Chapter 246: Mom Isn't Happy About Carol Showing Everyone Her Pussy

Sunday, June 19, 2005 (Continued)

Carol arrived in the study, having been let in by Robert. Julia immediately started showing Carol pictures of our preferred choice and explaining our plan.

Before they got too engrossed, I interrupted loudly, "Excuse me everyone. I want to ask a quick question about my light blobs. Everyone who knows about them is here now, so this would be a good time. I'm thinking of showing them to Andrew and Robert. I'm still thinking about my reason, and I'm not ready to discuss it yet, but I thought I should ask if any of you knows of any reason why I shouldn't give them a demonstration?"

"Why?" asked Julia with considerable interest.

Several possible ways of answering crossed my minds. I chose, "Sometimes I don't think you listen to me, Julia."

"Huh?" After a second's thought, "Ohh! You're not ready to discuss it yet. Sorry, I didn't listen AGAIN. I'm having trouble with that."

"Yes. I think it's because you love being bossy and knowing everything that's going on. I could see you were very interested in my reason, so maybe when I'm ready to discuss it, I'll tell everyone EXCEPT you. That'd be a punishment that'd fit the crime nicely, wouldn't it?"

"That's too cruel. Maybe you could just accept my apology? I truly AM sorry, Mark. I'm also VERY pleased that you're standing up to me. I don't suppose you'd believe me if I tried to claim my mistakes are part of a cunning plan to make you more self-assertive?"

"Not likely. We'll discuss a suitable punishment in our room later. It may not be a cruel punishment, but it probably will be unusual. Back to The Boys. Does anyone have a reason not to tell them?"

After a couple of minutes' conversation, everyone agreed that they trusted The Boys enough.

Vanessa made a statement that summarized everyone's feeling, "Andrew and Robert are extremely trustworthy men. They know several things about you already which I'm sure they've kept quiet about. However, your light blobs aren't you doing something better than other people can do; they're something that no one else can do, so you should have a good reason before you show them."

My reason was superficially a silly one, as it was to play a trick on Donna. There was some serious justification for the trick though. I said, "I'll keep thinking about my reason. If I decide it might be good enough, I'll talk about it with MOST OF YOU first," I pointedly stared at Julia during my stressed words.

Despite my threat, I would include Julia in the conversation. It involved our three-way wedding ceremony, presuming that went ahead, so Julia should know what I was thinking of doing. I couldn't talk about it now because Mom and Dad didn't know there was going to be a wedding ceremony, but I could talk with Vanessa, Prof and Julia after the rest of my family left.

The conversation got back to the topic of the four properties on our shortlist, partly to explain everything to Carol, but mostly because the adults and Julia wanted to talk real estate some more. God knows why, because we'd already decided what to do. If the sellers refused to lower their price enough, we'd have plenty of time to discuss Plan B then. If they did lower their price, all this conversation would be wasted.

Obviously they were enjoying themselves, but I wasn't. I was tired of it, and I was a bit frazzled by the two confrontations with Julia, especially the first one. I hate arguing with her, and I hated even more that the money situation had become so pressured that I'd "blown up", as Prof had correctly pointed out. Listening to more real estate talk was stressing me out even more, so I was going to escape.

I said, "Excuse me again, but I need a break from discussing real estate. I think I'll check out the leftovers, then have a soak in the hot tub."

"I'll come with you," said Carol. "I've got a lot of things to tell you about the Cuties."

"I thought you'd be interested in the house shopping?"

"Not really. I don't really have a say in it."

#6: <You're getting your Carol's mixed up. This one hasn't realized she's important enough to have a say about anything. It's going to take some time to build up her opinion of herself.>

"Not long before you arrived, Carol, we divided up who was in charge of furnishing different parts of the houses. Mom is responsible for most of the main house, Vanessa for just her bedroom and study, and Julia is in charge of my detached house. The person in charge can ask advice and get opinions from whomever she wants, but the final decision is hers.

