Chapter 248: Some Debriefing and Briefing

Sunday, June 19, 2005 (Continued)

Several minutes later, Julia and the four parents came into the hot tub room.

Mom looked like she'd been on the receiving end of a VERY thorough telling off. With a very abashed expression, Mom confessed, "I'm very sorry, Mark. I've been treating you very unfairly. I'll try to do better in the future."

"I should jolly well think so! Once a month or so is far too infrequently!"

"Huh? What are you talking about?"

"How often we have roast chicken. What else could be more worth apologizing for than how unfair you are about cooking roast chicken? By the way, Carol wants to learn how to cook it all by herself, so you'll have to have several teaching sessions soon."

#7: <You shouldn't really have said that. It might cause trouble when the marriage comes up, in case Mom thinks we were taking her permission for granted.>

#6: <You're right. I didn't think of that... >

#7: <Nor did I, until it was too late. It's not too bad, but let's avoid making "Carol is our wife"-type jokes.>

#6: <Agreed.>

"I do?" asked Carol.

"Absolutely. You're highly enthusiastic over the idea at becoming the world's best ever cook of roast chicken dinners with all the trimmings."

"Haha. Okay, it's a deal. Mom, please teach me how to cook a roast chicken dinner."

I corrected, "With all the trimmings, and soon!"

Carol added to Mom, "With all the trimmings, and soon! I'm very impatient, apparently, haha."

Mom agreed, "We can do that. But you know that's not what I meant, Mark. I want to apologize for allowing my fears of Steven having an affair to badly color my judgments of your actions. It was completely unfair of me, and I insulted you many times by doing so."

I would have liked to joke away Mom's concern, but I was VERY conscious that Vanessa and Prof would soon be telling Mom that I wanted to have sex with Carol. Mom's judgment of my having sex was an issue she had to be encouraged to be as non-negative as possible about (I was too realistic to hope she'd be positive about it).

I said, "I'm glad you're conscious of it. It's been very unpleasant for me to be on the receiving end of so many of your unfair judgments. Do you think you can really stop yourself leaping to your usual emotionally driven, knee-jerk, negative reactions?"

"Ahh. I'll try my best."

"I hope you'll listen to everyone here, when they point out that you're doing it again?"

"I very much hope that I DON'T do it again. But if I do, I'll certainly listen if it's pointed out again."

"Somehow I find it easier to imagine you yelling 'Are you insane!' to them when they try to get you to be rational. That's your usual response when you're asked to think about something you disagree with. You are REALLY going to have to bite your tongue, Mom, and that's not your usual style at all. You're going to find that very hard to do."

I could see that Mom was feeling bad about her need to apologize, and bad that I wasn't accepting her apology in the usual polite manner. I'd rubbed it in enough. Probably more than enough, as she was almost certainly not going to remember my comments when she heard the marriage plan. We'd just have to wait and see, and cross our fingers that Vanessa and Prof could work their magic.

I concluded, "I hope you get it right from now on. Are you guys heading home now?"

"Yes," answered Dad.

After the usual departure noises, and another apologetic comment from Mom, they left.

Julia stayed in the hot tub room, stripping and getting into the tub too.

Seeing one naked girl made me realize that one of those wasn't enough. I said, "Carol, were you told about the new Williams Family Rule that you have to be naked whenever you're in this hot tub?"

"Ahh, yes. But you told me to wear this T-shirt?"

"That's because of the other rule, 'What Mom and Dad don't know won't get me in trouble.' Now they've gone, that T-shirt should be gone too."

"Won't Prof and Vanessa come back?"

The other Carol had gotten used to that, and I'd made the mistake of not distinguishing Carols again. This Carol wasn't in game-playing mode, and she wasn't comfortable being naked in front of people generally, so I said, "You're right, of course. Sorry about that. Stay as you are until they come back. When they're here we'll ask them to knock first and wait if they come back again, to give you time to get dressed. And for them to tell Robert that too."

Julia said, "Ava will be here in fifteen minutes. I invited her to stay the night with you because you'd be sleeping alone and I wanted to make a point with your mother. That's okay with you, isn't it?"

