Chapter 20: Winning the Parents Over
I again revert to a third person perspective, instead of Alex's, to bring yet another set of voices into the story. In this case, it's someone who hasn't yet been heard from, despite their pivotal role, or rather their apparent non-role, in the unfolding story. That's Alex's parents, Frank and Linda Jennings.
The usual reaction is that their behavior is unbelievable in how they allowed their two children into the world without any supervision or support, just as they are facing the biggest challenges of their young lives. However, that view is a bit superficial. As is usual, their perceptions are a bit more complex than that. Hopefully I'll be able to convey just what that perspective is, and how it's grown and adapted over time.
Once again, try not to focus on when this occurs, as the timeframe is at odds to the events in the rest of the story. Just know that it takes place on Friday before Alex's second date with Chalise. And take this into account when trying to wrestle over how Alex's parents could allow what they had for so long.
"You seem particularly distracted, Frank," his wife said to him, worried by his silent behavior.
"Hell, no, I'm not OK. Our son is about to make love to not one potential girlfriend, but two of them. And they're going to do it in the presence and full acceptance of his many women. That's bad enough, but you realize what this all means, don't you? It means that everything is wide open now. Once he's screwed his two girlfriends, there's nothing to stop him from doing the same to his other girls. Which also means the same rules apply to Cate. Thus everything I've been worrying about all this time is going to come true. He's going to ‘make love' to his sister. Knowing her, she's not going to stop there. She's likely to see this as a great chance to keep him close, both spiritually and physically, by having his baby. If not for that reason, then possibly because she sees it as a necessary genetics experiment!"
"Now, Frank, relax. You know this much stress isn't good for your blood pressure. Everyone else feels good about this. Can't you just relax and accept it? You were fine with it back in New Orleans," Linda argued.
"Ha!" her husband snorted. "Back then Cate was simply infatuated with him. I let things go because Alex seemed to be handling them all so well. He was behaving maturely, he wasn't letting himself go wild. He was careful and thoughtful, and everyone around him was trying to help him make rational decisions. I thought reason would prevail. Besides, neither of us has any kind of experience with this kind of thing. It's not like we could advise him on the proper procedure for handling a bunch of women throwing themselves at you."
"And all of that is still true," Linda told him. "The women are very good at keeping him apprised of the options, and they always leave the final decision up to him. And so far he's been very careful in his decisions. He does what he thinks is best and makes sure that he doesn't put himself into a situation that he can't control. So what's the real issue here? Essentially nothing has really changed."
"Cate changed," he complained. "She's been infatuated with him for years. We've both known that, but she seemed to finally be growing up, making plans for her future, planning on a career. I always figured that once she went off to college she'd find a nice boy and she'd get over her feelings for her brother. Even when this started with Alex they both kept it in perspective. She watched out for him and he watched out for her, like always. They were both so much in control I thought it wouldn't hurt for them to keep their own private room, especially after Cate threw that fit about having to come to our room. I figured she'd have enough sense to wander the halls or simply sit on the can or something.
"Instead she lays there and watches him, feeding her own desires for him. But still, they managed to keep that under control. When they had that disagreement I figured it was taken care of. She'd finally figured out she wasn't welcomed in his inner group and she was put out, but that she'd get over it eventually. Then I walk in on them and find out she'd accosted him, getting extremely aggressive with her own brother, and the only reason she finally stopped was that she couldn't face the uncomfortable truth of the situation."
Linda listened to her husband's little tirade. She'd heard much of it before, but she knew better than to interrupt now. He needed to get this out in the open. Letting it fester wouldn't solve anything. That's how he'd been dealing with it up until now, and that approach had clearly been a mistake on his part.
"Then I come home from work and find my two youngest children discussing how they were licking disgusting things off of each other," he grumbled, not even able to repeat what his daughter had said she'd been doing. "She propositioned him, and he let her. But even then I assumed the best. I figured maybe Cate's revulsion would be strong enough to last for a while. With everyone talking about getting Alex a girlfriend, I figured that would end all this fooling around he was focused on.
"Only then things get worse. Despite my talking to them both, letting Cate know how disappointed I was in her, playing on all her fears of unintentionally hurting Alex and hurting his mission, my older daughter goes and screws everything up!
