Chapter 25: Home

Susan was thrilled when just she and Bryan were in the car on the way home. Unlike other days when they were ignored as they were in the car, it felt like everyone was staring at them. Once out of the parking lot, Susan interlocked her fingers with his. She relished his touch and the longed-for the night so she could once again have him naked in her arms. With the car parked in their driveway, she lounged for him. She finally could do what she’d wanted for the past three days, attach her lips to Bryan’s. She left her lips on his soft inviting flesh, not parting after a few seconds as he was expecting. Instead, he had his lower lip captured between hers and held. She divided his hair between her fingers holding him to her. Their tongues touched sharing the taste of the other igniting both of their desires. They remained attached at the lips, delighted in the touch they’d been denied for so many days. The sound of the garage door opening startled the teens causing them to quickly separate.

Their mother was about to take Sara to a play date when she saw the teens had returned. She had Bryan take his cousin over to her friend’s house a few blocks over. Shortly after Bryan was gone Susan felt the inquisition start. “Who all stayed at Julie’s with you for the past couple of days?” Liz began.

Susan decided that there was no reason to lie. If she did and hers and Bryan’s stories didn’t match up there would be trouble. “Oh just the usual suspects and a few new ones,” she obfuscated.

Liz was having none of the generalities, “Do these usual suspects and new people have names.”

Susan rolled off the ten of the names before adding, “Oh, and of course Bryan.”

Liz noticed that there were six boys and six girls and no adults to speak of. “When I agreed to you and Bryan staying, I didn’t know there’d be a four-day party going on. And I know six of the people you mentioned are dating.”

‘Mom.” Susan protested. “It wasn’t a four-day orgy. We all got up and went to school and came back. We did what homework we had, and went to sleep. Please notice nowhere in there was there a mention of a drug-induced orgy.” Susan kept to herself the rest of the statement. “It was a drug-induced orgy that got us together.” Susan could see her mother about to blow her top so she quickly added for her to hear, “Ok, that was uncalled for. But in six months Bryan and I and most of the people we were with will be on our own. No one checking on us. So please can you just trust that we’re being responsible.”

“Ok, but why were there so many of you? And I’ve never heard you speak of Missy, Karen, Will, or Luddy before.” Liz questioned.

“I know, I’ve not spoken of them before. But they go to school with me, and we just hit it off after the party at Rich’s. So we had them stay, getting to know them better.” Susan said not telling a lie. But not the whole truth either.

“So where did everyone sleep? I know Julie’s house and it’s not set up for 12 people sleeping there.” Liz probed.

“In a dog pile.” Susan snickered thinking of how the group of them all sleeping together must have looked.

“In what?” Liz asked thinking her daughter was being a smart ass.

“As a group on the floor. But we only did that last night. And before you lose it. We were all dressed and absolutely no one touched anyone in a way, they couldn’t tell their parents about.” Susan explained.

“Why?” Liz questioned, remembering back to her teen years and what she knew now. A large group like that would’ve ended up in an orgy of sex and alcohol. Her pregnancy lust made her think she would enjoy a pile of naked flesh at that moment.

“Why what? Why did we sleep altogether? I think it was for solidarity, friends who’d always stand by the others. Why no sex? First of all, I can’t imagine having group sex and I’d think the others are the same way. Second sex is between the participants in the activity and not a group sport, which gets us back to number one.” Susan theorized.

“Is there something going on I don’t know about?” Continued Liz’s interrogation.

“Yes,” Susan stated matter of fact, looking directly into eyes that could be the ones that look back at her in the mirror. “And seeing this is the beginning of two and a half weeks off from school, can we discuss it in the New Year?”

“Sure,” came the reply. Liz figured no reason for fighting with Susan about what was going on. Bryan probably had the same information and was less closed-lipped.

Susan stopped and looked over her shoulder as she began entering the house, “And, please don’t ask Bryan. It’d not be fair to him. He’ll most likely say it’s for my telling, anyway.”

Liz was shocked. First that Susan was worried about her putting Bryan in a position of betraying a confidence. And second, not least of all, that the two trusted each other enough to keep secrets from their parents. They’d not done that since they were little. “Ok, I won’t.”

Susan was changing out of Julie’s clothes into some very comfortable ones of her own. Susan would make sure, she stayed well covered up when in the presents of people. She’d gone so far as putting on a slip under her flannel shirt. Normally she’d just go without a bra. Trusting that only a little cleavage would show every now and then through the button gaps. But her purple and orange-ish skin would be the start of a conversation, she didn’t want for a few days. When fully dressed she heard Bryan heading up the stairs. Susan stopped Bryan in the hall, “She didn’t grill you on what went on the past couple of days, did she?”

