"You two are so lame!" Hannah teased from the pool. "It's a beautiful day out, and I'm the only one swimming."
"Geez, what happened to us?" Jenna laughed as she looked over at me.
"I know! For Hannah to call us lame is pretty bad. Especially considering the last few weeks," I said winking at Jenna. "I guess the fact that we're still in our bathing suits means we're prudes or something," I sarcastically said, turning my head and watching Hannah's naked body snake through the water.
It was the second week of August and our summer vacation was winding to a close. One of the tragedies of growing up was the quickening perception of the passage of time, particularly during the summer. This was especially true this year. It seemed like I had just returned home for summer vacation yesterday, and now in a couple weeks I'd be returning to campus.
"Are you going to be living in the dorms again this year?" Jenna asked. The question was somewhat unsettling, not because it was an unsettling question, but because Jenna seemed to know what I was thinking. I had noticed over the last few months that she was extremely good at knowing what someone was thinking. Of course, that talent of hers had benefited us both this summer. Without it, Hannah probably wouldn't have been swimming naked in front of us, or fucking us for that matter.
"Probably not," I said. "Hannah and I have been thinking about getting our own place. There are tons of houses that are rented out to students in the area. I'm sure Mom and Dad would help out with the rent."
"I actually wanted to talk to you about that," Jenna said. "I was thinking - "
"Hello!?" our mother's voice called from inside the house, cutting off Jenna mid-sentence. In that instant, it seemed as if time slowed down. I could see Jenna's eyes widen, her mouth forming a perfect "O" of surprise. I'm sure my face was an exact reflection.
"Shit!" Jenna hissed, as we both jumped to our feet. "Hannah!" she whispered, "Mom's home! Get dressed!" She grabbed Hannah's tossed aside bathing suit and threw it into the pool by Hannah.
I was already running through the sliding doors that lead back to the pool and into the kitchen. I could feel my heart pounding furiously in my chest as I turned into the hallway and almost collided with my mother.
"Mom!" I shouted, the surprise in my voice evident. "What are you doing home?"
"It's nice to see you too," she said sarcastically, "but I live here too."
"Mom! We didn't expect you until next week!" Jenna said as she crashed into me from behind. "Is Dad home too?"
Our mother's eyebrows raised in suspicion. "You guys aren't having a party or something, are you?"
"Of course not!" Jenna laughed. "We just didn't expect you. If we had known, we would have cleaned up around the house a bit. Well, Hannah would have. Right Hannah?" smiled Jenna as Hannah joined us in the hallway, once again wearing her bathing suit.
"Well excuse me for preferring to not live like a pig," Hannah retorted.
"Dad is still away on business," our Mom said, changing the subject. "He ran into a few difficulties during the negotiations and the trip was extended until the end of the month. He felt bad that I haven't really seen you guys this past summer so he told me to come home since he could take care of things. That just means I'll have about two weeks with you guys before you return to school. I can't believe how fast the summer went!"
"Yeah, tell me about it," I agreed.
I took my time carrying my Mom's luggage up to her room. I could hear Jenna and Hannah telling her about our summer, leaving out certain incestuous details of course. Hannah volunteered to cook dinner for everyone and they all decided to go grocery shopping leaving me to mind the house. I spent the time swimming and despairing about my mother's return. She would have been back next week, but this meant one less week of incredible sex with Hannah and Jenna. I must have dozed off for a bit because the sound of everyone returning home woke me. "It had to end sooner or later," I thought to myself as I climbed out of the pool. In hindsight, I wish I had spent that time cleaning up around the house.
Dinner was delicious as it usually is when Hannah cooks. She made fresh salmon and shrimp, salad, and orange sherbet for dessert that was all washed down with red wine. After dinner, Jenna, Hannah, and I all volunteered to clean up while our Mom went to relax in the living room. We had only been at it for a few minutes when we heard our mother screaming for us from the living room. We all exchanged quick glances before running into the living room.
"What the fuck is this?!" our mother screamed, pointing at the television. When I realized what had happened, I could feel my stomach drop in panic. A few days ago, Jenna, Hannah, and I had taped ourselves fucking. We watched it last night and had forgotten to put the tape away. Our Mom must have wondered what the tape was and decided to watch it. "What the fuck is this?!" she screamed again. The television displayed Jenna and Hannah on their knees as they took turns sucking my cock. All our faces were visible and I knew there was no way we could deny it. I looked at Jenna and Hannah. Both of them were pale, their mouths agape. "I leave the three of you home for the summer and this is what you do??" our mother continued to scream. "What the fuck is wrong with you Brent? Are you that desperate that you'd fuck your sisters??" I could feel my mouth working, but nothing was coming out. Tears had started to run down our mother's face. She kept screaming at us, her head in her hands. It must have only been a minute or two but it felt like hours. I began wishing that I had cleaned up the house instead of sleeping in the pool earlier. This wouldn't have happened then. I would have seen the tape. "Wait until your father comes home! He's going to throw you out of this fuckin' house! All three of you! For fucks sake! I leave you alone and you all decide to fuck each other? You're brother and sister!! What the fuck is wrong with the three of you?!" Jenna must have slipped out of the room during the screaming because her return snapped me out of my stupor. She put a full wine glass on the table and took the half empty one that our mother had taken with her into the living room. Our mother didn't seem to notice since she had collapsed onto the couch by that point, her face buried in her hands. No one spoke for what seemed like minutes. The video now showed Jenna riding my cock while Hannah sat on my face. The moans from the video and the sound of our mother crying filled the silence. Eventually our mother grabbed the wine glass Jenna had brought her and drained it in one gulp before throwing the empty glass at the television. The glass shattered, spraying broken shards of glass across the room. Ironically, the television was unharmed and continued to show Jenna, Hannah and I fucking each other's brains out. That seemed to knock some sense into me and I turned off the television, gingerly stepping over the broken glass. The sobs of our mother became quieter and quieter until they stopped. For a second, I thought she had died.
