Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:23:47 -0500 From: Lee McDougal Subject: "The One" Chapter 1 The following story contains gay themes. If you are under 18, your against gay stories, or if you are not legally able to read this story, don't. Hey this is my first story. I hope you guys enjoy it. Let me know what you think at lefteyefan-1@tlcfanmail.com Thanks, Leo THE ONE CHAPTER I Thunder clashed and woke me from a sound sleep. I looked at the clock on the wall it was 5 A.M. I was not due into to work for another 3 hours. So I decided to take my time getting ready. I got into the shower with the warm water flowing over my naked body. It was so nice to take my time, no need to rush this morning. I really love taking long showers something I don't get to do that often. I always seem to be on the run. Its not so much that I have an awful schedule to keep it's just that normally I wake up to late. Most mornings I wake up with about 30 minutes to shower get dressed and get to work. But this morning was different. For once getting woken rudely did not seem like such a bad thing. I was having that same dream again this morning before I woke. I was with this guy that I never met before. And we were laughing and talking and then for no apparent reason he unzips his pants and I dive down on him. He starts to moan and spasm and he comes all in my mouth. I can't count the times I've had my own eruptions because of this dream. Well, if you wanted to know I'm gay. Am I out of the closet? Oh what do you mean? Oh I keep forgetting back in the year 2000 being gay was a big secret. Well, this is the year 3000 I guess you might say I have come back in time to tell you of things yet to be. Things that might be, then again the future is not set in stone. But for me this is my life. In the future not to long from the era known to you as present, being gay isn't that big of a deal. It doesn't take any more weight than eye color or the way you part your hair. I really don't know how you guys went through all that bull shit. Well, I'm glad I don't have to hide who I am. Well as I was saying I was really enjoying the chance to take an extra long shower. Time to work out some frustration. I do my best thinking in this thing! Some of life's greatest questions have been answered in the bathroom after all. :) Well, today I was thinking about this guy I know. We have been talking on the Internet. Yeah that's still around just a whole lot faster! Of course technology has improved to the point where you can literally reach out and touch someone. With 'virtual reality' or at least that's the best description of it I can give, you can do so much on the net. Cyber sex isn't much different than real sex now, but as they say nothing replaces the real thing. But this guy and I have never had cyber sex; we've never even talked about that much. He was always falling in love with one guy or another. I never seemed to be the one getting his attention. For my description, well I have brown hair, blue eyes. I stand at 6'3" with a normal build, with just a bit of a tummy. I guess you could say I was your average guy. I spent my days working at a lab in the country formally known as France. I live in the part of the world known to you as Alabama, USA. Though now its called sector 39 of cluster 396. Everything is labeled as clusters and sectors now. It just makes things easier on the computer programs. You know the old joke back then about everything will be computerized in the future, well it is! How do I get back and forth to work you ask? Well travel isn't exactly what it used to be. Teleportation is a reality now. It was discovered in 2030 actually. So you guys will live to see that! :) It really impacts the world, as you know it. I believe some guy named Douglas or something like that invented it. But then again that's not important. The point is you can be in another country faster than you can walk across your bedroom, as strange as that might sound. Though sometimes in the mornings when everyone is rushing to work it takes a bit longer. Everyone pretty much works the same schedule now. The artificial sun rises every morning at 6. Yeah the real sun had a little accident around the year 2567. Some ill-fated comet found its way there and this thing was huge, and the poor sun just couldn't handle it and was swept out of the solar system. It still baffles scientists. They can't figure out how it is possible to move a ball of gas halfway across the universe....but hey it happened. So now we have a fake sun as it might be. It does all the same functions as the sun. It heats us, it helps the plants to grow, and the only difference is it's made by man. I'm sure it's not as romantic as the real thing, not that I would know from personal experience. The moon is still around or at least mostly so. It's different now though. It has had a lot of work done to it. It was colonized about the year 2500 or so. Well I could go on all day talking about history but you guys would get