2 comments/ 70080 views/ 2 favorites Side by Side By: NakedHiker I had known Lisa and Pete for years, seeing them at nudist events, and had spent much time enjoying their company and the incredible pot that they always brought. But I was taken by surprise when Pete suggested that Erin and I join them for some side-by-side lovemaking. He said that Lisa would really enjoy it, but I think it was really Pete who wanted to do it. I guess the attraction is obvious – Lisa and Pete have been removing their pubic hair for years, and Erin and I are similarly hairless. Clearly we all share the turn-on that a clear view of genitals provides. Neither Lisa nor Pete ever seemed shy when my gaze lingered a bit too long, either on Pete's hefty cock or Lisa's juicy pussy. But now I was really excited looking forward to seeing them in action. When I asked Erin afterwards, she said that she was very interested too. This was Erin's first nudist event, and she was having a great time, making lots of friends. That was, of course, when Erin and I weren't in the room, fucking like monkeys! I just can't keep away from her beautiful waxed pussy, her smallish (but perfectly sized for me) breasts with wonderfully responsive nipples, and the rest of her luscious body. So it seemed that all of us were looking forward to the encounter. After the dance, we ran into Pete and Lisa at the afterparty, when Pete suggested that the four of us go off. Given a choice between the regular party and our "special" party, the four of us immediately made a beeline to our room. Pete brought his camera, and I pulled out mine, and the two ladies posed on the bed. Since we were all naked, no undressing was necessary. Pete directed their poses, starting with a couple of relatively modest poses, and then to spread their legs a little. Their pussies were so different – Erin's, which I know so well, features short inner lips and a tiny, shy clit. Lisa's was so different, with long inner lips, and a clit that was already starting to poke its way out. We took a few pictures of the two of them, when Pete suggested that we get a picture of the four of us showing off how hairless we were. So we moved to the other bed while Pete set the timer on his camera. The first shot was pretty good, showing both girls' naked pussies, and our half-hard cocks, but cutting off our heads – whoops! The second one had all of us, except that we had silly expressions on our faces. We really should have taken another one, but by this time we were too horny to take the time – I just couldn't keep my hands off of Erin. Erin lay down on the bed, and I squeezed in next to her, and gave her a kiss. And then another. Her mouth opened to receive my tongue. Pete took his camera and took pictures of us kissing. I let one hand stray to Erin's right breast. Her nipple hardened in reaction to my touch. I brought my face down to gently lick that nipple. Erin started making her happy noises. Pete kept snapping pictures. Erin's hand reached for my cock and started stroking. Then squeezing. I was busy licking Erin's nipples, first one, and then the other. I moved my body down the bed so I could get between her legs. Her hairless pussy opened up for me. I ran my tongue up one of her lips and down the other. Then I went for right for her pretty clit, and licked her from front to back. It swelled as I licked it. I progressed to linking circles around it. Erin was starting to move her hips. Pete kept snapping pictures. I pulled my head back, barely touching Erin's clit with my tongue, so Pete could get a good shot. As this was going on, Lisa was sitting on the bed giving Pete a blowjob, and as far as I could tell, it was a great one. Pete was getting harder. Interestingly enough, he only got a little bigger when he got hard, so we're close to the same length. The blowjob inspired me to walk around the bed to the side, and offer Erin my cock. She eagerly took me into her mouth, and started doing wonderful things with her tongue. Pete was taking pictures all the while, some with me fully in her mouth, and some with me withdrawing and just touching her lips or her tongue. In no time at all, I was hard as a rock. So I walked around the bed again and got on top of Erin, between her legs. Conventional as it is, we both love the missionary position, and decided to start that way. I think what I like about it is that I can look at her face while fucking, or kiss her, or lick her breasts. We were doing slow thrusts when Lisa lay down next to Erin, and Pete climbed on top of her. It was pretty crowded on the bed, but we didn't mind, it was so sexy making love next to each other. I could feel Lisa's hand against my thigh, and Erin's hand was against Pete's. I stopped thrusting, and took my left hand on Lisa's breast. Her breasts were similar to Erin's, but her nipples were so different. Lisa's nipples were extra large, but they didn't get hard – they stayed soft and squishy, around the consistency of labia. Pete was fingering Erin's breast