Chapter 15
I slept like a log.
I suppose I had two or three good reasons. For one, I'd had little sleep the night before and what I'd had was probably not the most restful because my mind was mulling over a whole series of variables. A second reason was that I'd had a hard day the day before as well, just that drive to the hospital and back was enough to tire me out because of the tension. Then there had been the worries about Andy and Lisa-Marie adding to my tensions as well. Of course the session with Lisa-Marie had acted like a sleeping pill and I'd had the benefit of two women as living heating pads too.
I awakened to find that both women were awake as well and trying to whisper quietly so they wouldn't wake me, yet their mouths were only inches from my ears. I held still for a few seconds as Lisa-Marie was explaining the fact that I snored when I was very tired. Andy told Lisa-Marie that she hadn't even noticed. She felt her family all snored worse and I couldn't help laughing at Lisa-Maries reaction of surprise. That got me a light slap on the arm from her.
"How long have you been awake?" She demanded, then grinned. "We were talking about you, you know."
"Well, I heard the discussion about snoring, or at least the part about me snoring."
"You missed the good part." Andy laughed. "We were discussing your future sex life."
"Uh oh, and what did you decide?"
"We decided that we shouldn't let you know our decision." Lisa-Marie chuckled. "Now, I suppose you'd like us to move so that you can run to the bathroom, don't you?"
"Yeah, and I might be a while." I grinned at her.
Both of them moved, so I could get out of bed and Andy winked.
"Looking good." She chortled, staring directly at my crotch and my erect pecker.
Then she made it worse by licking her lips which made Lisa-Marie snort.
"You just slowed down his return for at least a couple of minutes." She laughed. "Now he's going to have to wait even longer for things to droop."
I decided that I wasn't going to listen to whatever Andy said, assuming now that both of them were teasing me. However instead of taking my time and letting nature reduce the problem I had I walked into the bathroom to take things in hand.
There amid the sweet female scents of the two women's body lotions and soaps, I wet a face cloth with hot water and draped over the fingers of one hand, I wrapped my hand around my turgid shaft and while thinking of Andy's winking face and flickering tongue, I began to squeeze gently and stroke rapidly. In only seconds, I was blasting into that wet cloth, my imagination turning the warm moistness of the cloth into a dancing tongue and the wet throat of our sexy guest.
Sighing deeply afterward, I leaned on the counter and rinsed out the face cloth, then reached out and draped it over the shower rod. In only a moment or two more, I was able to accomplish my original task and shaking briskly, then even wiping the tip of my now fully deflated cock, I turned back to the door.
"What, are you two still laying in bed?" I demanded as I walked back into the bedroom seconds later.
"Well, that was fast." Lisa-Marie looked at me strangely. "We were sure that you'd be longer."
"I suppose I could have taken a shower too, but I thought you two might need the bathroom." I grinned.
"But you're all soft." Andy looked disappointed.
"Not really, you helped with that."
"I helped?"
"Sure, you winked and licked your lips." I grinned and swung my head to look for my shorts, but winked at Lisa-Marie as I turned my head so Andy couldn't see that eye. "Now just where did I put my shorts last night."
"But it's early! Are you sure you don't want to come back to bed?" Andy asked.
"Oh no, I don't think so. Not much point now anyway." I smiled and tried to make it look like I really didn't want to smile. "I really had to go and I really couldn't, so I had to do something about it."
"You didn't?" She stared at me.
"I had to." I shrugged. "Did you have something else planned?"
"Yes, I did." Lisa-Marie giggled. "But I guess this teaches us a lesson doesn't it, Andy?"
"A lesson?"
"Yes, if you load a weapon, you should be careful not to let it get out of you sight or it might go off when you don't want it to." Lisa-Marie was still giggling. "And Tom, you are a prime example of a smart ass. We'll get you for this one."
"Damn." Andy snorted, then she giggled too.
I saw my shorts at last and bent to pull them over one foot, then the other and to my surprise I heard both women sigh. I looked at them and they were both grinning widely.
"You're gonna pay. Oh but you are gonna pay!" Lisa giggled.
