Note: while I hope you'll enjoy this story without reading all of the previous parts, I also hope it is good enough to inspire you to want to read at least some of the previous parts.
Chapter Twenty-nine
When the pandemic first hit the U.S. in early 2020, I doubt any of us expected things to happen the way they did. After all, the world had experienced SARS, H1N1 and Avian Flu pandemics but they'd hardly affected most us at all. Next thing you know, we're all in lockdown, working from home and not even able to see family and friends, much less go out for a meal or a drink. Of course, with the abilities I'd developed, I was free to leave home whenever I wanted and, initially, I was just checking out locations that were usually quite busy and experiencing them with almost no one around. Seeing places like Times Square and Disneyland devoid of human activity was pretty eerie and it wasn't long before I switched to visiting and observing other people in lockdown, working from home while also taking care of their kids or just binge-watching TV shows, to see how things were going.
Since I was still able to work full-time from home, I wasn't spending my days binge-watching any TV series so these visits became my bingeing. Seeing families trying to work, clean and make sure their kids were attending virtual school and doing their schoolwork definitely had its share of drama with some comedy thrown in. Couples without children in the picture were at least initially more of an adult-oriented drama with a lot of sex but also two people trying to get their work done in close proximity to their partner and learning a lot about each other. Was it entertaining? Absolutely. Was it humorous? Sometimes. Did I help out if it was possible? Of course. It also broke up the monotony of my day by taking breaks and visiting various other households.
It also became clear pretty quickly just how exhausting all of this was for most people. The window to catch someone for a "dream" visit was smaller because so many women with families were just dropping right off to sleep as soon as they were in bed. I had to shift my focus to single women or women who lived alone but even that wasn't completely foolproof. There were still plenty of opportunities, of course, especially among those women who had no other outlets for sexual release aside from their own fingers or toys. There were a lot of people adapting to a lot of things with the pandemic so I had no complaints about having to adapt my routines in order to continue having dream sex.
I found that social media was helpful with planning my activities and dream visits since, with everyone stuck at home, there was a lot more information being shared and a lot more interaction. This led to a completely unexpected and admittedly unconventional series of dream visits that I have no doubt were as satisfying and pleasurable for the dreamer as they were for me. In this unique situation, the dreamer just happened to be my cousin, Corinne.
It started innocently enough with a comment from her about how, when she was very young, she was frightened by a KISS poster my older brother had hanging up in his bedroom and that she and her sisters saw on a visit to our house. My brother's room was right next to the upstairs bathroom so it was no surprise that she'd seen the poster. My bedroom, shared with our younger brother, was on the top floor of the house, one more set of stairs up from where the bathroom and the KISS poster were. As I was thinking about it, I couldn't recall if she and her sisters had ever ventured all the way up to that bedroom during any of their visits. Corinne was younger than me but older than my younger brother and her sisters were both younger than him so it wouldn't have been unlikely that they'd all have been up there at one point or another, playing or whatever.
When I asked her about it, Corinne couldn't recall either if they had been up to that bedroom. I did a little digging but the only photo that I could find was one my mom had taken from the top of the stairs when she'd been trying to finish up a roll of film (remember those days?). At that point, the room had been just mine after our older brother had moved out and our younger brother had taken his old room. I was probably around 21-years-old and, unfortunately, I was in the middle of the photo, lying on my bed shirtless, after having just arrived home from my summer construction job. I guess I should have been glad she didn't catch me stripping down to take a shower but it was probably only by a matter of a few minutes.
In any case, since I did still have a pair of shorts on, and I was in good shape from working so hard that summer, I was okay with Corinne seeing the photo. Of course I didn't share it publicly and apologized for the young, sweaty guy in the photo that was meant just to show her what the room looked like and maybe jog her memory. Her response was the first thing that triggered me to start thinking about her differently. She replied that I was cruel to send that photo given that she can't see her boyfriend, the implication being that it got her worked up and she wanted to take out her sexual frustration on him. I was thinking maybe I was reading too much into it so I responded that at least it was her cousin and not someone to get too worked up over. Her reply to that was brief and suggested maybe she was rethinking having said what she'd said so I let it drop.