The holiday season was in full swing. When Charity was at home in St. Louis for Thanksgiving, Kay and Bobby had their annual Turkey Leftovers party. It was a tradition they'd started a decade ago — a day-after-Thanksgiving orgy that always featured writhing naked bodies smeared with warm pumpkin pie filling, cranberry sauce and turkey gravy. Clean up was a bitch, but everyone always had a wonderful time.
Christmas rolled around quickly. Rick and Donna's daughter Ashley loved the holiday, and couldn't imagine spending it anywhere but snowy upstate New York. The company she worked for in Manhattan was closed Christmas day and the day after, so Ashley used some vacation time in order to have the whole week at home with her parents. She flew home Friday evening, right after work. Saturday afternoon she was firmly ensconced under a blanket on the couch, reading a book.
"Are you going to call your friends and go out tonight?" Donna asked her daughter.
"No, there's nobody around."
"Lying around all week won't help with your weight loss," Donna said. "You're doing so good lately."
"I know. We need to go for walks or something. I hit the forty pound mark the other day. Only forty more to go," Ashley said, rolling her eyes.
"You don't have to push yourself that far, Ash."
"I'm going to keep dieting until guys start looking at me."
"If you think men aren't looking at you, you're just not catching them at it. I know how men's minds work. They're looking at you, with all kinds of nice dirty thoughts in their heads."
Ashley doubted it, although she was well aware of her mother's knowledge of the dirty minds of men. When Ashley was younger and started to get interested in boys she had some odd suspicions about her parents. Donna sensed it, and had a quiet talk with her in her bedroom one evening, telling her about the swinging lifestyle they enjoyed. Ashley was fascinated but frightened by her mother's calm disclosure. As the years went by she realized it wasn't the end of the world. To the contrary — her mother and father seemed more in love than most of her friend's parents.
"If you catch a guy looking at me, let me know," Ashley said, smirking smugly as she buried her nose in her book again.
Donna went upstairs to her bedroom and called Barbara...
"Hello?"
"Barb? Donna. Hey, remember when we were talking about Ashley a couple months ago? I mentioned how she had a crush on Austin in high school, and how she could use the self esteem boost from being part of the group?"
"Yeah, I remember. What's up?"
"She's home for the week, right through Christmas and into next weekend. I get the feeling she's gonna lay on the couch with her nose in a book the whole time."
"Austin will be at Bobby and Kay's on Christmas evening, for their open house party. Do you think you could get her there? Are you guys going?"
"Yes, Rick and I go every year. I already thought of that, but there's no way she'd just go to that with us. We'd have to get her involved ahead of time somehow. With the youngsters."
"I told you before, if you put Kelsey on this, she'll make it happen. She's got a way with these things. Want me to call her?"
"No, I'll do it. Christ, I ate turkey gravy out of her pussy a few weeks ago, I guess I know her well enough to ask her this!" Donna laughed.
"Oh my God, wasn't that fun?" Barbara said. "My ass was so sticky. It was like a cranberry enema with the guys pumpin' it into me like that."
"That's what you get for being a dirty anal girl," Donna said. "I gotta say, that son of yours is like Mr. Anal these days, isn't he? Did your ex have a big cock like that?"
"Yup," Barbara said. "Identical."
"Jesus," Donna said. "Ashley's gonna freak if this works out."
"Let me give you Kelsey's number..."
—
"
Hey you guys! Ashley's here
!" Kelsey yelled. "Come on in Ash. God, I haven't seen you since graduation, right?"
Kelsey ushered the tall brunette into the living room and took her coat.
"What are you drinkin'? We've got beer, wine, liquor and stuff."
"What are you having?"
"We've been on an Old Fashioned kick lately. It's one of those cool old cocktails. It's like whiskey with sugar in it."
"I'll try that."
"Awesome. We get all jiggy when we drink 'em," Kelsey smiled.
"So you're living with Brie?"
"Yup, and Brie's roommate from college, and Richie Nanty. He went to Hillydale, too, but he's only eighteen, so we didn't know him back then. Do you like jailbait? He's not, but he kinda looks like it. He's really cute. Oh, and Austin. You knew he lived here, right?"
"Austin Lowe?"
"Yeah. Didn't your mom tell you he'd be here?"
"No. She conveniently forgot to tell me that."
Ashley's blood nearly boiled when she realized she'd be seeing Austin. She went to all his soccer games in high school and day-dreamed about him often back in those days, usually under a blanket on her bed with her fingertip flicking furiously against her clit.
