Life after the Lottery Ch. 65

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"You just keep surprising me," I told her.

We dried each other off and went inside. Samantha was sitting at the bar while Dawn put the pizzas in the oven. Amy sat next to her, and Samantha whispered in her ear. The two of them got up and went upstairs.

"Well honey, whatever secret Samantha was supposed to keep to herself, she is telling Amy," I told Dawn.

"James, just leave them alone!"

"You three are up to no good. All of you were gone all day last Friday and came home giggling. Now you and Samantha are sneaking out."

"Don't you ever talk about me being bad about secrets!" Dawn yelled at me. "Go put some clothes on!"

I left Dawn alone before I got into trouble and went upstairs to get some sweats. After that, I went to find the girls; they were in Samantha's room lying on the bed. When I walked in, they stopped talking. I crawled on the bed with them.

"What's up?" I asked.

"Nothing," Samantha said.

"Where did you two go?"

"I just went with Dawn to pick something up, I needed a break," Samantha told me. Amy was still naked.

I got up and straddled Amy's stomach.

"Samantha, I know you are not that ticklish, but your sister is."

"You better not!!" Amy screamed. "James, please don't!!"

"Where did you stop, Samantha?" I asked.

"Sam! Don't you tell!" Amy said.

I placed my hands on Amy's ribs.

"James, please don't!" Amy pleaded.

I kissed Amy then got up and went back downstairs.

"Did you and Amy have a good time while we were gone?"

"She came down after a while and joined me in the hot tub. I found your bag of surgical instruments to help her study. You might ask her if she needs any help."

Amy and Samantha came down to wait for the pizzas.

"James, the weather is getting cooler at night, when will you turn the heat on in the pool?" Samantha asked.

"If the water has gotten cold, I will do it."

"Thank you."

"The pool will probably be warm by tomorrow evening."

"Good, my morning swims were getting cold."

Samantha had been getting up early some mornings and swimming. Occasionally Dawn would join her.

"Dawn, James said he had a special way he helped teach you to tell all the bones apart. He said he would do it with the surgical instruments. What did he do?" Amy asked. Dawn giggled.

"When I was studying for that test, he put them all in a bag and made me sit down. He would take one out of the bag at a time and throw it across the room in front of me. That was how long I had to determine which bone it was. It was nerve-racking, but it worked." Dawn laughed.

"Oh shit!" Amy said.

"Sam, it will be good for you too," Dawn told her. "You can start learning now."

We ate dinner, and Samantha went back up to study.

Amy, Dawn and I watched TV until 10:00. When we went up to the bedroom, we found Samantha sleeping with her books and computer. I woke her up and put her to bed.

*****

Wednesday morning, Dawn and I got up about 5:30. I found Samantha already up and studying again.

"I think you have studied enough, come to breakfast," I said.

Dawn and I talked to Samantha while we made breakfast so she would relax some. Amy came down about the time the food was ready, and we all ate. After that, Samantha went upstairs to get ready.

"I'm heading to class early," Samantha said about 7:00.

"Good luck. You will do well," Dawn said.

"You will do fine, honey," I said.

We kissed her, and she left.

Amy left about 30 minutes later.

*****

About 1:00, Dawn came to my study.

"I need to run to the school and drop off some notes for my advisor. I won't be gone long."

"What time will Samantha be finished with her test?"

"It takes eight hours, plus lunch, so 6:00."

"How long to get the results?"

"About six weeks. She will do great. I am going to take her to meet with the med school advisors soon so she can get her classes changed before next fall."

"You think she can do this?" I ask.

"I have no doubt she can do it. She will make a great doctor."

"I'm happy we can do this for her."

"I am too. It will be nice to have a doctor in the family," Dawn said.

Dawn left, and I kept working on a few things. I had called Walt and talked to him about coming in with his wife soon to look for a house. He had also sent me some numbers for inventory.

Amy came in about 3:00 and checked on me.

"Did you see your sister?" I asked.

"I had lunch with her. She was very happy because she was doing well on the test."

"Great."

"James, thank you for making this all possible. She had always wished she could be a doctor."

"I am happy she is pursuing it. Amy, is there anything else you want to pursue like that?"

"Now I am thinking about working on my NP too. I am going to talk to Gregg about it."

"I am sure you will do well."

Dawn got home about 4:00. I finished what I was working on and went to the kitchen about 5:30. Dawn and Amy were busy.

"It smells good," I said.

