Note to readers: As with all my other stories, this one starts out slow, but it will blossom with a lot of action as the story develops. It should be read before my related story, "Getting to Know My New Stepdaughter". For all you readers out there, but especially those of you who are voting on stories, please read this and chapter two before you pass judgment, thinking that the story is lacking in sexiness.
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When I got engaged to Mary two years ago, I didn't even know she HAD a daughter, much less two of them – twin teenagers who would eventually come live with us and fuck me every day right under their mother's nose.
The first I heard about the girls, Evie and Jenna, was just before our wedding. Mary and I were at a restaurant, eating dinner together and going over last minute details of the reception, when she told me she'd just received word that neither of her daughters were going to be able to attend the wedding.
I almost spit out my iced tea. "Daughters?" I said. "What daughters?"
It turned out Mary had twins from her first marriage. After an amicable divorce several years ago, her ex got a job working for an oil company in Indonesia. The job perks – free housing and free private schooling at an elite English-speaking school for foreigners and diplomats' kids – were so attractive that both mother and father agreed that it was sensible for him to take custody of the girls, then ten years old.
Mary had only seen her daughters a couple of times in the years since then. The problem wasn't that her ex was opposed to visitation or anything like that. It was just that the expense and logistical problems of sending children on multi-stage trans-oceanic flights made visitation difficult verging on impossible. When the time came for our wedding, the girls, then sixteen, said they felt uncomfortable traveling alone halfway around the world, and anyway, they had mid terms or something, I forget what.
Mary didn't talk about her daughters much. When they hit various milestones – their sixteenth birthdays, or when Evie won an academic award – Mary gushed about them, about how dear they were to her, about what perfect, angelic children they were, about how wonderful it was being a mother. But frankly, it seemed to me that motherhood had died on the vine sometime during the nine years that mother and daughters had been apart. I got the impression that, beyond birthdays and Christmas, the girls hardly every contacted her. The girls weren't active on facebook or any other social media, so Mary didn't even have that minimal contact with them.
So you can imagine that I was somewhat less ecstatic than Mary was when we learned that the girls, now nineteen, planned to come back to the US and wanted to live with their mother and me. They'd both been accepted into the local university, and it made sense that to minimize expenses they would live with us rather than have both parents shell out the money for dorms or apartment living.
The plan was that the girls would arrive separately. They attended different secondary schools in Indonesia. Jenna's school term finished in time for her to attend fall semester in the US, but Evie's school term was out of synch by several weeks, meaning that she wouldn't be able to join us until after Thanksgiving.
Regardless of the scheduling problems, Mary was over the moon with happiness that her sweet little daughters were going to live with her again after so many years. I think unconsciously she still thought of them as ten year olds, and when she spoke about them she talked about going to the movies together, buying them sweets, or cooking the girls' favorite meals. She envisioned doing activities with them that were appropriate for small children, not college freshmen coeds.
Somewhere in the house, Mary had up-to-date pictures of Evie and Jenna that the girls dutifully sent her every year, the sort of generic school pictures that parents' drawers are littered with. In the photos, both girls looked perky and well-scrubbed, with Jenna wearing a black dress that contrasted with her naturally blonde hair, and Evie wearing the uniform white blouse and green plaid skirt of the missionary school she attended.
But those modern pictures were stuffed in a drawer somewhere. The picture on our mantle, the one Mary looked at every day, was one of her and the girls taken years earlier, before they had even entered puberty.
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