please."

   I held my arms out to each side and they understood: James crawled up
and flopped down with one of my arms behind him and then Iain did the same
thing.  I pulled them up against my sides and held them as close as
possible.  I leaned to one side, kissed Iain on the cheek, and then leaned
to the other and kissed James.

   "Thanks, guys," I said.  "I don't know why I feel this way.  I'm horny
as hell but I've got so many different emotions I don't know whether to
yell or cry or laugh.  I finally believe Anna is going to come to me and
that's all I need to make me choose this world to live my life."

   "And I believe Caitlyn is going to come to me," Iain said.  "I know my
father.  He'll do just about anything just so his mission isn't
compromised. I'll be content with her here with me for the rest of my life
too."

   "Well, you guys are lucky," James said.  "I don't know who the hell is
coming here for me.  Maybe I'll just try on each new arrival for size until
I find the right one."

   "Yeah, dream on," Iain said.

   "Would you guys do something for me, something I saw the two kids do in
the movie?" I asked.

   "What?" James asked.

   "Soixante-neuf," I answered.

   "Shit, more damn French shit," James said.  "What does that mean?"

   "James, say merde," I said.

   "Merde," he said.  "What does that mean?"

   "Shit," I said.  "One mark of an educated sophisticated man is that he
can cuss in several different languages."

   "Well, more damn French merde then," James said.  "Aimee, what does what
David said mean?"

   Aimee answered from somewhere over our heads and I could swear she was
giggling.  "Soixante-neuf is sixty-nine in French, James.  It refers to a
sexual activity in which two people simultaneously stimulate each other's
genitalia with their mouths."

   "You mean two guys suck each other's dicks at the same time?" James
said. "Like those two guys did in the movie?"

   "It doesn't have to be two guys," Aimee said.  "It can be a guy and a
girl or it can be two females." Again, I thought she was laughing at us.

   "Yeah, I thought that was damned hot," I said.  "What about you, Iain?"

   "Yeah, I thought it was hot and yeah, James and I have done it with each
other."

   "Yeah, and we're going to do it again," James said.  He rolled over me,
on top of Iain, and, in the process, kneed me close to my balls.  He
reversed his position so that his head was over Iain's genitals but, when
he tried to put his legs on side of Iain's head, he bonked him in the head
with his knee.

   "Merde and double merde!" Iain yelled.  "Damn it, James, be careful!"

   "I'm sorry," James said.  "You can knock my head off next time."

   I moved away a little so I could see what they were doing and watched as
James wrapped his hand around Iain's penis and then took the head in his
mouth.  Iain reached up with his hand, corralled James' wild penis, and
took the head in his mouth.  Then they went at each other with a vengeance.
Iain started thrusting upward and James started pushing his dick downward.
I couldn't believe they could giggle and wiggle and suck dick so
enthusiastically at the same time but they did for a short while.  Then
James must have shoved his dick too far in Iain's mouth.

   "Damn it, James," Iain yelled as he twisted his head to one side. 
"Don't try to shove your dick down my throat."

   "I'm sorry," James said.  "I didn't mean to do it.  I didn't know what I
was doing."

   "OK, I know you were thinking with your little head," Iain said.  "Let's
try another position."

   Iain pushed James off him and they changed their position so they were
side by side in opposite directions.  With what looked like practiced ease,
they each bent one leg upward to serve as a pillow for the other.  Then
they wanked and sucked and wiggled and giggled some more until Iain pulled
away.  He turned on his back, breathing heavily, stomach pulled in, eyes
closed, one hand on his penis, and lay there.

   "What's wrong?" James asked.

   "Nothing," Iain said.  "You're just too good a cocksucker.  I was about
to come."

   "Can we slow down a little?" I asked.  "I just thought of something I
learned with Anna and I think you guys should learn it too."

   "What?" James asked.

   "Anna and I tried a sixty-nine one afternoon and I didn't like it.  When
I was licking her pussy, I was upside down.  A woman's clitoris is more
sensitive than the head of your dick.  If you're licking down on her pussy,
it will be protected by a hood sort of like your foreskin.  If you're
licking up, your tongue will drag the hood off her clit and really
stimulate her.  Do you think you'd enjoy somebody sucking your dick with
your foreskin covering the head?"

   Both shook their head.  "I like it best when James pulls my foreskin
back really tight and sucks on the head," Iain said.  "That can really make
me come."

   "Yeah, me too," James echoed.  "That's a good way to do it."

   "Well, just remember: women don't come as easily as men do," I said. 
"If you can learn how to help her have orgasms, she's going to love you
more."

   "David, do you want to do it with me," James asked.  "Let's let Iain
watch and cool off."

   "Sure, if you can just be slow and easy.  I don't want to have a
cock-sucking wrestling match like you and Iain were doing.

