Chapter 203

May 13, 2018 (Sunday)

Dear Ms. Diary,

Andy and the two young girls returned a bit after we had begun cleaning the house, and they immediately jumped into helping. At lunch, we got the lowdown on their night.

“It was fun,” stated Maren. “We chatted with Steph and Matt. They asked what our sleeping apparel would be. Civ and I hadn’t thought about that before, so the discussion was ... interesting. We told them about our agreement with Brett, but that led to Steph asking how that had come about. We were very careful to explain without giving any strong hints about the photo but also didn’t lie because they’d obviously figure it out once they got the photo. When are we giving them out?”

Rache answered, “After we can get the photos printed and then get them framed. That depends upon when I can get Matt to take me to his office and how long the framing will take. I’d guess it’ll be at least a week, possibly a couple.”

Liya said, “Rache, would you be interested in being one of the sleepover girls tomorrow? If so, I could rearrange the schedule.”

“Okay. Maybe I could also get some photos there in addition to printing photos. How many should I print?”

“We need at least five, one each for the W, the Jacobs parents, the Palecek parents, Emma, and the Martin parents,” I responded, “but I’d like to have at least one for us. If Matt’s okay with eight, let’s do that Oh, we’ll also want to print and frame the backside photo of our group.”

Meka asked, “Should we print a backside photo for Steph and Matt? You know they’ll like it.”

Civ queried, “They will?”

“Oops,” responded Meka.

“Yes,” answered Heather almost on top of Meka’s acceptance of her minor screw-up. “You’ve seen how accepting they are of us being there, particularly Steph.”

Civ asked, “I’ve been thinking about this question for a while, now, and this seems the time to ask it. How is it that so many of the parents are ... willing to allow ... so much ... umm ... sex with ... so many of you? I can’t think that that’s ... typical parental behavior. I’m sure my parents wouldn’t go for that ... although ... they’ve recently shown themselves to be ... much less conservative and rigid about such stuff. Perhaps I don’t really know what they’d permit.”

I replied, “No, that’s not normal for parents, something that my parents told us. I agree with your ... care when anticipating Jeff and Kalina’s responses. It’s obvious that they’re not the very conservative parents they seemed when we first met them, but some of that could have been their response to you ... becoming more ... social when you met us. It’s possible that they were learning how to ... let you be yourself after eleven years of you being nearly entirely dependent on them for your happiness.”

That pulled Civia up short and while she pondered my words, Celeste softly answered Civ’s question, “Until I moved in here, I’d never met any parents I was sure would be willing to allow that. But we have the Go5 parents and, now, Matt and Steph and Jim and Kath. Oh, and Cera’s parents, too. Of course, Jim and Kath are parents of legal adults, so that makes things a bit different. You do realize, I hope, Civ, that most of what the LA has put together here over the past four or five months would not have been possible without those parents’ ... not only acquiescence but also downright approval.”

Maren responded, “Yes. That was quite obvious from our ... meeting in Brett’s and Lana’s bedroom that time you guys weren’t ready to leave. Is Steph really as ... comfortable with all that as that scene we walked into suggested?”

“Very much so,” Heather replied. “Matt is very accepting, but Steph’s ... Well, she’s ... if anything, encouraging. Maren, Civ, I have essentially no experience with parents outside my mother and the various LA parents you know. My mother would certainly be aghast if she knew how we live and from conversations I’ve overheard, most kids’ parents would permit nothing like what we have. That’s why we’re so willing to do everything we need to do to keep them all on our side. What we have here could not exist in, I’m sure, any other place.”

Civia had to talk more loudly to overcome other responses when she said, “I’m sure that’s true, but it brings up another question that Maren and I have discussed a few times, and perhaps it’s now time to air it, too. Maren, do you think that’s right?” When Maren nodded, Civ asked, “We’ll have to do it at some point, preferably before they figure it out for themselves, so, when do we tell our parents that you girls are ... have a ... sexual relationship that includes all of you?”

That was a silence bomb. While trying to devise an answer, I glanced around, noticing the same behavior in all of us.

Before any of us could even begin to generate an answer, Civ added, “It would be better earlier than later. We get a lot more ... willingness to listen if we’re not explaining after the fact.”

“In fact,” Maren cut in, “if we’re going to do that, it would probably be best if we had ... at least ... Beth there to help explain. Adding Celeste wouldn’t hurt.”

Civ added, “And it would be best if those two would explain how and why you told us and precisely what you’ve told us.” She frowned, then continued with, “We’ll have to explain that you’ve not told us any sort of details, as I suspect they’d be particularly ... upset about that.”

If I had not been so ... nervous and concerned about the subject at that point, I would have told the girls then that I was so proud of them for being so ... anticipatory regarding their parents and also for being so accepting of the sexual relationship within the LA. I also marveled at the great strides Maren had made in not only opening to us but also becoming ... a leader. She and Civia seemed to have developed a relationship close enough that they could easily, and without any obvious coordination most of the time, pass the conversation back and forth between them like they were two voices with one mind. I managed to get some of that out.

“I’m amazed at you two. We were very concerned about revealing our sexual relationship to you because we were so afraid that you’d balk severely at it. Instead, you’ve taken it very much in stride. You even seem to ... support it, if that’s not too positive of a term.”

