The Reality Engine Ch. 12

After the video was complete, and Elizabeth and Jessica had redressed themselves, Scott introduced them to Rebecca, and briefly told the two ladies about Rebecca's sugar-daddy, Kumar Fashood.

"So, you two go out on a date, and he just sits there, silent, and ignores you?" Jessica asked Rebecca, after Scott had explained the situation.

"Yeah, and it's nerve racking," Rebecca said. "When I told Scott about it last Friday night, that was before what happened to Liandra. Now I'm not sure I want to keep dating Kumar, even though he pays well. What happened to Liandra could happen to me."

"I don't think you've got anything to worry about," Jessica said. "I think I know exactly how to fix your problem right up."

"You're thinking about Tarick, from Sophomore year, aren't you?" Elizabeth asked.

"Yeah, the same thought passed through your head, didn't it?" Jessica asked.

"How Kumar acts around you was exactly how our friend Tarick acted around a mutual friend of ours, named Melody," Elizabeth said. "The entire problem was that he had an inferiority complex."

"Just like Gwendolen Moon and Sippy," Scott said.

"Oh, you've read The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy too? Wonderful story, isn't it?" Jessica asked.

"Wait, you two girls have actually read a book?" Scott asked.

"Well sure," Elizabeth said. "It's PG Wodehouse. It's not one of those boring, stuffy, old books, like Moby Dick, where nothing happens for the first 400 pages. PG Wodehouse is always fun to read."

"You were saying about Tarick and Melody?" Rebecca asked, bringing the conversation back on topic.

"Tarick felt he was spiritually inferior to Melody," Jessica said. "He wouldn't speak to her, wouldn't make eye contact, and she told us how uncomfortable it made her. No matter how hard we tried, we couldn't figure out why he wouldn't at least say something to her, you know, just to make polite conversation."

"What happened?" Rebecca asked.

"It all ended well," Jessica said. "She went skinny dipping in Veronica Lake on a warm April afternoon. He happened to be there at the same time to do some fishing with a friend of his. He saw her naked, she freaked out, one thing led to another, he confessed everything, and they fell madly in love. They got married about a year ago, and they have a six-month old baby boy together."

"So what should I do about Kumar?" Rebecca asked.

"I think you need to embrace your inner slut," Jessica said, as Elizabeth nodded assent. "Your next date with him is Friday night, right?"

"Yeah," Rebecca said.

"Dress to impress, is my advice," Jessica said, with a giggle. "Show as much skin as you possibly can. He pays you to be his sugar baby because he thinks you're beautiful, but every time the theory of your loveliness meets up with the reality of being around you, he gets tongue-tied. You have to smash through his inferiority complex, and the best way to do that is to show him your body."

"You have to make sure his intense desire to fuck you wins out," Elizabeth said. "His inferiority complex is all in his big head. You want him to turn the big head off, and start thinking with the little head. That's how Tarick overcame his inferiority complex; when he saw Melody starkers, his little head started to do all the thinking."

"I do not believe that Jeeves himself could have put it better. You two ladies have quite a mind for strategy," Scott said.

"Mostly just experience," Jessica said. "You stick around long enough, and you figure things out."

As the party wrapped up, Sweet Pea followed Alania back to her room. She stopped in front of her door, put down her clothing (which she had still not yet put back on), wrapped her arms around Sweet Pea and kissed him, as he returned her kiss and fondled her pussy.

"Can I come in?" Sweet Pea asked.

"It's still early, not yet 7 PM, are you sure?" Alania asked.

"I want to be with you," Sweet Pea said.

Alania smiled, opened the door to her room, let Sweet Pea in, and closed the door behind them.

At 7 PM, Calvin arrived at the Lomb household to help Shauna's mother set up for Bible Study.

"Hey Calvin," Shauna said, as she let him inside the house, and into the kitchen. Shauna and her mother had both changed out of the very revealing outfit they had worn that morning, and were now dressed modestly.

"Good to see you again, Calvin, and thanks for your help this morning," Mrs. Lomb said, as she gave Calvin a hug.

"No problem," Calvin said. "How many guests are coming for Bible Study tonight?"

"Bible Study groups usually number between 12 and 20 people per study group," Mrs. Lomb said. "Small enough for individual instruction, but large enough to involve multiple families. Our group has 4 families, and we rotate Bible Study at each house, with each family hosting once every four weeks. Mia's family is in our group, and they are coming tonight."

