The Family Mansion Rewrite Pt. 20

The Family Mansion 20: A Family Meeting

By Charlie Flemming

Copyright 2020 Charlie Flemming

After Liz’s bath and before she caught her daughters naked in the hallway doing God knows what with their brother in his bathroom, she had made a decision. She had decided to call her sisters.

First, she called Jenna, her oldest sister. She was 40, two years older than Liz, and had blonde hair, blue eyes, was taller than Liz but nowhere near as tall as Nathan who was 6’4″ and Liz felt they got along, but also knew that Jenna was very nosy.

Also, since the first time Liz showed Jenna the mansion that James built for their family, Jenna had been trying to move in. She pointed out there were “-so many extra rooms! There’s no way you’ll have a family this size!” That was before Jenna’s husband died and they were both pregnant for the first time, just noticing their 21 bedrooms in their expansive upper floor, “Please let us move in, you’ll hardly notice us, I promise.”

Though Liz felt she and Jenna had a good relationship, she also knew that her nosiness and general disrespect for her would slowly drive her insane and she’d succeeded in keeping Jenna from living with her so far. But, every few years, Jenna would suddenly “get a promotion” or find a “better living space” and would suddenly be living a lot closer to Liz’s house than she was before. After moving her whole family at least five times since her husband’s death, Jenna now lived in the nearby city and had her job shifted around enough that she was now working from an office there too.

Liz put a robe around her wet body and called her sister as she sat on her now clean bed, Thank God for Bri. She thought as hit the button for Jenna and put the phone to her ear.

Jenna answered on the second ring, “You know,” she said, knowing already it was Liz because her phone told her so, “it’s very early, the sun is barely up.”

“I knew you would already be up,” Liz said, knowing that Jenna had basically been a workaholic since her husband died, “and I wanted to call you before I called Andrea.” Andrea was the name of Liz’s and Jenna’s other sister.

“Oh? Making the rounds?” Jenna asked, Liz had been right, Jenna had already been up, eaten breakfast, and working on something for her boss on her laptop for the last two hours. It was tough work being an executive assistant, but Jenna earned her $55k a year. Still, she knew it would never be enough to live in a place as luxurious as Liz’s mansion.

“Yeah,” Liz answered, she wanted to keep it brief before Jenna became suspicious of anything, “I had an idea and thought we could maybe have a Sunday Family Dinner tonight.”

“Oh, we haven’t had one of those in a while.” Jenna said sounding happy but was already suspicious that something was up, Sunday Family Dinner was something they thought about doing once a week since everyone now basically lived in the same city, and it worked…for about a month, then they skipped one, and then decided it could be every other week instead, which they did the next week but then decided once a month was best, then it only ever happened every once in a while and hadn’t at that point for several months, “Is that the only reason you called?” Jenna asked innocently.

Liz bit her lip, hoping she wasn’t about to give anything away, “Um, I thought, if it’s alright with you, perhaps Erika and Lexi could spend the summer at your house. I thought you could pick them up today after dinner.” She cringed saying it out loud, but Liz knew that someone had to leave or she was going to lose control again, and since she couldn’t the next best thing was kicking her kids out of the house.

This surprised Jenna on the other end, “What? The whole summer? Why?”

Liz opened her mouth but then closed it again. She knew she wasn’t the best at keeping secrets and also knew that, if she had a secret to keep, then Jenna would hone in on it and do everything she could to uncover it. “I just want them out of the house for, um, a little while.” She said trying to hurry the conversation along, “Would that be okay with you?”

Jenna thought about pushing it but decided there’d be time for that later, “Sure, I love it when your family comes to visit.” This wasn’t a lie, she really did love her nieces and nephew and loved spending time with them, another reason she felt moving in together was a good idea, “We’ll have to switch around some sleeping arrangements but I’m sure it will be fine.” All three of Jenna’s daughters still lived with her even though they were all adults now, which she didn’t mind figuring they’d all live at Liz’s mansion eventually, and there was so much room they would hardly have to see each other, probably.

“Okay, thanks, see you then,” Liz said as she quickly ended the call. She immediately dialed up Andrea, her other sister.

