The CEO took over. Sandra held up a hand. "Grab some paper towels. We'll do a 20-second clean-up at the sink."
We were all doing it at once, some of us wincing as we brushed much-stimulated flesh. Again, the banging on the door. Sandra collected all our towels, opened the cabinet beneath the sink, and thrust them deep into the waste basket there. As she did, she was saying, severely, "You let me talk and take all your cues from me. Okay?"
I nodded. Perfect. What would I tell my wife, anyway? Stephanie said, uncertainly, "Okay, Mom...but..."
"I'm going to find out what this dizzy bitch..." She cast a glance at me. "Sorry, but that applies just to today. My daughter is a very level-headed woman."
"Sure," said Stephanie drily.
The knocking became violent and we now heard yelling. Sandra called back with remarkable volume, "Coming! Sorry! Just a minute!"
As she hurried out of the kitchen, she turned back, once, and said: "Just do it. Use your brains!" She added, from the living room, "The only seriously under-used organ, today." Then, she yelled, "Come, both of you. We are presenting a united nude front."
We came up behind her as she fiddled with our two front-door locks. (We hadn't been taking any chances that Butch and Sundance would come back for a re-match.) I saw my wife's decidedly pretty face peering through the small windows in the door. Was that a grin?
"Hi, Susan," said Sandra, swinging open the screen door. Sandra's smile was welcoming to perfection. Good breeding.
Susan stepped in, stopped, and stood looking at us. By now, I appeared quite cool, if I do say so. Two beautiful bare-ass women and I was flaccid. I thought that Susan frowned, slightly, when she saw that. But all this in an instant before she said, "Well! How's the party!"
She added, "Jeez, the Lorraine women look sensational, don't they, Tommy?"
I nodded with a noncommittal smile. "Quite a birthday treat! Great surprise, Susan! You were right! Something new!"
Susan nodded. "So, what happened?" she asked brightly.
Sandra jumped in. "Well, Steph came, as invited, and found Tommy trussed up for his big 30. She untied him."
A distinct frown from Susan, her lips pursed. She asked, "Can I come in?"
"Oh, sure!" said Sandra. "Glass of wine? I think there's some left." We three walked toward the kitchen, Susan following, with a nice view of our three swinging bare asses. Stephanie quickly poured wine, all round, and we stood sipping. Susan's glance kept going from one to the other of us, including three full bushes, two sandy brown, mine dark brown.
"So, Susan and Tommy were having a glass of wine when I arrived. At that point, we all tried to figure out what we were supposed to do..."
"I told them we played penalty and I lost," I added helpfully. "We had a few drinks before I confessed that I had been led to expect some sort of..." I hesitated. "What, exactly..."
Sandra's cue. "Well, you finally did say you had been hanging there having fantasies about losing your clothes in some exciting scenario, not yet revealed..."
Susan nodded slowly. I looked down, as though abashed. "I did say that," I said. "Before Susan left, she led me to believe this was about my manhood and issues of control. She even punctuated her remarks with..."
"Right, right," said Susan quickly. "How did you all get naked?"
Sandra frowned a little. "We figured out maybe that's why you invited us, took off and left Tommy at the mercy of the kindness of strangers? I mean here you are, not all that surprised to find mom, sis, and hubby all partying naked..."
"And I encouraged that line of thinking," I said. "Sorry, I did tell them that you swatted me in the balls twice, just to let me know I wasn't boss of the barnyard, today."
Susan sighed. "And?" she asked, her tone one of infinite patience?
Stephanie piped up with "I ordered him to strip, Susan." She quickly added, "Really, it was a joke!"
"I won't say we were exactly 'set up,'" said Sandra thoughtfully. "But I, too, thought somehow this was about sex... I couldn't imagine why—I mean, why me!"
I shrugged. "So, I stripped. Totally. We had a laugh, made a few off-color comments, and kept drinking."
"So then Tommy says, "Jeez, it's my big 30 and I'm the only one at my party who's bare ass.'" This from Stephanie. She hesitated. "You know me, Sis. I'm up for anything."
"So?" Susan encouraged.
"I stripped, too, right in front of both of them," said Stephanie. She waved at us. Then, she raised her hands and cupped them over her conveniently compact breasts. "I was a little self-conscious."
"You're totally ravishing," said Susan, as though making an official ruling.
"That's what we both told her," said Sandra. I nodded enthusiastically.
At that point, I said, "Let's go sit down. This could be a long conversation." In the living room, Sandra and Stephanie took the sofa, Susan and I sat opposite in easy chairs.
"Well," said Sandra, "so Tommy began to comment on how different you two sisters are." She smiled at Susan. "You know, you with the fuller body..."
"And Tommy began to joke about Mom's body and asking about it." Stephanie added quickly: "I mean, you can't blame the guy! He's naked, I'm naked, by this time."
"I must have had way too much to drink or something," said Sandra. "Somewhere along the line, they teased me into taking off my top stuff to do a breast comparison. And, oh, well, my pants for a leg comparison." She added, "I know we were totally nuts. What must you think? Is this the end of the family?"
