Author's Notes: If it's not made clear enough in the story, all of the people participating in sexual acts in this story are over the age of 18.
This story is a part of a larger series. It is not at all impossible to understand what is happening by reading just this installment, but I would suggest that you read the first one in the series at least to better understand the storyline and the characters.
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+++ The Arrival +++
"Stay in your lane!" Martina Santos screamed at the top of her lungs out of the fully-opened window of the driver's seat, at the car she had just passed by as it tried to enter the lane she drove in.
Its driver replied to her with his own lungs-draining screams, filled with obscene vulgarities she could barely hear as his car disappeared in her rearview mirror.
"Out of my way if you value your fucking life!" she added just as loudly, screaming at no one in particular as she slammed the accelerator to the floorboard, the pointer of her speedometer slowly passing by the "200" painted in there as her car kept on overtaking the other ones riding on the highway.
Normally, she wouldn't have even thought of doing something like this. Never. Normally, when her husband, or any of their relatives she happened to be in the car with at the moment, so much as started to approach the speed which she considered to be too fast or dangerous, a concept which varied infuriatingly wildly given her mood at the moment and the conditions on the road, but
never
even came close to anything consisting of 3 figures, her body started to shake and she immediately grabbed on to the nearest, at least slightly solid or tightly fastened object, which was most often her seatbelt.
As boring as it could sometimes get, she
deeply
cherished her life, and would instinctively do anything possible to maximize her chance of surviving any even slightly life-threatening situation, no matter how trivial and objectively safe it was.
And yet, surprising even herself, here she was, plowing her way through the highway's traffic as if her car was a rocket flying through outer space.
The explanation for this jarring change in behavior was simple, though people with different psychology than her could find it hard to understand anyway.
Simply put, as a novelist, she knew how important it was for a story to have a satisfying ending.
Sure, real life could only rarely be compared to a story, and she was quite sure that hers especially was very far from that. Even after writing stories almost daily for more than 20 years by now, she still had no idea how she would even begin to categorize her life were she to try to describe it as one, never mind determining what she would even write, and from when she would start doing so.
However, unwritableness was no excuse for sloppiness. This chapter of her life might not ever have worked as a chapter of one of her stories, but she was determined to make going through it as much of a pleasurable experience for her as reading her best stories was for her readers.
She was now going through something extraordinary, and she was fully aware of that. Well, either that, or it was a much more common experience for women her age to ride a car at full speed through a highway to get as soon as possible to the studio where her husband and daughter were to compete together in an incestuous sex show for money than she had expected. Though, to be fair, given how many of those shows were now certain to spring up thanks to the recent law changes regarding incest which made their existence possible, that second possibility was much closer to reality than ever.
Nevertheless, her situation was clear. For the next few days her life was about to revolve around what was happening in that studio. She could either be present in there along with her family, experiencing it firsthand with them, or she could be somewhere else, constantly thinking about it and spending her days endlessly waiting for phone calls from them and watching the live streams of the show on the porn company's website.
Were this happening to a character in one of her stories, she knew exactly which of those two possibilities she, and her readers, would prefer for them to choose.
And so, here she was, ending her fate-tempting ride by slowly pulling into a parking space in the studio's parking lot.
Perhaps inevitably though, a weak sense of dread and anxiety had seized her mind as she walked toward the studio. It wasn't anything concerning financial or organizational matters, as was the norm with such feelings when it came to her. She had already notified the show's staff of her coming and, as a family member of two of the contestants, she belonged to a group that, alongside the family members and friends of the staff, could claim a spot in the show's live audience for free.
However, she wasn't sure how she felt about the possibility of meeting the rest of the audience, those willing to pay the exorbitant prices she had seen on the show's website to see incest being committed right in front of them. Thankfully, as soon as she had walked through the studio building's entrance, she could see that this second group appeared to be just a very small minority of the other audience members.
All around her, she could see normal, harmless-looking people. Most of them were younger than she would've expected, and a good number of them were engaged in friendly chats with the staff members, obviously well-acquainted with them, a far cry from the hordes of weird, predatory-looking older men she had expected to see in here. All in all, it seemed that the promise of a free seat in this show proved to be too much for most of the staff members' acquaintances to resist.
Sure, there was still a possibility that some rich jerk who bought their way in here might try to convince her to join her family in performing on the stage, which was what she was so anxious about, but with the people around her being like this, the possibility of that had become much lower than she had expected.
Incest just wasn't for her. Sure, she came in here to support the two most important people in her life as they did just that in front of, probably, millions of viewers. They seemed to have no problem with it, and so, she didn't as well and was determined to support them as much as she could. But that didn't change the fact that when her daughter had explained her plan to her, her mind was immediately flooded by flashbacks to the countless, incredibly creepy double entendres and other perverse and creepy remarks her father had targeted her with just weeks after she had turned 18.
Of course, she knew that he was just passively-aggressively trying to get her out of the family house and force her to build her own life and that he wasn't attracted to her in the slightest. She understood that the moment after he had started doing so, and she also understood that he had a damned good reason to act like that. The economy in her old country was never great, and her parents had sacrificed more than anyone ever should for her to be able to study in the United States and gain the opportunities offered by it. She perfectly understood all of that. But it
still
disgusted her and made her especially dislike father-daughter incest for decades, a feeling which she, unfortunately, wasn't sure whether she had already gotten over by now.
"Misses Santos!" one of the staff members called out at her, ending her train of thoughts at a surprisingly-appropriate moment and cutting off the conversation he had with a man who to Martina seemed to be either his brother or friend, waving at her in a friendly and inviting way. "We've been waiting for you. Please, go join the rest of the audience, find yourself the best possible seat, make yourself as comfortable as possible. The show is starting soon!"
She didn't need him to tell her any of that. Before he had even stopped speaking, she was already walking towards the half-opened door he was pointing at, beyond which she could see the stage where the show was about to start, and chairs for the audience members to sit in and watch it, which were still mostly empty.
"Anyone sitting in here?" she asked an attractive, luxuriously-dressed woman roughly her age who was sitting next to an empty seat at the far right end of the second row of chairs from the stage, before quickly sitting on that seat, not even waiting for the obvious answer. "A family member?" she asked the woman, feeling the anxiety from before creeping back upon her.
"Yes," the woman replied. "The same as you, I'd guess."
Martina just smiled awkwardly in reply. The woman's answer calmed her down a bit, but still, she looked just a bit too much like a member of the other group of audience members for her to be completely calm. The expensive clothes, the authoritative tone of voice, and the self-confident posture all revealed to her that not only could this woman have easily bought her way in here, but that she could probably humble most of the rich perverts in here when it came to their financial assets.
"How was the ride, Misses..." the woman casually asked, apparently having some experience in how to talk with people who were anxious about interacting with her.
"Santos," Martina replied. "And it was pretty OK, thanks."
"That's great," she said, before adding, "and I'm Miss Winters, nice to meet you Misses Santos."
"No offense, but I don't remember there being a contestant with such a name mentioned on the website," Martina inquired.
"Well, my ex is about to find out I changed my name back," the woman explained, chortling as she said so. After Martina had joined in by chuckling, she added, "And don't worry, you don't have to be nervous about sitting next to me, I'm not some helicopter mom that's going to flip out if my daughter doesn't win."