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The Circle Ch. 04

By: SteveWallace





The Circle Ch. 04



They were quiet and listened to Zoey urging the men on as they sucked on her tits. 

Sheila reached a decision, "Yes. Yes, I do believe in 'us.'" The tone of her voice was so forceful that Jim glanced over at her several times to try to determine just what kind of mood she had adopted. More quietly, she said, "Yes. I commit to 'us.' I'm scared, but I think I can do this."

She caught one of his glances and smiled at him, and in that smile she knew she'd conquered the ice princess. She was willing to be in a relationship - multiple relationships, and she was willing to be open and loving if she was loved back and not taken advantage of. She was becoming the kind of person she'd dreamed of, but hadn't allowed herself to be. If this failed, she knew the risk would be colossal and she'd never recover; the men and her friends knew it too.

At her house, Sheila pushed her fears aside and led everyone in and then into the family room containing two sofas at angles to a large screen TV and media center. The room had a warm and inviting feeling to it, and with all the books and knickknacks gave off a warm, lived-in feeling. She brought in a couple of bottles of wine, and started a movie on Netflix that no one appeared to be interested in seriously watching. It was their excuse for being together.

Matt and Zoey had started making out on one sofa with frequent whispering between the pair in between kisses.

Sheila sat down between Jim and Bob. They all sipped their wine, and watched part of the movie, although their thoughts were elsewhere.

Bob leaned in, "May I kiss you?"

Sheila smiled, "I'd be pissed off if you didn't." She turned to him.

The pair picked up where they'd left off in their last bout of kissing. Tongues started to fly between their mouths, and soon they were both panting.

Sheila knew Jim was snug against her on the sofa, and accepted that it was a good thing when he started to kiss her neck and run a tongue around her ears. She could also feel his hands reaching around her from the back to her rib cage, his thumbs gently stroking the underside of her breasts through her clothing. She was glad she'd worn a thin bra.

Bob ran his tongue down her neck from in front of her, taking care to kiss at least every inch until he was as deep into her visible cleavage as her blouse allowed. He toyed with the top button with two fingers, but then moved away from it. He noted Sheila's disappointment, pleased that she apparently wanted the two men to fondle her simultaneously. Maybe the ice princess really had vanished.

The temperature in the room seemed to rise. On the other sofa, Matt had pulled off Zoey's t-shirt and cast her bra aside so he could suck on her breasts and nipples. Zoey had no reason to be embarrassed; she'd been half-nude with each of the three men in previous make out sessions and at the beach, although she'd never been on display to two of them while a third attended to her needs.

Sheila reached down to Jim's hands and pulled them up so that they cupped her breasts as he sat behind her. She could feel her nipples hardening at his touch, and knew he could too.

Bob kissed so wonderfully, and Jim's kisses and touches around her body were just the ultimate in pleasure for the day. She wanted to enjoy the feelings of warmth and lust that swept through her mind and body.

"God, will you please undo the buttons," she urged them, with a definite tone of impatience.

Bob moved slowly but deliberately, and soon Sheila shed the blouse, tossing it onto the coffee table in front of the sofas. Her bra followed. She made out with Jim between shedding each item.

"Suck on my tits," she implored Bob and Jim. She shimmied her breasts enticingly at both men, and then thrust her chest out at Bob.

As the two men took turns at her breasts, they also alternated raising her sexual temperature with French kisses and romantic whispers. As Jim sucked on her he stroked her thighs, moving higher and higher up her legs as the seconds ticked by. Sheila only invited more attention to herself.

Sheila reached out with both hands to the crotches of the men beside her, trying to rub their cocks through the denim material of their jeans. Except for the forays with the suntan lotion the week before, these were the first intentional contacts below the waist between the six of them.

Jim whispered, "If you want, you can take it out."

Only a few seconds later, Sheila sat up and undid his belt and zipper until she could pull down Jim's pants. His briefs went with them, leaving his cock waving in the air. Sheila turned and repeated the revealing on Bob. Both men smiled invitingly, but inside their thoughts were dancing with joy: Sheila was craving sex from not one man, but two, and she was acting to make that happen.

With a cock in each hand she sat back and slowly but expertly masturbated each man, but it was more than that. She used her hands to make love to the men. As they focused on her breasts and upper body, she focused on their cocks. She kissed one man, and then the other, the kisses getting hotter and hotter as tongues touched and licked in open air.

Each of Sheila's hands caressed and strokes the long shafts she held, sliding up to the end, cupping the very cap, and then sliding down the shaft again. From time to time, she fondled each man's ball sack.

On the other sofa, Zoey made the last moves to rid Matt of his pants, and then she was bobbing up and down on his shaft giving him a superb blowjob. His moans filled the room. Somehow, she'd shed her jeans and only wore a revealing thong.

Sheila moaned, "Oh, God, this is so decadent." The three of them watched Zoey and Matt for a moment. Sheila continued to aggressively pump each cock in her hands, going faster and faster as each second passed, even saying in a voice almost to herself, 'Come on, cum for Sheila. Spurt that man cum all over us.'

Jim was the first to spout off. All the willpower in the world couldn't keep him from reacting to the stimulation of the handjob, the proximity of Sheila and her apparent sexual willingness, and the sight of his friend getting blown a few feet away by another girl he deeply liked.

Sheila giggled as his first two strong shots hit her left breast and side, and dripped down her half-nude body. His other pulses covered her hands and his cock. Jim moaned throughout his orgasm.

Sheila released him and smeared his cum into her magnificent breasts and the valley between. She then leaned over and took his shaft into her mouth and ran her tongue around the head, lapping up the excess cum as she moved. The action triggered more pulses deep in his body, although nothing else reached the surface. This far exceeded anything Jim might have dreamed about with her.

Sheila pushed away the thoughts in her head that she had done this before, but it had turned out badly. This was different. She felt loved and surer of herself.

Sheila then turned and went down on Bob's steely cock. He warned, "Sheila, I'm about to blow." She didn't stop, and only intensified her efforts by bobbing up and down faster and harder. Bob moaned and then the pulses started deep inside him, sending his semen speeding through his male tubing, and out into Sheila's mouth. She captured every drop, except for one rivulet that she intentionally allowed to run down her chin.

When he'd finished his climax, Sheila pulled away. She faced Bob and Jim, and showed them her mouth and how full of cum it was. She then swallowed in a lewd display of bravado. She was reminded of a porn video on the Internet; the girl doing the double blowjobs looked as though she had fun and liked the male effluent. Sheila liked the act, the taste, the feel, and how pleased both men were with her. She felt warm and wondered why she hadn't discovered this years earlier.

Bob and Jim each told Sheila how hot she was, and how much they'd enjoyed what had just happened. They each promised more pleasure the next night when they had another date. The French kissed her without reservation, something she noted with comfort and surprise given that she knew she must still taste like cum.

On the other sofa, Matt had also cum, filling Zoey's mouth and gullet with his cum. To his surprise, Zoey had the ability of going deep throat, thus she had been able to amaze him my taking every fraction of an inch of his large cock into her mouth and throat until her nose pushed into his groin. The pair were reclining together, an odd mixture of semi-nudity, and raining kisses on one another.



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The Circle Ch. 05



After a second round of lovemaking, the guys left Sheila and Zoey together. The girls were cuddled together on one of the sofas, obviously with the intent of sleeping nude together after some further lovemaking. The men were pleased that they were being so open about their affection for each other.

Jim and Matt arranged lunch with Alice in the morning. They met at the local Paneras, and after getting their salads and sandwiches they quickly updated Alice on what had happened with the two girls.

Alice said, "So you accomplished your big goal. What now?"

Matt said, "Not quite. We still have some loose ends. Obviously, we have to bring Monica into the fold when she returns from Colorado with her parents. We also want to bring you into our circle, assuming that you want to spend more time with us."

"Oh, I do. I do. I'm grateful that you really want me, despite my advanced age."

Jim said, "You're in my constellation of intimate friends who I love. I wouldn't have it any other way given that you're willing, and forget the age thing. You've given us confidence and wisdom of your experience to help us do the right thing with our girlfriends ... and I love you."

"Will the girls accept me?" Alice clearly was touched by the words of love.

"We'll see. That's partly why we wanted to talk. We have a problem at this point, probably one that a lot of people in our age bracket have. We don't have a place to connect with each other. There's an opportunity there too."

"You mean fuck, and you'd like to use my place to fuck your girlfriends, right?"

"Yes and yes," Jim laughed. "I also think this might be the idea way to introduce you to the group too. We show up to make love to one another, and right now we have an extra guy with Monica being away. So, you join The Circle and handle the extra guy as we rotate partners. Everybody gets to know you and how loving and much fun you are, and bingo, you're in The Circle."

Alice thought about that for a few bites of her salad. "I like it. I'll do it. I assume you want to start tonight."

Heads nodded.

"Good. I need some cock in a bad way. I almost thought we might stop by my place on the way back to work, but this seems more reasonable. How about you come by around seven."

"Want us to bring dinner?"

"Yes. Can you do Chinese takeout?"

"You got it."



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The Circle Ch. 06



Monica probed, "Tell me what's been happening. Sheila made it all sound mysterious on the phone this afternoon."

Jim smiled, "We want to tell you together. Just a few more minutes. I'm sorry, but I don't want to spoil it for everyone else."

Monica gave a huge sigh of frustration, and sat back as Jim drove. They picked up Zoey at her house. Monica noted that Zoey also had some kind of preparations for an overnight stay in her large shoulder purse.

Before getting in the car, Zoey had opened Monica's car door and pulled her from the vehicle. She then engaged in a far from sisterly kiss with her, even probing into Monica's mouth with her tongue. Monica had responded, but had also been slightly shocked by the passionate kiss from her pixie-like friend. They'd never kissed like this before, but she liked it. Jim stood by and watched the pair with a smile.

Shortly after starting to drive again, Jim pulled into the parking area for an apartment complex and parked in one of the slots marked 'Guests.' They got out of the car, and walked through the attractive complex, climbed up a set of stairs, and went to one of the units. Without knocking Jim just led the way inside.

Matt, Bob, Alice, and Sheila were all sitting around waiting for the missing three. They stood with large smiles, although Alice held back since she was meeting Monica for the first time.

After many hugs and kisses, Jim introduced Monica to Alice. He explained that this was Alice's apartment, and that the group had recently adopted the place as their 'love nest.' Monica puzzled at the choice of words. She noted that Alice seemed comfortable with the terminology and also seemed almost as close to Sheila and Zoey as she had been before leaving on her trip.

Bob came up behind her and nuzzled into her neck. "Monica, we are so glad you're here, but we also want you to catch up to where we are. At the same time, we don't want you to do anything that you're uncomfortable with."

Sheila came up to Monica in front of her, and kissed her passionately; she then shared an equally hot kiss with Bob by leaning around Monica's shoulder. "Monica, I love you. We have moved beyond the petting that you were involved with. We make love frequently with one another, and would like to share that with you."

Monica nodded, but still wasn't sure she had decoded all the nuances of what they were trying to tell her. She knew they had been heading towards sexual relations, so that didn't surprise her. The fact that 'Love' had been used also didn't surprise her; while away, she realized her own feelings for everyone.

Matt came up and also kissed her, even running a finger down her neck into her cleavage and then around the curves of her breasts. While there next to her, he also kissed Sheila. 

Jim and Zoey joined The Circle too, each person not only kissing Monica with a sense of passion, but also openly kissing and responding to the others. Alice moved to the edge of The Circle, and also got included.

Monica asked, "Is Alice now part of our group? She's older."

Sheila nodded. "She is. She's also a beautiful and passionate person that we will learn a lot from. She's in my constellation now. You'll love her in more ways than one."

"Oh, yes; I remember about Bob telling us about having a constellation of friends."

"Of lovers," Sheila corrected gently.

Sheila put her arm around Monica's neck and pulled her towards her. She closed her eyes as their lips met.

Monica said, "I've never kissed another girl before today, at least not the way you're kissing me - and what Zoey did earlier." She paused and added, "I like it."

"Good, because I am going to make love to you ... and so are all the others in the room."

"Oh."

Sheila unbuttoned Monica's blouse after pulling the shirt from the waistband of her shorts. When the buttons were undone, she pushed the shirt from her shoulders. Bob was behind her, and helped her shed the shirt. When through, he undid the hooks of her bra, allowing the material to fall to Monica's front. Sheila pulled the bra away as Monica held her arms out for its removal.

Matt's mouth surrounded the hub of one breast, his tongue flicking the nipple to hardness as his mouth warmed the entire areola and nip. Jim moved to her other breast and repeated the action. Bob was behind her, kissing her neck and turning her slightly into a masculine kiss full of tongue and passion. Monica closed her eyes to enjoy the sensations delivered to her.

Monica felt a different mouth on her breast, and opened her eyes to look. Zoey had assumed Jim's position, and then Sheila was sucking on her other teat as well. Both women were nude, and behind them Jim and Matt were removing their clothes as well.

Zoey undid Monica's shorts, and pulled them down her legs. Monica had no sooner stepped out of them than Sheila pulled her thong down her legs bringing her to the same state of nudity as the others.

Monica had never seen her friends completely naked. They'd come close in preparing to go to the beach, but this was different and so sexually hot.

Monica also saw Alice's beautiful nakedness, and the seductive smile on her lips as she came through The Circle of the others to kiss her. They parted to give her space. As they kissed Monica put her hand up and felt the fullness and body of Alice's tits. It was so arousing to feel another woman's breasts in a sexual situation - someone she'd just met.

As Alice stepped back, Monica felt a male cock nestle against her buttocks. Bob surrounded her with his arms, palming each breasts. "I want to make love to you, Monica. I love you."

She sighed with such a good feeling deep inside her, and turned in his arms so they could kiss. In doing so, she trapped his long cock between her legs right at the junction. They both moaned. Monica whispered, "Yes. Do me. Make love to me. I want everyone to make love to me."

Bob picked up Monica and carried her to Alice's bedroom. Sheila followed the pair, and got on the bed next to Monica. As Bob went down on Monica, using his best techniques at cunnilingus, Sheila sucked on Monica's breasts bringing them to an even highest state of excitement. Bob could tell Monica was warming because she started to ooze the female juices inviting sex.

They made love, Bob pumping deep in Monica as he shared kisses with Sheila and Monica. A few times, he also pulled away and fucked Sheila, even bringing her to an orgasm. After Monica had watched her friend climax, she relaxed enough to start to have her own orgasms from the pair, even with Sheila stroking her clit as Bob fucked her.

When Bob had cum deep inside her, Monica was surprised to see Sheila pull his shaft from inside her, clean it with her tongue and mouth, and then amazed when Sheila went down on her with tongue and fingers collecting the male fluids. 

Sheila brought her lips up to Monica, and forced her tongue inside. Monica understood instantly what was happening and welcomed the fluids, tasting herself, Bob, and Sheila all at once. After the shock wore off, she truly tasted the sticky fluids and found she relished the taste sensations. The taste was not only good, it was erotic, and represented a new freedom and ownership of her own body. The ice princess inside her was gone, at least for the moment.

As she lay there, another male body slipped into bed behind her, his cock at the ready. He pulled her leg up, and she felt another hard shaft slip inside her body. Jim kissed her shoulders as he made love to her, whispering words of affirmation of that love to her between those kisses. Monica felt so worked up, that she came just as Jim did. As he pulled away, Alice appeared sucking on her cunt, and then sharing the fluids with her.

Matt lay next to her, and Alice helped her up slightly so Monica could straddle her next lover. Matt reached up and fondled Monica's breasts as they fucked. Monica was so excited that she could barely slow for the next orgasms as they came at her a dozen times before Matt blasted load after load of hot male semen into her body.

Monica anticipated what happened next based on the prior two lovemaking sessions. Zoey was there, first cleaning Matt's long cock and then moving to her pussy with an eager look on her face. Yet another orgasm passed on her tongue.

Monica curled up in Zoey's arms but with her eyes open. Next to her, Jim and Sheila had started to make love. She'd never seen another couple copulate except in a porn movie. The scene was so intimate and so arousing. She moved a hand between her legs to her sodden pussy, and gently stroked her clit as she watched the couple. A second later, Zoey's fingers took over for her.

Across the room Bob was sprawled back in an easy chair, and Alice was fucking him in the reverse cowgirl position. She smiled at Monica and blew her a kiss. The sex act was obviously being done to arouse her, and to confront her with the reality that everybody in the room had a sexual relationship with everyone else. 

Monica thought, 'How wonderful.'



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The Circle Ch. 07



Bob nodded, and also shifted slightly in his seat. The topic of the discussion had given him a hard-on, and he had resolved in making the date not to try to entice Monica into bed. This was supposed to be a date when he showed her he cared for her for reasons other than the fact that she was gorgeous and fucked like a mink.

 Monica continued, "My next part of what's happening involved my relationship with Sheila, Zoey, Alice, Tracy, and Zoey. We were having a ball being slutty with you. I'd never touched another woman sexually until that first night back. My God, I loved it. At first, it was all very tentative, but as the night went on, I couldn't get enough of them. You'd be fucking me, and I'd be eating Alice; wow, what a trip."

 Bob posed, "So finding your bisexual roots is working out all right?"

 "More than all right. I'll never be straight again," she laughed already knowing that all the men were turned on by the girls' bisexuality.

 Monica shifted emphasis and her voice softened, "Something has happened, however, that was very unexpected, at least with the speed it occurred."

 Bob leaned forward to listen more carefully.

 Monica's tone of voice changed to deeper and quieter, "I'm in love with you."

 Bob eyes got large as he studied her. He broke into a broad grin of joy.

 "Not just you, but also Matt, Jim, and all the others. I guess when I have sex I get an overabundance of oxytocin in my brain, and that makes me get all squishy and lovey. Well, it's worked like a charm over the past week. I love all of you, and I mean from the deepest part of my soul – mind, body, and spirit."

 She paused and added, "They may not say it, but Zoey and Sheila feel the same way. I think Alice does too; I watched how she looked at each of you. Tracy, I think is just feeling her oats at this point but I can see the seeds of love developing in her too. She starts college in a few days and that'll divert her for a while. I'm glad she's going to be commuting, and still available to us."

 Bob reached across the table and held Monica's hand. He said, "We are feeling the same way about falling in love with you. We've held back saying anything because we don't want to scare anyone away. We don't know what made each of you an ice princess way back, and we don't need to know, but we do want to take our time and not rush anybody into anything. It's just coming up on two months since we started to date you, and that sounds like not a long time to discover you're in a serious relationship."

 Monica nodded, "More on the health check. We need someplace that is our own space other than Alice's apartment. It's crowded when all of us are there, she only has one decent bed, and although we've discovered our exhibitionist tendencies, we don't always want to be front and center when we're making love or fucking."

 "Are you thinking we should all have a place or just something different for one of us? I've been thinking of getting an apartment."

 "Oh, I hadn't thought about all of us doing something together. I was just thinking of a larger apartment with more bedrooms, good beds, and some privacy here and there."

 "Do you like living at home?"

 "NO!" Monica said it so loudly that some of the other patrons at the restaurant turned. She blushed and laughed, "When I'm home, my mother drives me crazy. I'm twenty-four, and she acts as though I'm fifteen. Tonight I had to tell her who I was going out with, where we were going, and what time I'd be back. Ughhh! I'm surprised my father didn't come to the door to ask about your intentions." She thought a minute, "Funny, when we were in Colorado, that all went away. I think it has to do with being in their house."

 Bob nodded, "I sometimes get the same attention. To the point, would you be willing to kick in some amount each month to rent or buy a place with some of us?"

 Monica nodded enthusiastically. "Absolutely. I don't know what I'd tell my parents. I know I could count on them for some major items of furniture. They have a lot stored as of last May, when my grandparents moved to a smaller home."

 Bob said, "I know Matt and Jim were thinking of places of their own, but suddenly I'm thinking that maybe we all kick in and get something really large and lush."

 "Low upkeep," Monica said. "We all have jobs and want to play, not work on a house that's a fixer-upper. We're not ready to do lawns and landscaping and all that yet."

 "Let's talk to the others when we're all together. I can spring for a thousand a month for housing."

 "Me too. That's the same range I was thinking. If just the six of us did that we'd have six thousand a month to play with. I bet we could lease a really nice townhouse – large too."

 "My dad said that if I rent, I should figure on about a square foot for a dollar a month in this market. If we could get six thousand square feet of living space that'd be gigantic. We could live and sprawl all over the place."

 Monica laughed, "All we need is a room that's mattresses from wall to wall. We'll just be in there fucking all the time."

 "You are adjusted to all this aren't you? Any other items we need to talk about or consider?"

 "One question; why aren't you three guys jealous of each other?"

 Bob sighed. Matt, Jim, and he'd had this discussion months earlier. He started, "I'm a psych major – and a liberal thinker, so take that into consideration about where I come from when I tell you this."

 Monica nodded.

 "Jealousy is mostly a learned emotion, and it comes from worrying about losing something you have – such as a girlfriend or favorite possession, or coveting something you don't have but that someone else does – like that yellow Porsche we saw walking in here tonight."

 "Because of how we've created this sharing-swapping-group arrangement, I have nothing to lose except all of you at the same time, and right now that seems remote. That little twinge that it might happen is one of the reasons I'm doing a health check with you tonight. Also, no one else has something that I want as much as my relationships with you, Zoey, Sheila, Alice, and Tracy, and my guy friends. So, what's to be jealous of? Matt and Jim are pretty mellow about things too."

 He thought and added, "I try not to be possessive. If you wanted to sleep with someone outside our group, I'd hope you had a good time. If you wanted to leave the group and go with them, I'd be sad at the loss; but I love you and want you to be happy. I would hope you were pursuing your bliss in some way."

 Bob added, "The opposite of jealousy is 'compersion' – a relatively new word. It means when I see you satisfied and happy, even with another lover, I feel satisfied and happy myself. I strive for that. We all do."

 Monica reached across and took Bob's hand. "You are such a sweetheart. No wonder I love you so much." She thought and questioned, "But, say last night when Matt was fucking me and you were nearby, didn't you want to displace him?"

 Bob laughed, "Always. I love your pussy. As I recall I had my cock in Tracy. I think we were both pretty happy too, plus I knew with some degree of certainty that you and I would make love later, if not that night then sometime soon."

 Monica said, "I watched you and the other guys, and I wanted your three cocks in me simultaneously." She giggled at the thought.

 Bob leaned in and whispered, "That can be arranged. We did it to Alice and Zoey. It's called making you air tight."

 Monica looked puzzled.

 Bob whispered, "One in your pussy; one in your ass; and one in your mouth."

 Monica sat back in mock shock, but her smile gave away her interest in the proposed sex act. She said, "Kinky, but count me in. Do you think we'll get more kinky or less kinky as we go along this path we're on?"