"Melinda, of all people, has to go and seduce the idiot boy. As if he needs any more tail than he already has. But that just wreaks havoc. If it was just Melinda and Alex, she would surely have lost interest in a short while and everything would have been fine in the long run. But instead she goes and brags about it to her sister."
"Melinda didn't..." Linda started to argue, before she recognized that Frank had no intention of stopping his rant and wasn't particularly interested in specific facts.
"So Cate now sees her position threatened. While before she thought fooling around with her brother was disgusting, Melinda adds a sense of urgency to it that gets Cate over that particular roadblock.
"However, once more Alex's good sense saves us. Although they get involved, he insists that they all maintain Shani's silly rule about no fucking until he screws a girlfriend. So Cate settles with sleeping with him every night.
"But now that Kitty and Chalise have removed that last obstruction, there is nothing stopping Cate. She's liable to go nuts after all of this. And Anh had to go and give her that nonsense about how her spirit isn't really related to him after all, and that's all the justification that Cate needs. She's liable to try to get pregnant immediately. You keep teasing about ‘psychic grandbabies', but I think she's taken your jokes seriously. She's out to produce Alex's own master race. But instead, she's liable to end up as an unemployed pregnant teen caring for her brother's baby, and once word gets out what happened no one will ever take her seriously again. Employers will figure out she's mentally unbalanced, potential boyfriends or future husbands won't want to risk getting involved, and she won't even be able to finish the degree she's been so driven to get all this time.
"Damn, I just can't wrap my head around all the craziness she's building up around her," he growled in exasperation.
"Now, dear," his wife said, trying to placate him once again, "you know it isn't either that simple or that drastic. As you've said, each of our kids have good heads on their shoulders and a decent amount of common sense. Alex didn't just stumble into that amount of control over his baser instincts. We both give him that, and he shares it with each of his siblings.
"Cate's not about to risk her academic future by having a baby this young. Besides, she's already talked with me about not wanting to have a child with Alex. Sure, she'd love it if she could. But she recognizes that what Alex has isn't likely to be any more likely to be passed through her than it is through any of his other women. She simply doesn't see it as being simple genetics. No one else in the family has shown any affinity for what Alex can do, so she doesn't think we have any of the necessary genes. Instead, she thinks that Alex is truly unique. He may be able to produce a child with his abilities, but it's highly unlikely that anyone else in the family could. In fact she'd be more likely to try to have a kid with those guys back in New Orleans, David or Peter or someone like that. That way she'd at least be able to have a child that had a chance of joining Alex's movement. As it is, if she had a kid with Alex, it would likely be normal, and wouldn't get the extra attention or benefits a child he had with one of his ‘girls' would.
"Brooke has already shown that their abilities can be passed on. I think that Cate sees that as more important to any kids she may have than simply having a baby by her brother."
Frank hardly looked convinced by her arguments, so she continued, hoping to eventually win him over.
"Cate's interest in her brother's future isn't as simple as you paint it. She wants to help him as much as she can, and that preempts her own feelings for him. It's like his girls all saying they're willing to give him up for his own benefit. Cate feels the same way. If she can advance his supposed mission by standing aside in the magic progeny lottery, she'd do it in an instant. She'd rather see a junior Alex than she would to try for one of her own and fail. Don't underestimate Cate's ambition and drive. She knows she can be of more support to Alex by getting her degree than she could by getting pregnant.
"And let's take a look at reality for a moment," she said, breaking her own rant. "Follow me downstairs," she instructed him. He grudgingly followed her as she guided him downstairs to stand by the doorway into the living room where both their youngest children sat on the couch doing their studies. Cate was sitting in Alex's lap as they both did their homework. She was sitting in his lap crossways, giving them both room to focus on what they were doing.
"Look at her, Frank," Linda whispered. "She's working diligently, even though she's potentially being distracted by Alex. That's because she's on a mission. She wants to help her brother as much as she can. She won't do that by dropping out of school, having an illegitimate baby and being labeled as a freak. She'll only do that by being the best damn scientist in the world. Someone who's enough of a genius to figure out the riddle of Alex's abilities, and can advise him on what he should do with them. She'd never substitute her own dreams for his because she's wholly focused on him and his mission."
Frank quietly acknowledged that she had a point.
"Damn right I do," she agreed, still keeping her voice quiet enough not to attract their kids' attention. "Just look at them. Have you ever seen Cate so fucking happy, Frank? Sure, she's been driven. She's also been very satisfied every time Alex takes her into his arms, but she's never really been happy. But now, sitting there, being close to him and helping him in his life's mission, she's positively ecstatic, despite knowing that in a few short hours he's going to be making love and likely falling in love with her new two best friends.