bored. I know I am. Needless to say things are really different now. So I guess it isn't so hard to believe that being gay finally became accepted and is now a part of the normal society. Now put all your questions to the side for right now. Because its best sometimes not to know what will happen in the future. Just be glad enough to know there will be a future. It got really scary there for a little while! As I was saying I have been talking with this guy for about a year now. His name is Marco. He has red hair with brown eyes and stands at about 6 ft. He is wonderful guy. I simply love his voice it is just so sexy. He has this laugh that is so contagious. He has so much love to give as well, I just wish he'd give me his love. But as I said before he was always with some other guy. He always seemed to pick guys that didn't appreciate him. Guys that just did not understand him. He is a special guy, and he had special needs. He needs a lot of attention and a lot of love. But his boyfriends just didn't have the patience or the time for him. I don't understand them. If I had someone like him, I would cherish him. And thank god that I had him. Well, after finishing my shower I got dressed in my normal uniform: a pair of green pants with red stripes across half of each leg of the pants, and a bluish green shirt. Sounds kind of funky but that's what I wear. Of course when I get to work I cover it all with a dark blue lab coat. Why such bright colors? I don't know but I got used to it after a while. I guess fashion is hardly what was on most peoples minds right now anyway. After getting dressed I set down at my computer to check my messages. I got a hug from my best friend Kayla. She always liked to send them to me. It was a good way to start each morning so I did not complain. She lived near by in the another faction of my sector. We shared a lot of common interests mostly men. We used to go out looking together, but I soon saw that her style of man hunting didn't appeal to me. When she saw a cute guy she didn't just say, "wow he's cute" and end it at that. She liked to follow them around, I wouldn't say she was a stalker, but then again I wouldn't say that she isn't either. To make a long story short she soon knew the details of her crushes such as where they live and where they work, and sometimes more. Myself, I'm much to shy for any stunts like that. If someone doesn't make the first move, I probably would be content to stick it out alone. Though on the chat rooms I'm a bit braver. Though I turn off the virtual effects when I go in there. Something about strangers touching me always freaked me out. So only the people I trusted where allowed to come through my computer. I also got a bunch of commercials from sites I had visited. Mailing lists were more annoying now than ever. If you even went to a site you were signed up instantly. And UN-subscribing was more annoying than ever. With the emails so vivid and realistic now. You have to experience the whole thing before you can respond to the company. I believe there is some talk about fixing this in the near future though. And some sites are already starting to reform their wicked ways... But for the most mailing lists rain supreme. I found that if I delete the first few sometimes they stop all the same. So I did that routine this morning deleting about 20 useless emails. I almost deleted another one before I realized it was from Marco. So I fired it up and listen to his message. "Nova, I know you are tired of my crying on your shoulders but it happened again. He left me, he said he loved me but he left me. He said I was too needy, and too immature. That's what they all say, so maybe it's true. I just don't understand it. I thought things were going so good. Then boom he breaks my heart just like the others. Sigh...maybe I should just give up." He ended the message with a hug, which I sent back to him. I know an e-hug was not as good as the real thing so I took a chance and entered his location into my computer and stepped on the transport pad. A few moments later I was at his door. I knocked on his door. "Who is it?" he asked. "It's me, Nova. Open the door" I said. Marco opened the door, and invited me in. "What are you doing here this early?" He asked. "I knew you needed to talk about Ron." I stated. "Yeah can you believe he did it again, that's the second time this week he's broken up with me." "Listen to yourself the second time this week? You should have never gone out with him the second time." I told him. " I know! Its just I was sure he loved me and that he was the one for me." Marco stated. "Well, you know you don't have to put up with jerks like him, there are people that really care about you!" I said. "Who? Everyone I know has broken my heart." Marco was crying. "I haven't, I would never break your heart." I told him honestly. "Listen Nova, I have to go I'm going to be late for class and you are going to be late for work." He stated. I could tell he was hurting, so I gave him the time and