Loosening Up Bk. 04 Ch. 16-20

"So, all of that from my mother over the past few months, left me wondering whether I really knew her growing up. Aaron feels the same way. We certainly feel that way about our dad, but he's no longer of this world. So, my mother shows up here, and she's STILL as horny as an Alabama swamp toad in the mating season, and doing everything she can to sate her appetite for sex."

Patti teased, "Did you have sex with her?"

Dave nodded, "Yeah, I gave in. She tricked me, but I'm glad she did. We have a completely different relationship now. I always knew that sex changes everything between two people, but this was a phenomenal change. Aaron, too. The others in the Circle know, but we don't talk about it much. It just is what it is."

"Is Gail going to join the Circle and move down here?"

"Much to my surprise, she's started to make noises about that happening. She asked me about the new construction project that'll begin after the first of the year. She wanted to be sure she could put some money down on one of the new townhouses."

Patti laughed, "Maybe she'll be our next door neighbor. I like her, but she seems kind of innocent."

"Mom's been on her case to loosen up. Gail has NOT had sex with anybody in the Circle yet. She's kind of been off limits. I'm curious what she's going to do later tonight and tomorrow when things open up a little. I talked to Aaron about her, too. They used to date back in high school; Gail was apparently an A+ rated blowjob queen in his book. He's tried to stay neutral and yet be supportive of her curiosity about our lifestyle."

"Do you suppose she'd like me to talk to her about my take on the Circle and everything?"

"You could offer. I think she just needs to come to grips with the emotional side of the Circle, the reciprocal relationship part, our huge variance with most of society, and then how participating in the sexual side of things will affect her -- and it will."

"Oh, just those few things," Patti teased. "No sweat. If I see her, I'll volunteer, and I hear you about not putting pressure on her one way or the other."

"You should know that a couple of months ago Mom brought her down for a long weekend and that's when Gail learned about her paternity and our relationship with her. She was blown away that I'm her half-brother and her parent's lifestyle, and is probably still reeling from those revelations."

Patti and Dave talked some more through another dance number and then separated, agreeing to meet later. Dave circulated through the ever smaller number of guests at the party. He checked a couple of the houses to see whether any of the guests had gone prowling or snuck off for a quickie, but all was quiet.

The band stopped at eleven o'clock. Much of their stuff had already been packed away to leave only the dance quartet. The caterers had packed things away for the night. They'd be back in the morning to recover the rest of their gear and to help package up the food as either leftovers or donations to the local homeless shelter. The waiters and waitresses had done a superb job of policing the core and patio, so there weren't large piles of refuse to content with.

A slow number came on the boom box that someone had set up on the patio to fill in behind the departing band. Dave was looking around, when a different pair of arms surrounded him. He glanced down and saw a distinctive signet ring.

"Hi, Amanda."

"Joan told me it was all right to hug you and ask for a dance."

"Of course. You should have asked me earlier when the band was playing."

"I still can't believe everyone in the Circle is so nice to me. I was such a scamp -- being the 'other woman' in Joan's marriage and all."

"One thing about our sense of spirituality in the Circle is that we forgive. You were caught up in something that went way beyond what you understood. You were lied to, and given every reason to believe the man. So, you should put it behind you, and just be yourself -- you're great by the way."

"Thank you." The two melded together and started to dance.

After a minute of dancing without talking Amanda asked, "I'm ready."

"Ready?"

"To join the Circle, if everyone will have me."

"No rush," Dave said, hoping she wasn't feeling pressured to belong. She had been coming around with increasing frequency, but fading away whenever the sexual things had started.

At first he'd been concerned that she was focusing too much on the Prentiss family, but then after a soft word with Joan he'd seen the two of them branch out, talk to, and circulate with other Circle members. Amanda had also taken to helping Joan out with her daily or weekly tasks to support the Circle core.

Amanda replied, "Oh, I'm not feeling pressure except from myself. I learned about you and Alice going through your loosening up process, so I've been doing that for myself. Joan kind of helped me, too. She told me some of the things you two went through."

Dave said, "There's more to the Circle than just the sex."

