As Always - All characters are over 18.
At the moment, this is part one, of a planned 2 or 3 part story.
Comments, critique or suggestions for further parts very welcome.
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"My parents want to try incest" my girlfriend told me as we sat 2 metres apart in the college dining room. 2 metres was as close as we were legally allowed to get to each other.
It's 2027 and the threat of the C virus continues. It has for the past 7 years. They thought they had everyone vaccinated, until it mutated. So they vaccinated everyone again, and the virus just mutated again.
By this point they basically gave up fighting it. 7 years of lock-down. This was the new normal. Hey, I was only 12 when the virus appeared. Living in isolation was normal now. It was the only normal I really knew! We worked online. We shopped online. And we mostly schooled online. We go into school once every 2 weeks. This was the only time I got to see my girlfriend Jennifer face to face.
"What do you think?" I asked her. I didn't know how I felt about this idea.
For the past nine months, there's been a big push from the government - Stop dating, try incest.
It seemed grotesque at first, but there were clear reasons. It had become almost impossible to meet new people. Dating apps were banned as they were proved to help spread the virus. Even going to another person's home required government permission. Online stores now used drones to deliver all parcels as delivery drivers were found to be the number one cause of STDs in 2025.
But adult humans still need sex. It fights depression, improves the immune system and generally makes life better. And with no end in sight for the C virus, society was changing.
Now you saw experts on TV talking about how healthy incest was. It stopped the spread of the C virus, as well as other STDs because you're only interacting with the people in your household.
It became the new normal on TV, with families on soap-operas having incest as part of their normal lives. They drunk their tea, they argued about the football and they shared beds in the evenings.
Environmentalists encouraged it too. "Save the planet by sharing the bed. The less bedrooms you need to heat in winter, or cool in summer, the lower your carbon footprint."
It used to be that on your 18th birthday, you got sent razors and aftershave by men's companies. Now on your 18th, the government sent you birth control or condoms and a guide to safe 'family play'.
In the lock-down, incest was government policy.
"...Well..." she started, before pausing to choose her words. Her pause telling me more than her words. She wanted this. And she wanted my approval. "...I don't want to upset my parents. I am 20 but I still live with them. And my little sister is almost 18, so she can join in when she's old enough. She's already shown an interest. Plus we might not like it. I heard Jamie tried incest with his father but didn't enjoy it."
I looked over at Jamie and Matthew at the next lunch table. "Yeah" I replied "But Matthew started at the same time as Jamie, and he talks about how much he enjoys it non-stop. He even shared a bed with his grandma and grandfather over Christmas."
"And he's happy. His whole family is. And...well..."
There is was. The elephant in the room. We had been dating for over 2 years, and since becoming 18 we'd only actually fucked twice. Both times in empty classrooms hidden from teachers for a frantic 5 minutes. Nothing that either of us would say was particularly satisfying.
Sure, we masturbated to each other on video chats all the time. But it wasn't the same. I knew she was very unsatisfied.
"Will we still...um..?"
"Yeah" she answered instantly. "We'll still have our video calls, and have real alone time when, if, we can."
I looked at her and gave her a smile. "OK. Give it a try. And tell me about it after. I won't be upset if you like it."
"I love you William" she said, and her eyes said it was true.
A bell rang in the dining room, warning us we had 5 minutes before our next class began. We stood up and began to put our plastic protection clothes back on.
"What about your family?" Jennifer asked. "Do they want to try?"
"My mum does" I told her. "She keeps leaving government leaflets around the house. 'Incest and you' or 'Family Love - making it work'. My sister Debbie keeps putting them in the bin when she finds them. But I've seen Lisa having a read."
"You should try it too" Jennifer told me as we tidied our plates away. "If I am. It's only fair. We can talk about it afterwards. It'll be like a couple's experiment."
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I tried to find the best time to bring up the subject to my family. I decided to bring it up during our exercise hour. Our family were allowed out the house for one hour for a walk, every 2nd day. We all walked together around the neighbourhood, masked of course. Our allotted time was 6 to 7pm. I waited until we'd finished out first of four laps around the block before broaching the subject.
"Um, do any of you know families that have started incest?"
All of them looked at me in different ways. Mum looked at me with pure excitement. Lisa (The middle child, 2 years older than me) looked interested, and Debbie (the oldest at 25) looked at me with disgust for even mentioning the topic.
"Mr and Mrs Evans at number 24 have, with their two sons." Mum told us "and that nice Indian family at the end of the road started about three months ago and apparently they all really like it. It's really helped their daughter's mood swings."
"Why do you ask?" asked Lisa inquisitively.
"Um...I was talking about it with Jennifer earlier today, over lunch."
"Yeah?" Debbie said with a hint of a snarl. "Her parents have read the propaganda too, and they're pressuring her into it?"
"Um..." I struggled to reply. "...well, they've suggested trying it, yes."
"So you're just going to let your girlfriend get fucked hard by her daddy's cock? Maybe eat her mum's minge while she's at it?"
"Deborah!" Mum shouted. "LANGUAGE!"
We all went quiet, until Debbie managed a small "sorry mum".
"Well" Mum continued after the apology. "This is her family, not ours. And their choices to make. I hoped I raised you all not to be so judgemental. They're following government guidelines, that's all."
"I just think it's a load of...poop" Debbie self-censored. "Ten years ago, hey even five years ago, suggesting incest would be our greatest taboo. Nowadays it's on the TV and government internet, talking like it's always been normal."
At this point Debbie burst into song with the government's latest cheerful slogan "♫ Free use families are happy, safe families ♫"
"The world is changing" Lisa replied when the singing stopped. She's always been the most quiet of us. Middle-child syndrome. But when she does speak, she's usually the smartest of us. "The C virus changed everything. Maybe it's time for the way we see family to change too. 80 years ago they didn't have the reliable birth control we have today. And modern genetic treatment means even an incestuous pregnancy isn't terrible, as long as doctors know early."