#8: <Damn! It's NOT okay. We won't be able to dive into the HIGHLY enjoyable hanky-panky we planned.>

#1: <Imagine how 3A feels! We've NEVER done that much with Carol, let alone seeing Carol and Julia get it on together. That's a REAL bummer!>

#3: <Could we fuck Ava into exhaustion then slip out to join Julia and Carol?>

#1: <It'd be pretty bad if Ava woke up and came looking for us. Even if we locked Julia's door, it'd take several seconds for us to get decent, and how would we explain the three of us being behind a locked door?>

#6: <That's the least of the problems. How would we explain two highly excited girls' worth of pussy juice smell?>

#8: <Damn, we're going to miss out AGAIN! And many more times too. It's going to take WEEKS before Ava sees enough of Carol and us together socially before she recognizes how much we love each other, and then longer for her to start thinking we should be together, and THEN another couple of weeks to get her to push us together so she feels responsible.>

#5: <I've got an alternate plan you might want to think about. When Ava arrives in fifteen minutes, we tell her, "Ava, my sister Carol and I are going to become lovers soon. That's another secret you have to keep. And by the way, the four of us are going to Julia's room for a wild foursome shortly." I think Ava is trustworthy enough. What do you guys think? 3A, do you guys know of any reason specific to your Ava why she might not be trustworthy with that secret?>

#1: <Trying to be dispassionate - which isn't easy - she's been faultlessly trustworthy so far. There's no sign that she's ever told anyone about our marathon time. She didn't tell her parents at the first dinner party, which was surely the most tempting time, and there's no indication that she told anyone at the running club. Nipple Power is still a secret. I can't imagine HOW she could tell anyone about that, but if she did it'd surely get back to us.>

#3: <I agree. And I REALLY like your plan! Ava's going to be with us often over summer, so she's going to get in the way with Carol and us all the damned time.>

#8: <Tell us about it! That's what happened in 3B-land for weeks. We had to choose between Ava or Carol night after night. And we couldn't even have sex with Julia if Ava knew Carol was around, because brothers shouldn't do that in front of their sisters. God knows who made that rule, but they should be put up against a wall and shot!>

#7: <In 3B-land, Ava was HIGHLY accepting of the idea of Carol and us getting together, but without this Ava seeing how loving we are with Carol socially first, will she still be as accepting?>

#6: <3B's Ava didn't care about brother-sister incest, regardless of who was involved. It wasn't that she was normally revolted and our love with Carol overcome that revulsion. So at the worst, this Ava simply shouldn't care.>

#1: <Can we find out her attitude before we tell her about Carol and us?>

#3: <It's a little awkward to casually drop incest into a conversation.>

We'd been thinking too long, because Julia added, "It's NOT okay? Why not?"

"It's not that, Julia. I'm thinking about whether to tell Ava about Carol and me becoming lovers soon. We've been testing Ava with my marathon time to see if I can tell her 'The Big Two Secrets' - NP and blobs. Soon it's going to be 'The Big Three Secrets', and of the three of them, keeping Carol's and my relationship hidden from Ava is going to be the biggest pain.

^-- "That we're intending to commit to our own marriage we should probably keep from her, especially as it hasn't happened yet, but our being lovers is going to be very inconvenient, as it'd mean choosing whether to spend time with Carol or Ava, so we'd be excluding one of them more often than not. Then there's the fact that the four of us could have a great time together in bed, plus Carol and Ava can have fun in public."

Julia looked surprised, so I explained, "When Ava's turned on she likes to do sexy things in public too. For Ava it's more the exciting thrill of being seen doing something sexual, rather than the embarrassment of being seen naked, but there's plenty of overlap in the two girls' attitudes to let them have fun together in public. For example, if Carol was talking to some girls when Ava came up behind her, put her hand into Carol's bra, and started fondling her, then both of them would enjoy that. Especially if they started kissing too."

"Oh yeah," groaned Carol in agreement. "Done right, that'd be GREAT. I'd LOVE to do it in front of the Cuties."

"Yeah. I'm thinking of ordering Ava to be your sex toy, so you can order her around sexually. If you and the Cuties are somewhere private, you could frig Ava's pussy in front of all them, for example. I can give you advice about what sort of games Ava would enjoy. You'd have to be careful of her feelings, because she needs to be in the right mood. She needs to know you'll be kind to her, and I'll make sure you understood what that means. I know you'd never deliberately mistreat her, so the two of you should have fun.

^-- "That's mostly off-topic, as they can do that regardless of Ava knowing about Carol and me, although life would be much easier and more fun if the four of us were completely open sexually. I think Ava is probably trustworthy about all three of The Big Secrets, but doing them one at a time makes good sense. I'm almost positive she couldn't care less about brother-sister incest, what with her being an only child and her general very positive attitude about sex being fun.