"Oh, I know that, but the sex is the fun part, and it's what a lot of the world thinks of as the naughty part. So, I'm ready."

Dave shrugged so she could feel his reaction, "OK. Go ahead."

"Huh? I meant I was ready to have sex with you."

'Oh, I see. Why me?"

"Joan told me that you were the place to start. She said that you were the most fantastic lover a woman would ever find."

Dave laughed, "Now that's a tall order to fill, and one sure to set expectations so high that they'll never be met." He paused and then said, "Amanda, it doesn't have to be me. I am grateful that Joan feels that way about me, and I love her, too; but starting out in the Circle should be a natural progression of a relationship you're developing with someone.

"I know we've talked a lot and gotten close, but so have you and Aaron, and Dev. I'm not rejecting you, but I think you should think of them. I think you've done more with them recently."

Dave's dance partner got very quiet, so quiet that he had to pull away from her to see the look on her face. Amanda was crying. She had tears running down her cheek.

"Amanda?"

"I love YOU. I want to start with YOU."

Dave shook his head and stopped trying to fake the dance they were doing. "You have to want US -- the Circle. I'm only one member of the Circle. Yes, I will be glad to be with you time and again, but ... I don't want this to be some infatuation with me, especially if it's built on the recommendation of one of my other lovers.

"Remember, we've talked about the precepts of the Circle. We're non-exclusive, and that also means we're non-possessive. We strive for equality between all of our members on that basis. While I want to please my partners when we make love, I don't want to stand out as the ONLY man that can do that. I don't want to create the illusion for anybody that they are in an exclusive, possessive, relationship."

"Okay. I get it."

"You've heard Alice, Pam, Joan, me and others talk about the Circle and what we believe in, hold dear, and want to abide by. I'm not rejecting you. I'm rejecting what I sensed was a fantasy or an illusion you wanted to paint for yourself. I don't even know why I thought what I did."

"You were right. I do love you, but I also love some of the other men and women. Those I honestly don't know as well; I just haven't been able to spend time with yet."

Dave nodded. "Nothing is going to happen tonight. I'm already promised to another partner. Let's see what happens over the next few days. I promise to look for a time for us to be together, but I also want to think about your mindset."

"Thank you. I promise to do a little attitude adjustment and refresh my mind about the underlying philosophy of the Circle regarding sex and relationships."

"Good." Dave checked and her tears had stopped and she seemed to have gotten hold of her emotions and gone to the rational side of her head.

Dave went off and did a few more chores, bid goodbye to somebody he hadn't noticed was still present, and by then the patio and core was fairly deserted. He turned out a few lights, and then headed to his own home.

He found Ken in his bed with Alice, Pam, Julie, and Rachel. Alice was riding Ken as Rachel sat on his face being eaten alive. There were a lot of moans in the room. Dave undressed and then walked down the hallway to the guest room.

As he went in Patti looked up from her cellphone. "Oh, good. That crew in your bedroom is making me so horny I could scream. I'm glad you dressed for the occasion."

Patti threw back the sheet. She was gorgeously naked. Dave hardened even at the sight of her.

Dave leaned into the bed and kissed Patti, but then circled so he could end up between her legs. There was something he hadn't yet done with the pretty flight attendant. He wondered briefly whether she was in the Mile High Club, and thought he should provoke that discussion with Alice nearby.

Dave started to lick and lap at Patti's sweet pussy. She had a unique pungent taste of beautiful female, and he engorged himself in her juices. Soon enough, he added fingers, and then all his fingers, and then his hand was inside her as she writhed in ecstasy. He found her magic spot and a few minutes later she had a peak like nothing she'd ever experienced before. Patti passed out from too much pleasure in too short a time.

Dave held her and had cuddled her to his body as she woke and looked at him. Patti said, "I love you -- really fully, totally, completely. I want to be your woman. I know about all the others, and that's all fine with me and always will be, but just to be near you and be with you will be my dream. Come and make love to me now. Let me please you."

Dave kissed and romanced Patti even more, and then they were coupled together making love.

Chapter 18 -- Esquire. Incest?

