Chapter 13
They lay together in the darkness, Jack in the middle, in communal contentment. Susan was wondering how she could escape from the room without saying a word, or being seen in the lighted doorway. She couldn't imagine what her parents' reaction would be if they were to discover the truth-to find out that they had both' sucked and fucked their own fourteen-year-old daughter. But she could think of no way to escape without discovery.
Then Claire, sounding wistful, said "Gee, it must really be great to be as uninhibited as you and Sam, Jessica. I wish Jack and I were that way."
"What do you mean?" Jack asked.
"You know. Oh, I know we could never ever do it, but just think how exciting it would be if we could take Susan to bed with us!"
"Ah, yes," he sighed.
"But she's so young and innocent... "
"Oh, maybe not," Jack said.
"Well, it's all just talk, anyway," said Claire. "I mean, there's no way we could ever do it."
"I guess not," Jack said. "No, we'll have to go back to the city and behave ourselves, while Sam and Jessica and Brenda enjoy their freedom."
"Still, we can think about it. Even thinking about it is exciting. But we'll never know, will we?"
"Know what?"
"We'll never know how we'd feel, afterward, if we took Susan to bed... "
"I guess not."
"I wonder if we'd be stricken with remorse or if, once we'd done it, we'd be able to think about it the way Sam and Jessica do? I wonder. But there's no way to tell, is there? There's just no way... "
Susan listened to this, and she thought about going back to the city and never ever having fun like this again. Like her mother said, there was just no way...
Well, there was one way.
Susan took a deep breath.
Susan was surprised how calm she felt.
Susan reached out and switched on the light...