Chapter 5

When John returned home his nephew Evan ran out to intercept him. “Uncle John - look at what I can do!” Evan threw three apples in the air, keeping them aloft in a wobbly stream for several seconds.

“Great job, kid!” John encouraged. Evan was only four years younger than John, but since John didn’t have any brothers or uncles of his own, he was the only man in the house. It was his responsibility to be a role model to his nephews - to teach them how to be men.

“How was circuit?” John’s mother asked.

“Which town had the handsomest men?” His niece Kiki joined in, as if asking about a prince in a fairy tale.

“We got in to Crater too late, so I don’t know about them,” he answered. “But I guess Walmer. The Marley men seemed a bit ... feral.” John’s two oldest sisters, Edith and Lucy, smiled secretively at each other. Edith had been going on circuits since before he could walk, and Lucy nearly as long.

“It sucks that you have to leave town for stupid girl stuff,” Evan opined.

“It’s an important responsibility,” John’s mother explained. John nodded.

“There are some perks,” John added.

“Perks that last twenty seconds,” Lucy teased. “I hear things,” she added.

“I last longer than that!” John insisted.

“Sure you do, Johnjohn,” Edith weighed in.

“Mom!” He whined.

“Leave your brother alone, girls,” his mother stepped in.

Life went back to normal for John, although he couldn’t look at Miss Schumacher the same way any more. Every time she called on him in class, or didn’t call on him, he questioned it in the light of their new relationship.

As the days went on, his pubescent sexual frustration returned. Finally he summoned the courage to try to fix the problem. He waited near the schoolhouse until Miss Schumacher was heading home for the evening, and he intercepted her.

“Miss Schumacher,” he said courteously as he walked beside her.

“Hello John,” she replied fondly.

“So I was wondering if, maybe...,” he spoke uncertainly, “we could do the blowjob thing again?”

“No, John,” she answered sympathetically. “That’s a perk reserved for men who are serving their community as chaperones.”

“But, I could do work for you,” John suggested. “I could fix things at your house, or, I don’t know.”

Miss Schumacher stopped walking and faced him. “John, you understand why it has to be this way, don’t you?” She asked. “If men and women could meet all of their sexual desires at home, there would be nothing but sick children who grew into sick adults. We have to send girls out on circuits to expand the gene pool. Boys have to be ready to host foreign girls who are sent here for the same reason. Any sexual activity that subverts that plan puts the human race at risk. Society can’t allow it.”

“I just...,” John confessed, “I want it so bad! I know there’s something wrong with me. I know I’m not supposed to think these thoughts, but I can’t think about anything else!”

She put a hand on his shoulder. “There’s nothing wrong with you, John. It’s normal. Everybody has those desires, especially at your age. But we have to be stronger than that. Don’t worry - you’re kind and healthy and handsome. Foreign girls will start noticing you soon.”

John nodded, not satisfied with the outcome but accepting it.