^-- "You were right when you said you didn't have a say, so I'm changing that. In the main house there are two bedrooms which are for you and Donna. There's also a spare bedroom in the top modular house. You're now in charge of those three bedrooms. If we end up buying a different house than the one we're trying for, you'll still be in charge of its non-master bedrooms. The carpets, drapes, wallpapers, beds, bed linen, and everything else. Even things like the windows. If you don't think they're big enough, you can tell the builders to cut a bigger hole in the wall and get bigger windows put in." I'd heard Mom and Dad talking about doing that in their room, and maybe even building a small deck.

"But I don't know ANYTHING about decorating!"

"You'll have a few weeks to learn. I suggest you visit as many of your girlfriends' houses as you can. Look at all their bedrooms, talk with their mothers, take pictures, make notes, and learn as much as you can. I'm sure they'll be excited to help you learn. You can visit stores, read magazines and whatever else women do to learn that stuff."

^-- I asked the room at large, "Is ten grand per room a large enough budget?"

Vanessa answered, "More than enough Mark. Half that would be ample."

"I'll make it $20,000 for the three rooms then. I'll write you a check for $20,000. I want you to have the money in your account so you know it's real."

Carol asked incredulously, "You're going to give me ANOTHER twenty thousand?"

#7: <Oops. I didn't really want her to say that.>

"Haha. I haven't given you anything YET. This is to spend on furnishings for MY house. If you spend it on pretty dresses, then you're going to be sleeping on the floor for the next few years."

#1: <Make a mental note that we need to keep our eyes open for easy ways to make money. Ideally at least another $20,000 to cover what we just promised Carol.>

#7: <I was intending to take it out of her "Wife's Money". I can't see Carol objecting to our doing that when we tell her later; we just can't tell her now in front of everyone else.>

#1: <Okay, but I'm still going to keep our eyes open for any stray piles of $20,000 I see lying around.>

#2: <Remember Vanessa made us retain an extra $100,000 as per Prof's suggestion. Burying $30,000 is probably a good idea, but that leaves plenty of other purposes.>

#3: <It's worrying how often "other purposes" come up though.>

#2: <Yeah, there is that.>

"I've never thought about decorating anything before. I haven't got a clue what to do."

"Getting advice isn't going to be a problem, sweetie; getting too much is going to be the main worry. Mom and Vanessa will let you know the types of things you need to think about and your girlfriends will go crazy wanting to help. Visit their homes like I said before, take them to visit our house after we've got access to it and ask them for ideas. I don't know much about girls, but one thing I'm sure of, is that you'll end up getting enough advice to furnish fifty bedrooms. Julia will help you too, but she'll be under STRICT orders not to get bossy. If I see her doing that, she'll end up decorating the mailbox and nothing else. Is that clear, JULIA?"

"Yes Mark. I think you're WONDERFUL!"

"Thanks mostly to you. I'll thank you for that properly later tonight; right after I finish punishing you for not listening. You're going to have a busy evening, haha.

^-- "Carol, I've given you three bedrooms to do. Three, so you can have some fun with different choices; and bedrooms only, so you don't have too much to learn. You'll have a blast, and your friends are going to be incredibly envious. Think about everything you've always wanted in your bedroom. Anything from more closet space through to your own bowling lane, haha. That last suggestion might be a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the idea: YOU choose what you want, because you're in charge. Okay?"

"I don't think I'll do any good. I'll mess it up and you'll have ugly rooms in your house."

"I'm sure that's not going to happen, sweetie. When you think you've got a design for a room, show it to Mom and Vanessa to get their opinions. Or if you're still worried, use some of the money to get advice from a professional decorator. The only way something ugly could happen would be if you had bad taste AND you refused to listen to other people's advice, NEITHER of which I can see happening. You won't make mistakes like that, so relax. I'm sure you'll have a good time with your project. It'll also keep you very busy for the next few weeks.

^-- "Mom, are there books about decorating in the library?"

"Yes. Dozens of them."

"There you go, sweetie. Tomorrow morning I suggest you go to the library and start boning up on the subject. If you happen to find a book that says guys' bedrooms shouldn't have ANYTHING pink in them, PLEASE show it to Julia. I'd be willing to pay $20,000 just for that, haha."