 "Probably more for a while, and then when we start to do families and such, we'll all shift to more conservative. I don't see that happening for a number of years."

 "Nor do I, thank God." 

 Bob said, "I have another question for you." After she nodded, he went ahead, "What do you think of having more men and-or women in the group?"

 Monica thought hard about that. She said, "The pros are that with more men we'd be more sexually balanced, but the complexity of the relationships probably increases exponentially with each new person. With new women there'd be more complexity, but women are more social and inclusive, so we could probably accommodate them if they were of the same mindset the others are. So I guess if we pick well, yes, that might be interesting."

 "Do you care about age?"

 "Are you thinking of someone closer to Alice's age?"

 "Exactly, for a guy, but I have no one in mind. Tracy also wants to bring Ellie, Matt's sister, into our fold, but I'm uncertain about that one. Matt is going to talk to her somehow. He may even be talking to her right now."

 "Oh, I know Ellie. She's such a sexy little pixie. Since I've found I like pussy as well as cock, I could see myself spending a whole night just munching on that tight little cunt of hers."

 "It might have a cock in it."

 "Really? Whose?" Monica teased.

 "Mine." Bob gave Monica a lecherous grim and a villainous chuckle.

 As the last of their meal got cleared away, Bob asked, "Another 'health check' item if I may? We're concerned that we're neglecting some key facet of our relationships with the women in our circle by seeming to over focus on sex. Is that a valid worry, and what should we guys do about it?"

 Monica snorted, "The other girls and I were worried about the same thing. We so love the sex with you. My feeling for now is don't worry about it. Ask the others, but I don't think it's an issue. We do other things once in a while, but my preference, and I'm sure theirs is too, is to be making love in one of our group settings. It's so hot, so memorable, so arousing, and so orgasmic."

 "Wow. Thank you Monica."

 Monica said, "Do you have any concerns about me or the other girls?"

 "You've heard them all in this discussion. I'm the happiest I've ever been. I have a great job that's going to be a good career for a while. I like the people I work with. My family is happy and stable. I exercise. I have the most fabulous circle of friends anybody could ask for. And I have a sex life that sounds more like wild and kinky erotic fiction." Bob smiled.

 Monica slyly said, "What have you planned after dinner?" Her voice sounded hopeful for some kind of romance.

 Bob shrugged. "A walk in the park? Window-shopping downtown? Late movie? Hang out at the mall? Get a DVD and hang out at my place – my parents are home, by the way?"

 Monica leaned in, "How about taking me to my house and fucking my brains out? You could even stay over; I'd like that – sleeping in your arms. My whole family went to see my other set of grandparents, and they're staying overnight there."

 Bob's eyebrows went up and a smile spread across his face. "I can't wait."



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The Circle Ch. 08



Eventually, Sheila sat up from Zoey holding her. She sniffed out, "I guess it's the roots of why I became an ice princess."

Her three friends nodded in understanding, but didn't really understand what her statement meant.

Matt said, "You don't have to tell us if you don't want to."

Sheila shook her head. "I want to. I need to." She sounded desperate.

Zoey stroked her cheek with a tissue and soaked up some tears.

Sheila said, "When I was a freshman I was very naïve. I thought I knew it all – big ego and all, but it turned out I didn't know shit. I started to date a guy from California. His name was Cody, and he was a dreamboat and in the top fraternity. He even knew a couple of actors who were friends of his parents."

"Cody was smooth, and it wasn't long before we were fucking up a storm. We couldn't get enough of each other. For me, I had just discovered what sex was all about, and I couldn't get enough of it. I would do anything Cody asked. A couple of months after we were at it hot and heavy, he told me he had a fantasy of seeing me fuck his best buddy Ian. I told him I would just to make him happy, and so we had a threesome. Soon we were having threesomes almost every night, and sometimes in the afternoon too after classes."

"We were fucking all the time. Cody and me. Ian and me. A threesome. I thought it was great. I was getting such ego strokes from the two men. Imagine a lowly freshman with two upperclassmen, and I was fucking them both and they said they loved me."

Sheila sighed, "And then one day I was supposed to meet them at the student union before we went off to make love – and by then I thought we were all in love. I saw them talking to a couple of other dudes, so I listened in."

"What Cody and Ian were saying about me was terrible. It destroyed me. They called me a slut, a slag, a cunt, and a prostitute with Cody as my pimp. They told the two guys they were talking to that if they all played their cards right, Cody thought he could get me to fuck them too. They were going to manipulate my mind so I wanted to be a slut and fuck more men. They stood there and plotted out how to get me to agree. It was diabolical and I felt so used. They were even laughing about how I'd spread my legs for this one, or give a deep throat blowjob to that one. They were callus about it. There was no love there. I was just a fuck hole for them to masturbate into."

Matt said, "What did you do?"

"I came out from behind my post, walked up to Cody and Ian, and slapped each of them so hard I thought I might have knocked some teeth out. I did the same to the two guys they were talking to. I walked out, walked home – ten miles, and cried for two weeks. I didn't want to go back to campus, but my mother helped me get it together and go back."

Bob said in an off-hand way, "And so you became an ice princess."

Sheila sobbed into her hands and nodded. "In self defense."

Bob sat beside her and pulled her onto his lap. "I promise, with all my heart, swearing on everything I know and am, that I am not like Cody or Ian – and neither are any of us in The Circle. We really do love you. If you want, I will drive you – right now – to the airport, and we can fly to Vegas and I'll marry you."

Sheila sobbed into his shoulder. Matt and Zoey rubbed her back. 

Matt said, "I'd marry you in an instant. Any of us would. The women would marry you as well. We all love you. What can we do to show that we are committed to you, that we love you, and that we are not a Cody or Ian?"

Sheila shook her head, "Just hold me." She broke into uncontrollably sobbing again.

As Bob held his friend, Jim and Monica arrived. They looked concerned.

Monica guessed in a low voice, "Ice princess ghosts?"

Zoey nodded. "She finally told us. It was pretty bad. Two guys worked her over in her freshman year. It wasn't rape, but it may as well have been. She's got PTSD in a way."

Bob hugged Sheila. "Honey, try to listen to me and let me explain some things to you with the best of what I remember from psychology – which is really just human nature."

Sheila nodded as she wiped her eyes.

"Some of what we do together is similar to what you used to do with Cody and-or Ian. The whole idea of group sex is reminiscent of what they were proposing to induce you to do, without your full consent. We do group sex. We do threesomes. We have wild and abandoned sex with you. We do orgies, so to speak. We do a lot of things that trigger the same areas of your brain where those terrible memories of your past are stored."

"What do I do?" Sheila sobbed.

"It's hard. You need to substitute a good memory for bad one. Cody used you and abused you." He looked at Matt. "Matt loves you and makes love to you, and worries about you." Put that memory in place of the old one. You know computers. Erase the memory location that holds the bad memory and write over it with the new one."

"But there are so many. I went with Cody for months."

Bob nodded. "I bet there are – weeks and weeks worth. You'll just have to hang in there with this circle of friends and lovers, and allow us to write over all those nasty old memories with hot new ones. They don't have to be sexual either."

Sheila sighed deeply, "But I love the sex with everyone."

Zoey knelt beside Bob. "Then every time when you're making love and some memory of Cody or Ian flashes by, you say to yourself, I'm replacing that memory with the memory of what's happening right now. See yourself wiping out and erasing, and then physically writing in the new memory, or think of it like a blackboard you erase and write over."

Sheila sniffed, "I'll try."

Bob picked up Sheila in his strong arms, and the group went to their cars. Bob held onto her, as Jim drove the six of them to Alice's apartment as he cradled her in his lap. Alice wasn't there, but they let themselves in with one of the keys she'd given them. 

Bob curled up on the bed holding Sheila tightly. Matt and Jim were right there too: Jim with a wet washcloth, and Matt with tissues. Monica and Zoey rubbed her in a non-sexual way. Everyone told Sheila how much they adored her.

Eventually, Sheila fell asleep. No one even raised the specter of sex.



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Sheila broke into a smile, "We're here to get all this kind of paperwork started. When we find a place, we'll want to move in quickly."

Martin said, "Give me a week and I'll have a complete package ready for your review. I'd suggest that I meet with all nine of you to explain the agreement and its implications. I know that it may be hard for that many of you to get together on a business day, so I'll gladly come in on a Saturday or meet with you in the evening or after work, although I'd plan on spending a couple of hours going over the agreement and things like valuation formulas. If you like the agreement after I prepare it, we can sign it, and my secretary can notarize everything too."



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An hour later, Don sat in the living room with Zoey on his lap. She only wore a thong; he wore boxers. She kept talking to him, "Oh, you were so good. I loved how you made love to me. I hope you'll choose me again." Don kept feeling her tits, and enjoying the pixie. He had a look on his face second only to a kid that found a fifty dollar bill on the sidewalk in front of a candy store.

A few minutes later, Michelle came out from the master bedroom wearing a man's t-shirt and obviously nothing else. For her age, she hadn't lost her attractiveness despite the unavoidable tilt towards maturity.

Michelle walked cautiously and slightly bowlegged. Behind her came Jim and Bob wearing summer shorts, both smiling at the job they'd apparently done on the older woman. Michelle went and flopped down on the sofa beside her husband and Zoey. 

Zoey leaned over and kissed the woman with passion and tongue. She said, "Thank you for sharing Don with me. He was good - real good. You're a lucky woman, and has any other woman told you that you kiss really nice?"

Michelle nodded. "Thank you for sharing Jim and Bob. I have never been so royally fucked in my life, and by two men back to back to back. I'm amazed. This was my first threesome with two men."

Zoey smiled and kissed Michelle again, this time getting even more into it with her. After she stopped, Zoey said, "The more any of us have had sex, the more we seem to be capable of. Instead of wearing out, we seem to be building up to where we can all do more than we ever thought ourselves capable of. I guess the old adage about 'Use it, or lose it' is true."

Michelle looked at Jim and Bob. "Is that true?"

Both men nodded. Jim said, "When this started with the four girls, I could maybe do twice an evening. Now I'm sure of four to six times in an evening, and maybe ten orgasms over a day. I'm learning about Tantric sex and love too because it brings me closer to my partners in mind, body, and spirit. All of us are doing that."

Don's ears had perked up hearing Jim talk about his orgasmic capabilities. The others chortled to themselves as he obviously started to calculate what that would do for him.

Michelle stood and then strolled across to the kitchen and checked on the cake she'd taken out of the oven before going off with the men. "Oh, good. I can put icing on it now. I'll take a shower and be right back." She picked up her shorts and blouse from the kitchen floor and headed for the bedroom.

Monica winked at Matt who had been sitting in the room, and gave a jerk of her head indicating that he should follow Michelle. Matt rose and strolled towards the same bedroom Michelle had gone to use. As he left, he said, "Maybe I'll take a shower too." 

The cake didn't get iced for another hour-and-a-half.



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Kyle gradually overcame his shyness with the women in the house. He'd been raised in a high estrogen environment - a home with two older sisters, his grandmother, and his mother, so had been well instructed and intimidated in how he should behave around members of the opposite sex. As it turned out, the result was shyness and almost subservience until he got to know a new woman.

Michelle Young, Monica's mother, took Kyle under her wing, since she was old enough to be his mother. She also became his lover. After an intense weekend of having him fuck her lights out, she started to reshape his personality to be more outgoing and confident. Her husband, Don, also helped mentor the lad.

One of Michelle's selling points for a new frame of mind involved the fact that seven women loved him, each of whom totally enjoyed having sex with him and having him as a sexy bed partner. Slowly, he started to believe in himself.

Commensurate with his increasing confidence, his grades started to improve. As had happened to Tracy and Ellie, he didn't feel the need to date or search on campus for companionship and entertainment. He had about all he could handle at the house. Being in an atmosphere of grads and people working also gave him the perspective that he was more than a student - he was learning life skills and knowledge that would be valuable for a future job. The change in perspective turned out to be worth a full point on his four-point grade point average propelling him onto dean's list.

An informal practice developed in the house about who slept and fucked with whom. Kyle had started to stay exclusively with Tracy and Ellie at night in their bedroom. Sheila noticed the affinity, and one night we had a discussion with a half-dozen of us, Kyle included.

We talked about a tendency to form couples, but that wasn't what we really wanted when we consciously thought about it. Convenience had overridden desire. Thus, everyone made more of an effort to spread their charms around with the opposite sex.

Kyle didn't need much convincing. After that discussion broke up, Alice played cougar, and captured Kyle for the night, not turning him loose until morning after fucking him most of the night. Kyle was amazing in his recovery abilities. Alice was very happy.



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"Absolutely not," the attorney said with certainty. "There's precedent law about personal privacy that goes back to the 1890s, and since then many superior, Federal District, and Supreme Court decisions that preserve personal privacy. Mr. Atkins is very wrong, and it will cost him his job, I predict, and his newspaper millions."

The Courier and Dean Atkins were served with a civil suit for invasion of privacy and slander. The suit asked for $50 million, and a permanent injunction against using the video taken with the drone for any purpose.

Dean Atkins fought back immediately, by posting the entire video on a pornography website.

The next day, a district court issued an injunction to The Courier and Dean Atkins that required that the video be taken down until the results of the court case were settled. Atkins stalled, was fired with malice from The Courier, and the video disappeared from the web. The Courier printed an apology for violating the privacy rights of certain individuals, and noted that the reporter involved had been summarily dismissed. The case got national coverage, almost assuring that Dean Atkins would never work in the media or newsprint industry again.

The newspaper, their insurance company, and Harber, representing injured parties, met and subsequently settled out of court for $20 million and an agreement that the video would never see the light of day. A copy of the video in possession of the newspaper was given to the plaintiffs; all others were destroyed. Dean Atkins was enjoined under court order to destroy all copies of the video or face a prison term and a personal fine that could amount to over a million dollars.

Matt and Nathan's first act of generosity was to pay off the mortgage on the large house they shared with The Circle. This was their way of indemnifying the others in The Circle who might suffer unknown damage from what Atkins had done.





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Bob helped play host for them, getting them drinks from one of the bars.

Eventually, Kyle's uncle turned to Bob as the others wandered off towards a food table; "Kyle says he lives here with a dozen people, but the house doesn't have that many bedrooms."

Bob was well rehearsed with this question, as were all the members of The Circle. He replied, "We're a large polyamorous family. We don't need that many bedrooms, although we will be shifting around some in a few months because we have two babies arriving."

The uncle pieced together all the implications of that statement. "Who's having the babies?"

Again, Bob stuck to the agreed upon party line, "Alice Ames and Willow Mendez. Kyle may even be a father." He was laughing uproariously inside, knowing that he'd just dropped a nuclear bomb on Kyle's family, but it was according to Kyle's wishes and plan.

"WHAT?" Learning that his nephew might be a daddy had just boggled the older man's brains. Kyle's uncle was initially agog with the news, and made Bob repeat what he'd just said.

"Be right back." Kyle's uncle scrambled across the patio to Kyle's mother, and immediately started to gesture wildly as he babbled in a rapid tone to her.

Lynn Broadhurst, Kyle's cute mother, shot across the patio to Bob, but stopped halfway to grab hold of Kyle's arm when he appeared from inside the house carrying a tray of canapés. In seconds, she was in front of Bob closely followed by the uncle.

"John said that you just implied that Kyle might be about to be a father? What do you mean?" She looked rapidly between Bob and her son.

Kyle winked at Bob, and turned to his mother. "Mom, I told you how I live. I live in an open and loving relationship with my friends – that's plural 'friends.' I even told you a couple of months ago that two of them were pregnant."

"But not that you were the father, or are you? Which one? Is it Alice or Willow? What did you do? When are they due? Do you know what you're doing? Aren't you a little young to be a father?" The questions came like short fire bursts from a machine gun his mother fired at her son. They came so fast he didn't have time to answer even one of them for over a minute.

"Chill, mother," Kyle implored when she ran out of steam. "It could be either, both, or none at all. We agreed as a family that we wouldn't put a lot of emphasis on paternity, so I'm not either."

"But one of them mmmmmight be my GRANDCHILD," Lynn almost sobbed.

Bob offered, "Mrs. Broadhurst, we would urge you to be a grandparent to all our children. I know we'll be having more over the next few years, and each one will be a blessed event as they join our large family."

"But ... but ... but ..."

Kyle said, "Bob's right, mother. I plan to be a parent to every child born into this circle. One couple that is in our circle with us is Monica's parents, Michelle and Don. They're your age, even a little older, and they plan to be universal grandparents."

"Oh, God, I am not prepared for this at all." Lynn Broadhurst threw her forearm across her forehead in dismay.

Lynn wandered off towards the bar that was serving hard liquor. Kyle's uncle followed close behind.

Kyle chuckled, "Let me get them talking to Michelle and Don. I think they'll see the light, although it might not be tonight." He went off after them.

More and more people arrived at the party. The members of The Circle had agreed that one or two of them would be greeters at the front door, helping to welcome people and aim them towards the backyard, bars, food, and pool, although no one had yet chosen to swim despite that option on the invitations. 

At four o'clock, Alex and Ellie were at the door, laughing gaily and happily as guest after guest arrived. Ellie, Tracy, and Kyle each had a purple sash with the words 'New Grad' on it around their necks. The sashes were presents from Lloyd and Laura Saddler, Ellie and Matt's parents.

Lloyd and Laura knew about the pregnancies and that Matt might have fathered either or both children. Laura had said, "Oh, I like the idea of being a universal grandmother; that sounds so inclusive. If one of them looks like me I'll be a pushover the rest of my life for anything that child wants."

Each of the other Circle members, including Don and Michelle, had special nametags with a little green ribbon that said 'Host' on it. That way, if someone was lost, or needed help finding the bathroom or such, they would know whom to ask.

Jim and Tracy's parents – both of them – showed up about four-fifteen. Alex and Ellie welcomed them in. Ellie knew them well from her long-term friendship with Tracy. She gave them both hugs and introduced them to Alex, who was less than a decade younger than Gary and Denise Wilson.

The Wilson's stuck together. Denise was the friendly and cordial one, making sure that Gary got introduced to all the other members of The Circle, whether he wanted to or not. Gary had on his brave face, and was trying to tough through what had started as a bad situation for him, but seemed to get better as he met the cross-section of loving people making up his son's primary life.

Gary was unhappy about The Circle lifestyle. He didn't approve of the plural and open relationships, and that his son and daughter were involved was almost too much to take. His mind was cemented on the idea that monogamy and exclusivity were the only 'right' ways to have a relationship.

Jim had talked to his mother to make sure that she got his dad talking to Monica's parents who were the same age, yet belonged to The Circle. They weren't trying to coerce his parents to join up, only to be more tolerant of their lifestyle.

Denise saw Michelle's special nametag and pulled Gary over to her. "Gary, this woman and her husband are part of Jimmy and Tracy's circle of friends. Michelle, I'm Tracy and Jim's mother and this is their father Gary."

Michelle responded with greeting pleasantries, and called Don over so he could meet Jim and Tracy's parents as well. Don and Michelle had been primed to greet the parents of the other family members knowing they had a unique position in The Circle and a unique position in terms of understanding the polyamorous family. They'd talked a long time about how to portray The Circle and what went on with others.

Gary was fascinated with the joy and happiness exuded by the couple. Zoey came by and gave Don and Michelle a hug, and then got introduced to Denise and Gary.

Denise said, "I think I remember you from years ago when you first started to date Jimmy."

Zoey smiled, "We did meet, but a lot of time has passed since them. We're all so glad you came." She turned to Gary and said, "Jim is worried about his relationship with you. He knows you don't approve of all this," she waved her hand around the house and people, "but we hope you can at least be tolerant that he lives with people who love him dearly and want for nothing but his happiness."

Zoey had always been one of the outspoken members of the family, seldom cloaking her feelings. Her forthrightness cut to the core of some problem, and helped resolve things quickly.

Gary nodded, "I'm trying ... more today than I ever have. I assure you there's progress up here." He tapped the side of his head and eked out a smile.

Don said, "Monica is our daughter, and she's part of this circle too. We worried as she got into this group, but I've never seen her happier. Michelle and I have seen this group from the outside and inside, and this is the best place in the world. It's easy to cast stones because the people don't follow traditional beliefs and relationship tenets, but we are all a happy intentional family."

Gary asked, "Without challenging your premise, may I ask what makes it that way?"

Michelle stepped in, "If I may. First off, there is more love per acre here than anyplace else on earth. That love shows up in the ways that are important to each person, and it comes at them from over a dozen different directions. Let me show you a 'for instance.'"

Michelle grabbed hold of Gary's hand and led him into the house to the busy kitchen. She pointed to a chart on the side of the refrigerator. The chart listed the name of each Circle member, and next to them their primary and secondary modes for feeling loved: rollegetting gifts, having services done for them, words of affirmation, quality time, and physical.

She explained, "A man named Chapman wrote a book called the Five Languages of Love.  Each person has one or two of these as the dominant ways they know that they're loved. We call it their sponge mode; the more of it they get, the more they can soak up and feel the adoration. That makes then self-confident, self-assured, and allows them to face the challenges of the world with great vigor and courage.

She pointed at the chart, "See Jim is physical – no surprise with this group, and wants quality time with his lovers. Tracy is over here, and she likes little services done for her as well as physical touching and things. It's not that the other things aren't wanted or liked, it's just that they're not as important for feeling loved."

Gary muttered, "I'm not sure I want to know that my son and daughter have physical relationships."

Michelle laughed, "Gary, we all have physical needs, just for some that's a primary way of knowing that we're loved. For me, I need to be romanced and held – to be cuddled – and told I'm just wonderful and the best lover in the world." She pointed at her row on the chart. "Jim does that for me, and in return I spend quality time with him, talking about books or current events or anything, just so long as we're together. We know we love each other very much."

Both of Jim's parents shuddered at the idea of their mid-twenties son making love with late-forties year old Michelle. The mood passed quickly when they both realized how sincere and open Michelle was trying to be with them. Gary noted that Michelle was pretty 'hot' too, a point obviously not lost on his son.

Laura asked, "Do you all refer to this chart?"

Don said from across the counter, "Not all the time, but it is a reminder to us to not get complacent about our relationships, to not take the other people we love and care about for granted."

Gary said, "And you fully approve of your daughter's being in this group?"

Michelle said, "We encourage it and think it's the best place in the world for her." The emphasis and candor of Don and Michelle's replies had significant impact on Gary.

Don said, "We've never seen her happier, or been happier ourselves."

Alex and Nathan's parents had come too. They were older as were both men. They circulated for a little, sat and talked with some of the other afternoon guests, and then they left before the dinner hour. 

Sheila's parents came and were awed by everyone and the house. They had stayed away after the newspaper incident, although Sheila often visited them. This was their first serious look at how Sheila was living.

