Play Party of the Imagination: 4
Everyone at the party was smitten with Jessica. She had been unsure of how accepting people would be toward her but I assured her it was an open-minded group. Wearing knee socks and a pleated skirt with her hair held back by pink butterfly hair-clips, everyone had warmed up to her nicely. Our school desk was two bulky to fit in the trunk of the car so neither one of us had planed on sceneing that night. But both of us had a good time socializing and watching other peoples scenes.About halfway into the party, Marty came up to me at the snack table and started a conversation. “Hey Jack, “he started “Nice date you brought with you.”
“Why thank you.” I replied “She is kind of cute? Ain’t she?”
“She sure is. And she looks so young too.”
“Well that’s because she is Marty”
“Is what?”
“She is 14″
LadyNighthalk was standing near us at the moment I said this and was caught in the middle of a sip of punch. The punch came out of her nose and all over the try of brownies and she went immediately into a coughing fit. She was still coughing as she rushed away to find some paper towels to clean up her leather outfit.
“Uh, Jack?” Marty started up again “Did I hear you right? You said Jessica is 14 years old?”
“Yeah. That’s what I said. You said she looked young and I just pointed out to you that she actually is young”
Marty began to wring his hands together nervously. “Jack, you can’t have her at a party like this. She is under the age of consent”
“Not in Hawaii, Iowa, New Hampshire, or South Carolina she isn’t.” (http://www.ageofconsent.com/)
“But jack, this isn’t any of those states.”
“Well Jessica is from Iowa originally. She certainly has the right to consent.”
Marty was turning white by this point. “But jack, it’s against the law in this state. And this is the state we are in”
“So? Come on Marty, oral sex is against the law in our state also but your fine with oral sex. I know because I saw you doing it in the rack room not less than an hour ago”
“That is something totally different and you know it. What we do is based on the concept of safe - sane - consensual and what your doing is not consensual”
“First of all Marty, by the law she can consent. And secondly, she does consent. If you don’t believe me just go ask her”
Marty switched tactics. “Do her parents know she is here?”
“Jessica’s father died when she was six. Her mother retired and moved to Florida 4 months ago.”
“Well who is her legal guardian then? Do they know she is at this party?”
I chuckled slightly. “If that is what is bothering you Marty you can relax. Her legal guardian does know she is here because I am her legal guardian.”
Marty clutched his hands into his hair and stated gasping for air “Oh crap! Oh crap! Jack? Are you serious? Incest? What the hell were you thinking bringing her to this party?”
“Relax Marty, its not like she calls me daddy or anything. Im her teacher, she calls me Professor Jack. And since she is my student I figured it would just be best of I was her legal guardian also. It makes teaching all that much more effective if I can home-school her”
Marty was on the verge of having a stroke when a glimmer of recognition played across his face. “Hold on! Wait just one second. You said her mother retired and moved to Florida a few months ago? How old is her mother?”
“Standard age of retirement.” I answered “Her mother is 65″
“So her mother gave birth to her when she was 51?”
“Oh no! Not at all. He mother was like 33 or something when she gave birth to Jessica”
Marty heaved a huge sigh or relief upon hearing this. “Shit jack, you scared the crap out of me. Why didn’t you just say that she was 32 and playing at being 14?”
“Because she isn’t Marty. She really is 14.”
“I know she looks 14. That’s what I meant when I first said she looked so young. I meant she looked younger than what she really is. And I know you treat her like she was 14 and she acts like she is 14 but for crying out loud why couldn’t you have just told me her real age.”
“That is her real age Marty”
“I meant the age she actually is”
“Her actual age is 14. This was a decision we didn’t step into lightly.”
Marty was extraordinarily frustrated at me by this point as was getting madder by the second. “What age is on her drivers license?” he asked.
“She doesn’t have a drivers license. She is 14, remember? She is too young to drive.”
“When is her birthday?”
“She doesn’t have one. In order to keep her at 14 years old we both decided not to let her have one”
“Cut it out jack. We are not in a scene right now. This is the real world. You don’t have to keep up the game pretending she is 14″
“This isn’t a game Marty” I hissed “And to be honest I take a little bit of offence that you are implying Jessica and I are just a couple of fakes and pretenders. This is our life and this is the way we chose to live it. How dare you call it a game”
“Don’t get in such a huff Jack. How you live your life is nobody’s business but your own. I was just trying to get to the reality of the matter.”
“This is reality. This has been a conscious choice her and I made together. We didn’t go into this lightly.”
“Have you lost your mind jack? Just because she acts 14 and you treat her like she is 14 doesn’t make her really 14″
“Why not?”
“It just doesn’t. That’s why. It’s not real”
“Well what about Lucy? She has made the choice to be a woman. She lives her life as a woman all the time. That isnt a game to her. Its not roll playing. It’s the way she has chosen to live her life.”
“This is nothing like Lucy. Lucy is eventually going to have an operation to get that fixed.”
“Well what about slaveAnn? She acts like a slave and her master treats her like a slave and everyone accepts the fact she is a slave.”
“That’s something different and you know it”
“How is it different? SlaveAnn has made a choice to be one way and her choice becomes reality. That is no different than what Jessica and I are doing. Last month we decided we would cement our relationship. She moved in with me so that I could home-school her and I became her legal guardian. We also got rid of her birthday so she could be 14 for the rest of her life.”
“Its different because slaveAnn actually can give up total control to her master. Freedom is something you can chose and she has chosen to eliminate freedom from her life. But age is not something you choose. You have an age and that is what is real.”
“Reality is what you can get away with. Look, say word gets out that a bank is financially unstable. People start to take their money out of the bank and soon it really is financially unstable. What we think and how we act is what produces reality. Not the other way around.”
“You can’t flip flop the real world that easy Jack”
“Easy? You thought this was easy? This was a well-planed decision that neither of us went into lightly. We were fully informed and consensual before we decided she would be 14. It wasn’t something we decided to do on the spur of the moment. We had been doing the teacher/schoolgirl thing for a while and decided we would finally commit to being that way 24/7. And in the end, its our choice to make, not yours”
Jessica came up to me at that moment and said she wanted to go home. It was past her usual bedtime and she was getting sleepy. I excused myself from Marty and took her home to tuck her into bed and read her a bedtime story.