"Eew, I'm terrified." I grinned as I grabbed my shirt and pants, then headed downstairs before they came up with any more hijinks to tease me
In the kitchen, I put the teakettle on to boil and then filled the coffee maker. After that I found some orange juice and grabbed a glass of that while I was waiting for my first cup of coffee of the day. As I drank the juice, I wandered over to the window and looked out across the flat sheet of white unmarked snow in the yard. The sky was filled with low scudding clouds, but at least it had stopped snowing.
Since the snow was unmarked, I knew Willy hadn't come to do the chores yet, and a glance at the wall clock told me that it was still a bit early for him to be there. I grinned to myself, wondering if I had time to grab a coffee and then get down to the barn before he did arrive. I'd actually enjoyed milking that cow last night and there was no reason I couldn't do it again. After all it was my cow, wasn't it?
Besides, if I did that it would give the girls more time to fume and plan a retaliation against me. I was actually looking forward to being teased and to teasing them as much as I could in return. It seemed to be making Andy forget herself completely and that might have been Lisa-Marie's plan in the first place. If that wasn't her idea, it certainly was mine. I thought we needed to keep Andy's mind busy with something other than her own problems and if it meant I had to take a teasing, so be it.
The coffee maker had quit burbling, but I could still hear it dribbling, so I knew the drip stage was unfinished. Even though the coffee wasn't quite ready, I got a mug from the cupboard and the cream from the fridge. Whatever Andy had planned to make with the cream might be short just a small amount, but if she needed more, there was always cream from this morning's milk. I poured a small amount into my cup and set it on the counter, then went and got the milk bucket and set it by the door near my coat and boots. As I was pouring the coffee into my cup, I glanced up and saw Willy on the road just outside of their gateway.
In only a moment I was headed for the barn, coffee cup in one hand and the milk bucket half full of warm water in the other. The coffee tasted great and I grinned to myself that I had slipped out of the house before the girls could come down and give me a rough time. Opening the barn door, I could smell the animals and feel the heat from them pour out, so I shut the door quickly behind me. It felt great to be standing in my own barn, ready to look after my own animals, in fact I don't think I'd felt this good in a long time.
"Thank you, Uncle Silas." I whispered quietly, taking another sip of coffee before grabbing the manure fork to clean up behind the cow so I could milk her without putting one foot in a mucky gutter. While I was at it, I cleaned the gutter behind the other cow who didn't look due to freshen for a while, but who was certainly well on the way. Then I was feeding the two of them when Willy came into the barn.
He looked at me and blushed as he broke into laughter.
"Do you know what just happened to me?" He asked, his voice breaking into laughter.
"Uh oh!" I looked at him and grinned. "Did the gals think you were me?"
"Unh huh, I think so." He snorted. "I knew you'd taken the milk bucket inside last night and I thought I'd get it and get some warm water to wash the cow's bag. Of course I couldn't find it and I was bent over looking under the cupboard in the back porch when I was suddenly surrounded by laughing women."
"Yeah, and . . ." I grinned, waiting for the punch line.
"Well, when I stood up and turned around, each of them had a glass of water. I guess they were going to throw it at me, but the thing that got me is that they were both nude." He blushed and giggled like a kid. "I didn't mean to see them nude, but there they were and they both looked so shocked when they saw it was me. They just dropped the water and ran like mad, squealing like kids."
I was laughing so hard I was holding my stomach while he was blushing and giggling.
"Oh . . . I am gonna . . . pay for that." I managed to gasp through my laughter.
"Unh huh." He snorted.
Then both of us just gave in to the laughter for a moment or two. After we'd finally calmed down a bit, I looked at him with a grin.
"Didn't you think to check the snow for my tracks from the house before you went inside?"
"I never thought of it, not until after I saw the girls, then I knew what had happened." He wiped his eyes and grinned back at me. "I saw them when I came outside and I figured then that you must have slipped out without them knowing it."
"Well, they were teasing me before and I turned the tease around on them. I suppose they were going to get even with me and I don't think they realised that it might be you."
"I figured that much. I mean, they were nude!"