Sunday morning arrived and Dave was up early given the night he had with Patti, and working on the breakfast-brunch he liked to serve to his Circle-mates. As people arrived from their various homes, he'd come out of the kitchen get their order and then return a few minutes later with the plate. He had help that morning from Patti and Emily.

One of the features of being the chef that he especially enjoyed was the peripheral arousal that he got from seeing who had spent the previous night with whom. Since he had an intimate relationship with all of the women, seeing whom they'd had sex with was like watching your wife with another man times twenty-five or thirty.

He watched his mother Elise arrive with Derek and Kat. Kat was carrying James who was alert and watchful of all the adults. He didn't know the game but was certainly trying to figure out who the players were.

Dev arrived with Nancy and Holly, the latter carrying Zoe in a crazy sling in front of her that let him look around in all directions. As she was eating he'd squirm around to see what food was passing over his head and into her mouth.

Ken arrived with the rest of Dave's wives. He'd seen them starting to get up when he'd passed by the master bedroom in his house on the way to the core kitchen. Aaron arrived with Sasha, who'd flown down for a long weekend. Shelby had flown up to Ohio to keep Martin company over the weekend in a long-distance wife swap. She'd also taken their baby, Linda Jean, in a bit of an experiment to see how she'd do on an airplane.

Dave's eyes especially rotated when he saw Dale and Susan arriving with another couple. Susan was carrying little Mark, and the woman in their company was also fawning over the baby. The foursome plus baby sat at one of the picnic tables under a large shade umbrella.

Dave went to their table to take orders. "Breakfast-brunch folks?"

Dale grinned, "Dave, I'd like to introduce you to Jason Riggs and his wife Robyn. They stayed with us last night."

David shook hands with the new couple and as he did he remembered the association with Jason. "Jason, nice to see you again, especially where you can see the fruits of some of your legal laboring." He gestured around the homes and core. Jason had been the lawyer that put all the legal documents together to establish the Circle Cohousing Project. Susan had eventually gone to work for him as a paralegal. Now, it appeared, they had formed a new and deeper relationship with the couple. He'd never met Robyn, but knew she was also a lawyer who worked with her husband but more in the real estate and estate planning side of things.

Dave got their orders and raised an eyebrow at Dale. After he'd left, Dale came after him. He said loudly, "I forgot to order something." Dave turned with his notepad and pen in hand.

Dale came up close. "Just so you know, yes, we had sex, and yes, they brought their clean STD certificates with them. We're not dumb. We traded but stayed in the same bed and had a lot of fun. They're kind of new to this. Jason has a pretty good idea about what's going on in the Circle from when he put together the founding documents, but we kept a lid on most of it except for our own activities."

Dave smiled and nodded, "Good man. Talk to you later." He made some scratches on his notepad in case any of the others were watching.

About fifteen minutes later Dave delivered the orders for the two couples on a large tray. As he distributed the plates, he noted that some of the other women from the Circle were already topless as the morning sun got warmer on the first Sunday in November. He saw Robyn's head spinning around from woman to woman, as the partial nudity became the norm.

As Dave placed Robyn's plate in front of her, he said, "Don't let peer pressure make you do something you don't want to do. We have a culture that allows for a lot of nudity, but also resists peer pressure."

Robyn smiled at him. "Thanks. I was thinking the opposite. I WANT to do that. I enjoy getting an 'all-over' tan. Susan had told me about this phenomena, but to see it in play I find fascinating."

Dave chuckled, "At least during the day, mostly, we separate nudity and sex. Without guests or young children around, the bikini bottoms would likely be absent."

Robyn shucked off the blouse she wore, laying it on the seat beside her. Dave noted that she had beautiful C-cup breasts with dark areolas, his favorite, and well-pronounced nipples worthy of significant sucking. He found himself wishing he had sucking privileges. Instead he just nodded and smiled at her, and then headed back to the kitchen.

A few minutes later, Dave brought his own breakfast plate out of the kitchen. He looked around, and got a wave from Aaron and Robyn to join them. After he sat and had taken a few bites of his breakfast, Robyn threw him a curve ball. "I'm surprised our paths haven't crossed, either professionally with your work at the utility or with the rampant sex that takes place around here." She gestured at the patio.

