Third Year After Ch. 03

Soon, everyone was downstairs, and Jody took this time to say, "Thank you all, for making this the best spring break ever. Especially for trusting me to watch the kids. I love being part of this family." That earned her a long round of hugs.

The eight of us spent the whole day together, preparing not only for Jody to leave that night, and for Sandy to head back to college around noon the next day, but celebrating the first anniversary of my marriage to Patti. The official marriage, anyway.

Jody had already gotten her stuff packed that morning, and Sandy had her suitcase packed already, with her clothes for traveling set aside, and the clothes she was in would just go into the laundry here.

After Jody was picked up, Sandy took my hand, and pulled me into the 2nd bedroom of West. "Make love to me, Drew. Soft, tender, all of it, just you and me. I got the hard fucks from you earlier this week. Tonight, I need to be filled up with your love, to get me through a couple more months of school."

So, we did, a total of three rounds, missionary, spooned, and cowgirl. We were still a sweaty mess when we were done, and showered together, before falling asleep in each other's arms.

~~~~~

March 22, 2015

Over breakfast, Patti said, "You know what? Before we jump into putting the double-queen back together, I want to suggest that maybe we should put it into Center instead, and Drew, Amber and I move into East permanently. We use the office in Center a lot less than we used to, and the reduction in closet space is more restrictive than I expected when we first made the decision to stay in Center after graduating. Amber's still got a lot of her stuff here, because we just don't have the closet space for it in Center. What does everyone think?"

Sandy spoke first. "You're forgetting that I occupy a bedroom there, so how does that gain you closet space? Or are you planning to move me again?"

Toni said, "The only downside I see is that it's a longer walk between the two houses, but otherwise, I agree that having two bedrooms plus nursery there is better. We can just call Center our guest house, so long as the guests give us warning, so we can take the double-queen apart."

"Or they already know about us," Mom said.

We debated it back and forth, and decided that we would move Sandy's stuff back to West while she was in school, use the closet space and garage in Center for overflow storage, and move the double-queen there as our play space, and leave it vacant most of the week.

Around 10 AM, we said our goodbyes to Sandy. While Henry was taking Sandy to the airport, Patti, Amber, Toni and I started in on the big move, and Mom watched the babies. Patti and Amber packed up clothes, as Toni and I broke down the remaining queen in the East master bedroom, moving it down to the garage with the other queen, then repeated the process for the king bed in Center's bedroom. The four of us got the King mattress, box spring and the big sleigh bed frame moved between houses, and Toni and I put it back together, as Patti and Amber began moving the clothes and other personal items between houses. We then broke for lunch as Henry returned.

In the afternoon, Toni took over for Mom on baby duty. Henry and I moved both queens over to Center, and assembled the combined bed. Patti, Mom and Amber were getting the two East bedrooms and the one in West rearranged, and we finished with moving the contents of the refrigerator and freezer and getting the Center master bedroom arranged after dinner.

This all left us too tired to actually use the big bed for anything but sleeping, but we appreciated being able to sleep the six of us together again. We committed to doing so Saturday nights, knowing that it would be too much effort to get ready for work if we had to sneak into the separate houses first thing each morning. Better to have a lazier Sunday morning together, then make the switches.

It would also make it easier to arrange the rotating sleep schedules during the week, as the six possible combinations would align with the six nights.

~~~~~

March 28, 2015

After work on the next Friday, Patti and I got all of the kids into their car seats in the minivan, and drove them over to her parents, so Jody could do her first official babysitting job for us.

We pulled up in front of their house, and Patti softly said, "Damn. I forgot my parents sold their minivan and got the pickup instead. What if they have to take the babies somewhere?"

I answered, "They'll just have to take their car and truck to fit all the seats plus Jody. That's still better than having Jody babysitting at either house without your parents as backup, since she doesn't drive yet. I'd suggest leaving them the minivan, but it only seats six and, with Jody, they need 7 seats."

We parked, and I started the process of unbuckling the babies, while Patti rang the doorbell, so we'd have extra arms to carry them in. Jody was nearly trembling, she was so excited.

With babies, diaper bag and car seats all unloaded, I was glad to see that Patti's parents had picked up a couple of cribs for the babies to sleep in, set up in their living room, until I got a closer look, and realized these must have been Patti and Jody's old cribs, that their parents had kept.