The inquisitive look on his face told her the answer before he could say, “No, surprisingly not.”

“Good, Love you.” She said followed by a peck on the cheek.

“Me too. And that was just mean.” Bryan said to the back of her head as she headed down to get a snack.

“Later.” She called up from halfway down the steps. She knew the whole house could hear it but wouldn’t understand the full meaning of the single word. Not having homework, she helped her Mom get dinner ready and played some with her cousins. Bryan came down dressed more comfortably. He also helped by setting the table for dinner and playing a game of Candyland with Sara. Tom came in thirty minutes before dinner and when directly to Liz. He kissed her as she stood at the sink. They exchanged a few words that Susan and Bryan couldn’t hear. Tom left Liz to her task at the sink. He suggested the teens go help their mother some more when he walked past.

The twins knew better than thinking not getting asked a ton of questions when their dad first saw them was a free pass. The questions would come but when they were held captive at the dinner table. Since they were little, no one got up from the table unless excused. It made it so unpleasant conversations could go on for hours, without the ability of retreating to a bedroom. It was so ingrained in them, they wouldn’t even think of leaving in the middle of a lecture or conversation. Parents could leave but children had to stay and endure.

When dinner was almost over, Bryan and Susan were beginning to think they saw the light at the end of the tunnel. That they would escape without the third degree. The light was just another train, so it began. Tom asked. “So how were things at Julie’s?”

Susan looked at Bryan. He looked back at her in the silent debate of who would answer. “They went well.” Susan finally answered not knowing what else to say.

“Your Mom tells me there were twelve of you there. Is that right twelve?” Tom continued peering over to Liz.

“Yes sir. Twelve of us,” Bryan answered. He continued before the issue of the gender makeup could be raised. “Six guys and six girls, so twelve.”

“What did you guys do for some many days?” Tom asked.

“Sat around and talked, watched some football, played on the internet, and played a few games. Nothing worth writing home about,” Susan said nonchalantly.

“Teens play games? What kind of game? Video games?” Liz asked this time.

“Yes, we play games. And no not only video games. Actually, I think one of the most fun nights we had. We played Twister.” Susan said with joy in her voice. She remembered the fun of watching the game contestants fight it out and play dirty tricks on each other.

“Twister?” Tom said disbelieving and knowing it was played in the nude by many people after much alcohol was consumed.

Bryan could tell what his dad was thinking. He thought it would be fun to stir the pot and hopefully get excused more quickly. “Yeah, Twister. But unfortunately, I couldn’t get anybody to go for the baby oil and birthday suits.” Susan let out a guffaw, and milk came out of her nose.

“Susan?” Tom stared at his daughter.

She finished wiping her nose of the milk that had exited. “Well, he is telling the truth. He tried the baby oil approach but decided better of it when the girls said no. We girls did suggest the boys could go right ahead.”

“I’m assuming that they didn’t,” Liz said imagining Bryan slicked up and squirming over her naked body, instead of some teen boy.

“Oh, they’re so afraid they’d be called gay. There is no way, they’d get within three feet of each other naked. They did play fully clothed though. And it was fun watching them. I think they tried every dirty play in the book, from wet willies in each other ears, to farting in each other’s faces.” Susan explained.

“Well, they are teenage boys,” Tom said, which reminded him. “And that is part of the problem with the whole situation.”

“I won’t tell you no sex went on this weekend.” Bryan started, “Because it’d be a lie and you’d know it. But the couples that did have sex. Their parents know they have sex occasionally or will know shortly. It’s a requirement for Stew and Steve to inform their girlfriend’s parents if they have sex. Seems kind of weird but it works. So Amanda’s parents know and Julie’s will know. I think shortly. I think Steve was planning on telling them on Saturday when their plane got canceled.”

Bryan intentionally left off Vince and Stacy as neither of their parents would approve.

“The rest of us didn’t know each other very well. We spent the time getting to know each other. So the only intercourse there was talking.” Susan added.

Liz looked at Bryan then Susan. “You two are excused. This conversation isn’t over, though.” The twins bolted from the table into the room with their cousins, figuring they’d dodged a bullet. The two entertained their young cousins for the rest of the evening. Blunting any possibility of the conversation continuing about the past extended weekend. Susan volunteered to take the little ones up for their baths, extending her time around them. She assumed Bryan could hold his own. If more questions of the weekend came up. His answers to questions so far had been better than she could’ve hoped for. She dried the small children and helped them get into their pajamas. Spiderman and the princess ran about the house finding every one, giving them a hug before going to bed. With them firmly in bed, Susan turned off the light switch on the wall. The room glowed from the nightlight that came on with the darkness. A last good night was said while she closed the bedroom door to her former room.

