Chapter 211

May 26, 2018 (Saturday)

Dear Ms. Diary,

Since we were not meeting at Armoire until Alyssa arrived, we had a leisurely breakfast, at which Maren waxed poetic about sleeping between Heather and Lana.

“Each of you has probably had this happen, maybe frequently, but I woke in the middle of the night with both of them wrapped around me. I was so happy I cried a bit, which woke Heather. When I told her why I was crying, she put her bent right leg over me and tucked herself even more tightly into me. Gosh, that was just so very wonderful!”

Because we would be bringing Padme and Kaira back with us and the Sprinter seats only 15 and because we wanted both Celeste and Andy with us as they were roughly Kaira’s age, Rhee, Cera, Rache, Katie, Char, and Kath volunteered to stay home and help ensure that the A was ready for the two girls. We arrived in front a bit before 9:45 and saw that Alyssa was already opening the door, so we exited the Sprinter. She noticed us, smiled widely, and waited at the door, holding it for us as we trooped in.

I was nearly tackled almost immediately by Padme as she tried to fully envelop me despite her shorter stature.

I squeezed her tightly as I looked at Kaira’s surprised expression.

When I raised my eyebrows at her, she said, “Thanks for finding somewhere for us to stay out of sight. We don’t know where you’re taking us next, but you did say, right, that we’d be able to see you frequently. We probably need to talk today about your plan, so that we understand it. Padme’s still scared and I’m only slightly less scared.”

“That was the first thing on our plan once we get you into the other house. In order not to overwhelm you, there will be just a few of us. Let me introduce you to two women about your age that are part of our ... gang and, hopefully, can provide you a lot of assistance about things we’ll discuss at that house. Celeste, Andy, please meet Kaira Fahrad and her sister Padme Fahrad.” As Padme extracted herself from me, I continued, “Kaira, Padme, these are our family members Celeste Montgomery and Andressa Pires. Padme knows Andy, as she’s been an assistant to Coach, but neither of you has been introduced to Celeste.”

Neither of the Fahrads reached hands out, so Andy said, “It’s nice to meet Padme’s sister. I’ve enjoyed teaching her some things this spring. You probably are, but you should be proud of her, as Padme’s quite a good soccer player.”

Kaira nodded, still obviously a bit standoffish with the new people, but that changed when Padme stepped into Andy and hugged her, looked up at Andy and said, “Thanks for your help, both at soccer and with ... this.”

“You’re welcome.”

As Padme stepped back, Katherine said, “Alyssa, go through the typical opening. We’re going to plan our attack on the floor in the breakroom. I’ll give you what information I may once Beth and the gang leave with their new charges. Once we get our plan for what these girls will need, we’ll hope that there are few or no early customers so they can get your expert assistance.”

“Of course, Katherine. I’ll get the register opened and deal with other stuff until you get back out here.”

In the breakroom, Brit stated, “Maren, we could save everyone some time if you wanted to go out to the floor and look for what you need, now.”

Maren looked around the room at us, then back at Brit, and nodded, so the two of them headed to the floor. I stepped over to Katherine and wrapped my arms around her in a tight hug, and she reciprocated.

“Thanks, so much, for helping out again. You probably figured out that we just had no one to stay with the girls yesterday, and we didn’t want them to be all by themselves on their first day in a strange house.”

I disengaged, then stepped over to where Padme was snugged into Kaira’s side, and said, “I doubt that anyone who knows you would recognize you, Kaira, without a long, close look at your face. Patricia did a great job of disguising who you are.”

Kaira breathed deeply, responding, “She did. I hate it, but I’m going to need to live with it for ... who knows how long. You’re ... going to insist that I wear ... the sort of clothes Liya picked out for me on Thursday. Right?”

“I don’t know. What is normal ... apparel where you work? Do any co-workers wear anything like crazy clothes?”

“Jeans or slacks and tops, either a T-shirt or a blouse.”

“Then we’ll get you clothes today that are suitable for that. However, any other time you leave the house, you need to be in sexy clothes to match the expectations of your hair.” I turned to look at Padme and said, “The same goes for you. Liya had a great idea about hiding you in plain sight, so you’ll have to wear sexy or revealing clothing, too, at least if you want to go outside the house, although we won’t get you clothes anything like the sheath Kaira wore on Thursday. Is that acceptable?”