^-- "What I have in mind, is that when Ava arrives I'll have a private word with her, telling her that I'm thinking of adding Carol to the our existing threesome of Ava, Julia and me, but I obviously have to know that she'd approve before I did it. Other than incorrectly implying that I'd abide by Ava's refusal, it's otherwise the truth. If she's negative about it, it'd be easy to backpedal and reconsider what to do. What do you think?"

"How do you know Ava's not worried about brother-sister incest?" asked Julia.

"I just do. Sorry, but that's the best answer I can give. I'm 99% sure that she won't have a problem with it, and asking my intended question should remove even that small uncertainty."

Carol asked, "You said 'The Big Three Secrets', but none of them..."

"I know what you're going to ask Carol. Imagine we went for a walk somewhere, and we rounded a corner to see three large rocks, would you expect me to say there were three rocks, or four? I don't count the Earth as a rock. It kind of could be counted, but it's too big. I'm the same with my secrets. My Big Three Secrets are like those three rocks. You can work out the rest of my meaning yourself, because that's ALL I'm going to say on the subject. I'm EXTREMELY uncomfortable about it, so please drop it. In fact, I'll go further than that: I ORDER you to drop it. If I ever need to talk about it again, I'll raise the subject, otherwise you totally forget about it, okay?"

Julia instantly and firmly said, "Yes, Mark."

Carol said the same, "Yes, Mark. I'm sorry I mentioned..."

Julia said, "Carol! You just mentioned it AGAIN! Obeying Mark's orders is a great deal more important than being polite, so SHUT UP!"

That verbal slap in the face worked far better than my order did! Carol's face fell and her mouth slammed shut.

After a second's loud silence, Julia added, "I deliberately overreacted to your apology, because I want you to learn that on the very rare occasions that Mark gives you an order, you don't think of ANYTHING other than obeying him. One day your instant and total obedience might be life-or-death important. Mark's already been in one of those situations and more could happen, especially when he becomes famous. There's a reason one of the vows is to sacrifice your life to save Mark's if necessary."

Carol contritely begged, "I'm VERY sorry, Julia. I didn't think about what I was saying..."

"I know, sweetie. I'm not really telling you off for what you did, because you didn't say much anyway. It was just too good an opportunity for me to miss, so I used it. I take protecting Mark VERY seriously now, and if that means picking on you unfairly to make you better at protecting him in the future, then I won't hesitate to be very rude to you. As lovely as you are, protecting Mark is more important to me than being polite to you.

^-- "The best advice I can give you, is when you hear Mark say 'I order you', then you COMPLETELY forget EVERYTHING else. Listen with your TOTAL concentration to what he's saying, and then do it. Wanting to apologize to Mark shouldn't even occur to you. If it does, then you're not concentrating fully on Mark's order. Please remember that when you hear Mark tell you, 'I order you', then you think of NOTHING else. Have you got that?"

Julia has always been excessively dramatic about this stuff, but the kidnapping had ruined any chance I had to tell her that, so I sat quietly while she laid down the law with Carol. [[Julia was on a roll, having just laid down the law with Mom.]]

"I understand, Julia. You're very good at explaining things. It should be easy to react to Mark's saying 'I order you' the way you say. I'll do much better in the future."

"I'm sure you will. Mark, I don't think there's any problem with talking to Ava the way you suggested. If she's okay with you and Carol, then I'd expect she'd keep the secret fine. Your marathon secret means more to her than your having sex with one more girl. I was intending to ask you whether you wanted to invite any more girls around tonight. I know several of them want to catch up with you now that school's finished."

"No more tonight, thanks. The four of us would be perfect. We can discuss what we do with the other girls when we're driving to Portland tomorrow."

"Ahh, maybe we should cancel that. We were going to see cars that were too expensive to be available in Corvallis, and you made it very clear that I should control myself better. The Toyota salesman said he'd have the Lexus for us to see on Tuesday, so let's decide what car to buy after seeing that?"

"Okay."

"I should make a small confession too. When I was talking to your mother upstairs, I got a little carried away and I mentioned the speech you're going to give about Carol when school restarts. I didn't give any details, just that it was about Carol's sexuality and that it was the best speech I'd ever heard. I didn't even mention her becoming a lesbian. I used it as an example of how far ahead you're planning."