"Bad news on that mom," Shauna said. "Mia's parents are out of town, so only she'll be coming tonight. Guess you'll have to wait to meet her folks, Calvin."

"It will be great to see her again," Calvin said. "Who are the other two families?"

"The Garners and the Connors," Mrs. Lomb said. "Mr. and Mrs. Garner have two kids, a 19-year-old daughter named Belize, and an 18-year-old daughter named Ingred. Mr. and Mrs. Connor have 3 kids, a 27-year-old daughter named Emily, who lives out in California, a 25-year-old daughter named Sandra, who lives in Florida, and an 18-year-old daughter, named Carla, who is in junior college right now."

"Ingred, Mia, Karla, and I all graduated from High School together last year, and we all attend Fuggville Community College together. Belize graduated a year before we did, and she works for Edgar Jonesy High School," Shauna said.

"Is that intentional?" Calvin asked. "Does the church try to group people for Bible Study by peer groups?"

"It helps everyone pay better attention," Mrs. Lomb said. "It makes sense to group people together for Bible Study with others who share common traits. All four families have mostly daughters of about the same age. Mr. Raymond, the church elder, will be leading the group tonight, and he's the final attendee."

"Good to know," Calvin said. "How can I help you set up?"

"Can you watch the stove, while Shauna and I get out the things for dinner?" Mrs. Lomb asked. "Just make sure nothing boils over, and if it looks like it will, stir it."

"Sure thing," Calvin said, as he took the ladle Mrs. Lomb handed to him, and prepared to watch the stove.

"How long are you staying with us?" Mrs. Lomb asked.

"I have to get going after Bible study is over," Calvin said. "I have an appointment to see Mr. Pinker about something tomorrow, and I'm supposed to be there at 10 AM."

"That leaves you with plenty of time to head home tomorrow morning, and get changed," Mrs. Lomb said. "We'd be thrilled to have you spend the night with us. It's not good for a pair of ladies to be home alone without the protection of a man."

"Mom!" Shauna protested, blushing.

"Well, I'd like to, but, I mean, Shauna and I haven't been dating that long, and I don't want to. . .," Calvin said.

"Nonsense," Mrs. Lomb said. "My husband and I were talking about it last night, and we both agree, it is not a good thing for a young man like you to be sleeping alone. You need a lady to keep you company."

"Mom!" Shauna protested again, far more loudly.

"Say what you want, dear," Mrs. Lomb said. "What you can't say is that I'm wrong, because I'm not."

"I'm willing, if you're willing," Calvin told Shauna.

"I've been willing from the first moment we met," Shauna replied.

"Good, then that's settled," Mrs. Lomb said. "Shauna dear, get out the good china and help me set up the table."

Close to half an hour later, company started to come over, and Calvin was introduced to each person one by one. Mr. Garner was an African American man with large muscles, but a gentle smile, and a pleasing personality. His wife was a tall and thin Latina, with a lovely face, and a perfect figure. Ingred had inherited the best traits of both her parents, and was a very lovely young woman, with high cheekbones, large, lustrous eyes, curly brown hair, which she wore short and down to her neck, and a lovely, lithe body with fairly large breasts and wide hips. Her sister Belize was nearly as lovely as Ingred was, and was possessed of a slightly wider body than her sister. She was not fat, but her hips, waist, legs, and breasts were all spaced farther apart. She had similar facial features to her sister, but Belize wore her hair straight, and it went down to her waist. Right before dinner started, Mrs. Lomb received a call from the Connors; their family dog, a Golden Retriever named Max, had suffered a minor injury. The family had taken Max to the veterinarian for treatment, and would not be able to attend Bible study as a result.

After dinner, everyone gathered together in a large circle in the living room for the evening's lesson, courtesy of Mr. Raymond, the church elder. The topic of the evening's lesson was how God makes people stronger than they believe they can be through tragedy and despair. To illustrate his point, he called on Ingred to speak of an experience that happened to her in High School. Calvin was seated on the couch, with Shauna to his left, and Mia to his right, and both ladies clutched at Calvin as Ingred started her tale. It was clear to him that they had all lived through this together, and the memory was fresh.