"Hey, Ash!" he said with a big smile as he came down the stairs. "Long time no see!"
"Hi, Austin. Jeeze, this is like a reunion or something. I didn't know you'd be here."
"Yeah, this is cool!" he said, giving her a casual hug.
"Wanna drink, Honey?" Kelsey asked. "I'm doin' a pitcher of Old Fashioned's. Are my girls comin' down? And Richie?"
"Yeah, they're just puttin' clothes on."
Ashley's body locked up tight as she stood there. She knew Kelsey grew up not wearing clothes. Everyone at school knew that. Could that crazy way of life have taken hold in the farmhouse she was standing in, Ashley wondered? With all her roommates? With...
Austin
?
"We're pretty casual around here usually," Kelsey said, with a twinkle in her eyes.
Nervous laughter escaped from Ashley's mouth. It was embarrassing and she blushed. She looked at Austin and her mind had stripped him of his clothes. She felt like she could barely function. The drink Kelsey was making couldn't end up in her hand soon enough.
"Here you go, Honey. See if you like that."
Ashley took a sip. The sweet whiskey cut through her dry mouth and flared into a warm flame in her throat. Another sip slid down easier, sweeter, nice.
"I like it," she said.
"Yup," Kelsey said knowingly. "Suck a few of
them
down and you'll get jiggy."
Ashley had no intention of getting drunk, but the third sip was even nicer — warm and smooth, and the way her nervousness was melting away was like magic. Sips four, five and six were kind of awesome.
"Let me fill that up for ya," Kelsey said, pouring the amber liquid from a tall, thin pitcher. She noticed Ashley looking at it.
"It's cool, isn't it? We got it and a bunch of cool glasses at a really awesome antique shop. The woman said it was mid-century or somethin' like that."
Brie and Charity and Richie came down the stairs. "Ash!" Brie squealed. "Oh my God, it's so good to see you!"
Ashley was excited by the reunion, too, but Richie had caught her eye. As much as she was attracted to Austin, boys like Richie were more her type — cute, cherub like boys who seemed to have an inner glow of purity.
"Hi," he said, when they were introduced.
"Hi."
Charity was shy, too, but the cocktails soon loosened things up. She did feel a bit left out, though, with all the reminiscing about Hillydale High School.
"Where'd you go to high school, Charity," Ashley asked.
"I'm from St. Louis," she said.
"Char went to Bible school," Kelsey said. "It worked like reverse psychology or somethin', though, because now that she's out she loves sex more than anybody."
"Out?" Ashley asked. "Are you...gay?"
"Fuck no!" Kelsey said, convulsing in gales of laughter. "I just meant now that she's out of that fuckin' Bible school!"
"It was an okay place," Charity said. "It just wasn't for me. And...I could be gay, if I wanted to."
"Well, you like pussy, that's for sure," Kelsey giggled, "but there's no way you're givin' up cocks. Whats that old saying? Oh yeah, here's the headline...Charity Witbro gives up cocks. P.S. Hell freezes over."
Charity blushed. She'd just met Ashley a few minutes ago, and already she was being outed as a slut.
"How about you, Ash?" Kelsey asked. "What are you into? It's all good around here."
What am I
into
, Ashley wondered? Is she really talking about cocks and pussies?
"Oh. Just...regular," Ashley said. She took another big sip of her drink.
"We got the full variety here, Honey," Kelsey said as she filled everyone's glasses full again.
The conversation veered away from cocks and pussies, and Ashley was glad of it. She was enjoying herself with her old schoolmates, and she hadn't had a nice alcohol buzz in quite some time. When she was heavier, back in high school and through most of college, she could drink a lot and it didn't affect her all that badly. Having shed forty pounds, though, and pounding the sweetened whiskey the way she was, it didn't take much longer for it to send her head spinning like she'd been hit with a sledgehammer. After an hour of reminiscing she was flat-out intoxicated.
"I watched your porn," she said. "Me and Cindy used to watch it."
"Cool!" Kelsey said. "Did you guys get each other off?"
"No!" Ashley said. "...but, we sorta did...on our own...like...in the same room." She blushed and a breathy whimper escaped her when she realized what she'd said in front of Austin and Richie.
"Nice, Honey! I love it when my stuff inspires people. Got any favorites? Which guys did you like watchin'?"
"The college professor one, with that Daddy McQueen guy. And the Dickie Bigger's ones."