Chapter 23
"Halloween"
Thanksgiving being but a few weeks away, we decided to invite our parents to stay with us, and they had both agreed despite they'd have to share a bathroom. We planned out how we would share our living arrangement and when. The first night after they had arrived we thought was best. Gladys's parents were arriving first and then mine about two hours later. We thought they may find our situation odd but be all right with it having always left our decisions open for us.
Debra, of course, knew her parents would object on the grounds of religion but not to the polyamory part given that members of their church had polygamous relationships. She also had the hurdle of talking to her mother. The closer the day came the more anxious she was and by Monday morning, she need special care to help her prepare.
She asked about the Orgasmic Meditation because she thought full on sex would not help her to calm her soul, as she said. I agreed to stroke her as best I could because I had no idea what it was like or what I was to do except to calmly stroke her clit wherever and however she directed which made her feel the best.
About a half hour before she was to be at work, she lay down on the bed and I sat on my knees next to her where I could reach her easily and without strain. I had some lubricant to put on my hand, despite she was always plenty wet, but the idea was not to invade the vaginal area just to focus on her clit.
I began caressing her clit with lubricated finger and she tried to focus on what I was doing. We had found some instrumental music that was supposed to be for mediation and she tried to focus on what I was doing. Gladys sat in the armchair in the corner of the room and watched.
As I stroked, Debra's breathing seemed to calm despite her breasts becoming firmer and her nipples harder just from my touch on her clit. Obviously, the stroking was arousing her, but the info that I had said that while orgasm was not the goal having one would not be bad. The stroker though should continue stroking through the orgasm and not stop until 15 minutes were up.
I kept up my stroking and found the whole thing amazingly erotic. I looked over at Gladys and discovered that she too found it erotic as she had her hand in her pussy stroking her own clit. As time passed, Debra began to breath very deeply and to move her hips in response to my stroking. She, then, came, but not hard or with the desperation often associated with cumming but as if her body shivered and then seemed to relax big time.
Her eyes remained closed, her breathing became more shallow for the next couple of minutes and then began becoming deeper again. Just before the 15 minute alarm sounded, Debra once more shivered, thrust a bit, squirmed a bit more, and then relaxed so completely I wondered if she could move.
The alarm sounded and Debra's eyes opened dreamily. "Wow! That was so good. I was able to think of nothing for the whole time except for your finger stroking my clit. It was like I was simply watching it. When I came, it was just so peaceful and smooth. I'd like to do that again soon."
Gladys was intrigued and decided to do some of her own research and see if there was any academic discussion of this. We all got dressed and went to school. Gladys and I went with Debra to her office and reassured her once more that we'd be over as soon as she texted us that her mother had left. She thanked us and kissed us both.
We both did see her once her mother left and we both at different times made love to her that afternoon. Then as we prepared and ate dinner, she told us what had happened. We felt good that she seemed all right with the encounter even when it had just completed.
At dinner she said the meeting was quite uncomfortable at first. She thought neither of them knew how to begin and then her mother confessed, "Debra, my daughter, I love you with all may heart, however, I feel I have failed to show that I do in any adequate way. I assume that is so and I ask your forgiveness."
Debra told her that she forgave her.
"Then I want also to say that while I can not condone your life apart from your family and church, I want to be able to see you and maybe in time get to know this man you are seeing. Would that be possible?"
Debra responded, "Mommy, I think it possible, but I'm not sure how to expect you to act. Hank and Gladys are magnificent persons whom I love with my whole heart. We have a deeply spiritual relationship that comes in part from our intense physical relationship. You would have to respect them and treat them with courtesy and kindness. If you cannot do that, then you chose not to see us."
Her mother bowed her head and folded her hands like she was praying, then said, "I may be able to but I doubt your father will. He is angry for your disobedience. I am torn between him and you. I have no idea what I would do without him and the thought is simply impossible for me. I also do not know how to go on with the thought of never seeing you again."
"That means doing something you've never done."
"What's that?"
"Defy Daddy and confront him. Mommy, you've never really confronted him. You all argue but it's never anything consequential: food, laundry, groceries, and the like. Have you ever said to him that you are not happy with the life you are leading? Yes, I know, that may be difficult and I know he is tyrannical about most everything. But don't you have a right to say what you want. If you want to see me with or without him, shouldn't you be able to? Does he even know you are here?"
She shook here head as if to say "No!" or if uncertain. "I guess you are right. No, he doesn't know. He went to Gainesville to a meeting. I called when he was not at home."
"What good is that? He controls everything. Is that what mutual submission means?"
"I guess not, but it is all I know. My father, grandfather, as far as I know my great grandfather all were tyrants. The women in my family were taught not to question them."
"Well, I'm not going to live like that. I met Hank here in my office. He took me to lunch, treated me very respectfully. He took me to my first movie. He took me to dinner. It was all very respectful and kind. He never pushed me in any way. He asked and accepted my decision. When I told him I did not want to go home, he arranged for me to live with Gladys who is a kind, caring, loving and generous person. He made those arrangements because he didn't think we were ready to live together. Then, I fell in love with both of them and they with me and each other." (She had taken the chance and figured it couldn't hurt to get that out there so there would be no surprises.)
"You, you, what? You fell in love with two people?"
"Yes, Mommy, but they are people I chose to love not that were forced on me. In fact, the whole of our relationship seemed to happen as if God wanted it to. We love each other and I believe we will be together all of our lives."
"But that is bigamy."
"No, Mommy, it is love. It is what is called polyamory or non-monogamy. Bigamy is a legal term that has nothing to do with us. We know each other, we love each other and one day we hope the laws will change so we can marry each other. In the meantime, we are getting legal document written to protect everyone's rights should we have children, should one of us die, and so on."
"I just don't know what to say. This is just too much."
"Well, think about this, if I had stayed with you all, you would have insisted I marry someone from the church, love him or not, be attracted to him or abhorrent of him. If I were to marry a man from the church, someday he could marry someone else whether I liked her or not. I am not going to live that kind of horrid existence."
"OK, Debra, this is going to go nowhere for now because I just can't think this through right now. I'm not sure what I'll do but I'll let you know what I decide somehow. I never expected to be here talking like this because you left home. I thought your Daddy would handle it. Again, I'm sorry we did not love you as we should. I'll call", she said standing nervously, reaching out to Debra and sort of hugging her, a gesture clearly uncomfortable to her.
Debra closed her description with, "I have no idea what the future holds." Then she began to weep.
She cried for maybe 20 minutes while Gladys held her and I checked our supper. I'd go back on occasion and hug and hold her also. When she quit, she went to the bedroom, washed her face, and returned seeming a bit happier but still depressed. She then said, "Can we all get undressed? It seems unnatural for us to be dressed at home. I want us to stay normal."
We agreed and Gladys and I undressed her, and, then, she and I undressed Gladys. They undressed me. We hugged and kissed affirming our love and assuring Debra that we'd be here for her. We didn't know how she should feel, but whatever she felt was all right with us.
Dinner was ready so we sat around our table and ate. Once we were done, Gladys asked if we'd like to know what she learned about Orgasmic Meditation. We said we would.