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SECRET NO LONGER
Chapter 12
Three Plus One Makes Four
With the dawn, the naysayers of my mind had once again been driven to retreat, back to that rickety closet into where all sensibilities had been incarcerated for this time of decadence. One day passed with no particularly noteworthy events, and then another, and my mind had settled back to its normal version of our shared abnormality. I was glad that summer vacation had arrived; Jason was home a lot more.
The following Thursday, early in the afternoon, he arrived home, accompanied by Timmy and Carla, who, you'll recall, was now his girlfriend. They were in rather high spirits as they tossed some music (tenuously worthy of the name at best) and started into that spastic gyration stuff they call dancing. To me it seemed silly to call it that, but aside from what it was called, it was sexy, in a rather blunt, vulgar way. Not that I objected; their rubbing and grinding was getting them steamed up, and I was far from insenstitive myself, even just watching.
I had my own things to do. Eventually, though, I headed back toward my room. I heard laughter, but along with it, some decidedly provocative noises. I peeked into the open door and saw just what I expected to see: the three of them in the early stages of some seriously fun sex. They had respectfully asked of me and I had granted my approval here of the practice common in Carla and Timmy's household of leaving the door open as both a statement of philosophical openness, and also to allow other residents, which of course meant me, to look in if we liked.
Already, I liked. I had been intrigued, you'll recall, with Jason's short-form description of their first
mΓ©nage Γ trois
; now I'd get a chance to see another performance. True, I couldn't dive in and turn the
trois
into
quatre,
but it would be a thrill just to watch a bit of it. I would have to dress for the occasion, though. Why not?
I reached my bedroom and decided to put off the little chore that had drawn me there for later. Instead, I changed into my tight jeans, the ones voted second-most-sexy on me by the men in my life, after those black slacks you've heard about. Following that I donned a wispy little top, with T-shirt-like material, but of the thinnest, clingiest kind. It had some cute, frillly embroidered flowers on it, but far, far removed from where they could interfere with the view of the main subjects, pressing proudly, as they soon would, against the fabric, nipples at the fore, tender flesh actually barely visible through it.
I headed back to the room and poked my head in. After all, part of the code was that an open door is a tacit invitation.
"Uh... What's that you're doing?" I asked in a comically stupid voice.
"She's forgotten, can you believe it?" Jason said to the others, "Maybe she needs a refresher course."
"No, no, kids; you just carry on by yourselves. The most I'll do is watch a little. You won't mind that, will you?"
"Actually, we were hoping you'd do that," Timmy said, sweetly, "We'd enjoy your esteemed presence, if nothing else."
"Thank you, I just might take you up on your kind invitation in a little while."
The way I was dressed stated my interest all by itself, so this was really more friendly banter than anything else. I went off to do a little bit of necessary not-very-much, and after a while, made my way back to their room.
They were quite a bit further along by then. Carla was now dressed only in panties; Jason was completely naked, and Timmy was in the process of getting out of his trousers.
"Hello again, folks!" said I, walking in and grabbing a chair, "Is this the hundred-dollar-a-ticket section?"