“It’s going to have to be. Isn’t it? We couldn’t have managed for ourselves anything like you managed for us. Kai and I understand that, so, even though we don’t like it, we’ll do whatever you tell us we need to do.” Padme moved her eyes to the side to glance at Kaira, then added, “Kai said that ... it felt weird but interesting wearing only that sheath.”

She said the last part of that more loudly so as to be heard over Kaira’s objection.

Liya responded, “Kaira, you looked stunning in that sheath, and I’d love to help you find similar clothing for you to wear out occasionally. I’m afraid that we can’t let you go out by yourselves, but whenever you do leave the house, I’ll be going with you; at least me. We’ve decided that I’m your cousin and that you two are visiting from Amarillo now that Padme’s school is out for the year. I’ll call you ‘Veda,’ Kaira, and ‘Taniya,’ Padme,’ and you both should get used to the last name of Patel, which, because of its commonness, shouldn’t allow for finding you via online searches of the names I’ve picked.”

Kaira stared at Liya for a few seconds, then said, “Veda for me and Taniya for Padme. Okay. I’ll try to remember to use those. I’ll also use that name for the temp worker that I’ll be at my job for ... however long this takes.”

Liya responded, “None of us can know the fear and concern you two are feeling, but the more readily you take on the new identities and personalities, the better off you’ll be.”

“Yes. We understand that. My boss has already approved me being a newly hired temp, from a temp agency, to cover my sudden need for a vacation from that job. I had to tell her most of the truth, though.”

“Can you trust her?”

“I believe so. She’s been a good boss and seems to care somewhat for her employees. It’s just a call center, but...”

Katherine stated, “Even though you need to wear sort of normal attire for your job, crazy-haired Veda would probably get skinny jeans and tight tops to show off her lovely figure. You’ll need at least a week’s worth of clothes. While you could repeat them each week, we should probably get you at least one, preferably two more whole outfits to provide variety. Unfortunately, Veda, no one can guarantee you that this will be over soon.”

“Veda” nearly crumpled, but rallied to reply, “I usually wear the same pair of jeans or slacks two or three times each week, particularly jeans. I suspect that ‘Veda’ is not at all well off, and she’d probably wear the same pair of jeans all week, so long as they didn’t get stained. She would probably have two pairs and, perhaps, one okay pair of slacks. She’d probably have nothing of true quality, so you need to take that into account.”

Liya moaned, “Oh, Veda. You should spend more of your money on clothes rather than crazy hair,” then grinned at Kaira.

Katherine suggested, “Perhaps Veda recently had an affair with a richer guy that bought her some clothes suitable to going to venues he took you. Of course, since he liked showing off his current conquest, most of those clothes would be quite revealing, but Veda probably talked him into buying her at least a few reasonably nice tops for work. It’s too bad for Veda that the guy got from her what he wanted and cut off the relationship.”

Padme, who looked dumbfounded for part of that, suddenly wrapped her sister up, saying, “I’m sorry your boyfriend was such a jerk. At least you got some nice clothes out of him.”

There was much laughing.

Kaira looked down at Padme and said, “I suppose you’re right, P- Taniya, but I kind of liked him. He was horrible in bed, though,” after which she blushed mightily.

Katherine exclaimed, “Kaira, if you can keep coming up with things like that, you’ll do very well as Veda. I’m impressed.”

Kaira looked over at Katherine, then said, “Thank you, Katherine.” She breathed deeply, then said, “This is ... sort of fun and I did ... get somewhat used to ... wearing clothing that was entirely too revealing. I wonder how I ... will change by the time this is all over.”

Padme said, “Oh, Kai, I hope you don’t change too much. You’re now my ... m-m-mother.”

After she got that out, she lost it, and Kaira wrapped her up, with tears running down her own cheeks. I felt helpless, since we had not previously been on hugging terms with Padme, and certainly not with her sister. However, Katherine did not hesitate to wrap her arms around both of them. Kaira glanced up at her in surprise but settled back into giving Padme comfort.