Jack said, "So, Drew, Jody wasn't clear on what you were paying her, given that this is an overnight babysitting job."

"We were thinking $12 per hour would be a fair rate, if she were watching a couple them for a few hours at our house, $15 if she had all of them. But for an overnight? Would you say $100 would be fair?"

"A hundred? Holy sh—!" Jody tried to catch herself. "That's a lot of money!"

"Jody Ann Taylor!" Carrie cried. "You watch your language!"

"Sorry, Mom, Dad," Jody said.

"Do I have you two to thank for that?" Jack asked, testily.

"We didn't swear in front of her, Jack," I said. "But the language in Kingsmen wasn't exactly clean. If you're going to give her permission to see R rated movies, you can't then act surprised at the language she might hear."

"Point taken, Drew. Sorry for jumping down your throats. And yes, $100 seems very fair, when Carrie and I would have gladly watched them for free. But, Jody? $80 of that is going into your savings account, and you get to buy yourself something nice for yourself with the other $20."

"Okay, Dad."

"After all, you've got a nephew and two nieces to buy Christmas gifts for now," Jack added. "It's time to start saving so you can spend your own money on gifts."

"And it would only be fair to buy something for Gavin, too," Jody said. "Whether he's officially related to me or not, it feels like he's my nephew, too."

~~~~~

Henry was grilling steaks and Mom was finishing a salad, when we got back. The six of us had a great dinner together, then opened up the hot tub and spent half an hour just relaxing and cuddling. It had gone unused since the babies were born, although I'd been maintaining the chemicals. When we began to get overheated, we got out, toweled off, then went straight up to the big bed, and began making love.

We started with a big daisy chain again, then Mom rode my cock while Toni sat on my face, while Patti and Amber did the same with Henry. I don't remember who came first, or last, just that there were a lot of orgasms happening.

It actually felt weird not keeping an ear out for crying babies, but soon the only sounds we were hearing were those of our passion for each other. Over the course of the next few hours, Henry and I not only fucked and sucked each of our wives, we came in each of them, too, with our wives turning to love each other when we needed to recover. It was 2 AM before we stopped, only to play some more in the showers we were taking to clean off the sweat and cum, and 3 AM before we all found spots on the bed, Henry at one side, then Toni, Patti, Amber, Mom and me.

~~~~~

March 29, 2015

We woke at 8 AM, in the same order, a little sore but happy. After a quick breakfast, Patti and I returned to Jack and Carrie's to retrieve the kids.

Jack took one look at us and said, "You never even left the house last night, did you?"

Patti chirped, "Nope. Dinner, hot tub, bed, shower, sleep."

I could see Jody's eyes widen when she realized that Patti saying 'bed' didn't mean sleep, but she didn't say a word.

"And what were Henry, Toni and Tina doing, without Gavin there?" Carrie asked.

"Pretty much the same, I imagine," Patti said. "Dinner and the hot tub, we were together. So, how did the babies do without us?"

"They were angels," Carrie answered. "You'd have been so proud of your sister, too. She handled every diaper change and every feeding on her own, without needing our help at all. Tina and Toni did a great job training her."

"I think they actually took it easy on Aunt Jody," Jody said, before a yawn broke free. "I mean, I never had more than one diaper or feeding to deal with at the same time, when I was really afraid I'd wind up with all four of them crying at the same time."

"That sounds like a miracle," Patti said. "Usually, one starts crying, they all do. So, Mom, Dad, can we talk about Jody maybe coming by our house after school once or twice a week, to help Toni out? Tina returns to work tomorrow, and Toni will occasionally need to take an online exam, so will need someone to watch the babies during it. Toni will pay her out of what we're paying her to be our nanny."

"You're paying Toni? Why?"

Patti said, "For tax reasons, mainly." The two of us explained all about the Family LLC, and how it was going to be used to shift ownership shares not only within the two triads but between the generations, and why Toni needed to be paid a salary before she could receive equalizing gifts from Henry and Mom.

"That sounds like something millionaires would do," Jack said.

