This wasn’t something for which we’d have the support of the family – or anyone else, for that matter. If it had been a matter of donating blood or bone marrow to fight off cancer or something, I felt sure we’d all rally around her and give her anything she needed. But this? Something that would have consequences for the rest of our lives? And keeping it a complete secret? It wasn’t just the act of donating I was thinking about; this would be a life-long deception of both our families. Just how important was this to her?
I looked down at the beautiful red-haired woman on my bed. As I considered her request and saw how desperate she was, I recalled a lecture by one of my favorite professors. One of those really enthusiastic ones, who lived and breathed History and almost made it come alive.
“You know… in ancient Sparta, it was so important for the state that every woman have children, that if a man couldn’t make his wife pregnant, she’d be compelled to take another man.”
Liz cracked a smile.
“I’m beginning to think that I might want to live there.”
“Yeah… women certainly had it better there than in the other city states. They were fed properly, given an education, encouraged to train… and, yeah… having their women give birth to strong kids was so important to the state’s survival that if a marriage was childless, the wife would be encouraged to find someone else. Having children was the main point of marriage.”
I stood there for a few seconds as we looked at each other. The answer was already forming in my head, it was just a matter of crossing the threshold and officially agreeing. I just didn’t know what to say. In the end, I just shrugged and went:
“Okay.”
Her eyes lit up. A smile started to form as the corners of her mouth turned up.
“Yes? You’ll really do it?”
“Yes, okay. I’ll help.”
She kept drying her eyes, suppressing a bit of a sniffle.
“Thank you. I really hope it works… I’ll be so grateful for this, you have no idea…”
She stood up and hugged me. Her soft and curvy body felt wonderful up against mine like that. As she broke the embrace, I could feel a twitch in my nether region.
“So… okay. I’ll get things ready. Start to plan ahead. It won’t be for a while, but I’ll call you and we’ll talk about the arrangements… Thank you!”
She disappeared out the door, almost skipping with excitement. I remained in my room for a while, thinking. What had I gotten myself into?
Weeks passed. I heard nothing from Liz for a while and after thinking about nothing else for days, I eventually started putting the arrangement in the back of my mind. Not entirely forgetting about it, just not thinking about it every day anymore. One day, I was hanging around on campus when I suddenly got a call. I hadn’t programmed her number into my phone, so I was surprised to hear her voice when I picked up.
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