Loosening Up Bk. 07 Ch. 11-15

Beneath him, Jenny was laughing and he could hear JR snickering. The slapping of flesh on the other chaise alerted him to the continuing fuck that Wendy and Larry were enjoying. He snickered at Wendy's 'dirty talk'.

Dave finally said, "Deborah, you kiss divinely. May I open my eyes now?"

"Yes."

Deb was seductively naked as she sat on the edge of the chaise. "Did you peek?" She reached over and stroked his flaccid cock still damp with Jenny's excretions.

"No. I guessed. I hadn't expected Larry here, and then I guessed that you might be the other surprise visitor."

"Nikky told me I could ask you to make love to me ... when you're through with Jenny, of course." She stroked her friend's arm and gave her a warm and loving gaze.

Dave smiled, "I may never get through with Jenny, but I will make love with you, at least I think you qualify."

JR volunteered, "I have paperwork from all the new visitors." She winked at Dave.

After retrieving some refreshments from the bar for everybody in the gazebo, Dave and Deb make love as the others watched. Larry cuddled Jenny and Wendy to him, as JR participated in the sexual union.

Wendy applauded as the threesome eventually managed to trigger nearly simultaneous orgasms. JR had been riding Deb's face and getting eaten as Dave fucked Deb and diddled her clit.

As they lay panting and enjoying a little cooling off, Jenny rushed back into Dave's arms, even lying atop his supine body so they could kiss. JR and Deb laughed and cuddled together.

Wendy asked, "Is this a typical Friday evening?"

Dave chuckled and responded, "Yes, pretty much."

Wendy laughed, "Then you can expect frequent Friday visits from me to check on the progress of EneRG. I hope you'll continue to be able to put Ron and me up in your home – thank you very much, by the way."

Wendy and her husband Ron fit in just fine with the Circle and quickly ingratiated themselves with many of the other Circle men and women over the next couple of months.

The time passed quickly. The Circle hosted the Halloween party and Mark Worthington and about sixty people associated with him attended the overnight gala bringing the number attending the Circle party up to over a hundred-and-fifty.

The group held fireworks over the fallow part of the Circle land. A fire department team and one truck ensured that there were no unwanted incidents from sparks on the dry grass.

Because of the noise, the Circle invited the surrounding neighbors to attend and enjoy the fireworks display. They disappeared back to their own parties and homes afterwards, and Dave and several others in the Circle believed they had done their neighborly duty at inclusion.

The erotic part of the evening cranked up back on the new core patio after that. The construction of the eight new homes and extension to the core building was still underway, but the core buildings had been made a priority and were nearly finished.

The five families dislocated when their homes were moved to new locations to create the expanded core were all back home and things were almost back to normal. What had changed was their view not only of the new core patio, but also for a couple of those homes the fact that they had new neighbors and greater distance to those who had been their neighbors before their homes had been moved.

The new patio also sported a new larger pool, a larger sauna, a larger Jacuzzi, three cabanas, and in the new interior space an enlarged gym, media room, guest apartments, kitchen, dining area, and the old and new living rooms had been integrated. Some repurposing of the older core rooms was still going on.

Maddy Wyatt and Taylor Volker had led the group in designing several rooms for home schooling and greater space for a nursery and childcare. Everybody knew there would soon be another wave of babies who would start as the next cohort of youngsters in the Circle. Pam and Candy were due in March, Tan was due in April, and Julie was due in May.

Dave spent Halloween night with Cindy Worthington after earlier forays with Melanie, Stacy, and June – also members of Mark's tribe. After they'd made love in the morning after the party, Cindy hinted that she might be back at the Circle for a longer period of time. She didn't want to explain further, but Dave logged the comment for further action.

Thanksgiving quickly arrived. As in previous years, the weather was ideal and visitors galore from all over the nation arrived to visit and celebrate the holiday with relatives that belonged to the Circle. The ninety or so people in the Circle swelled to twice that number for the large dinner that Bobbie Wyatt orchestrated with her volunteers. The meal was a huge success.

