First I just felt tired. I could not quite keep my attention in class, even in biology, which was my favorite subject. "Gantev-Z-Tere," the teacher would say, "pay attention." Some time later a thunderstorm surprised us and because apparently lightning struck the protection around the generator, we spent a short time in the shelter before the storm abated enough and they thought it was safe enough to let us home. I fell asleep in the shelter, even though the thundering was intense.

I walked home and for the first time, paid so little attention to my surroundings that I might not have been able to say how exactly I got home in the first place. However, while I did not pay attention to the tall buildings, shelters, storm-trashed streets, the forest just before our house, the vehicles or the people, I noticed weird details. Not obscure details, but the kind people do not really care about. A motorcycle was parked on a place where parking was not allowed. It was because of the storm, obviously, so it did not matter. The water running on the street formed strange patterns and I did not want them to make sense. I heard some bird signing and tried to figure out what kind of phones the notes most resembled. Some person walked in a funny way before me.

At home, I forgot to feed my little siblings. However, evidence suggested that they fed themselves and I was angry at them for messing up the kitchen.

The tiredness lasted about three days. Then I was back to what I could consider normal for me.

It happened again, however. Again, my parents had just left on their vacation and left me to take care of my siblings. This time, I was about as tired as cranky. I did not want to do anything. My friends promptly left me alone. I had trouble staying still, so I fidgeted on my chair most of the time in school.

My biology teacher, Dovon-T-Rego, wanted to talk to me after class. "Why are you here?" ey asked, not meaning ill. "I think that you should go to the taionkeg."

Taionkeg, the house of children. The sex house, where children are made and where adults can behave like children. Why on earth should I go there? I was not in estrus. I was cranky and tired. I did not want to be around people at all. "No."

"Maybe you should go home then."

"What for?"

"You can't seem to get much studying done, either way."

I huffed, left and went to the next class. I could not help thinking about what Dovon-T-Rego had said, though. I did not want to be in estrus, so no, this was not estrus, because I wanted it not to be and I did not know how it should have felt like anyway. I looked down at my desk the whole class and kept all thoughts to myself. I thought about my genitals. They felt a bit itchy in my opinion, but not any different to before. Maybe there was some weird pressure, but that could have meant anything.

When school ended and I got back home, my siblings asked for food before I forgot it and so I fed them. I poked my crotch through my clothes, but I thought it just hurt, so I decided for the ninth time that day that I was not in estrus.

The next morning, I was hungry, tired and my genitals were sore. I did not go to school, but instead spent nearly the whole day thinking about my genitals and what they were feeling. Thinking about it later, I have no idea how I had the patience to do that and why, because I did not even find out anything. My genitals were indeed not feeling much anything beyond the slight itch, small pressure and now the irritable soreness.

The next day, I felt better and went to school. The day after that, I felt better again. On the third day, all seemed to have returned to the way it was and I denied that I had been in estrus or anything. I told Dovon-T-Rego and my friends that I had had a cold.

Naturally, a bit over two months later it happened again. This time my genitals itched even more and started even protruding. It was very inconvenient, and when Dovon-T-Rego told me again to go to the school's taionkeg, I left. I went home, though, because I still did not want to fully admit that I was in fact having my estrus period. I tried poking my crotch again this time. Even though it still hurt, the feelings did not go away and I could not help poking more. My little siblings tried to poke into my thoughts, so I blocked them. Then they tried to secretly listen in on what I felt. It was very annoying and I spent a while chasing them and shouting at them. Usually that made me feel better, but not now. It was very frustrating.

The next day, my parents contacted me from the taionkeg and asked me if I was doing okay. I replied to them that I felt ill, but it was all right and my siblings had not caused much trouble. Apparently I was not very convincing, because they both soon showed up. They were in full estrus and obviously not feeling anything I was, so I decided for the 44th time that I was not in estrus. I did not want to let them feel what I felt, so I sheltered my mind and kept to myself—I did not want to feel what they felt, either.

