Chapter 1

The rules were simple. Each new family member, who turned eighteen during the year leading up to the big, annual family vacation, would spend the night in the pool house that stood before the massive country home that had been in the family’s possession for as long as they could retrace the family tree.

Though, for most of the night, there wouldn’t be much sleep for them.

Throughout the night, the family members who were already inducted and willing or wanting to would visit the new inductee and spend some very special quality time with them. Only then, after the new member who wished to take part in the family festivities had been thoroughly tested, would they be seen as full members and have the right to participate.

‘Festivities’ was, of course, code for depraved orgies.

It was an important part of their tradition. When they told their children about it for the first time, they spun big tales about having a place for love and mutual care, furthering the intimate relationships within the family. A place where everybody is safe to not only let go of inhibitions caused by embarrassment but also to explore without worrying about being judged or laughed at. The truth was, however, that nobody really remembered how it all started anymore. But that wasn’t necessary for them to enjoy it.

However, that was also the biggest problem, which is why the rule was established to let new inductees spend their first night away from the ongoings inside the mansion.

You see, despite what young males like to claim when talking with their peers, none of them are truly born sex machines. And despite what young women claim, none of them are immune to peer pressure. If their first sexual experience happens during what can only be described as a massive orgy, it could do more harm than good to their inexperienced minds. The family had to first make sure that whoever wished to join their activities was truly ready for it.

For that, they had to do three things:

First, assess whether or not the members-to-be are even ready to become sexually active. If they only joined because they thought it was expected of them, or because they felt compelled to after listening to their cousins’ and siblings’ tales, they could find themselves utterly overwhelmed by the depravity that governed the mansion. And that, in turn, could make them straight up run away or, even worse, develop an aversion to sex!

Second, assess that the new members have fully internalized the rules that must be obeyed. After all, even if they weren’t sure how the tradition started, it now was about enjoying each other in a safe setting. And the rules went way beyond the generally known “No means No!”. They also covered things like proper hygiene, since they were teenagers, after all. Proper protection they should prepare themselves. What areas, like the hot tub, were off-limits. And to always respect each other, even if they get caught in accidental ‘crossfire’.

Third, to make sure the new members could control themselves. After all, regardless of how many cute and endearing terms they found to reference their annual get-togethers, in the end, it was a massive orgy! Something that had a certain effect on people, and even more so on influential teenagers. They were bound to see a sea of naked bodies enjoying themselves and then get lost in their pleasure. They literally stop thinking, and that’s not a good thing!

A few years ago, there was an incident involving a string of anal beads that needed to be removed from a woman’s behind in preparation for some backdoor fun. Not realizing that he had no idea what he was doing, a first-time member, who was just as eager to help as he was clueless about those kinds of toys, was asked to help. The boy grabbed the string and ripped the beads out of the poor woman’s butt as if he was trying to jack a gasoline-powered chainsaw, ensuring pandemonium broke loose.

It served as a permanent reminder to make sure the testing during their first night would be thorough. So, in order to conduct those tests, a very simple solution was introduced: The pool house.

It was built with a massive glass front, stretching the entire side of the building that faced the mansion’s patio door. While the established family members had to walk around the pool house to enter it and join the inductee, they had a very clear view of what was going on inside while they made their way from the mansion to the pool house, thanks to that glass front. It was the perfect testing ground for the new members. After all, an orgy is not exactly an event where one can expect privacy. So, this way, the family could make sure that the new members were, in fact, okay with having sex in front of an audience while keeping them away from the overwhelming impressions of the orgy.

This year, however, after the family had expanded for generations, there were three boys about to be inducted into the tradition at the same time: Mark, John, and Chris. Though, the contrast between the three couldn’t be more obvious to everyone who cared to look. Not just in their physical appearance, but also in the way they felt about all of this.