"Their relationship is hardly simple, despite what you'd like to believe. None of these women's are. They all have complex emotions and ties, and they all struggle to do anything they can for your son, all the while being terrified they may somehow unintentionally hold him back.
"Just look at your daughter and tell me that she'd be any better off going to college and screwing any bad boy she can find, like Melinda has? What has Melinda found in her life? She's so confused she grabbed at the first safe, reliable boy she could find, and just when she thought she might have found the secret to happiness that everyone else knew about, Cate goes and yanks it out of her hands.
"Cate has a happiness that you and I can never experience. Just as Alex has responsibilities neither of us can ever truly comprehend. They're a match made in heaven. She'll keep him grounded and look out for him, while he'll dedicate himself to looking out for everyone he ever meets. He'd never survive without someone like Cate and his girls to look out for him, and without him Cate would simply die. There's no two ways about it."
Linda finally shut up, realizing she'd already said as much as she dared at this point. Her husband was quietly watching their two kids as if he'd never seen them in quite this way before. She let him soak it all in without saying anything.
"You know, I think you may be right. Now that I think about it, Cate has been exuberant lately. She's been motivated, she's working harder than ever, and she's been volunteering to do just about every dirty job that anyone has, while still maintaining her grades and her own focus.
"How could I have been so confused? You're right. I'm not sure there is anyone else in the world that could give either of these two kids what the other one does, and they're both conscious enough of how special it is that they wouldn't dare do anything to spoil it. Besides, being exposed for fooling around with his sister is hardly the worst that could happen to them. Alex could be blindsided by another crazy creep at any time, all he needs is for the public to learn what he's involved in and everyone's life would fall apart. Yet they both push on, not because they're carried away by teen age hormones, but because they have to. Because it's the only direction they can move in." Frank spoke with a virtual reverence as he watched Cate and Alex, both focusing on their individual tasks, while each was enjoying their togetherness. Frank and Linda continued to stare for a while longer in complete companionable silence.
"Hey, what's up?" Cate asked, finally looking up and noticing her parents standing by the door staring at the two of them. Alex looked up as well, looking on in confusion seeing his parents simply watching them with no specific agenda or need for them to do something.
"Us, oh, we're not doing anything," Linda told them both. "We're just watching our two little babies all grown up, acting like little adults."
"Dad, are you OK?" Cate asked, still doubtful. "I know you've been upset with me ever since Alex and I... well, since we got together. I just want you to know...."
"Don't worry about it, honey. I think I may have finally found my own peace," he explained to his daughter. "The two of you are so beautiful sitting there together. Are you sure you're OK? You realize what's going to be happening in a few hours, don't you?"
"Oh, of course, and I couldn't be happier for Alex," she announced. "This is a major event for him. This is something that's going to rock his world and usher him into his own grown up world. I can't think of a better thing to have happen to him."
"And it doesn't bother you that your two new friends are the ones doing it with him."
"Oh, no," Cate insisted. "In fact, I couldn't think of two people more deserving of the honor, or who would be better for Alex than the two of them. If I didn't think they were both good for him they'd never have gotten within a mile of him. No, they're all going to have a wonderful time. And if they don't, I'll find out why they didn't and fix it for him.
"Besides, what Alex needs right now is grounding. He needs to finish growing up in as normal a way as he can. Finding two girlfriends will do that in a way I couldn't. Fooling around with your sister is hardly a way to get grounded in the normal world. He needs them more than he does me right now, and I wouldn't dream of standing in the way of that."
Alex looked to be embarrassed by his sister's enthusiastic response, but he held his tongue, simply enjoying the closeness they all shared together. It was only then that Linda noticed she hadn't observed any of Alex's women around. Looking around, she noticed a few of them scattered about, all quietly observing Frank and her watching the two young lovers. Knowing they were all doing the same she was filled with a confidence she cherished.
I woke up enthused. Damn, I thought, today's the day I finally get laid! It'd been a long wait. A wait made longer by the fact I'd been having regular sex for the last several weeks with various women, but was limited by what I was allowed to do. I sat up with a big grin on my face. Cate noticed me getting up and smiled at me.
