“Both of us are nude,” Angelica said from the other side of the bed.
Mom’s head snapped to the other side where she saw her oldest daughter also naked.
“What the hell is happening here?” Mom asked.
“Mom, such language. You might be sent straight there for using words like that,” Angelica said.
I entered the conversation to say, “Mom, we have a lot to talk about. There are going to be changes. You may like them, you may not, but love or hate, they will be made. The main topic, scratch that, the only topic is the way sex is treated around here. Angelica and I will no longer be treated as if we lived in the fourteen hundreds, forced to wear a chastity belt. We will be sexually active. Now we are not going to be sluts, but believe it or not, we are grown women and we will have lovers.”
“Your father is going to kick you out of the house the instant he gets back.”
“That may well be, but we already have contingency plans for that.”
“We will be in college the next four years,” Angelica said. “We will live on campus until we graduate and get a job.”
“We will not pay a single penny of tuition or expenses.”
I said, “Again, we have already planned for that. We each have a four point grade average, over a 99.9% attendance rate, dozens of volunteer and community service awards and several other items universities look for. We will have no trouble getting grants, scholarships, and student loans.”
“You will be kicked out Saturday when your dad walks in the door. Do you plan to spend the next five weeks living on the streets?”
“Not at all, Grand mom, your mom, will take us in an instant. She adores us. I would not be surprised if she gave up her house for us and moved to a hotel if we asked. You know as well as we do that is the case. How many times has Dad condemned her because even now at sixty, she has men over? She enjoys sex and not only will she not damn us, she will bless us for setting ourselves free. You know this to be true.”
Mom was silent as she considered this. Finally she asked, “What about God?”
“What about Him? We believe in Him and in His Son. Look again at the bible. Abraham’s wife, Sarah had many lovers. Dozens. That is why she was forced to wait until old age to have a son. If she had him earlier, no one would know who the father was. David had hundreds of wives and still took a mistress. According to Dad, all of them are in Heaven. Why is it only us that have to be spinsters?”
“Mom,” Angelica said. “We can talk religion all day. We can talk morals all day. The time has come for action.”
“Yes,” I said. “Mom, how is your sex life?”
“What!? That is something I will not discuss with you.”
“Then watch. No discussion needed.”
We both backed away from the bed. Mom’s eyes grew even wider when she saw our shaved pussies.
“This is a trick I leaned last night, just before you got home.” I picked up a bag of M&Ms and poured them on the nightstand next to Mom. It was positioned so she had no trouble seeing it.
“Pick a color,” I said to Angelica.
She looked at the candy spread out and chose one she believed it would be difficult to reach. “Green,” she answered.