My parents spent some time petting my klavedels and trying to talk me into going to the taionkeg with them. I refused, so eventually they left and went back. After they had gone, I felt miserable and wept. Then the itchy feeling overrode my misery and I started poking my bits again. Vangi, a part of my genitals about as thin and long as my smallest finger, protruded from my crotch and I spent a long time touching and looking at it. Apparently too long, because my next oldest sibling ran into my room and started whooping enthusiastically. I was furious, hit em on the shoulder and slammed em with my door. Then I felt miserable again, but before I could get over that and start poking my genitals again, I fell asleep.

Since I had not eaten for a long time before falling asleep, I was very hungry when I woke up. Fortunately it was early and I could eat in peace. I was starting to feel better, but my genitals still felt itchy and pressurized. My vangi started protruding again and I wondered what I should do. Touching all the genital skin folds felt somewhat good now and I had forgotten that it had hurt at some point. I bent and looked at lengi, the small hole that was supposed to be my birth canal. Of course I knew that the walls of the lengi would separate and thus widen the whole thing, but it felt a little surreal. I poked it with my fingers.

After I had eaten again, I learned that I could control my vangi pretty well. Then I learned that if I put it in my lengi and moved it around, it felt rather awesome. I almost forgot to eat. Toward the night I had spent hours discovering that I had several body parts that could feel a special kind of pleasure. I spent a long time rubbing them and eventually felt quite ecstatic. I pushed it a bit further still and grew scared because I thought that something in my body was about to lose control. Therefore, I stopped, felt scared for a moment and fell asleep.

The next day, I was very tired and my genitals felt sorer than ever. I was not very cranky, however. The day after that, I was completely over it and almost forgot about it. My parents asked me about it, but I ignored them.

Of course, the next reminder came a bit over two months later.

"Gantev-Z-Tere, you don't need to come to school tomorrow," said Dovon-T-Rego.

"Why not?"

"I suppose you should be at home or in a taionkeg." I was quiet.

I went home and decided that I would not go to school tomorrow. I touched my genitals, wanting that it would feel good again, but I did not really feel anything yet. I slept and woke up rather late.

My parents had not gone to the taionkeg yet. I could tell they were in estrus. They kept touching each other and liked to brush each other's chests. I started feeling a bit weird while watching them, and so did my genitals. My siblings did not notice it at all, and after a few failed attempts at trying to get me to play with them, they left me alone as well. In the evening my parents wanted to talk to me in my room.

"Do you think you're in estrus now?" asked G-Geme. I did not reply. "Would you like to come to the taionkeg now? If you don't feel like it, that's fine. But you should at least come and see."

"I don't want others... to..."

F-Lagit smiled at me. "That's fine. You can just look at the pictures, if nothing else." I did not say anything, but I went with them when they left and asked me to come as well. We rode a motorcycle to the taionkeg.

Taionkegs were usually decorated a bit differently than other buildings. I did not know why and did not bother to ask. Taionkeg decorations were round, curvy and swirly, even unsymmetric sometimes. This one had three floors. We went into the lobby where the employee welcomed us. My parents gave em some of their stuff to be held so that they would not have to take care of it. I did not have much with me, so I did not give em anything. We went through the biggest door and came to a small hall from where we went to a big common room. I thought it was a little warmer than the other rooms. There were a few couches and half-beds there as well as several doors and stairs up. There were pictures on the walls, most of them paintings of naked people. There were other people in the room as well, most of them more or less naked. Most of them did not pay attention to us, but my parents looked at three others who looked back and smiled.

"Can I introduce you to the others?" asked G-Geme from me.

"I suppose."

"This is Gantev-Z-Tere, my child." I got a light wave of telepathic acknowledgements that were supposed to make me feel welcome. I did feel welcome, though I was still uncertain of myself. "Do you mind if we leave you here?"

"No..."

"Good. You can contact us if you need something. The kitchen and bathrooms are there." G-Geme pointed past me to the right, where I saw an open doorway. My parents went to the three others and then proceeded to go through one of the doors.

I stood around for a while. The others in the room went about their business, only sparing a glance at me if even that. None of them were blatantly having sex, but most were at least kissing and petting each other. I did not look too closely, though none of them minded that I was watching them. Now my genitals did not feel itchy anymore, they felt hot.