Padme regained her equilibrium a few minutes later and Katherine took charge, “Let’s go out on the floor. Heather, why don’t you help Liya find some risqué options for Kaira and Padme. I’ll work on her work outfits.”

Liya turned to Kaira, “I just want to make sure that you understand that the outfits we’ll be picking for you will be quite risqué and will probably not include underwear at all, but if they do, any undies will be things like G-strings. That’s why I’m wearing revealing clothing today (narrow tube and a soft, tight short over her family G-string, along with a purse over her head and shoulder).”

As per usual, Heather wore as little here as she could and remain legal, and today, that was one of her narrowest tubes and her white pair of Daisy Dukes. Period.

Kaira breathed deeply twice, then nodded her head firmly at Liya. The rest of us followed Liya and company and Katherine headed to the floor. We spread out to browse, but I found myself with Brit and Maren ... with my shadow, Civia. Maren was pulling on a pullover top that covered her back – her back without an intervening bra strap – as we approached.

I said, “Someone’s been topless in Armoire, again.”

As her head popped through the top, Maren grinned at me, then replied with a straight face, “Huh. Who?”

I was going to extend the repartee, but I had noticed the top she had just donned, so said, “That looks really nice, but I hope you won’t be wearing that to school.”

She raised her eyebrows at me, then said, “Uh, no.”

“Do you have at least an idea of the sort of place you’d wear that?”

“Not really, but I just wanted to try it on because it looked so ... sexy.”

“I know that you know that the rest of us at least occasionally leave the compound wearing revealing clothes, but I must admit that I’m leery of you doing the same. I know that’s something of a double standard, so I’ll try to work on that. The Go5 didn’t start doing things like that until we were 14. Could I convince you to wait until you’re that age to emulate us in such activities?”

“I ... think you could, but partly because this is tight and might not fit me for much longer if I’m still growing.”

“Thanks, Maren, but I will tell you that ... you make that look pretty damned nice.”

She squeaked and asked, “Really?” When I nodded, she stated, “I love you, Beth,” then tucked herself tightly into me.

As I held her, her forehead on my right shoulder, I said, “It’s going to be ... very weird and very nice having you two with us more. I’m not sure how well we’ll ... deal with that change, so please try to stay away from the sex.”

Civ calmly added herself to our mini-scrum and quietly stated, “We’ll do that. We both think that we’d be fine with the rest of the LA having sex whenever you wanted, but we also doubt that what we think is correct. Is that weird? I know it’s self-contradictory, but I think that means that we have absolutely no idea what it would be like to see sex taking place in front of us.”

“I believe that last is correct. It’s ... not what I imagined at Maren’s age, and I didn’t even wonder at your age. I’ll tell you that it can seem sort of violent, particularly ... as I call it, fucking and I found that it took a bit to get used to that. However, please understand that I’ve never seen anything that I’d truly call ‘fucking,’ but some sex can ... mirror the ... actions of fucking.”

Civ almost whispered, “Maren, we’ve both said it before, but there’s no doubt we’re in the right place. While our ... parents might have told us something like that, I suspect they might not even have thought of it. Thanks, Beth, for teaching us, but teaching us in a ... non-explicit way. From all we’ve heard and learned from the girls and from our parents, sex seems ... umm...”

Maren finished, “Complicated.”

“Yes. Complicated.”

“It very much is, and few of us have a ... wide-enough variety of experience to explain everything, because there’re probably so many aspects none of us have experienced. We can’t really know what we haven’t experienced until we see it or experience it ourselves. Our various parents ... and that includes your three parents ... have almost certainly experienced more ... different aspects. If you have specific questions, so long as they don’t relate to mechanics or what with whom, you can ask the compound parents, so long as you report any such conversations to your parents.”

“We know,” Civ responded, “and we relayed a lot of the stuff we’ve discussed in the compound with the LA to them on Monday. They told us to tell you that they appreciated you answering our questions calmly and in a straightforward manner.”

Maren removed and rehung the top she’d tried on, then said, “I’m so tempted to keep my shirt off while I look for something else interesting, but I won’t.”