   We rolled over toward each other, extended one leg to serve as a pillow
for the other, and began.  I wanted to come, just not yet, not until we had
played for a while.  Maybe James understood.  He wrapped his hand around
the shaft of my penis, pulled the skin down tight, took the head in his
mouth, and gently sucked on it.  I took the head of his dick in my mouth,
cupped my fingers around his balls, closed my eyes, and licked and sucked
and stroked.

   I felt Iain touch my back and I looked up.  He was behind me, leaning
over, watching what James and I were doing, and slowly stroking his dick. I
shut my eyes again and resumed what I was doing with James.

   "James, let me do it with David," Iain said, after a minute or so.  "You
can watch."

   They changed positions and Iain and I sucked each other's dicks for a
while.  With Iain's hand moving up and down on the shaft of mine and his
mouth sucking on the head, I knew I was getting close to coming.  I didn't
want to surprise him and I didn't want one from him.  I decided I'd had
enough.  I rolled over on my back and wrapped my hand around my dick.  Iain
and James flopped down on each side of me and the three of us lay there,
stroking our dicks as slowly as possible.

   "I'm ready for my first orgasm for the night," I said.  "How about you
guys?"

   "Yeah, me too," Iain said.  "What do you want to do?  Do you want to
just jack off?"

   "I don't care," I said.  "What do you want to do, James?"

   "I want you and Iain to finish me off," he said.  "Then me and you will
do Iain and then me and Iain will finish you off last."

   I groaned at his improper English but I didn't say anything.

   It didn't take long for Iain and me to finish him off.  Iain took the
first turn and alternated between stroking James' dick and then sucking it.
When he moved aside for me, I took my turn jacking and sucking.  On my
second turn, I began to wonder which of us was going to get his tonsils
squirted.

   I remembered something Anna had done for me in the middle of a night in
Flagstaff.  I had awakened with another hard-on, spooned up to her
derriere, and that must have awakened her.  She had moved down on the bed,
tugged my lower leg into a rest for her head, and then sucked me until I
had a quiet but very intense orgasm.  She swallowed and swallowed and then,
never taking her mouth off the head of my dick, kept on very gently sucking
for what seemed like forever.  Finally, when I tried to return the favor
she had refused, saying that a woman likes to do something for her man
occasionally.

   I decided to do the same thing for James.  I pulled him onto his side,
positioned his thigh as a pillow for my head, and then gave him my best
effort.  When he put both hands behind my head, grabbed two handfuls of
hair, and started thrusting, I knew I was going to get a mouthful.  I
wrapped two fingers and a thumb around his dick, stroked it as rapidly as I
could, and kept sucking while he spurted a few times.  When I thought he
was through coming.  I swallowed a couple of times and then resumed sucking
on the head of his dick as slowly and gently as possible.  Through it all,
James let loose with a long soliloquy of cusswords and groans which slowly
subsided into a continuous low moan.

   We rested for a few minutes and then James and I did Iain.  We
alternated for a while and then James tugged on Iain's arm until he rolled
over on his side.  As soon as he extended one leg, James went at him with a
vengeance.  I could tell from the surprised look on his face when Iain
started ejaculating.  James must have taken one shot down the throat but he
kept his mouth on the head of Iain's dick.  When he pulled back, I could
tell from the look on his face and the way his lips were pursed that he was
having a hard time swallowing.  I pulled Iain down on his back, pointed at
his belly button, and James filled up the little receptacle with semen and
saliva.

   This time, we rested for a longer period waiting for Iain to recover. 
His dick was still swollen but no longer standing up.  My dick was stiff
and aching from the need for relief but I just held it, waiting for James
and Iain to do whatever they wanted to do to get me off.  I watched as
James played with his until it was hard again.  He nudged me and nodded for
me to look.  I admired his recuperative powers but then I remembered how
quick mine had been at thirteen.

   James rolled over half on top of Iain and very gently kissed him on the
lips.  Iain welcomed him and I realized they were replaying a scene in the
movie when the two young boys had gently and lovingly kissed each other
while the girl watched.  I wasn't the girl but I watched as they repeatedly
kissed each other, sometimes somewhere other than lips but mostly on the
mouth.  James wrapped his hand around Iain's dick and just as slowly and
lovingly stroked it until it recovered and was standing up again.

   When they both turned toward me with a grin on their faces, I knew I was
about to get my turn.  James, always the mischief maker, started.  He moved
half on top of me, just as he had done to Iain and the same way the two
boys in the movie had done, started kissing me, wrapped his hand around my
penis, and slowly stroked back and forth.  I closed my eyes and relaxed but
then James surprised me.  He straddled me so his dick was pressed against
mine and then started thrusting against me.

   "I'm going to fuck you, David," he whispered.  "I'm going to ream you
out with my monstrous dick and then I'm going to shoot a big load up your
little cherry ass."

   "You and what..." army, I intended to say but James fastened his open
mouth on mine and started tongue fucking me.  I let him play, unsure
whether his dick and balls rubbing against mine would make me come.  It
didn't but it got me closer.  After a minute or so, he rolled off me.

