Facets of Love
Chapter 10
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Mary Spencer Jones
September 2038
Robbie was right. A couple of weeks after he "screwed the living shit" out of Angela (his words, not mine), Gloria invited her submissive nurse to our house for Sunday dinner. And then for an occasional sleepover. A month later, Angela moved in with us.
For a while, Gloria insisted that there was nothing romantic going on between the two of them.
"I'm not in love. Sleeping with Nurse Angela is the only way I can keep her on staff," she often reminded me. So often, it was as if she was trying to convince herself instead of me. "Once I tire of her, I'll kick her out and find another nurse."
Her argument went out the window when she asked Robert to build them a place of their own. A comfortable three-bedroom house, right next door to us.
And, while he was at it, Robert built James a similar house, across the street from Gloria's. Which made sense. James spent more time in our house than his downtown apartment, so he might as well live close to us.
Everybody else in the family thought it was a great idea.
For reasons I will never understand, even though Angela professed to be a pure lesbian, she continued to let Robbie "fuck her lights out" a couple of times a month because doing so made Gloria happy.
Robert also got a monthly "Nurse Angela allowance", as long as Gloria participated.
Mom's and Gloria's relationship was always on shaky ground so putting a little extra distance between the two, moving Gloria into a different house, made them both happy.
And as far as the three sisters were concerned, they didn't lose an aunt/mother, they gained a bathroom.
I, on the other hand, felt like she'd deserted me. Sure, she only moved a couple hundred feet but, for nearly the last two decades, Gloria and I lived in the same house. We slept just down the hall from each other (and for two nights a week in the same bed).
After her move, I was lucky to see her two or three times a week. And the opportunities to be naked in each other's arms, just the two of us, dwindled to less than once a month. It was during one of those rare moments together that we addressed a subject that had haunted my brain for two years.
"We all knew it was coming," I told Gloria as I caressed her still taught forty-two-year-old ass.
"I know," she said, reciprocating the favor on my thirty-eight-year-old (soon to be 39) posterior. "I can read a calendar; I just wish the pages wouldn't turn so fast."
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The calendar. That was the source of our anxiety. Every damn calendar in the house, be it the one on my phone, my tablet, my watch, my laptop, or hanging on the kitchen wall... they all said it was September 3
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, 2038. Like most people, we weren't looking forward to being labeled "middle-aged", but that wasn't why the date bothered us. Since all three sisters were born in August 2020, the current date meant each of them was now at least a week over eighteen years old... the age of consent.
The precedent was set two years earlier when Mom snuck into Robbie's bedroom on his eighteenth birthday and turned the boy into a man. The next night, Gloria proved she was a willing partner in the crime. And I, while having never completely consummated the act, certainly led us further down the road.
We did what we did to further my son's education, to ensure he was prepared for the world we previously tried so hard to protect him from, to give him a leg up on his competition. To not give his sisters the same advantage would be a sinful, sexist neglect of our parental responsibilities.
After much discussion over the last several months, we (Robert, Mom, Gloria, and I) unanimously agreed that the sisters should go through some sort of advanced sexual education as well, but none of us knew how to broach the subject with our extremely sheltered daughters.
They obviously knew that Robert was their father, each born to a different mother. But we went to ridiculous lengths to make them believe those indiscretions were events of the past. Since they were not allowed upstairs, and we made it a point to never do anything remotely sexual downstairs, the sisters firmly believed that the only reason we all lived together was to keep the family intact. In their minds, Gloria and Martha lived the lives of nuns and, for the few months Angela lived with us, she too was directed to take an apparent vow of chastity. And, despite what we told them, the main reason we built the cabana by the pool was to prevent them from knowing what their mothers were doing with their brother.
We got lucky with Robbie. His grandmother slipped into bed with him on his eighteenth birthday and he took to sex like a teenager to video games.
But girls are different. Especially naΓ―ve, inexperience girls like the sisters. We had to find a way to convince our innocent daughters that what they'd been told to avoid for all of their lives was now permissible.
Gloria and I spent the rest of that night unsuccessfully brainstorming ways to accomplish this delicate task. Which was a complete waste of time because, at dinner the next night, the three sisters proved us wrong.
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"We know," Julie, Gloria's daughter told the assembled family.
"You know what?" Gloria asked.
"About the sleeping schedule," June, Mom's second daughter, my much younger sister, said.
"Are you asking for a later bedtime," Robert asked. "Do you think you need less sleep just because you're eighteen?"
"Actually, we'd all like to go to bed an hour or two earlier," April, my daughter, said. "And since we are of age, we'd like to choose who we go to bed with."
"I don't understand."
"Mom does." April looked directly at me. "Aren't you the one who decides who sleeps with whom? The best we can tell, you've been doing it all our lives. You and Daddy sleep with each other at least three times a week. He also gets one night alone with Grandma and Aunt Gloria. We suspect the other two nights are threesomes but, since we're not allowed upstairs, we have no way of knowing for sure."
"We also know that the schedule changed when Robbie turned eighteen, when he started getting sex lessons," June said.
"And it changed again when Angela moved in with us," Julie added.
Stunned. Flabbergasted. Flummoxed. Pick an adjective. They all fit. Every parent in the room sat silent and motionless as they processed what our daughters said.
"How?" I finally asked. "How do you know this? Have you been spying on us?"
"I wouldn't call it spying," Julie said. "None of us have seen you in flagrante delictoΒ -"
"That means we've never seen them actually having sex," April whispered to her brother.
"- but the evidence is clear," Julie continued.