Susan shook her head, conceded a smile. We weren't getting anywhere, so far, in getting to her story. How did Sandra expect this bull shit to accomplish that?
"We were getting pretty turned on," said Stephanie.
"Oh, Stephanie!" Sandra remonstrated.
"Well, I was, anyway," said Stephanie. "At some point, when Mom was turned away talking to Tommy, I slipped up behind her and dragged her panties down to her knees!"
"I shrieked!" said Sandra, laughing pleasantly, now. "But, I mean, Tommy saw it, so there was no point taking it back, at that point, so I just kicked them off and joined the family."
"I see," said Susan. "Okay. Makes a sort of sense. You're right, of course, I did set up a situation..." She turned to Stephanie. "The question is: Where are your friends? You said you all were coming. You've have always hinted about them, you know. I thought you would all be together when you found Tommy. And with me not on the scene..."
Stephanie nodded. "Crazy Stephanie, sex maniac, and her friends, the traveling orgy, wouldn't be able to resist Tommy's predicament? And that would be Tommy's big 30 surprise?"
Susan hesitated, glancing at me, then Sandra. She shrugged. "Something like that..."
We said nothing. Her turn. No letting her off the hook. She waited, looking at us. We looked back, mouths shut, expectant.
"I know," said Susan defensively. "I know, Steph. I did make some assumptions—about you, your friends. I was desperate to let Tommy play out some of his wild sex fantasies... Yes, they are wild, Tommy. And I know how important they are to you. No, please, let me finish.
"And I trusted you the most, Stephanie." Susan looked down. "I haven't been totally in la-la land about how you feel, you know."
Stephanie nodded. "I know."
"Feel about Tommy..."
Again, the nod. A long pause. "And even about me, at least when we were younger. We never, ever talked about this, Mom," she said, turning to Sandra.
"Well, we are now."
"But your friends didn't show up, so that whole scenario came to nothing. And you three have been here, naked, for..." Susan checked her watch. "More than three hours?"
"Of course, Susan," said Sandra with elaborate patience. "Think! We were waiting for you! With Tommy. His big birthday, right? Where did you go?"
"Actually, nowhere in the slightest interesting. Just out. Out of the way, leaving Tommy to Stephanie and..."
"That sex-crazed earth goddess and her submissive..."
"Okay, yes, Steph."
"And me?" asked Sandra. "You invited me to arrive about half an hour after Stephanie and her friends. I had no idea what was happening. Mind telling me what that was about?"
"I'll bet you have a hypothesis, Mom. Don't you? I mean, you did get with the game today in a pretty amazing way..."
Sandra nodded. Her gaze was distant. She said evenly: "Sex therapy for Mom. I would arrive when the orgy was underway and being my social self, and not a party pooper..." She shook her head. "You really expected that?"
"You would at least see what Stephanie was doing. And Tommy. And that I had dreamed it up."
"And?"
"Well, and maybe you would stop feeling that for our sakes you have to be only Mom, only Dad's faithful widow... You see that we don't need those conventions. We know you loved Dad. And we know you have a sexual nature." She added, looking at Sandra with unconcealed appraisal. "And a fantastic body."
Sandra nodded. "Maybe I will..."
Stephanie said, "But, I can't believe that you were so manipulative, Susan!" She shook her head. "You thought that this whole scheme would fall in place, everyone would get something? Shit! I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around your doing this."
While they were talking, Sandra caught my eye, sent me a "watch for signals incoming" kind of look, then winked and, down in her lap, at her crotch, raised a stiff thumb. It all took place in a second. Then, still looking right into my eyes, she lifted her eyebrows and nodded.
After a moment, I returned the smile and nodded. This wasn't going to be difficult. All I had to do was stop, as it were, thinking about baseball and start thinking about...this...naked, with three women talking all sex. I felt the stirring right away.
Stephanie said, "Did you want to sort of take us all into bed with you and Tommy?"
Susan shook her head. "I wanted Tommy to have his fantasies and I trusted you most, Steph. I thought about Mom only later. I didn't think she'd do anything but see the action, when she arrived, and that might start a long-delayed conversation about sex."
"Got to hand it to you, Susan," said Sandra. "That part did work." Suddenly, she held out her wine glass. "Susan, could you get a refill?"
"Me, too," I said, holding out my glass. I smiled. "I mean, you're the only one dressed."
As soon as she rounded the corner into the kitchen, my hand went to my dick and I started working on it. Sandra smiled and nodded. Stephanie raised her eyebrows, but without, it seems, much surprise or curiosity. What could surprise any of us, now?
By the time Susan came back, I had put my hands over my crotch, as though in modesty. When Susan held out my glass, I muttered. "Could you just put it on the table?"
She took it all in, of course, and frowned. She put the glass on the table and sat down.
Sandra gave a laugh. "Well, Tommy hasn't gotten his birthday fantasies. All tied up, stripped naked, and nowhere to go." She pretended to focus on me for the first time. "Oh my God, are you hiding something, Tommy?"
I shrugged. My tent now was over a very stiff dick.
"Tommy," Susan ordered, "pick up your wine glass."