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  I guess she was not going to join me today. Did someone annoy her, and she did not want to take it out on me? I went to our bedroom, opening the door and seeing her sleeping in the darkness. She might be awake, but I could not properly tell since she had her back facing the door. I also did not want to annoy her by putting on the lights. I calmly and quietly dropped my suitcase and changed into more casual wear before leaving her in the room. Now, it was time. I went to one of the spare rooms I used solely for GEMINI. Getting into the room, I brought out my GEMINI VR Headset from the locked cabinet in the room. I always feared Diana would destroy it, but she never did. It wouldn't have mattered, though, because my character and progress on GEMINI would instantly be saved to the worldwide GEMINI servers, so even if she destroyed the headset, all I needed to do was buy another one and continue.

  I laid down on my bed and put the straps around my wrist where the GEMINI chip was inserted and placed the VR Headset on my head. Taking a deep breath, I pushed the button that sent me to the world that had become my addiction…my obsession…my GEMINI.

  -Chapter Two-

  FANTASY

  I opened my eyes and immediately smiled. Was this how someone who used cocaine felt after he injects himself with a new dose after going without it for a while? I felt this every time I came back here. That feeling of invincibility, freedom, and happiness.

  GEMINI gave me the freedom and courage to do all I never thought of doing or could not do in the real world. I was pretty sure I was not the only one who felt that way. We all saw this as our version of Heaven. GEMINI Virtual Reality Interface offered its customers the opportunity to live in the world as Avatars that are chosen by us. We can create ourselves from scratch with thousands of options for every part of the body. I headed straight for my favorite place in the entirety of GEMINI, the mating centers. Thank God for the Avatars being able to feel sexual sensations on GEMINI almost at the exact same level as the real deal. Nothing was taboo in this world. Thanks to our Avatars, both men and women could look and feel the perfect way they envisioned themselves. It was just perfect and amazing. To be fair, it wasn't always as streamlined as is it now. The earlier versions were much harder and less ideal, but isn't that the point? To grow with each iteration and learn from the mistakes of the previous version. As long as I had the required number of zings they charged, I could take two perfect ladies out on a date and then for some mind-blowing sex. Fuck! In the real world, the chances of this happening is close to zero. First, we would have to be perfect, which is impossible in the real world. I was also married, so it would be considered cheating because that is what it was, cheating. Here, however, due to it being a virtual reality, it's not. I did not have to deal with a conscience or tell my wife. It's just a game that feels real. It is not real. I never thought I would fall for this world, but here I was, a slave to the same technology I preached against.

  "Hey," I said to the guy who owned my favorite bar.

  "Yo, Luke, how you been?!" the burly individual said with a beaming smile. Luke was my Avatar name. I thought it was cool and still do. Only the Admins and handlers of GEMINI know everyone's real identity. It was required at the time when one registers for GEMINI. My guess would be the Government also knew of our identities for monitoring purposes, as well as making sure the creators do not use our information for their benefit. If I was being honest, most people I have met here did not mind nor care, myself included. We had all accepted we needed this world, so we were okay with giving up our real identities, more so now than we did when we first joined. I remember battling whether to give them my real identity when I was registering and creating my Avatar for GEMINI v1.

  We were now subservient to the whims of GEMINI, and we did not care as long as we got our daily fix of this magnificent world. Take a moment to imagine being someone else, and not just someone else, but your ideal version of what a perfect person should be. Imagine being that for a day…a weak…a month…a year…several years. Girls fawning over your excellent form as opposed to your flawed one in real life. You get the adulation you never thought you would ever have in your lifetime. You go to meet several other individuals in the perfect forms they always wished to be, have sex whenever you liked and with whomever you liked, consensual of course. How could anyone blame us for doing this? Well, I did blame people before I witnessed it, so all I can say is only those who have tasted the devil's fruit can understand it's delectable nutrients. GEMINI v3 is perfect. The world that fulfilled everyone's dream.

  "Yeah, I'm fine," I said. "How ‘bout you, Graine?"

  "As you can see, business is booming," he said with a grin. I looked around, and it sure was. Some guys had girls on and around them while they all guzzled drinks. This was the life, man, I thought. "All I need to do is convert my virtual zings to dollars, and I am as rich as fuck in the real world, huh?" Zing is the currency used in the GEMINI world, and GEMCORP takes 20% of all transactions made. I always wondered how Graine was able to be approved to own a business in the virtual reality. He did talk like someone who grew up on the rough side of the world. Not sure, but just an assumption based on his speech and nature. He must have nice connections because I knew most rich men who bid to own businesses do not own bars in the world but things more lavish. Maybe they bid for the bar then outsourced it to someone like Graine.

  "Oi! What would you like to drink?" he asked, taking me out of my thoughts.

  "The usual," I answered.

  "Coming right up." Graine left to go get me my order. Seeing him walk away humming and looking all chipper reminded me that GEMINI was not all bad. People like this have their lives saved by GEMINI. He might be stranded on the street like others who lost their jobs if it weren't for GEMINI. I heard some people have found their self-esteem in the real world again thanks to GEMINI, but there is always a flip side to that, I guess. Some people have had their real lives ruined because of GEMINI. I would know firsthand.

