This story is fiction.  Actually, the setting of an artificial world in Space and the year being 2109 should have been enough to clue you in about that.

I don't care how old are.  I don't care how young you are.  However, the law does care, so if you are too young, go away (or at least try not to get caught).

If this story is against the law where you live, then like the young folk, go away.  Or at least...

Anzu James: Naked in Orbit, Part 17 (Three Months Later: A Retrospective)
by Coach Michaels

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I’m not writing this for English or History or any other class.  I’m just writing this for myself and for you, my readers from a hundred-plus years ago.  All through the last journal, I tried to pretend that somehow, you really would see this, and I’m going to maintain that pretense now.

It is now Monday, June 3rd of 2109.  Three months ago, I was inducted into the Naked in School Program.  A week after that, I put my clothes back on, but I was a changed woman.  Not all of the changes were because of the Program, but most or all of them were related to it in some fashion.

My worst enemy became a creepy sort of friend.  She’d tried to humiliate me, but I’d turned it around on her.  But I went too far, because she just wasn’t normal for a while.  Even after she was dressed again, she was strange.  At least now she avoided me instead of seeking me out.  I much preferred that.  When we would bump into each other, at least until after Spring Break, she still acted shy and submissive.  There was still a bit of that after Spring Break, but it diminished quickly.  Last Wednesday, we actually argued, ending with this exchange:

“Anzu, you stupid bitch!  Let’s just stay the hell away from each other!”

“Best idea I’ve heard all year!”

I’d snarled and wrinkled my nose and bared my teeth and spun around and stomped off.  I had to spin around to keep her from seeing me smile.  I couldn’t help but grin.  In fact I was so happy I could have kissed her, and not just to gross her out.  Jeness was back to normal AND I wasn’t going to have to put up with her scheming bitchery OR her creepy clinging submissiveness.

I did talk to the school shrink, who told me that it’s perfectly normal to get excited and horny and wet and breathless and finger myself to a shaking orgasm over the idea of sexually humiliating somebody so bad she cries, screams, and throws up.  Really.  Perfectly normal.

The difference, he tells me, is that I didn’t actually do it, except that one time when I didn’t realize how strongly it would impact her.  When push came to shove (and what exactly does that mean, anyway?), I not only didn’t join in with the gang-not-rape-exactly, I took steps to stop it.  My virtue, he tells me, is stronger than my lust, for either sex or vengeance.  For all that she’d been my enemy, I’d helped rather than hurt somebody who needed help.  So I’m a good person.

Well maybe.  I still get wet thinking about making out with her in the hall, grossing her out and then making it even worse.  Of getting a woman who can’t stand the site of two girls kissing to kiss me, and deeply.  And I did actually do that, so how good am I?

And speaking of kissing girls…

Even without the Program, I think Botilda and I would have admitted our feelings for each other, but it might’ve been over Spring Break instead of at Holly-Kon.  It turns out her parents have known all along, and don’t have a problem.  This floored Botilda, who thought her ‘rents were more strait-laced than they are.  Not that they aren’t pretty straight in the laces, just not as bad as we’d figured.  So now we make no pretense, and in fact she’s my date for the Summer Dance that O’Neill High will be throwing on Saturday the 22nd, signaling the beginning of Summer Break.  I’d tell you all how much I love her, but there just aren’t the words.

I had another enemy, sort of, in Bret.  Once he gave up the whole getting even thing, he turned out to be a wonderful guy.  Here the Program was a very big deal, because it allowed him (thanks to Jeness, weirdly enough) to get past the getting even thing without having to get even.  If he had taken some sort of vengeance, I might have been the resentful one, and then how much longer for us to get together?  It might have been next year.