while I did this, so I went one step further and took a light lick of Lisa's nipple. It was wonderful to have my dick in Erin's pussy and to be licking Lisa's nipple. Pete lowered his head and licked Lisa's other nipple. I decided to pay a little more attention to Erin, and resumed the in-and-out motion. Pete reached his head over and started licking Erin's nipple just like I had been licking Lisa's. The rest of the evening was a hodge-podge of different positions, picture taking, and hot fucking and sucking. We never switched partners, but there was tons of reaching, fingering, and licking. Erin got to taste Lisa's nipples, and vice-versa. Erin likes ass play, and she played with everyone's asshole – mine, Pete's and Lisa's. At some point, I stuck my hand between Pete and Lisa and was rubbing her pretty clit, and feeling the harness of Pete's shaft as he pumped in and out. Later, Pete did the same with Erin's clit. At one point, Erin was licking me again, and Pete was fingering her pussy. At one point, I was lying on my back, with Erin riding my cock, and Lisa was lying on her back in the opposite direction, with Pete astride her. Lisa's pretty foot was just inches from my face, so I decided to go for it and planted a kiss on her foot. She didn't pull away, so I pulled her foot to my lips and started licking her sweet toes. She responded by grabbing my foot, which was by her face, and caressing it. I was in heaven! We finally finished, and took a shower. We've since had a chance to look at the pictures, and they're really hot! And Pete has been keeping in touch and wants to swap more pictures, so I figure there's lots more fun in the future for us. Maybe someday I'll get to lick Lisa's pretty pussy ... Side By Side (c) 2009 Karen Kraft All Rights Reserved The twins, Jane and June, were close. Very close. They had been since birth, or more accurately, since conception. Neither had any secrets she kept from the other, and they shared everything. Jane and June were symmetric dicephalic parapagus conjoined twins. Two otherwise normal lives were being led with surprising ease considering the fact that, but for each having her own head, they shared one body. Necessity required a great deal of cooperation between them and their occasional arguments were few and mostly trivial. Two people sharing the same body may have seemed strange to others, but to Jane and June, it was not that big a deal. They shared the same friends, although some people tended to relate to Jane more than June while others felt the opposite way. Theirs was a top-down relationship. Having two heads, two minds, two preferences for food, music, art, movies, etc., posed little more of a problem for Jane and June than it would for any other twins sharing nothing more than a car and a bedroom. From the neck down, their individualities merged. Below the neck, they had but one body – they were one "person". Jane loved to drink large quantities of beer while June preferred nothing more than an occasional glass of wine with dinner. The problem was that whenever Jane would drink too much or take a lot of recreational drugs, both of them suffered the resulting physical consequences as those substances coursed through the shared portions of their circulatory systems. This was resolved by a moderation agreement similar to the one the twins reached when June's overeating had resulted in both the girls gaining too much weight. At 22, Jane and June received their respective bachelors degrees in American history and American literature. Although they had had numerous conversations on the topic, it was only after they finished college that they finally agreed that teaching would be their joint life vocations. Just as people with speech impediments often work very hard to overcome that challenge, to the point where they become radio and television personalities, the twins instinctively knew that their bizarre appearance, if allowed to control their lives, would isolate them from the rest of the world. Being outgoing and brave, they determined that teaching high school would nip in the bud any thoughts of hiding from public view. Unlike adults who might look away or avoid the spectacle they presented, high school students, they knew, would dive right in with interest, excitement, and enthusiastic questions. The twins taught at one of Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) larger high schools. Jane and June did not consider themselves "disabled", and expected no special treatment not enjoyed by the other teachers. The only exception the personnel department at the public school district had to make involved the full-time-employee status of the twins. If every teacher had to teach a certain number of courses, as a practical necessity the twins would be working more than forty hours per week. Since Jane and June refused to be classified as part time employees, it was eventually resolved that each would receive a full-time pay check although each only taught half of the time