Chapter 10: Thanksgiving Revelations

Christie woke up from the sexually-induced slumber of her A-spot mega-orgasm about four minutes later. Dave kissed her and assured her that she was loved and cared for. After a few more minutes to regain her faculties, Dave and Christie made love. This time, Dev and Grace watched the pair from the adjacent sofa as they cuddled together relishing their own after-glows.

Once they were through, Christie lay motionless in Dave’s arms with her eyes closed. She avowed, “I love you. I’m glad we can do this together, and I’m glad we get to be together in our new homes. This cohousing thing is a great idea. You can expect me in your bed more often than not, and of course you have an engraved invitation to be in mine. That said, I still have crazy hours at the Club.”

“I’m glad, and I think so, too.” Dave glanced around the room to see what else was happening. He’d deeply focused on Christie for the past half-hour and lost touch with Alice and the rest of the people.

Alice and Roy were locked together in a lover’s embrace. They’d apparently finished but she was keeping him inside her as they kissed and she hugged him with her legs wrapped around his lower body. Pam and Owen were in one of the large ‘sex chairs’ the decorating committee had bought; a chair specifically designed so that people could comfortably have sex in it.

Heather was still riding Sean. Julie was perched atop Mike’s face as he fucked up into Kat on the plush carpet. Rachel rode Ty opposite them in a reverse cowgirl so everyone could see her penetration and passion, and Dori and Jack were having a slow fuck in the other sex chair, while Clarisse sat with her legs spread on one arm jilling off as she waited a turn on his shaft.

In the background, the soft and sexy strains of Internet station KCSM jazz played, but were frequently drowned out by the din of expletives – not in anger but in passion, lust, and pleasure; orgasmic moans; or conversations and words of affection and love between the various couples.

Dave and Christie got up and snuck into the kitchen. They got a serving tray and assembled flutes of champagne on it, and Christie carried it into the living room as her nipples pointed the way with apparent pride. Dave came behind her.

The glasses were passed out. Dave gestured to Ty, the president of the Circle Cohousing Project.

Ty stood next to Rachel, Heather, Julie, Mike, and Kat. He raised his glass. “Ladies and gentlemen. There are a great many people to toast, but I want to start with Owen Bennett, the man who brought the cohousing idea to us and then provided the resources and drive to have the project take on a life of its own. We also toast Jack over there with his dick in Clarisse’s tight little pocket from behind. He had the design genius to take all our ideas and create a plan that could come to life, and that we all now live in. Of course, there are dozens of contractors as well that did great work for us.

“Now, the hard work begins. While we all loved each other before, we also had space to go and hide away from one another. Now, we are joined together in that love and in a common space of the Circle Project. Being together like this will take work, a large boatload of communication and sharing, and for some of us a further change in mindset and lifestyle.

“So, lastly, I toast to us. The daring few who choose to live together in this unique arrangement. Please remember a few of our watch words: love, tolerance, honesty, play, resilience, and creativity.”

Ty put his glass to his lips, as everyone else in the room yelled, ‘Here! Here!’ and then also drank to the toast.

The Board of the Circle Project decided on weekly meetings for a while on Monday evenings: Ty presided, Dave was VP, Wendy secretary, Julie treasurer, and Jack a director overseeing facilities and operations. There were so many details to attend to about living together and creating a group social life.

Three large white boards were installed just outside the common kitchen. This was to be the message hub for who would or wouldn’t be at dinner, or other social or business events, or anybody’s travel plans. The boards soon posted the crews that would prepare dinner or cleanup, or who had responsibility for cleaning up the common areas. Then it also became the hub for formal news that affected the Circle, such as status reports on the tenth house, the perimeter security system, and such. Owen took to noting the anticipated times there’d be a takeoff or landing on the Circle runway.

Mike also used part of a white board to note the release of various adult videos that involved Circle members. All of the women except Rachel now had released videos on his adult website. Several of the other women had followed Alice’s model and chosen a disguise or mask, but Clarisse, Heather, Christie, Julie, and Grace had opted to appear ‘as is’. Alice did a couple more videos with Mike.

Julie admitted to hoping that word about her burgeoning porn career would filter to her parents in some way. She stated firmly that she wanted revenge for the way she was raised. She thought that life in a Siberian prison camp might have been more relaxed and involved fewer constraints than she endured getting to the point she rebelled at age twenty-four and decided to live with the Circle.

Christie had been doing adult videos occasionally for several years before meeting and introducing Alice to a couple of adult video companies, one of which was run by Mike assisted by Clarisse. Christie still did them every now and then to supplement her income from the Club Ecstasy.

Kat had taken the job that Mike offered her as a full-time video editor and webmaster. She also appeared in disguise in several of the videos, including one where Dave, Dev, and Mike took her to the moon and back on video in a fabulous fuck fest. She was now making twice what she did at her old job doing graphics design and other computer-related things for a marketing and design company, and loving the job ten times as much. She commented on her perpetual horniness.

Rachel did have a porn video shot of her when she was fucked into oblivion and made airtight by some of the men. Looking so under age and wanting to preserve the reputation of the site, the video couldn’t be distributed without raising eyebrows and commanding government scrutiny, but it did receive some notoriety in the Circle and was a favorite for some of the men during some of the group social events. More than any of the other women, Rachel pleaded to do more, but Mike pushed her off until she turned twenty or twenty-one, even promising that he’d do something significant on her birthday.

Grace had been a surprise. Shortly after becoming sexual within the Circle, she saw one of Alice’s videos and was let in on the secret regarding the disguised star of the film. She was mesmerized by the video, and even borrowed a copy. She admitted she’d watched the film and jilled off, but also watched every nuance of the film.

