Intro to a set of chapters in which Igro the asexual horse tries to find love in a city full of lust.

Story text is by  crispr

0. Loveless City (Crispr)


Hey, you may not know much about me but my names Igro and in this city life we get the lights, the cameras, the sounds of people bashing one another to get to work on time, and even the sound of a pokemon go jogger catching a legendary. Things look up and down when looking back at your time walking through the park as a kid and hearing everyone talking about their crushes and then you end up looking in the mirror at 18 hearing all your boys been getting some with their significant others and you shrug it off…….all you say is…..hey I guess I like guys but not being with them intimately.
Throughout college I kept it to myself, the notion im not like others the way they see fit, you gotta be gay, straight or very least, bisexual to fit into the good of the school programs so I used my guy crush skills to manipulate through the club process, my major was bullshit but this was needed to get into the program I wanted. Then one day someone figured me out….. he was my best bro in the world and always looked out for me but even to him I didn’t wanna be a freak….
Igro: what up Travis, you mentioned needing to see me?
Travis: yeah, um how come you never go home with anyone from the parties?
Igro: huh, what do you mean I go home with girls all the time.
Travis: you mean the same girls you eat lunch with, study with, and work with…….come on I know whats going on.
Igro: oh….um you do?!?!
Travis: your gay…..its fine bro, I actually thought you were cute.
Igro: oh well, your half right……
Travis: gay, bisexual who fucking cares, its time to take you out on an date and get you laid, virgin mobile!!!
Igro: WOAH!!!!!!! WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Travis: meet me in the lounge at 8pm sharp and were taking you on the town!!!!
as Travis left my heart was racing about meeting with him tonight and I realized that it wasn’t the best feeling knowing he was a horndog much of his time in college.
Igro: oh boy…..how do you tell your best bro you aint his type……?
As the day went on, he got some pics of Travis with tickets to his favorite band and wearing an new dress shirt.
Igro: so much for me being underappreciated, he really is pulling the stops for me, but something doesn’t feel right, but one, he never pressured me about anything.
Going to his apartment to change he sees his roomie practicing yoga, the two met through a coffee shop and she turned out to be the owners daughter, the apartment part of the building owned by daddy and the two became friends.
Igro: Dana, pleasure to see you unable to work again I see.
Dana: jokes on you dickhead, I scored a job in the heart of the city, your looking at head of communications for Gear Fear radio tower.
Igro: wh…..what the fuck, you got the job there already!?!?!?!?! Oh right daddy…..
Dana: oh silly little Ponyboy, daddy doesn’t even know. He thinks his princess cant keep herself afloat but that money in my account if flooding in.
Igro: so your conning a man out his money for your shopping habit?
Dana: sweetie we shop every weekend. Since do I not buy anything that isn’t on sale or reasonable, ill buy a 5 buck tshirtover some American eagle shit anyday.
Igro: okay, yeah you got me. Your not the stereotype I thought you were, but why keep taking money?
Going to the drawer, Dana takes out an check for 4000 dollars and signs it to Igro. Handing it to him he looks at her as she sticks her tongue out smiling.
Igro: woah……wait a damn minute?!?!?!?!?!
Dana: you said you were tight on money and your job was cutting hours, now focus on rent and not on school too. Just keep passing and doing your best, your like the first real friend I ever had.
Igro: that’s depressing and hilarious…..
Dana: yeah, I think we can call it deprarious!!!!
Igro: my god…you are so fucking out there!!
Dana: you love it, come on buddy….dish. how was class?
Igro: got asked out….
Dana: oh my lord, seriously who the lucky dude, or girl?
Igro: no guy, but um….i don’t know how I feel…
Dana: why? Is he not your type?
Igro: no dana, im not gay or straight, I don’t like sex in general, like no feeling. But I wanna be with someone.
Dana: ohhhhhh your homoromantic but asexual!!!
Igro: you know?!?!
Dana: yeah I did research when finding work in the village….gofigure, nothing to be ashamed of.
Igro: er um…..fuck….please don’t tell anyone.
Looking at his face blushing, dana goes and hugs him making sure hes okay.
Igro: what the….
Dana: shut it, your awesome and anyone who says otherwise cause you don’t wanna fuck is a shallow shit who gets my nine inch heel up their ass!!
Igro: nine inches…..
Dana: bigger than most squalid fucks have in their pants!!!
