Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:23:47 -0500
From: Lee McDougal <lefteyefan-1@tlcfanmail.com>
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
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