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NOTE: This story contains sex between consenting adults of various genders and sexual persuasions. You've been warned. :)
PART 1
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Now, first things first, I'll admit that I'm slow. I've lost track of the number of times that I've been told, normally quite kindly, that I'm oblivious to what's going on around me; but people and life in general just seems to confuse me and try as I might, I just can't understand why some people do the things that they do. Beyond that, though, I've always considered myself to be a fairly normal sort of guy, and at just gone forty five years of age, I thought that I had finally got some kind of handle on just how things work.
But then, almost a year ago, something started to change, and to me at least it wasn't in an obvious way, but it was there nevertheless. Something different. Something that I wasn't grasping. A subtle change that lay just beyond the boundary of conscious understanding, or at least beyond that of
my
conscious understanding anyway. It was as if something had been redefined so that it was no longer as it used to be or should be; but try as I might or lose sleep as I couldn't help but do, I couldn't put my finger on it; and when finally I found something that I thought might have been it, further turmoil always came with it.
Was it something to do with work? Something taking place at the small warehouse in which I and just a dozen or so women worked? No, that was the same as usual. The same boxes, the same shelves, the complete lack of human contact with anyone bar Chrystal, the latest of my far-too-young, far-too-exposed assistants. At first I had thought that the problem might have been the way in which her blouses were slowly but surely showing even more of her cleavage, or the way in which her skirts had been approaching little more than a belt; but there had always been something about my job or the privacy that it entailed that made women act in ways that I felt certain they wouldn't do in public.
Might my confusion have something to do with that fact that she started to skip her panties even though she was often above me on the ladders? Could it be the way in which she spent her break quite obviously stroking herself off across the table from me? I had almost decided that it was and that I would have to speak to her about her behaviour, when a camera that she had forgotten about caught her knelt in only an unbuttoned blouse upon a dildo that she had mounted upon the floor. Somehow she had escaped with just a reprimand, but the feeling of consternation continued even after her clothing returned to it's normal state of affairs. No, whatever it was, she wasn't the cause.
Then perhaps something closer to home? Perhaps something to do with Laura-Jane, my wife of just under thirty years and the woman whom many had said could only have married me for my inheritance? Or perhaps something about my two wonderful kids, Jason and Jasmine? I must admit that my first instinct was to deny that they could be involved, and yet at the same time I couldn't help but admit that my wife had been... Randier. Even more so than was normal even for her. More open with her affection. Less concerned with repressing the love and desire that I, nor any normal man, couldn't help but feel for a woman such as herself. Less concerned with hiding the love and desire that I sometimes can't believe that I still inspire within her.
Could it really be that her increased affection was the cause of my consternation, though? Could I really be losing sleep just because she had started to kiss me more often, or because after just under eighteen years of modesty, she now used her tongue even though the kids were in the same room? Should it really bother me so much that she had started to skip her usual bra and panties in exchange for creations of black lace that displayed everything but at the same time revealed only enough to make me imagine what was hidden? Or that I had walked downstairs to find her dressed in her sheerest negligee, the silk caught upon her erect nipples and her bush a stain of darkness above her clearly-unclothed panty-mound whilst she and the twins prepared breakfast? No. She's still beautiful, still wonderfully fit and trim despite our advancing years, and no matter why it might be that she might suddenly feel more confident about herself, I can greet that change with nothing but enthusiasm.
Then the twins? I wish that I could say that it were them, that I could come to terms with this change that seems to be accelerating and move on with my life once more, but once again I have no reason for complaint. They are as good a pair of kids -... No, at almost nineteen I guess that I have to call them adults, don't I? Anyway, they are as good a pair as any parents could hope to raise. Better, in fact, than I had ever imagined that I would manage, even with ElJay by my side. Diligent in their work at college, friendly and polite with all whom they meet; affectionate and loving with their mother and I, playful with each other. No. Whatever is bothering me, whatever is confusing me, I cannot blame it upon them; and yet... Were they always so affectionate? Had they always been so loving?
Since when had they started to hold hands so often? Since when had they started to become so inseparable? And why is it that they now stay sat beside my wife and I on the settee until we go to bed? When I look back it seems that there is no day where I can say that they stayed with us for a drastically longer time than the day before, and yet it seems not too long ago that they would rush off to their bedrooms immediately after dinner. How is it that I now get to hug and kiss my daughter goodnight before she scampers off to bed? Why is it that the young boy who once shunned my embrace as uncool has turned into a man who not only accepted but almost requested the same hug that I gave his sister?
Of course I had no reason to suspect that the answers to those questions lay within the reach of my limited wits; but for the first time in almost thirty years, talking with ElJay resulted in an answer that was not only obvious, but completely unenlightening.
"You've got a son and daughter who love you more than anything, darling, so just accept it."