"We are making Sam a nice dinner to celebrate," Dawn said.

"What can I do?"

"Set the table in the dining room."

I had the table ready by 6:00. Samantha came in about 6:30.

"How did it go?" I asked.

"I'm stressed out," she said as she sat on my sofa in the study.

"Did you do well?"

"I did, but I am wiped out."

"You can relax now and just wait to get the results."

"Something smells good."

"They are making you a nice dinner to celebrate," I told her.

*****

After we ate, I was sitting in the den with Samantha.

"Now you can have some fun Friday looking over the store designs and shopping with Linda."

"What?"

"Dawn said Linda wanted the three of you to come and see the final store designs, and then she was taking all of you to lunch and shopping."

"Oh...oh yeah, Friday. I forgot. I'm going to change my clothes."

She left, and I watched TV while I worked on my portable.

About 8:00 my email notifier popped up. It was from Linda.

'I forgot to tell you that Dawn and the girls are coming to my office on Friday. I want them to look over the final store designs and give us some feedback. I think I will take them to lunch and maybe go shopping.

Linda'

"Really," I said to myself after I read the message. "Sounds familiar."

Samantha came back down in her long T-shirt and sat with me.

"I don't have anything to do Friday, I may go with you all to look over the store designs," I said.

"Oh...I don't think it will take that long...then we are going to lunch with Linda and Rachel then shopping. You don't want to go shopping with us."

"You're right. I'll find something else to do."

"Good."

She picked up her computer and went to work on it. I smelled a rat.

I went to the kitchen to check on Amy.

"Sis, don't forget we are going to see Linda Friday," Samantha said from the den.

"I remember."

"What are you all doing Friday?" I asked.

"Linda wants the three of us to come to her office and look over the final designs for the store so we can give her some input. Then we are going to lunch and probably shopping," Amy said. I had heard this before.

"That sounds good."

Amy took her soda and went and sat with her sister. I went upstairs. Dawn was putting away clothes in the closet.

"Linda asked me last week what I wanted for my birthday. I told her nothing. Since you are going shopping with her Friday, will you make sure she doesn't get me anything."

"I'll try," Dawn said, putting some clothes in a drawer. "But, if she does, I had nothing to do with it."

"Just remind her Friday."

"Okay."

"If you three are going shopping with her, let me know when you will be home, and I will make dinner," I said.

"Oh...don't worry about it. I'm not sure when we will get back."

"If it looks like it will be late, send me a text or call."

"Okay...I will."

Dawn kept putting things away.

Dawn was good at a lot of things, but trying to keep a story straight wasn't one of them. She always got quiet and gave me short answers when she was trying to hide something. Now I knew they were up to something, and it sounded like Linda was in on it.

I headed back downstairs. I saw Samantha and Amy whispering to each other.

"Sam?"

"What!" She exclaimed and jumped.

"I just wanted to know what time you would be home tomorrow. Why are you so jumpy?"

"I...I told you I was stressed out."

"Well, if you don't calm down, do you want me to hypnotize you? We could work on whatever is stressing you out?"

"No...that's okay."

"James, where have Sherri and Brenda been?" Amy asked.

"They are working from home on some marketing ideas."

"When are they going to start interviewing for sales positions? They wanted us to ask around school."

"Email one of them and find out."

The girls were quiet through dinner. Samantha crashed on the sofa and fell asleep about 8:00. The rest of the night, Dawn was avoiding me. By the time we all went to bed none of them had said much of anything else.

*****

Thursday morning, I ran into town to the camera store and picked up the rest of the equipment I had ordered for my darkroom. I spent a few hours in the camera store talking to the owner. After I loaded it all in the Escalade, I went over to Sam's store. I was walking through the store toward his office when Johnny stopped me.

"Hi, Dr. Smith. Can I help you find something?"

"I was in town and thought I would drop by and see Sam."

"Oh...he's not here right now. Can I help?"

"I saw his car out front. I just thought I would stop in."

"He...uh...went out with one of the installers. I don't think he will be back for a while."

"Okay. Tell him I stopped by."

"Will do, Dr. Smith."

I went back out and got in the SUV and headed home. When I got there, only Amy was home. She helped me carry some boxes in and down to my darkroom.

"What is all this?" She asked.

"I had to order some more equipment to make prints from the new camera. Since it uses a larger negative, I needed a bigger enlarger and a few things."

"Show me how to do all this one day."

