TASTE

Part 5 of 6: The Line

Janet would fly to California the next day. My last day of school came and went, and I was finally on summer vacation too. Having found a cheap flight to Toronto, I called Tommy to let him know I'd be visiting soon.

To pass the days, I hung out with Eunice, often spending the night at her place. By this point, we'd stopped having sex but still enjoyed each other's company. She was ready to find a husband and felt that our continued sexual involvement would only impede her progress. As per our contract, I respected her decision and kept things platonic.

I also did some shopping for my trip, nothing major: just some shorts, flip-flops, and—most importantly—a thumb drive. Why the thumb drive? Well, the only thing I regretted about seeing the video of Janet was my inability to watch it over and over again. I was determined to get a copy of that video, even if it meant I had to steal it.

My Toronto visit coincided with the 2010 G7 Summit. Protestors marched through the city daily while police officers in riot gear were never too far away. The tension in the city, especially in the business district, was palpable.

I did my best to steer clear of these protests. After work, Tommy took me around to Kensington Market, Chinatown, U of T, and Little Italy. We played frisbee golf on the Island, caught a Jays game versus the Angels, and on one of my alone days, I took a shuttlebus to Niagara Falls to gamble at the casino.

On another one of my alone days, while Tommy was at work, I discovered, again to my good fortune, that Tommy had left his laptop on. Knowing I had more time this time, I did a much more thorough search and found not only the webcam video I'd already seen, but three other things I hadn't expected to find.

The first was a video of Tommy and Janet fucking, basically a sex tape that he'd filmed on his cellphone. The second was an entire folder of even more webcam videos. Apart from the one named J, I opened and watched every single one. My favourite was one in which Janet spread her legs wide to reveal her tight, little pussy. She then proceeded to slide a large purple dildo in and out of her while sucking on a smaller black dildo. These I quickly copied to my thumb drive before hiding it at the bottom of my suitcase so that Tommy wouldn't find it.

The third and final thing I found—and far and away the most shocking—was a folder with the photos of Miu I'd shown Janet. I nearly fell over backwards at this discovery. What were these doing on my brother's laptop? How had they gotten there? Had he snooped through my laptop too? I was totally shocked—and stumped!

Eventually, I would figure it out.

Upon my return to Canada, my laptop's DVD player wouldn't play DVDs because it was still region-locked to Japan. After failing to resolve the issue on my own, I asked Chuck, the computer whiz in my family, to help me. His recommendation was to restore my laptop to its original factory settings.

"You should probably back up all your files before we format anything," he advised.

Chuck copied my files to his external hard drive, formatted my laptop, and then transferred the files back. Not knowing much about computers, I thought that that was it, that the files were gone from his hard drive and back on my laptop. This hard drive my brother kept at his place, and I'm guessing Tommy must've gotten his hands on it at some point. What all this meant was that certainly one—and most likely both—of my brothers had seen pics of me having sex.

After my two weeks in Toronto, I met up with Oscar and Janet as we always did. I hadn't seen them in quite some time, and a lot had happened in the interim. While it was good to catch up with Oscar, the person I really wanted to see was Janet. We hadn't talked since the morning she'd slept over, and I was curious to know how she was feeling about everything.