Dave and many others noted that all of the current 'pledges' to the Circle showed up for the holiday, some with parents or other relatives in tow. Alan Lauer, one of the fraternity alumni, showed up not only with Cookie Carson as his date, but also both sets of parents. Much to everyone's surprise, during the meal, he got down on one knee and proposed to Cookie who started sobbing wildly as she kept screaming "Yes, Yes," to him. She hadn't expected anything like the proposal. Her parents had been let in on the secret to get them to come to the party.

Also at the meal, as people went around the room and talked about what they were thankful for, several women announced that they were in a family way: Alice announced to everyone's surprise except Dave and Owen; Heather also admitted to being ready to give Matthew a little brother or sister – he cheered for his mom; Gail Watson revealed she was with child and hinted that Dave was the father to everyone's amusement – she was his erstwhile half-sister; and last Morgan announced that she was also expecting and had recently gotten pregnant.

Somebody yelled out, "When did you conceive?"

Morgan grinned, "Oh, about an hour ago." The response brought the house down with laughter.

Dave knew of several other women who were trying to conceive, but he didn't push the issue as everyone applauded and yelled their congratulations and prayers. Morgan was indeed pregnant but not by whatever loving she'd had earlier that day.

Ross Buchman gave a beautiful and short homily and prayer to celebrate the holiday about gratitude and thankfulness. Several people in attendance got teary at his expressive words and thoughts, especially how he talked about familial love.

Of course, right after Thanksgiving comes the Christmas holidays and New Years. About three-quarters of the Circle stayed in Sarasota to be with their intentional family.

For those that stayed, there was a drawing to pair people up for a Secret Santa event that would unfold Christmas morning in the new core living room beside the huge decorated trees – yes, trees plural; three of them – one in each corner of the large room so there was always a joyous tree in view.

Dave drew Athena as the person he would gift. Of course, he had no idea who drew his name in the lottery. A limit of a hundred dollars had been suggested, but from past Christmases he knew that the price limit was often exceeded with all sorts of rationale.

A separate drawing was also held for the adults to draw the names of one of the children for them to gift them as well. In this instance, Dave drew Willow Ray – Wendy and Dev's little girl. He felt lucky because he had some experience in his own family with kids that age and could also get Alice or Pam to make suggested about what a soon to be five year old girl might want for Christmas.

After checking on the Internet and checking with Alice, Dave ended up buying a girlish karaoke machine for Willow that had lots of songs ready to sing, including many of the popular Disney songs from various recent movies the kids had seen. Willow loved the gift and it set her up with a new career to be like Ashley.

For Athena he ended up getting her a day at the best spa in Sarasota – haircut and styling, coloring if desired, massage, pedi and mani, sauna, mud bath, body wrap, facials, and more. The package was far more than the hundred dollar 'limit' but as he told himself, it was only a 'suggested' maximum.

For his own wives, Dave stuck to jewelry, purchasing pendants with precious jewels surrounded by sparkly diamonds. Having six wives did not allow him to get off easily.

Fortunately, the wives got together and planned a collective Christmas for the children.

Dave got a less ostentatious pendant for Bridget since she had become a de facto seventh wife by living harmoniously in his household. Everyone knew she would move out eventually after getting her degree, but she was devoted to Dave and the other wives, so he saw only minor reasons to treat her much different from the others.

Further, Bridget had taken to sleeping in the big bed with him whenever there was space. She had an enviable grade point average and was a dedicated student, but knew how to let her hair down on weekends, especially at fraternity parties. She also knew how to do that and adhere to all the safety rules regarding the Circle. She was nonetheless a popular girl, especially at the Phi Theta Rho house.

Dave escorted JR into his home. It was a night when there was not a communal dinner on the patio in the new dining room. Instead, they were doing a special dinner of sorts at home. The weather was on the cool side; January in Sarasota was not always the warmest month.

The dinner for the party was the doings of Cricket, Alice, Nikky, and Scarlett. Besides Dave and the other wives, Bridget was there along with JR, Larry Wainwright, Jenny Harvest, Deborah McKinley, and Ross Buchman.

The dinner was formal, or about as formal as things got in Sarasota. Dave went and put on his tuxedo. The other men were either in tuxes or dark suits with ties or ascots. The women were all wearing sexy cocktail dresses of various designs, most highly revealing in some way. They were sexy, without a fault.