Zoey's parents flowed into the party, greeted and flirted with everyone, and then exited just before dinner, taking with them Jim's parents, Bob's mother, and Matt's parents with them. They were headed out to their own impromptu group dinner. Denise whispered to her son, "I'll make sure we talk about The Circle at dinner. I think the more Gary hears about the benefits, the more tolerant he is about what you and Tracy are doing."

Jim said to his mother, "Good, and make sure the guys' parents know we expect them to be universal grandparents to everyone born of our circle. I know this may be a stumbling block for some. Monica said Kyle's mother about came unglued at the concept, but he calmed her down."

As the middle agers left, a younger crowd started to arrive. Many were the friends of each Circle member, often their work colleagues or college buddies.

Jim was talking to his boss Brad, when a pretty slightly older female came up to him. "Are you Jim?"

Jim smiled, "I am."

A microsecond later, the gorgeous woman was in his arms hugging him and sharing a monumental kiss and body hug, in which she wrapped both legs around his body and ground her snatch into his groin.

Brad watched in fascination, feeling somewhat left out of the arousing event.

As they parted, Jim went, "Whoa! Do I know you?"

"You do now." She flounced away, "I'm Amy. See you later, I hope."

Brad said, "Wow, does that happen often?"

"No, but I hope it's establishing a trend. That's my friend Matt's Aunt Amy. She's from California, but was around here for a long time going to university and part of Matt's family. Alice, who you met a little while ago, and she were best friends and lovers, and lived together."

Brad nodded, "You put a lot of stock in your relationships don't you."

"I didn't always. Bob, who's around here somewhere, got me started talking about a constellation of friends. We call it a constellation of lovers, because we want people around us whom we love." Jim went on to describe the concept of a constellation to Brad and how it formed one of the bases for The Circle.

Even as the two men talked, they each felt new warmth between them. The feelings were something that hadn't been there before with only the workplace relationship.

Jim summed it all up, "We see ourselves as spiritual beings having a human experience, and that our purpose in this life is to grow and evolve. The best way we know to do that is through our relationships with other people, and what better way to do that than to love them."

Brad asked, "But ... well ... aren't you sexual with all the women?"

"I am. All the men are. The women are mostly bisexual too, and the men are comfortable around each other in a multi-partner bedroom situation, but we aren't physical lovers. When there are other people we know and like, we involve them from time to time. I was told Sandy asked Monica a lot of questions about our lifestyle." Jim meant the last sentence to be a source of reference for Brad, her husband.

Brad responded differently, "She talked to me extensively after talking to Monica and a little with you, and then Bob and Zoey. She'd really like to be under the tent flap once in a while."

Jim puzzled whether Brad really meant what he seemed to imply. "Could you say that another way?"

Brad took a deep breath, "She'd like to be a guest of your group ... a sexual guest and lover. She's in love with several of you, and I must tell you I don't mind. She still loves me, and so far I've been nothing but the beneficiary of her overflow of feelings."

Jim cautiously said, "What about you? We wouldn't do this without you because we are not in the business of breaking up a good relationship like the two of you seem to have."

He smiled, "I'm very interested too. People don't know me as well, but I would love to try your lifestyle, to use that word."

Jim smiled, "Stay late tonight, although with Sandy's involvement, you were probably planning to close up anyway."



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Jim lay down behind Amy, lifted her upper leg, and slid his hard cock into her pussy. Several people in the group watching expressed wonder about Jim's recovery ability and his staying power.

Amy turned so Jim could kiss her and also suck on her breasts. In turn, she also opened herself up to Sandy.

Amy said, "You just fucked Sandy, are you sure you have what it takes to do me?"

Jim smiled, "I always have enough."

Jim and Sandy both sucked and kissed Amy, and then Amy started to have an orgasm. Sandy reached down to where Jim's cock pistoned into Amy's body, felt his cock and balls, and then homed in on Amy's clit. Sandy rubbed and massaged until Amy started to pop off orgasms every few minutes. 

Amy eventually stopped her. "Sandy, I can't take it anymore. Just let Jim cum inside me and then I'm done."

Sandy snickered, "No, you're not done until I eat all that cum out of your pussy, and then dribble it into your mouth before kissing you with the same passion you kissed me. And, that's exactly how the next ten minutes unfolded.



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Sandy gasped, "Oh, God, Jim. You can't keep going or I'll die."

He smiled diabolically at her. He hadn't really started yet this was the response. In his peripheral vision he became aware of several new people watching them. One woman was being stripped of her clothing. A man was getting a blowjob.

Jim extended his fingers to Sandy's A-spot. The first touch nearly made her explode. For the next five minutes, Jim stroked and caressed that place deep inside her, and then with his mouth locked on her clit, Sandy did indeed explode.

"OH, FUCK. I'M ... I'M ... I'M CUMMING LIKE NEVER BEFORE. OH, FUCK! OH, MY GOD ... OH, WHAT ... SO FUCKING GOOD."

If people didn't know Sandy was getting fucked before, they sure knew it then. People downtown five miles away knew too. Everyone on the patio had turned to watch, and some were obviously getting in the spirit of the rest of the evening by shedding their clothing, or more accurately allowing someone else to help them dispose of it. The man who'd been getting the blowjob had buried his cock in his girlfriend as they lay on one of the other chaises.

Jim changed position, and sank his long hard cock into Sandy's quim. At first, he did it as he'd seen in some of the porn films he liked, kneeling in front of her and slowly inserting but in a way where everyone could see the sexy penetration. As he got into his oscillations, he leaned into her arms. She wrapped her legs around his hips and kissed him in a frantic way, to show her love and passion for the man.

Sandy came again ... and again, vocalizing each orgasm to the delight of those still watching them fuck.

Jim glanced up into the gazebo. Two nude couples were fucking like crazy in the small structure, and another stood at the entrance with the woman holding onto the railing and being fucked from behind by the heavy set man.

Jim blasted a load of cum into Sandy, as she raved to everyone in earshot what a fabulous lover he was. 

The pair collapsed together, holding onto one another and kissing with a rare passion between two people.

A voice said, "There's more people fucking on the other side of the patio too. They're putting on a great show too."

Sandy whispered, "Brad and Steph love to fuck. They're good at it too. They've been together a few times before."

Jim said, "When you recover, we could go watch."

"Let's go now. I'll cuddle with Brad until I'm ready for another round." As she stood, she said, "My God, that thing you do. It's fabulous. Steph wants you too."

"I try to please."

"You were a colossal success. The more I think about it, the more I think I'm going to fuck my husband's lights out. We've never done anything in public. You do Steph." Sandy was rapidly regaining her sanity after Jim had blown it away with his A-spot orgasm.

The partiers opened an alley for the two nude lovers to reach the other end of the patio. About half were already nude and were wholeheartedly involved in the foreplay leading to active sex. The other half were obviously thinking about it.

Brad and Steph saw them approach, and rolled to give them room to sit on their chaise. Sandy kissed her husband with a lot of tongue. She said, "I just had the best orgasm of my life. Don't be jealous, but I really do love this man." She leaned in and kissed Jim again. "And now I want your cock in me." She giggled, "You don't mind sloppy seconds, do you?"

Brad smiled, "Oh, goody. I finally get to fuck my wife in a public setting."

Jim winked at Steph, and she scooted across to be with him on another nearby chaise. They kissed, and then they lay down and made out as Steph fondled Jim's rapidly rising cock. A moment later she was riding him cowgirl style, and their show joined what Sandy and Brad were doing.

Three more nearby chaises suddenly had copulating couples on them. Behind them, other guests were shedding their clothing, fondling a member of the opposite sex, or looking for a place to have intercourse.

Jim heard Sandy say to her husband, "Mission accomplished."



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"But you said you have your own money?"

"I got George to give me $5,000 as a wedding present instead of a flashy ring, although he did that too. I'll give him back the ring ... and the $5,000. I invested the five-grand in penny stocks of companies that I know or learned about. In the two years we've been married I've turned that into half-a-million."

"I want you to tell me what you're investing in," Alice said with both enthusiasm and sincerity.

Marlene laughed, "Only relatively local companies; ones I can drive to. I end up investing in about one out of ten I visit. The good ones have a sharp product niche, are getting good placement on retail shelves or in the market, understand the economics of their business model, and have a sharp management team."

"Matt did say that you were very smart."

"I didn't go to college. I couldn't afford it. I took a few courses at a local community college, but then ran out of money. My dad is long gone, and my mother was an alcoholic until she died about five years ago. I had a tough life. I also did some things I don't like to share."

"I'm sorry. I guess time wounds all heels, to turn the old adage around. Say, is there anything I can help you with?"

"No. I didn't mean to impose on your time." She gestured to Alice's workstation on the counter.

"Oh, no. It's OK. I'll finish, and probably do a better job at it tomorrow morning. I like the vibes you give off; don't go." Alice sauntered over and closed the laptop, and piled up her notes and sketches.

Marlene said, "Thank you. You said you live with Matt. I didn't realize he had a girlfriend, and since you know about the party, apparently a pretty open-minded one too."

Alice realized that Marlene didn't understand her when she'd used the term 'family.' She explained, "Matt and I, and Jim too, all live together with a dozen others. We're an intentional family."

Marlene's eyes got larger, "Intentional family?"

"We started with four women, including me, and three men, including Matt and Jim. Since then more people have joined us – men and women. A few others don't live with us, but are part of our family – or almost in a couple of recent cases."

"Are you're all ... intimate?"

"The guys aren't into each other, but everything else goes every which way all the time. We're a lusty bunch," Alice confided.

"What's the glue that holds you all together?"

"Good question. We love one another, for sure, and we like each other's company. We also have a penchant for public group sex, although that varies across the individuals in the group – our exhibitionism and voyeurism. We like diversity, especially in our ages. We have people in our circle from twenty-two to fifty-two, and as you'll see one oriental, one Hispanic, and one beautiful chocolate. The rest of us are lily white."

"Do you all work?"

"We do now. We just had a graduation party for our three youngest who just finished college a month ago. We have bankers, an investment analyst, engineers, sales associates, land developers, a newly minted real estate agent, several computer jocks – I'm one of them, and a biochemist – that's Matt."

"Are you coupled up but swap?"

"No, not at all. We intentionally keep mixing it up with each other. Three of us are pregnant too, so lots will change in the near future. We're planning a large addition to this house, but haven't even got a design yet. There's been a little talk about adding a couple more people sympathetic to our lifestyle."

"Don't you get jealous of each other?"

"Nope. That's one of the requirements. You have to have gotten over monogamy, and see the other options as just as viable. You have to shun exclusivity in favor of diversity. You have to savor compersion – feeling good when you see someone you love happily involved with someone else."

"Is that why you're so laid back about Matt having made love to me?" Marlene cautiously asked.

"Exactly. He had fun and truly enjoyed being with you, so much that he shared some of the details about the party and you. Don't be embarrassed; it's what we do with each other. He said he met you through Sandy Ross."

"I was given her name by a person who came to your graduation party, Mindy Falkner. Anyway, I contacted Sandy and described the kind of party my husband wanted; thus, the sexual ending to the party. In some ways it was the final straw. That's sort of what I wanted to talk to Matt about. I'm wondering what I should do with my life now."

"Your husband doesn't care?" Alice asked.

"Not one little bit. I thought he'd get over the fascination with my looks, and start to enjoy the rest of me – my personality, intellect, and psyche. Instead, I find out he's about as shallow as a sidewalk puddle, and doesn't give a shit about anybody other than himself. He won't miss me for a second, especially now that he's bonking some new bimbo."

"You are gorgeous. Matt will want to photograph you."

"How's that?"

"Matt is a really good photographer. It's his hobby. Look into the family room; see the montage of photos on the wall? They're his."

Marlene peered into the adjacent room, "They're nudes."

"Each one of the women in our circle is up there in some way."

"Oh, wow! They're ... they're so sexy and erotic without being crude."

Alice laughed, "Oh, we can do crude too – and highly erotic, but they're not in the public rooms. There's a beautiful shot of my vagina over his bed ... It's ... well, I have a cream pie – his, of course."

Marlene laughed, "My kind of photographer."

The front door opened and Tracy came in dragging her roll-on suitcase. She said to no one in particular, "Home at last. Home at last."

Alice said in a raised voice so she'd hear her, "You sound like Martin Luther King."

Tracy appeared and nodded to Marlene. "My third week on the job, and I spend five consecutive nights away 'doing' the west coast."

Alice teased, "Did you sleep with Doug yet?"

"No. I was so tired from getting up in the dark and then catching airplanes, I couldn't stay awake after dinner. He's used to this traveling shit. He tells me I'll get used to it too." She walked to Marlene. "Hi, I'm Tracy."

"Marlene. Nice to meet you. You must be one of the grads." Tracy's youth was hard to ignore. The pair shook hands.

"I am, and three weeks into a new job. I thought school was tough, but I don't want to see another airplane for at least a week. I'm having 'real world' shock."

Alice said, "Don't you have to consolidate your gains in the office once in a while?"

Tracy gave a mock swoon, "Yes. Monday through Wednesday, and then we travel again on Thursday and Friday."

Alice said, "Marlene is the woman who hosted the party Matt went to last week."

"Oh, you're that Marlene. Matt really liked you, and you're so pretty. No wonder he hoped you'd stay in touch."

Marlene looked surprised, "He did?"

Tracy amplified her comment, "Yes. He said the two of you were vibrating spiritually to the same beat. I'm not trying to go all-weird on you. Other people might just call it great chemistry. Anyway, he wanted to see you again, but didn't want to initiate anything because you're married."

"Soon not to be. That's what I wanted to talk to him about. He seemed so smart and so level headed. I need outside opinions. Now, after talking to Alice, I'm beginning to think I should be talking to her ... and you ... and Matt."

Alice gestured, "Everyone who lives here will help you. We have a knack for caring about other people. Our ability to love and care for others is boundless. We don't draw arbitrary boundaries around ourselves in that regard."

Tracy said, "When we meet someone, we always start with a premise of love – that we will end up loving that person in mind, body, and spirit. I try to see each person I meet as new member of our family and a lover."

Marlene nodded, "I think I came to the right place. I wish I'd found you three years ago."

A few others arrived home and checked in with Alice and Tracy, sharing kisses with them. 

Marlene watched carefully. "Is this a regular thing – the welcome home kisses?"

"Every day. If someone misses, the whole day seems a little off. We say goodbye in the morning the same way. If you start your day feeling loved and appreciated, there's little the world can throw at you that you can't cope with. You know you always have a loving home to come back to."

About five-forty-five Matt came through the door. He saw Marlene, but kissed Sheila, Zoey, Tracy, and Alice, and gave a manly hug to Alex and Bob in the living room.

"Marlene, how nice to see you. What a surprise?"

"I'd like a kiss too."

"Why certainly." Matt moved to where she sat, and gave her a long sultry kiss with just a trace of tongue. When they parted he kept an arm around her shoulders as he turned to face the others with her.

Marlene explained, "Oh, God. You kiss divinely. I came to talk to you, but Alice and Tracy have been giving me a whole education about things I never dreamed about – mostly about how you live."

He said to her, "Anything you need to hit me with first, or can you stay for dinner? It's my turn to do a salad; you could stay and be my moral support while I shred lettuce and dice tomatoes."

"Stay, thank you. I like Alice and Tracy, and I guess it's OK that they hear. Some they know because we've been talking. Anyway, I'm leaving George. I can share the details, but we were fundamentally never together. I'm not what he thought he married. So I'm making a pile of problems for myself. I need a job – he didn't want me to work. I need a new place to live – I can't stand being with him a second longer. I think I need a personality makeover so I don't end up like one of those bitter divorcées who hate men. Lastly, and here's where I'm asking you for help, I need a shoulder to cry on. I don't have any real friends around this area."

As Marlene talked Matt had put on an apron, and got a large number of ingredients for a salad from one of the side-by-side refrigerators. He set up on the counter in front of her. Alice gathered her papers and computer, and set them aside.

Matt looked surprised. "Why no friends? I thought you had dozens of them around you at the party."

"Acquaintances. They're from the country club that George idolizes. The women are mostly wives of his buddies, like the little bimbo he's probably off bonking as we speak. I tried to fit in and get buddy-buddy with them, but I'm not part of that set. They see me as what George 'bought,' a trophy wife. I don't want to be that either."

Matt saw Alice smile and nod at Marlene. Tracy too. He came and hugged Marlene, "Well, you've got a new friend, and actually a new group of friends if you hang out here. I'm flattered and glad to help."

Marlene looked sheepishly at the two women, but turned back to Matt. She said in a low voice, "I'm hoping you and I ... could be physical too. As planned and orchestrated as our time was at the party, I ended up feeling very warm about you. I'm not normally needy, but I am right now."

Matt hugged her and kissed her forehead. "That can be arranged too."

Alice said, "Matt, I'll finish the salad. Why don't you and Marlene go off to your room? We won't expect either of you back here for an hour or so."

Matt shed the apron. "Thanks. I'll owe you."

He led Marlene across the living room to the stairs, and up to a tastefully decorated bedroom. He shut the door, and turned to her. "Talk or make love?"

Marlene threw herself into his arms. "Make love and then talk. She started to unbutton his shirt."

Soon, the two of them were on the large bed in the room, giving themselves to one another. Marlene exploded in orgasm almost as soon as they lay down; when Matt simply touched her breasts with his mouth and fingered her dripping slit. Their lovemaking went on from there.

When Matt and Marlene came downstairs, they ran into Alice again. She smiled and asked, "Have a good time?"

Marlene blushed, "Yes. Are you always so open with each other? The question I mean; it's sort of embarrassing as I reappear after obviously fucking upstairs."

Alice captured Marlene, put an arm around her, and led her into the living room. "Yes, we are. We often make love in public, and don't blush about it because it's so natural. Our inquiries to each other are sincere and go beyond small talk. I genuinely hope that you and Matt had a rewarding time together and that some of your needs got met – physical and emotional."

Marlene nodded and said in a small voice, "They did, but I can be insatiable."

Alice laughed, "You came to the right place. We're all that way."

"Really? So, if I still needed physical attention ...?"

A male voice from behind her said, "I'd take you back upstairs, and give you that attention. Will you come with me now?"

Marlene turned, and Jim stood there. She'd been romanced by him a little at the party, but then lost touch with him. He put his arms around her and kissed her. "I missed you at your party. I wanted to be with you, but didn't get a chance. If you are 'insatiable' would you allow me to help you fill that void.

She nodded shyly, and let him take her hand and lead her upstairs. This was an experiment for her, she thought. Could I really like this lifestyle? Am I really going to let two men make love to me only moments apart, and in a public way? I'm such a slut - again.

The sun was setting on a warm day when Jim and Marlene came back downstairs. Many of the others were already eating at a large dining table. Marlene again blushed scarlet, but everyone ignored the obvious this time, and only nodded in their direction. Alice looked up from her meal and winked at her. 

Matt appeared and joined the pair, leading them to the dining room. He said, "I saved us all some dinners. I thought I'd wait and join you."

She nodded in appreciation.

Matt and Jim left her for a moment and went into the kitchen, returning a moment later with glasses of wine, a salad, and some pasta salad for her. They got their own plates and sat at the end of the long table with her. Marlene was still blushing.

"Don't blush, Marlene," Jim said. "Making love is as natural as breathing, at least all of us think so. Also, Matt and I have often made love to the same woman, but usually at the same time. A threesome is not at all unusual around here."

"I like you both," she said. "I like your house and lifestyle. This is comfortable ... or would be after I got used to the open sex."

Alice slid into a chair beside Jim. 'Then why don't you stay with us for a little while? You said you needed a place to stay, and I would be glad to have you as a roommate."

"But aren't all your beds and rooms occupied?"

"Sort of," Alice grinned. "There's a bed for everyone, often in someone else's bedroom. That said, some of them are empty every night."

Marlene filled in, "Because you sleep with someone else?"

"Exactly. In fact, last night I slept with Matt. We made love a couple of times too. He's very romantic, not that Jim isn't too." She poked at Jim to tease him.

"I'd love to stay. I didn't expect to when I came over here. Thank you. I promise I won't be a burden. I'm neat too, so I won't leave a mess, and I'll do my share of chores around the house."

"Great. It's settled. Do you want some help bringing any of your clothes over? It sounds like you're going to vacate your house."

"I am, and yes, after I finish dinner, I'd love to make just one trip so I have some things for the next few days."

Alex slid in beside Alice. "Alice told us you needed a job. What do you do?"

"I was going to be an English major in college, but barely got started. I worked as a secretary for a now defunct magazine for five years, and then did some freelance editing for another five until George caught up with me."

Alice chimed in, "She's also made a small fortune in the past two years investing in penny stocks. She had a great strategy, and is getting great returns."

Alex slid away again with his cellphone in his hand.

He came back a few minutes later. "If you want, next Monday you can start as my secretary and assistant. I'm a partner at Maxwell Investments. I'll also work with you on investing in penny stocks. That area has been my blind spot, and I always knew there were millions to be made there. The pay won't be great to start, but after a ninety-day probation period it'll bump up five-grand if you're doing well and fitting in. I think it starts at thirty-thousand, but you'll have to go through human resources to get all of that."

Marlene's jaw dropped open. "You're kidding, right?"

Alex shook his head. "No. My secretary left today for maternity leave of indefinite length. I've been listening to you, and I like working with people in The Circle or friends of The Circle. I'm an easy boss, but I can be demanding when things get tight in the market."

"Oh, I'll do it. Thank you so much. Oh, God. I come here to find a friend, and I find lots of friends, a new place to live, a job, and I get some romance." She was a little choked up about it all.

Alex laughed, "It's not required on the job, but I feel a vibe with you as the others do. I hope sometime we can join."

Marlene looked at him with tears in her eyes and nodded enthusiastically.

Matt cleared the dishes as they were talking. As he came back, he said to Alex, "Shall we take Marlene to her old house to get some of her things?"

"Yeah, that'd be fun. Let's do it."



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The Circle Ch. 18



Jim explained as they went into his room, "I share my room with Ellie now, that's why the other big bed is here and space is tighter. It's not that we make love every night, although our frequency is up; it was the need to give our two new mothers-to-be some privacy and space where the middle-of-the-night cries wouldn't wake the rest of us. With another baby or two, it'll all be a moot point, but for now this is one result."

"I don't care," Sandy said. "I'd make love to you anywhere, and I don't care who watches. Maybe Ellie will join in."

"Careful, or I'll take you up on that. I do have public sex fantasies."

"So do I. Any particular place?"

"Years ago, I wanted to do Sheila on a certain picnic table down on the town commons."

Sandy laughed, "Well, fuck me in your big bed and let me see how I feel afterward, but I might be up for that; plus it'll be later and thus less chance of being caught."

Sandy and Jim made out as they slowly stripped each other's clothes off. Just as they were nude the door opened a crack. 