   "OK, Iain, he's all yours," he said.  "Finish him off."

   Iain pounced, that's the only way to describe it, and then started
stroking and sucking my dick as vigorously as possible.  I started to warm
him when I felt myself coming but all I managed was a couple of grunts.  He
kept his mouth on the head of my dick while I squirted again and again. 
Finally, he rose up, face intent, lips pursed, looked directly at me, and
swallowed a few times.  He opened his mouth wide to show me it was empty
and then flopped down beside me again.

   "Damn, David, you almost drowned me," he said.  "Maybe I'd better stick
to sucking James off."

   "You should have fucked him, Iain," James said.  "You could have shoved
your big dick up his ass and given him a big load and jacked him off until
he shot his gallon on his stomach."

   "Yeah, and I'll make you squeal when I shoot a gallon up your ass," I
warned, not really meaning it.

   "Really!" James exclaimed.  "I'd like that!"

   "Yeah!" I said.  "I told you that if Anna's not the next one to arrive,
you and Iain had both better cover your asses with your hands and run for
the woods."

   "I'm not running," Iain said.  "You can fuck me anytime if you'll just
let me do the same thing to you."

   "Me too," James said.  "You can both fuck me if you'll just let me fuck
you too.  I didn't like it with the Reverend because I hated him but I like
both of you guys and maybe it'll be different."

   "Damn, I hope Anna and Caitlyn are the next ones to arrive," I said. 
"If they're not, I may take you two up on your offers.  Who knows?"

   "When Anna comes, are you sure you want to tell her about what we've
done?" Iain asked.

   "Yeah, I told you I'm only going to keep one secret from her," I said.
"You should remember what I say, Iain.  Don't keep secrets from Caitlyn,
anyway not more than one.  You'll have a better marriage if you're open and
honest with each other.  That's the way I'm going to be with Anna."

   "David, I like what we do when we play with each other," James said.  "I
know it's sex and it's a lot of fun but I feel like it's love too.  I know
I wouldn't do the stuff I've done with both of you unless I liked you a lot
and maybe that's like loving you.  Do you think it's really OK for two guys
to love each other?"

   "Sure.  I'm not ashamed to say I love you and Iain.  It's not the same
way I love Anna but, as far as I'm concerned, it's just as real.  You guys
have taught me a lot about love and I'm going to try to love everybody else
who comes here.  That doesn't mean I'll want to have sex with them.  When
you grow up and get your own wife, you'll probably give her most of your
love and have most of your sex with her, maybe all of it, but that
shouldn't affect how you feel about me and Iain.  We've got to love each
other and care for each other in order for our colony to succeed.  I'm
determined to see that it does succeed."

   "I think David's right, James," Iain said.  "We can't afford to have
hatred and distrust in our group.  We've got to be like a loving family.  I
don't know how we'll make it work but I know it's up to us whether we
succeed."

   "Damn, I've got a lot to learn," James said.  "Is it OK if I ask Aimee
something?"

   "Sure," I said.

   "Aimee, have you been watching everything we did?" James asked.

   "Yes, James," Aimee answered.  "I always watch what you and Iain and
David do.  Your activities are fascinating to me.  If you would like me to
stop watching, all you need to do is to tell me.  I will always obey your
instructions."

   "When some other people come here, are you going to tell them about what
we've done?" James asked.

   "No, James," Aimee said.  "David has given me instructions which I must
always obey.  He said that I can always observe him but I must never reveal
what I see or hear to anyone without his permission.  Would you like your
relationship with me to be like that?"

   "Yeah, I would," James said.

   "Me too," Iain said.

   "Do you approve, David?" Aimee asked me.

   "Yes, Aimee," I said.  "You may always follow their requests unless it
contradicts my instructions to you."

   "Thank you," Aimee said.  "I hope all of you will always let me observe
you because I find what you do fascinating."

   "What if I ask her to let me in the room at the end of the hallway,
David?" Iain asked.

   "I've already given her instructions on that, Iain," I replied.  "No one
may enter the room at the end of the hallway unless I accompany them. 
What's in that room is critical to our survival."

   James yawned wide enough to swallow a watermelon.  "Well, I'm about to
jack off and then go to sleep," James said.  "Who wants to join me?"

   "I do," Iain said.

   "I do too," I added.

   "May we sleep with you, David?" James asked.

   "Yeah," I answered.  "I'd like that."

   A few minutes later, we had three chests and stomachs sprinkled with
more semen and nobody seemed to have inclination to clean it off or the
strength to move.  James crawled up closer to me and put his head on my
right shoulder and his leg over my right one.  He held out his hand to Iain
and Iain snuggled into the same position on my left side.  I felt them
weave their fingers together on my chest and then relax.  I put my hands on
their backs pressed them against me, and then curved my arms around their
shoulders and stroked their soft hair.  I took a couple of deep breaths,
closed my eyes, and let myself slide into sleep, slowly stroking their
hair.
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