"It started three days after my 18th birthday party last March," Ingred began her tale. "My uncle Roscoe bought me a really nice high definition video camera for my birthday, and I was playing around with it late one night. I was feeling daring and adventurous, so I took off my clothes, and I asked my sister to shoot highly private videos documenting my bodies' most secret places."

Ingred was choking up as she retold the story, and it was obvious to Calvin that she was deeply embarrassed by her actions.

"Many young women your age do this, and it's nothing to be ashamed of," Mr. Raymond said. "It's natural for young women to be curious about their bodies. Please, continue your story."

"We shot about half an hour of video that night," Ingred said. "It was just for fun, we viewed it on my computer, laughed, and I forgot about it. A week later, I found out the video was now public, and that everyone at my school had seen it."

As Ingred said those words, Shauna and Mia turned away, and buried their faces in Calvin's chest. It was a deeply painful memory from a difficult time in their lives.

"I will never understand how that video became public, when it was on a camera which was secure in your room," Mr. Garner said. "As far as we know, no one in the world but my two daughters knew it existed. My wife and I certainly didn't know."

Calvin held on tight to Shauna and Mia, and Mr. Raymond told Ingred to continue her story.

"Overnight, I became an object of fascination," Ingred said. "I knew the other girls were calling me names behind my back, but, to my face, they all expressed concern and wanted to do whatever they could to help. All the boys were very careful about how they approached me for the rest of the school year, and they kept their distance, but all of them had the video of me on their phones. It was humiliating. Sometimes, I would walk down the locker hall, and the boys wouldn't be fast enough to hide what they were viewing on their phones, and I could see that they were looking at my video. It's horrifying to know all your body secrets are out there. Sometimes, I would walk down the locker hall, and boys would just stare at my crotch, or my ass, or my breasts. They had seen the video, and they were curious.

"As part of the video, I confessed to everything I didn't like about my body; specifically, that my left boob is slightly larger than my right one, and my right tit and areola are misshapen. Imagine everyone in school knowing you're embarrassed by your breasts, and making silent jokes about it behind your back. I know a popular nickname for me amongst the boys was 'strange tit'. It's traumatizing to think back on it, but I feel the need to speak up about it to help others who are going through difficult times."

Calvin silently pondered as he held Shauna and Mia, and he felt a deep sadness at what Ingred had gone through. While he believed her story completely, he had to admit, there were parts of it that didn't completely add up. However, he had no wish to retraumatize her in front of everyone, so he kept quiet about his feelings.

"Now then," Mr. Raymond said. "You went through that trial, and all the pain and torment that went along with it. Just like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and the fiery furnace. Please tell us what the worst part of the ordeal was."

"It was my history teacher," Ingred said. "I had third period US Government and Civics senior year with Mr. Bennet. I know he watched my video, many times, because after the video of me was public, he would sit in class and just stare at me for the longest time, undressing me in his mind. My history teacher desperately wanted to bone me."

"What was the result of this?" Mr. Raymond asked. "Did you confront him, and tell him his behavior was unacceptable?"

"No, Mr. Bennet is well respected at school, and I didn't want to cause a scene, and cost a man his job, so I bore it in silence," Ingred said. "It hurt my academics, and at the end of senior year, I failed my last semester of third period Government and Civics. I would be so unnerved at the thought of Mr. Bennet perving on me, that I couldn't concentrate in class. I was on the verge of not being able to graduate with my class, when an utterly humiliating offer came in that I had to take. Mr. Bennet told me that if I did a special project over the first five weeks of summer, he would pass me. For five weeks, six days a week, and eight hours each day, I had to report to Mr. Bennet's house, and sit there and work on a special project while he stared at me with lust in his eyes the entire time. Somehow, I got through those weeks, and I turned in my project. It was terrible work, but he kept his word, he passed me, and I got my degree, which is what matters."

"That sounds to me like adding insult to injury," Calvin said. "You might not have felt good complaining about Mr. Bennet staring at you in class, but adding five weeks of time when you were at his mercy? That absolutely does warrant a complaint, in my view."

"I didn't say anything for two reasons," Ingred said. "First of all, I needed that degree, and I was not going to do anything to jeopardize my chance at getting it. Second of all, Mr. Bennet has offered this path to extra credit for other students before me. It's actually kind of like supervised detention, you do the time, and they let you go. He stared at me, and he made me uncomfortable the entire time, but he never took any untoward actions during the entire five weeks. I can't really complain that I was just creeped out, with no evidence of anything, you know?"