Jenna must have noticed the look on my face. "Relax. I put a few sleeping pills in her wine. It was the only way to quiet her down."
"Yeah... that was probably a good idea," I said. I felt like my entire world had collapsed around me.
"I crushed up three from her purse. She'll be out for about eight hours or so. It should give us time to figure out what we should do," Jenna said.
"What do you mean?" my voice was high, on the verge of panic. "Our mother just found out that her three kids have been fucking each other. Unless you have a time machine, there's nothing to figure out Jenna! We're completely fucked!"
"You worry too much," Jenna responded dismissively. Even though she was trying to play things cool, I could tell that she was just as worried as I was.
"We are all fucked once Dad gets home. We'll be thrown out of the house. They'll probably cut off our tuition as well. How am I supposed to pay twenty-five thousand a year for school? I only made about ten thousand this summer. Fuck!" The flood of panic that was now flowing freely through me made me feel sick. Hannah just continued to stand rooted in spot. She looked like she was lost and had no idea where she was. I don't think I'd ever seen her like this.
"It just seems like that at the moment," Jenna's voice was low and she seemed to have regained most of her composure. "We have eight hours before Mom wakes up. That's enough time to figure something out. If not, we'll just give her another sleeping pill or two."
"This is a disaster," I said, looking around the room aimlessly and running my fingers through my hair. My eyes came to rest on our mother, mercifully unaware of the world. "We should take her upstairs."
"Can you carry her up?" Jenna asked.
"Yeah, I guess so." I slipped my arms under my mother's unconscious body and lifted her up, cradling her in my arms. Even though she was in her early forties, she kept herself in good shape. The exercise must have slowed down the aging process because she looked to be ten years younger than she actually was. In fact, she looked like Hannah's older sister. Carrying her up the stairs was much easier than I expected and I quickly laid her down on her bed. Jenna and Hannah followed behind me.
"What are we going to do?" Hannah asked. It was the first words she had spoken since our Mom had her meltdown. The sound of her voice seemed to surprise Jenna.
"I don't know, but we need to do something," Jenna said.
"What can we do? Our only option at this point seems to be smothering her with a pillow," I snapped.
"Don't be silly," said Jenna. "If we are going that route, we have to make it look like an accident. We'd be better off pushing her down the stairs, or making her overdose on sleeping pills." The calm with which Jenna said it, was extremely menacing. "Plus we can come up with something better than that. The three of us aren't retarded."
"Can we go someplace else to discuss this?" Hannah asked. "I don't like doing it in front of Mom. I feel like she can hear us."
"Yeah, let's go downstairs," I said. "Besides, we have broken glass to clean up."
We spent the next three hours discussing our options which seemed to range from keeping her chained up in a closet, to burying her in the backyard. Needless to say, they were all pretty shitty possibilities. We even discussed what might happen if we did nothing and let our mother tell our father. We'd surely be disowned, and find ourselves with no place to go. While that was certainly preferable to matricide, it still wasn't a very good option.
The clock in the living room announced that it was 11pm, and we knew we were running out of time. The sleeping pills had maybe another three hours before they wore off.
"There's got to be something we can do," Jenna repeated for what seemed like the hundredth time. "I think I'll go put Mom's luggage away. I find that if I engulf myself in someone's environment, I can sometimes figure them out pretty good. Wanna help Hannah?"
"Sure," Hannah responded. She hadn't said much all night, but she did seem to have something on her mind. She just hadn't shared it with Jenna or myself yet. I found myself hoping that she'd come up with something quickly.
The girls went upstairs and I laid down on the couch to watch television, hoping that there was a movie on that was about our very predicament. I knew the chances of that were slim to nil, but I was grasping at straws.
I had been watching television for about half an hour when I heard Jenna yell my name from the top of the stairs. I quickly ran up the steps and into our parent's room. "What is it? Did you figure out what to do?" I asked quickly. I could feel my heart pounding in my chest with excitement and a touch of fear.