Dave gave a thoughtful response, "I'm not sure where we'd pass at the utility, and rampant implies something unwanted or unpleasant, which would surely be an incorrect adjective for the Circle."

Robyn's eyes flared. "Oh, sorry; you're right. I should have said propagating sex, or even better proliferate sex."

Dave teased, "Ah, now you have it, but what makes you think that such is the state around the Circle?"

Robyn laughed, "I have a number of data points. First, about three or four years ago when the Circle was created as a legal entity Jason came to understand what was going on between some of you at that time. He used the terms 'an extended polyamorous family' to describe you. I was fascinated and wanted to meet all of you.

"Second, I know from meeting, Shelby, your sister-in-law, last night that some man named Martin, who is a Circle member, is most likely the father of Linda Jean. A point that suggests there was some significant playing around, and verified further when separately your brother said that he might be the father of Sasha's baby. Thus, they were playing around. He said everyone knew.

"Third, as Dale, Susan, Jason, and I all got interested in each other a week or so ago, they slid into the sex as easy as anything, whereas Jason and I were as nervous as a long-tailed cat in room full of rocking chairs. They didn't have any qualms or hesitation; in fact, I took them to be old hands at multi-partner relationships.

Fourth, for now, is that last night after we'd spent the night making love, I felt restless and so I took a walk around Dale and Susan's house. I looked out the window, and could look down on the patio. Several people were there, naked, and trying to fuck each other's brains out. Moreover, I saw them switch around several times. It was very erotic and even emotional, but not in a negative way. They clearly loved each other with great passion from the way they all acted."

Dave nodded, "Oh, I can see the lawyer training coming out in the presentation of your chain of evidence. Really, all you had to do was ask. Yes, we are 'proliferate' love makers and we are all 'proliferators' of the nth degree. There is, as you observed, significant caring and love behind what you sensed or saw. I venture to say that instead of fucking last night, you made love, whether you were aware of it or not."

"I was," Robyn said softly.

Jason leaned in, "We've developed significant feelings for Susan, and subsequently for Dale. Those feelings brought us to a decision point, and we jointly decided that we would take our feelings to a new level."

Dave said, "I kind of figured. That being the case, you can perhaps understand the inter-relationships between all of us in the Circle. We have each been through that process with each other."

Robyn's eyes flared. "You really do have sex with each other?"

Dave shook his head, "We make love, and I grant that to some that is a subtle distinction not worthy of consideration."

"So, you let your wife be with other men?" Robyn asked with a tone of disbelief in her voice.

Dave laughed, "Oh, that leading question is rife with mistakes and moral judgments at the same time. First, I don't have a wife; I have WIVES -- four of them to be precise. Second, they are not my possessions, so I don't 'LET' them do anything; they do anything they please. Third, they are just as apt to be with another women as with the other men in the Circle, especially since we have an imbalance in the population of our small enclave tilted towards the women. Your question is all off kilter to ask in this environment. A better question to satisfy your curiosity would be 'Do they make love with the other men and women in the Circle?' and the answer is yes."

Dave smiled benignly at Robyn who was digesting everything he'd just said.

Dave spoke before she could, "The Circle doesn't put a moral judgment on sex. If you ask, we'll tell you that consenting adults can do whatever they want about sex. Beyond that though, we seek a deeper intimacy than just the sex with the people we love. This is why we're all out here this morning, regardless of where we spent the night. We like to be together and to talk to each other. We think each other are interesting and fun.

"We seem to have a never ending stream of interesting situations come up: everything from someone that wants to join the Circle to one of our members being a billionaire to another being the heroic pilot that saved over a hundred passengers in his seriously damaged commercial aircraft. We have a lot to talk about. About half a dozen of us are pilots of varying skill levels with more coming along behind us. Several are great videographers. Many of us are professional executives. Another is one of the best developers in the four state area. I could keep going. The bottomline is that we like and love each other. The sex is only part of the equation, although many people overplay the importance of the subject."

Robyn said softly, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean for that to sound judgmental or disapproving. To the contrary, I am very much in agreement with you. Forgive my teasing as an inappropriate taunt."