Clearing the Air
The two women found the bedroom empty, but heard the shower running in the bathroom. Lena smiled. "I don't know about you, but I could use a shower about now." Karla looked much less confident about ambushing her brother in the shower, but dutifully followed her mother inside.
When Kris saw his mother enter the bathroom, he called out in a concerned voice, "How's Karla? Is she okay?"
Lena moved further into the room to make room for her daughter. "Why don't you ask her yourself?"
Kris froze in the shower at the sight of his naked sister walking into their mother's bathroom, not from her seeing him naked, but after the way she reacted earlier, he wasn't sure she would ever want to see him again.
"Hey, Kris," Karla called out to him. She tried to sound natural, but her greeting came out strained.
"Karla! Are you okay?" Kris turned off the water to get out.
"Don't turn the water off," his mother interrupted. "We're coming in to join you."
Kris looked at her dumbly for a second before turning around and restarting the shower. Karla followed her mother into the shower and the three of them stood close together under the cascade of warm water. The shower was large enough for the three adults, but the water spray only covered a relatively small volume causing all three to stand very close together. They faced each other in silence until Lena spoke up over the sound of the splashing water.
"Karla and I have something important to tell you and we all need to come to an agreement on what to do next," she began. "First, Karla was understandably upset at finding you and me together in bed this morning. I explained what happened and that it was a one-time mistake that you and I would not be repeating," she was looking at Kris and gave him a quick wink that his sister couldn't see. "Then, as it turned out, your sister and I have a similar strong affection for each other and we ended up making love." Lena paused and Karla looked up quickly to see how Kris was going to react to that bit of news.
"Okay," he said slowly. It was clear that he was waiting for the other shoe to drop.
"Karla and I want to continue this new part of our relationship, but we don't want to do it behind your back," Lena resumed. "However, she pointed out that you and I might have similar feelings towards each other after last night, and it wouldn't be fair to not allow you and me the chance to act on those feelings." She paused to let her son speak up.
"You mean, you and Karla would still hook up together, but then I could hook up with you, too, if I wanted?" he asked in disbelief.
"That's exactly it, but I don't care for the term, 'hook up'," his mother said disapprovingly. "That makes it sound like anonymous, emotionless sex. I'm talking about making love to my two children as a means of expressing how much I love them."
"Okay. I get it. I want that, too," Kris agreed quickly. "But how is that going to work, exactly?"
"That's the reason we're here." Turning to Karla, she kissed her lips and said, "I told you everything would be alright." Karla seemed only slightly uncomfortable with her mother's action, but didn't reject it. Kris found it bizarre to see his naked mother kissing his equally naked sister on the lips as if they were lesbian lovers.
Turning to her son she continued, "And Kris, I don't play favorites. I love both of you equally." She leaned in and kissed him on the lips the same as she kissed Karla. "Now that we've got that part out in the open, how do you two feel about things?"
"What kind of things?" Karla asked.
"Well, for starters, are you okay with seeing me being affectionate with your brother?" Turning to Kris she added, "Or sister?"
"I'm fine with it," Kris spoke up first.
"Me, too," chimed in Karla. Their mother broke out in a broad smile.
"That makes me very happy and pleased with both of you," Lena beamed. "And if you two decide you want to get together, that's fine with me. In fact, I would even encourage you both to explore that possibility." Kris and Karla traded startled glances with each other over their mother's comment while she continued.
"Here. Let's start washing each other as we talk some more." She squirted a large amount of liquid soap from the dispenser into her hand and started rubbing a soapy lather over Karla's chest, shoulders, and arms. "You can help out," she called over to her son.