  I gazed as far as I could into the dark distance of GEMINI, and all I could see were lights. So many tall buildings, flashy colors, and many more. This world might not be real, but it felt alive. The creators, GEMCORP, really worked hard on the third version of GEMINI, I must say.

  Unlike its predecessor, v1, which had one realm, GEMINI v3 had five realms. One would begin in realm one then move upwards. For one to move to a higher realm, he or she would need to receive a message on upgrade from GEMCORP. I remembered when I got my upgrade message from Realm 1 to 2 to this day. It was so cool, and I was so excited. There was some speculation on the basis of which one upgrades, but none were confirmed by GEMCORP. Some said it was based on your experience within that realm as well as your clean slate. Our clean slate is what records all our activities, quantifying it to show how dirty or clean we were. I always thought of it as a filtering process that made sure Realm 5 - the goal for us all - was attained by those with the best behaviors and mannerisms in all ways. Some people on GEMINI had even told me that someone gets the ability and access to go into any realm at will once he or she reaches Realm 5. All these were not proven, obviously, since a lot of people claim to be from Realm 5 and 'visiting' our lowly realms. All were lying.

  It is said that those who are really in Realm 5 love to blend in and not reveal themselves, having attained such a great level of character that they would rather watch the lower realms of GEMINI unfold without interfering. I was currently in Realm 2 and have been here for four years. I think I have been on good behavior long and well enough to be upgraded to Realm 3. I heard the criteria for getting upgraded gets harder the higher you go, though, so maybe that's why my wait is longer this time than it was before.

  "Here's your order, boss," Graine said, placing my ginger ale with a pinch of tequila on the table.

  "I told you to stop calling me that, man," I said and smiled. He had a habit of calling people who bought his drinks 'boss'. I didn't like that as I saw us more like friends…or acquaintances.

  "Ah, sorry. Force of habit."

  "
I know, right," I mused.

  "You heard about that guy that died while on GEMINI?" Graine asked, and I looked at him confused.

  "What the heck are you talking about?" He seemed a tad surprised that I did not know, which only made me more curious.

  "You really don't know? I only asked if you had heard about it rhetorically," he said. "Anyways, he stayed so long in GEMINI that he forgot to eat and died in the real world." I raised my eyebrows and joined my lips firmly together, trying to feign sadness. To be honest, this had been a recurring theme since GEMINI began. People became so addicted to the virtual world that they forgot to come back to the real world. They forget to eat, shit, and do other basic things that are necessary for the biology of a human being. In many instances, these individuals let their love for GEMINI get to the absolute extreme and die of starvation. The main reason for this is because, in GEMINI, you feel filled when you eat and drink; hence, it leads one not to feel the hunger that comes when one hasn't eaten. I found that inconvenient, as it hinders someone from knowing when they needed to leave the world. It is made worse when you know GEMCORP is doing it simply because it guarantees more hours spent in GEMINI. This, in turn, means more profit for them as well as the investors. I was surprised the Government had not forced them to remove that aspect of the game but surmised that they may also be investors in the VR themselves.

  Honestly, that feels like a nitpick compared to the problems the original GEMINI had. When GEMINI v1 was released, it was open to everyone…I mean, every single demographic and age. Age is where it gets tricky and problematic.

  Kids are far more impressionable than adults. This means they get addicted to the world of GEMINI much faster than adults do. Things only go downhill from there. Kids are also less likely to behave in a respectable manner when compared to adults. And why should a kid be allowed to go to the Mating Centers? A lot of problems came with this, and honestly, I wonder to this day why GEMCORP released the first version with no restrictions when they must have considered these issues. Were they that zing-hungry?

  "People have sure been dying like flies recently, Luke," Graine said to me. "That will make this dude the sixth person to die while playing GEMINI in just this week…and it's Thursday. These are even the confirmed ones, 'cos I am sure many are still dead but undiscovered." I raised my eyes and furrowed my brows. This was really an issue, huh. So many in just a week. No, less than a week in fact.

  "I didn't know things were that bad," I said with worry plastered across my face.

  "I know, right," Graine concurred. "Oh, well. Nothing we can do about it now."

  I paid for my drink and headed straight for the Mating Centers to purchase myself a Quinette. Quinettes were what we called prostitutes on GEMINI. Prostitution was legal and arguably the fastest way to earn money in the world. On the way, though, my mind remained on what Graine and I had discussed.

  I could never forget the case that caused GEMINI to make revisions to their precautionary measures. Back then, I was still living a normal life and against GEMINI, and this was one of the reasons. An eight-year-old boy played GEMINI until he got severely ill. He hadn't eaten for an entire day. Where were the parents? Playing GEMINI as well. All three had forgotten they needed to eat to stay alive. Eventually, the mother remembered and went to check on him. The bot alarm was not heard by any of them, despite it going off three times. That was just an instance. Thankfully, GEMCORP placed the necessary restrictions required after the Government stepped in and received a 13 and above rating. I still didn't like it, but the 13-17 GEMINI was said to be much different from the one adults used. There were several policies put in place to make it more teenage-friendly, as well as having strict admin oversight in order to make it a safe space. That is what GEMINI v2 was right now, and I definitely would not want to be there after seeing and experiencing what GEMINI v3 had to offer.