Patti smirked. "Dad, are you forgetting that Henry is a doctor? He's already a millionaire, and still earning even more. I'm actually surprised Henry wasn't already doing this estate planning with Amber and Sandy. In a big part because of Tom's life insurance, Tina brings another $800,000 to the table, and Drew and I were at about $250,000 of net worth before we started bringing Amber into parity with us. If Tina and Henry do nothing more than finish forgiving the loan Tina gave us to buy the house, that will rise to $300,000, split three ways between Amber, Drew and me, before our saving adds to it. But after forgiving the loan is done, they could gift the three of us a combined $84,000 and the three kids $84,000, plus another $28,000 to Sandy, every year, so long as their money lasts, more if the IRS raises the limits, and that's just Henry and Tina, not counting what income Toni might make after she finishes this Marketing degree. All of it tax-free gifts, to avoid having it be counted towards probate. And the first five million or so of what's probated is tax free, too."

"I thought you received $180,000 in life insurance from your Dad, Drew. How did that grow to $250,000 so quickly?" Carrie asked.

I answered, "Well, the house has appreciated about $30,000, my investments by about $10,000, but the big piece is that my Mom had already started doing her own estate planning, to the tune of gifting $56,000 to Patti and I over the last two years, mostly as forgiveness of the loan she gave us to buy the house. The rest of that forgiveness is actually going to be gifted to Amber, to help us bring her to parity faster without running afoul of the IRS."

Jack coughed. "Can someone check my math? You're talking $168K being transferred every year? That would be roughly a million every six years, or three million by the time the kids are ready for college?"

I nodded. "Based on the current IRS exemptions, that'd be the upper limit, assuming no more kids, and Toni not making gifts," I said. "But that's also more than their net worth now, so they'd have to save or earn more to keep up that level. We're not expecting them to gift to the three of us adults for that long. Once they stop, the three of us can gift to the kids, too. We just can't do it in the same year as we receive gifts, to keep it from looking like we're trying to bypass the grandparents' limits. So, yeah, all three of the kids could be millionaires by college, although what a million would still be worth in 20 years, who knows?"

~~~~~

March 30, 2015

It was Mom and Henry's first day at the new practice. When they got home, I asked, "So how was it?"

Mom answered, succinctly, "Chaotic, as you'd expect. Trying to get patient files from the old practice merged with Dr. Jamieson's, while finding the ones for patients who were coming in for appointments, differences in procedures that the two sets of nurses are used to following. We'll get there though."

Henry added, "Everyone was in good spirits, which is a lot better than where things were with Dave pushing everyone into burnout. I actually had about half of our active patients opt to come with me, even though some had been Dave's on the books. So we're in excellent shape on that front."

Patti asked Mom, "And how was it, working for Henry?"

"Fine. He treats his nurses as partners, which is more than I can say for a lot of the surgeons I worked with at the hospital. It's the best environment I've been in for years."

~~~~~

April 17, 2015

Patti and I did the familiar drive up to Kansas City the night before Matt & Sophia's wedding, checking into a hotel near where the reception was going to be held. By coincidence, we decided to go to dinner at the same restaurant where they were holding their rehearsal dinner, with a group of 14. Matt's Dad did not look well, but had a strong smile on his face.

"Hi, guys!" I said, as we stopped by their set of tables the restaurant had pushed together.

"Drew, Patti!" cried Sophia, coming around the tables to give us hugs. "When did you get in?"

"Maybe 45 minutes ago," Patti answered.

"Would you like to join us?" Matt asked. "We actually have two seats left."

"We don't want to intrude," I said.

Matt clapped me on the shoulder. "If it weren't for you two, Sophia and I wouldn't even be getting married. If anyone deserves to be here more, I don't know who it is. Please?"

I nodded, and the hostess who was showing us to our table shrugged and moved off.

We got introduced to those of their family that we hadn't already met, mostly Sophia's side. Her two younger sisters were acting as maid of honor and bridesmaid. Two of Matt's cousins were his best man and groomsman. Matt's aunt and uncle, and Sophia's grandparents filled out the group.

Sophia's mom Alicia asked, "So, Matt just said he and Sophia wouldn't have been getting married if not for you, Drew. I've heard your names, but thought you were just their roommates. Sounds like there's a bigger story there."

"Mama, Sophia and I wouldn't have gotten together, if not for them," Matt deflected. "Drew was my roommate, and Patti was Sophia's. As Drew and Patti spent more time together, it pushed Sophia and I together, until we became boyfriend and girlfriend. If they hadn't dated, we probably wouldn't have, either. Plus, Senior year, they really helped us through a couple of rough patches we had before I proposed. If they didn't live down in Dallas, they would have been our best man and matron of honor."

