Chapter 151: Chloe Learns "The Secret"; Part One

Saturday, April 30, 2005

I woke at about 2:45am, climbed over Julia, sent Chloe's text message, then - after some fooling around to work out how because I'm not very technologically adept - I turned Julia's phone off. I was looking forward to finding out whether Chloe had stayed up waiting for that text.

After my first breakfast, I had a nice, long, highly productive study session. My most productive session yet, even with the time I took off to finalize my BCC electives for Vanessa. That didn't take long as I mostly accepted her recommendations. I'll take on a guy armed with a gun, but I'm not brave enough to disagree with Vanessa! Not without good reason, and I didn't have a good reason to disagree with her ideas about these courses.

I ended up selecting the following, in descending order of Vanessa's priority:

• "Ethics", "Ethics and Power". (These were the two courses that Vanessa gave three ticks to.)

• "Public Speaking", "Interpersonal Communication". (Two ticks each.)

• "Introduction to Cultural Anthropology", "Science and Religion", "Human Sexuality". (One tick each, and I swear the last course truly was Vanessa's recommendation.)

These were my personal choices:

• "Systems Thinking and Practice", "World History I: Ancient Civilizations".

The next two were effectively compulsory. I hoped one look at my body would get them credited. [No such luck, as they had too much book learning.]

• Lifetime Fitness for Health, Lifetime Fitness: Running

I'd tried hard to find a course that provided any leadership material, but apparently leadership is not considered important, because among the hundreds of BCC courses OSU offers, there was NOTHING about leadership! I was very unimpressed by that, because if there's one thing I'm learning from Julia - other than how to seduce girls - it's the importance of leadership. The changes she has made to my life by the way she is "leading" me and many girls are ASTONISHING!

The electives totaled three credits over what I needed, in case one course was unavailable. I hoped it was Human Sexuality, as I could easily imagine all the loser guys who would sign up for that! If all the courses were available and I had to skip one of them, that'd be it.

I reached a good stopping point in my studying a few minutes before Julia would normally come to see me, so I decided to stop early and go see the girls. They were lying in bed facing each other, very close together and with their arms apparently over each other's waists. Both were awake and I presumed had been talking (they'd stopped when I opened the door).

"Good morning, darlings."

Carol answered, "Good morning, Lord. How about our Lord takes his robe off and comes to bed?"

"Yes, dear." The robe hit the floor (I could hang it up later), and I jumped onto the bed. For poking fun at her Lord (that was my excuse, anyway), Carol deserved some serious poking back. One of her holes was out of action, but I found another one. It was easy, as I knew where to look. That'll teach her to show some respect!

Julia and I exchanged a more conventional morning greeting, although Carol's joining in probably rendered it somewhat other than conventional, then the three of us settled down for some more cuddling and talking. Nothing of any consequence though, just:

• Some more joking about poor Dad's alien attack.

• About Ava, including a little comment from me that we shouldn't assume she wants to spend every moment with her parents, and not to pressure her to by that assumption. Carol added, "So the sooner she learns about our being lovers, the better," which Julia and I totally agreed with.

• Chloe was mentioned.

Julia asked the mentioner, "What time did you send the text to Chloe?"

"About 2:40. If she was staying up, she would've had a VERY late and worrying night. I'm curious whether she did or not. I know it sounds selfish, but I hope she was waiting up. I'd like to think she was that hooked."

"I'll find out for you. I haven't had a chance to think about what to do with Chloe next. You're busy with your running and soccer from about 10 this morning to dinnertime, aren't you?"

"Yeah. From about 9:30, because I'll have to get Donna from home first."

"Chloe will want to see you as soon as possible. She'll be bursting with curiosity, and probably several other things, haha. I'll offer her a choice between waiting until Monday at school, or coming around this evening. Anyone want to put their money on Monday?"

"I was kind of thinking of having a normal date with Ava this evening. Normal-ish, anyway. I was thinking of the four of us all going out somewhere; a movie or whatever. Something normal, so Ava feels more like a girlfriend and less ignored. It will be Saturday evening, after all. What do you think?"

"I think that's a good idea. It'll mean bumping Chloe to Sunday though."

"Yeah. I was worried about that. She's going to be anxious. At least, I HOPE she's going to be anxious."

Julia thought for a second, then said, "I'd excluded letting her come over right away, because we're all still in bed and Carol's here, but now that I think about it, that might work out VERY well. Let's see if she's up yet."

Julia reached for her phone, but I said, "Allow me." I floated it to her. All three of us think my being able to do 'little things' like that is pretty cool.

"Thank you, my Lord."

"You're welcome, darling."

Julia turned her phone on, and soon found out, "Yep, Chloe's been calling already. I'll let her call me. While we're waiting I'll tell you what I have in mind if she comes over right away."

It only took a minute to explain the main idea, and we were joking around by suggesting humorous additions when Julia's phone rang. Julia checked the display, "It's Chloe. I'll let it ring a few times."