"Well, Lisa-Marie and I sleep nude and I think Andy may have decided to sleep nude too. It's weird."
"You lucky bugger." He snorted. "Not just one pretty woman running around nude, but two of them? Of course one is my sister, but what she does is her business. What I want to know is how did you get her to act like that so soon after what happened? I thought yesterday that she was so down that she'd never laugh again, yet today she was acting like a little kid."
"I didn't do anything. Maybe she's taken some of the doctor's pills? Maybe they both have? Who knows? All I know is that when I woke up they were teasing me and I wanted out of the house for a while. I decided I was going to milk the cow again, is that okay with you?"
"Fill your boots." He waved a hand at me. "I'll finish with the cleanup and start feeding the other animals then."
So in only a few minutes, I was off in that special world of mine as I let my hands work automatically. This morning though I couldn't seem to get my mind off of Lisa-Marie and Andy, wondering just what was going on. I was going to have to find some way to have a serious talk with both of them.
Once more I was wakened out of my thoughtful reverie by Willy's voice.
"Sorry, I was thinking again." I said as I glanced over at him
"I thought so." He smiled. "I was just saying, Dad told me this morning that your sow was bred yesterday and he'd like to have the pen she's using for some wiener pigs. Would you mind if I brought her over later?"
"Not at all. Do you want help to load her or what?"
"Oh no, I'll just load her into the trailer and bring it over behind the tractor. In this weather I don't want to have to clean out the pickup after hauling a pig. I will need help unloading her though."
"That's not a problem." I nodded. "Have we got a pen ready for her?"
"Yep, it's been ready for about three weeks. I figure that Silas and I took her down home just after her heat instead of just before."
"Yeah, twenty-one days is the magic number for pigs."
"Okay professor, what is the time between heats for a cow?"
"Twenty, and fifteen for a horse, sixteen for a sheep, about a hundred and twenty for a cat and I think it's a hundred and eighty for a dog."
"Jeez, a walking talking encyclopaedia." He laughed. "Well you go back to your thinking, professor, I'll go look after the outside animals and I'll bring back that sow over after I have some breakfast. Okay?"
"Fine, I'm almost down to stripping now and I'll take this milk inside to run it through the separator. Since I'm going to have a pig here now, she can have any spare skim milk we have left over, but I'll be darned if I'll feed her any cream."
That seemed to tickle him and he was laughing as he left the barn by the back door. I finished off stripping the cow, did up my coat and grabbed my coffee cup, then took the milk back to the house. As I walked across the yard, I was wondering what the gals had cooked up to greet me when I got inside.
Opening the kitchen door and stepping inside, I was greeted by Lisa-Marie, fully dressed and looking quite sheepish.
"Did you hear what happened?" She blushed.
"Yeah, you two scared poor Willy out of two years' growth." I grinned. "The poor guy said he got attacked by two nude witches with cups of some clear liquid that they threw at him."
"We were not nude, we were wearing panties." She giggled. "And all we were going to do was pour cold water down your pants."
"But it was Willy!" Andy suddenly appeared at the bottom of the stairs. "I was almost nude in front of my own brother. Did you plan that, you crafty devil?"
"No, that was a complete accident." I shook my head. "I just wanted to be out of the house before you two did anything like that. It turns out poor Willy got the surprise treatment, not me."
"I'd say he got the treat and we got the surprise." Lisa-Marie giggled, still blushing. "I don't know if I'll be able to look him in the eye when he comes in after chores."
"He probably won't be right in after chores. I think he's going straight home this morning."
"But, he always comes in and has coffee in the morning." Andy protested. "Did we upset him that much?"
"No!" I chuckled. "He's going to go home and bring the pig back after he's had breakfast. We can invite him in for coffee then."
"So are you ready for your breakfast then?" Lisa-Marie asked.
"Actually, I've got to take care of the milk first. Do we need any whole milk today?"
"A quart I guess, but why are you mucking about with that again, I thought you proved your point last night?"
"Well, we have a pig now, so she can have the left-over skim milk in her feed, but I'll be darned if I want to feed her the cream."
"I could look after separating the milk." Andy suggested. "Then you could have breakfast now."