I went around the room and looked through the paintings on the wall. There was one with two older people hugging, pressing their heads against each other. There was a picture of a group, all of them naked and one of them pregnant. One of the people in the common room was also pregnant. Then there was a picture where three people were snuggling each other, and another of an adolescent posing alone. The adolescent did not look much older than me. All the others that I had seen in the room were older than me.

Some time passed and people moved in and out of the rooms and the kitchen and bathrooms. I still looked at the paintings. After a while someone walked close to me and spoke:

"Hello."

I turned. The speaker was young, but clearly not as young as I. Ey was only wearing shorts. I kind of wanted to touch em. Then I just replied: "Um, hi."

"Is it your first time here? I don't think I saw you last time I was here."

"Yeah..."

"That's great. This is only my third time here as well." I felt a kind of sting in my nipples and smiled to hide my grimace. I thought they were sticking out. "Do you like the paintings? I think my favorite is that one." Ey pointed at the picture of an adolescent. "It's probably because I'm still young too."

"I like it too." I had not thought which one of them would be my favorite.

"What's your name? I'm Talien-G-Neika."

"Gantev-Z-Tere."

"Nice to meet you..." I smiled at em. "Um. Would you like to spend a while with me?"

"I don't know... I mean, I just don't know how to... I mean... eh."

"That's fine. You don't need to do anything if you don't want to. But there's one thing... could you open your mind a bit, at least?"

I had kept my mind to myself as much as I could. I did not usually do that, and neither did anyone else. I was not entirely sure why I had decided to keep that much to myself. Maybe it was because I was so nervous. I smiled a little and opened my mind. I let Talien-G-Neika scan my mind a bit, so we poked around each other's minds and it felt rather extraordinary. Talien-G-Neika was feeling so much excitement. It made me tingle in some way. My vangi was protruding again and brushing against my pants.

Ey took a step toward me and before I could say anything, ey had put eir hand on my chest and brushed my nipple. It created such a wave of pleasure in my mind that I almost fell off my feet. I could tell that Talien-G-Neika had not intended to come onto me so aggressively, but I understood quite well that it was hard to resist. I had a flag of acceptance on in my mind and ey proceeded to rub both of my nipples. I held em by the waist.

After about half a minute, the excitement had spread all over my body and I was vaguely used to it. My hands had went a bit down eir waist, and now ey pressed eir hips against mine. Ey did not quite hit my genitals, and I then realized that I wanted for them to get touched.

"Do you... want to go into some room?" asked Talien-G-Neika. I concurred, and we went into the nearest unoccupied one. I did not actually pay much attention to it. There were more pictures and a bed. Talien-G-Neika closed the door and we hugged, chafing our bodies against each other and brushing each other's minds. I squirmed when ey pressed eir hips against mine and squeezed my vangi.

We did not talk after that, not even mentally, though we did exchange information of things we found pleasurable. Talien-G-Neika liked it when I pinched eir nipples. I did not know first what all I liked, and Talien-G-Neika was not very exploratory, so I did not gain more insight to myself. Of course I liked it when ey brushed and pulled on my klavedels, but nearly everyone liked that anyway.

I was a little worried about impregnation even though I knew that neither of us would be fertile for years. I got over it and we interlocked our genitals. It felt a little different than when I had done it to myself, probably because it was easier to control the vangi when it did not make so extreme turns at its base. And the mental part—my feelings alone were not even half of what I felt now. We had sex and got into even higher levels of excitement. I remembered that I had been afraid of losing control on my previous estrus period when I had felt like this, but Talien-G-Neika was not worried and implied that I should not be either. Thus, I did not care.

It did not take very long until we both reached the climax of excitement. We were lost in the feeling and I was totally awed for minutes after it was over. It felt like it had lasted at least a minute. We just lay there silently, and then fell asleep.

