Ben Tyler looked at the four smiling women that were standing in front of him. Those smiles were warm and welcoming and yet, they also wore an air of determination.
As for Ben, he felt as if he had just won the lottery, albeit a very strange and offbeat type of lottery. He had come home from school for the summer and expected his father to insist on his getting a job. Last year, he had worked in his uncle's lumber camp. That hadn't gone over well with his mother. She had protested that Ben was an intellectual, an artist, a musician and poet. Her words had gone over like a lead balloon. They had fallen on deaf ears. Bart Tyler didn't want to be raising a "sissy" son and insisted that the work would be good for him.
In part, it was hard to argue with him. To his credit, Ben had not once complained and spent but all of the last 4 weeks of his summer break working. His skin got a ruddy tan and his hair went a shade lighter. His muscles, and Ben did take care of his physical health, were now much like the trees he had been cutting down. He looked like the guy on the paper towel label and he had barely been home the last few weeks of his vacation. Ben went out with young women who would not have given him the time of day just the previous year. He also went out with a lot of the university coeds that were previously out of his reach, including some of the hotter girls who were a bit older.
This summer would be different. His mom would certainly see to that. She was never the type to be afraid to challenge Bart Tyler on his outdated belief system.
Hands on shapely hips, Madison Tyler stood in front of her 19-year old son with a scowl on her face. "You're going to be working here this summer, your father is traveling too much and things aren't getting done," Madison insisted. "You can be a tremendous help around the house."
Ben sighed. He hadn't really wanted to hang around the house this summer; he was hoping to get acquainted with some bikini clad beach bunnies. Still, he knew that Madison would be a lot easier to deal with than his dickweed dad. There wasn't much love lost between Bart and his youngest son, who worked in several artistic venues. Bart had never come right out and called his son a fairy, yet Ben knew his father thought that of him. If Ben could have shown the old men his score card, he would have shut his fucking mouth forever. There were also several occasions where Ben would have liked to decked his father when he made a rude comment, but he wouldn't have done that to Madison. Violence never solved anything, she had raised him better than that. It had always impressed him how a young woman such as Madison had risen to the occasion and raised four kids without much help from a deadbeat father such as Bart.
Ben and Madison had been "besties" of almost 11 years. His own mother had been unable to deal with the family, fleeing to parts unknown. Two scarce months after his divorce, Bart had come home married to Madison or "Maddy", a croupier he had met in Las Vegas. Scarcely 15 years older than Ben, he found himself liking her. She was fun, witty and most of all, sexy. Ben didn't understand why he felt this way about Maddy, but she never made him feel he wasn't loved. She treated him as family and he was calling her "mom" a few years later.
It likely didn't hurt that she was a gorgeous, tanned brunette with a sensational figure that she wasn't afraid to flaunt in front of her sons - Ben, most of all. She didn't mind being a bit of an exhibitionist because she worked very hard to maintain her figure and it showed on the 5'8", busty brunette.
"What is it you all need me to do?" Ben asked while remaining all at once intimidated and intrigued.
"Mother! You didn't clue him in?" Honestly, do I have to do everything around here?" Ben spun around to discover his 23-year old sister walking into the room. What the
fuck
had changed with Donna? The 5'10" model only visited at holidays, although due to her closeness with Ben, they talked every week. Like Ben, she too considered Madison a friend and ally. The women in the family found Bart to be somewhat tyrannical at times, although he never quite achieved the level of cruel.
"Donna, what are you doing here?" A stunned Ben asked the sensual brunette. Like everything his older sister did, she moved with a feline grace. She crossed the room and sat in one of his father's best chairs. Ben knew if his father had seen that, he'd have read her the riot act. Chairs like that were for display, not for sitting. It was another area where Madison had thought her husband was being ridiculous. He was now at the point where he was flaunting his wealth. Several times in recent years, Ben had overheard his parents arguing. Madison believed her husband's money was running him and not the other way around.
