Chapter 20: Sarah

The second semester of my junior year started in January and there were still more changes in my life, in part due to Allie and Lily.

I got a surprise one afternoon just before classes started when I came into the apartment over the garage and Sarah, Allie’s sister was there. So was all her luggage and the possessions that she’d managed to get to campus or had acquired once she got there.

Sarah threw herself into my arms. “Thank you for letting me move in with you.”

Now, that was a surprise. I tried to recall the specific conversation where I’d made that invitation or had heard Allie make it. I vaguely recalled a sentence here and there with Allie and even with Sarah when we first met the previous Christmas holiday, but I didn’t recall anything as definitive as ‘Yes, live with us.’

I just nodded. “I thought you were living in the freshmen dorms?”

Sarah replied, “I had to do that for the first semester. After that we can do whatever we want. My roommate wanted to move in with her BFF from high school, so it was a good time to separate, and here I am.”

I explained, “I don’t know how Allie wants to fit you into our apartment and lifestyle, but she should be back from shopping very soon.” I smiled and even hugged the pretty girl.

Allie had orchestrated Sarah and I having sex when we had gone to her home over the Christmas holidays a year earlier. This past holiday, we hadn’t gotten together because her parents came by our campus while Sarah stayed locally with a friend. I wondered whether Sarah was expecting to continue our liaison, whether Allie wanted that to keep happening, or ... I don’t know what. This was all hitting me as a large surprise with many facets and complicating issues.

Besides Sarah moving in with us, we had Lily who was now living with us. Allie and I had proposed to Lily midway through the fall semester. We told her that we loved her, and wanted her with us as much as possible for the rest of time. She felt the same way, and moved in that very weekend, leaving the sorority house behind.

Mostly, Lily slept in the king-size bed with us. She’d be on one side of me and Allie on the other. We were the most sexed up threesome within a thousand miles, we were sure. We fucked ALL the time in every combination possible. At least, we tried when one of us wasn’t working as an escort or doing a porn video.

Lily was using the second bedroom for her clothes and as her dressing area. There wasn’t that much room in the whole garage apartment. I assessed Sarah’s luggage, and I wasn’t sure how we’d fit her into that room, too. I knew that our bedroom was full with just Allie’s and my stuff.

Allie came home a half-hour later with multiple bags of groceries. I’d started dinner and polite conversation with Sarah. Lily wouldn’t be home until around nine o’clock from a basic Krav Maga self-defence class.

Allie looked dumbfounded that her sister was at our apartment with her stuff. We’d seen her frequently since she was on campus – maybe once or twice a week, but she seemed in her own social circle what with dorm living and all.

Allie finally said, “Sarah, your being here is a complete surprise to me and to Chris. We are not turning you away, but we didn’t expect this.” She sounded a little pissed, and gestured to the pile of Sarah’s clothing and other belongings.

“I gave up my room and didn’t even sign up for a meal plan,” Sarah said in a sorrowful tone. “I’m sorry. I thought this was ... oh, never mind. I’ll go back tomorrow. Just let me crash here tonight, please.” I was sure tears were forming in her eyes.

Allie held her hand up. “First, you need to know that we have a third person living with us. We love her and she’s newly part of a triad relationship that Chris and I have formed with her. Her name is Lily Summers. She’s a sophomore math major and a sorority sister. She uses our second bedroom, but sleeps with us.”

Sarah said, “Oh! Sorry for the misunderstanding. I didn’t realize that things were so tight here.” She dropped into a chair with slumped shoulders and head.

I gave out glasses of wine to everyone. Sarah looked surprised, but eagerly took her glass. We had my pot roast for dinner, much to Sarah’s surprise. I guessed that she was used to a steady diet of subs and pizza delivered to the dorm.

Sarah watched as I prepared and set aside a dinner plate for Lily and kept it warm in our small oven. We had the place neat as a pin within a half-hour after we finished dinner. We were sitting having conversation when Lily got home.

Lily had met Sarah several times before, but the presence of all the bags and two large suitcases was the tipoff that something other than a social visit was planned.

Allie immediately took Lily into our bedroom for some private conversation. I could also hear closet doors being opened and closed. They must be searching for space.

Twenty minutes later, Allie and Lily reappeared and went into what we called Lily’s room. There was more assessment of the space available for clothing and what not.

Allie and Lily finally came in and sat down. Sarah obviously knew she had precipitated some kind of crisis. She wore a long face. I guessed what the outcome would be.

Allie said, “You will use Lily’s room and the bed in that room. You’ll have half the dresser and half the closet space in there. That’s probably not adequate for what you have here.” She gestured to the suitcases and bags of clothing.

“What I think you’ll need to do, is cull some of the stuff. There’s some storage space in the under the eaves, but it’s not easy to get to or use. You’ll need to find a place to store those large suitcases, too. We have no place for them and they won’t fit through the access to the storage areas. We could get a small storage unit and put much of your stuff in there along with some of ours, so you’d have some more room, too.

“Lily is going to move some of her things into the closets that Chris and I use. We’ll get another small drawer unit that we can put in our bedroom for some of her things, too.”

Sarah started to cry. “I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. I thought you wanted me. I don’t want to be a burden. I love you all so much.”

Allie swept her up and hugged her sister. She gestured for me and Lily to get in the act, too. We soon had Sarah cradled between the three of us as we kissed her and reassured her that we did want her, only that she’d caught us by surprise. We hadn’t had time to plan for her arrival.

After Sarah calmed down, the girls unpacked a few of her belongings, at least enough so she could get going the next day and we had at least some room to move around more normally in the living room. We all had our first classes of the semester, so we were off to bed after that.

Sarah observed Allie, Lily, and me ultimately getting naked before we got in bed together. If she left her bedroom door open, she might have also heard us making love together.

We were all off to Thursday morning opening classes the next day. Sarah added her printed class schedule to the refrigerator so we knew when we might expect her to return to the apartment. We were a ten-minute walk from the edge of campus.

I had a break between classes from ten to eleven a.m. I texted Allie, who I knew was in class. “You OK with the Sarah situation? Remember we have all sorts of ‘dates’ this weekend.????.”

I got a text just as I was starting my next class. She’d had time to process mine. ‘Pls be home at 5. We might have a situation. Mostly on me, but I need ur support. ILY. A.’

Allie, Lily, and I were home at five o’clock, just when Sarah got home from an afternoon class. We were trying to look casual, but were anything but.

I got each of us a glass of wine, and gestured to Sarah sit and talk with us. I think she thought the worst was about to happen based on the look on her face.

Allie said, “Sarah, I’m about to tell you about part of my life that you don’t know about. Chris and Lily are here to support me in doing this, but as you’ll hear, they’re also involved.

“I need to emphasize that if you tell ANYBODY at home, I will cease to be a family member and cease to be your sister. I will be a total outcast and will never be welcome home again – even in the state, at least that’s my supposition. Am I clear?”

Sarah stuttered, “I ... I guess. I promise not to tell anybody.” She looked worried.