Tom and Luke Get a Family Pt. 03

After a week both enjoyable and professionally useful, Tom and Giovanni set off home. At the security check at Heathrow Airport prior to boarding the plane, when Tom presented his and Giovanni's passports to the official of the UK Border Agency, he was asked to step aside and take Giovanni into a side-office. The officials wanted to know why he was taking a child with an Italian passport out of the country and why did the child and he have different surnames. When Tom explained that he was taking the boy home to his mother, the official patently did not believe him. They said they had had several cases of men taking children away from their mother and out of the jurisdiction of the English courts. Tom said that as Giovanni had only been in England for just over a week, he did not see how he could come under the courts' jurisdiction. They asked Tom his address and occupation and Tom said that all he told them could be verified by a couple of phone calls to Italy. Eventually he satisfied them by showing them the certified English translation of Giovanni's guardianship document, which was verified by a phone call to the Italian consul's office.

Tom and Giovanni had checked in at the airport with two hours to spare before the flight, but by the time that Tom had satisfied the officials, he was being paged by the aircrew at the gate, and he and Giovanni, the latter trundling his little wheeled suitcase, had to run a considerable distance to the gate and received a very unfriendly welcome by the stewardesses, as they had almost caused a severe delay in take-off.

Chapter XXX Luke's daughter is born

The author does not intend to describe Olivia's third confinement. Suffice it to say that the onset of labour was very rapid and the men only just managed to get her to the hospital in time. Luke stayed with Olivia during the delivery and was the first to hold his newborn daughter in his arms, immediately after the cord had been cut. Luke chose the names Caterina Elena Singleton-Scarborough for her, Caterina after his godmother and Elena after his grandmother. The complex English surname would be difficult for Italians, but Luke wanted her to be a witness by her name to his fatherhood. By now Bernardo was walking and talking, chattering away indiscriminately in Italian and English. Unlike his elder brother, he was quite happy to talk to his two fathers in English. Dorothea had come to help look after the little boys while Olivia was in hospital. Again Olivia was kept in for ten days, so that recovery time at home was not necessary. As soon as she got home, Dorothea went back to Massimo!

Unfortunately, the new baby was not as placid and contented as her brothers had been. She wakened frequently in the middle of the night, yelling loudly, and even after feeding, it was difficult to get her to settle down to sleep. This altered the sleeping arrangements of the whole household. Bernardo was moved into the cot in Giovanni's room, and a new bed was purchased for the same room for Giovanni to sleep in. Caterina, when she did sleep, used the crib in Olivia's room, but the baby alarm system was no use. "You men will have to take turns to sleep in my room," said Olivia, "but there's no room for a separate bed. You'll have to take turns to sleep with me! It won't be all that cosy: it will involve dealing with Caterina when she yells. I hope that a feed will help her settle, but if it doesn't I at least will have company in losing sleep!"

"But that means that Tom and I will not sleep together for months!" protested Luke.

"Hard luck!" said Olivia, "You men do have to make some sacrifices when you have a family! If you want to fuck you'll have to do it in the daytime. I'm not asking you to do anything that I wouldn't expect a husband to do!"

"Yes, but that was only five days a month! This will be for months!" complained Luke. "Besides, you know how soundly Tom sleeps. When we used the baby alarm, I always had to rouse him and push him out of bed to see to his son!"

"Don't worry about Tom wakening. I will make sure that he wakens and gets out of bed! Besides, what's a few months in a lifetime? Assuming that you both live to be seventy, that's nearly another forty years in which to fuck!" responded Olivia. She grinned and continued, "Besides, if you want to fuck, I'm going to be in bed with one or other of you every night. Plenty of opportunities there! AND you won't need a condom: I've not started menstruating yet. But be warned, it will be vaginal sex only. I'm not letting you in by the back door!"

"A fat lot of opportunity there will be if Caterina yells her head off when you're in the middle of making love!" said Tom with a grin.

