“I’d say nerd,” Jessica said, turning to me and smiling.
‘That’s a good sign,’ I thought to myself. ‘She is comfortable enough to tease me.’
Mom smiled, too. “Okay, nerd. At any rate, when you left for college, I knew that you’d already lost your virginity to Alex.”
Jessica’s eyes went wide and she asked, “How did you know that?”
“Believe me, sweetheart, a Mom knows. You just wait and see.” She reached her hand out across the table and in another good sign Jessica unfolded her arms, leaned forward, and took Mom’s hand. “I knew you were going to do fine at college. You were going to meet new friends, join clubs, find new romantic interests, but most of all you would not sit in your room and play video games all day.”
A hint of recognition crossed Jessica’s face, but she remained silent.
“I wasn’t nearly as sure about your brother.” Mom turned to me and smiled a sad little smile. “Before this summer, he played video games all day, never left the house, and had few friends and never a girl friend.”
“All true,” I said, looking from Mom to Jessica.
I turned back to Mom when she began speaking again. “So at the beginning of the summer I asked Gail if she would take Sammy for the summer. We didn’t let him take his video console with him. Both of us thought that the change would do him some good, and, honestly, I kind of hoped he’d find a girlfriend.”
It was Gail’s turn to take up the story. “We had a great summer. He started doing yoga with me every day.”
Jessica was surprised once again and turned to me. “It’s hard, isn’t it?”
“It certainly is.”
Gail continued, “And your brother got a job down on the beach at a snack bar. He confided in me that he met a lot of young ladies his own age, but it became apparent to me that his lack of confidence and experience were too large a barrier for him to overcome, at least during this summer.” She paused for effect and took a deep breath. “So, your Mom and I schemed a bit.” She looked at me and Aunt Gail reached over and took my hand in hers. “We decided that I should be the one to teach your little brother how to be a man.”
It took Jessica several seconds to understand the meaning of what Aunt Gail had just said. She stared at Aunt Gail, and then the realization that Aunt Gail had taken my virginity hit and it immediately showed on her face. Jessica turned to look at me and then back to Aunt Gail. “To be clear here, you fucked Sammy.”
Gail replied, “The short answer is, ‘yes.’ The long answer is that what I did was to give an 18-year-old man an education in how to love and treat women that typically takes many years to learn.”
Jessica let go of Mom’s hand and sat back in her chair, chewing on what she had just heard. She looked around the table at each one of us and then said, “But, that still doesn’t explain why all of you are naked…today…in the kitchen.” She waved her finger in a circle around her head to emphasize the point.
It was Mom’s turn again. “Well, that’s where we got carried away.” She took another deep breath. “How much of this do you want to know?”