while auditing the other's classes the other half. This solution did not come easily, however. Their case went all the way up to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who was still undecided on the matter when the Governor called to advise her that the teacher's union, having learned that they would be paid two full-time union dues, endorsed the special accommodation. A moderate Republican, Jane voted for John McCain in the 2008 presidential election while June voted for- and actively campaigned for- Barak Obama. Jane was a good sport about it and didn't complain when June insisted that they wear the official Obama tee shirt while ringing door bells and passing out Obama campaign literature. On election day, the twins served as "poll sitters" on behalf of their respective political parties. Their only argument was held in private when June announced that she found McCain's vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, sexually attractive but unqualified. That announcement disgusted Jane although she was a right-to-life advocate and strong supporter of the McCain/Palin ticket. Jane was strongly "pro-life," while June was ardently "pro-choice". Although the twins were blessed with above-average intellectual and social skills, they did not begin dating, or even take their drivers license exams, until they were eighteen years old. In a perfect world, Jane and June would have liked the same boys or, at very least, similar boys. Unfortunately, this was not the case. June was bisexual and liked to date other girls as well. She didn't protest when her sister would make out with guys, and she enjoyed the sensations she felt during petting. Jane, on the other hand, was disapproving and more than a little repulsed when June began to date girls. This was never more the case when June hooked up with a butch woman with dozens of piercings and very little non-tattooed skin anywhere on her body. When good oral sex was performed on them, both of the girls would reach a climax, although not necessarily at the same time. When an orgasm was brought on by the other girl's date, particularly if she were the second to achieve climax, laughter and good-heartedness subdued what might have been an awkward situation. June began taking birth control pills on her sister's behalf and insisted that Jane practice safe sex. The two had a history of negotiation and compromise not only because the alternative would be tedious and unrelenting, but also because it was in their natures, their characters, to be accommodating to others. The situation was harder on the boys and girls who dated the twins, since privacy during sex was the norm in their community, and this was unavailable when dating the twins. Jane or June had a keen eye for suitors who were mere thrill-seekers and "freak show" enthusiasts. Such people were quickly identified and excluded. The twins uniformly agreed on which dates to dump for that reason, although Jane was more critical of others than was June. It took a while for their physical situation at work to be ignored. At first, many of the faculty and administration were solicitous with respect to Jane and June, sometimes to the point of being patronizing. But after a couple of years, the novelty wore off, once everyone's questions had been answered and all confusions were put to rest. At the beginning of the third school year, the director of the girl's athletics program, Nikki, openly bisexual, managed to arrange a surprise birthday party for June. Sensing neither betrayal of her sister nor jealousy that the party was not for "them" but for "her", Jane went along and kept June totally in the dark about the party. Nikki had had to text Jane, since that was the only practical way one could communicate privately with either twin. When the other teachers, administrators, and staff jumped out from behind desks and tables, June was delighted and completely surprised. The twins' sense of individuality, stridently fought for during their adolescence, reached it zenith later that summer when Nikki organized a summer cruise of the Caribbean for several dozen gay and lesbian teachers. Jane and June were accustomed to paying for two movie theater tickets, two concert tickets, and so on, but neither objected when the cruise company graciously allowed them to cruise on a single ticket. The cruise was a learning experience for Jane. Her sense of what she liked to call "family values" had to be moderated that summer and, by the time the trip was over, Jane had reconsidered her outlook on the subject. On the cruise ship and while in various ports, Nikki and June had made love as often as they could, while Jane similarly entertained a small number of other cruise guests, one cabin attendant, and a local translator / itinerant tour guide boy she had picked up at the Havana port of call. By the end of the cruise, Jane had come to accept Nikki's infatuation with June and found their growing relationship romantic. June had always been the