"I must warn you too that you'll have to get used to us farting in your bed!" said Luke.

"No problem!" said Olivia, "it would be just the same if I were married! And I fart too, you know!" she added.

They trained the two young boys, if one or other of them wakened in the night, to go to the men's bedroom and waken whoever was sleeping there, rather than disturb their mother.

Both men were surprised at Olivia's outspokenness. Where was the ladylike girl they had always imagined her to be? They were beginning to realize that family life is more complex than two gays living together had been! Olivia in turn was also beginning to realize her power. By making both men fathers, and so fulfilling their deepest wishes, she had made them dependent on her! Of course, they could always walk away, but she knew that they were so besotted with the children that they would never do it. Moreover, there was nothing unreasonable in what she was asking. Parenthood is a shared experience, even with a noisy newborn!

Chapter XXXI Alberto and Giovanni

One day, as they were busy at the bench, Tom said to Alberto, "Do you see anything of Giovanni Estravini these days?"

Alberto smiled happily. "Yes, we are dating regularly!"

"Are you likely to become an item together?" asked Tom, as tactfully as he could.

"I hope so!" said Alberto. "He thinks that he's too old for me, but I don't agree. He's not much older than you, and I like a man with a lot of experience! Besides, he is really sweet. He warned me that he is of a jealous disposition, but I'm not the type to deceive him." Tom was surprised to hear Alberto speaking so frankly to a work colleague, but Alberto by now knew Tom well. He knew that Tom was discreet and rather fatherly, particularly since his son had been born.

Alberto and Giovanni were now regulars at Arturo's monthly dinners, and sometimes instead of dining at Arturo's villa, the six of them went to Trabizona's gay restaurant, where they were now regular customers.

Chapter XXXII Sleeping with Olivia

Little Caterina's nighttime yelling gradually diminished as she started to grow, and eventually she got quieter at night and would only waken her parents once a night. The boys got used to sleeping with Olivia and rather enjoyed it. She would snuggle up to the man she was sleeping with, and after Caterina had been fed and quietened down, she would kiss the man beside her.

Tom enjoyed her closeness and after the feeding, he liked the smell of baby milk. The feminine scent of Olivia took him a while to get used to, but eventually he got to like it. If Olivia felt like sex, which did not happen frequently, she made it known by getting hold of Tom's tool. This was enough to arouse Tom even when he felt drowsy, and he worked hard to ensure that Olivia enjoyed the subsequent penetration.

Luca required much more effort on Olivia's part. She had to kiss him and caress him, stroke his cock and prick-tease him with her mouth quite hard before he was sufficiently aroused to fuck her. However, like Tom, he did his best to please her. Eventually she found that what aroused him most was burying his face in the cleavage between her milk-engorged breasts. With great amusement she used to whisper to him, "Non ruba la colazione di bambina nostra!" (don't steal our baby's breakfast!) After about five months, Caterina ceased to holler in the middle of the night, but the men were quite happy to continue sleeping with Olivia until Caterina was weaned. Of course they did miss regular sex with each other, but still managed a quickie blow-job if either of them was desperate in the early evening when the children had gone to bed and Olivia was watching television.

Both the little boys seemed to welcome the arrival of their new sister, they called her 'nostra sorellina nuova', and would kiss her and stroke her hair. When they came home from nursery school, they would run to see her, and had to be prevented from kissing her if she was asleep. On Saturdays, Arturo let them use the outdoor swimming pool at his villa, so every Saturday morning, one or both of the men would drive the two boys to Arturo's. By the time that the boys were five and three respectively, they started swimming lessons at the public pool.

Chapter XXXXIII Rachel arrives in the lab

In the April after Caterina was born, Rachel Ellison arrived in the lab. Accommodation had been secured for her in an apartment in the same building as Olivia's had been. Tom gathered together all the people in Arturo's personal lab and told them that for the duration of Rachel's stay, they should try to speak in English whenever they could. Only a few of the technicians knew no English, and most of the research students could manage a conversation, even if they were not fluent. Carlo had been told to work hard on brushing up his English.