“Thanks. I think, perhaps, we girls have created a couple of monsters with you two. You’ve learned semi-public nudity much earlier than we did, and you’ll probably be the death of us as you give us heart attacks when you pull your shirts off in various highly public places.”

They chuckled at me.

Civ finished with, “I think I’m ... becoming something like Heather in that I wish I could be naked everywhere. I’ve read that ... for some people, perhaps for Heather, that public nudity provides ... sexual excitement. As far as I can tell, it doesn’t for me. I just like the feel of the air ... un ... unim- ... unimpeded on my body. As you girls explained to me a while back, it’s sensual, not necessarily sexual.”

I gazed at her for a few seconds, then asked, “Do you ever forget anything we tell you?”

“Beth, I try very hard not to forget anything you girls tell me, because I’ve learned that you girls always tell me the truth, as least as you understand it, and that’s something that I ... and my parents ... greatly appreciate.”

I couldn’t resist the impulse, so wrapped my arms around her and hugged her tightly, as Maren said, “We both love hugs from you girls, so much. Before Civ ... let me fully into her life, I didn’t know that hugs from anyone other than Mom could feel good, much less how wonderful they are from friends I love.”

I responded, “That’s quite insightful and very true.”

“What would you think, Beth, if I told you that my mom and dad love some of the LA that are not Maren and me?”

“I’d be happy, but I think we already understand that they at least like us a lot because, for both of you, your three parents have been and are willing to allow you two to spend so much time with us. I’m still amazed that they ... trust us enough to put your sexual histories in your own hands and allow you to live with a bunch of girls that have a lot of sex. I can guarantee you that not one of us would even entertain putting that trust in jeopardy, so please help us keep that trust.”

Maren replied, “I think we didn’t fully understand that ... Or, at least, I didn’t fully understand when I took my bra off in front of Brett last Friday that I might have been jeop ... jeopardizing that trust. Like Heather and Civ, I really love being naked, but particularly now that we’re ... essentially moving in with you girls, I must remember that my actions could negatively impact my sisters.

“Beth, I ... I think ... our parents might be willing in a year or two for us to move into the compound fulltime.”

I raised my eyebrows at her, then asked, “Why do you think that?”

“While I’m sure that the three of them do want to have more ... facility to have sex whenever they want ... Is that the right use of ‘facility?’” When I nodded, she continued, “While I believe they want that, I suspect that they might be using that also to give us something that they know we want without giving us the impression that they don’t want us living with them. Civ, if they tell us sometime in the future that we may live permanently in the compound, we should probably insist that we still live at least part-time with them.”

“I agree completely, Maren.”

A bit past 11:30, after some of us had quietly argued, despite the other customers in the store, with Katherine about who was paying for Padme’s and Kaira’s clothes, we got her to agree to split it, with her paying for the sexywear and us paying for the girls’ “normal” clothes. Maren used what was apparently her brand-new debit card to pay for her clothes.

We were discussing in the Sprinter what to do next when Kim stated, “I think we should give Kaira and Padme some practice wearing skimpywear in public by having a sit-down meal somewhere, but not in any of our regular restaurants.

Kaira objected, “But we’re not wearing ... those clothes and we’d ... You want us to change in here. Right?”

Kim answered, “Yes, and for two reasons.”

“You want us to get to ... some sort of comfort both in wearing those clothes and ... I’m not perfectly sure of what the second reason is, but it’s something to do with ... comfort.”

“Yes. Girls that are comfortable wearing clothing like that are probably comfortable in their skin ... figuratively and literally, so would be able to change among us ... with Brett not looking away. Of course, he will turn around, so you don’t have to worry about him seeing you. Remember, while Padme’s outfits can be worn with panties, most of yours cannot ... because that ex-boyfriend of yours insisted that you not wear underwear of any sort.

More gently, Kim added, “Kaira, I know this is difficult, as I had to go through some of the process you’re going through with sexywear as we call it. To pull off wearing a completely different identity, you must wear it comfortably, so that means finding that comfort in all aspects.”

A bit vehemently, Kaira responded, “Fine. Then let’s go all the way! I’ll change with Brett watching and I’ll let you pick whatever you think is the most revealing outfit! And I’ll strip first and stand here in the nude until you hand me what I’ll be wearing!”

