Chapter 8: Lilith Rising
"What's do you think is happening in there?" Tina asked looking down the hall toward her parent's room. She and Christy retreated to her room after they confronted Mom about her past dalliance in porno. They were trying to figure out how someone so free spirited could have turned into such a prude. No one anticipated the revelation that Gramps had played sex games with both Mom and Christy. They were still sitting around in shock.
"Dunno," Christy said absently. "Talking, I guess. You know how Dad tries to get us to talk out our problems. He's got 15 years of garbage to talk out of Mom."
"How are you? I mean, that stuff about Gramps?" Tina asked.
"I feel kinda weird," Christy murmured. "I'd really pretty much forgotten about it. I don't remember it as being some big dirty secret. Gramps did tell me not to tell anyone about our special game. I dunno."
"If you were molested, how come I turned out to be the slut?" Tina asked.
Christy couldn't help but laugh at that. "After all I've done, you think I'm not a slut?"
"You didn't blow the football team in High School, didja?" Tina taunted.
"What?" Christy exclaimed. "You didn't!"
"Not the whole team," Tina admitted. "Just the big geeky linemen who didn't have dates. You know how the guys sneak out to the practice shed to smoke reefer?"
"Yeah," Christy replied.
"Well, Megan Cho dared me to go out there and blow all the loser jocks." Tina smirked. "All I needed was a little prodding."
"Slut!" Christy shot back giggling. "What else haven't you told me about?"
Tina leaned forward with a wicked grin on her face, "Well, there's the dare I put Megan up toβ¦"
Tina left the sentence hanging. Dad just came out of the bedroom. He looked exhausted. He came down the hall and joined his daughters in Tina's room. Sitting on the foot of Tina's bed, he signed and said, "Well, if I didn't hate your Granny before, I do now. You already know that she laid a guilt trip on Mom about her Dad dying of shame. I don't know how she did it, but she really did a number on her. She's been wrapped up in the cocoon of guilt all these years. If she's only told me what her Mom had saidβ¦"
"How is she?" Christy asked.
"I'd say she's in shock," Dad said. "Us seeing the porno is nothing. Her Mom built up this saintly image of her Father that was complete bullshit. I've been in there telling her about her Dad's attic full of porn. He used to take me up there to see his "stamp collection" then show me some Blacks on Blonds loop. He used to brag about his mistresses in other cities and tell me where to find the best tail when traveling. I told your Mom that if the old goat did have a heart attack watching one of her loops, it was because he was beating off too hard."
"What's she doing in there?" Tina asked.
"Mostly crying," Dad said. "There's nothing more I can do right now."
Dad got up and slowly walked downstairs. Christy and Tina looked at each other. "What now?" Tina asked.