Private Finished Demons, Demons Everywhere

Every day? Chloe stared at him, quiet. That had to be hard on someone his age, not to mention expensive for his family. She had been smiling about his compliment, but now she had stopped.

He asked how the DSU could help him.

"Uh, well... We have a support group, first of all." She took a deep breath. "We meet twice a month. Some of the things you hear about there are pretty extreme - it's not all lust-related. Most of what we do involves emotional support, but it's not too unusual for us to help each other outside of meetings, or to find help for each other."

What Chloe meant to say was, many of them would meet up to do all sorts of depraved things to each other. It wasn't something she liked to advertise. It would be terrible optics. She could already imagine the more conservative parents whining about her leading a 'violent sex cult.' It didn't help that most of those support group members' tastes would be likely to overwhelm someone like Aaron.

"I can let you know when the next meeting is, if you think you're ready for that."

Aaron looked too cute when he was flustered. A part of her wanted to press the issue of his inexperience, to make his face turn completely scarlet.

Chloe restrained herself. This was probably hard enough for Aaron without any inappropriate teasing from her. She would, however, crack a joke at his tormenter's expense. "I can't believe they're making up erotic fanfiction about you and the devil. Even I think that's weird and gross."

Now they were getting into a more populous part of campus, so Chloe changed the subject to something more child-friendly. "Anyway, the club also runs normal general meetings. You can meet other demons and get free snacks, that way. I know a bunch of the ones that are related to your father."

She snickered at his jokes - especially the idea of reading the bad fanfiction about him. Chloe remembered, with some fondness, sitting with her father and reading the conspiracy theories about them online. Having a laugh. It helped her get through the day.

But now he was offering to pay for her drink. "Absolutely unacceptable." She smirked. "When I dragged you here I said this would be my treat. You trying to make me a liar?"

Eventually, they would reach a compromise: Chloe would pay for Aaron's drink, and he would pay for her drink. That way, each of them could leave with their honor intact. Chloe moved on to telling him more about demons and the contents of the books she'd selected for him. She talked about how she met the author of the book about lust demons, how frustrating it was that the book used different terminology than almost every demon on the island used. "It's an excellent book otherwise," she would assure Aaron.

The conversation looped back around to Aaron's personal issues.

"So... back to what you were saying earlier, about not having experience. I'm sorry if this is a weird question, but it could be really important. Do you know, um, what part of the act needs to happen for it to sustain you? Because I know people that's caused trouble for. Like, it'd suck if you went to all that trouble without it helping you."

"I imagine that would be a surprise." She nodded. Then she thought about it for a moment She remembered what she had read about lust demons, tried to imagine what kind of information his doctor could possibly be operating on.

"Well, there's a lot of things that count as sex, depending on who you ask. But... since you said you don't have any experience, I guess it wouldn't make sense to ask what exact part of the sex sustains you. Or what kind of sex. Nobody even knows yet." And now she was thinking about it. She was coming up with a list of theories about what sustained him, and the kinds of sex acts that would prove or disprove each of them. There was even a part of her that wanted to be involved in those experiments.

"How long have you been putting it off?"

So, it could have easily been more than a week that he's needed it, as far as anyone knew. His physical health was deteriorating, and possibly his mental health at the same time, and he couldn't bring himself to go to a brothel.

Now Chloe was coming up with excuses for herself. Aaron needed this for his health. He didn't want to go to a brothel, and brothels cost money. She had a lot of free time. She was technically in an open relationship. Plus, he didn't even know how his needs worked, so he easily could have gone to the brothel without even sustaining himself. Her mind produced rationalizations without end. Not to mention that he was cute, but she didn't want to focus on that, because it made her feel weird and creepy to focus on how cute he was.

After a long moment of pondering over her coffee, and making sure nobody was listening, she came out with it. "Not gonna lie, you're making me worried now, with how long you've been putting it off. I could actually... help you with that too, if you'd like. Get you started. I could take care of my thing at the same time, so, you wouldn't have to worry about paying me back or anything."