Chapter 5: Aunt Linda Turns the Tables

With that she turned her head towards the stairs and her shoulder lifted and then dropped as I heard her sigh.

“I know you mean well, Kelly,” she turned to me and said softly but I could tell from her tone where it as going, “But to be frank, sometimes you stick your nose in where it doesn’t belong.”

Now THAT wasn’t what I expected. I just stared at her, dumbfounded that she seemed to be blaming ME for something or another now.

“It’s not like it’s dangerous or anything - the main reason I was against the prostitution gig; and with Todd it’s certainly consensual ... trust me on THAT one. For crying out loud, he IS sixteen so it’s not like anyone’s raiding the cradle so lighten up. Nobody is saying YOU have to participate, are they?”

Well, technically that was true but I’d been feeling more than just a little peer pressure and all which hadn’t made me very comfortable. Still, I wasn’t about to argue the point with my Aunt, I knew from past experience such arguments are never won. Even when you think you do, you?re still lost in the end.

“So what are you going to do?” I asked rather lamely, not sure what else to say without pissing her off all the more. Aunt Linda’s head hunched down and she gave me this “What the hell is wrong with you?” expression so clearly I’d still somehow managed to say the wrong thing.

“Oh Kelly ... what am I going to do with you? For a girl as smart as you, sometimes you can be really naive.”

Now I was starting to get a little perturbed myself. Like, what had I exactly done to deserve all this? After all, I wasn’t the one fucking some kid in my bedroom. I started to speak up in my defense but she was on a roll and there was no stopping her now.

“So you think I came home because I was going to talk her out of anything?” she asked but obviously intended to answer her own question with, “Hell no ... I came home to JOIN her you silly girl.”

Sheesh, now what had I done? She turned away from me before I could figure out what to say and started up the stairs. About half-way up she turned and grinned at me saying, “You know Kelly, it’s never too late to change your mind.”

She was just teasing me but still, it sort of made me feel a little ticked that she would even bother. She knew how I felt about it and still, she couldn’t resist one last little taunt. No wonder Kristi was the way she was!

She disappeared from view and then I heard an excited voice. I couldn’t quite make out what was being said or who was saying it, but it was like someone at an airport greeting their long-separated loved one as they came off the plane. Not really wanting to listen any more, I went into the kitchen to get something to snack on. Nothing like a couple of donut holes to take your mind off things.

Sitting at the kitchen table, I put the entire Dunkin’ Donuts box in front of me. So what if I downed a few extra calories this morning. It wasn’t like I could go back up to bed and sleep or anything with lord only knows what debauchery going on right down the hall.

I started to think about what my aunt had said - or rather lecture to me. Was I really making a federal case out of nothing? If I was honest, sure Kristi (and now my aunt) teased me and did their best to try to get me to join in, but they never FORCED me to do anything or boxed me into a situation where I had no choice. Was it really any different than my friend Beth constantly nagging me to go to one of her sex parties with her? OK, so one was legal and the other not but was the principle any different when it came down to it?

Obviously my Aunt Linda felt confident that the boys she was with could be trusted. Ignoring the legal issues, it wasn’t like her job would be on the line if people found out so I guess she could take more risks than someone in my position. Still, it could make things a little uncomfortable, to say the least, if what was happening upstairs right now ever got made public. Other than when it involved a teacher, when was the last time anyone had filed a complaint about an older woman and a younger boy having sex - provided he wasn’t TOO young? Heck, TV even has “Cougar Town” now!

Downing my third donut hole, I started to think about the three of them upstairs. It had to be a dream come true for whoever he was to have a mother and daughter pair up with him, especially when they looked like my aunt and cousin. How did he NOT brag about it to his friends? And if he did, how did they NOT tell others about it? Yet apparently he didn’t as from what I gathered, he was a “regular” for them both. Maybe the kids was smart enough to know a good thing when he had it. If that was the case, that made him a lot smarter and mature than just about any other sixteen year-old boy I’d ever known.