Chapter 28

I knew the girls were passionate, but it surprised me to see they were crying tears of joy! As they both hugged me at once, I asked, "This really means a lot to you, doesn't it?"

Michelle nodded emphatically. "So much! You have no idea!" It seemed like she wanted to say more, but she sobbed into my shoulder instead.

Ruby, if anything, cried even more while sobbing into my other shoulder.

Mindy stood back smirking and smiling at the three-way hug. That wasn't surprising: my wife smirks a great deal, but it's always in a happy way, not mean. But tears were sliding down her face too! She said, "Can you see now why I couldn't bear to say no to these two? This is somehow very essential for their growing up. I can't quite explain why, but they really need this."

I nodded.

After we settled down, more or less, and returned to our seats, I continued to discuss and explain my decision. I shared many of the concerns, justifications, and arguments that Mindy and I had in recent days over this. I admitted that the horse was already out of the barn and we couldn't go back to the way we'd been months before. I explained my concerns about keeping such teasing within certain limits, and then carefully detailed what those limits were.

I named a number of different things, such as limits on certain sexy talk. I especially wanted to make

Sure Michelle wouldn't ever talk about her desire for vaginal or anal intercourse with me. And if Ruby had similar ideas, she needed to keep them to herself.

In the last few days, Michelle had been asking me about anal sex, vaginal sex, and other sexual topics in what appeared to be a purely curious "birds and the bees talk" kind of way. But I worried that once I allowed teasing to come back into play, a "show me" request concerning something or other could lead to full-on groping. So I was thus determined to head that one off at the pass.

Anal sex was a particularly taboo topic in our house. My wife and I had "beaten around the bush" on anal sex more than once in all our years together. Invariably, she'd be the one wanting to try it, and I was the one who said "No" to the idea. What can I say? There are just some things I wasn't willing to do with a woman, and this was one of them.

I continued to lay down the rules. "One key thing that I need to stress here is that we have to avoid all touching of private parts in each others' company. Michelle, I can't touch your crotch area or breasts, and you can't touch my crotch area. No masturbating in front of each other, either."

Michelle seemed very disappointed about that. However, she nodded, and then asked, "Can I touch my own breasts? It's pretty hard for me not to at least touch them sometimes, you know." She looked down at her jutting torpedoes.

They were pretty damn hard to avoid, I had to admit. "Yes, I suppose. But within limits. Don't be getting all orgasmic on me fondling yourself, okay?"

She nodded. "What if I hug you?" she asked. "My breasts pretty much have to touch you then." "Hugging is fine, of course. We just have to keep our hands away from those private places." She nodded again.

Ruby asked, "What about me? Shouldn't the rules be a little looser with me, since I'm not your flesh- and-blood daughter?"

I said, "We should be consistent. The same rules apply to you." She muttered not so quietly, "Damn!"

We all came to a sober agreement on these boundaries.

I said, "Now, we need to address Nicky. I hate to say this, but I don't see how we can tell her about any of this… teasing. She's very straight-laced. I don't think she'd understand. But it pains me to keep a secret from her. What do you all think?"

Mindy replied, "I don't see it as a problem at all. Some things are off limits. Do we ever tell our daughters about the details of what we do in bed? No. That's none of their business. This is just an extension of that, with the Gruesome Twosome acting as 'fluffers.' So that's none of Nicky's business as well. Plus, I'm sure she wouldn't want to know. If you started to tell her, she'd wince and complain, "T.M.I.!"

I nodded. I knew that "T.M.I. stood for "too much information," and that's what it was.

Michelle said, "I agree. We're not doing anything wrong, and Nicky is kind of a prude anyway. She'd probably misunderstand. Maybe later I have high hopes that we can, well… let's not idly speculate. But right now, she doesn't need to know."

Ruby chimed in, "I love Nicky dearly, and I have no problem not telling her. Everyone has SOME secrets. That's part of life."