No problems were expected for the following three months, because Tom was in the lab daily, but in August there might be problems of communication, because Tom and Luke were going to take the whole family away for a month to Luke's parents' property in Montecatini-Terme. However Tom said to Carlo and Rachel that they should feel able to ring him with any problems without feeling that they were interrupting his holiday. Initially, for the first couple of weeks, he himself helped Rachel with her work, but then Tom's teaching commitments began and Carlo had to take over.

A few weeks into Rachel's stay, Tom invited her and Carlo to come to dinner on a Wednesday night. The guests were introduced to the two baby boys and to Caterina before they were put to bed and given a story. Giovanni was a little stroppy, because although Carlo was there he (Giovanni) was not allowed to speak Italian. Tom insisted that only English should be spoken for the whole evening. Bernardo told Rachel, to whom he had taken a fancy, that he had four grandfathers, two in Italy and two in England! By now, Olivia was getting a lot more confident about her English, and its quality had also improved, due to the increased practice she had been getting. She retired to bed early to feed Caterina.

The rest of them loaded the dishwasher, sent Costanza home and drank Prosecco and talked. Luke asked Rachel how she was liking Italy. She said that she was loving it, that she had been made so welcome (with an affectionate glance at Carlo). "You've not been put off by the fact that your lab is a hotbed of homosexuality then!" said Luke with a grin. "Not at all!" she replied with another grin. "We straight ones must stick together!" This was accompanied by another glance at Carlo.

Rachel had had a rather tiresome time as an undergraduate. Most of the men in her year had seemed only interested in sex. Accordingly, most of her friendships and social life in Camford had been with women. However, the lack of romantic relationships had been very good for her academic performance, and like Tom before her, she had been awarded the Perkin-Kekulé prize in her final year. Carlo seemed like a breath of fresh air to her. While he was meticulous in his lab work, he was also friendly and extremely helpful to her. Their daily juxtaposition at the bench favoured closeness, and Carlo was very attracted by this English girl. To say that he fancied her is an understatement!

It soon became apparent that Carlo and Rachel were getting on extremely well together, and after a few more weeks they seemed to be spending time holding hands and not getting on with their work. Tom even had to have a word with Carlo and told him with a grin to keep his dalliance for the lunch break and after hours, and that they were in the lab to work at the bench!

By the time of Arturo's annual summer party in July, there were two extra couples attending from the lab, Carlo and Rachel and Alberto and Giovanni Estravini. Whether these two items were going to become permanent was not as yet obvious. Certainly at the party, attempts were made by regulars to chat up Rachel and Alberto. The weather in July in Trabizona was, as usual, fine and sunny, the outdoor pool had been spruced up, the wine flowed, the food was plentiful and all the guests, whether chemists or gays (or both), enjoyed themselves tremendously. Tom and Luke brought their two little boys along, and Olivia and Caterina came for an hour, as no-one from the lab except for Ben had yet seen the new baby. After Caterina had been seen and admired, Luke drove her and Olivia and the little boys home, before going to work. His sum total of alcohol for the day had been one glass of Bellini cocktail (Prosecco and peach juice). How times had changed from their earlier fancy-free visits to Arturo's parties!

Chapter XXXIII Are Luke and Tom bi?

The men were still taking it in turns to sleep with Olivia. One night the three of them, once Caterina was settled for the night, had a discussion about the future when Caterina had been weaned. Both the boys were agreed that there should be some arrangement by which they took turns to continue to sleep with Olivia and to fuck her when she wanted it, but that they all needed to agree a schedule that allowed the boys to sleep together for part of every week. Luke said that on his two evenings off per week, he wanted to sleep with Tom on Wednesdays and with Olivia on Sundays. Tom said that he wanted to sleep with Olivia on Fridays. All three thought that the arrangements should be flexible, so that when Olivia had a period, the night with Tom or Luke could be changed. Moreover, if Olivia was feeling in the mood, she should be free to ask for sex on any other night.