"Oh boy. I'm really going to do this?"

"Yes you are. The most important thing to remember is that you're in charge. Listen to other people, but then YOU decide what YOU want to be done."

"Yes. It's going to be scary, but fun."

"Good girl. Don't forget to include a big shoe rack in Donna's room, to hold all her running shoes, haha."

Carol chuckled, then she asked Mom, "Please show me what you've got about my bedrooms."

I interrupted, "Before you do that Carol, please go down to the kitchen, fix me a plate of Chinese leftovers and whatever you want for yourself, heat them then come back up to tell me they're ready. I want to talk about you to everyone else, and I don't want you hearing."

"Oh." Carol and the aforementioned "everyone else" were all surprised. Then she said, "Okay," and left the room, closing the door behind her.

I told everyone, "I've got two points to make. First, Carol doesn't value herself NEARLY highly enough. I don't know how good the end result of her decorating will be, but I don't particularly care. $20,000 is a cheap price to help her feel worthwhile. When she's asking any of you for decorating advice, how the rooms will look is less important than Carol's feelings about herself, so please answer her accordingly. Encourage her and build her confidence. That especially applies to you, Julia. If it helps you concentrate, the real project ISN'T the bedrooms, but CAROL, okay?"

"I understand. I'm very impressed by you."

"Occasionally I know what I'm doing. Carol won't be long, so let me carry on. When I told you how much money I had available for the house, I already subtracted some money for Carol. In other words, that $20,000 won't come off your budgets. It'll actually help because there'll be three fewer rooms for you to worry about. I'm amused to see you look relieved, Julia. Well done on managing to hold that concern back earlier.

^-- "The second point I want to mention has nothing to do with buying a house. This is just a good time to do it. I said a few minutes ago that I was going to have a soak in the hot tub. I'll do that after Carol and I finish our meal downstairs. Carol has some gossip from the Cuties - her friends today - that she wants to tell me. Show her the pictures of the house to get her starting to think about her project, but don't keep her here for long. When she's seen enough, send her down to tell me her gossip.

^-- "Vanessa, before she leaves the room I want you to tell her a new 'Family Rule' that you have here. Whenever Carol uses your hot tub she must be naked. It doesn't matter who else is in the tub or in the house, Carol must be naked. Make sure you emphasize that the rule applies to Carol only; not to anyone else. Then send her down to join me in the hot tub.

^-- "I imagine you've got some questions, Mom?" I was surprised Mom hadn't interrupted with her questions

"Haha. Yeah, you could say so. Why ON EARTH do you want to see your sister naked?"

"That question's wrong in several ways. First, if I wanted to see Carol or Donna naked, all I'd have to do is ask them to show me. I'm pretty sure both of them trust me enough that they'd do it. If that'd been my motivation, I don't think I would have raised the issue surrounded by parents. Or maybe that should be 'surrounded by concerned parents', haha. This isn't about me at all. I want the fake Family Rule to apply whether or not I'm here. Carol will be visiting this house often enough without me that there'll be plenty of such occasions..."

"Why would Carol come here without you?"

"We should stick to one topic at a time, but to be brief, she'll be coming here for all sorts of reasons: to use my computers to read whatever she can find about decorating bedrooms, to look at the photos Vanessa has loaded down - or 'loaded up', I don't know which is the right direction - to spend time with Julia, and relevant to my main topic, so she can use the hot tub naked with people other than me, because I don't want it to be about me. Let me finish saying what I want to say, THEN you can ask questions, otherwise you'll waste time on irrelevancies.

^-- "When Carol and I finish eating I'll send her to this room to have a look at the bedrooms she's responsible for, and I'll tell her that I'm going to the hot tub. You keep her busy for at least ten minutes, while I run around the house and talk with whoever else is here, so they know what I want them to do. Then I'll go back to the tub. In case you're wondering, Mom, I WILL be wearing a swimsuit. My being clothed will accentuate Carol's nudity in her mind, which is what this is all about.