"Anxious to lose your virginity, aren't you?" she asked.
"You better believe it," I told her.
The sex that Natalie, Allison and Cate and I had last night was inspired, due to the knowledge of what was to come tonight and tomorrow. My two girlfriends, Kitty and Chalise, agreed to finally have sex with me. Damn, can life get any better than that? It's funny, a simple thing that everyone else on the globe does all the time can be such a major event to someone who has had experiences that no one else in the entire world has had.
I roused the other two girls in my bed and started the shower, then stopped by for a quick piss while the water warmed up. Cate cuddled against me and took over the aiming of my penis for me.
"Let me enjoy this, as it may just be the last time that I get to handle it for a while," she said, referring to our understanding that I'd have to quit fooling around with my ladies after the girls and I committed to each other, even though they hadn't insisted on it yet. "It's going to be too sore for you to use for some time to come," she laughed as she sprayed my foot.
She quickly danced away and jumped into the shower. Once I managed to finish and clean up I joined her, although we both kept it mostly clean, only washing of naughty bits allowed, nothing else. I washed her hair for her, which she always enjoyed. When I was halfway through Natalie squeezed in with us.
"Ooh, goody! Do I get such lavish treatment as well?"
"Sure, it's the least I can do, since it may be all that you get for a while," I told her.
"Yeah, it'll either be the last, or it'll be the last we have to be frustrated by Shani's damn rule," she swore. "You still continue to be eternally naïve. Both girls have shown no inclination at all at limiting your activities. When two girlfriends offer to let your other women join them in your deflowering ceremony, it kind of sends a signal," she giggled, along with Cate.
"Whatever, I'm not about to look a girl horse in the mouth. I'm getting laid tonight," I announced.
We finished up and I left the girls to handle shampooing on their own as I quickly dressed and prepared for what was likely to be a VERY long school day. Shani and Anh specifically laid out what I was to wear today, and they pinned a little smiley face pin on my lapel for me, so that everyone at school would know what day today was.
At breakfast everyone wished me good luck and Mom kissed me and gave me an extra big hug. "Today my son becomes a man," she announced.
"And with any luck, his girlfriends will put an end to all of this so our daughter won't become a woman for a little while longer," my Dad announced. "Not that I object to her becoming an adult, mind you. But I'd prefer if she did it with someone other than her brother!"
"Oh, by the way, Mom, just in case Dad is right, be sure to stop off and pick me up a new vibrator today, just so I'll be OK if I have to do without for a while," Cate teased, and my father's mouth dropped open and he did a guppy imitation before he realized he was being put on. After that he just grumbled and headed out to work without any further comments. As I've said, Cate practiced her teasing on the whole family before she stopped when we got back from New Orleans.
Allison decided we needed a repeat of my first day back, when she drove us both to school in her fire engine convertible wearing a matching dress, shoes and lipstick. She thought it would be a good way of announcing the special event to our school, even though I doubted anyone besides our close group of new friends had any indication that I was still a virgin.
We made a suitable entrance, and you could see everyone's jaw drop as Allison opened the door for Cate to climb down off of my lap and exit Allison's sexy convertible. I felt like I was king for the day as I strode into the school.
Mike didn't take my happy mood very well, mistakenly assuming it was due to my having gotten past my recent troubles with Kitty and Darrell. "Don't get too carried away, asshole. You'll get yours soon enough," he promised, but I didn't pay him any attention. I was in too good of a mood to be disturbed.
Alice noticed my good mood and even asked me about my little pin. "You'd never believe it even if I told you," I said. "Let's just say that I'm going to have a very good day, today." She wished me luck in whatever I had planned, and I told her that I planned to, thank you very much.
When lunchtime came around I was a little late getting to the table. Cate was already firmly ensconced amongst all the various girls there. I guess enough time had elapsed with everyone there for me to list names. I hadn't been sure they'd last before. My new friends included Akia Satō, whom everyone called Ai. I don't know why, though, since her name is beautiful and means "love song". Who can claim something like that? I was named for a megalomaniacal figure who eventually led Greece down a militaristic path that ended in its falling into a bunch of arguing antagonistic military pariahs. Hardly a name I aspired to imitate.