"Okay. Once I get all the new equipment set up, I'll let you help me test it."

"Okay!"

"Where are Dawn and your sister?"

"Oh, Dawn was going into town when sis and I got home. She said she needed some supplies for her computer, so sis went with Dawn."

"Oh...okay. I was just...never mind."

We carried in a few remaining boxes. Amy wanted me to show her a few things in the darkroom.

Amy and I were sitting in the den when Dawn and Samantha came in about 3:30. They came and sat with us.

"Did you two get what you needed?" I asked.

"Yes," Dawn said.

More short answers until dinner.

*****

Samantha had left for her evening lab, and I was eating with Dawn and Amy.

"I picked up the rest of my new darkroom equipment today."

"Did he have everything?" Dawn asked.

"Just about. I am still waiting on two more things, and then I can make prints."

"Great."

"I stopped by Sam's store on the way home. I was going to get him to ask Olivia when she could come so I could practice taking some pictures of her...but Sam wasn't there," I said.

"Just send them an email," Dawn said.

"I guess. I stopped about 2:30. He is usually there. I saw his car, but Johnny said he was out on an install."

"Oh," was all Dawn said as she ate.

"Amy said you and Samantha were going to pick up something for her computer. I must have just missed you."

"Must have."

So Sam was in on it too. I knew I could get it out of him.

I went down to my darkroom after dinner to assemble some new equipment. I was down there until about 9:30.

*****

Friday morning we were all eating breakfast about 7:30.

"You two get ready to go. Linda wanted us there early so we can finish and go to lunch," Dawn said.

When Amy and Samantha finished eating, they ran up the stairs while Dawn and I cleaned up.

"I need to go get ready, can you finish cleaning up?" Dawn asked.

"No problem."

Dawn headed upstairs.

When I went up to the bedroom to put some clothes on, Dawn was already dressed and ready to go.

"We'll see what Linda wants us to look at then we are going out to lunch..."

"I know, then shopping."

"Yes. We may not be back until late."

"Okay. Let me know when you will be home, and I will start dinner."

"Okay. See you later," Dawn said and kissed me.

"Girls!" She yelled in the hall.

"Coming!"

I heard all of them going down the stairs and out to the garage.

*****

About 10:30, I called Linda's cell. I got her voicemail.

I was in my study eating a sandwich at noon and called Sam a the store.

"Hey, Sam."

"Hi, James."

"Dawn was supposed to pick up a toner cartridge for me the other day when she stopped by, but she forgot."

"Oh...oh, yes. She left it on the counter."

"I'll swing by and pick it up," I said.

"Okay. Bye."

Hmmm, Sam was in on it. What could he be up to with them?

About 1:00, I called Rachel's cell.

"Hi, James," she said.

"Hi. Have you and Linda decided if you are going to come to our meeting the last weekend of the month?"

"Not yet."

"Well, keep working on Linda. You two need to get out."

"I will."

"Hey, where are you at?" I asked.

"At the office. Why?"

"I was just wondering if you and Linda were going to start the weekend early?"

"You know better than that. She will be here until 6:00 or later as usual," Rachel said.

"Make her get out of there early. Tell her I called."

"I will."

"Bye, Rachel."

"Bye."

They had forgotten to recruit Rachel into their plans.

I spent a few hours doing some online shopping for some camera gear until 3:30. My cell rang; I looked, and it was Linda.

"Hey, Linda."

"James..."

"Yes?"

"Don't get me in trouble," Linda said.

"How am I going to get you into trouble?"

"You know how. Dawn is right. You are worse than a two-year-old."

"Just for future reference, Dawn is not very good at keeping her stories straight, Linda."

"Just don't get me in trouble."

"I won't, we never talked."

"No, we didn't. What do you want for your birthday?"

"Nothing."

"If you leave it up to me it will be something very expensive!"

"Please don't."

"I'll see. Bye."

"Bye."

I got a text from Dawn about 6:00, saying they would be home soon. I went to the kitchen and started working on dinner.

I heard Dawn's Jag pull into the garage about 6:45. I waited in the kitchen for them to come in. When they came in the door from the garage, they were laughing and giggling. They walked into the house and actually had some bags from some of the women's stores in town.

"Did you all have a good girls' day out?" I asked.

"Oh, yes! We shopped all afternoon," Dawn said.

They headed to the den. Dawn sat her bags on the sofa and started up the stairs with Amy and Samantha.