^-- "When you've shown Carol the photos, Vanessa will tell her the new rule, then send her to the hot tub room. Vanessa, tell Carol to strip when she gets to that room, and for her to put her clothes in one of the cubbyholes. Just before Carol gets into the tub I'll make up a reason for her to come back here, and I'll insist she does so naked. When she gets here, give her a printout of one of the photos and tell her to take it to Robert. Depending on whoever else is here, Robert will get her to do something else. Prof and Dad should go to Prof's study shortly, for example, so Carol can be sent to them for some reason. The reasons don't matter much, as Carol will know they're fake reasons. They just have to be vaguely plausible to make the game seemingly realistic.

^-- "Between all of us we should be able to keep her walking around the house naked for fifteen minutes or more, and so everyone sees her..."

There was no way Mom could hold back any longer. She interrupted with, "What the BLUE BLAZES are you thinking! This is LUNACY! We're not going to do any such thing!"

Mentally thanking Julia's lessons about zigzagging on people, I said, "I thought you loved Carol. Why are you being so inconsiderate and selfish toward her, Mom?"

"Huh?" Mom tried to work out what I meant, but quickly gave up, to ask me instead, "What on Earth are you talking about?"

I couldn't resist the opportunity to steal some of the wind from Mom's sails. "Remember I told you a few days ago that you were accusing 'Are you insane' too often at work, and how damaging it was?"

"Ahh, yeah?" Mom didn't like the way the conversation just lurched.

"You just yelled 'This is LUNACY' at me. And then immediately followed it by asking me what I was talking about. Wouldn't it have been politer of you to make sure you understood what was happening before yelling 'LUNACY' at me? You have a propensity to leap to a negative emotional reaction without thinking first. It's not a good behavior, and you need to control yourself better. Why couldn't you have said, 'I don't understand what you're doing, Mark. Obviously you'd never hurt or humiliate Carol because you care for her so much, so there must be a good reason for what you are suggesting.' Wouldn't that have been a better way of asking me, Mom?"

^-- I could see that point had been made, so I moved straight on to my main point, "When I'm suggesting something that seems crazy - and I'm perfectly happy to admit that getting Carol to walk around the house naked so everyone can see her does seem crazy - then there are two possible explanations. Either I've gone insane, or I have extremely good reasons for the extremely weird behavior I'm suggesting. I'd be insulted by your repeatedly assuming that I'm at fault, except I know you do it to other people too, such as all the people you've yelled 'Are you insane!' to at your work. Every time you make accusations like that, you're insulting your target. People don't like being insulted and treated like idiots, especially when they think they've got good reasons for what they're doing. You need to make more effort to find out if they have good reasons. And even if they're wrong, you need to be more polite about how you express that opinion."

^-- I should have finished with an amusing joke to lighten the mood, but I couldn't think of anything good in time (seven active minds, and they all let me down. It's hard to get good help). The best I could do was, "Don't make me punish you by putting Carol in charge of furnishing your bedroom too, haha." The laugh at the end was to try to emphasize the joke, but it didn't really work.

Changing w-dimensions was mostly a tragedy, but it was also a nuisance too. I'd just started getting my mom properly trained in 3B-land, and now I had to start all over again here. 3A hadn't put hardly any effort into training this Mom because there'd been no sex going on around her, therefore no real need to push her into giving us a lot more slack. There'd been a few minor confrontations over the fights 3A had gotten into, but they were an after-the-event thing, rather than getting Mom into the right frame of mind in advance.

Mom said, "You were right about my mistreating my coworkers, and you're right that I didn't give any thought to what your reasons might be. I just assumed you were wrong. You're getting very good at understanding people, especially with that revelation of yours yesterday, about me and Steven."

"I can't agree that I'm very good at understand people. Occasionally I know something, but the rest of the time my stupidity about people scares me. Don't expect too much from me, because I'll certainly do a lot more stupid things yet. What I want is for you not to assume I'm insane or a lunatic, and not to assume I'm always right either. Discuss my reasons with me, and if I'm wrong, tell me why.

