Maria Jimenez awoke with a start at the sound of her phone ringing. She saw the time, half past nine, before she picked up the phone thinking it would be one of her daughters. But she saw the caller I. D. and realized it was her sister Sally. She hit the phone's send button and said, "
Mi, hermanita
. What's going on?"
"
Nada
, sis.
Nada
. I'm going to Mexico tomorrow for a few days and probably won't be able to call until after New Years. So. Happy New Year a couple of days early."
"Thanks, baby sister," Maria said. "Happy New Year to you too."
"For the millionth time, will you can that baby sister shit. We're twins."
Maria laughed, "I'm still three minutes older than you are."
"Whatever," Sally said. "How's your husband and my nieces, not to mention my beautiful grandniece?"
"Tom is Tom. He's probably either over at Joe's or watching an old Clint Eastwood movie. Of course it's after nine, so he's actually probably passed out in his recliner while an old Clint Eastwood movie plays."
Sally laughed this time, "Don't you know what he's doing?"
"No. I'm at Lindsey's house staying with Diana. Lindsey is in Pasadena and Katie decided that her big sister was having all the fun without her, so she flew out there this afternoon."
"What's Lindsey doing in Pasadena?"
"The Rose Parade," Maria said. "She's chaperoning the band. I guess they won some kind of contest to be able to go be in the parade."
"Awesome. And Grandma gets to take care of Diana. Poor you."
"Yeah," Maria said between chuckles. "Katie was supposed to be taking care of her, but Lindsey called her this morning and Katie suddenly decided that she just had to go. Must be nice to have no job. Just pick up and take the fuck off whenever she wants."
"I thought she was tending bar somewhere."
"She has a college degree. Pouring drinks is
not
a job."
"Well, if her daddy would stop giving her money, maybe she'd get a job."
"I realize that, Sally. Her daddy is the one that gives her the money. Not me."
"Oops," Sally said. "There's way too much tension here. Did she get out there okay?"
"I don't know," Maria said as she checked the call history on her phone. "I thought it was probably her calling when I picked up the phone for your call. I've got a call from her, but I didn't have a missed call message."
"Diana probably picked it up while you were napping."
"Who said I was napping?"
"Well unless you were masturbating, what else is there to do by yourself? Unless Diana is awake of course."
"No," Maria said as she wandered to Diana's room. "I'm watching her sleep like the gorgeous little angel that she is."
"Well," Sally said. "I'll let you get back to your masturbating."
"Sally. I wasn't masturbating."
"Yeah. Sure.
Adios, mi hermana
."
"
Si. Adios
."
Masturbating indeed
, Maria thought as she clicked the phone's off button
. Of course that's not really a bad idea. It's not as if I'm any more likely to get laid any time soon. 2012 isn't likely to be any better than 2011 was.
She began to rummage through Lindsey's things looking for her daughter's vibrator.
What the fuck am I doing? I'm going back to bed.
Before she turned for the bed, she noticed the picture that had turned over on Lindsey's dresser and picked it up. It was the one taken the last time she and the girls went to Miami. All three in bikinis. The two daughters nearly enough alike to be twins. Mom enough like the daughters to be mistaken for a slightly older sister. All three right at five feet three inches tall. Lindsey was the skinny one. She only weighed around 115, and that was when she was bloated from her monthly visitor. Maria and Katie were only a little heavier. Both going around 120, maybe 125. All three had nice flat tummies, and it was on that very trip that the girls had gotten Maria drunk and convinced her to pierce her navel and buy the three of them matching gold hoops to wear through their bellybuttons. Lindsey's hips were a bit slimmer and didn't flare out quite as much, but all three had super tight, perfectly round asses. Lindsey and Katie's hair both fell straight down their backs. Dark brown. Such a dark brown that it was only when the sunlight hit their hair perfectly that it was apparent that their hair wasn't black. Maria on the other hand had pitch black hair with streaks of grey that was cut just below her shoulders. All three deeply bronzed from the week spent in the Miami sunshine. Maria and Lindsey both had nicely shaped champagne glass breasts that fit comfortably in the B cup bikini tops they wore. Katie's on the other hand were about to pop out of the C cup she was wearing. Maria sighed.
Damn, me and my daughters are three hot looking bitches. Why the fuck can't I get laid?
*
Mark Foster laid his visa card on the table for the pretty little blonde waitress to pick up. His Helicopter squadron had flown back a day early from their ship's return, and he'd taken his crew out to Whiskey River to celebrate. He'd balked a little bit at the crew's choice of Whiskey River, but to the man, and one woman, they all knew his sister in law tended bar there; and all, even the one woman, wanted to see her in the skin tight jeans and little white tank top that she wore whenever she worked.
A couple of the guys, primarily his co-pilot Jeff Sinclair, even knew that Mark himself had a big crush on Katie Jimenez. Since she'd moved into the house with Lindsey and him, she'd forever been walking around in just her panties and one of those little white tank tops. Sometimes she didn't even bother with the little white tank top. Once, he'd come home unexpectedly and found her and her friend Amanda sitting completely naked on his living room sofa. Katie had quickly placed a newspaper over the lines of white powder spread out on the coffee table, but had made no attempt to cover her nudity while she asked him how his day had been.
He had immediately excused himself and gone to his shower and masturbated. Once out of the shower, he'd had to brace himself before going back into the living room. To his relief neither Katie nor Amanda were there, and he could hear them splashing around in the pool in his backyard. The newspaper was laying on the floor now and the lines of white powder were gone from the glass table top, with only a slight trace of residue remaining. He'd just sighed at the time and had known how useless talking about it to Lindsey would be. She was an even bigger enabler for her little sister than her dad was, and as long as Katie was
again