"Awesome! Can this day get any better?" I asked, trying to cover up my worried expression.
I had big crushes on both girls at one point and I felt it would be like slow torture seeing them wet clad in bikinis all day. I already had permission to mess around with Candy but before she left Simone reversed her decision on Amanda stating that she had a talk with her and it was OK if I messed around but nothing more. What was good for the goose wasn't good for the gander. I had a different moral code than her and I intended to be faithful to her even if we agreed that we wouldn't be so puritanical.
"Is Mom coming?" I asked.
"No. She said to just go ahead. She'll meet us later tonight, for dinner... It's not her cup of tea apparently," Lorry informed.
"You want to drive?" I asked Stephanie.
She jumped up and down and said, "Really?" and I handed her the keys. "Just one month and one week more to go!"
Stephanie's birthday is August 8th which made her one year, one month and one week younger than me. Yeah, I was nerdy like that but she was always proud I knew things like that about us. She was referring to the declaration that she intended to get her license on her 18th birthday. I had no idea why she wanted to wait but she got stubborn and insisted she just wasn't ready yet. Honestly, I think the whole reason she waited was because she wanted mom to force me to go with her when she went driving. The thing was, I loved hanging out with my sister and she didn't need to force me even when I teased her about it.
"Let's head out!"
"Shotgun!" Lorry cried. Technically it could only be me or Lorry up front since we were the only licensed drivers, Amanda and Candy still hadn't gotten their licenses.
"Fine," I moaned, "Just make sure she takes it easy on my baby," I declared, which caused a chorus of giggles.
The girls got in first and I got in on the passenger side. I realized that my torture was going to start right away. My car sat five, but not comfortably. It was definitely not a family vehicle and the leg room in the back left me spreading my legs out just to fit. I was now 6'3 220 lbs. I gained most of my muscle back since getting out of the coma but my legs were long and I found myself pressed up against Candy. She didn't seem to mind, as a matter of fact, she seemed to try to get even closer to me.
Amanda and Candy were both well endowed, had washboard abs, rounded asses and were in great shape from years of cheer. Simone was raven haired, olive skinned and had deep green eyes, Amanda had fiery red hair, pale skin, a few well-placed freckles and a temper to match; whereas Candy was like my sisters, blonde haired, blue eyed, and fair skinned with no freckles. To be honest I loved Simone the most because she had everything I wanted in a woman, and I found her black hair to be a change of pace and I guess more exotic. Amanda was smoking hot, and was definitely giving Candy and Simone a run for their money in the looks department. However, I never did connect well with Amanda despite our being friends.
Now that I had seen Candy naked though, she definitely had a leg up, no pun intended. But we both agreed to just be friends while I was still in love with Simone, so I had to do my best to fulfill my promise.
The ride to San Dimas was almost an hour and a half drive without traffic, but with Stephanie driving we'd be slow going so I expected a longer drive. Candy kept "accidentally" brushing her breasts on my arm and finding every excuse possible to lean into me. I had to stop my mantra that I'd chant to keep my hard-on down, before a Pavlovian response was associated with it. I stopped trying to hide my erection after a while, and Amanda just grinned when I caught her looking at me and I followed her gaze to my crotch.
Lorry must have felt confident with Stephanie's driving because she looked back and saw my predicament. Lorry gave Candy a look and Candy inched away from me to my relief.
"Sooo, Mike. Tell me something," Lorry began.
"What do you want to know Lor?"
"I was really worried about you with all of your legal problems coming up. I mean you'd need a team of competent lawyers to fight against the law firm of Hodges, Bernstein & Comely they are notorious... How did you do it?"
"You know..." I began, trying to think quick. I brought up the same lame lie I'd been telling everyone, "They agreed to take the case pro bono," I said quickly, but I should have known she wouldn't fall for it - it was too late.
"You hired Bender, Lawson & Lawson, they are the best lawyers in Southern California. THEY don't do pro bono," she said, with her older sister look that pierced my soul.
As latchkey kids, my mother worked all of the time leaving Lorry to take care of my sister and me. She was more of a mother to me than my own mother. I could lie to my mom, and whether she believed me or not, she always acted like she believed me. My sister, on the other hand, saw through every lie I told and never let me get away with anything.
Stephanie was looking at me through the rearview mirror, and Candy too gave me a stare.
"Eyes on the road!" Lorry reminded Stephanie before turning to me. "Well, are you going to tell me the truth or are we going to hash this out in front of your friends?"
Lorraine was planning on becoming a lawyer. She had a knack for seeing right through people and her problem-solving skills rivaled my own. She didn't have an IQ of 150 like me but I don't think she ever took an IQ test, either. She was the smartest person I knew. I was smarter than her in certain subjects, but I knew not to test my wits against her. I tried and failed too many times before.
So, I tried deflecting, "Why don't you tell us what happened with you, first?" I began, angrily. "I'm allowed to have secrets if you're going to pry them out then be fair and tell me what's going on with you first. What's the big secret?"
She thought about it for a few seconds, then surprised me by saying, "OK, fine."
In the past, she would pick through all the clues and social cues and see by my face whether she was on the right track. She could read me like a book. It was a sick version of twenty questions but she could zero-in on anything under interrogation in just five questions. For some reason, she was being reasonable and she flipped the script on me. If she did tell her secret, I was now the bad guy if I didn't come out with mine.
"Grandma's a bitch," she began bitterly. "She's been verbally abusing me for years. She had this sick hatred of other women and I was her captive audience. I think it stems from the fact that she miscarried her twin boys before she had our aunts and mom. I moved out of her home as soon as I left for college. My scholarship only covers tuition and books not room and board so I've been working part time to make ends meet. Even then, I've taken out thousands of dollars in loans and now they've raised tuition. It was the straw, Mike, I'm done... I can't afford it," she said, dejected.
"Man! I was WAY off," I said, breaking the silence.
I must have sounded heartless to her plight because I got punched in the arm by Candy, and all of the girls in the car gave me a dirty look and silent treatment.
"Sorry! Look, let me explain my secret and I promise you, you won't stay mad at me, OK?"
Stephanie already knew my secret and Lorry decided to give me the benefit of the doubt but the vixens sitting next to me continued ignoring me.
"First of all, I thought you might have been dumped. But that's silly, who would dump you? Then I thought, maybe you're pregnant, but if you were there are no signs of it and you are too liberal not to get an abortion - not to be heartless..." I said.
The girls looked like they were going to get even more upset with me but Lorry quickly confirmed, "That's true."
"Anyway, it's a relief to know it's only money. I can pay for the rest of your school and even pay off your loans."
"What?!" Lorraine exclaimed. "What's going on Mikey? You're not selling drugs or anything are you?"
"What? No, never... I'm not doing anything illegal... err... I mean I MIGHT have violated a few child labor laws before I turned eighteen but I'm not a criminal."
"Mikey! Out with it!" Lorraine exclaimed; it was her old mothering coming out of her again.
"I've been making money programming for the past couple of years! Companies have been paying me outrageous fees to solve programming problems that their engineers couldn't fix. There are bulletin boards on the internet where companies offer a reward for anyone able to fix their bugs or glitches. We are talking tens of thousands of dollars a pop! I have been making more money on the side than Mom does in years."