Ellie peered in, "Hi. I was afraid you might be in here. Brad and I were looking for a bedroom. We'll go ..."

Sandy said, "No, come in and stay here. I'd love to fuck next to my husband while he does you. I think that'd be so sexy and erotic. I'm already almost ready to explode with an orgasm just thinking about that."

Brad and Ellie came in and nudged the door so it was almost closed. There was an etiquette that had developed around the house; if the door was wide open, others were invited to join in; if the door was partially open then voyeurs were welcome; and if the door were shut, then some privacy was requested.

Brad went and kissed his nude wife, as a naked Jim French kissed with Ellie between her removal of each item of clothing.

Jim said to him, "You'd better hurry up. I'm locked and loaded and ready to fire. I can't wait to give your wife a bucket of cum."

Ellie was striping her clothes off as the others talked. When she was naked, she pulled at Brad's clothes until his large cock sprung free. At that point, it went down her throat in a lewd display of sexual prowess. Not to be outdone, Sandy proved to Jim that she had the same set of deep-throat skills.

By tacit agreement, the two couples fucked in parallel, using the same positions, but often gazing at each other. Jim could tell that Brad was getting off big time watching his cock piston into his wife's pussy. Jim loved to watch Ellie get pounded by a large cock, and Brad certainly filled the bill.

Eventually, the four of them rode through a series of orgasms that resulted in both women dripping in cum. After some play with the jism, they took turns cleaning each other and then sharing the effluent with their partners.

When they were through, and recovery had started, Sandy noted the time: ten o'clock.

Sandy said to Ellie and Brad, "Jim and I are going to take a little drive down to the town common. He's going to fuck me on a special picnic table there that has meaning to him. Do you want to come along?"

Ellie and Brad looked at each other and grinned, "Heck, yes."

Ellie dressed in her short catholic schoolgirl skirt, and outfitted Sandy in similar garb. For a top she wore one of Alice's favorite things – a shirt with the tails tied under her bare breasts. Thus, with only two items of clothing and shoes, the women declared they were ready to go and ready to fuck.

Brad and Jim both slipped on shorts and t-shirts, and went commando.

The four of them laughed themselves silly on the way to the commons, only a ten minute ride from the house. They pulled in and parked, and then walked to Jim's favorite table on the north side of the square with the bandstand in the center. They sat for a short time to let their eyes adapt to the darkness, and to be sure there was no one else near them.

As they waited the two girls, extracted the men's cocks from their shorts and sucked them up to a perfect hardness for penetration. When they were sure no one was around, the girls sat on the picnic table, untied their shirts so their breasts showed in the dim light, and pulled their skirts up to their waist. The cocks penetrated simultaneously.

Sandy moaned, "Oh, God, this is so sinful and so erotic. I'm ... oh, fuck ... I'm cumming right now."

On that note, Sandy peaked and gasped as the orgasm overtook her like a sudden tidal wave. As she floated down, Jim started up pumping into her body. Beside the pair, Brad thrust deeply into Ellie's sweet young cunt, enjoying her tightness and the perfume of her sex that permeated the summer air.

The couples went on for quite a while; given this was their second fuck in a short period. Several times the couples jumped and worried about getting caught as cars drove along the nearby street or they heard people walking along the sidewalk on the far edge of the park.

Jim eventually blasted another sea of cum into Brad's wife's pussy, causing Sandy to peak again and moan loudly. Her moan carried across the whole commons, but it also triggered Ellie and Brad's orgasms as though she'd thrown a switch.

Brad and Ellie gasped and moaned into a fabulous French kiss as his cum surged into her body. Ellie panted, "God, Brad. That was so good. Your wife is so lucky. Sandy, thank you for sharing."

Sandy chortled, "And that you for sharing your new roommate."

Ellie laughed, "Yeah, this is really co-ed living at its best. Jim and I fuck a lot. I love it."

Jim corrected her, "We make love a lot."

A minute later, Jim said as he extracted from Sandy's cunt, "Thank you ladies. You have satisfied a lifelong dream I've had since the age of twelve when I started to like this table and girls. I have always wanted to nail some pussy right here, just as we've done tonight."

"Ah, a realized fantasy to cross off your bucket list," Brad chided as he pulled up his shorts.

Sandy said, "Hey, anybody want to get ice cream? The Dairy Queen doesn't close for another half-hour."

With cum running down their legs, no undies on, and the sexiest shirts in the town barely covering their full breasts, the girls caught a lot of attention at the ice cream stand. They ended up sitting on the hood of the car as they ate their cones, while Brad and Jim stood by admiring their assets. Jim laughed at the 'skid marks' on the car as the girls got off and they prepared to go home.



The Circle Ch. 19







The Circle Ch. 19



Sheila said, "I can't sleep. I'm so excited about the video. It makes me all horny and insatiable just to think about doing all that we did and do on camera."

Matt and Alice chuckled. Alice said, "That's why we're awake and down here ... and you were always horny and insatiable."

Matt argued, "No, not always. Remember, she was one of the three ice princesses when we started. That was why I brought Jim and Bob along to talk to you about how to thaw them out.

Sheila enthused, "That should be the movie title: Three Ice Princesses." 

Alice went, "Oooooh, I like that. We can call it TIP for short around here as we get ready to shoot too."

Matt said, "Sorry it's not TIT."

Sheila and Alice both tickled him until Matt had rolled into a ball between them. After they stopped, and as he unfurled, Sheila reached for Matt's cock and found it at about half-mast. She started to rub and fondle his package after winking at Alice.

Alice said, "If you lay down on the carpet so Matt can fuck you, I'll give you a load of cum and you can eat me to orgasm one more time. Maybe that's what we need to help all of us sleep."

A few minutes later, Matt leaned forward and kissed Alice. His cock was buried deep in Sheila's hot pussy. Alice knelt with her legs spread over Sheila's head; the latter's mouth and tongue eagerly coupled to the former's bare cunt, as she feasted on the drippy contents now coming her way thanks to gravity.

Early the next morning, Alex came down early to fix himself breakfast. Curled up under a blanket in the middle of the family room were Sheila, Matt, and Alice sleeping soundly, and looking very intimate and romantic together.



The Circle Ch. 20







The Circle Ch. 20



"Ten! My God. I'm really crushing on him right now, but that's an awful lot of competition."

"You're welcome to come visit us anytime. We're good at sharing, but you're so cute and desirable I can tell you that Alex and the other eight guys and other women in our group would be all over you like white on rice. You'd be smothered in affection too. We start with the premise that we love everyone we come in contact with."

"Are you in some kind of cult or something?"

Alice chuckled, "Not really, although we have an unconventional lifestyle." Alice explained again about The Circle, how it had formed, and the significance of the porn video she and Alex had brought to Las Vegas to sell.

Tina said, "I would love to be in a group like you have. You said that Marlene Mason was in your circle too, so I can see that you might be tolerant of someone with my lurid background." She sounded embarrassed.

Alice added, "There's a core group of us, and then some others around that visit once in a while. You could do that if you wanted. Oh, don't be embarrassed because of your chosen profession; we're very tolerant and we're very sexual. We watch porn a lot too, including Marlene's films."

"I want to visit and see all of your friends," Tina sighed and looked longingly at Alex. She whispered to her, "Deke and I are not really an item. I guess you might say we're fuck buddies, but I know if I vanished tomorrow he'd just move on to the next bimbo. I'd love to find someone stable and nice."

Alice said, "Tina, just to set your expectations. Alex is one of nine men in our circle. No one is monogamous. We are intentionally not exclusive. If you set your sights on one man, you'll be soon disappointed when he moves on to be with someone else an hour later. If you set your sights on the lifestyle and the spirit of love in mind, body, and spirit, plus enjoyment of the physical, you'll have a great experience. You get out of the experience tenfold what you put in."

Tina nodded enthusiastically. "I get it ... I think. I love to see if I could adapt to something like that."

Alice said, "Why don't you come home with us when we leave. Alex has a couple of days of some investment conference here. I was going to hang around, enjoy the city, maybe gamble a little, get laid some more, and then we were headed home." 

Alice could see worry and reluctance on Tina's part, so she added, "I'll pay for your round-trip airfare – no strings, but I would like to slut around the other parties with you, if you're up for it. I bet you know the ropes."

Tina said, "I will. I really will. Thank you so much. Seeing your intentional family as you called it scared me because it sounds so ideal, but with a ticket I'd have an out. I don't have a family; I was an orphan until I got out of my last foster home when I turned eighteen."

Alice asked, "What about Deke?"

Deke had heard part of the discussion. He responded with some bravado, "Relative to a trip, I am going back to L.A. to meet and film a movie with Muffy Shags, an up and coming and hopefully soon to be well-known porn star. I also expect to get balls deep in Miss Shags before the end of next week, and she told me on the phone today she is looking forward to the event, so I will be having my own brand of fun. Take care of Tina."

Alex poked at him, "Plus you'll be doing something with our video."

Deke nodded, "You bet I will, but it'll start happening the week after next." He walked into the bathroom, and we heard the shower start.

Tina said in a low voice to Alice, "I'd love to come to see you. If it's as good as you say, I may never leave. I'll need to get a job and a place to live if I like it there."

Alex winked at Alice and said, "Honey, don't worry about it. We'll take you home with us. You won't have to worry about money or a place to live for a while. It's what we do for people we like."

As it turned out the flight home three days later was the first time Tina had ever been on an airplane. She was both exhilarated at the idea and terrified about falling out of the sky. Alice held the pretty girl throughout most of the trip and said calming words to her. Despite the reassurances, Tina squeaked or made little sounds of surprise each time the airplane bumped or thumped through the sky or onto the runway upon landing.

Matt had driven to the airport to pick up Alice and Alex. He was excited to hear more about the deal Alex had made, and whether there was a market for more films. He was even more surprised to find his friends coming down the corridor with a third person – an exceptionally shapely and petite young blond who ranked ten on the 'hot' scale.

"Matt, meet Tina," Alice exclaimed as they neared each other.

Matt balked and then put his hand out. "I know you," he said, "you're a movie star – of sorts."

Tina smiled coyly, "You've seen me in films? All of me?"

Matt laughed, "All of you, and then some." He gave her a polite hug.

Tina blushed, "That's kind of a problem when I meet someone new, especially someone like you who I want to impress. I guess you see me as a cheap slut?"

"Not at all," Matt protested. "Maybe it's a guy thing and maybe I'm inured because I'm a man slut and I live with a group of oversexed people, but I did NOT think that about you. I see a cute girl who must be daring, bold, and unconventional. My first thought was that you'd probably fit in well with the rest of us. I wondered if you would deign to even talk to me."

Tina said, "Of course, I'll talk to you, and thank you for the compliments. Alex and Alice have been telling me about your circle and how you all live ... and love. I wanted to meet everyone ... and observe ... and to chill out for a little while. I'm not exactly happy with the way my life has been going."

Matt nodded, and helped collect the various bags before they all drove back to the big house.

Tina rode in back as Alice told her all about the house, and the various additions they had made and were making as some members – like Alice – were about to have babies.

Tina asked, "Is Alex the baby daddy?"

Alice smirked knowing the answer would get a rise from Tina, "Maybe."

Tina looked perplexed.

Alice explained, "When I was fertile I made love with each of the men in the house, sometimes two or three in the same session. I'm not sure who the father is, and like that famous movie line from Gone With The Wind, frankly my dear I don't give a damn."

Tina studied Alice. Alex looked into the backseat to see how she took that bit of news. She said, "I'm ... If ... Wow! I guess that's cool. The baby will look like someone eventually, I suppose."

Alice shrugged, "Mailman. Milkman. Handyman. There might be a few others in the mix besides all the guys I live with." Alex laughed at her exaggeration.

Tina said, "We didn't talk about it, but are you ... you know, sort of a slut?"

"Not sort of. I am a first class slut of the highest degree. I love sex and always have. Even as I approach my delivery date, I find I'm loving sex even more than I was before I got pregnant. I'm going to go through serious withdrawal because my OB/GYN says I have to refrain from sex for six weeks after delivery to let my insides and various stitches heal."

"Was that why you kept urging Deke and Alex on to do more and more with you?"

Alice smiled, "They did very well by me, and you too, if I didn't misread your satisfaction level."

Tina smiled, "I was happy, and I was feeling slutty too."

The three arrived back at the house just at five o'clock. As usual everyone in the house congregated in the living room and family room to greet each other with hugs, kisses, and good conversation, for most over a beer or glass of wine. The pregnant women had discovered that diet ginger ale could be substituted for wine and still keep the doctor happy.

Tina was greeted as both a celebrity and friend after Alice shepherded her around and made introductions, giving each person a tidbit of information about her new friend.

Sheila, Jim, and Marlene did the dinner prep for everyone. They'd started a pot roast in the slow cooker that morning, and the aroma of the beef and stew filled the downstairs. After a huge salad got prepped, everyone got a plate and served themself the evening meal. The dining room table had been opened to its maximum extent, and today found eighteen people squeezed around the table including Tina. The only missing members or associates of The Circle were Don and Michelle who had a neighborhood party to attend, and Amy who lived in California most of the time.

Tina sat between Jim and Zoey, and again heard about how The Circle had formed. A few others joined in, talking about what was going to happen very soon to the house to enlarge it for the coming 'population explosion.' 

After dinner, Bob, Monica, and Sandy did clean up and put away duty, although everyone brought their dishes to one of the two kitchen sinks. Tina watched the assembly line operation with fascination.

Tina said, "You're so organized."

The group near her laughed. "Don't let us fool you. We are very fluid and unstructured most of the time."

Jim pulled Tina into the family room, and got her talking about working for Brassballs – the adult video business and website she'd been working for over the past year.

Tina said, "At first it was really exciting, but now the luster has worn off. I bet Marlene told you the same thing."

Marlene sat down beside the pair, "She did," she smiled. But I'm torn between doing some more and becoming a nun."

Tina nodded, "Did you get into some of the rough stuff."

Marlene said, "Yes, and that was one more reason I left the business. My insides were hurting from doing one film, and the ER doc told me to stop or I'd be permanently injured. But then there also was the head job I was doing on myself."

Tina said, "That's where I am now. I like the sex, but it's not at all fulfilling now. I'm just a hole for someone to jerk off in. There's got to be something more to life than this."

Jim, Marlene, Brad, Sandy, and Zoey stared at Tina. 

Zoey finally said, "I'm glad Alex brought you here, because you are going to see and feel a whole different way of living and actually loving other people that seems to have passed you by."



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She'd been up for hours, taking a morning swim and then straightening around the house, and then single-handedly working up the best breakfast with the fixings she could find. Tina's heart felt as though it would spontaneously combust with the love she felt, not only for Jim, but also for herself and all the others in the house. She could never remember feeling this good in her life.





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Kyle smirked, "I heard all about it. She didn't know she liked women, but now she does. She didn't know she liked to make love to two men back to back, but now she does. She said you asked her to stay over in the house for a couple of weeks, and to be sexual."

Jim laughed, "I didn't put it quite that way, but that was the underlying message. Is she?"

"She went home, packed a suitcase, and now I have another roommate, although I doubt I'll see her except downstairs playing grandmother."

"Well, she's one of the hottest grandmothers I know. Did you ever think of being romantic with her?"

"Having sex with my mother? No; but she's giving off such strong pheromones about wanting to be fucked that I just might. I'm not committing to anything at this point. She's not at all like the mother that raised me."

Jim suggested, "Ratchet up the intensity of the kisses you give her. See how it feels to you and to her."

"Is that how you and Tracy got started?"

"No. She and I just started one night when we were at Alice's with Matt and Bob. We nailed her that night, plus Alice introduced her to some serious girl-on-girl action. I'd wanted to be with her, and I guess she felt the same about me."

"You really love her, don't you?"

"More than anyone. She's so great. She's started to sleep with her boss now, when they're traveling together. He must be one happy camper. I only get to see her on weekends when she's home. We miss each other."

As they walked into the house, Jim went and gave Lynn one of his hot kisses that left her panting.

Right behind him, Kyle slid into position next to his mom as the pair parted. He turned her head to him, as Jim picked up the baby she'd been holding.

Kyle leaned in and kissed her. At first, it was the peck on the lips that parents and kids typically do, but Kyle persisted, and wrapped his arms around Lynn to hold her close. Lynn made a little noise as though to question his actions, but Kyle ignored her, holding onto the kiss and then injecting his tongue into her mouth. Lynn responded in kind.

As they broke apart, Kyle stood, kissed Lynn's forehead, and strolled towards the kitchen. 

Lynn looked up at Jim. "Did you put him up to that?"

Jim listened for tones of anger or some other emotion, but the question was totally neutral except for perhaps a tinge of excitement.

He said, "I asked the question, and that was the result."

"It's incest."

"You're adults; you can do what you want about sex. Tracy and I are intimate as often as we can. Matt and Ellie love each other that way too, and then there's his Aunt Amy when she visits. Oh yes, there's Monica and her parents too."

Lynn shook her head, "There must be something in the water."

The next morning, Jim found Lynn in the kitchen preparing cinnamon muffins for everyone. The house smelled like a wonderful bakery, and everyone that left their bedroom immediately headed to the source for a treat.

Jim said, "You stayed over?"

"I was with Nathan and ... Alice, although she didn't have intercourse."

"I'm proud of you. You're expanding your horizons."

"I couldn't sleep. I'm so excited about who I'm becoming. I didn't know I was still interested in sex, well, except for jilling a little now and then. I'm insatiable. I want to be in bed with someone all the time."

From behind her, Alex said, "Oh, good. I planned to work at home today. I wondered what I'd do on my breaks."

Lynn went up to him and they kissed. "Well, I'm you coffee, lunch, and coke break girl. Just come and get me."

Alex winked at Jim over Lynn's shoulder, as he hugged the older woman to him.



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Tuesday, Alex sent off the seventy-eight minute film to Deke by way of the Internet cloud. Wednesday afternoon, Deke wrote to Alex:  'Another A+ film. Keep it up. Great stuff. Get more people into one of them – nice group fuck or orgy. Check in the mail. Deke.' 

 Wednesday, Alex sat in the family room at cocktail time talking with the others as he opened his snail mail. He noticed a relatively plain envelope from Brassballs.com, and tore open one end. Inside he could see a check and brief note.

 Alex pulled the check out, and nearly fainted. The check was for $48,643. It was payable to Circle Productions, the name Alex had thought up on the spot as the name of the film business the group had started months earlier. He'd later made sure the business was properly set up and registered.

 "HOLY SHIT," Alex proclaimed to no one in particular.

 "What? What's wrong?" echoed around the room.

 "Everything is VERY right. Alice, come and check this out." As she neared him, he passed the check to her. She nearly dropped on the spot, sitting with a thud in the middle of the floor and looking at the check in disbelief.

 Alice said, "Unbelievable!"

 While the check got passed around, Alex read the accompanying letter. The letter itemized the time periods, number of DVDs sold, the number of downloads of the whole movie, plus the video-on-demand views. Sure enough, the calculations looked accurate and covered the films Ice Princesses and the test video they'd called Romance Sex.  Alex silently thanked Deke for being such an honest guy.

 The room buzzed with excitement. 

 Alice said, "Folks, if it's OK with you, we're going to invest in our business in a couple of ways with some of this money. Matt needs to get some professional cameras, more lights, and a better editing software package. There are a few other things too, but nothing that ten-thousand wouldn't cover."

 Matt said, "What should we do with the rest of this money? I propose we pay each of the actors in Ice Princesses three-thousand, and put the rest in the house fund to help with the new addition."

 Alex said, "Just to add to that, I think Matt should get twice that amount. Not only did he film and participate in the film, he spent hours and hours editing and putting together one helluva good porn flick."

 Everyone in the room agreed. There were seven actors, including Alice, and then Matt as cameraman would make eight; after buying some equipment and software that still put a few thousand into the home's reserve fund. Of course, there'd be more royalty checks coming in the future too.

 Alex reminded everyone, "We haven't even gotten payments for Pickup Problems.  Now, we'll also have Musical Chairs for Cheaters in the running. No wonder this is such a lucrative business."

 Tina and Marlene both smiled. Marlene said, "I never complained about the money except when my asshole manager decided to stiff me. I got even, and he never pulled that shit again."

 "What'd you do?" someone asked.

 "I made him his favorite cake and loaded it up with Ex-Lax. He couldn't be more than ten feet away from a bathroom for a week. Did I mention that he loved the cake? I also told him the next time he ate anything, it'd be full of ground up glass. I even hinted I might have added some to that cake. He kept studying his poops for blood for two weeks. I never had a problem after that, with him or anybody else in the industry."





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Bill said to his crew, "If we're to continue to get our shows from these women, I think we're going to have to redouble our efforts. Last week blew me away, and I have a feeling we're in for a treat tonight.

His words were prophetic. This week's 'show' not only included four women but they were a different four: Ellie, Sheila, Alice, and Sandy. The waitresses and hostesses were Marlene and Tina, who were even wearing less this week than the hostesses of the prior week. Lolly played the role of the announcer wearing an eager beaver bikini.

The strippers were amazing. The bare pussies were revealed earlier in the entertainment than the week before, and this week each girl took one man's hand, separated a significant finger from the hand, and plunged it into her pussy for a few seconds. 

Sheila was so excited that when Bill's digit entered her body, she came. She fell into his arms and plastered kisses all over his face.

Bill said, "No one has ever reacted to me the way you just did. I'm in love."

Sheila kissed him ravenously and said, "So am I. Thank you."

The girls cuddled with the men they chose for about ten minutes, and then on cue from Lolly, they scooted back into the house and disappeared.

Lolly stepped forward and read the prepared script from a small card.  "As before, gentlemen, you have worked hard. We hoped you enjoyed your little reward, but the challenge for the coming week is even harder, but the reward, if completed, will be even more amazing. You must complete all of the rough plumbing, rough electrical, and rough HVAC throughout the house by Friday at five o'clock. No completion, no show or other rewards for the week." 

Lolly smiled broadly allowing her dimples to show. She bowed the same way Ellie had the week before, allowing her tits to fall out of her loosely tied string bikini bra. Again, she made a long and arduous effort to get everything tucked away again. The men laughed at the showmanship, but everyone of them had a rock in their pants.

Lolly went and kissed each man, and then went inside with the others.

Saturday, the sawing, drilling, hammering, and other noises filled the work area starting at eight o'clock. The weather was again marginal, but the men worked through some showers, mostly undercover since the sheathed plywood roof was on and covered, until seven that evening. They repeated this on Sunday, and then every day of the week. They were panting and their arms were almost dragging on the ground they were so tired by Friday afternoon, but they'd accomplished their goal, in some cases aided by outside subcontractors.

Bill came up to the house and talked to Alice, who'd answered the door. "I'm not sure we can stand another week of being incentivized. We sure want to see and interact with the gals, but man the pace we've been on is like nothing I've ever done or even seen, and I've been around a lot of construction."