Looking at her really did bring a smile to my face, although things really weren’t looking right for me. I barely knew what to expect from Travis, telling me hes gonna hook me up and meeting him in the lounge. The nerves already got to me, but oddly I want to see how this all plays out. I haven’t dated much and he was right about me being around all girls all the time, it felt good but off as well that I spent so much time with them, despite being in the gamers lounge all the time. Dana was helping me get ready, she was only a year older but seemed like the big sister type to me.
Dana: come on ponyboy, lets get you going here.
Igro: can you not call me that every two minutes bub?
Dana: sorry, sorry I know you hate being called pony, but come on your like mr. perfect in school. No issues, no bullies, no failures.
Igro: just a failure at love……
Dana never has contact with people so seeing her go up hugging me was enough to send a chill, like the reaper came for my soul and sent her instead. She was always nice but never this nice.
Dana: shut your god damn mouth and keep your head up.
Heading out the door, Igro gets a pat on the back from Dana as she smiles at him and lets him know a few things in a slight whisper.
Dana: don’t let anyone tell you your ugly or acts like a total asshole, if you feel uncomfortable go the bathroom and ill come by faking an emergency to drag you out.
Chuckling at her idea, igro heads out and goes off to the school, only waiting for him was something more than he expected than a pizza and videogames from the game lounge.
Travis: well glad I didn’t need to let you know about the need of good clothes, you look really nice tonight.
Igro: the hell is all this stuff, don’t you think its much.
Looking around, seeing tea lights hanging from the ceiling and candle lit to an Italian dinner fresh and hot, travis shakes his head in stunning embarrassment and sits down.
Igro sits as well and smells the parmesan melted on the Zucchiniand starts looking hungry.
Igro: I didn’t mean it as rude, I meant I don’t think I deserve all of this from you.
Travis: nonsense buddy you looked nervous and thought nothing of it when it came down to wanting to move forward, I should if asked what limits you had but honestly I didn’t even know what to expect.
Igro: well it seems really well thought and im glad you chose to be quite the gentleman tonight.
Travis: eh I dabble in culinary as an major so this was nothing I couldn’t do myself for someone I care about.
Igro and him start talking through the night and enjoy the musicplaying on the stereo as they laugh and eat their food, getting to know one another better. Despite the rocky start of the night, to their surprise the two got along well, but it seemed different. To igro he didn’t feel like he was having an connection to love or someone he liked, but a brother or friend, and it spurned that it might not work out. The two finished and made their way down the street to the convention center where they started watching their favorite band play, the music roared and hearing the cheers for middle aged punk rockers made both of them really relish in what they saw in the band in the first place.
Igro: bruh…..didnt this song use to rock?
Travis: now it sounds like gargling mice in a blender.
Igro: you spent money on this.
Travis: actually my friend just sent them for free, I see why now…..
Igro: wanna bail?
Travis: yes….yes I do.
The two went out hacking up pretending to imitate the singers as they laugh and go through the park walking around, the night sky was brilliant and having tons of life, the two pointing and admiring the cosmos, but it seemed too real to either. Igro didn’t get a feeling or desire from Travis even when he went to touch his hand.
The night began coming to a close as they went back to the school and igro sees travis being an even more gentleman offering a chocolate cake as desert and slices a piece off. The two share it and get the excitement of the frosting and melted center just right. As igro began packing it in for the night, he gets pulled and an small kiss on the lips made him blush as travis hugged him.
Igro: travis…..i gotta be honest.
Travis: whats up bud?
Igro: im not looking for sex, I don’t want anything like that in a relationship.
Travis: woah, I wasn’t trying to sleep with you tonight, Im sorry I made you think that!!!
Igro: no I mean like ever. Im not into it like that, I love men yes, but only the connection.
Travis: I don’t think I get it, you like men, but no sex with it….so whats that make you?
Igro: asexual with homoromantic tendencies…..
Travis: oh okay buddy that actually clears a lot up.
Igro: sorry, beg pardon?
Travis: look man I went too far out there tonight to impress you and try and make you my boyfriend, I thought you were the cutest thing.
Igro: re…..really!?!?!
Travis: yeah but cant force it if you aint into it, so ill just do you the favor of being your guiding eyes, any guy I find gets sent your way.
Igro: woah that’s…..
Travis: NONESENSE we need to find your prince charming and he cant be far off!!!!
Shrugging it off he hugs travis and thinks about his next move and accepts it knowing that both of his friends are idiots, but need them to help bring him closer to who he truly is.