"Not for a few days, I'm vetoing you lifting and bending too much." Lisa-Marie said softly.
"You can wash the machine and the bucket after I'm done, if you want to." I winked at Andy.
"Sure, that's better than sitting here and watching Lisa-Marie do every darn thing. I'm feeling useless."
"Kid, you just had a miscarriage." Lisa-Marie snapped at her. "You should take it easy."
"Look, number one, I didn't want to be pregnant to start with. Number two, it was less than two months old, so I'm not badly injured. Number three, I want to be busy at something. Sitting around doing nothing is a pain." Andy snapped back. "Sure my body hurts, but not that badly. I've felt worse. If I sit around doing nothing, I'll start feeling sorry for myself and that's not what I want to do at all."
"Oh I am sorry." Lisa-Marie moved to Andy and wrapped her in a hug. "Why don't you fix Tom his breakfast and I'll look after the milk? Tom can wash up and then grab another cup of coffee while you're cooking."
"Why don't I wait a few minutes, then make breakfast for all of us?" Andy countered. "That way we can have a talk as we eat."
So I washed my hands at the kitchen sink while Lisa-Marie took the milk to the separator. She was cranking it and Andy was watching as I joined them in the back porch with my coffee. I glanced around and wondered about the earlier scene and Lisa-Marie saw me looking for signs of their adventure.
"We cleaned up." She grinned. "It was just water anyway."
"Oh jeez. How am I going to look Willy in the eye?" Andy giggled. "Now that I think about it, it was funny though."
"I was thinking that we might want to keep any heavy duty teasing confined to upstairs." I grinned. "Down here on the main floor, folks might get the wrong idea if they happened to walk in and catch us."
"Well, Willy is the only one who walks in without knocking." Lisa-Marie laughed. "But it might be an idea at that. Actually we had pretty well decided we'd save our teasing until we knew we were safe anyway."
"I plan on teasing Willy about saying I was nude though." Andy laughed. "Now, what does everyone want for breakfast?"
After we'd told her, she grinned, gave me a quick hug and then went back to the kitchen. I looked at Lisa-Marie and grinned.
"This time it's you that's bobbing and weaving on the separator handle so I can't get a hug and kiss." I chuckled. "What with you two fooling around this morning, we missed our morning cuddle."
"You got cuddled all night." She grinned. "And if you hadn't been such a smart ass, you were going to get even more."
"Well, I'm not going to worry about it, but I think this could become a bit awkward."
"Perhaps, but I doubt it." She laughed. "Now, go talk to Andy while I finish this, you're disturbing me. You'll get your hug and cuddle in a few minutes."
Andy was wearing an apron and humming happily as she fluttered around the kitchen making breakfast. I got a sweet smile as she saw me and I had to wonder how she could seem this calm and happy after going through a miscarriage so recently. I wondered if her sleeping in the same bed with Lisa-Marie and me had anything to do with that and I knew I was going to have to pry, but I didn't really want to.
"You seem to like cooking." I said quietly.
"I love cooking." She said with a grin. "Actually I love farm work too."
She paused for a minute and then turned to me with an incipient frown on her face. "I have to ask, is it okay if I stay here with you and Lisa-Marie? I mean, not just for a week or two, maybe not forever, but for a while anyway."
"Well, neither Lisa-Marie nor I put a time limit on your stay that I know of. That may change in the future, but I can't see why. I would like to know what you have in mind though."
"Well, I'm growing to love you two and the way you treat people, so for a while at least, I'd like to just revel in this. It's so different from at home. There Daddy is the boss, so there isn't any discussion and now that Willy is getting older, it's getting worse. Willy's not really like Daddy, so they fight and Mom and I get caught in between." She waved her hand around and smiled. "Here, you two talk and decide things. You're still the boss, but you listen and learn from others, even me. Lisa-Marie is fun and so are you and you actually take time to play and tease. It's like . . . Well, it's like you don't mind that others know you love each other."
"We don't mind at all." Lisa-Marie said as she came into the kitchen from the back porch with another small jar of cream to put in the fridge.