Marlene was playing emcee, and also greeter at seven-thirty. This time she routed the men to the outdoor hot and cold shower enclosure beside the pool. She gave each of them a towel and told them to report to the patio wearing only the towel after they'd showered. Their clothes would be left untouched where they left them to shower.

Fifteen minutes later and a little peppier, the four men came from the shower area. There on the patio were four massage tables. Marlene directed each man to an individual table, and took care to be sure their modesty was preserved as she had them lay on their stomachs. Of course, in helping, her hands seemed to wander a little more than they needed to on the men's bodies and asses.

As the men settled in and wondered what would happen next, Alice, Sandy, Tina, and Monica came out of the house in exceptionally thin white tunics. The women's areolas could be easily seen, as well as the darkness of their pubes. Steve moaned at the sexuality of the situation.

Each girl had a small bottle of warm massage oil. They warmed their hands, took some oil and then started in on the men's shoulders giving a deep tissue Swedish massage. The men moaned, groaned, grunted, and purred as the massage worked into their back and sides, and then up and down their legs, including their tired feet.

After twenty minutes of on-their-stomachs massages, Marlene gently announced to the men that they should roll onto their backs. The men rolled over, and each girl repositioned the towel to preserve their modesty. They also winked at one another because they could imagine what the men were thinking. The partially inflated cocks of each man proved the assumption, not to mention the difficult to position towels.

The girls worked on the men's arms and pecs, dug into their abs, and the front of their legs. Again, the massages were deep tissue with focus on the many knots in the sinew they found on each man. Towards the end of another twenty-minute period, the girls shifted to the heads of each man, massaging his temples, cheeks, neck, ears, and scalp. The night was warm and some ethereal music was washing over the patio from the porch above.

Marlene said to the women in an obviously rehearsed voice, "You seem to have missed an important part of every massage. Don't forget."

On that note the women reached under the towels of each man. They'd agreed on how this part of the time with the men should go. They rubbed down in the men's groins, fondled and massaged their balls, and then pulled and elongated the men's cocks. As they did they could feel each man rapidly swelling.

Marlene announced in a dreamy voice, "Gentlemen, this ends the massage and entertainment for this week. We do need to keep something in check for next week when things will be even more daring and inviting."

As she spoke the four girls withdrew from the patio, but not before shedding their tunics for the men, revealing they had truly been nude underneath.

Marlene continued, "For next Friday, we are hoping that the roof could be finished on the house, and that windows and exterior doors could be fully installed, including flashing. This is in accord with the order of things in the schedule. Thank you. You may all continue to lie there, you may shower again – new towels are available near the showers, and you'll find some clean athletic shorts and t-shirts there to wear as well. We look forward to seeing you soon. Good night."

Marlene disappeared into the growing dusk, and the patio light dimmed.



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Bob laughed, "I'll let the girls know that some kind of 'climax' is needed for the incentive program."

The two men laughed and Bob went back into the main house.

As the week went by, various beds, dressers, wardrobes, and other furniture arrived for the bedrooms and public rooms in the addition. A punch list had been prepared for each room, and as the week expired one or another of the four men could be found attending to some small detail: a closet shelf, a touch up of the paint, a popped screw, and the like.

In the evenings, the entire circle would wander through the addition, looking in awe at the finished work product. Even with the cold temperatures outside and the coming holiday season, inside was warm, cozy, and inviting.

Friday arrived and truly the last of the punch list items were wiped clean by noon. The men stayed around and cleaned, put away the last of their tools, got their trailer ready to be pulled away, and made sure that every room was a showcase of their work.

At five o'clock, as the winter dusk approached along with the longest day of the year, Michelle slinked into the addition in a snug cocktail dress that displayed her best assets. She kissed the men with renewed intensity, and then led them downstairs to the new lounge.

The entire circle had gathered, and as the four men were led into the large room, applause broke out. The men blushed and acted embarrassed at the attention. Each man in The Circle went and shook their hands, thanking them for the monumental effort they'd put forth to complete the huge addition in ten weeks. The girls gave each man a brief kiss; a few of them whispered 'Later' to them.

As Nathan and Alex tended bar; the girls served a series of appetizers that were really a gourmet dinner in small portions. Everyone imbibed and ate the tidbits well into the evening. The conversations were warm, comfortable, and proof of the friendships that had matured between everyone.

Around nine o'clock, Michelle called everyone's attention and a circle formed around her. She awarded each of the men a plaque of gratitude. She then announced that the men of The Circle were dismissed. As expected and planned, Bob led the men into the original portion of the house.

Of course, in the original portion of the house was the original family room with the large TV. Wired into the large TV were six high-def cameras that could zoom and be directed with a joystick to focus on anything going on in the lounge. The girls knew about the cameras and agreed to play to them; the four workmen didn't.

Bob speculated to the men, "Do you think that all four men will join The Circle? They sure are nice guys, and the girls really like them."

Kyle laughed, "We can hope. By the end of tonight, I think they'll be sold and locked in. Our women are irresistible."

In the lounge, Sheila and Monica had decided to get things started with Steve, the man she'd initially flashed from a porch as he had started working with a backhoe. The pair gently stripped away the casual clothes he wore, losing most of theirs in the process. 

With Steve completely nude, the two girls knelt in front of him and gave him a double blowjob, often synchronizing their mouths to move up and down his large engorged cock in unison. Monica pulled off and called it a 'four lip blowjob.'

Steve panted, "I've been waiting for ten weeks for this night. I can't believe this is finally here ... that this is real."

Sheila plunged down on his cock, taking every inch into her mouth and throat. She pulled off and rhetorically asked, "Is that real enough for you?" She had a devilish grin.

Monica pulled her thong off and then did Sheila. She munched a little on her friend's pussy, and then suggested they occupy one of the new leather sofas in the room. As they moved they couldn't help but notice that Bill was getting a double BJ from Zoey and Alice. Next to him, Kurt had Tracy, Steph, and Tina slavering over his cock, and further away Mike's dick was deep in Marlene's mouth as Lynn and Ellie watched. Just about everyone was naked.

Sheila urged Steve to lie back on the sofa. As he did, she mounted him and brought her pussy right to the top of his erection, trapping the spongy head in her labia.

"Steve, darling, do you want to be inside me? Do you want to fuck me? Do you want to make love to me?"

"I want to make love to you ... to everyone."

Sheila moaned, "Right answer," and dropped her full weight onto his cock, driving the shaft all the way into her body. She practically screamed, "OH, GOD. SO GOOD."

Monica mounted Steve's head facing Sheila. She and Sheila kissed and made out as he fucked one and ate out the other. After a few minutes, the women changed places. 

After a few more minutes, Steve realized Monica and Sheila had abandoned him. He looked around, but it was just as Zoey dropped her pixie-like body onto his cock. It was Alice's sodden cunt that came to his mouth, and then another pussy even displaced Alice. Lynn's pussy craved some kind of sexual stimulation. She couldn't wait for a second round, after having watched the first round start.

Lynn mouthed to Alice, "Thank you. I need this."

Alice nudged Zoey, "Let Lynn ride him."

A moment later, Steve was plunging his cock into the gorgeous MILF. He was moving at a frantic pace, and Lynn's legs were locked around his body urging him to continue the long, hard strokes into her body.

Steve screamed, "OH, MY GOD. FANTASTIC!" His whole body arched, as he lunged as deep as he could into Lynn and filled her with long ropes of cum until the overflow from her tightness oozed out of her around his cock. 

Lynn's body was also orgasming. With her back arched into Steve's final thrusts, she quivered all over in reaction to the violent but pleasurable physiological challenge her body was giving to her. A long low wail of pleasure slowly escaped from her lips. 

Lynn whispered, "I love you," to the handsome man.

Steve kissed her with everything he had. "And I love you."

He reached out and pulled Zoey to him, "And you." Alice came and kissed him too, and he added her into his hug of love and rapture.

The other threesomes and quartets of women and the workmen slowed as intense orgasms were reached. After some clean up, two more rounds of sex were held. Although the goal hadn't been for each man to fuck every woman, the hedonists in the room came close to that. 

The men in the other room had watched with great interest as the various sexual combinations and acts on the large screen. Quite a few cocks were out and being stroked. Jim said, "Hey, this is better than porn."

Willow came back from her job as the evening news anchor. She came in and chuckled at all the cocks, as well as the sexy images on the TV monitor.

"You guys need some relief. You should have held back a female or two for your enjoyment. How about I fix that?"

Bob weakly protested, "You should be in there." He pointed in the direction of the new lounge.

"Too many females already. Look at Michelle and Sandy; they're doing girl-on-girl. I need some cock right at the moment ... a lot of it in fact."

It didn't take long for the men to strip away Willow's clothing down to her beautiful light brown skin. For the next, couple of hours Willow was not only worshipped and pleasured, but also became the cum dumpster for the room full of horny men. Willow kept urging the gangbang on, even inciting the men to second rounds.

Things only slowed when Lynn came in to discover the little fuck party, and did her part to entertain half of the cocks the same way Willow had been doing.

Everything slowed around midnight. Various pairs of women escorted one of the workmen to a new bedroom to christen the new rooms and to help them regain some strength.

Although the men thought things were coming to an end, they didn't know that things for them were just beginning.



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Tracy said, "We're all that way. We also help each other through times like this."

Meghan pushed, "How'd you get past the strictures of monogamy and the millions of messages each day that promote exclusivity and couplehood?"

Bob shrugged, "You only have to realize that monogamy is a choice – exclusivity is a choice. There are other acceptable options. Many people don't find the options acceptable, but for us they all are. We all have friends in monogamous relationships; most of them know how we live. We get along because they don't try to force their model on us, or vice versa."

Adam asked, "With all of you living here, how did you get past various laws and such about living together?"

Bob said, "With a good lawyer. We are in Dillonville because it is under the looser laws and codes of the state, particularly as far as zoning goes. Living where we do, we don't have to do or say much except to abide by the fire codes in our construction and operations. We've built a good bridge with the police and fire in the area, and have had them come by for a tour of the house and to make sure things are acceptable to them. They see us as a commune or cooperative, and that's pretty accurate and just fine with us."

Alice and Brad came in and sat down. She had that rosy freshly fucked glow about her that I'm sure no one missed. Bob made introductions, and mentioned in the process that Brad was married to Sandy.

Tracy asked with genuine curiosity, "Where is Sandy?"

Brad chuckled, "In bed with Jim ... with the door open."

The four visitors looked at each other, and then studied Brad for any jealousy. He grinned at them. "My wife has a thing for Jim; he's one of her favs. She is so loving and appreciative after they've been together that for me this is a win-win." He squeezed Alice's thigh where they sat together and added, "Besides, I have a thing for Alice." They laughed.

More and more questions popped up and got answered. How is the house owned? What is the partnership like? How did the addition get funded? How are meals handled? Who does clean up and cleaning? Who does laundry? How are beds assigned? What does someone without an assigned bed do? How did new members get annexed? Why do some of the members not live in the house? What happened when news about the lifestyle got made public? What about neighbors? How did parents get informed about the lifestyle; how did they react? How do the babies get cared for? How would a pregnant mother be treated, or a nursing mother?

At six o'clock, Alice rejoined the group, having left to do some housework. She came in carrying two bottles of wine, and large number of wine glasses. "We hope you'll join us for cocktails, and then dinner. We're having lasagna tonight, courtesy of Monica, Zoey, and Nathan."

Adam said, "If it's not an imposition, and you have room and adequate food for yourselves. We'd love to see how this actually works at meal time."

Alice led them to the main kitchen. As usual, things were set up for self-service cafeteria style. People took a plate and served themselves salad, and the main course. Brad and Lolly were tending to drinks on the table, plus many people had brought wine from the bar area.

There were twenty-four for dinner, plus the four guests. Two large tables in the open plan dining room handled the crowd, and the four guests split themselves between the tables after introductions were made. The din of conversation equaled that of any restaurant, and there was a steady stream to and from the counter for seconds, or forgotten items.

After dinner, each person carried their dishes to a large sink with a commercial sprayer and dish racks handy. That night Matt, Sheila, and Kurt had cleanup duty, but standing and watching them the guest were amazed at how fast everything, got put away, rinsed, or put through the dishwashers.

Bob explained, "After we had more than twenty people eating here regularly, we upgraded the kitchen to a more commercial level. It's easier to keep clean and sanitize, and serving and clean up are much faster, as you just saw. This is one place where we do have some structure to our lives. There are weekly teams who buy groceries, cook and serve, and clean up and put away. I was part of the cooking team last week." He pointed, "Just outside that door, we have large cold storage and large freezers."

Adam asked, "What do you do if someone doesn't like the meal selection?"

Bob asked, "Ah, glad you asked. Leftovers are usually kept for two days, so you can always go back at least that long and hopefully find something you'll like. You can also do your own thing when the kitchen isn't busy, and save it to eat with the others."

Pam observed, "Everyone is so healthy looking."

Bob expounded, "Tina is studying to be a physical therapist and trainer. She puts us through our paces to keep us in shape. Each morning there also are at least a dozen of us that take a five-mile jog. Michelle, Don's wife, majored in nutrition in college. She's become a permanent member of the meal planning teams. Tracy, Jim's sister, is taking martial arts, and sometimes she'll lead us in some moves she's learning. So, we're taking advantage of some of the skills we've got."

The visitors stayed a little longer, and then left after some polite hugs, kisses and handshakes.



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Several of the men from the swingers group watched from elsewhere in the room. Bob actually gave a tutorial as to what his fingers were doing inside Nancy. All Nancy did was pant, moan, groan, sigh, and ultimately scream before passing out.

One of the men in the room also had Lynn bent over a comfortable chair as he took her from the back. She was quite vocal about her own pleasure, even though it wasn't up to the same level as the regulars were getting.

Alice had gone off with a young man named Tom. He must have had some skills because in a lull in the noise from everybody in the living room, the men from The Circle heard Alice cumming quite loudly down the hallway. 

An older man named Paul who turned out to be quite a romantic and someone exceptionally skilled at cunnilingus chose Ellie. He apparently discovered that she had a hair-trigger when it came to orally-induced orgasms, and he proved to be wonderfully merciless in giving her one right after another until she eventually pleaded for mercy after about a dozen. 

Later in the evening, Alice, Lynn, and Ellie all did side-by-side double penetrations in the living room. Bob had passed along that the swinger men loved them, but the swinger women were less inclined towards the anal part of the experience. I think a few converts might have been made based on the number of orgasms in that part of the evening.

The party broke up about eleven-thirty, after two or three rounds depending on the man.

Driving home the car was silent for a while. Bob then asked, "OK, everybody. I want to hear what you thought of the group and the experience?"

Alice said, "I had a good time – a great time, actually. The men who made love to me know what they were doing, and they did it well. I got off a lot, and got pleasure bringing them off."

Bob said, "How's your head?"

Alice replied, "If you mean mentally, I can tell you that this was not making love. I make love with the people I love, but sometimes, like tonight, I just want to celebrate my breasts, my cunt, and my ass, and I want to be with someone new. This was perfect. I didn't make love, I fucked – and I fucking loved fucking."

Matt said, "Well said, Alice. I feel the same way. I appreciated the variety. I think that's a major tenet of our Circle. We have over a dozen men and a dozen women to choose from every second – we crave variety, and we get it. Tonight, we got even more. I'd rate the night A-plus."

Mike said, "Hey, I'm a guy, and I love to fuck pussy. I got to fuck a lot of pussy tonight. Duh!"

Everyone laughed.

Ellie began, "I came tonight because I wanted to be a slut. I met all these new men sluts and other women sluts, and I got to fuck five of the men and eat out two of the women. Mission accomplished. I had slutty fun. I made some new friendships. I'd love to go back sometime if it was with a group of us from The Circle like this. Do I feel guilty about doing what I did? No. I do hope no one at home will get their nose bent out of shape that the six of us went out whoring around for a night."

Matt said, "Hey, we should host one of their parties at our home. Those from The Circle that want to participate could join in, any others could just watch or be elsewhere."

Bob said, "I agree with all of you, and I love Matt's suggestion. Let's run it by The Circle and see what kind of comments we get."

The next Circle meeting was Sunday evening. Bob had each of the other members that went to the swingers party explain what had happened and how they felt. He also asked them to emphasize what they thought of the people, and what they thought about the chemistry.

At the end of that discussion, Matt raised his idea of hosting a swingers' party at the house.

There was silence all around, and then Jim said, "Isn't that what we do every night?"

After some snickering, the serious discussion started. Ultimately, everyone was unanimously in favor of such an event.

Bob called Kent the next day to report about the discussion, and to extend the invitation to the twenty or so people in their group. Kent was really excited and said it was a done deal. They settled on a date a month away, and Bob informed The Circle.

Despite there being almost a month to the visit of the swingers, many of The Circle had met the outsiders. The house went into a flap about the coming visitors. Everything had to be just perfect before they arrived.

A long list of 'fix it' items materialized on the main bulletin board, mostly items dealing with the original house, and what little could be done with the landscaping around the new house at that time of year. Every room had a self-appointed committee scan through, less concerned with neatness than the woodwork, paint, door handles, windows, and everything else. 

Paintings and posters that had been waiting to be hung got hung. A couple of rooms got repainted. A new vanity went in one bath. The tile floor got gone over with a professional cleaning machine and then resealed. Two broken kitchen appliances were fixed. Burnt out light bulbs were fixed everywhere. Several cabinet knobs that didn't match the others were replaced. The list seemed endless, and for a while, even as items got crossed off, the list got longer.

Psychologically, the group was nervous about attending a Fuck Fest, let alone hosting one. Each of the people who had attended the swinger parties were approached about what to wear, how to act, protocol, what the boundaries were, how to act after you've cum, and so forth. That list of questions amazed everyone too.

Bob put up a FAQ page that got longer and longer as he wrote up brief replies to some of the often asked questions.

'If I see someone I want to have sex with, what do I do?' (Ask them.)

'What should I do after I finish having sex?' (Clean up and repeat with a new partner.)

'What should I wear?' (Not much; casual until nudity is the norm.)

'What do people talk about beforehand?' (The same things we talk about beforehand.)

Bob, Tracy, Mike, Alice, Matt, Ellie, and Lynn told people they'd all be available to answer questions one Saturday afternoon. To their surprise everyone attended part of the session, even the members who lived outside The Circle. Amy, who lived in California but planned to come to the party, attended by way of Skype. The meeting lasted two hours.

The week before the party everyone was into everyone else's business. No one was immune to suggestions about how to make their room or space more attractive and inviting. The last of the punch list got completed.

Friday before the party, a flotilla of food arrived, along with gallons of soft drinks, beer, and wine. The Circle clearly had the entire First Army visiting for munchy hors d'oeuvres and drinks. By Saturday at noon, large bouquets of flowers dotted the entire house, so much that the place carried the pleasant aroma of a flower shop. 

A last minute banner had been strung across the fireplace in the family room; "Welcome to Sex Fest.' The television had been turned on, and playing in a continuous loop were two long DVDs – one by Marlene and one by Tina. Several bowls of condoms were scattered around the house too, along with many small bottles of flavored lubricant. Each room also had a new dildo in it. The Sybian had been set up in the family room as well.

Many of the women disappeared Saturday afternoon to get their nails and hair done. Those that hadn't already spent money on new outfits and lingerie went shopping. Several women admitted to manicuring their 'front lawns,' in some cases completely eliminating their pubic hair. The men shaved and even got haircuts in some cases.

At five-thirty, the three babies were transported to a nearby neighbor's house where three high school senior girls had been hired to tend to them for the evening. They had been a bit puzzled by The Circle wanting to take the babies to them, but accepted that with the understanding that the house would be hosting a loud and uproarious party until around one in the morning when the babies would be reclaimed.

Because Lynn had been to the second swingers' party, she was informally elected as the greeter, since she had met and fucked most of the people and had a knack for remembering names. 

Thus, at six o'clock on the magic night, the house stood proud and beautiful with a population of full of horny people – thirteen men and fifteen women.

Finally, the doorbell rang at six-thirty.



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Monica said, "Here are a few things to think about. First, I'd like to have a baby. I'd especially like the help of you three men that started The Circle. I feel closest to you, and want the seed to come from one of you."

Jim didn't blink, but he smiled invitingly. 

Monica went on, "I think the moms need some special attention too. The babies are about a year old now. They birthed them, and not much changed except the tolerance to have the kids around in The Circle, including at dinnertime. We all need to be more of a family for them. Lynn has done wonders about that, and so has Michelle. We need more grandmothers, and not necessarily the GILFs you guys like to mess with."

She continued, "We talk about being spiritual, but we haven't done much about it. I'm not sure what to do, and I'd be careful about becoming a cult or something, but there must be something we could do periodically to work on that front – yoga, movies, discussion group, book club ... something. Maybe I'm trying to make it too intellectual."

Monica shrugged, "I can't think of much else. Oh, wait, I want to say I really liked some of the women I met from the swingers' group, and also that first group you helped – Meghan someone especially. I wouldn't be put out a bit if we involved them again, maybe in a smaller effort. Even if we don't, I think I might pursue a friendship with a couple of them."

Jim and Monica talked more, finished their lunch, and went back to the large house. They quietly retired to Jim's room, and made sweet love for almost two hours. 

Monica said, "Do you think I need to announce my intention to get pregnant."

Jim shook his head, "No. We've moved past that molehill. It's a non-issue. Just please come and get me when you need healthy male swimmers."

On that note they made love again, up until Zoey came in the room to get something, found the two of them in bed together, and then joined in for another two hours. The three of them were late for dinner.

The other 'how goes it?' talks yielded few suggestions to work on, but lots of positive comments about how happy people were. 

What bothered the three men was that several other people knew that Steph was slowly pulling away from people in The Circle – missing meals, skipping sex, going on long walks alone, but no one knew what to do about it. Everyone did agree that no one else seemed on any kind of edge.

Steph had disappeared so rapidly it made peoples' heads swim.

After all the talks, Bob called a meeting to summarize the findings, and also the be sure the family was aligned about calling each other out if they started to behave in a way that distanced themselves from the main body of The Circle.





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Renee flowed into Matt's arms and gave him a serious kiss. "Always a pleasure to be in your clutches. Maybe we can orchestrate something later. Right now, I'm here to work on dinner and eat with all of you."

Bob and Matt both gestured grandly towards the kitchen. Renee laughed at their theatrics and followed the pair into the other room. Alice was already there dicing the ingredients for a salad.

Renee said, "You're Alice right? I'm Renee. Let me do that, and you can work on something more fulfilling."

Alice laughed and greeted the guest by turning over the kitchen knife to her. Bob explained about the photo shoot that day, and his wish to have Renee with us at dinner. Unspoken were the plans for after dinner, but everyone always assumed that sex had to be involved.