space he needed. I used his transport to get to work today. I did not have much work to do since I had gotten ahead yesterday, and besides that it was Friday. We hardly ever had much left to do by the weekend. I had to run a few more tests on my lab rat. Oh don't give me the speech on how awful it is to test on animals. All the test subjects in this lab are volunteers. How does a rat volunteer you ask? Well perhaps I should explain that to you. You see that with technology improving we were able to gain a vast knowledge on animal languages. Through that knowledge we were able to communicate with them and teach them to talk human language. Sure it sounds a little different coming from them, but most of them have very excellent grammar. Of course some animals needed a little work to get to talking, but most of that was simple surgeries and the animals seemed to glad of the new found communication skills. Not all animals talk mined you, because some animals are to stubborn or just to evil to teach. Sharks were being taught at first, but it turned out that they had a pure hatred for humans. And this scared many scientists. So they found it best to not continue the shark project in fear that they might one-day rebel. Which is a reasonable thought process. Lord knows the cats and dogs really got out of hand there for a while. We had them as trusted pets for so long and when they started talking... it was a mess. They were telling things that were never meant to get out. After all they are everywhere and they see everything. They knew the secrets to bring down society as a whole. Luckily we were able to reach an agreement with them. Now cats and dogs are ranked right there with humans. They have a lot more rights than they used to. Though some still consider themselves pets, and are very loyal to their owners. I myself have a cat. Her name is Luna named after a cartoon cat on some cartoon from the 20th century. I think it was something about the moon. Anyway, Luna and I were very close. Luna was a beautiful gray cat. She knew all my secrets and I knew all hers. So we had a mutual agreement to keep it that way, secret. She was a cat of the world she had gone out to be a part of the new cat society at first. She was one of the leaders of the cat rebellion. That's one of those things she keeps kind of low profile about. Though the cats and the humans are at peace now, there is still a lot of tension there. So in order to live a normal life she kind of avoids that issue. Being a pet was in her opinion the best way to lay low. But I know that the truth is, she enjoys the company. So when I say the lab rats volunteered. I mean just what I said. The money was good, and the food and shelter was the big seller. Let's face it there are not that many places for rats to live. So I guess you could say they were stuck in a rut, but aren't we all? My lab rat was named Jon and he had a blue tent to his coating of hair. He had this irritating habit of pissing himself when he got nervous, which was often. I told him to quite his job if it bothered him so bad. But he said he really liked it, so what was I to do? Well after the last few tests and last few clean ups, I was ready to go home. The good thing is when your done with work you can go home. It didn't effect your pay, because everyone got paid the same salary. No one got special pay. I guess our society would be considered a socialist government. Everyone was considered equal. That was fine with me. Cause after all no one deserves more than anyone else does. And what we got was more than fair. I had been saving most of my money for a big trip this summer. Why did I need money for a trip when I could just transport myself there instantly? Well, there are still things like hotels and theme parks around! Though it would be cheaper to transport back and fourth each day, its not as much fun! There's a nice feel about getting away from home for a while you know! So I was saving up for that trip. I was planing on going to Moon Disney. It's like the Disney World of your time, though it's on the moon. I haven't been to the moon in a couple of years so I thought it would be a good change of pace. A lot of my friends lived there so I would have to go visit some of them while I was there. Transporting to the moon was a bit tricky. It took about an hour to transport there, where it only takes a few moments to go from one side of the world to another. It's the fact that space travel is involved. And for some reason going through space still disrupts the transports. Also you have to have documented permission to go there. There was a maximum capacity law passed on the moon due to the fact that the artificial environment could only keep so many people alive. So if I wanted to go to the moon I had to give at least a two-week notice. This was really annoying so I didn't get around to it that much. I had already given my notice for this summer. I was to leave in one week. I was counting the days. I was still sad that I was going to be