She smiled and swatted Andy's butt lightly as she turned away. "We like you a lot too."
"Hey!" Andy giggled, then turned back to me. "That's the sort of thing I mean. You two can still act like kids and pat someone's ass like that to show that you like them. Right now it means a lot to me."
I just grinned, not sure what to say and she grinned back. Then Lisa-Marie came in carrying the bucket of skim milk.
"Where do you want this?"
"That's not the milk bucket is it?" I asked and she shook her head. "Then just set it by the door and I'll take it out later to feed the pig. Actually it could have just sat in the back porch for now."
"Now you tell me." She laughed, set the bucket down and stalked toward me.
"Uh oh, what's up?" I asked as she shoved me back into a kitchen chair.
"You are about to get partial payback." She grinned, then straddled my lap and wrapped her arms around me, her face inches from mine.
Her kiss was long and passionate, then she pulled back and sighed slowly. "Whew, that may not be the best way to pay you back for being a smart ass, I just end up wanting more."
"Gee, I wonder why?" Andy laughed as she started setting our individual breakfasts on the table. "You're making me jealous."
"There is a solution you know." Lisa-Marie laughed. "I could move and let you take my place."
"Unh uh." Andy giggled. "It would be just my luck for Willy to come in about the time I was in mid smooch and that would really raise shit."
"I don't think my heart would take another kiss like that anyway." I sighed.
"Well, if anyone wants their breakfast while it's still warm, we'd better eat." Andy smiled.
While we ate, the conversation changed. It was as if all of us wanted to talk about something safe and not to disturb any more of the emotions that seemed to be running rampant between us. We talked about the weather, we talked about the farm, in fact we just talked quietly as we ate. Then we sat and talked even more as we each had a cup of Fran's special tea.
I was just finishing mine when I heard a tractor pull into the yard, then the door opened and Willy stuck his head inside.
"Hey Tom!" Willy said shortly. "I need a hand with that pig, right now."
"What's the matter, Willy?"
"I've got her in the trailer and we've got to get her into the barn right now. She's a bit anxious, so she wants out and since the trailer isn't too strong, I'm scared she'll tear the darn thing apart." He snorted. "To make matters worse, with this slippery ground and the trailer being so light, it doesn't back up worth a hoot, which means I can't get all the way back to the barn door."
"I'll be right there." I jumped to my feet.
"I'll come help." Andy suggested.
"NO!" Both Lisa-Marie and I shouted at once.
"I'll help, you stay here and make more coffee, enough for all of us." Lisa-Marie ordered. "I do not want to see you out there at all."
It was only a minute or two before all three of us were out at the trailer, but it took almost an hour to get that stubborn old sow out of that trailer and back into her pen. We managed to swing the trailer so the back end was against a bank in order to unload her, but she was being uncooperative. She'd been rooting and tearing at the trailer to get out before, but as soon as Willy opened the tailgate to let her out, she decided that she didn't want to move.
We thought perhaps the snow was scaring her, so Willy and I grabbed some straw and threw it down on the ground, but that didn't make any difference. Then as soon as our attention lapsed for an instant, she bolted right past Willy in a mad rush for freedom. At that point, the chase was on. I think that pig tried to hide behind or under ever building or loose object in the whole farmyard. And sometimes we weren't chasing her, she was chasing us because she'd get annoyed and charge at us, then duck away again. Even with Lisa-Marie's help, we were panting like winded race horses by the time we had her in the pen.
"She was . . . just bred . . . huh?" I gasped as I leaned on her gate and watched her root around in her fresh straw to make a bed.
"Unh huh." Willy panted.
"That's all . . . that saves her . . . from becoming . . . bacon . . . next week." I snorted, looking at my torn pant leg where her chomping jaw had almost grabbed my ankle. "She's vicious."
"She's just . . . excited." He managed to gasp, then clapped my shoulder with his hand. "I've seen . . . far worse."
"Coffee time." Lisa-Marie grinned at us both and waved her hand toward the house, then turned and walked away.
As we walked toward the house, Willy sighed.
"Is something wrong?"
