My I/T entry for the 2019 Summer Lovin' competition.
Thanks to Rugersp101 for the idea.
And a big thanks to ChloeTzang for letting Trixie come out to play.
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"Kids! I'm home! Can you give me a hand please?"
Carol really didn't expect a response from her twins. It was summer holidays, it was hot, they had a pool, and they were still only just teenagers. A couple of months away from their 20th birthdays, but still teens. She shook her head in disbelief. God, where did the time go? She struggled into the kitchen with the bags of shopping and dropped them on the bench. "Alexa, play some summer music." The Beach Boys started singing about Kokomo. Carol sighed. She could do with a cocktail, maybe with a side serve of a hunk like Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher tall from the novel - not the movie sized Tom Cruise version.
"Adam? Sharon?" No answer. They'd be out the back lazing around the pool like normal kids. She snorted. Probably thinking of a new competition to prove who was the best between them. The competitive streak ran deep in them. Just like their dad.
Carol had a quick look out the kitchen window down to the pool. Yep, the kids were there. Her beautiful, tall, reed-thin, dark-haired mistakes. Right on cue, her smart speaker started playing Smokie's "Oh Carol". She growled and yelled "Alexa! Shut the fuck up!" Alexa shut up. She used to like Smokie nearly twenty years ago, but a couple of lines hit very close to home. "Did it with style" her arse...
She met the kids' father, Wayne, at a soccer competition where they were introduced by mutual friends. She was impressed by his tall rugged good looks, sharp wit, and phenomenal ball skills. Unfortunately, she went pear-shaped from that first meeting. That didn't impress anyone. His family insisted that the good Catholic boy from the bush had to marry his new sweetheart, and that was that. He gave the impression he was a happy family man, but he held a grudge tightly against everyone for being forced to marry someone he really didn't care for. As soon as the kids had turned eighteen, he was off snooping around for fresh young tail. Carol sniffed. Well, the Karma bus literally did a number on the cheating shit.
Three stories down from the kitchen was the pool. The house didn't really look that big, but it was built on a steep block of land that had a fantastic view over the valley. Wayne wanted a house that really made an impression on his clients. You drove into the top area looking at a respectable single-story stone-clad building, but you were quickly whisked out to the rear deck by him. You then noticed the rest of the house cascading down the mountain, finishing with an inground pool and entertainment area set well away from the house. Wayne had loved it. Carol hated it. She was the one that had to lug everything up and down the stairs. Wayne was always going to put in a dumb waiter but, like a lot of his ideas, he got sidetracked onto newer and prettier things.
She stopped packing the groceries away and made a cold drink. She looked out the window again and smiled. Ad had his red budgie smugglers on, and Shaz was wearing a similarly small red bikini. The laughter from both kids as they played rolled through the open window. Ad was lying on a towel and Shaz sitting on his legs tickling him. Ad was squirming around, trying to toss Shaz off by bucking his hips. Shaz was trying to stay on by leaning back out of his reach and holding his legs just above his knees - a known ticklish spot on both kids. Carol finished her drink and went back to her work.
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Adam and Sharon always had fun together. The two were inseparable friends and inseparable in looks. Dressed as they were by the pool, it was obvious who was who but when they wore the same clothes it was bloody difficult to pick them apart. They loved that and created havoc by swapping themselves in their soccer matches. Nobody could figure out how one kid could play so hard for one half and then come back in the second like nothing happened...
The interesting thing was that they were identical in more than looks. The same personalities, the same interests, the same intelligence, and one more thing. Someone forgot to flick one of the gene switches when Sharon was created, and both kids loved girls. That was an interesting competition topic, which Sharon rarely won. And she hated that.
Sharon had always liked girls, which had gone down really well with her dad. He had ignored the blatantly obvious signs his daughter was gay and just revelled in the fact she showed no interest in guys. Carol knew and quietly told Shaz not to explicitly tell her dad of her feelings. He was a fairly tolerant man, but there were some things he just couldn't get past.