Chapter 4 -- A Larger Circle
I didn't say anything about my supposition that Ryan and Penny were siblings.
Instead, I helped Anna prepare breakfast for us and our guests. We were all naked, and I must say also aroused. Marie teased her partner -- her brother -- because his hard-on refused to soften.
After we'd cleared the dishes and were lingering over cups of coffee, I went to the television and connected my cellphone. I scrolled through the pictures we'd taken the day before until I found one with Ryan and Penny. They were lying back in the shade of our large beach umbrella. Neither wore their usual sunglasses, and their expressions were pretty neutral.
I turned to Anna, Marie, and Dave. "Take a look at this picture. What do you see?"
Marie chuckled, "Why it's Ryan and Penny, of course."
"Look closer. What do you really see?"
I used my fingers to blow up the image so only their faces showed on the large screen TV. Ryan and Penny had the same shaped eyes, the same color, their hair was close in color, their chins were distinctive, the trace of some dimples, the shape of their noses, the cheek structures, and the jawlines were all the same.
Dave gasped, "Oh, my God. I see what you mean!"
Anna said, "What? What am I missing?"
Marie said with excitement, "They're brother and sister, or closely related. They're just like the rest of us. No wonder they like us so much. Whether they know it or not, we're all alike."
Dave said, "We should get them over here right now. We have got to talk about this with all of us present."
Anna called Penny. I heard her explaining that Marie and Dave had stayed overnight, and that we wanted them with us that day. Her telltale sentence was, 'We have something to talk to you about.'
I guess getting them to come over was easy, because twenty minutes later the missing couple knocked on our apartment door. Marie answered the door -- still naked.
Ryan laughed, "Oh, I guess the party from yesterday is still going on." The four of us nodded.
Penny and Ryan were served coffee after they, too, joined the nudity that was prevalent in the apartment. Dave and I were horny for Penny almost immediately.
Penny said, "What's up? Anna, you said you needed to talk to us about something."
Anna grinned broadly and held her coffee mug in the air in a toast. "First off, we wanted to acknowledge the close family relationship that you and Ryan share."
Dave, Marie, and I went, "Hear, hear," as part of the toast and we all drank with our coffee as we looked at the pair.
The blood had drained from Ryan and Penny's faces. Ryan stammered, "Errr... what do you mean? That's not..."
I interrupted. "What we are pretty sure we have in this room right now are THREE brother-sister couples -- couples that are deeply in love with each other, but also willing to expand that love to include other people."
The room was silent for over a minute as we all looked at each other. Ryan and Penny carefully examined Anna and me, and Marie and Dave.
Ryan said, "Holy shit. I didn't see it until now. You're serious."