Steven
Arguing with Ashleigh was like arguing with myself, both our minds made from what Walton had contributed, and it was as irritating as it was strange. A sour mood stayed with me the entire way back to the house and up to my apartment. Grabbing a shirt and a beer, I sat at the computer and started looking up the list of pharmaceuticals from Ashleigh's sickbay to get my mind off things.
Almost two hours later, I still hadn't finished when I got up to stretch, wondering if Mum was back from wherever. My mood had lightened, my curiosity tickled by the manifest which included such potent painkillers as
Morphine
and
Oxycontin
, antipsychotics like
Olanzapine
and
Clonazepam.
My mind revisited the conversation with Ashleigh at the pool as I found myself leaving my apartment.
"You have to go along with her," I advised under my breath.
"I know. Shut up."
Mum's door was unlocked, meaning she was finally back, so I went right in, wishing I'd grabbed something to drink before I left my place. Walking into her living room, I was greeted by Mum leaning against her kitchenette counter, legs spread, panties around one high heeled ankle while she held her skirt up so Kitten could suck and lick between her legs. The younger woman's hands were on Mum's ass, her eyes closed as she went to town, making her namesake moan deliriously until she saw me standing there.
"Oh my god! Oh shhh-!" Mum started, pulling her skirt down over Kitten's head as if to hide what was happening there while her mouth gaped at me.
I was gaping as well. I didn't know what to say as I watched Kitten, on her knees in front of my mother, slowly duck out from under her skirt. Her mouth and cheeks were soaked and it looked like Mum had already orgasmed at least once. After a rather longish, awkward pause where I stared aghast at them, they at me, she cleared her throat and spoke in her girlish voice, so much like Marie's, without looking at my face.
"Uhh... I should probably go."
"(Ahem)" Mum uncomfortably expressed, adding, "I'll catch up later."
Kitten nodded and scurried around me, gone out the door two seconds later to leave Mum and I staring at each other. She'd let her skirt fall back down and had stepped out of her underwear.
"You knew I liked her," she said a bit defensively. "If you have a problem with it, I'm sorry, but you know how we are and you'll have to accept it."
" ... Fine."
It was anything but fine. She'd mostly recovered herself at this point and came sashaying over the way she does when she's horny, stopping less than a foot away to face me before speaking with a soft, but firm tone.
"Is it? You want her too. I know you do."
"Don't."
"It's true."
"Can you not just... try to act normal? Just while we're here? We made a deal, you and I, remember? Remember the last hurrah with the Driscolls?"
"First, I am acting 'normal', and second... this is different. Very different."
"You always say that. You always
will
say that."
"You wanna fuck her sooo baaad," she whispered, pressing against me, grinding my stiffening cock between us as she grabbed my chin, forcing a face to face. "Look me in the eyes, sweetie pie. It's okay."
Token resistance on my part led to her trying to use more force. I reacted by almost violently pushing her away from me and, without looking at her, strode quickly out of the room. She called after me once. There was this note of surprise in her voice and maybe that's what made her tone seem so pleading. Whatever it was, ignoring her then was one of the hardest things I've ever done.
I didn't go back to my apartment, rather kept walking pointedly down the hall towards no destination. I was drunk with desire, the excitement I denied at seeing them together. My dick demanded I go back, but I was mad at my mother for messing with Kitten and for trying to nudge me.
Eventually, after a servant brought me a drink, I found myself vaguely, almost subconsciously pondering the four disturbingly dark, seasonal paintings in the main hall again. I was mostly thinking about Mum and Kitten, feeling let down by them both. I know that sounds stupid after all that had happened up to that point, but there it is. My mind wasn't even half on the leering, evil face in the springtime field, rather my eyes were taking it in without opinion beyond its unsettling nature.
Kitten
"Slutty, are you listening to me?"
I wasn't. Mind you, I was trying, but I couldn't get my shocking words to Steven out of my mind, or the fact that I knew them to be true "Yes, I'm listening."
"It shouldn't have happened."
"What was so bad about it?"
"It was cheating! Why did you... Why did you do that?"
"I just got her to strip for us, you did what you wanted, remember?"
" ... I was- that's not the point, I'm saying it shouldn't have happened!"
"Okay, Gina, don't get excited."
"You don't understand..."
"What don't I understand?" I asked, paying proper attention now. "So you messed around a little with Lynette, so what? No harm done."
Instead of answering, she almost whipped her body out of the chair and paced quickly away to the bathroom. I sighed, looking after her and waited a few minutes before it was clear I'd have to go in after her.
I stopped to mix a drink first.
Still in her red, satin nightgown, she was sitting on the edge of the huge tub regarding the floor as though the pattern in the stone tiles could change for the worse at any second. She looked up at me, eyes distracted by my drink before settling on my face.
"Are you okay?" I asked carefully.
"I regret what happened. Yes, I wanted to... She's very beautiful, but I can't believe it went so far. The way I felt... I just don't understand how I could've let things get that far."
Settling beside her, I put my other arm around her shoulders and held her while I tried to think of something to tell her. The problem was that I loved what happened, whatever it was, and had no regrets over my part in it. The thought of just leaving her there, imagining what all would happen was such a turn on for me and it still was as I sat there with her, but it wasn't just about me. It was like a little gift for her, and I thought she should enjoy it. Yes, it was technically cheating, but it somehow didn't seem that way to me.
"Gina, nobody's blaming you and nobody thinks any less of you, myself included. You obviously enjoyed yourself, and what of it? Leave it at that."
"I can't- Kat, I'm afraid it's just not that simple. Oh my god, I keep remembering how one of the groundskeepers happened by and just stopped... watching. How embarrassing!"
"You have nothing to be embarrassed about," I told her as this bit of information titillated me.
She shook her head, but not in agreement, more dismissal of my efforts before speaking again.
"I think we should leave."
" ... Wh- wait, we agreed on two-"
"Now. Like, pack our things and just go."
"What? And not even say goodbye? That would be rude," I countered.