^-- "I've almost finished with what I want to do with Carol, so let me do that now. I was saying that we should be able to keep Carol trotting back and forth for fifteen minutes or more, and so everyone sees her. My last request is that when each of you see her, the way to treat her is NOT to ignore that she's naked, but to deliberately accentuate that she is. I want you all to embarrass her as much as you can, especially sexually. Ask her why her nipples are hard, look at her pussy and ask her why it's aroused. She'll almost certainly be very wet, so ask her why there's pussy juice running down her leg.

^-- "There shouldn't be any touching at all, but one of the things that'd work well is when Prof and Dad are in Prof's study, Prof should tell Carol to stand straight, put her hands on her head to lift her breasts, stick out her chest and stand with her legs apart. Then Prof should very slowly walk around her, inspecting her up and down. He and Dad should make comments back and forth about Carol's arousal, lack of shame, how plush her body is, etc. It's all about making her as sexually embarrassed as possible, and for quite a long time, at least fifteen minutes. Half an hour would be wonderful.

^-- "When you've finished with her send her back to me, because I've got a very nice ending planned for her. I'm going to tell her to go to Julia's room and masturbate herself, which she'll be absolutely busting to do by then. But I'll tell her that she has to ask your permission first, Mom. I want you to tell her 'Yes', but also to tell her that she needs to get Dad's permission. After she asks you Dad, can you please tell her that she needs to get Vanessa's permission too because it's her house. Vanessa should ask her whether she's asked Prof yet, which will send her back to his study again. When she returns Dad and Prof should tease her about being so quick. I'm sure they can make up some appropriate teases. Then Dad should send her to ask Julia, as it'll be Julia's room she's using.

^-- "Julia should pretend concern that Carol might make a mess of the bed by spraying pussy juice all over the place because she's too young to masturbate properly. Then the women can ask her questions about how she masturbates, ostensibly to make sure she knows what she's doing and that Julia's room won't be messed up too badly. Because you're trying to embarrass her, questions that require graphic and detailed answers would be best

^-- "I'm tempted to suggest that Julia should follow Carol back to her room to supervise that Carol does it properly. Probably the best thing to do is to threaten to do that, and see how Carol reacts. I'm guessing it'd work well, but you can decide that for yourselves at the time

^-- "My last comments are that some of you can change rooms a couple of times so she has to go looking for you, that'd be good. For example..."

There was a knock on the door, followed by Carol saying, "It's just me..."

I called back, "Come in, sweetie."

Carol stuck her head in the door, to say, "Your food's ready, Mark."

"Thanks Carol. I'll be down in a couple of minutes. For some reason this is taking a little longer than I expected. You must be hungry, so start without me."

"Okay."

After the door was closed behind her, I said, "I'll answer the obvious questions to save time. Obviously this is sexual, but that's just the front of it. The real reason is more important. I can see that Mom and Dad aren't aware of Carol's sexual, hot button. She gets very excited by sexual embarrassment, by being looked at when she's exposed, being ordered to do something sexual, or being held or tied down for sex.

^-- "Mom's busting a gut to ask how I know that - and God knows what sort of theories she's thought of - so I'd better explain. I know it in EXACTLY the same way I knew about your fears yesterday Mom, which does NOT involve me doing anything beyond being observant and listening." That was perfectly true: I'd listened to 3B's Julia telling me about Carol, and 3B's Vanessa telling me about Mom's fear of Dad's affairs. "I don't have time to explain my logic now, but I'm certain I'm right and I'm perfectly willing to explain it sometime later." I'll tell her much the same stuff as I'd told Carol in the car, about seeing Carol's reaction to Peter Pan, etc. "If we do what I've suggested there'll be a number of results:

^-- "Carol will get a tremendous sexual thrill. That's nice for her, but all the other results are more important than that.

^-- "She's ashamed of herself because of her kink, so this'll free her from that worry because we'll have shown her that we all know, understand and support her. And certainly not that we judge her badly because of it.

^-- "It'll teach her that she can trust everyone in the two families. That's important for all the usual reasons, but also for the extra reason that it gives Carol an environment where she will feel very safe and secure about practicing her kink in the future. That's why I said the new family rule is Carol always has to be naked in the tub.