Then there was Maria Perez Flores, a cute little shy thing that hardly said anything but always had a cute tinkling little laugh. I didn't mind being teased as long as I got to hear her laugh in exchange. There was also Mia Amendez, our local Goth who always dressed in variations of black and blue, short skirts, dyed black hair that was buzz cut on one side. She'd been toning down the Goth aspects for a prettier variation since joining our table, but still prided herself on her affiliation and proudly stuck to the dark demeanor. Still, we got along very well and she could tease with the best of them. Amanda Hodges was our local jock, being active in women's basketball, softball and volleyball. She always teased me about getting me out on the track to build me up a bit so I'd finally look sexy. They were the main ones anyway.
Today Ai finally started to pepper me with questions about Anh. I'm not sure why. Maybe she was curious about my interests? Maybe she was afraid I had an ethnic hang-up? I'm not sure, because normally there isn't much contact between Vietnamese and Japanese cultures. However, the question ended up in a description of the various cooking styles of the two cultures, which inevitable led to Maria jumping in with a few of the esoteric recipes from her family. Most of the other girls weren't really into cooking but most stated they just loved sushi, but that's kind of like saying you like lobster. It's hard to dislike gourmet entities when someone else is paying for them. Anyway, Ai asked if maybe she could come over some time and try some of Anh's cooking, if she wouldn't mind of course. That led to a big discussion and ended with Cate inviting them all over for dinner, which just led to another discussion about when. Mia floated the idea of this weekend, and Cate, Chalise and Kitty immediately shouted that idea down, saying my weekend was solidly booked up. They then agreed to something during the week. I tried to beg off, claiming I had to make agreements amongst everyone, and they all cooed that I shouldn't have any trouble sweet talking the women in my extended family.
As I left, I noticed Tony, the other kid from the Asian table, who'd initially reacted so badly to me, scowling at me even more than usual. More so than the rest of the male population of the school, at least. I hadn't really paid much attention to him since I hadn't been back to his table for a while, but figured it wasn't any big bother. I just assumed we'd never quite hit it off.
The ride home that day was interesting, all of us kept breaking into giggles the entire time, like, well like a bunch of high school kids, I guess.
"Man, I can't believe I'm getting this excited," Kitty announced. "I mean, everyone does this. It can't be that big of a deal, but for some reason it just seems extreme, maybe because it's Alex, and we all know that Alex never does anything normally." That produced another fit of giggles.
"So, Cate, do you plan on attending the festivities tonight?" Chalise asked. My sister glanced nervously at me.
"What do you mean?"
"Oh come on," she insisted. "You told us how you slept in the same bedroom with Alex in New Orleans and watched him fool around with everyone. You can't tell me you haven't watched him since then."
"Oh, I'm busted I guess," Cate said, blushing a little.
"So, just how far have you gone in Alex's activities," Chalise asked, following up on the topic.
"Uh, I just watch," Cate bluffed, badly.
"Really? Four weeks watching your brother have sex in front of you and you've never tried anything yourself? Surely he's seen you play with yourself? And I'm sure you've done a little groping here and there. Don't give us this, ‘I haven't done anything' nonsense. It's clear that you're crazy for Alex. It's written all over your face every time you look at him."
"Yeah," Kitty added, joining in, "when Alex kept talking about cutting everyone off, I could believe it with the other women in the house, after all, they're all kind of crazy anyway. But we could never see you swearing off your brother. Whatever you're doing with him, I'm sure you have no intention of stopping. So it's only natural that we should know just what you're doing with him so we can officially give permission for it to continue."
"Or not, if you insist on denying it," she added after a suitable pause.
Cate again glanced at me with a look of panic in her eyes, already a bad tell. I simply shrugged, letting her know the decision was in her hands. She quickly turned around and looked each of them in their eyes.
"Are you sure you're OK with knowing?" she asked. "Are you going to get crazy or anything?"
"Oh, I think she means she's already slept with him," Kitty teased. I couldn't tell if she was teasing because she didn't really believe it, or if she was teasing Cate because she assumed it was true.
Cate took a deep breath before beginning. "OK, I've been pretty honest with you up until now, and you deserve to know since you already know so much about Alex. I was tempted for a long time, until we had that falling out I told you about in New Orleans. The truth is that falling out was because I started, uh, kissing Alex and I got freaked out. The whole incest thing got to me and I couldn't take it."
She went on to describe what happened. How I'd misinterpreted it, simply adding that she'd kissed Shani, not that she'd been licking Shani's cum from my face, how we'd thought she might actually be a lesbian in denial and how we finally straightened everything out.