Dave served drinks from his own bar in the living room and people circulated and talked. Scarlett came in wearing an apron over her pretty dress and looking deliciously domestic, and announced that dinner was served.

The dining room got little use as a dining room, but that night it did for all fourteen in attendance. Everybody was seated at the large table. The extra leaves of the table had been inserted, and a few chairs had been borrowed from the core seating area, but otherwise it was all Prentiss household. The best china and silverware got used, along with the stemware.

Several fine wines were poured and shared. Dave opened the dinner with a toast to those in attendance, to the Circle, and to the hopes they all shared for the future, both individually and collectively.

After starting on the salmon dish the women had prepared, Dave turned to JR, "So, we're well past the end of the sixty day free trial, what was the conclusion?"

JR smiled, "I didn't leave did I? I was so wrong to think I could turn away from this group as though I could turn off a light switch. I can't even imagine what I was thinking when I said that I'd do that, as though I could fall out of love at the snap of my fingers. I'd been treating relationships as business transactions, but not any longer. Actually, I was thinking only with the left half of my brain – the analytic side. I've learned to nurture the right side of my brain; it's much more loving.

"You know I started slowly, and then slowly got to know more and more people – men and women. There's a remarkably common element among all the people here, and I hope that I am the same way. Everyone is loveable. I don't mean that in a huggy toy kind of way. I mean, they are the kind of people you almost instantly know that you want in your life for the rest of time and that you love – no, LOVE! in capital letters.

"The few people I haven't been fortunate enough to get close to I expect will be the same way, because I have found no exceptions. It's a self-selecting group, I guess. Like attracts like. That said, the diversity in the group is amazing, as well as the mixing between people. No two people are alike except for that trait of being loveable.

"I also want to express my thanks to Ty and Julie for arranging for me to keep living in the mobile home through the spring. I'm hopeful to find space in one of the empty townhouses when people start to move into the new homes on the core Circle or racetrack or whatever it is now."

Dave commented, "None of us wanted to push you, but next week is the general member meeting and we did need some indication about your intentions. I apologize for doing it in this somewhat public setting."

"Oh, I don't mind. I love all these people and they love me, I know. There are no secrets here, at least not about stuff like this."

Dave turned to Jenny. "And you? What are your thoughts about the Circle? You were doing your own trial period; only you were quieter about it. You also had reservations about things and how you could have the kind of relationships you wanted."

Jenny smiled, "I really thought I had to love only one person when I first started to associate with you. You know it was you that I bonded with first, but at the same time I realized I couldn't have you all to myself. I had to share, but that didn't seem at all appetizing. The Circle violated all the rules I'd been brought up to think defined a relationship.

"Since then I've learned what you first told me about the Circle, that it proved that an individual could love more than one person, not be possessive, not want exclusivity, and be completely fluid without jealousy. I'm in love with ninety people, and I know they love me, just the way JR does.

"So, in a way, I'm sad to report to you that you are no longer my sole focus in life, but on the glad side, you are one of the many people here that I love with all my heart." She chuckled as she blew Dave a kiss.

Dave reached over and squeezed her hand in an expression of affection. She glowed a smile back at him.

Dave turned to the next at the table, "Larry?"

Larry blushed slightly at being singled out. He started slowly, "I have a confession to make, but I need to preface it with some personal background.

"My father and grandfather were both what you might call 'real men' outside the Circle's gates." He thumped his chest. "They had to be the best at what they tried, and they were the dominant ones in their families. Their wives, including my mother, were the 'little lady', and like all the family women they were subservient and submissive to the macho men. As far as single women when you were a male teen or in college, well, they were the gals you tried to score with. There were names for them that I'm sure you've all heard; they were derogatory names that also asserted the male's dominance and control. That was the atmosphere I was raised in.

"So, I got out of college, worked in a couple of marketing and PR jobs, and then got headhunted for this job in Sarasota. It sounded interesting, what little they told me about the business and the product line. I didn't think batteries would be very jazzy but the headhunter convinced me otherwise. He promised I was getting in on the ground floor of something really big.