Olivia was really enjoying sex with two different men. Each had his own techniques of making love, which were quite different from the way that they made love to each other. There were of course some common features. Both men enjoyed being sucked off by Olivia, almost as much as if they were doing it with one another. They never discussed with one another what they did with Olivia, and she was just as discreet. One big difference was that neither of the men used dirty talk when making love to Olivia, whereas between themselves it was an essential ingredient. They were also much gentler with her than the rough way that they shagged one another. Because she was not married to either of them, Olivia was totally neutral in her feelings, and never felt that she preferred one of them. This is essentially what made the triangle work, because it freed all parties from favouritism and jealousy.

The possibility of the three of them sleeping together was also discussed, but Olivia said that she was not sure that she wanted that. This was something of a relief to the boys, who did not really want the other as a spectator/voyeur when making love to Olivia. They decided that for the present, they should not try for any more children.

The consequence of these major changes in lifestyle inevitably led the men, when in bed together, to discuss their sexual orientation. "Well," said Tom, "although I love you best of all, we both have to recognize that we are bisexual! I could never leave you, but I could never leave Olivia either!"

"I think our biggest problem," said Luke, "is avoiding jealousy. I always get jealous feelings if I think you are getting too close to a man, and now I'm getting them when you get close to a woman as well! And not just us. I hope that Olivia does not start to prefer one of us to the other. That would become obvious if she started to ask all the time for the same man to shag her."

"And what if one us started to ask to shag her rather than his partner? Wouldn't that be a sort of adultery?" They agreed that neither of them should ask Olivia for sex without asking permission from the other one first. "I don't want us to compromise our relationship by getting too involved with Olivia," Tom continued."As long as we don't hide anything from each other, then sleeping with her is not infidelity. She needs warmth and love just as much as we do. But to me you will always come first. In the words of my favourite poet Abraham Cowley in his Davideis, 'Never did Marriage such true Union find, or men's desires with such glad violence bind.'"

"Oh, Tom, you are so sweet!" said Luke, "I love you so much. I have so missed man sex for the last few months. Even coating Olivia with Storing pour homme was not enough to make me think that it was you that I was shagging. I'm fed up of being top. I want your cock up my hole NOW! Men can shag men as well as women, but women can't shag men!" With that, Luke spread his legs and looked invitingly at Tom, who was lying on his side smiling.

Eagerly Tom reached for the lube from the drawer beside the bed, squeezed some onto his fingers and began to poke his fingers one at a time into Luke's inviting hole. Having prepared Luke, and rolled a condom onto his cock, he knelt between Luke's legs and gently introduced his hard member into Luke's anus. He then leant forward and began to smother Luke's face with kisses. "I'm sorry," he said, "that I have skipped the foreplay, but you said you wanted it and I assume that you wanted it hard!"

Luke reached his arms out and wrapped them round Tom's shoulders. "Oh Tom," he said, "Please fuck the shit out of me! I'm yours, all yours!" Tom needed no verbal encouragement to get to work and indeed had to restrain himself from coming too soon.

He inhaled the scent of Luke's body greedily. "Although I love Olivia," he said, "she is not really a substitute for you in any way. I think that we are both incredibly lucky to have the best of both worlds. Maybe bi men should be more proud of that fact, and not ashamed because they do not fall in the broad categories of sexuality."

He kissed Luke again and resumed his movements inside Luke's gut and after a few minutes of bliss he came into the condom deep inside Luke. Luke grabbed him and held him fast. "Just lie on top of me until your dick slips out of my hole," he said. "I want to feel your weight and the warmth of your body on top of me. I don't need a suck or wanking off, I just want to be as near to you as I can get!"

Wrapped in each other's arms, our two bisexual heroes fell asleep.

TO BE CONTINUED