As Renee started to dice the carrots and peppers, Nathan came into the kitchen. He greeted Renee, remembered her from the parties, and at least one other visit, and then broke out some steaks and chicken he'd prepped earlier to marinate and headed out to the grill on the patio. Derek appeared right behind him, and started to work on some vegetables and check on some baked potatoes that had been baking since earlier in the afternoon.

Renee chatted with everyone, willingly sharing herself with them and about her life as a fashion model. Although she'd never been featured, she had actually appeared in one of the Victoria's Secret catalogs along with the more famous front runners in her field.

Alex came in and kissed everyone, arriving home from work. He loved the custom of greeting and departing kisses with the women and handshakes with the men, and today was no exception. Alex politely skipped over Renee.

Renee stood with her hands on her hips as he started to leave. "Hey, Alex. What am I, chopped liver?"

"Errr, I didn't think you'd ... you're a guest, and I didn't want to impose."

Renee set the large knife down and went up to him, and put her lithe body against his and kissed him long and romantically. Bob and Matt were laughing, because when they parted the hard-on in Alex's pants was undeniable.

Alex said, "Wow. Thank you. That was one really, really good welcome back from work kiss."

A few people were absent for dinner, so there were only twenty at the tables that night, including Renee. 

After dinner, Bob and Renee joined the clean up crew, and the job was accomplished in near record time; the kitchen left in spotless condition ready for the breakfast crew.

Renee asked, "Do people come for midnight snacks later?"

Matt said, "Oh, yes, and they're duty bound to keep it neat. Why?"

She admitted, "I often sneak down for a little ice cream or something before bedtime. Not always, but often enough that I was wondering."

"There are usually a few of us wandering around about that time with the same agenda."

As Matt, Bob and Renee left the kitchen, Renee asked, "I got the feeling from talking with you several times that kitchen duty is an onerous chore. Is that right?"

Bob said, "Yes. No one really looks forward to it, but it is a necessity. There are so many of us now, it's taking some real work."

Renee brought both men to a stop, "Why don't you hire a full-time cook?"

Matt looked at Bob, "Yeah, why don't we hire a full-time cook?"

Bob shrugged. "I'm dumb. It never crossed anyone's mind to suggest it, and I never thought about it either."

Renee said, "I'm sure you could find someone tolerant of your home environ willing to work here."

Bob said, "I will explore that. Now, would you like to come up to my room and see some of my pornography ... or we could make some?"

Bob smiled as Renee said, "Yes," but then so did Matt.

Much to Bob's surprise, Renee walked over to him and took Matt's hand, and started to lead the two men to Bob's bedroom. She remembered the way.

As they got in the bedroom, Renee carefully set the door so it was open about a foot. Bob had explained to her about the 'code' in the house. A wide open door invited participation; a half open door voyeurism; and a closed door requested privacy. She winked at Bob.

Renee said, "Now, you might think I am a very sophisticated and very experienced woman, especially being a model and all, and one who has even posed for some tasteful nudes, BUT I have never had a threesome ... yet."

Bob and Matt looked in disbelief at each other. Bob said, "But you swing."

"I do swing, but one at a time. I have seen threesomes; I have wished to be in threesomes; I have even wished to do some of the cruder things that threesomes do such as being DPed, and tonight you two are going to help each other destroy me."

Bob walked up to Renee and kissed her. He whispered to her, but loud enough for Matt to hear, "Starting right now." The next kiss was mind-blowing for both of them, and almost set the room ablaze.

Bob toyed along the edge of Renee's tube top both above and below the thin material. As he did he could watch her nipples harden. As he did that Matt had dropped to the ground, and was kissing up and down her legs, pausing here and there to blow some hot air in strategic locations, for instance, into the rip in her cut-off jeans just off to the side of her pussy.

Renee removed Bob's golf shirt and tossed it aside. Before it landed, Bob hoisted the tube top over Renee's head, allowing her full breasts to shimmy free. They were magnificent with large areolas and pert nipples that were obviously excited.

Bob leaned in and kissed each breast, taking time to suck a few seconds on each nipple. When he pulled away, he noted that Matt was carefully nudging the cut-offs down Renee's sexy legs. Once they'd been kicked aside, he buried his mouth right over the gusset of her thong, blowing more hot air onto her pussy.

Renee was nudging each man to encourage them to strip and yet simultaneously pay attention to her. Bob solved that by turning her to his friend, stripping and then turning her back as Matt stripped. She was constantly pawed and sucked on.

Together, Bob and Matt pushed Renee's thong down her legs. Matt held the material up to his nose and inhaled deeply. He mused, "My God, this is the sexiest aroma in the world."

Renee stood between the two men with a cock in each hand, slowly fondling and masturbating. One man was all over her face, neck, ears, and French kissing with his tongue deep in her mouth; the other was caressing smoothing and making love to her breasts as a hand stroked all over her body. Then the men switched.

After switching duties a few times, Matt and Bob nodded to each other. They both ran their hands down Renee's sweet body, passing over the curves that made her one of the sexiest women in the world, and as they reached her wet pussy, they simultaneously drove a finger into her.

Renee groaned, "Oh, God. Now I can understand why women love having two men at the same time. Do me."

Bob nudged the trio to his bed, allowing Renee to flop back into the comfort of the middle while the two men surrounded her. Bob started to make out with her, and Matt slid down her body, ending with his head between her legs and his tongue as deep as he could make it go into her vagina. A couple of fingers, and Renee soared with lust almost eating Bob as they kissed.

"Give me your cock to suck," she said to Bob.

Quickly, he adjusted his position and dropped his prong into her open mouth. After a minute Renee said, "You taste so good, and ... Matt is going to make me cum, then I want you two to switch." And that's what happened.

Bob discovered he liked eating Renee and watching as she tried to swallow and eat Matt's cock and balls. She was daring and crude and beautiful all at once. She tasted divine, and the orgasm he gave her was satisfying and set her up for intercourse.

As she continued to suck on Matt, Bob rose and sank his cock into her pussy. She moaned, but kept the cock of another man in her mouth as Bob sank to full depth. After a short time, the men swapped positions. Renee started to taunt the men with her sexy French accent: did they like the way she tasted? Would they eat her cunt after they'd fucked her? (Little did she know.) Did they realize they were turning her into a pile of mush? Would one of them like to fuck her ass while the other was in her cunt? Would they both mind squeezing their cocks together into her vagina so she could love two men at once?

Suddenly, Matt was the one fucking her, and Bob was the one thrusting his cock into her mouth, this time with some force trying to get all of it in there. Renee was trying too.

The men glanced at the door. Two couples stood in the doorway: Nathan and Zoey, and Kyle and Ellie. They were all naked, and fucking as the women leaned over – Ellie holding to the doorframe, and Zoey holding onto a chair just inside the door. There were moans from that side of the room as well.

Bob and Matt made some changes in position. Renee was reverse cowgirl, bouncing on Matt's cock as she worked on Bob with her mouth. She was blatantly displaying herself to the others at the door.

Minutes later, Bob was balls deep in her cunt fucking her doggie style as she ate Matt. 

Jim appeared at the door, naked but solo. He was stroking his cock as he watched the trio on the bed. 

Renee gestured for Jim to come to the bed. She inhaled his cock, and switched between Jim and Matt, as Bob continued to pile drive in her cunt from the back.

Suddenly, she was flipped over. Bob continued to pummel her cunt with his cock, and then he froze as the paroxysm of his orgasm triggered Renee's. A moment later, it was Matt fucking her, and then leaving his cum in her cunt.

But then, Jim was there too, fucking madly away until he too blasted a full load of cum inside the pretty model.

Renee gestured to Nathan and Zoey. Zoey sat on Renee's face to be eaten as Nathan picked up the race to orgasm in Renee's pussy. Ten minutes later, Kyle had his long cock in Renee's pussy as Ellie got eaten.

Renee went down the line, cleaning each man's cock, then she smiled at Bob. Oh, you were going to eat me weren't you – post coitus cunnilingus." She turned to Matt, "And you too."

To her surprise, Bob pushed her back and nestled between her legs with a grin. Renee's cunt was truly squishy with five loads of cum leaking out of it. Evidence in the surrounding area revealed that some of it had been pounded out of her and splattered around the area.

Beside them on the bed, Jim had started to fuck Zoey in a slow session as they watched Bob 'perform' for Renee. He lapped up a significant amount of the cum around, as Renee looked on in wonder. Eventually, he stopped and gestured to Matt. He dove into Renee's cunt, suctioning a load from her interior, and then the two men made a show of snowballing the cum by dribbling it from one mouth to the other. 

Bob then moved up Renee's body and French kissed her, depositing the snowball into her mouth – a wadge of cum from five men plus her own juices.

Renee made sounds of joy, contentment, and of eating a satisfying meal, and then swallowed. 

She said, "Now, that was the best. I want more threesomes from now on."

Bob chortled, "Three? You had seven people working you over."

Renee mumbled, "OK. OK. I want more gangbangs from now on. What just happened was fabulous. I'm ready to do some more."



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Renee was right. Ellen's breasts were beautiful. Joyous mounds of girl flesh topped with little strawberries for nipples atop slightly oval areolas. The areolas and nipples were a luscious shade of deep brownish pink.

Jim massaged her upper body, making an effort not to pay any more attention to one area that any other. As the massage and application of sunscreen came to an end, Jim leaned over Ellen and kissed each of her nipples, even using a little tongue on the second one and sucking the nipple into his mouth. He then moved up and kissed her on her lips.

Ellen sucked in air with each kiss, yet retained the stiffness that she'd had since disrobing, really since arriving at the house that morning.

Jim went back to his towel on the other side of Renee. Once there, he also kissed Renee and then suckled on each of her breasts for a minute each. As he did, she purred for a moment and then plainly rubbed the front of his bathing suit making nothing of the point that others could see. Apparently, the couple stopped by mutual agreement.

The beach crew got home about six o'clock. They'd picked up six pizzas from their favorite Greek pizza place on the way home, so everyone at the house could eat. 

When the group had decided to leave the beach, Ellen had scrambled back into her clothes once Renee had suggested she dress. She had a little color from tanning, but the majority of it came from embarrassment at having been 'ordered' by Renee to tan topless alongside her new boss. In the car she was mute, but she did have a slight smile, so everyone assumed she had a good time.

After dinner, and clean up, Ellen disappeared to return to her motel. She'd been offered the opportunity to stay, but politely excused herself to attend to 'personal matters.'

After Ellen had left, Bob asked Renee, "What are Ellen's job responsibilities; what's she supposed to be doing for you? She seems very submissive."

Renee shrugged, "I didn't know I had a personal assistant until Wednesday night when my agent called, telling me she was sending someone. I asked, but she was rushed. I barely met her on Thursday, and we spent Friday doing my new calendar and talking about makeup artists, photographers, fashion magazines I should appear in, and other business things. I offered her dinner, but she went back to her motel."

"I think I read her correctly. She's very shy, and a submissive. Anybody want to take her on as a challenge?"

Matt raised his hand, "Ice princess."

Jim and Bob's heads snapped around. Bob said, "Hey, I bet you're right, except I think she's totally inexperienced as far a relationships, sex, or anything else that goes on between two people."

Renee said, "Before you make my new assistant run screaming back to L.A., let's see how she does this week with the Elle photo shoot in the city."





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Renee and Ellen looked at each other. Ellen said, "Good questions; I'm on it."

Ellen typed madly on her iPad for a few minutes and then had some interesting results. She said, "All sorts of supermodels have appeared in Playboy at all points in their careers: Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, and Elle MacPherson to mention only a few. They're still in the news, and still on the A-list, and so are some others. I'd have to talk to their agent to find out if there were any economic impact."

Alex asked, "What do they pay for the privilege?"

Renee smiled, "Four-hundred-fucking-thousand dollars." She looked at the email to be sure.

Alex whistled, and several of the others gasped.

Bob said, "Sounds like a no brainer to me. Do you have to sleep with Hugh?"

Ellen scolded, "It's not about the money, it's about the image and publicity. She'll be featured, so the magazine will want to get pictures of her in informal situations at home – with all of us, and then a description of how she lives, probably hyped up a bit to make it sound sexy, except in Renee's case her life is already sexy and erotic. Hugh will have to stand in line."

Ellie sat nursing little Patrick, "Does that mean we get to appear in Playboy? "

Ellen laughed, "Maybe. You'd better hurry and get your pre-preggers figure back."

Ellie flipped Ellen the bird, but with a snarky smile. Since there were both some of the youngest in The Circle, they'd bonded. Despite the crude gestures, there was an air of love between the two.

Bill said, "I recommend you accept Playboy, but turn down Penthouse. The image you've been cultivating is of a sophisticated supermodel who is the go-to person for fashion, make up, various products, and even resorts. If you look at the career tracks of many of the models they remain popular in those areas for a decade, and then branch off, some end up on television, others take up writing, and others disappear but seem happy."

He continued, "Penthouse is much further along the scale of erotica than Playboy. I bet you won't find many fashion models who've been in there. You don't hear of many of their models after the fact either."

Ellen looked up from her iPad. "He's right. None of the A-list have posed; not even the B-list."

Renee said to Ellen, "That settles it. Email Rhonda that I'll do the Playboy shoot, but not the other."

Ellen smiled, "Oh, boy. This is going to be so much fun."

Several of The Circle wondered just what it was about doing a Playboy photo shoot that made it 'fun' for Ellen.



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Ellen nodded, "And I am so grateful to everyone for enfolding me in that love from my first day there. I just want the rest of it."

Jim nodded, "You've got it. You know I have a special place in my heart for you. I will gladly open up completely now." He reached over and held Ellen's hand, "As for announcing your intentions to the rest of The Circle, please allow Renee and me to carry that message for you. It will spare you the embarrassment, and I think when we get into things sexual that the word will spread pretty quickly. You have a long line of willing suitors."

Ellen nodded and grinned, "I guess that's what I was hoping for."

Renee said, "Do you want a roommate? You know there'll probably be a sexual component if you say yes. People are always shifting around, so you could pick just about anyone."

Ellen looked longingly at her, "Would you be willing? I know you've been with Alice for a long time, but ... you're so beautiful and I love you so much."

Renee shook her head, "I am lucky about my looks and what has happened with them, and of course I will be your first roomie." She put her hand out and squeezed the hand Ellen offered.

Dr. S said, more to Ellen than either Jim or Renee, "We all quest for intimacy. Being able to talk about sex is one of the greatest features of that intimacy – your fantasies, desires, hopes, and even the bad experiences so you can put them behind you. Your friends in The Circle, and now lovers I guess, will help you achieve that intimacy."

Jim said, "We are very open about our wants and needs sexually."

Renee said, "In an amazing way too. I never thought I'd walk up to someone and say that I needed to make love with them right then. I never thought I'd ask two or three men at a time, either."

Dr. S's eyebrows lifted at that admission.

Ellen nodded enthusiastically; a point not lost on the others.

Jim asked her, "Are you implying that you want multiple people to make love to you?"

Ellen shyly said, "I watched you, Matt, and Marlene make love to Renee a few weeks ago. I ... errr ... I masturbated as I watched you it was so hot and loving and sexy and even pornographic. I wanted to be on that bed being fucked like that. I want that ... soon.

Dr. S added, "All of Ellen's sexual boundaries are up in the air right now, and she knows that. She tells me she doesn't want any boundaries, but I think we all have them in some way. I caution that she should avoid rape and submission games or fantasies for a long while, lest they yank her backwards into a dark place."

Jim and Renee nodded in understanding. Renee had continued to hold Ellen's hand, and she squeezed to let her know that we understood. She said, "I'll be sure we take baby steps and that we're gentle."

Back at the house, Jim and Renee led Ellen to Jim's large bed. They also left the door open in invitation to others to join in. The three of them slowly stripped away each other's clothing, and as they did they talked about love with Ellen, and how she was beautiful, and loved and adored by each of them.

When Ellen tried to surrender to their seduction, they pulled her back to being an equal participant. In that equality came the orgasms that had been what Ellen craved from the pair.

Somewhere during the lovemaking session, Zoey joined, extending her complete love to Ellen. Matt and Alex were there too, and then Bob and Alice. Tina and Marlene joined them with Derek.

When everyone who was in the house had been able to love her in some way, Ellen started to cry tears of joy at the completeness, acceptance, and unconditional love she felt for the first time in her life. This wasn't subservience or domination or rape; this was love in all it splendor and glory.

Jim and Renee later cuddled the young women between their bodies, and together the trio napped. Ellen had a new smile on her face.



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Lynn said, "I love your idea for a nanny. If we even had one nanny it would be so good, especially now that some of the older children are starting to skip their naps. The other grandparents all worked, so hiring would be ideal."

Just as she finished the baby monitor that she carried that transmitted the sounds from the nursery room started to make clunking sounds. Lynn rolled her eyes as she turned and headed in that direction. She said, "That'll be Marshall; he likes to rock his crib against the wall to hear the noise. I better go or he'll wake everyone else."

She was back in a minute with the one-and-a-half year old on her hip. Marshall happily smiled at the other women, obviously enjoying being the center of attention.



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Steve rose and went down the table to Lolly. He knelt beside her chair and the two nuzzled and kissed. There were some whispers, and then the two of them just rose and disappeared together, heading for his room.

There were some other couplings that took place in fairly obvious ways.

Tammy finally and subtly pulled away from the table and slipped away to head home.

A week later, Sandy dragged into the house about four o'clock after managing a large charity luncheon with a guest speaker. She flopped down on the family room sofa, joining Tammy and the toddlers.

"I am so wiped out. I just did a lunch for three hundred with a high-powered guest speaker. The caterers were late, not all the wait staff showed up, the audio equipment didn't work at first, and there weren't enough restrooms nearby. Other than that, I had a good day." She sagged even lower on the sofa and shut her eyes.

Little Teddy toddled over to Sandy, and she swept him up by surprise, resulting in gales of laughter as she smothered his neck with a thousand kisses and a few raspberries. The two year old obviously felt her love and affection. She was one of his mommies. He even giggled out, "Mommie - Stop!" Alice encouraged the widespread use of the term by her son.

Sandy asked her friend, "So, Tammy, how are you doing on this job? Do you think you'll stick around?"

"Oh, it's fine. I like it, and I love the people in this family. It's just ... well ... sometimes ... I mean ..."

Sandy laughed, "You're finding the sexy atmosphere kind of hard to take? I did warn you."

"Yeah, but I didn't think it would be like this. You said 'hard to take,' but that's not quite right. I find it ... interesting ..."

Sandy filled in with a laugh, "And arousing."

"Well, yes. The other night one of the things that happened was that several people coupled up and then decided to watch some porn - adult videos that Tina had done only a short while ago."

Sandy teased, "Did you watch? Wasn't she good? I wish I could take on guys the ways she did, like three at once; she has an amazing pussy and it tastes divine, I might add. Her orgasms were real in all her videos; did you know that?"

Tammy sighed and passed another toy to Teddy, "That's what I mean about this place. You just did it. A simple answer would have done, but you turned it into a long sexy statement with arousing visual images."

Sandy laughed, "That's how I think and see the world. Do you want me to stop?"

"NO. I kind of like it. It's like reading passages in a good novel, and suddenly the characters are making love, and it's described in lurid detail. I always liked that, but here it happens multiple times, every day."

"Are they overpowering you?"

"I can't decide. I know they all share partners."

Sandy shook her head. "No, that's not quite accurate. They share themselves with people they love - me too. To say 'they share their partners' implies ownership; no one in this house 'owns' anybody else. We are all independent, loving beings."

Tammy chuckled, "And you're all oversexed."

"Absolutely." Sandy added, "Hey, you used to be pretty OK with stuff like this when we were in college. You and Mark were all over each all the time with PDAs."

Tammy nodded. "I know, but since he died ... I don't know, it just seems so hard to envision ever doing anything like that again."

Sandy smiled, "Give it time." As she said that, she wondered if four years hadn't been more than enough time; Tammy needed to get over her loss.



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"What then?"

 "NBC wants to film us over a long period of time, and have weekly one-hour shows, with us just being us."

 Bob was taken aback. "Where'd they get this idea?"

 "Well, the Duggar family is now off the air, thanks to Josh doing shit with underage teens, and Bachelorette is getting stale. They're looking for something 'hot,' as it was termed to me. Something that verges on sexual a lot, but had people doing interesting things."

 "I get it, but why else. We're pretty boring, aren't we?"

 "Over time, we're not," Renee replied. "We have two heroes who foiled an armed robbery, there's me the supermodel, we have two ex-porn queens in our circle, plus we've done some of our own movies – and this'll kick those sales through the roof. We have babies with indeterminate paternity. We have several self-made millionaires. We have drama. We have a network TV news anchor. We have diversity in sex, race, creed, age, national origin, and lots of other things. We have all the makings of a great TV show."

 Ellen stepped in, "They want to film now so they end up with twelve one-hour shows for the fall season. We'd have a film crew here pretty much 24/7."

 Bob looked around at the nude bodies, "But how would they handle something like this?"

 Renee shrugged, "Don't know, but you can bet it would sell a lot of advertising space." She laughed, "Especially, for Viagra, Cialis, and that new female mood drug Lady Prelox, not to mention Trojans."

 Bob said, "We have to bring this up Sunday night when we meet as a group. You want to do this, right?"

 Renee and Ellen both nodded.

 Alex said, "I think it'd be a gas – talk about reality TV."

 Sunday night after dinner, everyone gathered in the family room. Extra chairs had been brought in from elsewhere in the house. Bob looked down the list of names on his agenda and made visual eye contact with each person, including the toddlers who were still up and the babies in mothers' arms. There were thirty-six warm bodies in the room.

 Bob called the meeting to order. "We have an interesting proposal before us again. Renee has been working on the pros and cons of the request, so I'll turn it over to her."

 Renee stood. She wore sexy spike heels as usual; sport shorts that hugged her tight ass and that made mouths water; a crop top sans bra; and a colorful scarf around her neck. She blushed as she stood.

 "Hi everyone; I'll get right to the point. Rhonda my agent was contacted by NBC. They want to do a reality TV series about The Circle." She explained the mechanics of the request, and then did a brief report on the pros and cons.

 "Cons first," Renee said. "We'd lose our privacy for a while. We really would have to stop having sex in the public rooms, regardless of time or day, although I think the film crew would be happily entertained. It'd be like making the porn movies.

 "I can't estimate the impact that revealing our way of life to others would have on our careers and other social contacts. The first time it happened, with The Courier, it didn't go well. The Playboy fallout was miniscule, unless I missed something. I'll come back to this another way.

