Chapter 4

It was a beautiful day. The smell from the surrounding fields was the first thing we smelled. Then the smell of the barbecue hit us. One of our guys was a master welder and put a few 55 gallon drums together to make a really big grill. It was full. After we ate and sort of settled down, I told Karin that I wanted her opinion on something.

“I know we’re having a party, but this will only take a minute or so.”

“You know,” she said. “If we’re going to talk business here, I have a question for you.”

“Ok.”

“We have about ten checks missing in the business account. Did you take them.”

“I forgot to mention that. I’ll get you the receipts.” We got to the front door of the house. “What I need your opinion on is just right inside.”

I opened the door and let her walk in. She stood there for a minute, then turned to me. It looked like she was going to cry.

“You sold it?” I wrapped my arms around her.

“This is where those extra checks went. All of the furniture was delivered yesterday. I knew I could keep you away then. You were getting ready for your graduation.”

“What are you telling me, Kenny?”

“This is ours. This is our new home. All of this is ours.”

“You mean that?” She looked into my eyes. “You really mean ... this is ours?”

She broke away from me, then rushed around, looking at everything. She ran up the stairs, then down. She ended up running back out to where everyone else was.

“THIS IS OUR NEW HOME EVERYBODY. I TOLD YOU THAT HE LOVES ME.”

She rushed back, then took a running leap into my arms. I had to break the kiss so I could breathe.

“We are really going to christen it tonight. You thought I was insatiable before?”

She settled down, and we started walking through the house. We finally got to one of the spare bedrooms and walked in.

“This will be the nursery,” she said.

“Ok. It’s right across from our room. That makes sense.”

“We need to start stocking it.” She curled herself into my arms.

“Are you telling me that you want to go off the pills?”

“I’m telling you that we need to stock this room ... like ... NOW.”

“Why so...?”

“I’m pregnant,” she said bluntly. “I can’t do anything about this one, but all of our future children will be conceived in OUR home.”

Now I was the one that couldn’t wait to make the announcement. The window just happened to be on that side of the house, so I opened it up.

“I’M GOING TO BE A DADDY!” I shouted.

“WE KNOW,” they all shouted back. I turned to Karin.

“I only told Maggie. She must have told her brother.”

She must have seen the deviate look on my face because she started running. I finally caught her in our room and pinned her to the bed. Somehow, she was able to slink out of her dress. I guess it wasn’t that hard to do. She had nothing on under it. I leaned down and kissed her, then rose up and looked down at her.

“You know. I don’t think it’s right bringing children into this world without their parents being married.” I got serious. “Karin. Will you marry me?”

“If we could...”

“We can.”

“How?”

“This state not only took the incest laws off the books about five or six years ago, but now they will even let us get married. I want you to be my wife.”

“On one condition.”

“What’s that?”

“You promise me that you will never leave me or your children.”

“I could never do that.”

“Maggie has to be my bride’s maid too.”

“Ok. How does tomorrow sound?”

Her answer was opening my pants, pulling her legs toward her chest, then letting me sink right in. I didn’t realize the window in the other room was still open. Everyone heard her scream her climax.

We got married in a small chapel, in a nearby forest preserve. If Karin had had her way, everyone would have been naked. It was nice anyway. Actually, we had a double wedding. Maggie and Ron got married at the same time.

Tammy was right on time, and we brought her home to her own room. We knew ahead of time it was a girl, so we were ready. Two years later, Rebecca came two weeks early. She was fine, although she had to spend a little more time in the hospital. For some reason, she was our last one. It wasn’t for lack of trying.

Even with the girls there, we never wore anything on the farm unless we had company. That excluded Ron and Maggie, and their children. Ron was pretty much running things in the field now, and they were semi-permanent fixtures in our house. They went along with the dress code.

I remember one night. We were celebrating something or other. All of the kids were asleep in the family room. We adults had been drinking a little wine, and had walked out toward the barn. We sat against some trees and the conversation worked itself around to sex.

“Sometimes,” Ron said. “She drains me three or four nights a week.”

“Karin does that to me all the time,” I said. “I have to go work with you guys, sometimes, just to get some rest.”

“Is that right?” Karin said.