In the morning, we cuddled for a while and started getting excited again. We needed to go t the bathroom, though, and there Talien-g-neika insisted that we go to the showers and have sex there. So we did. After we were done there, we dried ourselves, went back to our room and had sex again. At that point, my feeling of hunger started getting inconveniently powerful, so we went to eat. In the kitchen, we mostly sat on each other with our genitals interlocked, brushing each other's nipples and feeding each other the food that someone gave us. I only wondered later why that someone had been feeding us. There was some cook there who was not in estrus who kept making food because not all the people had the patience to make food in estrus. The person who kept feeding us was in estrus, though.

We went back into our room and looked through the pictures and a short book about sex positions. We mostly giggled at it. At some point, we heard a knock on the door.

"Can I come in?" We answered yes. The person who came in was the one who had kept giving us food in the kitchen, but I did not realize it at first. "Umm... Hi, Talien. Could I join you? You're still the youngest ones around here besides me..." I thought ey looked like an adult, although a young one.

Talien-G-Neika answered: "Yeah, I'd like that. Do you mind, Gantev-Z-Tere?"

I had not thought about having sex with more than one person at a time, at least yet. I did not have an objection, though. "Umhum. Okay."

"This is Negine-O-Nimin. I met em here when first came here." I brushed eir mind too. "Gantev-Z-Tere is here for the first time now. You came here with your parents, right?" I nodded.

"I've met them, I think. I tend to forget names after having sex though!" said Negine-O-Nimin. Ey sounded nervous, and ey was nervous. Ey was very shy. I liked shy people, because I found it easy to give them the kind of attention they wanted. Ey lay down next to me and I let em know what I liked.

"Sandwich!" exclaimed Talien-G-Neika and grabbed Negine-O-Nimin's ribcage while leaving me in between. Negine-O-Nimin giggled and they squeezed me in between themselves. I squirmed in pleasure.

We spent a few days like that, having sex with each other. After one night, I could not wake up Talien-G-Neika anymore. I even wondered if something was wrong, but Negine-O-Nimin said that eir estrus was over. Ey would sleep soundly for some time longer, wake up and then leave. I had sex with just Negine-O-Nimin then and Talien-G-Neika did not wake up. We went to eat and then had sex again. We looked through another picture book when Talien-G-Neika finally woke up. I tried to rub and kiss em, but ey almost pushed me away. Ey did smile at me, though.

"That won't work anymore." Ey got up and put eir shorts on. I did not know where the rest of eir clothes were. Ey then hugged us and said: "Thanks. I'll see you next time." Then ey left.

I felt really tired toward the night. Negine-O-Nimin wanted to have more sex than I had the energy for, so then ey settled for curling up around me and brushing all my body parts.

I woke up and was hungry. Negine-O-Nimin brushed my body and nipples, but I just felt sore. I turned away.

"Oh... I'm sorry..." Ey petted my hair and klavedels carefully for a while. I felt eir excitement and it was weird. I did not find it pleasurable anymore. At this time it mostly made me feel how exhausted I was and reminded me of soreness. I still hugged em and brushed eir sensitive parts a little. I realized that I did not really like feeling eir excitement. Ey noticed it, smiled at me and said: "I suppose you should probably go home soon. ...I'm glad I got to be with you."

We got up and hugged again. "Thanks a lot. It's been great being here with you ...and Talien-G-Neika too. Will you be here next time too?"

"Yeah."

"Until next time then." Negine-O-Nimin went to the kitchen while I put on my clothes and wondered what to do. I could sense that my parents were still on their periods. I queried them.

G-Geme replied: "We can leave if you want to."

"I would like to."

"All right. Wait for a while. You can go eat if you're hungry." I was very hungry, so I went to eat. I saw Negine-O-Nimin going into the shower room. Now I felt somewhat uneasy among all the other people who were in estrus. I was glad that the cook talked to me instead, even if ey too asked about how my estrus period had went.

My parents emerged some time later, and we left. G-Geme told me to keep my eyes on the traffic and inform em if ey seemed to not pay enough attention. The traffic was quiet anyway, but it still worried me. I could not have driven anything while I was in estrus.

When we got home, I ate more, wrote and slept. I was back to normal the next day and mostly forgot about the period, until the next time.