more shy of the two, so Jane was thrilled that her sister had developed a sincere and meaningful love life. That following school year, one of June's brightest students had requested an Individualized Educational Program (IEP) through the counseling office at their high school. The boy had documentation confirming that he suffered from attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) but the school district had initially refused to grant the requested IEP. The boy's parents had hired a well known attorney, Nathan who, among other things, represented students with disabilities. As part of the legal process, Nathan had interviewed all of the boy's teachers, including June. Jane had expressed no opinion on the boy's legal situation, believing that it wasn't any of her business. But for obvious reasons, she was well aware of the boy's situation and was privy to all of the legal processes. After the school district and the boy had reached an agreement, Nathan invited the twins for a cup of coffee. His interest was more than professional and his invitation was more than a courtesy. Nathan had been smitten the first time he saw Jane. Jane had suspected that was the case when he would question June during the interviews but had kept his visual interaction focused on Jane. Although it was common for Jane to flirt with any man who showed interest, she felt something special when Nathan talked to her. June could sense this in her sister and when she finally decided to broach the subject, she gave Jane an enthusiastic thumbs-up. One would have thought that Jane, June, Nikki, and Nathan's first double date would have been awkward and embarrassing, but it wasn't. More than anything, it was fun. At the end of the evening, Nikki kissed June goodnight while Nathan kissed Jane. Although it was late and both were tired, the sisters stayed up all night laughing, joking, and discussing how wonderful the evening had been. For his part, Nathan had no mental reservations about Jane and him making love with June observing. The situation neither disturbed nor excited him. Indeed, he didn't mind the idea that Nikki might even be in attendance. Nevertheless, weeks went by and Nathan and Jane hadn't gone beyond mild petting. Jane was frustrated by the situation and asked her sister what her take on Nathan's hesitation. June opined that, like all other such issues that had presented themselves over the years, the best idea was to get it all into the open to talk it out and see how Nathan's problems, if any, might be resolved. It turned out that Nathan was being overly sensitive and respectful of June. Once June explained that she had no problem with him dating Jane and spending the night with them, the matter was set on the right course toward a happy solution. Common sense had suggested that the two couples ought not try to have sex at the same time. While Jane and June were accustomed to the oddity of sex with her sister reading, sleeping, or watching TV, the twins figured any expectation that Nikki and Nathan might share such openness was dismissed, at least for the time being. The solution was that , during the week, June and Nikki would date, while on the weekends, Jane and Nathan would date. After a month or two, Jane, June, and Nathan had quit pretending the non-engaging sister was not present during sex, but proactively discussed sexual their proclivities, kinks, and comfort levels. Jane preferred vanilla sex while June was more open to bondage play and other kinky activities. Nikki and June had ventured down that path often, and Jane had come to accept bondage play and allowed their body to participate, as a practical consideration. Jane and June's house was in the Calabasas community of Los Angeles' West San Fernando Valley. Nikki rented a condominium in Culver City, about an hour away. Nathan's mother had died during childbirth, and the year before he met Jane and June, during the month of his 25th birthday, his father died in an automobile accident, leaving Nathan a modest but comfortable house in Santa Monica. Jane and June had a standing half-day physical therapy session at a facility near their Calabasas home every Wednesday afternoon. Under their special employment contract with LAUSD, the half-day appointments were not counted against the twins' forty-hour work week. Nikki and Nathan were members of a prestigious heath club in Santa Monica and, from time to time, one might see the other working out and issue a polite wave of acknowledgment. Besides enjoying the Club's exercise equipment, outdoor pools and spas, both Nikki and Nathan had taken up the sport of squash. The Club featured a friendly squash tournament several times each year and, as luck would have it, since both Nikki and Nathan were in the same class or level of play, they competed against each other in one of the tournaments. After an exhausting finish, both had retired to the outdoor spa to soothe their tired muscles. Sitting in the bubbles and foam of the spa, they