Chapter 2

“Is there anywhere you’d like to go before we go home,” Jen asked me. It was the day I was released from the hospital. “Don’t ask to go see Momma’s house, because that whole neighbourhood is one big parking lot now.”

“I didn’t want to go there now anyway,” I told her. “You know what I really want to do? I want to go get some burgers, and go to a park where there’s children playing.”

“Really?” Kate asked. “Why a park with children?”

“I don’t know. That’s where I want to go. When we get there I want to count everyone there, and we’ll go get enough burgers and drinks for everyone.”

“Are you ok?” Jen asked.

“I’m fine,” I said. “If you two remember, Mom and Dad taught us to share, right? I feel like sharing today. Let’s go.”

We went to the park first and got a rough estimate of how many were there. Then we headed for the burger joint. We ate ours while we waited. We got back to the park to find that some of them had already left, but we still passed burgers and drinks out to everyone that was left.

We left there after a couple of hours, and just drove around. I wanted to get reacquainted with the town. It really hadn’t changed much. Then we went home.

Home was in a gated community, about five miles from town. Jen introduced me to Tom, the gate guard, and we went in. I was dumbfounded when we pulled up in front of the “house”. It really was four stories high, the tallest house there by one floor.

“You can walk around most of the attic too,” Kate said.

Jen parked in the circle drive out front. She had bought a special full-size van with a wheelchair lift. Even though I could get up and walk around, I had limited mobility. But I was making progress. Everything about the house looked normal, but was “handy-capable”. Instead of a step in the front, the sidewalk sloped up toward the house. The front door, as well as the interior doors, were extra wide. Even the bathrooms were built to accommodate a wheelchair.

They gave me the grand tour. What they didn’t tell me was that the entire fourth floor was like a separate house within a house, complete with a kitchenette. It was a regular penthouse.

“This is for when we’re old and grey and the kids, and their kids, have the rest of the house,” Jen said. She didn’t say why there were three bedrooms up there though. “This is where Kate originally wanted to live, but she wanted to be closer to the action, so she moved downstairs.”

“Closer to the action?”

“Oh yeah, our neighbours,” she said. “Let’s take a peek.”

Jen wheeled me out onto the balcony and turned to the left. It went all the way around the fourth floor, but she stopped just short of the first corner. I looked into the neighbour’s back yard, and their kids, a girl and a boy about fifteen or so, were running around the pool. It looked like the boy was about to catch up to the girl. When he did, he reached out and grabbed her arm, put on the breaks and turned her around.

They were both naked. The boy pulled her into his arms and kissed her as his hands went exploring. I couldn’t believe what I was watching.

“Are they...?”

“Brother and sister,” Kate said. “And they’re lovers.”

“Are you kidding me?”

“No. He really knows his stuff too. He has her screaming every time.”

“Hol-ly shit. Now I’ve seen everything.”

“No,” she said with a smile. “Not until you’ve seen him in action you haven’t.”

“fifteen years old. What’s he going to be like in ten years?”

“Hopefully the neighbourhood stud,” she said, and we all laughed.

We went on with the tour. I figured I’d catch the “stud” in action later.

“Why are there so many bedrooms,” I asked.

“We didn’t know what else to do with the other floors,” Jen said. “We took what was supposed to be two on the second floor and opened them into an office. There are still two bedrooms on that floor.”

That put three bedrooms on the fourth floor, six on the third and two on the second. Then there was the master suites on the second floor, also with two bedrooms, and the office area.

“How much did all of this cost?”

“There’s no need to burden you with that now,” Jen said.

I turned to say something to her, and noticed Kate standing next to her, She had stripped down to her panties (thong) and bra.

“You didn’t waste any time, did you?” I asked her. I couldn’t help eying her up and down.

“I’m still over dressed.”

“Don’t let me stop you. Feel free.”

“Maybe after you’ve been home for a while. Not now.”

“You might as well,” Jen told her. “There’s not much of that to leave anything to the imagination.”

“Maybe later.”

The tour ended in the family room. It was huge. There was a trophy case on the wall to the right as you come in. Both of them were cheerleaders when they were in high school, and came home with a lot of trophies. Right in the centre was mine for football, the year we took the state championship. They had taken all of theirs with them when they moved out. They were able to salvage mine from the house.