Then I asked Ruby, "What about Cindy? What should we tell her? If I were in her shoes, I'd want to

Know something."

Mindy quipped, "If you were in her shoes, you'd have a hard time walking across the room. High heels don't suit you."

I rolled my eyes.

Ruby replied, "Cindy doesn't need to know anything. This is a private matter. If I were to go out on a date with a guy, would I give her a blow-by-blow account about how we'd kissed and fondled? No way! I'm turning into an adult, and she has to trust me."

I sighed. "If you say so. I suppose that's your call to make."

Ruby crossed her arms under her ample E-cups, and stated firmly, "That's the call I'm making."

With the four of us having settled those issues, at least for now, Michelle asked eagerly, "So, when can we resume the teasing again? I'm soooo psyched!"

I looked at Ruby. "I'm sorry, I told your mom that I'd be borrowing you for dinner only. You should go back home now."

She pouted like a little girl, "Awwww! Whyyyy? I love it here! I can't wait to get started teasing you again!"

"I know, I know, and I'm excited too. But good things come to those who wait. You can hang out here again tomorrow while your mom is at work, like usual. But remember that she loves you and she's lonely. It's just you and Cindy at the McGrath house now. You need to support each other."

Ruby nodded sullenly. She loved her mother a great deal and felt bad about being over at our house so much instead of her own. But then her eyes shone as she got an idea. "I'll go now if you give me a REAL good-bye kiss!"

I instinctively looked to Mindy.

My wife smiled and nodded. "Go for it, big man! You already kissed her like that once a few days ago. Do it again! Kiss her like you kiss me!"

I walked Ruby to the front door, with Mindy and Michelle in tow. Before opening the door, I held Ruby and gave her a kiss on the lips.

Yes, there was tongue. However, it wasn't a lava-hot scorcher because I felt guilty and self-conscious, especially since I was doing that in front of Mindy. Even though my wife stood there holding Michelle's hand and looking happy and calm, she was still my wife! The situation was too strange.

After the relatively short kiss, I whispered to Ruby, "I love you, Red."

She opened her mouth in surprise at those words. She knew I loved her, but I rarely openly stated it since I didn't want it to seem we were trying to steal her away from Cindy. Then she suddenly kissed me again. Even though I was holding back, she sure wasn't! She floored me with a much more intense lip-lock the second time.

However, I still felt this had to be wrong somehow, despite Mindy's active approval, so I kept that kiss short.

Then Michelle said, "Okay, my turn!"

However, Mindy saw the conflicted look on my face, and said, "Why don't you save that for tomorrow? You've waited this long."

Michelle grumbled, but she acquiesced. It seemed she realized she'd probably get a much better first

Kiss if she caught me in the right mood. She probably hoped her first kiss would be something epic. So Ruby went back home to go to sleep. The rest of us went back to sit at the dinner table.

Once we were seated, with Mindy next to me and Michelle on the other side, Michelle asked, "So… When can the flirting and teasing officially resume?"

I shrugged. "Well, I suppose starting now. Why not? I figured it did already with kissing Ruby good- bye."

I half-expected Michelle to throw herself over the table at me with a big hug. Or at least she'd take her clothes off. But she just sat there. However, she and Mindy were like two peas in a pod, smiling and bouncing slightly in their chairs. They were positively brimming with excitement, but trying to hold it in.

Michelle said, "Let's talk about something sexy! Dang, that spanking was something else, wasn't it?"

Seeing the way Michelle squirmed in her chair, Mindy said, "Pick something else. That's probably too sexy. Daddy's still mad at me for not supporting him there."

Michelle grinned. "But not so mad that he hasn't had sex with you like 19,000 times in the last two days!"

Mindy just flashed a shit-eating grin as her eyes glazed over thinking about it. She couldn't deny that, especially since our screams had been heard throughout the house on a number of occasions. Then her eyes lit up as an idea came to her. "I like that we're just relaxing and talking, but Michelle, don't you think you're a little… overdressed?"