discussed the fact that the two couples had not gone out on a date together. Nathan confessed that he had discussed the unusual situation with Jane and June, although he was apprehensive that Nikki might react poorly to his discussing the matter with her girlfriend. Not troubled by that at all, Nikki was open to the idea of a double date and each agreed to propose the idea to his and her respective significant other. The following Friday both couples enjoyed a fancy dinner and a leisurely stroll on Universal Studios City Walk, tolerating the attention Jane and June had attracted from the many tourists visiting City Walk that evening. Although in the past Jane and June had detested strangers taking pictures of them as they made their way through their daily lives, the comfort and companionship of the double date made them relax into the situation and stoically brave their way along. Both Nikki and Nathan were protective of the twins at first, but backed off when they saw that the girls were not upset by the tourists. Later that night, at Nathan's home, the two couples made love. All four of them were surprised by the passion each of them enjoyed. As the months went by, what at first had been very respectful and toned-down versions of their sex play had developed into ever-increasing levels of passion and athletics. Each had come to accept whatever games the others wished to play. The one line never to be crossed, of course, would involve Nikki and Nathan paying any erotic attention to the other. Other than that, things were relaxed in the bedroom and carefully choreographed to avoid unnecessary touching or interaction between Nikki and Nathan. Everyone was into erotic experimentation with his or her partner but nobody was the least bit interested in group sex per se although, to an outsider, it would look like that was essentially what was going on. From a romantic standpoint, nothing could be farther from the truth – both Nikki and Nathan were deeply in love, but not with each other. The following Independence Day, the four were walking along the crowded and noisy Venice Beach Boardwalk, Jane holding Nathan's hand, June holding Nikki's. Under what he thought was the cover of the clamor of the Boardwalk crowd, Nathan discreetly leaned in toward Jane and proposed marriage. Jane and June stopped walking and looked at each other and then at Nathan. Startled by the sudden halt, Nikki asked what was going on. When Jane shouted "Hell, yeah!" Nikki figured it out. After a weekend of ecstatic celebration, Nathan picked up the twins at their home and took them to Santa Monica Courthouse to get the marriage license. Although they had all of their blood test papers and other documents in order, the Clerk refused to issue the license. On the spur of an uninspired moment, Nathan had chosen Santa Monica Courthouse because he knew many of the clerks and judges who worked there. It was his misfortune that this particular clerk was one with whom he had spent a wild weekend but had never called again. "You can't marry two people, Nate!" the Clerk barked in the most annoying manner she could muster. "Counselor, you know better than that." "I'm not marrying two people, Bonnie; I'm only marrying this one," Nathan protested, gesturing with his thumb toward Jane's head. "You're not still pissed at me, are you?" "I see two people standing there, besides yourself, and I see only one body between them. You think you can marry the body and only one of the heads?" "Well, yeah! That's the whole point! June here is just along for the ride." The minute those words left Nathan's mouth he regretted it. "Look. It's not like there are Siamese twins here. That would be different. You know, two girls joined at the hip or something. I think that has been done before, but what you are trying to do just won't work. What if the other one has a headache, right?" Then under her breath, "I'm very impressed what you left me for, Nate; very impressed indeed." Bonnie was intentionally talking to Nathan as though the twins weren't present. "It's 'who,' Bonnie, not 'what,' and I don't see the difference," Nathan continued. "How would the girls being joined at the hip make any difference?" "I'm only a clerk here, Nate; take it up with the judge. Whatever he decides is just fine with me. I'm just not going to put my ass on the line over this – especially after the last election and ... and especially for you!" With that, Bonnie slammed her window shut and displayed her at-lunch sign. Nathan's first thought was to shop around a few other courthouses to find a more sympathetic clerk. But he knew that, before the three of them could retrieve the car in the parking lot, Bonnie would have contacted all the other clerks she knew. No secret was ever safe from her ensnarling network of gossip-clerks. That night, the four of them had the first of what would eventually become many "family" meetings. Nikki and June had actually discussed marriage, but Proposition 8 in the preceding November's