 "As for the pros for doing this, we will all get some serious media exposure. It'll do me a world of good, and increase my rates because my visibility increases. I talked to Alex and he thinks it'll be good for his business too, so I imagine Marlene and Sheila would be positively impacted, as clients would want to sign-up with a TV personality. Willow thinks it'd be good for her. You others will have to think about what it would or wouldn't do for you.

 "We'd also reap a small fortune from the network. We've been talking about hiring more staff and getting a vacation retreat; I'm sure the funds could do all that with no problem. I mean we're talking over a million here."

 Renee turned back to Bob.

 Bob said, "Discussion and then a vote? I think we'll need a unanimous vote on this one too, like so many of our others. What affects one of us, affects us all."

 There were a dozen questions for Renee, most of which she could answer. A few Ellen had the answer to, since she'd had the longer discussion with Rhonda about the reality TV show.

 Bob summarized the discussion after having gotten comments from almost everyone, "We need to communicate to NBC that we will only do this if we are portrayed in a positive light. We don't want this show to be judgmental about our lifestyle any more than that the lifestyle of love and caring speaks for itself. We want to be sure that it's clear that we are not just tolerating each other, but we are celebrating each other's mind, body, and spirituality."

 Bob checked his notes, "Oh, yes, we don't mind that the eroticism of our lives comes across, but it should not appear as though we are a bunch of swingers who care little for one another. Let's see, and we'd like all of this in writing."

 In the end the vote was unanimous for doing the TV show.



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Lynn smiled, "Yes. I look forward to every liaison. I can't get enough of them. I feel like the most loved person in the world some days."

"Were you always this way?"

"No!" Lynn reminded Tammy, "Kyle is my son. He fell in love with Tracy, and then Ellie, and then suddenly he was making love with all these other women. He didn't tell me everything, but I sort of figured it out from things he said and pieces of conversations I heard him have with Tracy or Derek; they were his best friends when he started here.

"Anyway, I saw my son blossom and become a man. I tried to chalk it up to the sex, but it was more than that. It was that he'd found a house of supportive friends and lovers, and they all bootstrapped each other to bigger and better things in their lives. For instance, I'm not sure Kyle would have stayed in college if it hadn't been for Tracy, Derek, and Ellie pulling him along. Now they're all taking some martial arts class together and he has this peaceful strength about him that he never had. It's beautiful."

Tammy asked, "But what about you?"

"I was a divorcée. Kyle's dad found a bimbo and left me to play with her. I grieved, went through the bitter phase, and then started to get my life together about the time Kyle joined The Circle. He got me coming to the house to see the babies, partly because he might have fathered any of them.

"I got to know everyone, and I loved the atmosphere of the house. I even enjoyed watching the open sexuality, and I know you've seen it too. It turns me on even now. Back then, I admit I was usually shocked but I just had to watch as a true voyeur."

Tammy hurried her along, "So, did you just decide one day to sleep with all of the men?"

"Oh, no. That was a daunting thought. I hadn't had sex with anybody for years, plus I thought the world only revolved around committed couples. I thought any woman that slept with more than one man over some long time interval was a slut or worse. Boy, did I end up eating those words.

"Jim decided he really liked me, and he put a gentle press on me to be with him. Eventually, I succumbed to his kisses and romantic style. He took me to his room one evening, and made love to me, and it was so sweet and romantic and just everything I could have hoped for. I got swept up in the passion of the night. Later, Zoey came in and she made love to me too. I'd never been with a woman before, but that night changed everything. My mind felt like it was exploding with love and I felt like I was growing by light-years in a single bound.

"The next night I somehow ended up with Matt ... and Zoey. I was thinking I'd be so embarrassed to be seen with any of them the next morning after Matt, Zoey, and I had made love for a goodly portion of the night. Oh, it was wonderful, but then I woke up with that worry, only I was making love to Jim again. Later, coming downstairs, everyone knew what we'd been doing, and that I'd been with two men and a woman within the past eight hours or less.

"That third night, I was with Nathan and Alice. I'm not even sure how it happened, because I had resolved to go home and be a chaste person the rest of my life. Instead, I became the house slut for a while. Alex got me going on his breaks the next day when he worked from home and the kids were napping. I suddenly loved everyone and couldn't get enough ... cock and pussy. I'd turned the corner. I wanted everyone and all at once too."

Lynn laughed.

Tammy soaked all that in with a more serious expression.

Lynn said, "I guess you're thinking of having to suddenly take on twenty-nine people; right?"

Tammy nodded. This was her first admission, even to herself, that she really wanted to be 'in' The Circle.

Lynn said, "That's the wrong way to think about it. You're feeling you have to swallow an entire meal in one big gulp. You start by picking out one person who you especially resonate with, the way I did with Jim. And then, you move to the next person, and the next. You don't have to do that day after day as I did; you could just focus on Jim one month, and then maybe someone else. Ultimately, you'll love everyone in emotional and physical terms."

Tammy said, "I never initiated anything sexual in my life. My late husband would announce he wanted sex, and that's what he got."

Lynn asked, "Was he kinky? Did he experiment? Did he bring you off too? Did he like your blowjobs? Did you do anal?"

"Oh, my God. We did none of that stuff. That's part of what scares me."

Lynn said, "When the kids go down for naps and quiet time, I have something to show you."

After lunch, the babies and kiddies napped, and Lynn led Tammy to the family room and sat her down in front of the large television. Lynn said, "I am going to show you a couple of videos."

The first video started. Tammy inhaled, "Oh, my God. That's Marlene ... and she's sleeping with that man."

Lynn laughed, "She's hardly sleeping. That's called fucking or making love -- sometimes it's hard to tell the difference unless you know what's going on in their heads. I'm sure this is fucking, however."

Tammy's mouth hung open. On the TV screen Marlene and a muscular male were humping together with occasional close-up shots of his cock driving into Marlene's beautiful pussy. The tattoo of a heart near her pussy was very evident.

Lynn commented here and there, "Now, that is one great blowjob. When she gets that cock all the way into her mouth and her nose against his pubes, there -- like that, it's called giving a deep throat. Marlene is very good at it; so is Tina by the way."

"But ... but ... but ..."

"Oh, now she's getting eaten. Look at his tongue action; he's good -- you'd love that. She said she really was having real orgasms when they were filming this shot. Oh, now, she's being fucked again. This is nice; he's gentle and paying attention to her clit too -- good man.

"Ah, now you're seeing him put his dick in Marlene's ass. That's anal sex. Not everyone likes it. Alice calls it an acquired taste." She laughed.

"There are some other positions. Oh, here comes another man. This is a threesome; we have those around here all the time. From a woman's point of view with two men, they're fabulous. You just cum and cum and cum -- orgasm after orgasm. Someone is always fucking you, and it's great."

Tammy said, "I knew Marlene and Tina did adult films, but I'd never seen ... my God, this one is so ... explicit."

Lynn snickered. "It is explicit. When I acted in one of these films and saw it later, I realized that. When you're doing it, the sex is so loving and exciting and arousing, you don't really think much about what it looks like to an observer."

Tammy blurted out, "YOU did a porn video?"

"Yes. Everybody in the house was in at least one of them. They sold very well and still are; I'm told. Alice and Matt were thinking of doing another one soon. I'll show you some others another day, if you want. I don't want to force these on you. I wanted to show you some real sex -- sex by a couple that do more than just have traditional intercourse in the missionary position.

Tammy heard a squawk from the baby monitor indicating that someone was waking up in the nursery. She was up like a shot. "Errr, thank you. Let me think about all this."



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"I don't want to get hooked on drugs."

"I wouldn't worry about that right now. Do what Dr. Rama tells you, and keep sleeping."

Tracy looked at her brother, "I love you."

Jim squeezed her hand, "I love you more than anything in the world. I just want you whole again. I'll be wherever you are to care for you."

"Your job?"

"I already called and took an emergency leave. I ain't leaving here until I'm taking you home. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. They were very understanding."

"Thanks, bro."

Jim kissed her hand, and then following a gesture from the nurse, left the room.

Tracy remained in the ICU for another four days, and then went to a regular room in the surgical recovery wing. 

Jim had followed up on Doug Mayes, and found that he'd been killed in the accident, having died only an hour or so earlier in the same hospital. After searching, Jim had found Brenda Mayes – a pretty older woman who had obviously been devastated by the loss of her husband. Jim explained his connection to the woman, through Tracy, Doug's assistant and whom he mentored.

Brenda said through her tears, "He loved her. I knew that. He wasn't going to leave me for her or anything. I guess she – you? – have some kind of strange living arrangement. Anyway, they were an item in our household. He often couldn't stop talking about her. I wasn't jealous or anything; I was glad he was happy. I knew he loved me too."

Jim nodded, unsure of how to follow up with any suitable remark.

Brenda said, "It's OK. I can see what I said made you uncomfortable. I'm so glad she survived. I want to see her before I leave, if nothing more than to put her name and picture together."

"Picture?"

Brenda laughed, "Doug put a picture of her on our piano."

"And you didn't mind – even with an open marriage?"

"No. I have other men that I also love, but I would never have left Doug. We were in each others' retirement plans."

"Tracy would love to see you too."

Brenda said in a matter of fact tone, "Doug said you and Tracy were lovers."

Jim nodded. "She is a loving person. There are about thirty of us – men and women – who live together. She loves us all, and we love her."

"Sometime I'd like to visit you all. That sounds like what Doug and I were trying to build in a small way. Like you and Tracy, we believed there was never enough love in the world."

A day later Jim and Denise were in Tracy's hospital room when Brenda came and knocked gently on the door. Jim had told Tracy of the conversation.

Tracy lay partially elevated in her bed with pillows surrounding her. The facial bandages had been removed, leaving obvious bruises and contusions along with a dozen stitches in Tracy's right cheek.

Tracy said instantly, "Hi, Brenda. Are you OK?"

Brenda approached the bed. Tears flowed down her cheeks; she said, "Yes. Doug really cared for you. I know he loved you dearly."

"I loved him. He was such a special man. I've cried so much over his loss since I found out yesterday." Tracy patted the bed beside her and put out her good hand to be held.

Brenda sat on the edge of the bed and took Tracy's hand in hers. "I knew about the baby. Doug told me on the phone the day before the crash."

Tracy nodded, "I'd just figured it out that day and I told him." She hesitated, "He might have been the father but I lost the baby because of the crash. I ... I worried about how upset you'd be at that."

Brenda gave a sad smile. "I'm sorry too and not upset. He would have been so proud." The two women studied each other. They were a generation or more apart. Wisely, Tracy's mother remained mute; she hadn't known about the pregnancy until that moment. 

Brenda said, "Thank you for all you did for him." She shook her head to clear her mind. She nodded at Jim and Denise; "I've got to go. I have a flight home. I plan to visit after you're back home. I'll see you then. Take care and heal fast."

After Brenda was gone, Denise asked in a gentle tone, "You might have been carrying Doug's baby?"

Tracy winked at her brother. This was one of those moments when parents suddenly learn about their children and the generational gap. 

"Mom, there were fourteen potential fathers, although given when I was really fertile, I could have narrowed that down a little. Doug was a strong possibility."

Denise sat up straighter and scolded, "Tracy!"

Tracy explained, "You know how I live. We don't worry about paternity. There are six children in the house and another on the way. Do you realize that Jim may be the father of all of them ... or none. Any of the men could, and that's the way we want it to be."

Denise sputtered.

Jim said, "Mom, that's why we keep using the term 'universal grandmother' when we've referred to you. Any of the men's parents, plus the mother's parents fit that moniker."

Denise studied her children. "I ... knew ... that you flaunted a lot of society's customs, but I didn't realize you did it that much."

"We do," Tracy said in a kind tone; "One way to think about it, is that I am in a group marriage."

"But Doug ...?"

"It's an open marriage for all of us."

Denise looked at her son, "And you might have been the father?"

Jim nodded. 

Denise buried her face in her hands for a moment. "I will never tell Gary about any of this. He'd be shattered."

Tracy patted her mother's hand, "And you? Don't be mad or disappointed in us. We are loving beings. We're all consenting adults too. It's how we've chosen to live"

Denise waved her hand, "Oh, I'll get used to the idea. Now that I realize the whole story, I promise I'll try to be more of a grandmother too."

Tracy said in a cheerful tone, "Losing the baby and the ability to have another means I'll be one of the 'universal mothers' in the group – or an aunt, or something like that. Don't feel bad about that. I'm becoming a rather motivated career woman, and I still have all my nieces and nephews to dote on."



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Jess followed up. "What are the underlying principles for The Circle?" She left the question intentionally vague and open-ended. 

Jim said, "That's easy. We love and care about others to a fault. Those high on our list, we hope will be seen the same way by our colleagues in The Circle, and that they will want to be with all of us.

"Further, we try to live in the Now. We try not to let the experiences of our past influence us too much in today, nor let our worries about the future cloud how we live. 

"We put great emphasis on honest, open communication. We also work at being role models for each other and for other people."

Jess took frantic notes, but looked up when Jim paused, "How does the open sexuality of The Circle fit into the concept of being role models?"

Jim laughed, "Good question. We also believe that consenting adults can do whatever they want about sex. That's a loaded statement. We don't want some church or religion dictating to us or judging us according to what we believe are arbitrary standards. We don't want any government body doing the same thing, or anybody else, for that matter. If you disagree with us, please keep your opinions to yourself, but don't go around broadcasting how bad we are relative to your standards and then pass laws that force us to behave the way you want us to. You do that for us, and we'll pay you the same respect. Now, to me, that's being a good role model."

"So you espouse group sex?"

"I didn't say that. If several of us want to enjoy a sexual encounter together, and we're all consenting adults, let's have fun. I don't want someone quoting scripture or legal precedent in some right-wing state to tell us about how we're going to hell for our behavior. We aren't."

"And your attitude about them?"

"Backward. Locked into old ways of thinking. Lack of critical thinking, or allowing others to think and dictate to them what they should believe. Believing in a book that is nothing more than a book."

"You mean the Bible?"

"Exactly, or any other so-called sacred document. That said, I will fight for their right to hold those views. Just don't legislate them on me."

Jess studied her notes and asked, "How do you cope with the feelings of jealousy you get?"

Jim smiled, "I don't, because I no longer get jealous. Let me explain. I was raised and got jealous of other people for several reasons: they had stuff I wanted, they threatened to take away stuff I had; there's what might be called time-based jealousy – you're not spending enough time with me versus someone else; and lastly there's maybe betrayal jealousy.

"So, about the first, wanting someone else's stuff or somebody they have; well, I have everything I need in life, including foremost people that love me. Poof! That kind of jealousy vanishes. Second kind, someone will take away something I hold dear. Here, in The Circle, that's unlikely, and I would never do that to anybody here either. Poof! That one goes away.

"Third, you spend too much time with someone else. Two things come to mind here, first, is the rule of karma. I know that sooner or later, our time will come. I trust in that premise and it's never let me down. The other component is the concept of 'compersion,' a term coined to mean the opposite of jealousy. I am glad you are finding enjoyment in the time you spend with someone else; I also feel good because you do.

"Lastly, is betrayal jealousy – someone will betray me in some way, violate vows that we shared. Well, one way to avoid that is not to allow others to make silly promises to you that they may not be able to keep. Another is to realize that in this Circle, based on the premise of love and caring, is that no one would intentionally do anything like that to any of the others. If they did, there would have to be some really crazy reason for it."

Jess studied Jim, almost to test his sincerity about what he'd just said. She probed, "So, if you really loved me, and you saw me having sex with someone else, you wouldn't be jealous?"

Jim chuckled, "Oh, all sorts of responses come to mind. I'd wait patiently for my turn. I would hope you are having the time of your life with whomever it is you're making love to. I would hope you feel loved and cared for, even better than I can do for you. I would wonder if I can do anything to enhance the experience you're having."

"You wouldn't think I'd betrayed you in some way?"

"What? How? Because you wanted to make love to someone else? No way."

"What if it was just wild unbridled lust and fucking?" Jess grinned.

"Same feelings I just described. I'd hope you have fun and get from the experience what you hoped."

Jess said, "Well, you're very secure in yourself. What about others that may feel insecurities?"

Jim replied, "That's what I've been trying to tell you. We all try to make each other feel secure in the love we have for them. That's why you'll see us greeting each other with some form of affection. Do that enough, and everyone starts to feel good about themselves, even when there's an upset in their life. If someone kisses you every day and tells you they love you, you know they aren't out to screw you over."

"You wouldn't try to guilt-shame me into falling into line in some way?" Jess posed.

Jim said, "Now, why would I do that? I love you. If I lay a guilt trip on you, I'm making that love conditional in some way on your behavior. I want my love to be unconditional. I want you to know that I will love you regardless of what you do."

"That's too theoretical," Jess insisted.

Jim said, "A recent example may help. You met Steph and will be talking to her. A little over a year ago The Circle hosted a swinger party that many of us wanted to participate in with another group of people we liked. Steph met a guy at that party named Nick, who swept her off her feet in one night. Call it mind control or whatever, but he talked her into leaving with him to go to Boston. Steph vanished the next day, and we didn't hear from her for a year. We grieved over her sudden departure, but each of us hoped she was OK and getting what she wanted from that relationship. It turned sour on her, and she came back seeking forgiveness. There was nothing to forgive. We welcomed her back with open arms. There was never any jealousy or conditional love; we loved her before, during, and after unconditionally."

Jess asked, "Do you think a lot of love is conditional?"

Jim smiled, "I think most of it is. Anything with vows, monogamy, exclusivity, and the possibility of jealousy becomes conditional from the start. People are terrible at anticipating how their lives and feelings will change over time. By trying to build into a relationship a high degree of rigidity, we end up building in tension that may ultimately destroy it."

"Say more."

"I fall in love with you. We conjure our lives together with a little white cottage, a picket fence, two-point-two children, a dog, a cat, and everything else. Then we start to work and have bills and all the real-world stuff that takes the edge off. I strike up a great friendship with a female colleague, and even have feelings for her; you do the same thing with a guy from your work. One or both of us cheat on our vows. We think the only way out is divorce and separation. None of us in The Circle think that's the way to go."

"So you'd let her cuckold you ... or vice versa?"

"If that's the negative word you want to use, then yes, sort of. I want to say, I still love you, but I also love this other person, and I acknowledge that you also love someone else in addition to me. How nice. Period. End of conflict. I choose to still be with you, at least some of the time. I hope you are happy when you're away. You get the drift."

"So everyone in The Circle cheats with everyone else?"

"No. You just placed a value judgment on our polyamorous behavior." Jim said emphatically, "Everyone in The Circle loves everyone else without jealousy and as unconditionally as they can. When you said it's too theoretical, you're partly right. We work at living this way, and we're all imperfect beings, thus our relationships are all imperfect. The advantage to the love and communications we have is that we can talk it out; we can express ourselves, and learn from each other. Others can help us hone our relationships and feelings."

Jess pounced, "So you do get jealous or angry or sad or peeved with someone else?"

Jim laughed, "Sure. And if I don't talk to them directly, I might seek counsel from Matt or Bob or Nathan or Sheila or someone, and they'll walk me through the difficulty until I either feel better and forget the whole thing, or I come up with goals and an action plan to fix the situation in some way, and that probably will include talking to the person."

Jess made some more frantic notes despite the recorder taking down all Jim's comments and the TV crew recording everything.

Jess looked up, "I heard you refer to loving everyone here in terms of mind, body, and spirit. Could you elucidate?" She smiled.

Jim said, "Body is easy – that's our physical side. Mind is too – that's how we appreciate each other's intellect and ability to be critical thinkers. The core to all we do is the spiritual side of things.

"People think that spirit is ethereal and off in some far dimensions that we aspire to, and there may be some components that are indeed in those other dimensions, but I can't talk to those. I can say that here in this world, I am spiritual and exercise my spirituality by all the interactions I have with other people. If I'm a bastard, I'm not being very spiritual, and I can eventually expect a huge dose of karma to descend upon me, and if it doesn't get me this time around, it'll get me in the next.

"On the other hand, if I'm loving and a nice guy, then I erase some of the bad karma from other lives that's followed me into this one. I exercise my true spiritual nature in that unconditional love, as best I can do. I feel I even get brownie points for trying."

Jess asked, "Do you believe in God?"

"Do you mean a big old man with a white beard wearing a white robe with a big gold 'G' embroidered on the pocket, sitting in the clouds in heaven with angels scurrying around playing harps, keeping track of seven billion people, and then deciding who gets into heaven or who gets banished to hell? The answer is firmly 'No.'

"If you mean spiritual forces that can give us guidance if we listen, aid in our relationships, love, and keep us touch with our true nature as spiritual beings having a human experience, then the answer is 'Yes.'"

Jess looked up and held his gaze for a minute. "Thanks Jim. I'd like to stop our interview at this point, and pick up in a few days. Right now, I need to digest this." She paused, folded her notes, and said, "You are one deep cookie."



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The two women sat on one of the sofas in the large family room enjoying a morning cup of coffee. Tammy wore her silk robe, but was nude underneath. Jess had told her to dress provocatively. Jess again wore her sexy bikini night outfit.

 Jess went on, "I'm afraid I compromised our counseling relationship last night by the sex with you and having you right there with Matt and me. Since this is one of the key areas we've been working on, I just feel we should set you up with someone else. I know some other good people who do counseling in this area, even several who specialize in sex counseling and sex therapy."

 Tammy nodded. "I understand ... but I don't want anybody else right now." She paused and said, "I have to tell you something ... about last night."

 Jess looked at her with the question posed.

 Tammy went on, "I was ready to make love with you both ... I mean to actually have intercourse when I came in the room after having watched the two of you. I wanted it then, and I want it now. You brought me along to the right place in the right way. I feel so good – so different than I've been the past years."

 She went on, "I know you didn't fuck me because of my past hang-ups, but I want to move past them. I'm ready. More than ready, I think you helped me move past them last night."

 Jess smiled, "If Matt were here now, would you go off and make love with him?"

 "Yes."

 "What about Jim or one of the other men?"

 "Yes." Tammy smiled bashfully.

 "Wait here."

 Jess got up and walked into the living room. Lynn was playing with two of the babies and one toddler. Bob sat talking to her.

 She walked up to Bob. "Hi Bob. I have a favor to ask."

 "You want to interview me, right?" He said.

 "No. Right now, I want you to go into the family room, collect Tammy, take her to your bedroom, and make sweet and tender love to her, with lots of serious fucking and sucking, and even greater romance. She's at a crucial place in her head, and this would be very helpful for her. Don't take any reluctance as an indication to stop."

 Bob's jaw fell open. "You're serious."

 Jess nodded, "I'll fill in for her with helping with the kiddies, so don't rush." She smiled. She glanced at Lynn, "If I can I'll tag along to coach and encourage her at the start. She needs this more than anything else in her life right now."

 Bob rose and walked into the family room. Jess followed a few feet behind.

 Tammy looked up at first with a smile and then with a worried look.

