"I don't expect you to keep up, not with a population climbing for sixty thousand now."I don't expect you to keep up, not with a population climbing for sixty thousand now. She's a nice person. You should meet her." I grinned, embarassed. "I guess I should. By the way, I owe you a thanks." "For what?" he asked. Was it my imagination, or did he roll his belly closer to me? "You know how Aaden and I are getting along?" He nodded. "It's been the only thing on the gossip circuit for the past six months." "I couldn't have gotten there without you." He looked up at me, the expression on his face unmistakable. "Me? How so?" I sighed and stroked his belly. He had offered it to me. "When I built the 'phins, I was still, well... entalie'. Straight. I had slept with Jahn, a few times in fact, and there was Vence, but I didn't think I was comfortable with males." "So why am I responsible for you and Aaden?" "I needed you. Does that make any sense? I needed a dolphin compatriot, and you were it. The fact that you were male didn't make much of a difference... somehow, despite the fact that I knew how legendarily horny Tursiops was, I didn't make the connection, and when you and I started getting along and it became kind of obvious that you were the dolphin who would end up with the family name, it... Do you remember the first time we had sex?" He laughed. "I wouldn't call it sex!" "You wouldn't?" "Would you?" he asked. "It was certainly voyeuristic. Turning on the lights at 10 in the night to find you rubbing yourself up against the glass like that." "I was... lonely." "Uh huh," I replied, smiling. I slid my hand further down his belly. "You were masturbating like there was no tomorrow. I think I saw you come four times before you bothered to look and see if the lights were on downstairs." He grinned. "The glass was the smoothest part of the pool." He swished his tail gently, angling closer to me again. My hands passed over the opening where his sheath lay hidden, and then further down his tail. "Anyway," I said, "You remember how... intimate we became." "Mm-hmm," he replied. He was deliberately sliding back in the water so my reach could extend only as far as his penile slit. |