When Grace heard that Christie was going to do a video with Mike, she asked whether she could watch part of the filming. She spent the day with Christie, Mike, and Clarisse, and even got roped into manning one of the optional cameras. She could barely contain herself about the experience of watching, so Mike’s offer to do a video with her took her to great heights.

Grace did her video only two days after Christie had done hers. She chose to do a M-M-F scene with Mike and Dave, and the two men turned her every which way but loose on Dave’s new living room sofa. Grace loved the group sex, raved about the men’s performance, and then pestered Kat until she completed the editing on the film.

Jack was amazed, if not stunned, that his wife had done a ‘mature’ adult video. He was immensely turned on just at the idea, and when he saw the completed video insisted that Grace do more. He loved having a ‘Hot Wife’. Of course, she was willing, but Mike told her to wait until they could see how her video sold and got graded on his website. It turned out she was one of the sexier mature models, and got high grades.

Despite Heather only being twenty-five, she did what Mike cast as a ‘MILF’ video. He put on a little extra makeup to give her a slightly grayer appearance, wore glasses, and even shaded her hair. She looked like she’d aged ten years when he was through. She’d danced at the Club Ecstasy, so didn’t care much about being ‘seen’ by the general public. Her mother had known she worked at the Club and hadn’t squawked too much about her job. Heather said she hadn’t been as revealing about her video work.

The Circle members had a monster celebration for Thanksgiving. Besides all eighteen of the clan being present, they also invited any family members that were interested in seeing the Center Cohousing Project and their family.

Thanksgiving had been declared as the ‘Big Reveal’ for many of the members to their family. Mike had been an orphan growing up in foster homes, but Clarisse’s parents came in from outside Atlanta. Christie’s sister came from Alabama. Sean and Kat’s parents flew in from Austin, Texas, where they’d originally been from. Dev’s mother and Wendy’s parents came from Indianapolis. Ty’s parents had passed, and Dori’s mother and much older sister came from outside of D.C. Jack, Grace, and Rachel had no family nearby. Owen chose not to involve any relatives because they were always hitting him up for money, one thing everybody in the Circle studiously avoided. Roy invited his younger brother.

Pam’s mother agreed to come down from St. Paul. Alice and Julie adamantly refused to invite their parents or older sister although they had sent Karen, their sister, a change of address card. The silence from that part of the country was deafening. Dave’s brother and wife drove down from outside Dayton, Ohio. Heather’s mother came from only three miles away, and of course Matthew was there. Five other children under ten were in the mix, and Matthew found he had new friends to play with.

The Center opened up all the homes in the project as well as the complete core. Some sterilization occurred to remove any flagrant indications of the sexual relationships. For instance, Mike’s announcements of recent porn films by Circle members had been taken down, as well as a sexy picture taken in the sauna with most of the Circle members naked and clowning around.

There was a betting pool regarding how long it would be before someone would deduce what was really going on with the Circle. Side bets had also been placed by a few about who would make the first observation.

As it turned out, Fred Atkins, Wendy’s stepfather made the first relationship observation. He’d been in a smaller group with his wife along with Roy’s brother Frank, and Kat’s parents. They’d been wandering from house to house, and then got to the largest on the Circle – the one that was home to Dave, Alice, Julie, Pam, Heather, and Matthew.

Specifically, they’d wandered down the bedroom wing of the home and glanced into the master bedroom. The room was neat as a pin and looked like it came out of a designer magazine, except for what uniquely stood out – the bed. From the doorway, the bed looked immense. It was immense: over twelve feet in width, and seven feet from foot to head! A modern headboard double the width of a king-size headboard headlined the bed, along with five large pillows lined the wall. Clearly, five people slept there.

Fred studied the bed and declared with certainty, “THAT is NOT a bed for two people.”

The others looked and studied the scene, some even moving into the room so they could more closely examine the setting and the decorating. That led them to also wander into the master bathroom where the large shower stall indicated that six people could easily take simultaneous showers. There were also five sinks and two toilets, along with drawers and countertops filled with cosmetics and on one some shaving gear for a man.

Kat’s mother Kiki asked, “Who lives here?”

Roy’s brother was in the know; “David and Alice Prentiss, Pam and Julie Prentiss, and Heather Manning-Prentiss.” He was looking at a sheet of paper Roy had given him that included a map of the entire building complex. The map also called out some of the unique features in each home and the core.

She pondered, “Hmmmm. They all have a common last name. I guess they’re related in some way.”

Fred said, “Let’s ask the others when we return to what they call the core area. This is a real oddity.”

Those small observations led to a question tossed out at one of the three long dining tables set up to accommodate everybody. Jack Anders had said a common universal grace as everyone stood and held hands in kinship, and then the food had been uncovered and the buffet started.

After people were seated and the dining had begun, Fred learned that he was seated across the table from Pam. “Oh,” he announced a little on the loud side, “we saw your house with the large bed and super bathroom. Why is everything so big?”

Pam smiled benignly, as agreed and rehearsed with all the others in the Circle. “Because five of us live there.”

“And you all use one bathroom?” Fred drilled deeper, still puzzled.

“Yes, of course; it’s right off our bedroom.”

Fred heard the word ‘our’ and made the leap that started the avalanche. “You mean that five of you sleep together.”

Unfortunately Fred’s question got delivered in a lull in conversation at all three tables, so it broadcast ‘clear channel’ around the entire dining room despite not being particularly loud.

Pam nodded, “Yes. We’re married, at least as far as we are concerned.” The room remained silent as every ear tuned into the conversation.