^-- Julia lay fully down in the bed, put her head on the pillow, then VERY sleepily answered, "Wha?"

A few seconds later, "Who?"

"Oh, Chloe. Sorry, 'm sleepy. What time is it?"

"Oh God, it's too early. {Groan}. I didn't get enough sleep last night. I had a VERY hard night. Getting Mark to change his mind is not easy. Did you get my text last night?"

"Yeah, it was this morning. You must be tired too, with so little sleep." After a few seconds, Julia gave me the thumbs-up, which I assumed meant Chloe had stayed awake waiting for the text.

"I'm glad you're excited, but you didn't have to work your brain to a frazzle last night, trying to out-argue Mark."

"What?"

"Mark should be the one to explain. You'll have to come over and talk with him sometime. Let me think. Umm, he's doing a favor for his youngest sister from about 9:30 this morning to just after lunch. Then he's got an away game of soccer which he won't get back from until dinnertime, and then he's going out with a group of people tonight. So I guess you can see him Sunday sometime, or wait until Monday at school." We could all hear the shrieks of dismay during the last sentence.

"No. Not over the phone. It's a very personal thing so face to face is best. If you're really in a hurry, you could come over right now. I'm going back to sleep, but Mom will let you in. Come up to my room and wake me. Do you know where..."

Julia put down the phone and giggled. "She was running out the door before she'd finished saying goodbye. Her little feet will be pedaling flat out, haha, so I'd better get up and warn the family what's going to happen and tell them what I want them to do. You've probably got about five minutes before you'll have to go hide in the study, Carol, sorry." Julia quickly got out of bed, grabbing and donning my robe off the floor, which was an amusing contrast to what would come later, and she headed out of the room to hunt down her family.

Carol and I spent a few minutes joking about the shock Chloe was going to get, then Carol got up, tidied away what clothes of hers that were visible from where she'd left them last night, and left to go untidy the study bed.

Julia arrived back shortly thereafter, giggling and predicting, "This is going to be fun."

She put away the robe in the closet, then - naked - snuggled into bed, adopting a position where all she had to do was shut her eyes to look asleep.

We talked quietly, until there was a very light knock on the door. We would've missed it, had we not been waiting. Julia instantly shut her eyes and stopped talking. (The knock had come at a random time, at which Julia happened to be the one talking. What were the odds of that?)

I waited for the door to open, but all that happened was another knock. I waited a couple of seconds, then whispered to Julia, "I'll let her in."

It didn't take long for Julia to realize the implication of that, and she gave a short, quiet giggle.

I got out of bed and walked naked across to the door. I opened it as if it was the most natural thing in the world to answer doors naked.

Chloe got a shock. Her eyes first took in my topless state, then shot down to check how far down my toplessness extended. All the way to the bottom, she discovered, or she would when I turned around.

Her eyes bulged, her mouth fell open, but she somehow managed, "Oh my..." In case you've forgotten, Chloe hadn't attended the hot tub party after the bowling group date, so she hadn't seen me naked before.

"Come in, Chloe. I think Julia wants me to wake her when you arrive."

I walked back to the bed, wishing I had eyes in the back of my head to see Chloe's expression, as I've been told that I have a REALLY cute butt, haha. I climbed back into bed, mostly covering myself, but the sheet somehow ONLY JUST covered the important part, so Chloe would be tantalized. I shook Julia, "Wake up, Julia. Chloe's here?"

"Wha?"

"Chloe's here."

"Already?"

"Haha. You've been sleeping, so how could you know how long it's been?"

"Don' ask me to think." Julia pulled herself up into a sitting position, which exposed her chest, of course. "Hi Chloe. Oh that's right, you want to talk with Mark about your relationship, don't you? Come and sit on the bed, so we can talk with you properly." Chloe had only taken a couple of steps into the room.

"Umm."

"Come on! Have a seat." Julia pointed to the side of the bed, near me.

Chloe, still in shock and probably suffering from a lack of sleep too, although she was too worked up to show it now, slowly made her way to the indicated spot and sat on the bed. The true geniuses among my readership (as opposed to people like me, who only let others claim I'm a genius), will have anticipated the obvious result. The sheet, which had previously only just covered my cock, now didn't. Chloe's sitting on the bed had pulled the sheet down.

This development did not go unnoticed by Chloe, even though it wasn't a very big development, especially as I was under strict orders to remain soft throughout (I keep fearing Julia is going to explode when she realized the connection between my conscious control of my cock and the Annette Neumeyer Incident, but so far there's been nothing. I'm FAR too scared to ask why). Chloe's eyes and entire attention were on my cock. Not a lot of conversation was happening.

I was debating whether to deliberately pull the sheet up, or to move around casually in a way that 'accidentally' covered me again, when, #3: <Let her look! This is analogous to guys staring at her breasts - a somewhat smaller issue, I must admit - so let's use it as a lesson.>