Love is a Place Ch. 01: The Puzzle - Sex Stories

Love is a Place Ch. 01: The Puzzle

Dearest reader

How are you? I hope all is well with you. Ok, before you start, I feel I should mention two things:

If you are still with me at this point, then I thank you and humbly invite you to continue.

All characters are over 18 and bear no resemblance to anyone living or dead. I would also like to thank KES for all her invaluable support and suggestions.

Happy reading

Love T

Love is a place (Part 1): The Puzzle

Samantha had a Puzzle to solve. Not a Problem. She wasn't sure if it merited that classification yet. A Problem was something that caused her difficulty in her life. A Problem would require Action and Change. A Puzzle was something new that she didn't yet understand, but she needed to understand in order to decide whether a) there was a Problem or b) no Action was needed.

It had taken her some time to become aware that this Puzzle was there in her life. This was unusual: normally new things were jarring, causing a stench in her hearing and a folding in her chest. This Puzzle had crept up on her. That in itself was puzzling.

She had finished her lunch and washed her hands, she had reviewed her notes from the pre-reading and now had 25 minutes before her lecture began. Deciding that this was enough time to begin working on the Puzzle, she opened a new document, titled itPuzzle Sub:Sarah No. 162 and filed it in her Sarah folder, in the sub-folder for that year.

She began to type.

Hypothesis: I think Sarah may desire me ...

... sexually.

Principle evidence:

Alternative sub-hypothesis 1:

Sarah has been asleep in all of the above cases. She may have been enacting her dreams, and projecting her sexual desire onto me. It may not be me that she desires. According to Silmaki (Lancet, 2014) and Jones et al (Journal of Endocrinology, 2011), sharing the same sleeping space with somebody over a prolonged period of time can lead to increased sexual desire and deepening of emotions due to the release of oxytocin. Thus, Sarah may be in a feedback loop whereby continuing to share a bed with me is promoting the release of oxytocin, which is then increasing her sexual desire, etc.

Alternative sub-hypothesis 2:

I may be misunderstanding and misinterpreting these actions on Sarah's part. This may be a perfectly normal aspect of female friendship which I was unaware of and nobody has informed me about. There are extensive references in literature (cf Austen, Bronte) to women sharing a bed in a platonic manner; they often mention having arms around one another, but do not always specify where each other's hands rest. Perhaps holding each other's breasts is likewise normal.

Samantha stopped typing and sat still, hands on her knees. She reviewed what she had written and tried mapping the evidence onto her previous experience. This took very little time as she had no previous experience that corresponded to the data: she had only shared a bed with Sarah and only this year, in their room on the second floor of a ...