MasKara
Kara and her husband, Kevin, arrived at her parents house at four for the Lunar New Year party starting at five. Her parents lived out in San Jose so, with luck, the drive had only been a little over an hour.
"We're here! We're here!" Kara cheered.
"Yay." Kevin feigned enthusiasm, "I still don't see why we had to get here a whole hour early."
"You know Seollal is my favorite time of year! Besides, if you're not early-"
"You're late. I know, trust me, I know."
That had been Kara's favorite phrase since childhood. Once they were through the front door and reunited with Kara's parents: Yang-kwon and Jung-sook; Kara helped cook and set the table while Kevin lounged on the couch watching TV.
"So, any word on when we might be getting grandkids?" Kara's mom whispered while kneading some pastries.
"Haha," Kara laughed at the thought. You needed to have sex to have kids. "No, not right now. But maybe one day!" If my vibrator could get me pregnant, she thought.
There had been a knock on the door and when her mom came back, she was accompanied by someone Kara had never seen before. Kara's mom introduced her to the woman. "Kara this is my new friend, Caitlyn, we work at the hospital together. Her family lives in either Korea or New York and both are too far away for her. So she's spending this Seollal's with us!"
"It's nice to meet you, Caitlyn." Kara smiled while she got back to work.
"My Kara graduated in the top percentile of her class at UCLA."
"UCLA? Not MIT?" Caitlyn asked.
"My poor baby was too afraid to be far from home."
"Mom!" Kara interjected.
"It's ok, hun." Her mom giggled. "Everyone knows you're my little good girl. In fact," Kara's mom could not help herself from laughing. "This one time, I remember in the 10th grade Kara had been invited to a party. My little girl was so excited to finally be invited to something! Well, when she got there she immediately noticed that the other kids were drinking and called me to pick her up! I hadn't even got back on the highway yet!!!" Jung-sook and Caitlyn laughed in unison.
Luckily, Kara's brother had shown up to end her purgatory of embarrassment. When he got there the attention drifted to him and everyone left Kara alone. Her hard work in the kitchen done, Kara sat down on the couch next to her husband.
"My brother is over there, if you want to finally meet him."
"Oh sure! What's he do again?"
"He's a curator at the Smithsonian, in D.C."
"Wow, big shot! Is that why he couldn't make it?"
"Who knows."
Eventually, Kara's brother made his way over to the couple.
"Hey Kara, I got something for you." Her brother said as he walked over to them.
"Really?!" Kara looked shocked.
"Yes!" He reached into his pocket and grabbed a small box, "Here."
Kara grabbed the box and opened to to find a small nose ring.
"It's a septum piercing." Her brother explained. "It's an artifact from the 25th Dynasty of Egypt. That's the Nubian one." He then pulled out a decently bigger box and opened it himself to reveal some bangles inside.
"You STOLE these from work?!" Kara gasped.
"Did I though? Is it really stealing if the museum already stole them from their homeland?"
"That's still stealing!"
"Come on, think of it as a form of ethical protest. Besides, I wanted to apologize for missing your guys' wedding."
"Thanks, but I don't have my septum pierced."
"Don't worry, I thought about that too! Lucky for you, Tina does piercing on the side for extra cash."
"Oh, yay..."
"I'll get her now!"
Kara's brother left to get his wife.
"Who's Tina?" Kevin asked.
"His wife."
"Why am I sensing you don't like her?"
"Cause I don't."
"What's wrong with her?"
"She's weird."
"Weird how?"
"She's... loud."
Kara's brother and his wife came out. She had long beautiful locks, ebony skin and the nicest smile.
"Oh, I see now... she's Black." Kevin whispered.
"Yeah..."
"Hey, guys! Omg, Kara! It's so nice to see you again."
"You too!" Kara wore a false smile.
"My honey bee told me that you wanted to get your septum pierced?"
"Ummm... well... not really."
"You should do it hun!" Kara's mom yelled from the kitchen, eavesdropping as always. "You should do something fun for once!"
"Yeah, you should do it!" Her brother chimed.
Kara sighed, relenting to the peer pressure she let her brother's wife pierce her septum. She always was a people pleaser.
After it was done they handed her a small hand mirror so that she could get a good look at it. It was cute, but not really her she thought. Getting her septum pierced in the middle of a Lunar New Year's party at her parents house- you couldn't say she wasn't living though.
The rest of the night she ate and talked with her family. She was thankful when it was time to go.
When her and her husband finally got home, Kara stripped down to her underwear. Her panties were nothing special, just some white Kelvin Klein knock-offs she had bought at Target. Kara often felt like a desert down there, so her panties lasted her a long time.
Exhausted, she got underneath the covers and laid in bed with her husband. Another sexless night for the couple.
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