Editor's note: this work contains scenes of incest or incest content.
Carrie Norton had to confess that, at her advanced age, a slumber party seemed just a wee bit ridiculous.
She had attained the lofty age of eighteen a month before, and she knew that the four other girls she invited had also become "adults" in the past few months; although, if she were honest with herself, she would have had to admit that she really didn't feel ready to take on adult responsibilities just yet, and she suspected the other girls didn't either. But how else to celebrate her recent graduation from Roosevelt High School here in Seattle, and her imminent entry into the University of Washington? Two of the girlsâSandra Whitson and Marjorie Matsonâwere departing for the wilds of Bellingham, far to the north, where they would be enrolling in Western Washington University, and it was unlikely that Carrie would ever see these friends again except, at long intervals, during vacations. The other two girlsâMarcia Cather and Janice Sladeâwould be her classmates and the U of W, but in a school that had tens of thousands of students, how on earth would they be able to remain as close as they had been at Roosevelt? Especially since, to save money, Carrie had opted to stay at home and commute the short distance to college every day.
Throughout this lazy summer, that prospect seemed far away. All the girls wanted to make sure to enjoy themselves before the rigors of college descended upon them. But now, with only a week before orientation began, reality was beginning to set in. The schoolwork would be much harder, and they would once again be the lowest members of the totem pole, descending from the lofty status of high school seniors to lowly college freshmen.
So,
Carrie thought,
let's have fun while the sun shines!
The girls had dutifully trooped over to Carrie's house in the placid View Ridge neighborhood of Seattle, where she had spent her entire life. In a sense, her remaining at home during college would only prolong her non-adult status:
I mean, how can I bring boys over? What would Mom say? How could I possibly have them stay the night?
Not that any boys seemed to have any inclination to do that: in the midst of all the lovely creatures populating Roosevelt, many of them skilled at self-enhancement by way of daring clothes and plenty of makeup, Carrie hadn't been out on more than a handful of dates during her entire high school career. Many of the boys made it quite clear that they regarded her as a "plain Jane," even though she felt that her oval face, regular features, and long brown hair were pretty nice-looking. She might not have had the most flamboyant figure in the world, but her breasts and hips seemed more than adequate. So why weren't the boys lining up to take her out? Okay, she was pretty shy with boys, but so were many of her friendsâincluding the four girls who would be spending the night under her roof.
If only I could be more like my brother . . .
Grant Norton was two years older than Carrie and already at the U, where he was about to enter his junior year and had already distinguished himself as a star running back on the football team. But beyond his muscular physique, he was supremely self-confident, especially where the ladies were concerned. Some would have called him brash, even arrogant. At six foot two, he towered over his little sister, who had barely managed to reach a respectable five foot five. Increasingly, he seemed to regard Carrie as an annoying pest whose relationship to himself he was determined to put out of his mind.
And yet, he also stayed at home while attending collegeâbut his situation was very different.
He now occupied what could only be called a mother-in-law unit attached to their houseâa unit that had initially been built, at considerable expense, for Carrie's paternal grandmother, who had died five years ago after living there for only a few months. In his senior year of high school, Grant had blandly appropriated the unit for his own purposesâand made the best of it. It had both an entrance into the main part of the house and an entrance that led out to the back yard, so that he could come and go as he pleased; and it became clear to Carrie, if not to her mother, Jessica, that Grant was leading a seemingly endless succession of girls into and out of the place at all times of day and night. Once he had entered college, he kept using the place, figuring it was far more convenient for his needs than a tiny dorm room would beâespecially if (odious thought) he had to share it with some dweeb from Yakima or Walla Walla. The various females seemed to come and go with bewildering rapidity, and Carrie never sensed that many of them made return visits.
But Grant had at least done one nice thing: he had allowed Carrie to borrow the mother-in-law unit for the slumber party, so that the girls would have a modicum of privacy. As it had its own bathroom, there would really be no need to go into the main house at all except the morning after, when Jessica promised to make them all a big breakfast. Grant, for his part, was spending the night in Carrie's bedroom.
So there they were, having doffed their clothes and put on comfy nightgowns, placing their sleeping bags here and there wherever space permitted. Carrie, as the official hostess, was allowed to commandeer Grant's bedâand even though it was a spacious queen-size bed (handy for whatever partner he happened to have at the time), the other girls didn't insist on sharing it, but lounged on the thickly carpeted floor in their sleeping bags, giggling and teasing each other as if they were twelve years old instead of eighteen. It was really kind of silly.
But, as if sensing that they were being too much like girls and not enough like women, they simultaneously and instinctively decided to turn their attention to a more serious subjectâsex.
"So," Carrie said slowly, "do you think we should entertain ourselves?"
Marcia looked at her wide-eyed. "What do you mean?" she said with faux naĂŻvetĂŠ. Marcia was probably the most attractive of the five girls, her raven-black hair offset by pale blue eyes that gave her a mysterious and fragile appearance. And her bountiful curves at bust and bottom, aligned with a slim, tapered waist, seemed tailor-made for a boy's embrace. So why hadn't Carrie ever seen her paired up with anyone?
"I think you know what I mean," Carrie said with a knowing smile.
"What are we going to do?" Janice said tartly. "Have a contest to see who can do it the fastest?" Janice was blonde and slender, but her smallish breasts made her feel inferior to her more well-endowed comrades.
"I think," Marjorie said with a laugh, "we should see who can do it the
slowest!
That would be a much greater challenge." She was pert redheadâthere must be some Irish in herâwith brilliant green eyes. But even though she sometimes talked dirty, she was painfully inhibited when it came to actually doing anything with a boy.
"That wouldn't be any fun," Sandra said scornfully, "whether it's fast or slow. What we are going to use for, um, inspiration? No offense, girls, but I'd have to use a
lot
of imagination to make anything happen in your company." Sandra was striking in her silver hair, but she was secretly tormented because she couldn't decide whether she was straight or lesbian. Both prospects appealed to her, but she had not had the courage to act on them. And her words belied how much she wished she could act on them right now.
"Oh, come on, where's your sense of fun?" Marcia said. "You know, just lie back andâ" She tried to follow up her words with actions, raising her long nightgown to her thighs and tentatively placing a hand in the direction of her groin. But suddenly she became acutely embarrassed and burst out into a fit of nervous laughter.
The other girls had gaped at her; and when she failed to carry through with her daring move, they too started laughingâderisively or shyly, as the case may be.
It was Carrie who made the fatal suggestion.
"You know," she said slyly, "there's one way we could get some 'inspiration.'" When the girls did nothing but stare at her, she went on: "I could call my brother."
There was a deafening silence for a second or two. Then Marjorie said, almost in dread: "And then what?"
"Oh, I don't know," Carrie said offhandedly. "Maybe he could pose for us, or something."
"Pose how?" Sandra almost squeaked.
"How do you think?" Carrie said. "Naked, of course."
A shudder of fearful delight passed through all the girls.