Alicia chuckled. "Sophia was never very clear how you two met. So it was a locked-out-by-the-sock-on-the-doorknob romance, after all," Alicia said, causing several jaws to drop. "What? Did you think your generation invented that?"

Gradually, the group dwindled away, until it was just Sophia, Matt, Patti and I, as we quietly brought them up to speed on the developments with Amber and Henry becoming our spouses, and with my being Kyra's dad. I could tell that there being another incestuous family added into our marriage was not sitting well with Matt, but didn't push him on it. We relinquished the tables and moved over to the restaurant's bar for drinks.

Patti ordered a soda. Sophia asked, "You're not pregnant again, are you?"

Patti answered, "No, but I am breast feeding."

"Your daughter's back in Dallas, though." Matt said.

Patti said, "Yeah, but I don't stop producing milk just because Sharon's not here to drink it. I probably should have pumped as soon as we got to the hotel, but we were hungry and not expecting to run into you. If I don't pump tonight, my boobs will be full and sore tomorrow, even if I pump in the morning. And if I do pump tonight, after drinking, there would be alcohol in the milk, and I'd have to toss it, which I'd rather not do. We brought a small cooler just to be able to save the milk on the drive home."

Matt said, "I have a solution. Why don't we get a couple of bottles of wine at a store near here and take them back to your hotel room? You can pump, then you'll be able to drink with us."

"You just want to watch," Patti chided.

"Do you blame me for wanting a peek? Your boobs are friggin' huge, now," Matt said, earning him a playful slap on the hand from Sophia. "Maybe do a bit more than look? We really miss being with you guys. Between running the stores and supporting Mom and Dad through his cancer, we haven't had time to socialize and find a new couple to play with."

I asked, "How is your Dad? He looked weaker tonight."

Matt closed his eyes, inhaled and when he reopened them, said, "The treatments helped, but not enough. They're only giving him about 3 more months. But he seems to be at peace with it, and glad that he's getting to see us get married, even though he won't get to see grandkids."

~~~~~

Back at the hotel, Patti doffed her blouse, and unlatched her bra, and fastened the pump to her left breast, while sitting on the room's bed. She sighed as her milk began to flow, then the other breast leaked a few drops. Out of habit, I ran my finger underneath her nipple to catch those drops, and instead of licking it off my finger as I usually did, held it out to Matt and Sophia, saying, "Would either of you like a little taste?".

Sophia stepped forward, and licked my finger, then sucked it into her mouth, swirling her tongue like she was giving me a blowjob. It certainly made me anticipate one soon. "Sweet," she said, when she let my finger plop from her lips.

"Hand me a bottle, Drew?" Patti asked, and I could tell the pump's pouch was nearly full just from the first breast. I grabbed a bottle from Patti's suitcase, and held it as she transferred the milk. She started pumping the right breast, and even though she'd just pumped it, the left still leaked a little more.

Matt knelt next to Patti, and sucked those drops off of her directly, swirling his tongue across that nipple before backing off and ducking under a swat to his head by Patti. "Scrumptious. And the milk's not bad, either."

Sophia opened the first bottle of Zinfandel, and poured it into the little plastic cups the hotel provided for water. Once Patti finished pumping and we stored the full bottle and cleaned up the pump, Sophia handed out the cups. Patti kept her top off.

"To Matt and Sophia," I toasted. "May you always find joy in each other's company."

"Cheers!" we all exclaimed, before drinking the wine down, and pouring more.

Patti finished her second cup and walked over to Matt, saying, "We missed you guys, too," before kissing him, and beginning to unbutton his shirt. Sophia took that as her signal to start undressing me, as well. Soon, we were all naked, and the women were on their backs on the King bed, their legs slightly spread, moisture glistening from both pussies. Matt climbed between Patti's thighs and I slipped into Sophia.

"Fuck me, Drew," Sophia panted, as she grabbed my buttocks and pulled me fully into her wetness. We were soon slamming into each other, as she bucked her hips up as I stroked down. Matt and Patti were no less vigorous, and the bed began to squeak beneath us. "I'm cumming!!" cried Sophia, shortly before I saw Patti start to spasm under Matt, their lips pressed together in a kiss.