Wednesday night I stayed late at campus, by late I mean sixish. I saw D. Debra heading to play practice, Chris trailing along behind her. I went to the library. I'd been there a couple hours when my phone rang. I got up and went out into the hall. It was my sister.
"Tawny? Hey." I said casually, my head still in the books.
"Someone is fucking in mom's bed and it isn't you or me!" She whispered. "Can you hear them?"
I jerked back to the present. "Hear them?" I repeated distantly. I half understood. "No. No. Sorry. I meant to tell you I, well, ah, Mrs. Rossini, her husband is, he arrived back suddenly yesterday and I, well, she, her sister was staying with her, them and she, Mrs. Rossini, she wanted you know, quality time with her husband. Alone! I mean, without her sister listening at the keyhole. So, yeah, since you weren't coming home much, I said she could stay..."
"She's fucking somebody!" Tawny growled, her whisper rasping. "I heard them. A man. She was on her knees grunting while he rammed his cock into her from behind. God, Sonny, are we running a whore house now?"
"Why was there money the table?"
"No. Fuck off, you know what I mean."
"Not at all. Look, if I start making money, I'll make sure you get a cut."
"I don't want a cut!" Her whisper threatened to breach a threshold and be disqualified. "I want..."
I interrupted her. "Well, if you want me to line up clients..."
"Goddammit, Sonny, that isn't what I meant and you know it. Goddammit, why is someone fucking in mom's room?"
"I suppose she thought it would be rude to fuck in your room I suppose." This, from the department of redundancy department. Okay, I was rattled a little.
"Goddammit, Sonny!" Her voice was ushered out of church to some street corner where it was sure to cause a disturbance.
"Hush, sis! I, I think I know how it is. I bet," I hesitated. I had to agree. "Goddammit, I bet its Brent."
"Brent? What is...oh shit." The voice was readmitted to the library, all hushed and quiet.
"Yeah. I, Jesus, I never thought they'd...fuck me! Let me call you back."
I hung up and stared at my phone. Brent had gotten to Aunt Norma first. I had given Natasha a spare key yesterday, accepting that I had to do her a solid and let her sister sleep at my house. Norma had been at a hotel last night and was checking out today and, well, I guess she was making herself at home.
I called Natasha. Her phone rang and rang and rang.
No answer.
Oh bother. My gosh things get quacked up in a hurry. I took a breath and shook my head. This was not that bad. Natasha had pleaded with me, she carried my collar gift in a little jewelry sack and said, she said that if I did this for her, she'd put the thing on and never take it off again. I asked if that included while she was fucking her husband and she snorted.
"Never happen. We are done!" Neither of us believed her.
According to Brent, she always said that about her husband. Always did and hadn't been right yet. Her phone didn't even go to voice mail she was so insistent on not talking to me. I would have bet the middle inch of my cock that she had her heels in the air and was panting for breath. Joseph Rossini had missed a flight and not gotten in till today. If I was him, I'd have Mrs. Rossini on her back about now pounding the truth out of her and filling her with my cream of lies.
From what Brent said...Brent! Norma had not even slept a night in my house and Brent was already over at my house and in my guest.
My phone rang.
"Well?" Tawny hissed in my ear.
I had no idea what to say, so I dissembled. "If you are so impatient, go join them."
"Fuck you, Sonny, I already shared Chris with your girlfriend..."
"She's not my girlfriend. I fuck my girlfriend, or would if I had one."
Tawny snorted. "Like anyone could tell the difference between a girlfriend and any other female you get within arm's length of you. Is there anyone you don't fuck?"
I thought about that. "Well, let me give it a little thought. You mean besides D. Debra Hamilton?"
"Sonny, she's screaming!"
"Go watch."
"You have me confused with Dalia. Jesus, Sonny, what are you going to do when they get home."
"I've given up on them. I, I don't think they are ever coming home again."
"No? Well think again. Lava wanted me to pick them up. I volunteered you."
"Tomorrow?" I heart accelerated like a street rod.
"No, dummy, Friday night. Late. After play practice Chris and I had a late date planned. Dinner, dancing, a walk in the park."
"It's twenty below outside, are you nuts?"
"Sonny, you have a woman in our house and Brent is fucking...Jesus, he's fucking his Aunt! He's fucking his own Aunt in our house! How do you think Georgia and Dalia are going to feel about that?"