Brett softly said, “Kaira, that really isn’t necessary.”

“Yes, it is!” She closed her eyes, breathed deeply, opened her eyes on him, then gently replied, “Kim’s right. I’ve seen enough ... shows and movies and, at least in them, characters trying to live different identities often get found because of ... inconsistencies in their behavior. While using ... theater to inform on real life may be ... dubious and though I seriously doubt that our ... father has such ... discernment, I’m not willing to risk Padme’s life on those assumptions. So, please, Brett, let me learn comfort. I can’t help protect Padme in any other way, because I just don’t ... know ... how.”

She dropped her head into her hands and sobbed. Padme and Kim immediately enveloped her in hugs.

She gathered herself about a minute later and picked her head up, whereupon Meka calmly told her, “You have another option, which is always staying inside. We’re as certain as we can be that the house in which we’ll be hiding you is safe and unknown. It has a privacy fence around the back yard, so you could at least be outside in the yard.”

She looked at Meka and replied, “I understand. But I still need to be comfortable in Veda’s skin, and Veda would have no qualms about stripping in front of a guy she barely knows, particularly ... such an attractive guy.”

Her face went hot, and she dropped it back into her hands. I quickly looked at Brett to see his face nearly as red.

I nearly whiplashed myself turning back to Padme when she quietly said, “Kai, you’d ... do all this ... to protect ... me?”

Kaira’s response was quite burbly, “Of course, I would. You’re my sister. My favorite sister, and now, other than our ... father, the only family I know is alive, and I want you to stay that way. I would do anything to keep you alive.”

“Do you truly think that you need to become ... comfortable with ... B ... guys seeing ... you naked?”

“Yes ... mostly. You’ve told me many times how nice Brett is, what a gentleman he is. Do you know anyone else that would be better at helping me learn such comfort?”

“Umm, only Beth’s father.”

Softly, Kaira responded, “Oh, I can just imagine asking him to allow me to undress before him so that I can learn comfort with being naked with guys. I think that’s a worse idea than doing this with Brett.”

Brett said, “Beth’s father is a really great guy and he could probably do a better job of that than I could.”

“Do you not want to see me naked? Am I so ugly?”

A bit firmly, Brett responded, “Kaira, you’re being somewhat ridiculous. I very much like to look at pretty girls, and you’re not only pretty, but that sheath you wore yesterday showed that you have a lovely body. I would love to see you naked. Of course, every heterosexual guy would want that. I don’t need to see you naked, and I’d be at least a bit uncomfortable if you were naked in front of me.”

Kaira closed her eyes and breathed deeply again, breathed normally a few times, then opened her eyes.

Softly, but with a voice filled with emotion, she stated, “If I didn’t do everything in my power to keep my sister alive, I would hate myself if our father found her and killed her. Unfortunately, I don’t have weapons. I don’t know martial arts. I don’t have ... the ability you guys have to figure out how to hide their friends when they need hiding. I have no other way to help her than to live in public as Veda, and I might need to be the very best Veda I can possibly be. If Padme’s ... cover is broken because our father can identify me despite my clothes and my hair, I might as well find my father and give myself to him, now, because that is the only other way that I can contribute to keeping my beloved sister alive.”

Brett stared at her for nearly a minute, then said, “I’ll watch you strip and I’ll look at your beautiful, naked body however many times it takes for you to be comfortable being naked or stripping for a guy. However, you should know that it will excite me every time.”

I interrupted the tableau by saying, “Perhaps there’s a slightly better way that won’t involve undressing and dressing so many times, because it will take many, many times.” Without taking my eyes from Kaira’s, I asked, “Celeste, what do you think about the two girls spending the weekend in the J with us and ... Veda spending the entire weekend naked?”

Kaira’s eyes got huge, and when I looked at Padme, hers were equally large.

However, Celeste answered, “That would be a lot easier and more certain. You might also think about including the backyard and the parents. As Brett said, Charlie could appear more casual about it than Brett could and having her under the eyes of two guys, rather than just one, could be efficacious. And, Kaira, you would not have to ask Charlie, as we would do the asking. In fact, having a family picnic in the yard would be good, too.”