"I have started some spaghetti. It will be ready in a bit," I said.

"Great. Thanks," Dawn said. "I need to get out of these clothes."

Dawn headed up the stairs; I went to the den to look through her bags. There were some new clothes in them, so I kept digging until I found the receipt. When I did, I looked at it. It was dated two days earlier. I put it back in the bag.

They were good, but not that good. Their story had holes in it!

*****

During dinner, the three of them were all giggles. They were hiding a secret, and I knew it.

About 8:30, we were in the den sipping some wine after dinner. Samantha picked up the remote and turned on the TV.

"Let's watch some dirty movies!" She giggled.

She surfed through our porn collection on the computer for a few minutes before she started a movie.

"We can watch some of James' favorites," Samantha added.

She had selected a movie that was part of the My Friends Hot Mom series that Brandi Love starred in.

"I think she is your favorite porn star," Samantha teased me.

She was mostly right. I had always liked Brandi Love's body, and her playing a hot MILF was usually pretty steamy.

We watched movies for an hour or so then went to bed. The girls got silly, and Samantha ended up on top.

"James, maybe you could start shooting porn videos in your new bedroom studio," Samantha said.

"I plan on shooting some photos of plenty of naked women."

"Maybe you could do some videos of wives for their husbands!"

"Sam..." Dawn said.

"Just an idea..."

"Maybe we could bring in some porn stars to do the wives, and they could give the movie to their husbands," I said and laughed.

They all made sure they rode me an got off before we finally went to sleep.

*****

We got up late Saturday morning.

"I invited a girl from one of my classes over to swim today," Samantha said.

"What time?" Dawn asked.

"I told her to come for lunch."

"Okay. I'm going to the store this morning, does anyone need anything?" Dawn asked.

"I'll go with you, I need to get out of the house," I said.

Dawn and I went to the grocery store until about noon.

When Dawn and I took the first load of groceries to the kitchen, we heard Amy and Samantha outside laughing. I looked out the back window, and they were sitting in the recliners with someone. We went back to get more groceries.

"Do you need any help?" Samantha asked, standing in the back doorway when we walked into the kitchen.

"We got it," I said.

Dawn and I headed back out.

"I'm surprised, she has a bikini on," Dawn said as we walked out the front door.

"Give her a chance!" I said, laughing.

We walked back in and saw Amy getting drinks from the fridge, and Samantha was looking in one of the sacks.

"What are you looking for?" Dawn asked.

"Some snacks. There aren't any."

"You ate all of them!"

Samantha reached in the sack and pulled out a bag of chips, and she and Amy ran out the door.

"I wish I could eat like she does," Dawn said.

After Dawn and I got everything in and put away, we grabbed a beer and went out to the pool. I was a little shocked when I saw a younger girl that could pass for 15, except for the huge tits. She had on a skimpy bikini that barely covered her incredible breasts.

"This is Beth," Samantha said.

"Hi, Beth," Dawn said.

"She is in my Biology class."

"Hi," Beth said.

"Beth, are you a Sophomore too?" I asked.

"Yes. Just started my second year."

"How is it going?" I asked.

"Great. I am excited that Sam is going to go to med school now."

"We are too," Dawn said.

"You three don't get burned," I said as I looked over the teenager's pale body that went with her blonde hair.

Dawn and I went back into the house.

"How old do you think Beth is?" I asked Dawn.

"I thought about 16, but she is a sophomore."

Dawn and I sat at the bar to finish our beer. A few minutes later, the three of them came inside.

"We are going to shower off all the suntan lotion," Samatha said as they all headed toward the stairs.

"Sam!" Dawn said. She stopped and turned around.

"Come here a minute."

Samanta walked to us as Amy and Beth headed up the stairs.

"Sam, how old is she?"

"19."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. She is just small."

"Tiny would be a better word for it," Dawn said. "She can't be five feet tall."

"She's cool." Samantha turned and headed up the stairs.

"I can't believe she is nineteen," Dawn said.

"I wouldn't think so except for the rack," I said.

We finished our beers and went to the den. Dawn picked up her computer and soon had her head buried in it.

"You seem to be awfully interested in something lately," I said.

"Just researching some ideas."

I picked up the remote and turned on the TV.

"James!" Dawn scolded me when she looked and saw I was watching the three of them in the shower."

"What?"

"You don't know her that well!"

"Just curious."

I looked at the TV and saw Amy and Samantha in the shower with Beth, laughing and giggling.