Taking another deep breath, she went on and slowly told them about the misadventures with Melinda, and how that had set her off. Once she got going, the details started flowing from her, and she started admitting how she felt, how she'd always felt and how she'd despaired of ever finding anyone like me.
By the time she started to wind down both girls were touching her, trying to sooth and calm her. By now I was parked in front of Kitty's house, just sitting there until we worked this all out.
"So, what's the relationship been since then?" Chalise asked.
"We've been lovers since then, although I'm following Shani's rule just like everyone else. Even my parents know about it, even though my father still gets freaked out by it."
"Yeah, I can imagine that," Kitty said. "I can imagine my dad's response to something like that. Even though my mom loves you to death, we haven't mentioned my relationship with you to my father."
"Hey, what do you mean?" I asked. "I can see hiding it from Chalise's father, but I thought your parents were OK with it? No wonder I haven't met your father yet!"
"Alex, no dad ever wants to actually know his little girl is having sex. It's not you, it's a whole father/daughter dynamic," Kitty explained.
"So, you didn't actually answer the question, Cate," Chalise said. "You said you've fooled around, but you haven't given us any specific details."
"She sleeps with me every night," I answered simply. "The other girls rotate so there are two in the bed every night, but Cate is a constant."
"Ahh, we suspected as much," Kitty admitted.
"So, you're OK with it?" Cate asked nervously, although it seemed clear neither one was going to object.
"As she said, we suspected you were more than just brother and sister for a while now," Chalise told us. "You're way too protective of your brother, you look at him like a lover, and Alex is way too extreme for a ‘normal' brother/sister relationship. Yeah, we're OK with it. Now the question is, do you want to join us tonight?"
"Oh no, tonight is your night. I'm not going to interfere with that. Alex would never forgive me if I were to mess up your big night," Cate said, waving her hands as if someone suggested vampires or something.
"We were thinking that you've been involved with us from the beginning," Kitty explained. "You first convinced us that Alex was serious, and that he wasn't just talking off the top of his head. You helped us fall for him, and you've walked us through each step of the way. Somehow it'd feel natural to have you there with us." I glanced at Cate to see what her reaction was.
"No, absolutely not," she insisted. "If you want me there to hold your hands or something, I'll consider it. But tonight is your night. I've already had my share of him. With your permission I'll get a taste of him later, but I know he wants to be there for you both tonight, and he can't do that if he's distracted by other people."
"That makes sense, once you put it like that," Kitty replied. "It shows you definitely understand how your brother thinks. I'd also like to say I appreciate all of you restricting yourselves for all of this time. I'm not sure how you managed to do it, but it makes the whole thing that much more special. Believe me, I think we're both respectful of the level of responsibility this puts on us both."
"Wait, you guys don't have a problem with me still sleeping with everyone after tonight?" I asked in confusion. "I thought we were supposed to be committing to each other?"
"Alex, you told us we'd negotiate an understanding," Chalise said, "that you'd state your position, that being that you have a bunch of women that are crazy about you, and then we'd argue about it. Well, you've stated your position quite clearly and now we're arguing our position. We capitulate. Your women are all much too important to you, and you are clearly too important to them for you to stop now. Plus we know there's a lot more to it than just the fact that you like to fool around. It's OK if you can't tell us all the details, but we understand you're not just another philandering jerk. You're on some kind of mission and these relationships are part of that mission somehow. We understand that and we accept it."
"Wow! After all this time I never thought it would be this easy. You're both sure about this?"
"Alex, not only are we sure, our mother's agree with it as well," Kitty explained. "The only reason we didn't discuss it with Cate already was that we didn't think she was ready to talk about it yet. We're here for the long haul. Even if you decide you're sick of us or have to abandon us for some reason, we'll still support you. We know that this is bigger than either of us."
"See," Cate announced triumphantly, "clear type 3s!" When Kitty and Chalise looked at her questioningly, she explained.
"We'll explain it later," Cate assured them. "I have a feeling you're going to get a full briefing soon. Man, it'll be nice to finally stop pretending that you don't already know everything there is to know about us."
"Well, that may be, but we'll never get started tonight unless we drop you two off and I get home. I've got a bunch of women all anxious to show me off at my best tonight, and they'll be disappointed if I don't sweep you both off of your feet tonight." And with that they finally climbed out of the car, laughing all the way.