The Locker Room (Part 5)
Kathryn M. Burke
In March, as spring break approached, the twins decided it was time to introduce their beaux to their parents.
Jim and Natalie Stevens also lived in town, somewhat closer to campus than DeAndre's dad. They were in their mid-forties and seemed to have a healthy marriage, although Camilla's sharp eye sensed some possible elements of disharmony. But Mom and Dad were determined to put on a good front when encountering their daughters' boyfriends for the first time.
Jim already knew of DeAndre, whose triumphs on the gridiron he had watched ardently on television. The football player almost seemed to fill the small living room as the quartet showed up late on Friday afternoon for dinner, and Jim regarded him with a kind of awe as he tentatively approached him with an extended hand. Natalie also gazed up at the young man with the imposing physique. Somewhat clumsily, she first held out her hand, then impulsively threw her arms around DeAndre's shoulders. Even though, at five foot eight, she was several inches taller than her daughters, she still seemed like a dwarf when DeAndre tentatively held her.
Natalie tried to salvage the embarrassing situation by saying, "You know, DeAndre, I'm not made of porcelain. I won't break."
With a smile, he hugged her a bit more tightly—and everyone could see that Natalie was preening like a cat as she refused to let the young man out of her embrace.
Camilla rolled her eyes. "Mom, that's enough, I think."
Natalie at last separated from DeAndre, giving her daughter a quick but unmistakably venomous glance. Then she turned her attention to Matt, whom she also seemed to admire—in the same way a snake admires a tempting mouse it intends to devour. She came up to him, enfolded him in her arms (making sure to press her breasts against his chest—and even, apparently, rubbing her groin against his), then giving him a chaste smack on the cheek before she retreated to the kitchen to finish preparing dinner.
The twins looked at each other as if saying,
What the hell was all that about?
Several days later—as Camilla and Naomi stood agape from seeing repeated instances of their mother needlessly touching, caressing, kissing, and making sheep's eyes at the two young men—Jim approached his daughters in their bedroom with some embarrassment.
Camilla inadvertently stumbled upon the issue in question by saying, "Dad, what the hell's gotten into Mom?"
Jim didn't need her to elaborate. "Um, that's what I came to talk to you about."
"You guys doing okay?" she asked sharply.
"Oh, we're fine. But, you know, after being married for twenty-three years things get a little stale."
"I suppose. Can't imagine being married that long."
"Look, it's not as if we're going to split up or anything. It's just that, after all this time, I think your mother is looking for just a bit more—excitement."
"In what way, Dad?" Naomi said hesitantly, although even she seemed to have an inkling of the answer, as Camilla certainly did.
"Well," Jim went on with obvious discomfort, "having these two strapping young men in the house has made her realize that she's always had certain—well, shall we say, desires . . ."
"You mean fantasies," Camilla said bluntly.
Jim blushed. "I guess you could say that."
"And exactly what do these fantasies consist of?"
"I think you know."
"She wants one of our guys?" Camilla said almost accusingly. "Which one?"
"Both of them," Dad whispered.
Camilla reeled almost as if she'd been hit. "You gotta be kidding me! Are you telling me she wants—"
"I believe the correct term," Jim said pedantically, "is double penetration."
"Holy smokes!" Camilla said, while Naomi's jaw dropped. "Has she done that before?"
"Of course not," Jim said. "That's why it's a fantasy."
"But she wants it now."
"I guess she figures there's never been a better opportunity for it."
"She has a point, Camilla," Naomi added softly.
Camilla ignored that. "Dad, I don't think Mom understands what she's getting into—or, I should say, what's getting into her!" she said with a coarse guffaw. "I mean, it takes a bit more effort than she may realize."
Jim's eyes widened. "You mean you—you've done it?"
"Of course," Camilla said blandly.
"With the two boys?"
"Yup."
And with others too—
but Camilla thought it best not to go into that.
"I have too, Dad!" Naomi said enthusiastically, then immediately turned crimson.
Jim looked at his two daughters as if they were escapees from Sodom and Gomorrah. "I don't believe it."
"Dad," Camilla said, "we're together constantly. What do you think's gonna happen? Anyway, that's not the point. I'm sure our guys will be game, but—"
"How do you know that?" Jim interjected.
Camilla looked at him as if he were some kind of moron. "Dad, they're guys. And Mom's pretty damn good-looking—for an older woman."
"For
any
woman!" Naomi added out of loyalty.
"Okay, okay, she's a hot little item," Camilla admitted grudgingly. Then, fully descending into vulgarity, she grabbed her own breasts and said, "Not so little, either!" (Natalie's bosom was a bit ampler than even Camilla's, and substantially more so than Naomi's.)
"Camilla, please!" Naomi cried. "How disrespectful! This is your mom you're talking about."
"I'm just teasing. Anyway, the boys will be happy to oblige. But Dad, I have to ask something."
"Yes?" Jim said, as if fearful of what the question would be.
"Has she, um, taken it up the ass?"
Jim turned an even deeper shade of crimson. "Yes."
"She has?" Camilla said, somewhat surprised. "You?"
"Yes, me."
"Good for you!"
"And—and there've been others."
"You mean before you."
"Of course! Your mother's never been unfaithful to me."
"And I hope you haven't strayed either."
"Never!"
"That's good. Well, I think this'll work. How about tonight?"
"That soon?" Jim said, suddenly alarmed.
"Sure, no time like the present. You go talk to her, and I'll talk to the boys." Camilla eyed her dad keenly. "You don't wanna watch, or anything like that?"
"Heavens, no!" Jim cried. Actually he did, but was certain his wife wouldn't let him.
"Okay, fine. Then it's settled."
Jim walked out of his daughters' bedroom like a zombie. He really couldn't believe this utterly immoral act was actually going to happen. Maybe Natalie really wanted it to remain just a fantasy, and didn't envision it actually becoming a reality. He glided over to her, puttering in the kitchen, and raised the subject.
"Natalie, dear," he said, placing an arm gently around her waist as she tidied up some dishes in the sink, "you know that thing you were talking about?"
"What thing was that, dear?" she said with little interest.
"You know—the boys . . . and you."
Natalie stiffened. Gazing straight ahead out a little window above the sink, she said in a shaky voice, "Y-yes?"