Chapter 14

“Family meeting, C’mon Tig and Bethany, put down the sponges and the gloves and join us in the living room,” Danny blustered into the laundry room where we were scrubbing the floor. A sense of dread and panic spread over me for two reasons.

We had been failing to get everything done to my brother’s satisfaction, and I felt my mom knew that. We just didn’t have time in the day for the training, the hypnosis, the schoolwork, and the unrelenting chores.

I also knew that any time away from chores meant we’d fall behind further today.

Everyone was assembled in the living room. Danny and Scotty were seated in chairs next to Dad. Mom was standing, and Matt was on the couch checking his phone. He didn’t seem like he cared one way or the other.

“Girls you can have a seat,” my mom said. “You’ve had a very busy week and you would probably enjoy some time off of your feet,” she put my mind at ease by being polite.

“Thank you Ma’am,” we both said as we sat on the couch like good girls without our legs crossed, but not fully exposed.

“It’s been seven days since you asked to do ALL of the chores, and even added some including washing our cars, cleaning the boys and our room, making dinner. Did you enjoy it?”

“I wouldn’t say enjoy, Ma’am,” I replied. My sister said something similar.

“Okay, this question may save us some time – do you want to keep doing it?”

“Yes, Ma’am.”

“Why?”

“Like we said, as a gift to everybody else- give them some peace and quiet, and we’ve learned a lot, especially from you. Thank you, Mom.”

“Okay, that is a good answer. I am going to ask you how you think you did on the house and yard from one to five. A one is terrible, three is things haven’t changed much since when all of you pitched in and five is professional deep cleaning.”

That was a tough one, we both gave ourselves a two, and cited that we have been struggling.

“I am not going to argue with you there. Keep in mind, your brothers are pretty much engaged full time, so really all we are saving is one person’s time and that’s Matt, and frankly, he looks like he has a lot of free time to spare,” Mom teased Matt. Matt made a funny face but shrugged with indifference.

“Okay, I am going to let your father speak, the boys speak and then you speak. I want you to make the case for why we should continue, what we should change, and whether or not we should stop.”

Mom didn’t say if we’d vote or not – somehow, I suspected it would come down to what Mom thought should happen anyway.

Dad was the next to speak. “The boys ran the house like the military. We had two leaders for every two soldiers. A lot of barking and Inefficiency, but you sparkled up my truck nice.”

That was all my dad had to say.

Danny assumed he was going next- perhaps in order of seniority since he was the oldest.

“I guess I would say that I’d rather check their work than do it myself. The girls surprised me because I fully expected them to tell me to shove it at least once. I like this arrangement,” Danny said.

“Matt, do you have anything to say?” Mom asked.

“About what?”

“Never mind, Matt.”

It was Scotty’s turn, and I wasn’t sure what Master would say.

“Girls, please stand. I would like to ask you some questions and offer some suggestions before mom renders a decision.”

We stood up before Mom could tell us that was a little unnecessary. She said this was an informal family meeting. My sister and I put our hands behind our back and stood in the good girl position. Chins up, side by side.

Mom tolerated it because I believe she thought we were patronizing him by standing like that.

“Have Danny and I hazed you – remember mom’s definition of making up things you did wrong to make you do them again unnecessarily, giving you more work, etc?”

“No sir,” I said. I didn’t’ feel weird about saying Sir any longer.

“Okay, I took the liberty of pulling your grades out of your grade book upstairs. Do you mind if Mom sees your grades? I haven’t reviewed them – but do you feel you have kept up with your schoolwork?”

“Yes we have,” we both said. Mom took the grade books and began to look at them.

“Dad observed that it was inefficient there were two supervisors and two workers, but keep in mind at times I roll up my sleeves and help you,” Scotty lied. He pretended to help us and slipped his dick or his finger in our pussy while we worked. “Mom’s strategy seemed to be a check and balance, so Danny and I keep each other in check and don’t go overboard. It also gives one of you the flexibility to clean our room while Danny watches over you and another of you to clean the kitchen while I do. I like that strategy. Bethany, I’ll start with you – did that seem like an effective strategy? What would you do differently?”

My sister was caught off guard. I wished Master had prepared us for these questions. I didn’t know he would be asking our opinion. I didn’t know what he wanted us to say. My sister said that she thought his idea was okay with her.

