It was the morning after the big meal I'd come into the kitchen to see the three mothers sat at the table.
'We've been talking.' Mom had said, 'Lin has decided she isn't prepared to live with Gordon any longer. Mary is so pissed at Collin wanting her to sell their house she can't think straight and me, well I'm pissed at your father too but also find I enjoy all their company and that of Anne and Diane's of course.'
I looked at her knowing there was more to come. It was Lin who continued.
'We're still working on the details but we've been talking about what it'd be like to all live together.'
'Where?' I asked now fully awake.
'We were just talking about that. As I see it, half the value of our three houses is more than enough to get something really flash and large enough for us all to be comfortable in.'
'When my parents died I came into a lot of money.' Mary added 'At the moment it's sat in an savings account earning pennies. I'm willing to add it to the pot along with whatever I get out of our house.'
'I'm sure you know doctors are on an obscene wage these days, I'm more than happy to take on an the lions share of an extra loan if we need to...'
Now maths is something I am very good at and I quickly worked out we could easily afford almost any house in the neighbourhood with the kind of money they were talking about. I told them this and then Lin mentioned a house she'd seen being built on the edge of the town which looked massive, easily five or six bedrooms, secluded too which was something she had liked as much as it's size. Mom picked up her tablet and quickly found where it was for sale, she showed it to the others. By the time it had been passed to me I think they had already decided they wanted to buy it.
Once Diane and Anne had surfaced everyone went back to their homes. Mom was practically hyper and didn't calm down until after we'd had sex in the shower and again on her bed. I picked Diane up later and headed into town for lunch and a chat. She'd had chance to digest what our mother's had cooked up between them and had decided she loved the idea. Anne met us for lunch and apparently felt the same way as Diane.
I initially didn't know what to think of our mother's plan but after talking it over with Diane and then Anne I quickly saw it was a complete no brainer. The house was close to completion and had only just been put up for sale, the offer we made was excepted and straight away all our houses went on the market.
The autumn was a busy one for us all. My course wasn't as intense as I'd feared so I still found the time and the energy to see at least one of my girls each day. With Collin and my dad now living in their apartment I stayed at Diane and Mary's as often as I stayed at mine. Lin on most evening's would stay at Mary's or Mom's regardless of where I was staying. We all missed Anne who was at a uni in London but as it was only an hour on the train either she came up or a couple of us would go to see her each weekend.
The legal wrangling between the three couples was unpleasant at times but par for the course as these things go. The sales of the houses wasn't too traumatic and went ahead with only a few hiccups.