Andrea was born the year in between Liz and Jenna and was 39. She was a redhead, which ran in their family, and had gotten pregnant the first time she drank at the age of 20 and was so drunk she never knew who the father was. Since then she’d been very against drugs and alcohol and also became incredibly religious and spoke at great length about celibacy and how she wished she had never gotten drunk that fateful night. That was before she then gave birth to triplets, all girls, and loved them very much. They were Erika’s age and went to the local high school with Jenna’s youngest daughter. She lived on the other side of the city, and Liz felt she always seemed to live in the same city as Jenna did like she was following her around. Liz thought that was especially strange because she knew that Jenna and Andrea more or less hated each other, so knew that couldn’t be the reason…could it?

“Hello,” Andrea yawned into her cell phone after many rings, “I was asleep, Liz.” She said a moment later as she took a moment to glance at who it was who was calling her.

“Sorry for the early hour, Andrea,” Liz said to her sleepy sister, “But I was hoping that we could have a Sunday Family Dinner tonight, like old times.”

Andrea glanced at the clock, “I have to get ready for church soon, but I suppose we could come after. It’d be nice to see the family again. I’m sure my daughters will be thrilled.” She actually wasn’t sure of that but was just trying to be pleasant as she woke up.

“Awesome,” Liz said, “and thanks, but I don’t suppose you’d, um, want to also maybe take Nathan and Brooke for the rest of the summer?”

Andrea was in the process of pushing her blanket off her and getting up but that stopped her as if she’d been “paused” for a second, “I mean, there’s not a lot of room here…” She said after a moment. She worked at a massage parlor that didn’t see a whole lot of business and was barely making enough to keep her small, one-floor house. It did have a basement but it was converted into a bedroom for all three of her daughters. That left her room, the living room, and the kitchen, none of which were very big. “One person can sleep on the couch,” Andrea went on, “but I doubt that the girls would be happy if someone had to stay in their room, there’s hardly enough room for them.”

“Couldn’t Brooke just sleep with you or something?” Liz suggested.

Andrea cringed at the thought, “That…would probably not be a very good idea. Why do they need to be gone today anyway?” She realized she probably should have asked that first. Andrea wasn’t stupid, she just tended to be a little slow on the uptake sometimes.

Liz sighed as she considered telling Andrea what was bothering her. Unlike with Jenna, Liz knew she could trust Andrea, and since she and Jenna hated each other Liz also knew Andrea wouldn’t tell Jenna anything. But, Liz also knew that if she even said a hint of what she remembered about yesterday, she’d never hear the end about how it was a sin and she was going to hell, etc. Liz decided not to tell her anything, but also not lie to her either, “Let’s just say that they’ve been very bad and I don’t want to see them for a while. Brooke, especially.” She couldn’t really remember last night, but her mother’s intuition, along with the fact that Brooke tried to seduce her two nights ago, made Liz think that Brooke was more to blame than she would likely admit.

“A naughty boy and girl, huh? Alright, I can help you out, Liz. We’ll make room.”

Liz thought that was an odd way to put it but didn’t want to mention it, “Thank you so much, Andrea. I’ll see you later today?”

“Yeah, probably in the afternoon.” Andrea said, “After church, and goodbye Liz, I love you.”

Liz smiled hearing that, “I love you too, Andrea.” Liz hung up the phone, feeling like a sense of normalcy had returned.

But then she ran into Erika running out of Nathan’s room naked, reminding her how abnormal things had become. And while she was scolding her (after first making sure that Nathan wasn’t in his room), Lexi came out of Nathan’s bathroom, also walking through the halls naked and with what smelled like semen on her breath and Liz made them go back to their own rooms and put some decent clothes on, announcing the plan for “Sunday Family Dinner,” even though they hadn’t done it for several years at that point.

Liz felt for a minute that she had things under control as she woke up Brooke.

But then she caught Bri fucking Nathan in the basement, reminding her just how out of control everything had become.

…

Liz came into the living room, which had an overly large couch stretched along the wall with the entrance to the room and went around the corner in an L-shape. There was also a very large coffee table that was big enough anyone sitting on the couch could use it. The TV was on the opposite wall taking up almost the entire wall, there were some chairs on the other side of the door and some shelves, but the TV was best seen from the couch without moving furniture so most people just sat there.

She was unsurprised to see there were similar splotches of boy and girl cum all over the couch, though not nearly as bad as it was in her room. Liz was too angry to care though and grabbed one of the seldom-used chairs in the corner and brought it over and sat in it. Erika and Lexi came in after and sat to the side of the couch that was cleaner than whatever they did in that room last night.