At that moment, the three boys stood in front of the family mansion after arriving with their backpacks over their shoulders. Since they were expected to spend the night in the pool house, they didn’t have any rooms assigned to them. Instead of helping the other family members with preparing the mansion, they had spent the time making some alterations to the pool house’s living room that would allow for three separate ‘sleeping’ areas.

Since this was in preparation for them joining the orgies, where privacy was anything but a given, some members had argued that the three boys should just share the living room and have sex right next to each other. But, in the end, this event would always be the first sexual experience for many of the inductees. Losing your virginity during a group-sex session was not that much safer than losing it during an orgy, which was the whole reason why the pool house was being used in the first place.

So, seeing the problem, it was decided that the three boys would hang curtains in the living room. They would hide the boys from each other, but still allowed anyone who walked by, or just stood on the mansion’s patio, a clear view of all three boys and what they were doing.

Mark and John had athletic builds. They were big, lean, and showed confident smiles as the females of the family started their teasing in what basically amounted to a meat market as the women more or less silently decided on which of the boys they’d visit. Or which one they’d simply visit first.

Chris, however, was the exact opposite. To his everlasting dismay, he had suffered from chronic kidney disease since early childhood that had significantly stunted his growth and effectively killed any chance he may have had at joining any of the school’s sports teams. Only at fifteen, three years prior to the day of his introduction to the family tradition, did his left kidney finally give up and had to be removed.

His parents and sister were worried out of their minds when they got the call after Chris collapsed in school. But, to everyone’s surprise, the event did improve his life!

Most of Chris’s health problems were the result of the doctors’ reluctance to remove the weak kidney as long as he was still ‘growing’, as they put it. If they could avoid it, they’d rather not touch it, they said. But after its removal became inevitable, his health improved significantly. His right kidney was healthy and performed its task to perfection. He no longer looked like he was perpetually malnourished, no longer had to deal with the cramps that came with the formation of kidney stones nor the pain when passing them, and could slowly start to live a normal life.

But he was still a lot smaller and weaker than his cousins, even if they were the same age. In fact, he was still a lot smaller and weaker than the cousins who were younger than him as well. But he worked hard to rectify that problem, though it was a painfully slow process with obvious limitations. After all, already being eighteen, he didn’t hope for a sudden and miraculous growth spurt that adds ten inches to his height and made him reach the magical number of six feet. He accepted that he would always be the smallest in a room full of grown-ups.

However, while he acted like a grown-up about it, what that truly did to him was very obviously written on his face as he was put on stage in between his fit and handsome cousins, while the female portion of the family threw air kisses and catcalls their way. Several of the older sisters, cousins, mothers, and aunts even brazenly shouted their intention to ‘sample the wares’, causing his ears to glow red as he studied his feet.

He was reluctant to take a proper look at the people around him, but he was sure that the brunt of the teasing was directed at his cousins, not at him.

After the ‘welcoming ceremony’ had been called to an end so the interesting part of the night could begin, the three boys were sent to their ‘rooms’. They shared a nervous grin as each of them vanished behind their curtain. With Chris’s being the middle one, he could hear the other two as they sighed, chuckled, and nervously fidgeted around.

It somehow made Chris feel better about himself. Knowing that the other two boys, who seemed so confident just a minute ago, were just as excited and nervous as he was, took away a lot of his anxiety as he waited for the ladies to start their parade.

He knew, there was no fixed order or procedure for what was about to happen. The already inducted family members were simply expected to leave the party in the mansion whenever they felt like it, choose an inductee to spend some time with, and then go back to rejoin the party to possibly share their experience with the other members.

Chris was not just nervous, though. Up until that day, thanks to his weak body, his life had not been very rewarding when it came to the opposite sex. And being the runt of the litter, who always had to receive special accommodation, did not help him build confidence in his private life either. So, contrary to his handsome, tall, and athletic cousins behind the curtains to either side of him, high school had been a long string of disappointing life lessons for Chris. Consequently, this day was his chance to finally get some experience before he graduated from high school and, if somehow possible, moved out of his parents’ house.