Story so far: Two days before his sister's wedding, Paul awakens to find all the women in his family transformed into hyper-sexualized versions of themselves. The whole family seems to be living a waking fantasy. Paul and his older brother had sex with their cousin, and then Paul had sex with his mother. At the family barbeque, he and his younger brother discuss the situation, and recount their respective exploits with the women of the family. Contains elements of sci-fi/fantasy, incest/taboo and group sex.
Essential Dramatis Personae:
Paul: Narrator. 26-year-old graduate student. Second of four children.
Anthony. 28-year-old civil servant. Oldest of four children.
Ted. 24-year-old lieutenant in the US Army. Youngest brother.
Cassie. 22-year-old private in US Army. Youngest child. Getting married in two days.
Elaine. 55-year-old housewife. Mother of the bride.
Austin. 60-year-old attorney. Father of the bride.
Bridget. 27-year-old attorney. Cousin of the bride (mother's side). Only child.
Liz. 52-year-old teacher. Aunt of the bride (mother's side). Widow. Elaine's sister.
Allie. 56-year-old housewife. Aunt of the bride (father's side). Austin's sister.
Jake. 25-year-old publishing assistant. Cousin of the bride (father's side). Older of two.
Mark. 19-year-old student. Cousin of the bride (father's side). Younger of two.
Mack. 58-year-old financial consultant. Uncle of the bride (father's side).
Chapter Four
Despite having started drinking early in the day and not stopped drinking until late at night, I woke up the next morning just before nine. Normally I'd sleep off a night like that, not rolling out of bed before noon if I could help it. As it was, my mother wanted the boys up no later than eleven, as we were going over to the civic center to decorate today and my sister would be busy with the bridal shower. I suppose I woke up early because the fantasy-made-real bubble that had surrounded my family troubled me. At least, that's what I preferred to believe, because that would be quite reasonable.
But I rather suspected the real reason I woke up early was because, with how late we'd all been drinking, I figured I'd be the first boy awake and I'd have some of the women all to myself for a few hours. My sister had wound up spending the night at Jason's, and if Bridget was not already in Anthony's room, she'd probably go there first thing when she awoke.
But that still left the opportunity for me to be alone with my mother and my aunt, the same as yesterday morning. Only for longer, and now knowing what was going on with the fantasy state. Well, I didn't know what was going on exactly, but yesterday I had just stared dumbfounded at the sexy women of my family, wondering if they noticed me staring. This morning, there was no reason to stop at staring, provided we really were the only ones around.
I grabbed a quick shower, aware that, with any luck, I'd need another one relatively soon. Then I went down to the kitchen, hoping to find a similar scene to the one from the previous morning, with my aunt and mother replaced by over-sexualized versions of themselves and no one else around.
I was not disappointed.
Not expecting anyone to be up this early, my mother hadn't yet started breakfast. She and my aunt sat at the kitchen table, each wearing a skimpy negligee and drinking coffee.
"-sorry Bridget and I kept him up past his bedtime. I hope you don't mind," Aunt Liz was saying as I walked in.
"No, that's fine. Kept him off me for a change. When he drinks he's either insatiable or incoherent, and there's no telling ahead of time which it will be. Besides, I made sure I was taken care of good and well yesterday anyway," my mom said. Then she noticed Aunt Liz looking up, and she cut short whatever else she was going to add. "Oh, good morning, honey. We were just talking about you. I'm surprised to see you up this early."
I had another of those moments where I almost thought everything was normal again, where I didn't remember that yesterday my older brother and I had sandwiched my cousin and I had taken my mother forcefully from behind. I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes, trying to figure out why I thought I knew what they were talking about.
Then it all came back. Mom was telling Aunt Liz that we'd fucked yesterday. And by the sound of it, Aunt Liz and her daughter had double-teamed my father last night, which didn't bother mom in the slightest.
So that was it. There wasn't one member of the family that hadn't committed incest yesterday. My younger brother had gotten blowjobs from Aunt Liz and our sister, Cassie. My older brother and I had double-penetrated our cousin, Bridget, who then had a threesome with her mother and my father. And I had fucked the hell out of my mother.
What had caused this strange, surreal state? I didn't know. Ted, my younger brother, thought it was simply because my sister was getting married, and letting go of one of the women in our family had created an atmosphere thick with tension, much of it sexual. That didn't quite satisfy me, scientist that I was, by way of an explanation. And as much as I was enjoying the amazing, uninhibited, utterly depraved sex, part of me needed to figure it out.
Later.
"I couldn't get back to sleep, I guess. Is anyone else up?" I asked.
"Just your father. He slept a bit late, for him, but he left about twenty minutes ago to take Jason and his father out to play golf. Apparently they arranged this last night." My mom didn't bother hiding what she thought of that.
"That's okay. The boys can manage the decorating without him," I said.
"I'm sure you can. And I suppose it is important for him to bond with our future son-in-law. But I can't help wishing they'd either chosen a better time, or at least planned this in advance so I'd have known about it," my mother said. Considering that she was essentially planning the wedding by herself, only recently getting some much needed help from Aunt Liz, it was perhaps understandable that any unforeseen change in plans, whether it actually complicated things or not, would throw her for a loop.
Which certainly made you wonder how she felt about the sex craze that had overtaken our family. But apparently it had overtaken her every bit as strongly as the rest of us, preventing her from seeing it as an unwanted interruption in her careful plans.
"You sure we shouldn't be worried about the three of you being alone for a few hours? There won't be any fighting?" Aunt Liz asked. "With all the peacemakers at the bridal shower, you boys won't have anyone to put the band-aids on afterwards."
I laughed. There had been plenty of that when we were younger. And into our teens, perhaps unlike some families. Anthony had a way of getting under everyone's skin, especially Ted's. And I, being the would-be noble guy that I am, was always there to pick a fight with Anthony on Ted's behalf when he was too small to defend himself. But we hadn't had a fight that came to blows in years, though we certainly still had plenty of heated arguments. "We'll manage, somehow or other."
Here we were, talking about the family as though everything were normal. Why does Anthony have to instigate. Why can't his brothers learn to block it out. Who's going to be where, when, to make sure everything that needs done gets done. Absolutely no acknowledgment of the fact that my mother and aunt were not wearing their natural bodies, or that they'd just been casually discussing incest.
"You'd better, because the shower's liable to run long. I decided to buy some party favors yesterday when we were out," Aunt Liz said. A mischievous grin spread across her face. I didn't need her to explain what king of party favors she was talking about.
It sounded like the bridal shower was rapidly turning into a bachelorette party, which was pretty ironic since my sister had canceled the best man's plans to throw Jason a bachelor party tonight. In fairness, she was being deployed immediately after the honeymoon, and had only come home a few days ago, so her objection to the party had more to do with wanting to spend every possible minute with Jason more so than disapproving of bachelor parties in general. All the same, Jason was going to have to behave himself tonight, while my sister was privately fooling around with her family members and apparently openly having a risqué shower.
"I'm still expecting you guys to wrap up by dinner time," my mom said. "Even if we're late joining you."
"Or don't ever make it," Aunt Liz said, again with a grin.