Warning: this story contains a lot of cruelty, sadism, a tremendously homophobic dystopian society and other content that may disturb the reader. If you are very sensitive, it is better not to read it.
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The days went by. My life, even in the circumstances I was in, began to become routine: work in the supermarket in the mornings, housework in the evenings. However, something changed deeply in those days. My feelings for David grew stronger and stronger and I had the immense joy of seeing myself reciprocated by him. One morning, taking advantage of the fact that our workmates were inside, we had our first kiss in the courtyard. It was something completely magical. I had already been in love, but I had never been reciprocated, and then I only knew the bitter face of love. That kiss turned my mind upside down and, from then on, I lived for those 15 minutes a day that I spent with my beloved David. We even got to more than one kiss, one day hiding in the cleaning stuff room. We couldn't really do anything, we were too afraid of being discovered, but at least we could feel the contact of our bodies. For me it was like being in heaven. I never thought I could harbor such strong feelings for another human being. It made me very sad to think that we would never be allowed to be together, but, for the moment, it was like an explosion of light in my dark existence and gave me a reason to go on living.
My life with Joe was generally bearable, albeit with ups and downs. He was usually not very demanding as long as I did my housework and attended to his every need. Although, on the other hand, he treated me very differently from day to day, depending on the mood he was in, and so there were days when he would let me eat normal food and sleep in the guest room, and others when he would lock me back in the cage and make me eat the dog food again. I obeyed him punctually in everything and made sure that he was always perfectly cared for. However, he was not happy. He often told me that I had made a lot of progress but that he noticed that I was not happy with him (I guess I was not able, or did not want, to pretend it), and that was - according to him - because I was still reluctant to give myself to him body and soul. And time and again he insisted that he would end up overcoming that resistance and making me totally his.
As part of that strategy, although I could not suspect it at the time, one day he told me that two guests were coming for dinner. I shuddered, remembering my experience with his friends, but he, seeing my trepidation, assured me that they were not Adam or Bruce and added, smiling mysteriously, that their identity was a surprise to me.
I was perplexed and wondering who they could be, while preparing a succulent dinner. I knew Joe loved to be a good host. When the doorbell rang and I went to open it, nothing and no one could have prepared me for what I found at the door....
It was my father and brother! They both smiled at me and my brother joked, patting me on the arm:
-Wow, brother. You look really nice, so shaved and bald, hahaha...
I was stunned at what I saw, what were my father and brother doing there? The truth is that I hadn't thought about them since my enslavement, and I had assumed that they were not allowed to see me. At that moment I was glad to see them, maybe they were coming to help me or at least to see how I was doing. How wrong I was!
As I stood there gawking, Joe appeared behind me and, giving me a hard slap, said:
-What's the matter slave, have you forgotten how to greet your superiors?
Totally stunned I prostrated myself and kissed the shoes, first of my father, Edward, and then of my brother, Pete. They both smiled broadly and my father said to Joe:
-Wow, I'm really impressed. You have really brought him up well....
Those words left me bewildered. Was my father complimenting Joe on his behavior? I stood up, while Joe showed them in:
-Come in Edward. It's so good to see you again-. I saw that my father was carrying an object in his hand that I immediately recognized. It was an old vintage radio that I had in my room at my father's house. I had a certain affection for it as it had been a gift from my mother, who had died many years ago. He held it out to Joe, who took it and informed me: -I was at your father's house some time ago looking at your things, in case I was interested in any of them. At first I said no, but now I thought better of it and asked him if he could bring me this radio, which I like, and while I was at it I invited him to dinner.
When I didn't say anything, my brother asked me, mockingly:
-What's wrong brother, has the cat got your tongue?
Joe informed them about the collar program that prevented me from speaking. And just when I thought they were going to protest such a cruel measure, I found my father saying to him:
-Wow, that's really cool. He always talked a lot more than he should have. I wish I could have done that with him when he was a teenager!
My father's words stuck in me like daggers and I understood that I could expect absolutely nothing from them. However, I still wasn't the least bit aware of how far my father's infamy was going to go that night.
They sat down at the table and I began to serve them, as they began to chat animatedly. My father praised the food and, when he learned that it was me who had prepared it, told Joe that he had no idea I could cook so well, that I never lifted a finger at home and that I was lazy and useless. Again, he congratulated him, tearing my heart out, for the work he had done with me. They went on talking about me, generally criticizing me, as if I were not in front of them, for quite a while. You can imagine my feeling of humiliation and helplessness at not being able to say anything in that conversation in which I looked so bad. At one point, Joe asked my father if he knew before that I was homosexual (well, he said "faggot", of course). At my father's affirmative answer, Joe inquired why I had not been reported. I could have been his slave. My father seemed to hesitate a bit and said:
-Well, he is my son. I don't know if I could have done such a thing to him. Besides, I don't think they would have let me own my own son.