going alone. At first Kayla was going with me, but she backed out at the last minute. So I had her moon pass still, but no one to use it. Oh well, it could be worse at least I didn't pay for her hotel room. She was supposed to handle that. My guess is that she probably spent all her vacation money on guys. LOL! She had a bad habit of doing that. Well I suppose there are worse things than vacationing solo. Being that I was going to the biggest vacation spot in this area of the solar system I was bound to meet some nice people. People I'd be to shy to talk to. But hey at least I could look! I was not very tired after work, so I thought I'd go for a walk. I decided to go to the coast of the area that was once known as Mexico. I really loved the beaches there. It was a very well known gay hang out these days, and that was always a plus too. I wasn't expecting to see anyone I knew today so I took a bold move and transported myself to the nude beach. After arriving there I took off my clothes and grabbed a towel. I thought I'd do a little swimming then get to my walk. The water was refreshing. Not quite as warm as bath water, but warm all the same. I swam out into the ocean about 10 minutes not worried about getting too deep. The waves aren't as dangerous now, and the animals are all friendly except for the sharks. And they have been mostly keeping to other parts of the ocean lately. I swam into a small group of fish, not sure what kind actually. They were very friendly so I thought I'd float around and talk to them a bit. They were telling me about the latest fish gossip. Something about an octopus of the coast of the area known as "Florida" starting some new fish resort. It sounded kinda fishy (no pun intended) to me. But then again what can you expect from fish! Well anyway I told them I should be heading back and did just that. After a good swim back to shore I dried off a bit and started my walk. It was a windy day as usual; of course it always seemed windy around me. I sort of attract the wind. It's my element you might say. Some people would say I have special powers, I guess I do. But I have no idea where they come from, I guess maybe someday I might even learn to control my abilities. Today's walk was cut short though; I ran into someone that I had not expected to see. It was Marco. He was lying out in the artificial sun. "You know you can't get a tan with that thing." I said pointing at the 'sun'. "Oh hi Nova. I know you can't tan but it feels good all the same." Marco stated. "Yeah and your looking good might I say." I flirted. "Oh thanks for noticing, your looking fine yourself." He stated. "Wow, thanks for noticing. I thought I was invisible to you." I said laughing. "No I've always noticed you, it's just its always been bad timing with us." He stated. And he was quite right. He was always going from one boyfriend to another and most times when he was single I wasn't. It was not like I was a real popular guy, but when I got involved with someone it tended to last a long time. My first relationship lasted 7 months, how many of you can say that? Well, anyway this was probably the first time we were both single. I was secretly crossing my fingers that this might be my chance. But I was disappointed greatly when he said this: "And now I'm in love with someone." "Who?" I asked disappointed but trying not to show it. "Um, its someone you know very well." He said. "Who???" I asked starting to get a little curious. "Well, you've known him for a long time. I'd say you probably know him better than I do!" "Who in the world could that be?" I asked, going out of my mind. "You!" he said and then he started laughing. I grabbed him up and took him in my arms. "You're kidding me?" I said shocked. "No, I've loved you for a long time, just had a lot of bad timing, but now I'm not going to hold it back." He said with a tear in his eyes. I whipped away his tears, and kissed him softly on the lips. I was so happy at that moment. How was it that in this one moment all my dreams could come true? Well, I don't know but I was happy of it! I started kissing him more heavily, then he broke the kiss suddenly. "We better stop before we get carried away here on the beach. Its all right to be nude here, but your not supposed to get excited." He said while pointing down at my 6 inches that was quickly getting very hard. So we both got on the nearest transport and headed to my place. We spent the whole evening making out on my couch. Never doing more than kiss cause that's all we needed right then. When it got dark we decided to move to the bed. To his surprise I slipped on a pair of shorts. I knew he was a virgin, and I wanted our first sexual experience together to be special. You know after a romantic date or something. So we settled for cuddling and kissing all night. When the morning came I was happy to see that Marco was still asleep right beside me. I ran my hand though his short red hair. I must say I had a thing for hair, and I was hoping he'd let it grow out