The story "Two Norwegian Sisters and Cousin" is background for this series and introduces two of the daughters, Britta and Maren, here with their father, of course. Why "fathers," plural? The girls' mother has one, as a later chapter will tell.
The girls must now be twenty and twenty-one. Families were closer back in the 1960s, girls that age still vacationing with their parents. This is about how much closer this family becomes.
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Two summers after what Johan tells in "Two Norwegian Sister and Cousin," Maren and Britta and their parents were planning another vacation at their cabins, as they did every year. It was intended to be three weeks with the whole family, but then the girls' mother had to visit her parents after her mother had a stroke - for two weeks, at least. The previous summer, the girls had spent two weeks with Johan, their parents wanting a male to accompany the girls, apparently still thinking that he was the shy cousin he had been at the beginning of the previous summer. But he wasn't, as the girls well knew, and they had had a completely uninhibited couple of weeks together, going nude most of the time.
Perhaps with recollections of that, the girls weren't so enthusiastic about spending three weeks at the cabin with just their parents, and now, just with their father. The night before they left their home in Bergen, Maren, the younger and more forward sister, told Britta that she still wanted to get a seamless tan. Britta was a little shocked, remarking:
"With Dad there?!"
"We all used to go nude when we were little."
"But we aren't now."
"Um-hmm, but he really shouldn't mind, ... maybe, shouldn't really mind."
"Hmm, fine difference. You really want to?"
"You'd have to, too. How many boys have seen you nude? Shouldn't be too embarrassing."
"How many have seen you? But he's our father."
"I know, but I still want to."
"Hmm! You just want to go nude."
"Maybe, but it's nice, like last summer."
"But he isn't Johan."
"Maybe he would want to, too."
"Hm-hmm! With his two grown daughters?!"
"He should like that."
"You're wicked!"
"Just a little. It would be more interesting than just taking walks in the mountains."
"Hmm!? And you're just going to take off everything and surprise him?"
"Only if you do, too. Don't be a spoilsport. We can tell him that we want to."
"Hmm!"
They left it at that, and the next morning drove with their father and hiked up to their cabin, all of them carry supplies in rucksacks. They unpacked and made their beds, he, his in the larger cabin, while the girls went to the other cabin. The girls made up the double bed, snickering at the thought that at least they could enjoy sleeping with each other.
As the three of them were finishing supper, talking about what they might do the next morning, Maren remarked:
"If the weather is good, we want to sunbathe in the nude."
"Hmm?! You do?!"
"Why not? "We used to run around naked."
"That was years ago, when you were ten or twelve, younger."
Both girls nodded with grins. Their father remarked:
"Until you started to stare at me."
Britta smirked and replied:
"You were too, at me."
"Hmm! After your mother told me that you had asked ..., well, you know; you asked."
"How babies were made."
She told me, that she had told you."
"Me too," Maren rejoined: "told us both."
"Hmm?! Good reason to stop going nude."
Maren nodded but replied with a grin:
"We did last summer."
"With Johan?! What did he think, do?! Don't tell me!"
"He did, too."
"All three of you?! Don't tell me what else you did! And his mother said he was sort of shy."
Britta was blushing in the evening light at her sister's bold remarks, more so, when Maren added:
"He was, two years ago, but we ... helped him ... overcome that."
"Oh! ... 'We'? Both of you?!"
Involuntarily, Britta nodded slightly. Maren nodded more openly. Their father looked back and forth at them with a consternated expression. He snorted and repeated:
"Both of you?! ... You didn't just ...? ... Hmm! ... I guess you must have, ... if you ran around nude with him last summer. ... Hm-hmm! Good thing your mother doesn't know, ... and his, too. Guess you were old enough to."
They all smiled wryly at their common understanding, snorting. After a few moments, their father remarked:
"And you want to go nude?"
Maren nodded very slightly, as Britta replied softly:
"If you don't mind. ... You can, too. ... You used to like to, ... and we know what you look like."