This is the third chapter in a series of postings about a young woman, Melissa, who returns from college with her new boyfriend, Jamie, for a visit to her home, a ranch in a remote corner of Southeastern Oregon, and discovers that her parents, Lisa and Luke, have drastically changed their sex lives. It will work better if you have read the prior Chapters.
Melissa and Lisa chatted aimlessly as they rode towards the Ranch. The trail ran along the top of the ridge that separated the Owyhee drainage to the east from the dry Alvord Desert that lay between the ridge they rode along and the eastern escarpment of Steens Mountain. Even though it was miles away the escarpment looked huge from this vantage. There were still cornices of snow along the top of the escarpment, and the salt flat that lay in its rain shadow was more of a mudflat. Melissa could not remember there ever having been a real lake there.
"Are you in love with Jamie," Lisa asked.
"No way to tell. I've only known him for a few weeks. We're more like roommates with privileges," she responded with a laugh. "Why? Do you want to try him for yourself?"
"No . . . I didn't mean . . ."
"Oh you didn't?" Melissa said interrupting. "I'm not so sure about that, given your and Dad's new lifestyle. I mean isn't that part of your deal with Dad. Each of you are free to have sex with others?" Melissa was having trouble keeping up her teasing with a straight face.
"No, no. No, that's not what I . . ." Lisa was having trouble coming up with the words she wanted as she realized that Jamie was exactly what she wanted, but hadn't quite admitted to herself until she had blurted the question out. Now she was trapped as her daughter teased her.
"Well, I can tell you Mom, you would be missing out if you turned him down. He really is a great lay. You know how those young guys are. They have staying power. Are you sure you wouldn't want to try him?"
Melissa, that's not what I meant at all," she said firmly. "He's yours and I wouldn't steal my daughter's lover."
"Oh and haven't there been other women's husbands you have slept with since you and Dad changed your life style? Well haven't there been, Mom?"
Lisa was blushing now. "Yes, but their wives were in on it. Most of the time they were screwing your father."
"And who were the wives fucking if they weren't screwing Dad?" This conversation was the most fun Melissa had had since she got home.
Lisa laughed, "Me."
"What? You do it with women too?" Melissa was beyond being shocked by her mother's revelations, but she didn't mind letting her think she was shocked. "And wait. How does that work? Were you in bed with both of them at once? The husband and the wife? And what was Dad doing?"
"My that's a lot of questions. Sometimes it was a three way or even all four. That can be kind of fun. And sometimes your dad was just watching. He likes to watch you know, although, sooner or later he has to get involved."
Melissa was silent as she tried to work out who was doing what to who in her mother's description.
Now it was Lisa's turn to chuckle as she said, "Don't knock it if you haven't tried it, daughter of mine." She paused for a moment. "You haven't, have you?"
"You mean being with a woman?" Melissa responded, a bit unclear about what kind of relationship her mother was asking about.
"Yes."
"No," Melissa responded feeling a little embarrassed to admit that there limits to her 20 year old's knowledge of sex.
"Oh, it can be really good," Lisa said, thinking of her introduction to lesbian sex in the Rev's play room and with other women, including her daughter-in-law Gina. And then of course there was Sally, but she wasn't sure she was ready to discuss Sally with Melissa yet. Sally was complicated.
"You should try it. That is if your boyfriend doesn't object." Now she was pulling Melissa's chain a little about Jamie.
"Mom, let's get something straight. Neither Jamie or I have made any commitments to each other. We really are just roommates with privileges. Jamie doesn't get a vote on who I have sex with and I don't get a vote on who he has sex with."
"I see."
"And if you want to screw him go right ahead. He's been lusting after your tits and ass since we got here."
"Really, an old broad like me?" Lisa felt a little shot of lust at the idea of Jamie's interest.
"Yes."
"I'll think about it."