"Relieved." I offered.
She went silent.
"Hello?"
"You are supposed to be Georgia's...when she gets back."
I knew that voice. It mixed the affronted female with the sinister sister.
"What do you mean, relieved, anyway?" Tawny could do anger like Georgia for only about as along as a flea's fart smells. Sort of like the time it takes a bullet to go in your eye and come out your ear, violent and over quick.
"They'll know for sure that my buddies are interested in fucking. You guys can audit, give Brent pointers while he is boning his Aunt."
"His Aunt! God, Sonny, he is fucking her right in our own house. Uh oh." She went back to whispering really softly. "Do they, does he, do your friends now about, about, about us?"
I shrugged and wondered what words to use. I was two for three in the sister department. I decided to be casual and straight forward. "I, I have decided we need to do a mother and her daughter, or three or five. You know, like a bucket list before we have to become responsible adults."
"You have lots of time before you become an adult. I don't see that happening while you can get an erection without the help of a stick up your butt."
"Jeez, does that work?"
"Sonny, dammit. Shush. They're, they're getting up."
I felt all jaunty that I wasn't there to deal with it.
"Oh my god, have you seen his...?" She lost her voice somewhere.
"Yes. I introduced mom to it, remember? She took it in the ass, little sister."
No sound. Then breathing and the soft clunk of a closing door. I had no idea what was happening. Tawny, god, she confused the shit out of me. My imagination volunteered to fill in what I could not see. How uncomfortable was that!
"Why are they showering separately? Goddammit, can't they just share mom's shower and leave ours alone? I bet he leaves the lid up and pisses all over everywhere. My god, I saw his sock. I mean, uh, cock. Dick. Johnson. Boner. Woody. Penis." She spat out the words like they were peas. She hates peas.
"Turrets?"
"He, mom took that up her, her, oh my god, didn't you tell me she let him put that in her ass?"
I had no idea what all I told my sister about my mother fucking my friends. I was pretty sure that was accurate. I did just mention it but maybe she didn't hear, or her brain was on dick overload. It happens. "Gives you a new sense of respect for our luscious mother, doesn't?"
"Sonny, don't be gross. How long are they going to stay? You have to pick up Georgia and Dalia on Friday."
"I, okay, I will. I, I think a couple days, till Natasha gives her soon to be ex-husband the heave ho!" I had my doubts. Honestly, I forgot about my sisters. I'd gotten so comfortable in an empty house, I was completely willing to live out my oft time fantasy of being an only child and not think beyond that. The empty house was luscious and grand and I liked not having gobs of hair in the sink, not the interesting kinky hair that makes you imagine things, just gobs of hair going all slimy.
"I'm going back to the Wills. Say, what is going on with Mrs. Wills? She, she seems...?"
"Yeah. She is." I agreed to whatever Tawny was thinking just so I didn't have to navigate the shoals of the truth in my little dingy of consciousness. "I'll deal with it." I spoke with much more confidence than I felt.
"Well, there is something going on with her and I am, I just don't get it. God, she is never home and I asked Chris about his dad and he went all sullen on me, like I had asked if his dick was going to grow any more or if that was it."
I laughed out loud. My sister, god, she could be funny without even trying sometimes. "What'd he say?"
"Nothing. No, that's not true, he said he was an orphan and he didn't want to talk about it. What does that mean?"
I knew, but I wasn't telling. "It means he's a thespian and you know how dramatic they like to be. Everybody over eighteen is an orphan but we just don't bother to enforce that rule in this country. This may be no country for old men because we are all intent on staying children."
"What?"
"Forget it. Movie reference. I'll deal with Mrs. Spilletti. And Brent."
"Missus? God, Sonny, don't you ever fuck anyone you're supposed to fuck?"
"Who says I'm fucking her? Seems like she has her, uh, hands or whatever already full."
"I'm going to Chris'. Bring our sisters by to say hello."
"I thought you were going out on Friday."
"Fuck off, Sonny." My sister hung up.
Well, at least I knew what I was going home to. Not silence. Not a pleasantly empty house. And not the welcoming embrace of a hot woman. I figured she'd be spent like a condom before Brent rolled up his welcome mat and went home.
I was wrong.