Bret could’ve been a real monkey wrench in my relationship with Botilda, but it hasn’t turned out that way.  Botilda has had her moments of jealousy, her moments of insecurity, but she knows, really, that I’m not going to leave her for Bret or for anybody else.  There wouldn’t even be those moments if we hadn’t always tried to pretend that our love-making was only for practice, or for fun, and that as soon as we started doing guys we’d quit with the whole “lesbians of convenience” thing.  But it has nothing to do with convenience, and she’s happy to share me with a man, as long as she keeps me too.  Sharing me with another girl I don’t think she’d go for.

I know they’ve thought of doing each other.  They think I don’t know, but I do.  And here I’ve had my own moments of jealousy.  Botilda is MY lover, damn it!  But again, she loves me, and I couldn’t think of a better man for her to give her boy cherry to than Bret.  He isn’t going to take her away from me, doesn’t want to, and wouldn’t if he could, which he can’t.  Maybe I can even join in.  Now there’s a sexy idea.

You know what’s funny?  Why don’t I feel jealousy the other way?  Why don’t I fear that Botilda will take Bret away from me?  But I don’t.  I guess this is because (and I’d never tell either of them this) I trust Botilda more than I do Bret.  Or maybe I fear losing her more than I do him.  I’ve been with her longer after all.  But I do think that I love him.  Which means that not only am I bi, I’m poly.  Again, this would be true without the Program, but it’s helped me to see it more quickly than I would have.

My final enemy is the Warlord, John Carter Soon To Be of Mars Again.  He’s gone back to his grumpy old self, and to be honest I’m not going to miss him when Paxton takes his place, right after Summer Break.  There is one thing, though: last week we had another Program participant in Biology.  It was obvious Carter wasn’t happy having another one of THOSE in his class, but he didn’t pick on the guy.  The nude dude, Robert, was wise enough not to push things by, for instance, taking relief.

Over Spring Break Botilda and I mostly stayed around Mendocino, but we did take a four-day trip to High Vail for some snowboarding and mini-biathlon.  We’re not that good, but hey, over five kilometres we’re not that bad.  We even watched a tenth-G pairs figure skating competition.  I’m lucky to stand up in ice skates, so I really respect people who can move like that.  And of course there was tons of love-making.

Speaking of moving: the dance I’d seen on Dancing In the Stars, with the sing-song instructions and all the partner-switching?  Well, it exists in your day, is quite old, and is called “square dancing.”  The low-G version is known as “cube dancing” because a cube is a three-dimensional square.  I’m taking lessons during this Summer Break.

I’m also going to be working with Rashida to get the nude rave going.  I won’t be leaving Mendocino this Break.  Turns out she and Sam Mizuno thought of it before I mentioned it to them, and then we learned that Kachina and Keith had started work back in February.  It will be a part of Nude Fridays in Ring Seven Park, which means it will happen once each month.  We won’t have the changing gravity of the Planets Ballroom, but it will be an all-nude rave, and I plan to go every month, or at least most months.  I won’t be running it or anything like that, but as one of the founders I’ll have the ears of the people who do, so I might be able to influence the choice of music a little.

Botilda still hasn’t been chosen for the Program, and I’m starting to think that she might beat the odds.  Of course, she might not.  There’s still half of this year and all of next.  But whether she escapes the Program or not, I’m there for her.

This week’s participant for our Homeroom is Ralph.  I made him an offer in the last few minutes of my own week, and I’m not sure how I feel if he decides to take me up on it.  When you’re in the Program, all sorts of things seem reasonable that might not any other time.  If he asks, though, I’ll probably do it.  After all, most straight folks have a same-sex experiment sometime in their lives, so why can’t Ralph have a different-sex experiment?

It really has been interesting, talking to my ancestors.  If you really were able to read this, would I feel compelled to warn you of some of the things in your future?  To tell you that you really should worry about some of the things you don’t, and that you can relax about some of the things that keep you up nights?  There are mysteries in your day that are common knowledge today, or at least common knowledge to any high school history buff (like me).

If I really thought you could read this, I don’t think I’d be able to resist telling you the truth about the JFK assassination.

THE  END

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