That explanation didn't make sense to Calvin, who knew that other ladies, in all walks of life, had complained that someone's actions simply made them uncomfortable, and had received redress for that. He didn't think Ingred was unaware of that precedent, but he also didn't want to intrude on her telling her story, so he dropped the subject.

Mr. Raymond read several passages from the book of Job, and talked about how God sends trials for us all in life. The lesson lasted the better part of an hour, and at the end of it, Calvin got to speak with Ingred for a moment.

"Hey, I want you to know, it's really too bad what happened to you," Calvin said. "I was touched hearing your story."

"People can just be so cruel, you know?" Ingred asked.

"Yeah, the part about Mr. Bennet surprised me," Calvin said. "He was hired prior to my Sophomore year, which is to say, 10 years ago, and I had him my Junior year and Senior year. Up until I heard your story, I always thought of him as the single best teacher I ever had. Shows what I know, huh?"

"People can change sometimes," Ingred said, with a smile. "The man you knew was a mid 20 something, and the man I knew was an early 30 something."

"I can't believe a man as decent and as good as Mr. Bennet could have changed that much in so short a time," Calvin said. "Still, it is what it is, and I'm glad you're okay, and out of it on the other side."

"It was terrible at the time, but you want to know how time changes a person's mind?" Ingred asked. "I was a terrible High School student, Cs and Ds mostly, and I know I'm not going to last very long in college before I drop out. It was nice to be the absolute center of someone else's world, however briefly, each day."

"You ever think about going back, and confronting him?" Calvin asked. "It is just possible, however unlikely, that he simply had a different point of view on everything that was happening to you, and that you could benefit by hearing him out. Not saying that you should do that, as you don't owe him anything, just throwing it out there as an idea."

"I've thought about it, more than a few times, if I'm being honest," Ingred said. "The only thing is that I do not want to go alone. If I had a man with me, I'd feel more comfortable about going back."

"I'm busy in the morning and early afternoon tomorrow, but I would be happy to go with you in the late afternoon," Calvin said. "I still remember Mr. Bennet's habits, and I know he doesn't leave campus until 5 PM. If we both go at 4 PM, we should be able to meet with him when the school is completely empty."

"He hasn't changed that habit, over the years," Ingred said. "He still leaves campus at 5 PM sharp, every day. Alright, why the hell not? I'll go with you tomorrow Calvin, just be sure you clear it with your girlfriend first. I've got nothing to do, and if you can pick me up at my home, we can go."

With that, Calvin and Ingred exchanged phone numbers, so that he could call her when he was ready to come and get her the next day. That night, alone with Shauna in her bedroom, Calvin told her what he had agreed to.

"Are you sure it's a good idea?" Shauna asked.

"Yeah," Calvin said. "Keeping these feelings bottled up inside for years does no one any favors. Believe me, I'm an expert on that. Do you want to come with me?"

"Of course," Shauna said. "I don't want you and Ingred to handle this on your own, the more people you have with you, the stronger you are."

"You are way too good for me," Calvin said, as he kissed Shauna on the lips.

"Don't you ever forget that, bucko," Shauna said, laughing and elbowing Calvin in the ribs. "Now, how do you want to sleep tonight?"

"I'm comfortable however you want to do this," Calvin said.

"Let's strip to our underwear," Shauna said. "I want to show you some skin, and I want to get out of the tyranny of wearing a bra, but I understand if you want to move more slowly."

Calvin agreed, and he stripped down to his underwear, and so did Shauna. He sat down on her bed, and just gazed at her lovely breasts.

"My God," Calvin said, as he reached out and grabbed Shauna's boobs, and held them in his hands. "I can't believe you like me."

She leaned in and kissed him, and pushed him onto his back on her bed.

"Now, for what I'm interested in," Shauna said, as she grabbed Calvin's crotch through his underwear. "You want to fuck me, don't you? Your erection doesn't lie."

"Yeah, and it's painful, straining against my briefs," Calvin said, as he moved his hand to adjust his penis. "Your body has that effect on my cock."

"Can I pull out your penis?" Shauna asked. "I've never seen a guy's thing before, other than my brother's, and that was when we were very young."