 Bob didn't say anything. He went up to the pretty older woman and kissed her very tenderly, letting his kisses stray to her cheeks, her ears, her neck, and then down further to the edge of her robe. Tammy leaned into his affection with her eyes shut, and purred like a cat.

 He put out a hand to her and she took it. He lifted her to a standing position, and then led her across the house to the stairway, and towards his room. When he looked back at her, she had a tear on each cheek, but a smile. She nodded that she wanted to continue.

 Jess lurked in the background, making sure that Tammy was putting her blockages aside in favor of a new life – one where she could give herself to the people she loved, and accept their love in return.





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The edges of the show and a few after that followed Tammy and Tracy through their very different struggles about rebuilding their lives, and broadened the focus on the daily life in the house, including some of the pairings and threesomes that formed some evenings after dinner and that went off to make love. Each episode of the show seemed to show a little more of that side of things.

Jessica's move into the house to do some 'research' was a feature of one episode, including long talks with Jim and Monica where they each encapsulated many of the values, principles, and operating practices of The Circle. The episodes featuring the interviews built up a latent audience for Jessica's research paper on the polyamorous intentional family.

As promised, Marty sent a bag or two of fan mail each week – the letters she thought were the more interesting and representative of the thousands received. They sat piled on a table in the lounge and it became a favorite pastime after dinner for some of The Circle members to gather and read them to each other. A favorite expression heard often in this pastime was, "Oh, hey. Listen to this one ..."





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"In a way. We've all been approached and we have many other offers, but none as ... aligned to how we think as yours, at least that we're aware of. I think we're going to try to do something with the fan mail in that regard. Maybe you can even help us since you have insight to what others might be feeling and thinking. Many of the other requests seem uni-dimensional, if I can use that term, whereas you understand the complete picture of living like this."

"Oh, yes, anyway I can. I want to be helpful. I want to belong. Oh, I love you. If you were here with me, I would plant a great big kiss on your lips."

"Well, hold that thought to Wednesday, and I'll take you up on it. You are welcome to stay over if you wish."

"Oh, I wish – I wish. I'll bring some clothes for work on Thursday and over the weekend."



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"I'm only shocked by how eager I was to keep going. The thing is I know I'll be that way the next time too, even if it all started again in five minutes."

Jim wrapped his arms around Stacy as he came up behind her, allowing one hand to snake into her robe so he could fondle her breasts. The mammary was firm and taut, and he could feel the nipple harden into his palm, much to his delight.

He kissed Stacy. "You were spectacular last night."

Tracy said, "That's what I heard. I think everyone wants her in The Circle too. I haven't heard one negative comment." Tracy leaned in and kissed Stacy; "Let me be the first to welcome you to our midst ... slut." She grinned at her teasing epithet.

Stacy grinned, "Do you think ... I mean about The Circle. I hope so. I'm holding back so I won't be disappointed if my joining doesn't happen. I never asked, but what do you do, have a vote or something? Is there some kind of gauntlet that I should be running?"

Tracy and Jim shook their heads. Jim said, "It'll just happen all of a sudden if you're in, and then we'll all know it's the right move for you and for us. It's like quantum chemistry in some way; if everyone has good vibes about you, suddenly you're our new lover. There's no prescribed set of things to do, but I'll tell you that you set a high bar last night, thank you."

Breaking the tension around the membership question, Matt appeared in jogging shorts; followed by Renee and Ellen also in jogging attire. "Hey, we're heading out for a run; anybody want to join us?"

Stacy asked, "It'll take me a couple of minutes to suit up, but yes. Can you wait?"

Matt went over to Stacy as she slid off the kitchen stool, "I'd always wait for you, you beautiful hunk of woman." He gave her a light swat on her butt and said, "Now, go. Hurry."

Stacy ran off and was back in less than five minutes in a snug jogging outfit. While she was gone the others talked about what a great addition to The Circle Stacy would be.

"How far are you going?"

"About ten miles."

"Oh, good," Stacy said as she tied her shoelaces.

The four of them trotted out the door. 

Tracy turned to a few of the others after they were gone, "Stacy's a sure thing, right?"

Everyone laughed and nodded. "Right."

Bob had been sitting off to the side. "I guess I'll assign her a space."

Bill asked in a hopeful tone, "Who's her first roommate?"

There was a commotion of sounds from the men in the area, all volunteering and even pleading.

Bob held his hand up, "Sorry, gents. Matt already asked, and he is sort of sponsoring her. Marlene his current roommate told me she'd love to be with any of you. I'll make some adjustments to the assigned space."

Bill observed, "She still doesn't know."

Bob laughed, "Matt will tell her. He doesn't know yet. I'll indicate to him that we heard from everyone." While not everyone had interacted with Stacy, those individuals knew that if one of two others liked the person that they would too.

The runners got back about ninety minutes later, some of that time spent stretching on the lawn. They were hot and sweaty despite a steady breeze out of the northwest. Stacy looked beautiful even at the end of a long run; of course, she had legs that rivaled Renee's and like Renee and Ellen her nipples were alert and announcing her presence.

The four runners went inside, heading straight for the kitchen and something cold to drink. The few Circle members in the common area greeted them, but not with hugs given their sweaty and odiferous condition. This provoked some laughs, even with Stacy. 

Bob gave Matt the high sign, pointed at Stacy when she wasn't looking, and nodded.

Stacy asked, "What do people do on the weekends? I know some people ride bikes."

Renee said, "Well, Ellen, Alex, Bob and I had talked about going up to the lake for some beach time for part of the afternoon. We'd love to have you go with us."

Darrell, the TV cameraman, put down his serious video camera and said, "I get off duty about two o'clock. Willow, Ariana, and I were going to bicycle into town. If you want to go, we'd also love to have you. A few others usually go with us."

Stacy asked, "What would I do about a bike?"

Willow bounced her daughter on one hip nearby, "Oh, we have a whole bunch of bikes in the shed next to the carport. We have more than enough, and you could take your pick."

Stacy turned to Renee, "I want to get to know Willow better, and have her know me, so if you don't mind, I think I'll opt for the bike ride. I haven't been in the downtown area for ages, so it'll be fun."

Renee accepted that without a problem.

Willow passed Ariana to Stacy, and the two bonded almost instantly to the point that the toddler was laughing at Stacy's faces and strange sounds only a minute later.

Matt said with a smile, "It's nice to see you're not stuck up, and that you can make googly faces at a toddler."

Stacy kissed Ariana on the side of her head, "I love kids." Willow took her daughter back and headed into the corner of the living room containing the toy boxes. Dar followed.

Stacy asked, "Is Darrell ... dating Willow?"

Matt explained, "Oh, he's dated everyone in The Circle, and he's an honorary member too. We agreed that he shouldn't announce his full membership until after the TV series ends, otherwise NBC will get all steamed off at him for jumping ship and compromising some of the filming. Of course, he's doing that anyway." He chuckled.

As an after-thought, Matt said to Stacy, "Hey, I'm heading up to take a shower, would you like to save some water and shower with a friend?"

Stacy grinned, "I'd love to." The two of them meandered off in the direction of Matt's room.

Only a few minutes later, both dripping with the first splashes of water from the shower, Stacy leaned against one wall in Matt's large shower enclosure as he pumped his hot cock into her tight pussy. There were both enjoying the coupling, making cooing sounds, and telling each other how they were loved and appreciated.

Matt was leaning over Stacy's back and fondling her wet breasts, tweaking the nipples. Each time he did, he could feel her pussy spasm around his cock.

After the shower, Matt and Stacy dried off and then lay together in his bed, cuddling and kissing, and working up for a second round of lovemaking.

Matt said, "You don't seem anxious about The Circle any longer – either belonging, getting along with everyone, or the sex."

Stacy rose on her elbow so she could look Matt in the eye. "I'm not. I've put forward my best effort, and really that's just me being me. If I get into The Circle, it can't be because I've put out some extraordinary effort by not being my genuine self. I love everyone I've met, and the sex has been fabulous. I know I'm new, and so some of the guys just want to sample some new pussy, but that doesn't bother me. I like new cock too, and they've all been such good lovers – for instance, during the porn movie last night."

Matt smiled and said in a matter of fact tone, "You know you're in, right?"

"In?"

"In The Circle. We accept you. You belong here now."

Stacy sat up like a rocket, "What do you mean?" She looked shocked and was holding back because she couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"You are now a Circle member ... unless you changed your mind," He teased.

"Oh, God," Stacy said with tears suddenly gushing from her eyes. "Really? How do you know?"

"Bob told me just after we got back from our run. Everyone loves you and wants you around. He's going to assign you an initial sleeping space. It's here with me; I asked for you as a roommate to get you started. Officially, you live here now, in this room, but if ..."

"OH, I LOVE YOU. I LOVE EVERYONE."

Stacy threw herself onto Matt and covered his face and neck with a thousand kisses. Any attempts at further conversation were a lost cause. As their nude bodies rubbed together, the pair started to make love again, only this time Stacy was shaking with joy.



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A woman asked, "You have several married couples in The Circle. How do they reconcile the open lifestyle sexually with their marriage vows?"

Bob and Alice looked at each other. Alice responded, "I've never heard any of them talk about it that way. I'm guessing that their response would be that they vowed to love and honor their partner, and in helping them flourish in an environment that is even more loving and caring than a single person could be, they believe they are exceling at their vows."

Bob picked up the thread, "The words 'forsaking all others' is probably at the core of your question. I happen to believe that those words create a boundary so tight that one partner might use that to force their mate to forego even talking to another person. It's like saying, from now on, I'm the only person you'll talk to or even like, let alone love. You must let me be everything to you and no one else, regardless of whether I'm doing a good job of it or not, in all the areas you might find interesting. But what about if they then have kids, or meet great neighbors? What about the fantasies they develop? Is sex the only distinguishing factor? If it is, in the sphere of things we're talking about, set up a group that is sexually restricted, but know that such a boundary prevents some realization of loving and caring."

The questions went on, and the frank answers continued for another hour. Eventually, Bob announced that he wanted to shift the meeting to one more oriented to setting up a new group.

Bob asked, "How many of you want to be in a group similar to The Circle? As you think about that, look around you at the other people in this room. These might be your new partners in that endeavor."

Nearly every hand in the room went up. Bob was surprised.

"Then Alice and I want to leave you with some sense of organization so that you can get together again and start to move this idea further. Alice and I, or others in The Circle, will be available to help and coach you through the foundation steps, and always be available to answer questions. We love and care about you all."

Bob got agreement that ten people of the forty in attendance would take the steps to lead further social gatherings, even taking steps to foster forming a more serious undertaking. He figured that with ten, the effort might survive, and if a man or woman was seriously interested, they might emerge as the first president or leader of the subgroup.

One woman stood up and suggested another meeting in two weeks. She lived not too far away and offered up her living room as a meeting place, and said she'd get from us everyone's contact information from us so she could email directions. Most of the others could attend, but all pledged to keep in touch with the formation effort. They also agreed that they would call their effort The Burlington Circle – named after the town we were holding the meeting in, just so they had a shorthand name for what they were doing.



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It was a slow news day too, and so the mugging made the front page and top of the news. Two photos appeared. In the first Derek is about to put the second thug through the car window to render him unconscious. In the second, Kyle is kicking the gun out of the fourth man's hand as he struggles with the pepper spray in his face. Tracy stood by with the spray canister still in her hand and ready to apply a third shot. Ellie was already getting her phone out to call the police.

The headline read,  'Crime wave stopped by celebs. Thugs mess with wrong people.' 

The newspaper was accurate, for a change, and stayed away from judgments about The Circle's lifestyle or even where we lived. We were just the TV personalities from The Circle TV Show, who had been out on a date, who got mugged and reacted to protect their lives and property. The paper went into lurid detail about the injuries to the four men who had been neutralized from their felonious ways: broken nose, jaw, and cheekbone; concussion and slash across cheek; blown-out knee; and broken hand bones.

The police had apparently let the press know some of what they'd been told. Derek was a black belt in Aikido, Tracy had been taking martial arts training since she left college, and the others were also studying martial arts. Both Tracy and Derek had appeared in some their training regimes on the TV show too.

A week later, a shortened version of the article appeared in People magazine along with the two photos, and an outtake photo from the TV show showing Tracy tossing an instructor twice her size onto a mat.

That would have been sufficient, along with hope that something more noteworthy would replace the news about the mugging; however, the city mayor decided that the four should receive medals for meritorious and courageous public service, along with a commendation for removing some of the street filth from the city's fine streets (or garages).

One afternoon a month later, a huge ceremony was held on the steps of city hall. Every politician within a hundred miles showed up to have their picture taken with the four members of The Circle – two heros and two heroines. Of course, every possible news outlet had been encouraged to cover the event. That too was a slow news day, and the four were again on the front-page or top of the news as they got their awards.

The entire Circle showed up too to watch their partners receive the award and to cheer. Of course, the reality TV cameras were all on hand too. The group was a bit rowdy and loudly cheered when the medals were draped around the necks of their friends. Of course, the city newspapers dutifully reported on the event in great detail, complete with more photographs.



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The audio of the meeting with Paronne Construction was played as well, along with several others. 

Willow wrapped up the commercial-free hour imploring the governor, the attorney general, the several chiefs of police in the various jurisdictions nearby, and the head of the state troopers to take action by arresting Clement, Thornberg, and Brennan. 

She made sure to note that copies of the disks and papers had been sent that afternoon to a dozen different government officials.

 "This is Willow Mendez signing off for now. We return you to the network broadcasts, but urge you as citizens to not remain complacent about what we've just shown you. We fear this is the tip of an iceberg." 

The TV flickered and a couple of commercials came on. The station went back to its broadcast at the start of a music talent show.



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Lloyd looked to Jean and she said, "The pictures we have from you aren't ... sexy enough for us. We wanted something even more erotic and more explicit, if you will."

Alice probed, "Sex acts?"

"Yes."

"Such as?"

"Oh, I see. Well, female masturbation can be beautiful," Jean said slightly embarrassed. She wasn't used to having two people she'd barely met suddenly discussing sex with her.

Lloyd diverted, "Intercourse in various positions, even group sex in some situations. We both enjoy pornography, at least some genres."

Matt said, "With each other, I assume?"

"Oh, yes, of course."

"Just making sure."

Jean and Lloyd looked at each other and exchanged some hidden communication.

Matt said, "Well, Alice and I will get some equipment from the car. This room is nice and airy, and might be a good place to start. What I'd like to do is move the sofa over about eight feet front of that window. We'll pick up some natural light that way, and it'll give me a natural background with all the trees out there."

They nodded, and a few minutes later, Matt and Alice were setting up some additional lights and strobes in the room, and getting several cameras laid out on a side table with a variety of lenses.

Matt turned to Lloyd and Jean. "I suggest you two strip down, otherwise we're going to have underwear and bra impressions on your skin to contend with. You can wear robes if you want." He indicated, "We'll be shooting in this direction, so put your clothing back there."

Jean and Lloyd slowly stripped off their clothing. Sure enough both of them had had on tight underwear and a bra, so there were obvious lines on their skin.

Matt nodded to Alice, "Show them how to massage those lines away." He said his request in a no-nonsense business-like way, but Alice knew this was a request for fun.

Alice moved to Jean first. She started on her back, shoulders, and sides, massaging where her bra straps had been. Slowly, she worked her way to her front, only as she came around, somehow Jean's nipples received as much attention as the bra line.

Alice allowed her hand to drop lower too, where the elastic in Jean's bikini pants had left a line low on her torso, and around her legs too. Of course, Alice's hand also brushed against her tuft of pubic hair, and then even slid along her moist slit.

Jean moaned as she held onto Alice's shoulders.

Alice immediately moved to Lloyd. He was briefs man, and so had obvious lines from the elastic in his underwear around his waist and thighs. Alice managed to go past every inch of those lines, constantly bumping into the pleasingly large cock that seemed to get larger by the second.

After another minute of the foolish game, Alice engulfed Lloyd's cock in her mouth for a few seconds. She explained, "Just in case there were any obvious lines around this appendage that I might have missed earlier." Gulp. Alice understood the art of deep throat fellatio, and she surprised Lloyd with her initial demonstration.

She looked over at Jean, and got a huge smile.

Alice stood and rejoined Matt. "What's next, boss?"

Get some of the makeup and give them a dusting. You know."

Alice opened up a large tool box, which turned out to have a large number of tubs of make up in it, along with lipsticks, rouges, and so on. She took several containers of powder and held them up to Jean's skin, even testing several on her shoulder. When she found one she liked, she dusted Jean's body with the colored talc. She added a hint of high gloss lipstick, and a little rouge on her cheeks and then stepped back and admired her work.

Alice repeated the process on Lloyd, paying a little less attention to his facial features. The pair laughed when she ran the dusting brush over his tumescent cock, just now settling down after her brief sortie on the beast.

Matt had Jean sit on the back edge of the sofa, her back to the window with her feet on the pillows where one would normally sit. He instructed, "Get comfortable, but try to keep your back straight. Also, spread your legs pretty wide, and then masturbate. Don't think about the camera or me, or anything else except getting off. If you can achieve an orgasm, please do so."

Alice picked up a four-foot square silver reflector and moved around until Matt nodded. She was reflecting onto Jean some of the natural light streaming in the windows.

Jean stared at the camera and reached down with one hand and touched her pussy. She appeared to be very self-conscious and even looked worried. She started to rub herself, but the movements were still and stilted. Erotic it wasn't.

Matt went and whispered to Lloyd, and got a large nod from the man.

Matt then went behind Jean on the sofa. He turned her slightly towards him, and pulled her gently towards him and into a kiss. It was a long and tender kiss, and the temperatures of the two rose exponentially over time. 

One of Matt's hands cupped her left breast, massaging the beautiful body part until the nipple felt rigid and tight. He leaned in and sucked on the teat. Jean moaned. As he mouthed her breast, his hand dropped to her pussy. After rubbing around the area for a moment, he slid one and then a second finger into her pussy. He started to finger fuck her.

Jean's back arched and she pushed both her cunt and her breasts into him. She uttered, "Oh, God. Wonderful ..."

Matt could feel the fluids in Jean's pussy start to flow. She became exceptionally responsive to him. They kissed many times as he moved around her body. He whispered, "Are you horny? Do you want to be fucked?"

"God, yes."

"You have to masturbate to orgasm for me first. Will you do that?"

Jean's hands jerked to her pussy as Matt went back to his camera and started to move around to get interesting shots. As she penetrated herself, or stroked her clit area, her body gave in to the experience. She swayed to some unheard rhythm as her fingers danced across the critical areas of her skin. Matt captured shots of her from across the room, as well as close-ups of her hands, fingers, vagina, and clit.

Eventually, Jean came ... hard enough that her body doubled over and she sank down onto the sofa with an obvious flush of her climax. She was panting.

Matt gestured to Lloyd. "Go and make love to your wife."

Lloyd had been standing behind Alice and Matt slowly stroking his cock as he watched Jean do herself. He strode to the sofa, and gathered Jean in his arms, showering her with kisses, and then allowed his hands to caress her body, trying to take it all in. 

Matt moved around, occasionally pointing to Alice and having her move with her reflector to a different position. The shutter fired off aperiodically, capturing shot after shot through the couple's foreplay, and then his penetration of her body there on the sofa. 

Once or twice Matt made a nearly inaudible suggestion to the couple, and they changed positions slightly, but as the afternoon went on, they enjoyed a long and public make out and fuck session.

Lloyd finally turned to Matt. "I have a growing case of blue balls. If I don't orgasm soon, I think I'll spontaneously combust."

Matt chuckled, "Then cum."

Within the minute, Lloyd exploded like a nuclear device in the desert into Jean's sweet and drippy pussy. A few minutes later, Matt had him move to the side so he could capture some shots of the semen leaking from the vaginal opening. He happened to like creampie shots.



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Brad turned to his kids, "Nancy is your half-sister, and you are her half-brother and half-sister." He paused and added, "Sandy is her step-mother now. Her own mother died in an automobile accident a year ago. She's eighteen."

Brad's father was up like a flash. He went and wrapped his arms around Nancy in a generous hug. "My God, this is good news. Welcome to the family. This is a huge surprise." Brad's mother was there too, her neutrality totally forgotten.

As they parted, Brad's daughter Wendy asked, "How did you find each other?"

Nancy explained, "The TV show, kind of. My mom kept diaries, so I knew my father was Brad Ross, but it was one of my friends that speculated that it might be the guy on the reality TV show. I wrote him a letter, he called ... and here I am."

Brad said, "She sent me a swab of her DNA, and I ran that along with my own through a lab in the city. There's no doubt. As soon as I heard that Ann was her mother, I knew. I just wonder why Ann never told me."

Nancy shrugged. "All she ever told me about my father was how nice he was, and how she had loved him before her parents made her move away. I don't know how she handled the pregnancy; she would have been a senior in high school, but she never talked about it."

Brad said, "I'm going to have to work up to the image she has of the perfect man that her father is. Big shoes to fill, I'm sure. I'm hoping for a little realism and tolerance when she finds out I'm human, and that I can't fly or leap tall buildings in a single bound."



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Rod waved his hand. "Stop."

Bob said, "A review of the criteria, please."

Ellie and Zoey came and stood in front of the table where the reviewers sat. 

Rod said, "OK. First off, looks. They must project a professional image. This can be done through clothes, make up, hairstyle, posture, gestures, and eye contact with the camera. It's very subjective."

Rod went on, "Of course, diction is high on the list. Whatever they're saying has to be clearly understood, with good intonation and pronunciation. The pages you were both given contained a grammatical error. You both caught that and fixed it on the fly; that was very good. You did well on the peculiar names we gave too."

He turned to the others. "All the other stuff doesn't matter at this point. They can learn on the job; stuff like copy prep, research, and so on. I can teach them that. Who's the winner? What do you think?"

Willow said, "I would pick Zoey and then Ellie, in that order."

Bob laughed, "I had it the other way around, Ellie and then Zoey. They're really close. It's a tough decision." He turned and winked at Willow.

Rod sighed, "I sort of knew it would come down to this. You two are no help at all." He stood and paced around the news desk, and looked back at the four others in the room.

Eventually, he said, "I choose ... both of you."

"Huh" echoed around the newsroom.

Rod said, "We're going to go live with the two of you. Instead of one anchor we'll have two. I can't pay you both Willow's salary, but I can do better than half. If that's a killer, then that'll solve the problem, otherwise I want both of you. I'll let you figure out how to split up the news territory: local-national, or national-international, or political-non-political ... you two decide and let me know, maybe even on a daily basis until things smooth out."

He turned to Willow, "And YOU! If you ever need a job come back. And don't worry; I won't fire your friends if you do. There are lots of other jobs, and I have a long list of things I'd like to do that you could help me with. Now, my love, get out of here and make us all proud up at the big network in the sky."





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