a bit more. Not that I like long hair on guys, but I like it a little thicker than his was at the moment. Myself I always kept my hair cut pretty short, though it grows fast so most often its thick. I cuddled up to him and kissed him softly on the lips. He didn't stir so thought I'd let him sleep longer. I got up and crossed my way over to the bathroom. After having my morning pee I returned to the bed to cuddle some more. It was so nice holding him there. But that didn't last long. "So the old man got lucky!" Stated a certain feline. "Old man? I'm only 20." "In cat years that's ancient." "Well, thanks for letting me know, Luna." I responded. "And I am lucky to have Marco here, but I didn't get lucky." "Well he's naked in your bed, what did you do last night make shadow puppets?" she asked. "You know you're getting mean in your old age girl. But seriously we just cuddled all night. It was wonderful." "Cuddled, well at least he won't come up pregnant that way." She stated. "I don't think he's a breeder anyway." I responded. Now for a little explanation, men can get pregnant here in the future. Or at least some of them can. When the sun left certain things about our make up changed. Some men are "breeders" and can have kids just like women can...well sort of anyway. There are a few simple tests you can take to find out if you are a breeder. But Marco and I have not even discussed that. I happen to know that I am a breeder. I was tested a long time ago. But I have been on the pill...as crazy as that sounds. Simply because I wasn't ready to start a family yet, and I know the jerks I dated weren't. "Well, if he's not he'll be a perfect match for you then want he?" she said. "I suppose so, I'm not to worried about that right now." I said. Right now I was more worried about what to do in a week when I go to the moon for my vacation. Would he be mad to find out I'd be leaving so soon? "Good morning everyone", I heard Marco say. "Morning darling. Did you sleep well?" I asked. "Yes I did. Thanks for holding me." He was smiling and kind of glowing. It was very sweet. "mmmm...My pleasure" I said as I kissed him deeply. Our tongues making love yet again. "Well don't mind me, I'll just go get some breakfast started." Stated a somewhat jealous Luna. "Sorry Luna, I'll be there to help you with breakfast in a moment." I stated. "What's with the cat?" Marco asked. "Oh she hates to be ignored." I laughed. "Do you ever wish they couldn't talk anymore?" he asked with a large grin. "Sometimes, but Luna's a good friend to me." I answered. "Well then I'm sure we'll get along fine." He said with one more kiss. I soon went to the kitchen and helped Luna with breakfast. She was cooking eggs on her cat stove. If you can imagine a cat cooking, good for you, if not, sorry I really don't know how to describe this one. Let's just say Luna had utensils that could be picked up by cats. Since she was cooking eggs, I decided to cook some gravy and biscuits. It turned out to be a fine meal. We topped it off with a glass of orange juice. I always wondered what fresh orange juice tasted like. After all real fruit died out a long time ago. These were all synthetic, made in some lab. Maybe someday someone will take the time to grow real fruit again. Its not like we didn't have the technology its just that we didn't have the room or the time. I hear they still grow their fruits on the Mars colony. Well, Luna, Marco, and I set down to a nice breakfast. I was so happy to have him there. After breakfast we decided to take a walk along the Pyramids of Egypt. They had all been preserved by some scientific method that even I didn't really understand. It was very romantic. Holding hands and looking at the beautiful works of the Ancient Egyptians. It's hard to believe they still exist after so long. But there they were for us to enjoy. It was still not a very populated area. Though really it wasn't a dessert anymore. The ground was covered with beautiful green grass. In fact it reminds me of the pictures I saw of Alabama in my history books. On this particular day I saw something special. "Look Marco!" "Wow! I can't believe that!" He said in shock. "Some how it's there though, it's an apple tree I think." I said referring to the small tree that was not much taller than the grass. It was still very small, but I had studied trees in high school. I knew what I saw was an apple tree! That's the first fruit tree I had seen in my whole life. It wasn't behind some slide, it wasn't in some textbook, it was there, and it was really growing. It was a really amazing find. I was shocked and amazed, and I knew that I had to look into this. But for the moment I just enjoyed the sight of it, and grabbed Marco's hand. It was a sign, much like how our relationship was finally starting to grow, so was this small apple tree, and both were beautiful. To be continued. Well, I hope you enjoyed the first part. If you want more of this story ask for it! If you have comments, questions, or whatever feel free to email.