OUR STATUS, OUR STATE
EPILOGUE
Freedom
Bugdom, spring 2051 and beyond
Scotty's perspective
I spent months locked into Miller family's cellar;"for your safety", they said. After all what I suffered when President rubbered me from head to toe I hoped time for pain were finally up but how wrong I was!
They disinfected, washed and treated all my wounds and burns, with Adrian telling me I would have become his poz son in a short while and, overall, I discovered that my biological parents were still alive and caring about me.
"Judgment day has come", Adrian announced one Saturday morning. "Let's see what happened!"
I read about HIV and poz life in the books I stole from Miller family's kitchen once I went to visit Elias, and knowing how Adrian played with me while I was Bella, I was sure it happened.
But the surprise came when he scanned my mouth with the sensor he called "HIV test": just one single miserable line showed up.
"What does it mean?", I asked, "is it what I think?"
"Negative", both Elias's parents and mine seemed relieved by the news. "Nothing is lost, Scotty! It means just one thing."
They showed me a kit similar to mine, but it had two lines instead. "It's Eli's", Sharon talked proudly. "Destiny wanted you to be his first."
"Let's call it that way", my mother Alex smiled and the whole family followed. What were they laughing for!
"Girls, cut it out!" Adrian cooled their excitement, pointing his finger against me: "Scott is in our debt. Isn't it right, little scamp?"
I sighed, my face turning red. "The ... The books", I was almost sobbing. "Please don't punish me, I swear it, I wanted to give them back but then..."
"Shut up, son", my father ran to a medium-sized vault in the back of the cellar and returned with three books. Their cover was a little ruined by fire, but their content was intact.
"Damn to you, Donald", Adrian gasped, then hugged dad tight. "What does this mean?"
"That books have always been there, I kept them safe", Alex talked. "Donald was hired to burn every sex education material but he saved the books, bringing them to me."
I had no fault, and the whole family hugged me. "Stay comfortable, boy, go upstairs! Your cousin, no, boyfriend, is waiting for you."
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Elias's perspective
Horny. I learnt that word's meaning on myself! Since my father unlocked my organ and took my hole once again, I needed to play with myself more and more.
No one came to judge me, no President's ceremonies or stuff, my parents said Greg Arvil died but I couldn't prove otherwise. I just believed them and enjoyed a freedom I had no longer to hide, without trouble or responsibilities!
Everything changed the morning my parents shoved a strange tool into my mouth: "we test you", they said, and when two lines appeared, I remembered the frame hanging in dad's bedroom with my mother's conversion memories.
"Now you aren't just a man", dad hugged me tight. "You're a gifter! And your boy is..." He handed me another test, with one single line. "You have to gift Scotty, did you understand me?"
"But I never..."
He covered my lips with a finger: "men don't whine! Men are responsible. Show me you're worthy of my virus. Look at yourself, you're already hard down there. Hurry up, into my room and I'll tell Scotty to come over."
I stared at him in silence: just learned that my best friend was my cousin, and school programs I followed, taught me that having sex with family members was illegal and immoral.
"Don't be fool", my father laughed; "who gave you HIV on this Earth? Me! Have I ever been arrested for this?"
"You're a cop..." My face on fire, I didn't find any more excuses to hide my fear. "And if it gets soft?" I pointed at my organ, no longer hard as before. "All these boys with performance anxiety! We've all been there", dad smiled at my aunt and Alex winked back. "That's why brothers, sisters and cousins exist", she comforted me. "Now go, and spread your gift!"
"Before you all disappear I have an announcement", Sharon stood up and spoke. "No, two."
"First of all, I'm pregnant again. Now I'm expecting a girl, Gifter Adri's father for the second time."
We all looked at her, her belly was not so evident yet. "And second, it's the most difficult to talk about..."
She held my father's hand tight, and he responded squeezing his fingers around her.
"I am, I was, President Arvil's biological daughter. It's me preventing him from mutating our HIV to a very lethal weapon, it's me who allowed our virus to talk, to help us, to save our sex freedom despite Greg. Now I'm the European Union president, I inherited all the asshole's money. And Scotty is..."
"...Scott is the last negative guy remaining in this world", my dad continued; "at least until Sharon gives birth to her daughter. But no accidents this time, understood?"