election (opposed by June and supported by Jane) had forbade same-sex marriage. "That means even June and I can't even marry each other," Jane snarked, somewhat inappropriately under the circumstances. "That's not funny," the other three said, more or less in unison. "Why does anybody have to marry anybody here?" Nikki asked of no one in particular. "Because we are in love and that's what people who are in love do, Nikki," Nathan said, almost in a shout. "Hey, 'Nate,'" Nikki replied, showing both hurt and alarm at Nathan's tone. "It's not my goddamn fault! It wasn't my idea to ask permission from your dumped girlfriend." The four sat quietly for a few minutes. Then Jane's eyes began to tear. June shot her a disparaging look, almost giving herself whiplash in the process. "You can cut that shit out right now!" Jane cleared quickly, realizing her self-pity was not pushing the problem any closer to a practical solution. "We could all just live together, right?" Nikki added, more to break the silence than anything else. Nobody responded to her. "Alright then," Nathan exclaimed, hoping his tone of voice imparted more confidence than he really had. "It's one man and one woman here in California. They seem to be considering Jane here to be two people, at least so far. We don't want to cause a big scandal that would aggravate our respective careers, right?" Again, there was only silence. Jane took a hard, cold look at Nathan. "Oh, yeah! Right! Our careers!" Jane was starting to cloud over once again. Side By Side "Do you have a point there, Nathan, or are you simply restating the obvious?" Nikki asked, somewhat sorry for the snarkish nature of her tone. "Yes, I do!" Nathan said, nodding in agreement with himself but not yet able to express his idea. "I will marry you and that will be that!" Nathan forced the words from his mouth while staring at the floor." "Who?" all three women demanded. "Who are you going to marry, Nathan?" Jane's cloud was about to bring forth lightning. "Nikki, of course!" Nikki, Jane and June all began talking at once; Nathan backed off instinctively, sensing very dangerous waters ahead. But after another hour of often derisive and nearly hostile discussion, it was agreed that that made no sense from a romantic point of view, but was the only plausible solution under the circumstances. It sucked, but it was what it was and the four agreed to deal with it on those terms. Invitations were sent out, caterers, a band, and a hall were hired, and Nikki and Nathan were married, holding hands with Jane and June; all of them standing in a circle. It was a great party. Jane and June had insisted that their parents fly in from the East, although it was unclear why they would want to attend two strangers' wedding. They didn't ask, so they weren't told. All they knew is that it was extremely important to their daughters for them to be there, so they happily obliged. Jane and June rented out their Calabasas home and moved in with Nathan. The three of them got along quite well. Jane took to her new role of wife easily, but June insisted, for medical reasons, that she would continue to take birth control pills. Nobody in the medical community had ventured a guess as to what a pregnancy might do to Jane and June's body and the twins had discontinued any interest in medical investigations many years before. Nikki remained in her Culver City home and still dated June during the week. Sometimes she would spend the night and carpool over Sepulveda pass to work with the twins in the morning. Nathan and Nikki continued to visit the Club three days a week and had developed their squash talents sufficiently to move up two levels in class. They often teamed up for doubles games and won about half the time. A few months later, the Club announced that it had arranged to participate in a three-day, three-county, inter-club competition in Santa Barbara, and asked Nikki and Nathan to play in one singles flight each and a doubles match over the long weekend. They were thrilled to be invited to play. Jane was placed in charge of making the hotel and restaurant reservations for the family. The hotel would not permit two couples to share a room, but when Jane told the sales clerk that she and her sister were one person, the clerk, presuming schizophrenia rather than conjoined twins, placed the reservation, without further comment. Nikki and Nathan had their best squash racquets re-strung and double-tuned. They practiced extra hours to hone their skills in eager anticipation of the Santa Barbara tournament. The day before the four were to drive to Santa Barbara, June became ill with a head cold. Usually, when one of the twins became ill, it was only a matter of hours before the other did as well. "We will cancel out, then," Nathan said, failing to adequately conceal his disappointment. "No, no, no, no!" sniffled June, "Please don't change the program on my account!" "Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby!" Nathan shouted out, quiz show