  "Ugh! Get that off your mind, dude." I berated myself while entering the brothel. Girls with unbelievably great endowments had already started fawning over me the moment I reached the door. Some had begun touching me, even going as far as grabbing my dick. Others would say pleasurable things like, “Hey baby," or "I can tell you've got a big dick." Stuff like that. They might seem benign, but I gotta tell you, they do wonders for the ego.

  Other than to get my mind off the somber thoughts in my head about the rising rate of deaths, another major reason I wanted to go to the Mating Centers was that I was genuinely horny. In fact, I would say that was the main reason before Graine spoiled my mood. I saw my boss's new secretary, and boy was she hot as fuck. Her boobs were so large and jammed together that I just wanted to shove my hand in the line between them. Gosh, just thinking about it made my little man hard.

  "Ooh! We have an excited one," one of the Quinettes said. I was hellbent on converting that sexual frustration of not being able to do what I wanted with her to sexual pleasure enacted on these girls.

  I sat down and took a minute to gaze at the variations in Quinettes that were available to me and everyone here. A lot of them I had done before since I was a regular here. Besides, none of the ones that were here had the tits of the secretary, which is saying much, considering this is a virtual world. I finally got up and went to the counter to check the brochure.

  "Hey, honey," another Quinette I knew from past encounters came, placing her arms around me. "We had fun the other time. Wanna go for another round…or series of rounds this time?"

  "No thanks, Reyla. I am looking for something else tonight," I replied in the most polite way I could.

  "Alright then, honey," she said, walking away. "If you change your mind, you know where to find me." She jiggled her tits while walking backward. Damn.

  I focused my attention back to the brochure, scrolling through the new additions to the Quinettes in the Mating Centre. After about a minute, I found a hot girl who slightly looked like a guy due to her muscular nature. But she had great breasts. Turning her around using the 360 view system, I saw she had a firm, bubble butt. She also had dark skin and gray hair, which I found highly appealing.

  Checking her special features or techniques in her specialties tab, I realized she had a long tongue. Okay, that, I had not experienced before. I'm sure it was so much longer than the human tongue could ever possibly be. Just imagining her slender, wet, and long tongue wrapping around my huge dick and strangling the cum out of it made me fucking horny. I had to have her and see how this feels, I thought. I gave myself a much larger penis than I had in real life, and I was going to put it to good use again…then I saw the price.

  "The fuck?! 200 zings?!" I exclaimed at such exorbitant pricing for a new Quinette. After contemplating it for a while, I decided it was worth the new experience, and the establishment knew it, which was why they placed such a price.

  I ordered for her, and the next thing I knew, I saw her in the flesh approaching me from afar. I had a very handsome Avatar who was 6 foot 3 inches. She had a very muscular body with a height I would guess was around 5 foot 10 inches.

  "Hey," I said to her with a smile. She smiled back, which for some reason, I appreciated. I guess it might be because some of the Quinettes are strictly business, which makes things a bit awkward for me. "You're new here, right?"

  "Yeah, but we don't have to talk before getting straight to business," she opined. I guess she had a point. Asking for small talk was not part of the deal, so she did not have to indulge me with that. At least she had a nice smile. I wondered how her long tongue sat inside that mouth or did it elongate at a certain time when she was aroused? Ugh! Stop over-thinking things!

  "I guess you're right," I said, not being able to hide my slight disappointment. I always liked my amorous delights with women to be from a place of mutual like for each other.

  "Oh, I'm sorry," she apologized, causing me to be confused. "I was told many guys here prefer going straight to business. I could talk a little first before we fuck if that's what you want-"

  "Hey, it's fine. You do whatever you w
ant to do." I calmed her down. She really has not been here for long. Was I her first customer? For someone of her body type, she was awfully indecisive. I guess a lot of people on GEMINI choose bodies that they could not have in real life or that reflected battling their mental insecurities. "I want you to feel comfortable, not tense." She smiled in the cutest way.

  "My name is Seraya, by the way," she introduced. I had forgotten that I had not even introduced myself. How rude of me.

  "I'm Luke," I said prior to us heading to the room assigned to us. I began removing my clothes when Seraya pushed me to the bed. I was surprised that a girl that was very shy and weird had become emboldened all of a sudden.

  "I may be unsure about everything else, but sex? I have a real talent for it," she proclaimed boldly, and this excited me.

  "Is that so?" I asked in amusement. She nodded, slowly removing her shirt to show her abs and muscular torso. Her boobs even looked bigger without the shirt because of her flat and toned abs. They were threatening to escape the bra holding them together. I wanted to set them free but decided to relax and watch her perform her magic.

  "I'm gonna make you feel goooood," she said in a manner that was both cute and maniacal in equal measure. Getting to the edge of the bed where my legs were, Seraya knelt down while removing her bra completely. Damn. If there was ever a moment I needed to be reminded that boobs were divine, this was it. Her tits were large, yet firm, exquisitely positioned from one another. Her areola was just right, and her large nipples were almost begging for me to devour them.