Bryan walked into his room about two hours later seeing Susan sitting on the bed playing on her laptop. “Whatcha doing?” he asked.

Susan looked like a kid with her hand caught in the cookie jar. She stammered out, “Oh just playing on the internet.” She tried to stealthily press the mute button.

“Let me see,” Bryan said reaching for the machine on her lap.

“No, it’s private.” Susan objected, moving the computer out of his reach. She pressed the back button a couple of times on her browser while closing the lid.

“We don’t do private, remember,” Bryan stated taking the computer. He opened the lid and looked at the screen. On the screen was what he knew was the home screen. “Oh, Sis you really need to work on your sneaky.”

“I think I do sneaky just fine.” She said lifting her shirt and slip high enough, he could see the healing skin of her breast and areolas.

Bryan shook his head, “I meant with the computer, we do that sneaky just fine.” He pressed the forward on the browser until it greyed out. The screen was blank for a second before it showed loading a video. The video started with a big box with a bow on it. He turned, looking at Susan in disbelief. She’d been watching the videos Rich had posted. When he turned back to the screen he could see, it was Will’s video. “Why?” he asked to the screen.

“I don’t know. To see what the others were subjected to I guess.” Susan was ashamed of her prying.

“So what have you learned?” Bryan asked looking at her intently.

“That some people are really deprived. Missy and Karen were virgins and it’s not right not knowing who took that. That the guys that did, didn’t have to be so brutal about it. It was like they needed to inflict pain to feel like men. Other guys are probably happy now that Missy and Karen are objects of scorn. That at the time, they were not fully happy that the girls didn’t show shame and humiliation at their actions.” She stated.

“So you watched Missy’s and Karen’s videos? What about Will’s and your own?”

“No, I had just started on Will’s. And I was saving my own for last.”

“Want me to watch them with you. You know I’ve already seen yours at high speed.”

“Yeah, I know. Are you sure you still want to make love with me after seeing what you saw? What ten or fifteen guys screwing me?”

“Try more like thirty or forty. And yes I always want to make love with you.”

“My God I had no idea it was so many.”

“Well, it will make it less likely that Mom and Dad will try figuring out whose child your carrying. That’s too many to track down.”

“I guess that is one good thing. But why did so many more screw me than Karen and Missy.”

“You’re better known. More guys whack off thinking about you and Julie. It was a chance to not just whack off, but actually do what they’ve fantasized about for years.”

“Yeah, I guess.”

“I know I’ve fantasized about having sex with Julie for years.”

“Julie, but not me?” She asked almost sounding hurt.

“Well, I usually started with you but switched it to Julie. When the taboo of it kicked in.”

“So what changed? You know we never have discussed that.”

“I know. What changed? Me. Something clicked and I realized that loving someone is loving someone. And sex is supposed to be an expression of that undying selfless love. Plus it’s considered a sin for the same reason most things were sins in ancient times. It didn’t help promote a stable society. If families could reproduce without interaction with other families, clans could exist outside of the rest of society. The problems with birth defects were low but possible. They become more probable only after many generations of incest births. So it became immoral, and I don’t think ancient rules apply today. I love you with my whole being, and making love to you is my way of showing it. The fact others had sex with you does not affect my love for you or my showing you.”

“Wow, I thought you were going to say my getting off in front of you.” She said truly amazed at his thought-out reasoning and love for her. She also felt bad she had to lie to him about all that she had done after such a heart-felt admission. She swallowed that she had loved what was done to her. That never again would her brother love her like he did at that moment if he truly knew the depraved slut she loved being in that room. She swallowed it and put on a jovial smile at her joke.

“Yeah, that too.” He chuckled.

“So you use to fantasize about Julie? You think I should let her know?”

“No definitely not. Steve might kill me.”

“No, I think you have to hurt Julie to incur his wrath. And that wrath is amazingly wicked and vindictive.”

“Do you think he’ll go after any of the others that raped Julie?” Bryan wondered.

“I think Rich sped up his being put in Steve’s crosshairs. He was going to end up there sooner or later. His taunting her and Steve Monday was the last straw. The others would be smart to learn from his mistake.” She said.

“From what mistake?” came from the door. Liz stepped into the room.