fashion. "What?" the others asked. "Never mind," Nathan pouted. Ignoring Nathan, Jane added, "I'll take care of June; you guys go have fun and WIN!! Bring us back a trophy, okay?" Jane's head cold was only six hours behind June's so the two of them stayed in bed, drinking hot tea and polishing off a large box of Kleenex. The room in Santa Barbara was very fancy and romantic. Jane had really outdone herself. There was a fireplace, an oversize sunken tub, and if one stood on tip toes, one could almost see the ocean. Excited by the tournament, due to start the following morning, Nikki and Nathan turned in early, curling up on the far sides of the king size bed, facing away from each other. The next morning, Nikki was up first. She did her morning exercises, showered, blew-dried her hair and put on her makeup. She went to the lobby and brought back a tray covered with fruit, biscuits, and other treats from the complimentary buffet. "Wake up, sleepy head!" I brought you your breakfast. "What time is it, Nikki?" "Time to get up. C'mon, let's get going!" Each did fairly well in their singles matches, and made it as far as the quarterfinals in their respective flights. They were delighted with their success and celebrated that evening with a fine seafood dinner and two bottles of wine. Their doubles competition was not until Monday morning, so they could afford to cut lose and enjoy themselves Saturday night. When they got back to the room, the telephone's red message light was flashing. Nikki cleared the message – it was Jane and June, sounding very stuffy-nosed, asking how the competition went. While Nathan was taking his shower, Nikki called back and told them that it went well, explained the quarterfinal finish and said that they had decided not to call earlier since they figured the twins were sleeping which, it turns out, they were. "Well, good luck!" June said excitedly. "... with the doubles match on Monday...," Jane added, unsure what her sister had meant by that comment. "Oh, yeah!" Nikki giggled and growled, hanging up the phone. Although Nathan and Nikki were full of food and drink, Nathan nevertheless made a bag of microwave popcorn and punched in a late night movie on the television. Nikki took a tiny bag from her coin purse and emptied a quantity of white powder onto her travel mirror. She began chopping the powder with her room key card. "What the fuck is that?" Nathan tried to sound indignant, but as no stranger to recreational drugs himself, his indignation rang hollow. Nikki meticulously chopped and shaped out four lines of powder; two thin, two thick. "You do the thick lines." Nathan continued to nibble on popcorn and watch the movie. "Hurry up, Nathan, do the lines," Nathan recognized that tone in Nikki's voice. She tended to get bitchy and butch when she was horny. "I thought you were a health freak." "I am. Now do the freaking lines!" "Fine." Nathan picked up the cut soda straw and handily snorted one thick line into each nostril. He handed the mirror, powder and straw ensemble back to Nikki who did the same and then started chopping away on a new set. "Hold on there, Wonder Woman," Nathan began. "I'm good here. No more for me, please..." "Fuck you. These are for later anyway. Take off your robe, Nathan." "You know, Nikki, maybe this wasn't such a good idea, our coming up here together, I mean without the girls." "I agree," Nikki laughed, starting to tug on Nathan's robe belt. "So then, what's the deal here? "The deal, Nathan, is that you are going to fuck me. Here, now." "I don't..." "Shut up!" Nikki snorted another two lines and held the set out for Nathan, who was naked and aroused, but was hiding under the covers, only his eyes and forehead peeking out. "I thought you said these were for later." "It is later." "No, I meant...." Nikki began playfully slapping Nathan's face -- gently, comically. "We are married, you know." "Right. Purely a marriage of convenience." "Well it's convenient right now for you to fuck me; convenient as hell as a matter of fact." Nathan laughed held Nikki's wrists to stop the playful face slaps. Then he moved her wrists out to the sides, drawing her face onto his. Nikki rode Nathan wildly, climaxing loudly and repeatedly. So much so, in fact, that her activities elicited wall-bangs from both adjoining rooms and a floor stomp from the upstairs guests. Once Nathan finally climaxed, Nikki did a handstand at the head of the bed, her heals tapping gently on the wall, a wide grin on her face. Monday's tournament did not go as well as Saturday's. They were eliminated in the first round, said their farewells to the other players, went back to the room, made love again, showered, and drove back to Los Angeles. Jane and June were not yet over their head colds. Nathan and Nikki slept in the guest bedroom for several nights, both to avoid contracting the twins' cold and to afford the girls better and sounder sleep. They made love quietly but repeatedly. Several weeks later, Nikki informed Jane and