"No, it's just that I'm going to have to go sit at the table with my sister and your gal and every time I look at them, I'm going to blush because I saw them nude."
"Oh, is that all?" I laughed. "Heck, they tell me they had panties on and on top of that, it was a mistake. Besides, I remember as a kid you and Andy skinny dipping in the creek with everyone else. What the heck is different about this?"
"I don't know, but it is." He sighed again.
"I'll give you a bit of advice, if they bring the subject up, just grin and don't say much."
"And just what will that do?"
"Leave the ball in their court." I smiled. "Do you think that they're any more comfortable about it than you are? The less you say about it, the easier it is for them to let it simply slip into the back of their minds and you can still have the pleasant memory of what you saw. For gosh sake, don't feel guilty about it, it's not like it was your fault in any way."
"Okay, I'll try it your way, but I might still blush."
"In this case, they'll take the blush as a compliment." I laughed.
Actually as we went inside, both Andy and Willy blushed bright red, but no one brought up the subject and after a few minutes, it seemed to be completely forgotten.
Instead of that, we started to talk about what plans Lisa-Marie and I had for the coming spring and what we wanted to change around the farm. Of course I mentioned the idea of trying to raise everything organically and yet to try to increase the productivity of the place. While Lisa-Marie and Andy thought it could be done, Willy was less enthusiastic.
He had been educated to believe that the only way to increase productivity was to use fertilisers. When I mentioned crop rotation and the use of legumes and clovers as a way to increase the nitrogen levels in the fields, he just shrugged his shoulders.
"We tried that. We really didn't notice that it helped at all." He said quietly. "Maybe the soil is different here."
"That's funny. It works in all the different soils where clover will grow according to government tests." I frowned.
"Well, we planted a ten-yard strip down the middle of a field and grew the clover in it for two years, then cropped it like we regularly would the next year. We were supposed to see a real difference, but I couldn't tell one darn bit of difference either in the growth or the yield."
"Huh, where did you get the seed and the innoculant?" I asked.
"Innoculant? What's that? We didn't use anything but the regular seed that we bought from the seed store in town."
"Well, without the innoculant, you weren't adding the bacteria that fix nitrogen. You might as well have planted a regular crop." I shrugged. "You see before you plant clover, you mix in an additive with the seed. It contains some bacteria that go into the root of the plant and causes something called nitrogen fixing nodules on the roots. The clover then draws nitrogen out of the air and makes it water soluble. It leeches into the soil, making the soil richer for the next crop you grow. The salesman at the seed store should have told you that you needed it."
"Oh cripes." He growled. "I'll bet Dad was being a cheapskate again and thought the guy at the seed store was trying to pad the bill. I'm sure he didn't even buy the darn stuff."
"That sounds like Dad." Andy snorted. "Try to do things cheap, even if it won't work as well."
"Hey now, if he didn't have a full explanation, you can't really blame him." I came to his defence. "Just remember that your dad has gone through some damn hard times, that's why he tries to scrimp and save."
"Huh, Dad probably thought he knew better." Willy snorted.
I wasn't going to get into an argument about it with him and I could see that Willy had already made up his mind anyway. That short discussion seemed to be the end of the pleasantries too. It wasn't long before Willy excused himself and left to go home.
I looked at the two women and sighed deeply. "Damn, now I'll bet that brings up an argument between Willy and his dad."
"Don't worry about it Tom." Andy said shortly. "Like I told you before, being around home right now isn't great. Dad is used to being cock of the walk and having his orders followed explicitly and now that Willy is getting older, he has opinions of his own. Let's be honest, they fight and argue all the time."
"Oh man. That's not good." I sighed.
"Tell me about it." She sighed, then got to her feet. "I'm going upstairs to lie down in my room for a bit. I just want to be alone."
I just stared as she went upstairs. Suddenly the day didn't seem as nice as it had before.
"Don't let this bother you, Tom." Lisa-Marie said quietly. "This is in their family, not ours."
"Yeah, but it's affecting us."
"Not unless we let it." She said shortly. "Now, to change the subject, since I'm not going to school anymore, I was thinking about dropping the pill. What do you think?"