Chapter 15: Ten Years Later

“Wake up, Mommy!” a tiny voice peeled through the air, right before Kasha was rudely jolted awake by the impact of 16 kilograms of 4-year-old landing on her belly.

“Oof!” Kasha grunted, sitting up in bed with a start to find the cheeky face of her daughter smiling at her. “Uhh, good morning, Kari,” she groaned, recognizing the now familiar urge to hug and strangle her child at the same time.

“It’s my birthday!” little Kari cheered, bouncing on Kasha’s stomach until Kasha grabbed hold of her ribs to stop her.

“Yes, it is, little bit,” Gene acknowledged with a groan and a smile as he slowly sat up on Kasha’s right, rubbing the sleep dust from his eyes. “You’re four years old, how ‘bout that?”

“I’m four!” Kari repeated excitedly, wriggling on Kasha’s stomach.

“That’s right, you’re practically a lady,” Kasha nodded. “What time is it?” she asked her husband.

Gene twisted to the side as he pulled his legs out from the covers and planted his feet on the floor, checking the chronometer at their bedside. “Not quite 0700. We’ve still got a few hours before everyone gets here.”

“Plenty of time for you to go brush your teeth, little lady,” Kasha said, giving Kari a little shove. “Go on, go.” The little girl agreeably hopped off the bed and scampered off to obey.

As Gene stood up and stretched, Kasha turned to the other person in bed on her left. She reached out to shake Tatjana’s shoulder. “Hey, you awake?”

“Nope,” her darling wife murmured, not turning to look.

Kasha chuckled. “Funny.”

Tatjana rolled over, pointing her exposed breasts that had recently started to swell toward the ceiling, and smiled up at Kasha, who bent to kiss her. Then Kasha pulled the sheets off Tatjana’s belly, revealing the bump that had started to show within the last month and ran a loving hand over it. “And how’s little Piotr this morning?”

“Still sleeping,” Tatjana said, cupping her belly in her hands. “But expect him to start getting fidgety any time now.”

Kasha turned her head to look back at Gene, who was stepping into the bathroom to pick up his lazor. “Well if he’s anything like his father,” Kasha said so Gene could hear her, “once he starts moving, he’ll be going all day.”

“I’ll take that as a compliment,” Gene said, running the lazor over his beard stubble.

It had taken some time for Gene and Tatjana to become equal partners in this three-way marriage, rather than just co-spouses to Kasha, but the swelling of Tatjana’s belly was proof enough that they’d gotten there. And every time Kasha laid hand on Tatjana’s bump, the thought of having a second child herself reared up in her mind, though she and Gene had yet to seriously talk about it.

Kasha’s macrolink chimed from where it sat on their nightstand. Kasha climbed over to pick it up and attach it to her ear, opening the screen to reveal Celia standing on a fancy terrace. She looked a bit strange bundled up in a long wrap when Kasha was so used to seeing her breasts exposed, but it came with the territory when visiting the more conservative Lupina City, where Celia’s job on the terraforming committee tended to take her. “Morning, Kasha! ... Oh, I didn’t wake you, did I?”

“Nah, the birthday girl beat you to that,” Kasha grinned.

Celia grinned wide. “I’m sorry I can’t be there to celebrate her special day with you, but the conference is supposed to drag on for a few more days.”

“Yeah, and Gillian’s busy with that promo shoot today,” Kasha sighed regretfully. Gillian had become a cover girl modeling in ad videos, promoting new body makeup lines or autovans or whatever she could book, and she was trying now to break into acting for holovids.

“Eh, she’s no good at kids’ parties anyway,” Celia shrugged. “She’d just try to seduce all the dads.”

“That’s probably true,” Kasha laughed.

Tatjana suddenly propped her head on Kasha’s shoulder to look at the holoscreen. “Heeeeyy, Celia!” she chimed.

“Oh, hey future mom!” Celia teased. “That still feels weird to say that about you of all people!”

“You think it feels weird for you?” Tatjana snarked, cradling her belly. “I’m the one who’s got a thing inside me!”

“Really feeling the love,” Gene joked as he walked by them and out of the room.

“Well I just wanted to call and check in with you,” Celia said. “Tell that beautiful girl of yours happy birthday and give her a big wet kiss for me!”

“I’ll give her plenty of kisses!” Kasha smiled.

Kasha’s parents arrived around noon, to find Kari running and screaming around the living room with the friends that had already arrived, while Kasha, Gene and Tatjana were chatting with some of the other parents. Some of the parents had arrived with their wraps on and had remained clad in them at first out of some sense of formality, but Kasha insisted that everyone was free to go nude in her home and had ultimately talked them all into taking their wraps off.

When her parents arrived, there were brief hugs and kisses with Kasha exchanged, before they went looking to smother their grandchild with affection. While Kari was appropriately excited to see her grandma and granddaddy, she was even happier to get to play with the person Mom and Dad had brought with them: Kasha’s 6-year-old sister Celeste, who came tottering along after Mom and Dad and almost immediately went looking for the cake, despite Kari’s urging her to come and play.

It had caused quite a bit of chatter when Mom and Dad had made the announcement that they’d decided to start having kids again, and truth be told, Kasha was still a bit bewildered at having a sister who was twenty years younger than she was. Still, with current medical technology and life expectancy as good as it was these days, it wasn’t uncommon for couples to keep having kids after their first ones had grown. Mom and Dad had said they wanted children who would have only ever known the Lupina lifestyle, able to live their whole lives naked and free in the kind of environment only this planet could offer. And when Kasha looked at her own daughter, running around happily naked with her friends and not a care in the universe, she knew exactly what they meant.

More family arrived later. Gene’s parents showed up not long after, along with Paul and Jerri and, to Kasha’s surprise, even their daughter Erica was there to help celebrate her little cousin’s day, along with the two boys Chris and Stephen. Kasha was still impressed that the lovely 14-year-old who came in the door behind Paul and Jerri was the same shy little cherub whom Kasha had first met all those years ago. Erica’s breasts weren’t that big yet, and she still didn’t have many pubes to style up, but she was undeniably blossoming into quite the beautiful young woman who apparently had the boys eating out of the palm of her hand (not to mention her pussy).

Last to show up were Trevor and Sonja, newly returned from their honeymoon, which in fact they’d taken on an actual moon. Hedonia was one of the moons orbiting the gas giant Gnosium in Lupina’s own system and a popular vacation spot among Lupinans, as it was settled almost entirely with clothes-free resorts, with beaches and luxury hotels and shopping districts under the magnificent view of the swirling red and orange gases of the planet above them. The newlyweds had sent plenty of pictures and videos during their stay, which had gotten plenty of oohs and aahs from everyone, and now they were back, and Sonja was making a beeline for her sister’s swelling belly, cupping it and showering it with loving baby talk, seeming to practically forget that Tatjana herself was attached to it.

Trevor, meanwhile, came sidling up next to Kasha once the obligatory niceties with their parents and his little niece had been observed. “Can’t say I missed all this,” Trevor said, indicating the crowds of families and screaming children, “but I missed you, sis.”

Kasha smirked back at him. “Me and that butt you’ve got your hand on?”

Trevor’s hand shamelessly squeezed the posterior in question. “Every part of you, sis.”

Despite Tatjana’s encouragement, Kasha never had changed her mind about her parents, and to this day had no interest in doing anything sexual with them. Her brother, on the other hand, once he’d gotten a bit older and hotter...