June that she had missed two periods. The twins took the news in stride, and the three of them drove to the drug store and bought four different brands of pregnancy tests. The first three showed positive. Once the fourth test results was examined, Jane finally mustered up the nerve to ask Nikki if she knew who the father was. Nikki just stared at her. "What do you mean do I know?" Nikki snarled, "Of course I know; what kind of girl do you think I am anyway?" "Gay?" Jane offered, starting to get pissed off at Nikki's rudeness. "Ask your sister," Nikki said, wandering off to the kitchen to fix herself a snack. "What does she mean, June? Ask you? You know who the father is?" "Christ almighty, Jane; sometimes you are so dumb. Isn't it obvious? It's Nathan!" June chirped merrily. "What?" "You heard me. Or are you deaf and dumb today?" "Nathan? But..." Jane stopped herself. "But he and I are in love. Why would he do that to me?" "Looks like he did it to Nikki, not you." "Why are you so callus about all this? You sure don't look surprised." "Life has many twists and turns, y'know..." "You put her up to this, didn't you? This was all your idea, wasn't it?" "Yup! And since you are all into 'family values', now you are going to have a family to value." "Why didn't we discuss this? Why didn't you..." "Because I knew that eventually something would go wrong and we would get pregnant. I couldn't risk that happening. Don't you see, Jane? It's a good thing; please don't be pissed off at me. I did it for us." "Oh please! Don't tell me that!" "No, really. You will be the mom. Nikki doesn't give a crap about babies. You and I will..." "All these years, we always discussed stuff; we never took action that would..." "Give me a break, Jane. Just shut your mouth and think it through. You'll see it's the best deal all around, best for all of us!" June leaned back and twisted her head around to kiss her sister's cheek. "Let's not make Nikki feel bad about this. It's my fault. If you want to hate someone, hate me, not her." "Oh! So now you decide to become noble. Great! Nathan is the love of my life and you have him fucking your girlfriend – for my benefit, right? Does that make any sense, June? Nikki's having someone else's baby!" "Are you retarded or what, Jane? She's not bloody likely to have YOUR baby! You... we... don't have the right equipment for that." "I can understand her betrayal of me, June, but not yours. Not you, June." Jane started sobbing; June picked up the TV Guide and began looking at the evening's line up of television shows. "Wait! Hold on right there, Jane!" June put down the TV Guide, her irritation starting to rise. "Exactly how do you figure that? How did Nikki betray you? She's MY girlfriend, not yours." "Yeah, that's true, but she knows how I feel about Nathan." Jane's sobbing had quieted down to a pathetic whimper. "Whenever you're about done, can we invite Nikki back into the room? I'm sure she feels awful!" "She feels awful? She feels..." "Oh, cut it out!" Jane had come to grips with the situation but didn't want to let everyone off the hook that easily. She wanted to save some of her quieting rage for Nathan when he came home from work. Nathan had worked late that evening and by the time he got back home, the three girls were fast asleep, their arms and legs all entwined. The family platooned Nikki's pregnancy, the twins joining her in the exercise classes, while Nathan was her Lamaze coach. All were present in the delivery room when Nikki birthed a healthy baby boy. The following Christmas, the family pushed the baby stroller through the Northridge Mall and waited patiently in the Santa Claus line. The teenage flattened-affect Santa-helper, whose job it was to sell wallet photos, key chains, place mats, tee shirts and dozens of other items featuring Santa and the kids visiting him, eyed Jane and June suspiciously. "Y'all aren't from around here, are you?" "No," Jane verified, sternly meeting the helper's vacant stare with her own parody of the same, "We're from Venus. He's from Mars," Jane added, pointing at Nathan. "No shit. Really?" The helper quickly withdrew a slender purple cell phone from her back pocket and began texting frantically. "So... do we get to see Santa or what?" Nathan asked the top of the helper's head. "Oh, yeah, sure. Do you have, you know, Santa where y'all are from? I mean like the Santa thing, not like, you know, Santa Santa." "Not yet..." Nathan smiled, looking at the name on the helper's badge, ".... Muffin. That's why we're here! We journeyed millions of miles through the vacuum of space to come to the Northridge Mall and visit Santa. " "No shit!" Muffin's eyes were wide and darting about with enthusiasm before returning to her wild texting. "Pardon my French, I mean," she mumbled under her breath. Santa grunted displeasure that the line had stopped and signaled Muffin to return to her sales pitch. "So then; great! Whose the mommy?" "Don't ask," the family said in unison as the baby started to cry.