Living together, as a family, Merrill and Jake soon forgot how they could have lived any other way. Jake emptied his balls into Merrill at will. He averaged almost two orgasms per day. She averaged about one per day.
There were adjustments to be made, of course. Jake had a difficult time keeping his clothes on outside their bedroom. He was accustomed to strutting around his house, with his cock swinging in the breeze. Both Merrill and Jake struggled with keeping the noise down, when they had sex. They still took advantage of Ashley's absences to have heavy, unrestrained sex. Ashley remarked a couple of times about the noise. It was time for Merrill to have some more involved sex talks with Ashley, anyway.
Merrill sat Ashley down, and asked, "Do you remember when you and Heather spied on Mr. and Mrs. Anderson?"
Ashley gulped, and said, "Yes."
Merrill said, "You're not in trouble, darling. You remember what you heard and saw them doing? Well, that's what grown-ups do when they are married, and they love each other. It's called making love. It's only for married people. Now that Jake and I are married, we do that, too. That's what you have heard. We are very happy about it, too, Ashley. It's how grown-ups show that they love each other. It's also how they have babies, if they want a baby. Jacob and I are not going to have a baby, though. Do you understand?"
Ashley said, "I understand all that, Mom, but what are you doing in there? Why are you yelling like that? It sounds like you are hurting each other."
Merrill took a deep breath, and explained, "We are making love, and it feel so good we want to shout it out. It's like it feels so good, you go, 'Ooh, yeah, that's sooooo goooood!' That's just feeling really good, and in love." Merrill saw confusion in Ashley's face, so she dramatized more explicitly. She groaned erotically when she said, "When you feel so good, you go, 'Ooooh, yeah. Ummm, yeah. Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah.' Maybe that sounds like it hurts, but it really just feels so good. That's what you're hearing."
Ashley's expression was blank. Merrill tried a different tack. She said, "Ashley, making love is fun. It's so much fun, that we sometimes yell and scream, and everything. You kids make a lot of noise when you are having fun. So do adults, but making love is only for adults who are married."
Ashley asked, "But what are you doing?"
Merrill swallowed hard, and said, "You remember that video we watched together, don't you, Ashley? You know that a man has a penis, right?" Ashley giggled. Merrill went on, "Well, making love is when the man puts his penis into the woman's vagina. He puts it in there, and that is what feels so good that they moan and groan, out of joy, not pain."
Asley asked, "I saw Jacob's penis."
Merrill said, "Ahem. Well, that was an accident, Ashley. Every once in a while, you might see somebody naked, by accident. It's okay, but only husbands and wives make love, Ashley. You won't do it until you get married, and then only with your husband. And, Ashley, this talk we are having is only for you, and me. You cannot tell your friends, or anybody else."
"Yes, Mom."
Merrill could see that she would have to repeat this talk, and expand on it, before Ashley would grasp it. It was a step in the right direction.
A few days later, at breakfast, Ashley looked to see if her mother was out of earshot, and asked, "Jacob, did you and Mom make love last night?"
Jake nearly choked on his cereal. He called out, "Merrill!"
Ashley looked frightened, remembering her mother's admonition not to discuss lovemaking with anyone else. When Merrill appeared, Jake said, "Merrill, Ashley is a very curious girl, which is good. She asked a very simple question, which I think you are best suited to answer. Ashley, go ahead and ask your mom."
Asley tensed, and said nothing. Jake also didn't want to say it out loud, but he helped by saying, "She asked me if you and I were making love last night."
Merrill sat down, and said, "That's a fair question, Ashley. Don't be afraid. Yes, Jacob and I made love last night. Did you hear us?" Ashley nodded. "We tried to be quiet, so we wouldn't wake you, Ashley. Do you remember what I told you about lovemaking?"
"Jacob puts his penis in your vagina, and it feels so good you make all that noise."
Jake's eyes opened wide at this blunt talk. Merrill said, "Yes. Very good. That's what you heard. Do you have any other questions?"
"Will you have a baby?"
"No, Ashley, I won't have a baby. Remember when I told you about that pill, that prevents a woman form having a baby? I take that pill, and I won't have a baby." Merrill sighed, and looked at Jake. She figured this was as good a time as any to say, "Ashley, Jacob and I are never going to have a baby, okay? We decided that we have a wonderful daughter, and she is the only child we ever need. We love you." Jake nodded, helpfully.
Merrill continued to have conversations with Ashley about the birds and the bees. Faced with a very clever and curious audience, Merrill found it difficult to keep the talk at a level appropriate for a child her age. Sometimes, Merrill felt that they were talking pornographically, rather than clinically. Eventually, the talk covered such topics as the clitoris, orgasms, sperm and contraception.
Late one night, when Ashley was long asleep, Merrill and Jake were cuddled up on the couch. They were watching a racy movie that somehow received only an R rating. They were petting, and things got hot. Jake sucked on her breasts, while Merrill stroked his cock. The foreplay evolved into a blowjob.
The next morning, at breakfast, Ashley asked Jake and Merrill, "Mom, last night, when I got up to go to the bathroom, you were on the couch. Jacob was kissing your boobs, and you were holding his penis." Merrill and Jake cringed. "Then, you put his penis in your mouth. Jacob started moaning and groaning, like it was making love. Why did you do that?"
Merrill took two deep breaths, and said, "Ashley, we should have done that in the privacy of our bedroom. I'm sorry you saw that, because it's something only for grown-ups. We did those things because they feel good, and because we are married."
Ashley said, "Jacob's penis was straight up. How come? If it was like that all the time, it would poke through his pants."
Merrill and Jake exchanged looks. Jake squirmed, and looked about, randomly, as if searching for a hole to crawl into. Merrill said, "That is called an erection, Ashley. When a man is ready to make love, his penis gets larger, and harder. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to insert it into the woman's vagina. The erection, and all the things you saw us do, were to get us ready to make love. It's called foreplay."
"Did you make love?"
Merrill was stumped, "Well, no, we didn't. Not last night." She saw that Ashley detected an inconsistency, and said, "You see, Ashley, we were going to make love, and we did all those things to get ready to make love, but then we decided that we were too sleepy to make love, so we just went to bed, and went to sleep."
Ashley turned to Jake, who shriveled in dread, and asked, "Why did Mom put your penis in her mouth?"
Jake sat, mouth open, and paralyzed with fear. Merrill gave him a look, encouraging him to speak. He said, "Ashley, honey, your mom did that to make me feel good. It made me happy."
Merrill interjected, "I was making him feel good, and making him want to make love."
Ashley asked Jake, innocently, "It that a blowjob?" Jake was nearly knocked off his chair.
Merrill said, "Yes, that is one word for it, Ashley. The correct term is 'oral sex.' I performed oral sex on Jacob, to make him want to make love to me."