One Man's Secret

Posted on Mon May 20th, 2013 @ 10:49pm by Warrant Officer Sterling Kamala IV
Edited on on Tue May 21st, 2013 @ 11:56am

520 words; about a 3 minute read

Mission: What Dreams May Come?
Location: Sterlin's Cabin
Timeline: Current

Sterling and Darcell had been the best of friends since firsts (first grade). That was fortunate as far as their parents were concerned. Sterling, was an empathic metamorph and would make one of the Sallam family children a perfect mate.

Arrangements had been made, contrats signed and payments recieved. It would strengthen the political and business interests for both families. At first everyone assumed that it would be Ellisa the eldest daughter, but it became clear in his early teens that Darcell was not interested in girls the way most Krosian boys were. This meant that Ellisa could be married off to yet another family.

Sterling would adjust to Darcell's personality, his desires, his sexual tastes. He would learn to antcipate his needs. He would be the perfect mate. That was just the way things were. It was what happened with those of Sterling's kind. It was expected, the norm, the way things had been and would always be.

It was Sterling's 15th birthday and both boys had just been toldof the new arrangements, after the party and the other boys had left. It had already been arranged that Darcell would be sleeping over.

Now they sat on Sterling's bed looking at each other. Sterling had known for as long as Darcell that he was salan, he may have even instinctively known before that, but it had never bothered him. It was just the way his friend was. It did not lessen their friendship. Darcell had brought up the possiblity of them being more than friends just once and Sterling had politetly turned him down. His eye, his destire had always been towards the opposite sex when it came to such matters. The two had continued to be the best of friends, until now.

"I am sorry Sterling, but this is not my fault. You're not the only one that has someone else you know."

"How do you know I've found someone else. Just because I don't want to be married to you doesn't mean I've found somebody."

"Are you kidding me? Who are you trying to fool? I see the way your eyes go all googily when you look at Rachel Vandemar. I'm salan. I notice such things. Does she love you back?"

Despite himself Sterling found himself smiling albeit only slighly. " Yes, very much so. So who is it you're interested in, or do I want to know?"

"You know him, he sits across from you in Physics, Sarish Anjar. He's an ambassador's son. He's smart and good looking and has a really nice...."

"I get the picture Darcell," Sterling interrupted, "You don't have to go into detail. You really are in deep pigah aren't you? You're not in love with the one you're supposed to wed. You're trying to plot on how to break off the wedding, with a very willing co-conspirator I might add and to top it all off, you're in love with an off-worlder. A Bajoran."

Sterling stirred slightly in his sleep as the focus of his dream, a dream forged in the reality of the past shifted focus.

TBC

Sterling Kamala
Security Investigations

 

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