As it turned out, the twins both fell asleep cuddled up on Mom’s shoulders. Mom seemed very content, so I pulled the comforter off the back of the loveseat and laid it over all three of them. June stirred and burrowed deeper into Mom’s neck. Neither Julie nor Mom moved a muscle. I went up to my room hoping that Mom would collect me when she came up to bed.
I woke to the brightening dawn disappointed that Mom hadn’t woke me up to come to her bed. She could have got into mine too, but she hadn’t.
I used the bathroom and showered the cum and petroleum jelly off me and then I quietly opened Mom’s bedroom door figuring that we could ‘rip off a piece’. She wasn’t in bed and hadn’t been. I dressed in shorts and tee shirt and went down stairs. She wasn’t on the sofa and neither were the twins. I quietly moved back to the girl’s bedroom door and pressed my ear to the door to listen. Nothing. I eased open their door and all three of them were in Julie’s queen-sized bed on their right sides spooned up to each other facing June’s bed. The covers were pushed down to their waists and Julie’s hand rested on Mom’s left breast as Mom’s hand rested on June’s. They were sound asleep.
I stepped back to the hallway and quietly closed their door and went to the kitchen. I turned on the Keurig Coffee Maker to heat the water. I went through all the efforts to get a coffee cup out of the cupboard and get dairy creamer from the refrigerator with making a sound and popped the pod in the machine and hit ‘go’ and all of my efforts to be quiet were thwarted by the loud groaning of the Keurig.
I hoped that the groan would be sufficiently muted by the kitchen wall and the twin’s bathroom walls so I wouldn’t wake them.
I collected the morning paper from the outside walkway and carried it and my coffee cup to the three-season room. I had no sooner set myself in a rattan chair when I decided a nice soak in the hot tub would be nice.
I stripped off my tee shirt and shorts and walked naked to the hot tub and lifted back the cover. I retrieved my cup and paper and lowered myself into the hot water. I didn’t turn on any of the jets. The gently circulating water was soothing as I opened the paper holding it above the surface. The metro section had a story on tonight’s high school graduation. I quickly scanned the article reading about the class of two hundred and twenty-three graduates. It would be held in the school’s new auditorium that had been completed more than a year ago. My class had been the first to graduate from it. When I saw June and Julie’s names, I read slower. Julie was named as the valedictorian and June was the salutatorian. Neither of the girls had mentioned this news. I wondered if they knew yet, but then I remembered that the valedictorian always gives a speech to the class. Julie would have to know so she could prepare.
This was an odd turn of events. Why wouldn’t they have said something. Given their competitiveness, June would be pissed about coming in second behind Julie and vice versa if it had been the other way around. June hadn’t displayed anything to indicate that she knew. Maybe, she didn’t know. Maybe, only Julie was informed so she could prepare for the ceremony and she hadn’t said anything to anyone else. June had a cynical nature and she could be vindictive but I doubted that she’d do anything in retribution to Julie. I moved on to the sports page.