Desires in the Dark - Part 7
Heather and Cam were lying close together in the dying light of day, naked, sweating, and talking softly. Heather had been telling Cam about what she had learned, about her father being a monster under the bed, her mother's relationship with her father, and the reason she'd never been allowed in darkness. He'd asked some questions as she'd talked, but mostly had just listened to her, taking everything in, nodding as things made sense to him and shaking his head at the tragedies of the story.
As she wrapped up, he looked at her and said, "Shit, Heather, that's a lot of craziness to swallow. I wouldn't believe a bit of it, except it all makes sense with what I've seen. Well, not seen, you know what I mean."
"I know," she sighed, "And I keep thinking about my poor father, who I've never even gotten to meet, and poor Mama, who was making all these scary decisions all alone with nobody that she could talk to, not even my father really."
"Do you want to meet him?"
"I'm scared to, and I need to." She rolled to wrap an arm around her man to anchor her. "I'm scared to, because I don't know what happens when a bed monster meets another bed monster, and I don't know what that will mean for me as a half-monster."
"Like maybe he'll try to fight you or something?" Cam's voice was serious, not joking.
"Exactly! Maybe as soon as we get in the same room, it'll be like, my territory bitch, and we'll start biting each other! Or maybe bed monsters don't have any incest taboo, and he'll try to hit on me and that would just be horrible." She frowned, "Mama wouldn't know, since she's not a monster, and anyway she can only sort of talk to him. She's never seen what happens when two monsters are together. I'd like to think that me and my father could just be friends, but I don't know if I'll be able to communicate any better. And I'm only half a bed monster, so my monster self is only partly like him anyway. But yeah, if you'd never met your father, and you had the opportunity to do so, you'd want to, right?"
"Yeah, it makes sense. I mean, you've got to know."
"I do. And I'm so mad at Mama, even if I also kind of understand and definitely feel sorry for her. But finding this all out by surprise is definitely not OK. I'm still surprised that you're not running from me." She hadn't meant to be so serious, but there it was.
He was silent for a while, just holding onto her as she held onto him. Then finally, he simply said, "I guess I'm not."
"Are there things," she asked, "that I should do to make this easier for you?"
"Explaining things helps a lot." He thought a bit. "And I do want to have sex with the lights on sometimes too."
"That's fair enough," she nodded. "I liked the sex that we just had a lot. I don't want to lose the other ways that we have sex, just because I want to get my monster on."
"I get it, though." He waved a hand vaguely. "I mean, I understand why you're so into the monster thing right now, because it's new and different and feels real good."
She looked at him skeptically.
He caught her look and went on. "No, really. It's like, when I was hitting puberty, and when I was playing with myself and I ejaculated for the first time ever, well there's a little muscle down there underneath a guy's balls that I think is sort of like a little pump for sperm. I felt that muscle start flexing as I was coming, these little pulses that were a good feeling that I had never had before, and it was like this magical new thing that I wanted to feel again. So I got off a lot, I mean really a lot, like getting off five times a day, and I was all about that little muscle, that totally surprising part of my body that felt so good and that I hadn't even known was there before. I swear I gave myself a cramp down there."
Heather giggled a little, then felt bad about it, and apologized. Cam waved it off, "I'm just saying I've never been a monster under the bed, but I can sympathize with getting really focused on new sex things for a while."
She looked at him seriously, though, and tentatively said, "I don't know if it will be a phase or not. I might find that I really do like monster sex better than normal human sex."
"Yeah, I guess so. But I guess it's not like I've really got all my own sexuality shit sorted either." His voice had gotten kind of low and reluctant sounding by the end.
She looking at him quizzically, and he closed his eyes, his body tensing up beneath her arm. "I'm not quite straight."
That was a real surprise to Heather, who thoughtlessly blurted out, "You can't be gay! We fuck too much!"
That drew an honest laugh and his eyes popped back open. "Yeah, I'm not faking interest when I'm fucking you. No, I'm definitely into ladies. But I'm also into guys as well. Well, sort of."
"Sort of?"
"Well," he said, that nervous look again, "It's mostly I like sucking cock."
"Huh." She didn't really know just what to make of that. She didn't know how she felt about it. And she felt stupid for that, since she was asking him to be OK with monster sex. But she could still be a normal woman too, but she could never be a man. Even her monster self was clearly female.