^-- "I'll jump to the main reason. It's actually exactly the same reason as I put her in charge of decorating the three bedrooms. Carol currently undervalues herself badly. Much more than you know, Mom and Dad. For example, Carol doesn't really want to go to college. She spends so much time studying partly as a way of hiding, and partly because she doesn't think she has any real value. By everyone in this house spending fifteen to thirty minutes giving Carol a good time in the unusual way that she likes, she'll know she's valued. That, and her no longer having to be ashamed about her kink will make her feel a great deal better about herself. I'm pretty sure that her kink is related to her having low self-esteem. As she gains confidence her kink should fade.

^-- "I'll mention some words the Williamses consider important: 'I take responsibility for this.' I know what I'm doing, why, what results I want, how to get them, etc. I wouldn't treat Carol this way unless I was VERY sure. As an extra safety point, it is all of you here that'll be starting it by telling Carol that she has to be naked in the hot tub. If you don't like the way she reacts, then you can easily stop the whole thing and send Julia to tell me it's off.

^-- "If it goes ahead then Carol will finally end up back in the hot tub room, and she'll finally be able to climb into it with me. I'll talk with her about it, but I don't think much talk will be necessary. She'll know what's happened and she'll know why, so mostly she'll just thank me. I'll give her a hug and ask her for the gossip from her friends.

^-- "Normally when I've got food waiting for me I'd be running from the room, but maybe I'll hang around for questions this time. Who wants to go first?"

Vanessa spoke so quickly she overlapped with my ending, "Congratulations on a very impressive presentation. I particularly admire that there are several opportunities to call it off if we don't like what's happening. You're taking a large personal risk divulging so much sexual knowledge of Carol. Your parents could very easily react negatively to that."

"I can't say I really thought about the risk in advance. It was really just a continuation of my getting Carol to decorate the three rooms. I was thinking about how to improve her self-esteem when I realized that I'd be in the hot tub, that Carol would be coming to me, and that we were all here now. The idea popped into my head more or less complete. Once I was into the explanation I realized I might have spoken too soon - that maybe I should have softened Mom and Dad up first - but this obviously isn't about me getting my jollies from Carol. I'd not mistreat Carol that way, and even if I did, I'd be stupid to do so after telling everyone what I planned. I did think that I could offer to go sit in my car while this was going on, but the only thing I'm doing with Carol is sending her to see you guys. I wasn't conscious of it when I was talking to you, but I think it's better you guys do most of the interacting with her. She'll know it's my idea and it seems more appropriate that I just collect all the appreciation at the end, haha.

^-- "I just had a thought about how I would've reacted to this situation two or three months ago. It would have freaked me out big time, but now I just think it's a very good thing to do for Carol. She's not nearly as happy as she can be, and her lack of confidence is letting her down. I like the idea of those changing. That's my excuse for making my sister run around naked, and I'm sticking to it, haha."

"That's what gets me too," said Mom. "Two months ago you were - shall I say - not particularly well informed about female sexuality. But now you're so confident and assertive you've got me convinced that you know what you're talking about. How could you have learned those things about Carol unless you've been playing around with her?"

"You're leaping to the obvious. You should know by now that's not the way my mind works. Seriously, how do I know Carol doesn't really want to go to college? She announced her decision to go to college about three years ago, back when Carol and I weren't even friends, so she certainly never told me her motivation. I suggest you don't do it now, but if you sat Carol down and had a heart-to-heart talk with her about why she spends so much time studying, you'll find that it's more about what she's avoiding than what she wants to head toward.

^-- "I noticed you were careful about how you described my little bombshell yesterday, so I won't repeat it now, but how did I know about that? The only person who knew that was you, and you certainly never told me. You never told ANYONE, so I didn't overhear it. How I knew you yell 'Are you insane!" to people at your work is another example. I don't have to play around with Carol the way you suggested to understand parts of her personality. I know you don't understand how my mind works, and I'm sorry about that. Apart from the embarrassing parts of my mind which are busy being a typical teenage boy, it's a pity you don't understand it better, but you're going to have to get used to not knowing."