"I interviewed for the job, first over the phone and then flew down here. I met JR. Now, JR oozed confidence and capability far beyond anything I'd ever seen in any other woman except for a few on television, like supreme court justices and such. Moreover, and I get embarrassed here, she was one hot lookin' woman and I was turned on by her.

"I confess to objectifying her and the other women I was meeting at EneRG. I interviewed with Nikky, too. She was just nineteen, had a college degree Summa Cum Everything, and she drilled me a hundred ways from Sunday to see whether I measured up to what the job would require. I left that day sweating bullets. I wanted the job, but the women ... Wow!

"So, I started work. I met Jenny and bingo, I objectified her. She was someone to be conquered – a notch on my bedpost, just as Deb, JR, and Nikky were, along with some of the other women including most of you as I got introduced to the Circle.

"All that rode along for a couple of weeks, and then one day about three or four months ago Nikky and JR asked me to go to lunch with them. I said sure, and we crowded in JR's little Jaguar only she didn't drive to a restaurant, she drove to a big field away from everything else, stopped, and turned off the engine. We all got out of the car and I wondered 'What the hell is going on?' JR pushed me against the back of her car and yelled at me. She screamed at me, "Are you fucking stupid, totally ignorant, or just the biggest fucking male chauvinist pig I've ever met?"

JR and Nikky were nodding but with slight smirks.

"Nikky got in on the act, too. They both were yelling at me – in my face, only inches away – back and forth. They knew what I'd been thinking. They knew me from deep inside. They read me the fucking riot act for over forty minutes. They knew how I'd been thinking about each of them and Jenny and Deb and everybody. I got asked whether I wanted this job or whether I just wanted a piece of ass and notches on my bedposts.

"The two of them asked whether I was up for changing who I was and how I thought about women. I told them my background and how I wanted to change, but that I didn't know whether I could. They broke me down further until I promised I'd change. I pleaded with them for help to change.

"Then they beat me up verbally about the subject of love, believe it or not. They wanted my definition and emotional response about it. I confessed I had no idea, and that all my interactions with members of the opposite sex had been for my personal gratification – out for sex and that kind of thing. I was crying. I wanted the browbeating to stop. I figured my job was cooked anyway.

"They pestered me about whether I thought I was WORTHY of being loved. I realized I wasn't worthy so long as I kept thinking of women as something to conquer, fuck, and dispose of. That was like the greatest epiphany I'd ever had in my life. I was sobbing at that point. I really did want to be loved. I want to be a lover, too. I confessed all that to them.

"They kept getting in my face. I realized this was like a miniature boot camp experience. They'd broken me down and were starting to rebuild me. They told me how I was supposed to behave in the office, how I was supposed to think about each of the women I met, what I was supposed to dream about at night, and even what kind of porn I could watch when I jerked off. They went through every part of my life in detail – the actions, my responses, my emotions, my thoughts, my habits, my compulsions, and my desires.

"I was a basket case. They loaded me back in the car and we drove to McDonalds, got lunch, and went back to the office to really eat. I could barely eat. Nikky sat with me the rest of the afternoon doing her work as I tried to do mine. I'd look at her and she'd smile warmly at me.

"After work she drove me to a clinic and told me I had to get tested for STDs. She told me 'they' wanted to start with me having a clean bill of health. I gave the blood and got the exam. I was clean, but I couldn't have guaranteed that prior to that night.

"Nikky and I had dinner and she talked about people making changes in their life – like changing decisions about how they lived, who they lived with, how they thought about some of the things that they'd been taught were the fundamentals of life. She kicked my ass some more, and each time she did I knew she was right. I also started to fall in love with her.

"Nikky had me describe my parents some more, and we talked about what poor role models they'd been for me if I wanted to be around EneRG, JR, Nikky, Deb and everyone else. She pointed out the relationship options available to me that my family didn't have: being non-monogamous, non-exclusive, non-dominant or an equal in a relationship, and so on. Some things we talked about for a long time, especially how to be an equal in a relationship. There were places I didn't know options even existed, but by the end of the evening I did.