Chapter 2: Part 2/4

I barely had a single sausage in me when my parents returned. There was a little pit of dread in my stomach, but it wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be. They had only been away for one night, but my mother was the type to still fill a suitcase. Dad dragged it in ahead of her, before dumping it in the living room when he smelled food. The two of them were soon on us.

“Hello, darling,” Mum said, always the more talkative of the two. Dad was making a beeline for the excess sausages. I’m not convinced he knew I was there. He floated to the food like a cartoon. “Hello, Alice,” she continued, before doing a double take, and shaking her head in confusion. “You’re not Alice.”

Lily laughed. I stood up, proud and true, and certainly not a sex obsessed 18 year old with a succubus contract totalling 32 names, including my male best friend. “This is Lily. She is a succubus. I summoned her for moral reasons, and we are just good friends,” I said.

“Oh, okay,” Mum said, glancing at her husband. “That’s fine.” I felt the weight of the world fall off my shoulders, and I fell back onto my stool and leaned into the kitchen island, taking a breath. “We’ve all summoned a succubus or two in our time.”

Dad laughed, which made Lily laugh. I almost choked. “Have we?” I asked, delirious. “I hope we haven’t.”

“We definitely have. Isn’t that right, baby?” Mum said.

Dad held his hands up. “I’m completely innocent. Your mother, on the other hand,” he said, passing the blame.

“Oh, it’s not a big deal. We’re not as old as you might think, young man. It’s very nice to meet you, sweetie. Lily, was it? You are very welcome here. Make yourself at home.”

“Yes, Lily. Liliana. Thank you for being so sweet,” Lily said, smiling mischievously in my direction. I was still processing the bad news.

“That’s a beautiful name. I have to say, we’ve done our fair share of summonings and none of them have ever looked quite like you, in the sense that they are usually inside me rather than outside. What have we been doing wrong?” Mum said. Salem had jumped on the counter, and she was scratching him under the chin.

“We’ll have to look into that for the future,” Dad said. My eyes shot straight to him, and he was chuckling to himself. I think he was just fucking with me. Little did they know, the truth is much worse, and I didn’t want Lily to explain it to them.

“It’s a glitch in the system,” I said, trying to move the conversation along. “Not a repeatable one.”

“A real shame for everyone else,” Mum said. She sat on the stool next to Lily, and started to eat some extras of her own. They had taken to this news pretty easily, which was the most important thing. “Tell me, sweetie, do I need to be worrying about these moral reasons for your summoning?”

“We’re definitely not going to be talking about it,” I interrupted. The entire dining area around the kitchen island had been overtaken by giggling idiots, all three of them unified against me.

“Harrison, it’s not something you need to be embarrassed about,” Mum said. “I have done it, your father has done it, and we have done it together plenty of times since we got married. I know for certain that your sister did it once as well. Your brother I am not sure about, but it wouldn’t surprise me because his first girlfriend came out of nowhere and she looked to be the most satisfied woman on the planet.”

“Maybe he was just great in bed,” Lily said. I knew she was just playing along to mess with me.

“Maybe, but his current girlfriend doesn’t look half as satisfied,” Mum said, before the two ladies giggled together.

“Alright. I’m over it,” I said. I’m not sure that was entirely true, but the best way to avoid a teasing is to convince the teasers that they aren’t getting to you anymore. Mum had always been fairly open, but this was a new level. I suppose this was something I never got to see as the youngest but now I am an adult and summoning succubi like the rest of them, she has nothing to hide. “We’re just friends anyway. We are not going to be fulfilling the contract, for the record, and she might need to leave soon anyway.”