I gave a similar answer and said that maybe Matt could help if one of them had things he needed to do. Matt did not say he wouldn’t help – but somehow, I thought he wouldn’t be into it.

“This past week, I’ve improved and refined my estimates for how long tasks realistically take and built-in little rest times, but even with that, you have not improved your ability to keep up with the laundry, and all the myriad things we need you to do for this to be successful. What do you think we could do differently?”

We didn’t have much of an answer. We rambled about trying harder. I was pretty sure mom would shut us down after that. Cleaning and mowing grass was hard work. There was nothing dynamically sexy about it – but deep down, I kind of wanted to be made to do it.

“Well, I think I have a solution and I’d like to propose it to you first before I ask Mom and Dad if we can try it for a week.”

Mom was the one nod my brother was looking for to continue with his proposal. The rest of us obviously wanted to hear it.

“I believe that your heart is in the right place, and you want to do something nice. You even distributed your allowance to the three of us even though we told you that was not necessary,” I said.

He actually told us to do it – because he thought it would make Danny and Matt more inclined to keep this arrangement.

“We can’t keep doing the same thing and expecting different results,” Scotty was pretty clear about that. My parents nodded with him. Danny had his arms folded stubbornly. I think he was jealous that he was grandstanding.

“I believe the problem is that we’ve not kept our end of the deal, and we’ve been a bit soft on you. I was half joking when I said I’d make you wear that shirt I bought you as a gag if you failed to clean. However, I was serious that I’d make you serve the household dinner and wait to eat after, but repeatedly you left glasses unfilled as if you were testing us. I was concerned Mom might think I was being too hard on you if I was a stickler. I promised I’d provide consequences to keep you motivated, but I was afraid that you would quit if I pushed too hard, and that mom would not approve. So, I propose a change to the arrangement, or we dissolve it.”

We nodded that we’d do okay.

“Okay, from now on you will get up at 5 am, and you will be ready to clean the house by 5:20 am. This includes school days. That’s two full hours earlier than you normally do. Danny and I will NOT wake you up, but we will be up with you. I am going to stop there for now because if this change is too much to ask then you will not like what else I have to say.”

Scotty had a piece of paper in his hand, but I felt he was speaking from memory or making it up as he went.

“Okay, yeah.”

“You want to clean that badly?” Danny interjected.

“It’s not just cleaning. We’d like to prove we are willing to do better, and a deal is a deal. Are you willing to get up with us, Sir?”

“I won’t love it, but I would,” Danny said. He pointed out that this was Scotty’s plan, and it was news to him as well.

“Actually, what may work better Danny is that I get up early with the girls, wake them up, and get them started. Then you wake up as normal so that you are not inconvenienced. In exchange, perhaps you would give me a break in the evenings? We could get more work out of the girls and cover more ground.

Mom would have stopped Scotty if she had a problem with any of this so far. She did appear skeptical. Dad seemed to have no opinion one way or the other about it. I think both of them assumed we’d refuse, and the grand experiment would be over anyway.

“If you fail to wake up, then we will dump cold water on you, and you will start sleeping on the floor so you do not ruin your mattress until you can get up on time. If you don’t want to wake up to a cold shower – the simple answer is set your alarm and get your lazy asses up.”

“Scotty!” Mom harumphed. Danny grinned wickedly, and even Matt smiled.

“That’s harsh,” my sister observed, but I think both of us got tingles at the same time in our pussies. I wondered how we’d keep Danny from finding us naked.

“I agree, but the two of you did want to volunteer and you have been failing to keep your end of the deal. If Mom wants us to keep doing things as we have been that’s fine with me,” Scotty said.

“The girl’s good intentions to do something positive shouldn’t be an excuse to turn them into full-time maids, Scotty,” My mom defended us.

That’s when my sister said something that opened the door for Scotty to make even more rules for us. I didn’t expect this, and I wasn’t sure if he had programmed her to say this – or she was just eager to let him make more rules.

I have to admit, it seemed like the two of them agreed that our parents and brothers should not know about our relationship – but they both seemed to dangle it in front of them right under their noses every chance they got. It was definitely a bit of an adrenalin rush even though it was an incredibly dangerous house of cards that could come tumbling down the moment we went just a little too far.