While Kaira and Padme were showing great surprise, I stated, “If we’re going to do that, we need to get word to the W immediately.” Since I was looking at Kaira while talking to my family, most of whom were behind me, and because I could already hear someone fiddling with her phone behind me, I asked, “Kaira, are you willing? Do you so much want to have a part in keeping Padme alive, that you’re willing to go to the wall for it? Are you willing to be naked in our compound for the rest of the weekend? If so, are you aware that that naked time would start here and now in the Sprinter? Are you aware that you’d have to sleep naked with us in our big bed? Are you aware that your luscious naked body would never be out of eyeshot of many or most of the compound’s 24 residents?”

Her mien was nearly frantic, and she latched onto that last bit, asking, “Twenty-four?”

“Twenty-four,” I confirmed. “All but two are female, but those two are two of the three most attractive males we know.”

Padme whispered my name and when I ignored it to keep my eyes lasered on Kaira’s, she said my name more loudly.

Keeping my eyes on Kaira’s, I asked, “Yes, Padme?”

“Should ... I ... do that ... too? I’m supposed to wear ... sexy clothes in public, but I’ve ... never worn ... anything like that ... anywhere.”

I quickly pondered an answer, then said, “We don’t allow either Civia or Maren to be naked around Brett. Civ doesn’t have breasts, so she may go topless, but you have breasts, even if they’re small, so you would need to wear a top like Maren must wear one. Brett is also not allowed to be naked around the younger girls.”

I realized that I was going out on a very long and very spindly limb, but I was fairly certain that Padme wouldn’t spread the word about how we lived. I was certain that Kaira wouldn’t once she got to the point at which she was unconcerned being naked around, at least, the female girls. I decided to up the ante.

“Kaira, you probably will not get to complete comfort in one weekend, so if you want to do this, you’ll need to spend every second you’re in the compound naked. You will never dress yourself or undress yourself. One of us will do that for you, and we’ll randomly select your ... personal dresser for each robing and disrobing. Be aware that both Brett and Charlie might be your dresser one or more times. Once it’s apparent that you’ve achieved the comfort being naked that most of us have, you may decide how and if you wish to clothe yourself.” I paused for at least a minute, then finished, “Or, you can stay inside the other house anytime you’re not working or on your way to or from work. Those are your only options, because I, too, refuse to jeopardize Padme’s life. I like her too much and she’s too important to our team to do anything else.”

While Kaira stared at me with an incredulous mien, I kept my face blank as I quietly told Padme out of the side of my mouth, “You do not need the complete comfort with nudity that Kaira thinks she needs. You are welcome to be in our house with whatever clothes you want to wear, although you may not be naked around Brett or Charlie.”

“But I may wear the ... skimpy clothes you described?”

I was about to respond to Padme, but Kaira found her courage, “All right. I agree to all of that. I will be Veda.”

“Good for you, Kaira. If you’re serious about this being how you help protect Padme, I have the utmost respect for you, particularly as you’re willing to do this while hating having to do it. Let’s go home, Meka, and thanks, everyone, for waiting this out. Kaira, please remain clothed until we get inside our fence. Your first disrobing will take place when we get back.”

After that, I sat abruptly with something like the shakes, which were ameliorated somewhat when Heather put her mouth next to my left ear from behind me and said, “I love you, so much. That was amazing and I think it was exactly the right thing to do.”

While I was not at all sure Heather was right about that, when she placed her lips on that ear and kissed it, I slightly pushed it into her lips. Once I could tap on my phone reliably, I spent the rest of the trip home tapping out text messages to Dad, Sandy, and Carol, but asked them to explain to their other wives. I got a reply as we were pulling into the J’s garage.

As the Sprinter came to a full stop, I asked, “Liya, I assume you have a random stripper already. If so, please announce when we’re all in the back yard.”

“I do.”

Kaira stepped out of the Sprinter, then followed Lana out the side door and out of the garage into the yard and turned to face us, putting on a defiant demeanor. I saw Liya look over my shoulder with round eyes, so looked behind me to see all five of the parents approaching ... naked.

As they arrived, I stated, “We’ll make introductions in a minute or so. Liya?”