Stephen's Secure Blog #106
These stories about Stephen began was when he was 10 years old, and
moving to a new part of the country to attend a special school for
gifted students, in the 1950's. This was from a time before computers
would fit on a desk, and when people communicated with friends in other
countries by actual letters sent through the postal service. He wrote
225 of them to a friend. He stopped writing to his penpal, but found he
still wanted to record his life, in case he lost his memory again, and
wrote 30 entries in his first logbook. Then he wrote to an artificial
intelligence called Geenee, in the master computer in his school for
gifted students, which he started attending in 2016. Now it's after
2018, and he's continuing to save his memories in a secure blog.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
The stories may not be posted in chronological order.
Stephen is 14 in this story, in the Summer, after the end of year 4 of
his special school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #106 "Splidnt and Ginging"
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I said to Splidnt and Ginging, "Second try, at the same time?" I
opened my arms, and they both came to me. I hugged them and gave them
my love. After that, they both had moist eyes. We sat, and some of the
other students came in and said their greetings. Ginging said "I don't
understand what she and you were talking about with the blue light
tickle." I said, "Harditch, would you like to answer that?" She said
"As soon as he started the question, I KNEW you were going to ask me to
answer that." I said "And why?" She said, "Because I would want to the
least." I nodded, and said, "We have to overcome our feelings which
might separate us, or we all will be in trouble." She said with a
smile, "I agree, but I don't have to enjoy it." I said "Enjoyment is a
manageable state of mind. When you can encourage that feeling for
things you dislike, which isn't that difficult to learn to do, you will
find you can advance more rapidly, and with greater mental balance."
She looked very thoughtful, and said, "That is wise. I will work on
that."
Harditch said to Ginging, "It was about the tickle in the blue light.
Shephen said it uses forcefields. That means those things can work like
hands, or take any shape they are designed to, and act like solid
things. Hoechess wondered if the same system could be used to do sexual
things to lonely lazy people who wanted help with that. Things you and
Splidnt do for each other." He said "Oh! Now I understand. But doesn't
she know it's the other person's feelings which makes it so good? That
he or she loves you and wants to share himself with you and really
wants to make you feel good and happy, and you love him and want to
make him feel that way too?" She said "She might, but not as much. Or
she might be too choosy, or she might want to do that only to
manipulate people like she wants to, and wanted me to do, with Stephen.
Some people don't share very well. Perhaps they are too afraid to give
up complete control. A lot of powerful people are like that, and she is
in a position of much power. We don't know, and it's not right to try
to find out. We don't have to do what she wants, but we shouldn't
interfere with how she wants to live her life."
Ginging "I understand more now. Thank you. I still have a question.
How do you know she wants you to do sexual things to Stephen to try to
influence him?" She said "Because she asked me to. Actually ordered me
to, just before I came to the school, after Stephen picked me. She's
very smart, but not smart enough to understand me, or Stephen, and know
I wouldn't do what she wanted, and that it wouldn't work if I tried.
After we had our private meeting, she used some words to try to start
to do that to Stephen herself, and had really mixed up feelings when
Stephen sidestepped what she said very neatly, better than he did it in
body to you just now, and then ported her back to her office like it
was the plan to. Rose and I thought that was funny." He grinned. She
said, "I'm sure it's happened to Stephen before. Everybody can see how
powerful a person he is, even though he tries to hide it most of the
time. A lot of people want to try to manipulate that power to make
themselves feel just as powerful. For example, if you could choose,
would you want to be friends with a powerful person, or just an
ordinary person?" He looked very thoughtful and said, "With a powerful
friend, you would have more opportunities to get what you want, and
then more people would want to be your friend for the same reason. That
would work for regular people, but not us who can feel emotions. We
can't be false friends to each other." She looked pleased, and said,
"Correct. Very good!" He didn't need my prompt to go over to her and
give her a big hug.
