When Maia along with Rose arrived at the Koeninger home, she was greeted by her aunt, who hugged her enthusiastically. Speaking in Estonian, Erica exclaimed, "Welcome my darling niece. I'm so pleased to see you for this unexpected visit." As they separated from their hugging, Erica continued with, "Oh my Maia! You have become even prettier than when I last saw you, and you weren't even looking your best because of your illness."
Maia had contracted mononucleosis the previous June, which prevented her from playing tennis at Wimbledon, that year. To look after Maia's illness properly, Vivian had cancelled her normal July visit to America, to visit her relatives. As a result, Erica was concerned enough at the plight of her favorite nibling, that she took some time off to make a rare visit to Estonia.
In continuing her praise of Maia's pulchritude, Erica declared, "Not only are you the most beautiful Laaning woman, but you must be the most gorgeous woman in Estonia. There can't be any debate about that. I bet it helps your stepfather remain in office as the Prime Minister when he can be photographed with you by his side."
Maia blushed by such effusive praise from her favorite relative. She suspected that her aunt deliberately spoke in Estonian so as not to cause discomfit to her own daughter, although from Maia's perspective Rose had no cause to complain concerning her own beauty. In any case, one of the reasons Maia loved her aunt was the fact she had no problem in speaking Estonian with her.
During her earlier visits with her mother to America, Maia had no grasp of the English language. Erica had taken the trouble to translate for Maia of any conversations directed to or at her. Maia was always grateful for her aunt's incursions in such instances as it made her visit more enjoyable, less tedious. Her uncle Paul did not provide the same courtesy probably because she was just a girl. And her mother was no help, as Vivian was always engrossed with adult conversations that she could not trouble herself to help her daughter. Consequently, her previous visits to the Laaning farm were boring; not at all pleasant. In contrast the Chicago visits to the Koeninger residence was much more bearable for Maia.
Maia was naturally happy with the outcome of her visit this time to the Laaning farm. As a result, she was glad to have taken the opportunity to visit her uncle and his family. Looking forward to her three day visit to her aunt's family in Chicago, Maia was equally happy to have the opportunity to conclude a previously unscheduled visit to spend some time with her American relatives.
To her aunt's affectionate warm greeting, Maia replied, "Thank you for your remarkable hyperbole of my presumed beauty. It reminds me of Casanova's prescription for seducing a woman. To wit: 'Assure an intelligent woman that she is beautiful; assure a beautiful woman that she is intelligent.' Since I'm first in my class in high school with the highest grades, I must be objectively deemed as intelligent. Therefore, it behooves me to be on my guard when anyone compliments me excessively on my feminine allure and alleged beauty."
Erica harrumphed and replied, "You will note that Casanova has nothing to say about a woman who is in equal measure superior both in intelligence and in beauty. Maybe he didn't believe such a creature exists, but more likely he had no prescription as to how to win the heart of such a superior female especially if the seducer is lacking in either one or both of these qualities. After all, Casanova was able to rely on his intellect and to his whiles to successfully seduce women despite by all the accounts that suggest that he was not a particularly physically attractive man. I infer, therefore, that he was not able to stir interest of the truly superior woman."
Maia answered, "You might be on to something Aunt. I now believe that the reason I was a virgin for such a long time was that my reputation as to my beauty and intelligence was intimidating to all of my fellow male schoolmates. Consequently, they were not able to present themselves in the best possible light to me to advertise their better qualities. This in turn prompted me to dismiss them as inadequate and unworthy to pay any attention to them sexually."
Erica picked up on the use of the past tense by Maia, and thus reacted, "So, you're telling me you're no longer a virgin? Your mother hasn't apprised me of your new sexual status last time I communicated with her. Does she even know? Has it happened just recently during this tennis adventure of yours in California and Florida? Did you bonk your tennis coach, then?"
Maia replied, "Of course Mom knows. She was actually with me for the occasion. It occurred when we both attended a concert at the Alexela Concert Hall to celebrate my nineteenth birthday in January. The concert was a performance given by the Russian opera super stars, Dmitri Arkhangelsky and the soprano Anna Nezhdanova. The acknowledged highlight of this concert occurred when they sang as a duet 'Moscow Nights'. But the event will always be remembered as the major cultural event of having ever occurred in Estonia, especially when the two of them led the audience in a rousing and emotionally charged rendition of our beautiful national anthem. I have to admit when these Russian opera stars sang our anthem in the reverent manner as they did, brought tears to my eyes. It was definitely a beautiful night to remember.
"That night became even more memorable for me. Because of Mom's prominence in cultural matters in Estonia, plus being instrumental in bringing about this concert in the first place, we were allowed access to the backstage dressing rooms to meet these two superior vocalists. As a result, in due course, I lost my cherry to Dmitri at his hotel room. Mom had to settle with Anna for her sexual pleasure.
Erica chuckled as she said, "Knowing Vivian as I do, I'm sure she was not too disappointed to be forced to settle for lesbian sex when a cock was not available. I remember that her first exclusive love relationship was with a woman, being her high school history and English teacher; Erin Falconbridge I believe was her name. And she's had numerous other female partners as well."
Maia contributed, "She told me once that she could not possibly compile an accurate a list of all her sex partners as she was certain to leave out some whom she could not recall. Her situation becomes impossible because of her frequent visits to the TLR to partake in the club's orgies. On her last visit she spotted whom she believed was a new stud who she believed she hadn't seen before. As he looked particularly appealing to her, she decided to have a go at him. After they finished their inevitable clinch, the gentleman raved on claiming that the sex this time around was just as good as the last time they were together. Mom swore she could not recall their previous encounter and so she had to take his word for it that they had actually fucked before."
Erica laughed uproariously at the anecdote and spluttered out, "That's my sister all right! She has certainly taken over the title of the premier slut of our family despite the fact that I had such a huge head start. I lost my virginity when I was thirteen while in contrast, she was still a virgin on her eighteenth birthday. Mind you at her party days later celebrating that birthday, she finally had her cherry busted and hasn't looked back since."
As Erica and Maia was chuckling away at their repartee, Rose who had been impatiently sitting waiting for a chance to join in on the conversation, protested, "Can you guys not switch to English? Maia, you can speak English as well as any American which theoretically you are anyway. Its rude not to let me in on the conversation. And can you guys tell me what you had been talking about and what's so funny anyway?"
Erica quickly answered, "I'm sorry Rose my darling. I get so little opportunity now to speak Estonian so I couldn't help myself with Maia. However, we shall all speak English and I'll only speak Estonian when it is just Maia and I alone."