His oldest sister and closest ally sat in the chair, legs draped over the armrest. "I think it should be obvious, little brother, I'm here to piss off daddy by fucking around on his furniture," she said with a snide tone.
Ben could always tell when his sister was hiding something because she hid it behind a veil of wit and sarcasm. She was often quite funny when she was in pain. He looked at her again and wordlessly, he questioned her. He saw Donna's shoulders relax and her facial expression change.
"I assume that question is meant to ask me why I'm not still on my honeymoon," Donna said as she looked around. "
Fuck
, I forgot I ..." His sister cursed. Ben clued in immediately. When Donna was upset, she smoked. She had quit only a few months ago. Something was on her mind. "Let's just say things got a bit ... odd ... when we reached Amsterdam."
Ben didn't comment but he knew that something truly rotten must have gone down. Donna was sure that after years of dating losers, her husband was "the one". The rest of the family disagreed - to a one; they had all disliked Richard and thought he was a snake in the grass.
The twins rushed in, all smiles and giggles, two vivacious bundles of sunshine and energy in halter tops and tight booty shorts. Both of them had long red hair and were on the petite side, although still lovely and appealing. The 18-year olds were Madison's daughters from an earlier and not-too good relationship, so they weren't Ben's blood sisters. However, he had grown up with the girls and his dad had adopted them, so as far as everyone was concerned, they were all one large family jumble.
"Did you tell him yet, mommy?" Hayley asked. She was usually the more free-spirited of the two and Ben was sure that his showoff sister wore no underwear.
"I hope so mother, you've certainly had enough time," Hannah groused. She tended to be the more studious and serious of the two, as well as lacking in patience at time. Still, she was a good person; no one in the family would have been described as unpleasant or morose.
"Why do I have this feeling that there is something going on that I'm not in on yet?" Ben asked as he scanned the room. "Okay Mom, you want to clue me in?"
Madison smiled and for a brief instant, Ben thought what a lucky S.O.B his father was. With the gorgeous brunette, he had married
wayyyy
out of his league. Growing up, he had harbored a
huge
but very secret crush on his gorgeous stepmom - although he had never thought of her in that way. All of his friends did a double take whenever she dropped him off at school. One of his best buds had asked him if his father had married a
Playboy
centerfold.
"There's a lot going on you don't know about, little brother," Donna smiled as she got a drink from the refrigerator. "Lots and lots." Ben winced because he hated it when she called him little brother. Even with her height, he still dwarfed her by 6 inches. It was one of the perks of being a male in the Tyler family; he and his brothers were all tall.
Madison went over to the large easy chair in the living room and sat down with Ben's sisters bringing up the rear. Her dress was long, but when she crossed her legs, Ben saw there was a long slit in one side. When Donna sat down, he noticed her blue dress was of a similar style. The twins were also dressed a bit more - provocative - than usual.
"Have you wondered at all about the kind of work you're going to be doing around here, Ben?" Madison asked in a tone that was not at all matter-of-fact.
Ben shook his head. "No, not really. I assumed that I'd be working around the house, mowing the lawn, looking after the gardens, painting the house. I know dad can't be bothered with any of that." Ben thought that his dad, for all the complaining he did about Ben, was a lazy prick a lot of the time. He had enough money, so he usually hired some poor neighbor kid to do all of that and griped about how much it cost him.
"No, that isn't it," both Madison and Donna chimed up at the same time. They both laughed as they affixed evil stares on the unsuspecting Ben.
"Nuh-uh Ben, you're going to be working
indoors
most of the time," Hayley giggled. Hannah let out a large sound of annoyance.
"Christ, will you ..."
"Language, young lady," Madison said to her youngest.
"Okay mother, but would you all just
tell
him already?" She groaned. She turned to her older brother and took him in before revealing the secret. She thought this plan of theirs was a humdinger. "You're going to be
fucking
us Ben -
all