I said "Still, it does affect us. Am I right Splidnt?" He said "Yes,
I felt it." Ginging, not to be outdone, said, "I felt it, too. When I
saw what you did to those boys, before I knew anything more about you,
I wanted to be your closest friend for life, because you were so
powerful. I have to be honest, I still feel some of that, but what I
feel now is more love for your love. I love you as a person much more
than how powerful you are." I said "Do you think there is anybody here
who hasn't gone through the same feelings?" He said "No. They meet you
when you show power, but then know your love and kindness which gives
them something nice and better to love." I said "Anybody here disagree
with that?" They all said "Not I," even Zander. I said "Anybody want to
say what all this really means?" Ginging said "Me please!" I nodded to
him. He said "Love is the most important power." I said "It's not
really possible for us to know that for sure, but I think it is, and I
LOVE that." Zander said with a grin, "Is it because you have so much of
it?" I grinned back, and said, "I could be a little biased." He
laughed, and so did they.
Splidnt said "I saw it when you got out of the water." I said "All of
me got out." He said "You know what I mean." I said "Does Ginging know
what you mean?" He said "He does, and wants to see it too." I said
"Mine in particular, or an assortment of other people's, too?" He said
"Yours." I said "Remember what we just talked about? Is the attraction
to power causing that?" He looked surprised, and said, "I didn't think
of that! I think you're right a little. Still doesn't change what I
want, though." I said "But it wasn't ready then, either." He said "Yes.
Disappointing." I said "I still don't want it to be ready unless it's
going to be used." He said "I know. I think because it's yours, what
you want with it is more important than what I want." I said "That's
true for almost everything, and I'm glad you understand that. What I'm
feeling now is something you will find out about soon. The more you
know somebody you love, the more you love them. Like I do you, and the
other people here. There is no end to love. Just when you think you
can't possibly love somebody any more, that's when you discover you
can, and do." He said "That's what makes it so good." I said "Something
else. It's the one thing we like, which the more we give away, the more
we get it back." He just snuggled more against me, and Ginging did that
to Harditch.
I said to him and Ginging, "Do you think Harditch did a good job
explaining things to you?" They both said "Yes." I said "Do you want to
know what Zander thinks about it?" That got their attention, and they
said, "Yes!" Zander said "I thought she did a very good job. I don't
know if it could have been explained any better." I said to them both
again, "Do you want to know what I think of it?" Splidnt said "I
already know. You knew Zander agreed with you, or you wouldn't make him
say it in front of us." Harditch laughed so hard, she almost made
Ginging fall off her lap. The other people were all laughing, or trying
unsuccessfully not to. Except the two kids. I said to Splidnt, "Tell me
why they are laughing." He said "I know I'm right, so it has to be
something else. Is it because of surprise, and that I ruined your
lesson?" I grinned and said, "Surprise is right, and you didn't ruin
it. They knew what you knew, but didn't want to interfere. Then you
did, and turned it around, and made me look funny. Well done, and I'm
proud of you, but next time, it would be better to go along with the
lesson, because no matter how much we know, there is always more to
learn from people with more knowledge and experience. One more thing.
People do like to receive complements, and you took away the one I was
going to give to Harditch, and that's why she was laughing the hardest,
because she knew you didn't mean that to happen." He said "Oh!" He want
over to her and hugged her and said he was sorry. At the same time,
Ginging came over and sat on my lap. I laughed, and so did the others,
but not Splidnt, until he realized what had happened, and laughed with
us. Then Ginging figured it out, and grinned.
He said to me, "I could say we know you like this, and we planed it,
but we didn't plan it." I said "If you hadn't said it, I might have
thought you did, it was so well coordinated." He gave me a pleased hug.
I said "Sometime soon, would you like to try playing in the water?" He
looked very doubtful. I said "Naturally, I'll be in it, too." That did
it, and he said, "I'll try it. It's only water, and that blue light
gets rid of it fast." I grinned and said, "Do you think there is
anybody here who doesn't know really why you changed your mind?" He was
embarrassed but resolute. Ginging said to Harditch, "Does that reason
work for you, too?" Grace exploded with laughter, which I didn't like,
which she knew and tried to stop. Harditch was embarrassed, but knew
she couldn't conceal her feelings from us, and said, "Yes it does."
Grace apologized to Harditch and said, "I laughed because it's true for
all of us. Who here isn't attracted to his power, even though we know
that's not the best of us to do that, and we also are attracted to his
love?" No answer. She said "Who here doesn't want to touch him, and be
touched by him?" No answer. I said "That's not a fair survey. We ALL
want to touch each other, and love each other's love." Zander came to
my rescue, and said, "That's true. Someday soon, we should all go to
his house and try out the pool." Mgambe said "We'll invite Hawk and
Splidnt got a boner.
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