Maren replied, “Of course we support it. You’re our ... sisters and we love you. Besides, it’s entirely possible that ... both of us could be joining that relationship, so it behooves us to have that relationship accepted by our parents, and definitely sooner rather than after we join it ... if we do.”

That was the second silence bomb of this relatively short conversation, but it did get more of us involved in the conversation.

Rhee asked, “Do you really think you’ll join it?”

Civ shrugged as she answered, “We don’t know, but it seems a reasonable possibility. We’ve ... discussed it on a few occasions, partly so we knew what both of us thought about it, but also to get some of the ... discussion completed before we truly ask the question of ourselves. We understand that joining that would be a ... serious thing, but some of the pre-reck ... prerequisites are already there. We ... love all of you and love being with you. We’ve already had this discussion with you, so you already know that we feel that you’re bootstrapping us into ... more adult-like personalities, although we retain a lot of the ... kid in each of us. As Meka said, we still have ... healthy kid responses to some things, however, we also have the ability to respond to ... adult things more like adults. I suspect ... and hope ... that I’ll eventually understand what and who I am when it comes to sex, but I cannot imagine a better, more loving sexual relationship than the two resident in the compound. Now that we’ve seen them from ... relatively deep inside them, I doubt that either of us would be ... satisfied with ... sexual relationships involving only two people ... of whatever sexes. I mean, how could either of us choose only one of you if that was where we wanted to go?”

Silence bomb number three.

Katie drove Char and me to dinner and the night at the Jacobs house. We were wearing tubes and skirts when we walked in the door and were very surprised when Steph gave each of us a hug after she closed the back door behind us.

She said, “Dinner will be ready in 15 minutes or so. Oh, and your spouses will...”

Lana, wearing similar clothes to ours, launched herself into me, kissing me with incredible passion, so I leaned into that passion and returned it. About the time I was considering putting a hand on her ass to pull her pelvis more tightly into mine, she released me and gave Katie the same. Before I could react, Brett stepped into me ... wearing only a Katherine-made panty, and gave me what Lana had. He followed Lana in giving welcoming hugs to Katie and Char.

Steph had not moved, so when we had arrival hugs completed, she said, “I truly like seeing the love and passion all of you share. It makes it easier to believe in the LA. Our kids respond to all the others very much like this when various of the girls arrive after not being with you earlier in the day. It makes me almost sorry that we keep you apart at times.”

“Don’t worry about it,” replied Katie. “Particularly for the freshmen, this is a good lesson, but it’s one that even us older girls appreciate that we need. It’s a lesson that teaches us not to be complacent about our relationship, and not to take it for granted. It’s hard enough to keep this thing going smoothly without complacency. We all need to remember ... every day ... that we cannot just continue on our merry way without devoting the effort to keep the very love and passion you mentioned going ... and going strongly.”

When I stared at Katie with my chin hanging a bit, she responded, “What? While I may be graysexual, I love like anyone else does, and I’ve come to love my many spouses very much.”

I rattled my brain, then told her, “It wasn’t that so much as I’ve not heard you state your feelings so clearly. We love that you joined us, but we ... I’ve wondered how much passion you have for the relationship versus just the sex.” I held up my hand to forestall her reply, then finished, “That’s probably a shortcoming on my part, and I apologize for it.”

Katie hugged me tightly, but briefly, then stated, “I probably deserved it, as I’ve not told anyone that, but it’s how I feel. Beth, I’m very happy, now, and, like Brit, I’ll follow the Go5 wherever it goes.”

That earned Katie fresh hugs from Lana and the rest of us, during which I saw Steph slowly shake her head.

“The more time I spend around you, the more obvious the ... devotion to the LA I see from its members. While we’d still want Brett and Lana with us a lot, you’ll all get a reprieve in June when there will be only a single available bedroom in the house. The remodel will begin on the west side of the house, and that will probably mean that our two kids will have to stay with you for at least two weeks and possibly for the duration of the work.”

There was much rejoicing.

After we calmed, Steph told us, “I’ve just heard from Emma that she’ll be the inside lead on the remodeling.”

We responded enthusiastically, after which Steph had us all join her in the kitchen, where we greeted Matt, each of the three of us getting a hug from him, the first we had ever gotten. I will have to ponder this change.

Post-dinner and the associated cleanup, the seven of us were sitting in the family room when I remembered something.

“Excuse me. I need to get something from my bag,” I said as I rose from my chair. When I returned from the bedroom, I handed a package to Steph and said, “This is for you two.”

“Another photo,” asked Matt. When I nodded, he added, “We’ve very much enjoyed the other photos you’ve given us. How do you, Beth, personally feel about giving us a photo that shows you in ... such an intimate setting?”

My face went pink, but I answered, “Occasionally a bit nervous, but our ... relationship necessitates each of us being comfortable with ... many people being in intimate situations together. We’re very accustomed to sexual actions taking place in semi-public, that is with an audience of our spouses. While subsets of us have more-intimate times, that is, without all of us together, each of us has had to learn to accommodate the group in what is typically a one-on-one situation rather than the ... group activity that sex is with us. We’re also ... accustomed to ... being subject to ... being videoed. However, it’s still a bit nerve-wracking to give you photos of such intimacy. However, you’ve been so good to us and so accepting, and since you two seem to ... appreciate our thank-you gifts so much, we’ll keep giving you such gifts as continued and continuing thanks for all you do for us, and if those gifts ... inspire you two, then all the better.”