This story follows on from Jen's Family Four Years On Ch 01, which itself followed Jen Finds Jeopardy! and Herself, 1 through 4.
Jen and Christine are happily married, Jen's sister Jackie has come out as lesbian too, and is involved with a girl from university, and now shares a dorm room with her. Jen's mum. Meg, widowed about a year ago, spent a weekend with Christine's Mum, Sandra, and was introduced to lesbian sex. She has since started a relationship with the Vet who bought her husband's riding and stable business, and now she and Yvonne are partners who have offered jobs to Jackie and Betty. After discussing with Yvonne and Meg, Jackie and Betty have decided to accept in principal the offer of shares in the company and fiscal management jobs when they finish university. At the beginning of this story, they are headed back to the stables to work there for the summer.
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Betty and Jackie were, as to be expected, sharing Jackie's old room at Meg's. Meg had treated them to a new queen-sized bed, and they were getting accustomed to living with Meg and Yvonne. Betty was learning to care for horses - for her a totally new experience - and involving a lot more physical work than she expected, or had previously experienced. The result was that she had shed a few more pounds and tightened up a lot of muscles, and was now a very shapely young lady.
Both her and Jackie were extremely attractive, self-confident, intelligent young women, and they naturally attracted a lot of attention when they went out, of course, mainly from young men. Those approaches were normally cut off before they could really get started. Betty's riding was coming along, and although she wasn't up to jumping brick walls, she could generally ride well, and was improving her jumping in the practice ring. Jen had agreed to let Betty ride the Colonel when she wasn't there, so he would get regular exercise, and so the Colonel Mustard and Doctor Spock were seen around the neighborhood regularly.
One Monday, as it was a quiet day for bookings, they had ridden the two horses for a good long work-out, and were all, both girls and horses, thirsty. They decided to stop at a pub called the Highway Man a couple of miles from the stables which had outdoor tables and, strangely enough, a hitching rail purportedly dating back to the days of highway men who would rob unsuspecting carriages. Because it was an English country pub, well used to accommodating animals such as dogs and horses, there was a water supply, and a couple of buckets they could use to water the horses. The girls sat at a picnic table where they could see the horses and shared a bottle of white wine and a ploughman's lunch each.
As they were eating, two young women, slightly older than Jackie and Betty, pulled up in a car and came into the beer garden. They walked towards the girls and asked "Does the waitress come out, or do we have to go in to order?" and were told the waitress would be out shortly. They sat at the next table. On seeing their riding hats on the bench, one girl asked "Are they your horses, or did you rent them?"
"They're ours. We live and work at the stables," said Jackie.
"Thought you looked familiar, especially your sister. You took our money last weekend when we rented a couple of horses to ride in your field. Not brave enough to ride the trails yet."
Betty smiled. "Nice of you to remember me, but we're not sisters. Jackie's my girlfriend."
"Ah," said the one who was asking questions. "Is that girl friend in one word or two?"
"One" said both Jackie and Betty together.
"I'm Helen, and this is Eve, and we're getting married next summer hopefully."
"Same here," said Betty. "Want to join us?"
The two women switched tables and ordered a wine each and a round of sandwiches to share. They chatted away for a while, swapping comments and experiences on publicly coming out as lesbians, especially now lesbian marriage was legal.
Finally, Jackie said, "We must be off, need to get the horses back and rubbed down. Been really nice meeting up with you."
Eve looked at Helen, who nodded, and then said to Jackie, "Do you want to meet at the Swan this evening and have dinner together? Food's good and not too expensive."
Betty looked at Jackie and nodded, so Jackie said "Sure, around 7?" And so it was agreed.
Once Jackie and Betty were home and had the horses put away properly, they went up to their room. They had told Meg and Yvonne about going out for dinner, so they just had to rest up until it was time to get ready.
Betty looked at Jackie, as they lay side by side on the bed in their bra and panties.
"Question?" she said.
"Let me guess," said Jackie, "You're wondering if those two were coming on to us, aren't you?"
"My, you're good. Got it in one. Can you use your skills at predicting the future to choose lotto numbers?"
Jackie laughed. "I don't know if they are coming on to us, so my predictions are worthless. I was just wondering the same thing myself, and what my reaction would
be if they are. Remember, it was your question I predicted, not their actions."
"Well, to be honest, and nothing to do with not loving you, but I think I am interested, but only if you are. I enjoyed playing with Martha and Muriel down at Sandra's, and I figure we still have things to learn about being grown-up lovers to each other. But it's both of us or not at all, and we stay together, no separate dates."
"Well, they were both quite good-looking. Their figures were a little fuller than ours, but they're not fat..."
