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April 2340
New Hyderabad
Mayor Ahmed Davies
My grandfather, Evan O’Connor-Davies, retired when I was elected. It was the first hour of my first day as Mayor, and I already had a difficult decision to make.
My girlfriend Eve called me with some shocking news. She was pregnant, and I was the only guy she had sex with! I really liked her, but she was only 19! Sex was allowed at age 18, but I knew there were good reasons the age of initial reproduction was 21, and every woman’s first child was supposed to come from a frozen embryo. She shouldn’t be having any babies the old-fashioned way for about three years!
I also knew there were good reasons that medications and other potentially dangerous chemicals could only be produced or distributed by doctors and chemists doing their official duties. I should have stopped Doctor Roy Harris and chemist Samantha Cohen when I had the chance.
One night Roy, Samantha, and I met at the Love Shack and talked about our unusual desires. The three of us were all strongly attracted to young women, from 18 to 20. Roy and Sam were thinking of starting a family. I was too but hadn’t found the right people yet.
The two of them had figured out the recipes for two banned substances, a drug that prevents female fertility, and an old illegal one called ‘ax’, or something like that, which causes loss of inhibitions and euphoria. Since I was a Safety Officer at the time, I had the code for the chemical storage room. They convinced me to join in their scheme. I told them they could make the fertility inhibitor, but using mind-altering drugs to take advantage of the girls would be way out of line. Even giving them beer made me uncomfortable. I later found out Sam made and used both drugs.
Doctor Roy is also an Educator, and teaches nurses and first aid to classes around our desired age. At the end of each semester, Doctor Roy would host a party and introduce the students to us. We would pick the most attractive girls and convince them to have a few beers with us. Samantha would dose the beer with the drugs, and some of the young women would happily ‘party’ with us. The girls were too afraid of getting in trouble for breaking the rules themselves to tell anybody.
Our scheme worked perfectly for three years. We had five young women who were happy to party and sleep with us. Life was great, until Samantha made an ineffective batch of the fertility inhibitor. 20-year-old Mia and 18-year-old Betty got pregnant with Roy’s babies, and I ‘knocked up’ Eve at 19.
All births have a genetic test to detect health issues and confirm paternity. There’s no way I could punish Roy and Sam without being in trouble myself. If I were a Purple, I’d lose my position as mayor! I couldn’t be a Safety Officer as a purple either, so I’d have to go back to my first assignment, Habitation! I’d be cleaning up trash and mopping floors again! My other girlfriend Laura, who had the Safety position now, would need to go back to Agriculture, picking fruit and vegetables! She’d hate me!
For two weeks I barely slept, with only one thought on my mind, “How the Hell do I fix this?”
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