An interrupted silence

Authors note: I wrote this specifically with Lawless's comments from a previous chapter in mind. I encourage feedback from everyone, so please, tell me what you think.

Caleb leaned on the railing of his parents front porch and stared out into the night. April just stood to the side of him, so that he would know she was there if he wanted to talk. She wanted to say something to him but knew that wasn't what he wanted right now. It's a hard lesson to find out that someone you hate has their own demons to fight.

He didn't turn or even acknowledge her presence when he said, "She wanted to see me yesterday at school. I heard she was looking for me. I didn't try to avoid her, but I didn't seek her out either." He blew out a breath and said, "She even sent me a text and a nude selfie the day before. I remember thinking that even if she didn't have such a shitty personality I still wouldn't be attracted to her cuz she was so fake. That I preferred women with tan lines and I thought her full body tan was unattractive."

"Back when I first started high school I joined the chess club. Man, I was bored out of my mind. But I made some new friends, and those friends happened to be some of the ones that got bullied. But I was never really bullied like the other kids I hang out with. Oh, I got called a nerd, or a member of the loser crew, but I didn't get pushed around much. I know why they hated Heather and Brock and their friends."

"I also know why Kathy feels sorry for Heather. That's just the way she is. She'd release a bear from a bear trap even if the bear killed her for it."

April just listened as he rambled on, bouncing from one subject to the next. In the back of his mind he kept asking himself if his changes to normality were what caused Heather to be ****. After about half an hour he went silent. The last thing he said was, "I never really hated Heather, but I don't feel sorry for her either. I just feel... Nothing for her."

He sighed and went back inside.

When he came back inside the conversation stopped as if they had been talking about him. He noted his fathers absence, Caleb assumed he went to bed early. He noticed that his mother had opened a bottle of wine. All the women except Hazel had a glass. His mother smiled at him and said, "Hey sweetie, Chris asked to send you to your room when you got back in."

June waited until he was safely on the other side of his door before she said, "So you mentioned breeding parties. Tell us more about that."

Sonia took a sip of her wine and said, "Well some outsiders think it's just an excuse to have an orgy but it really does have religious significance to us. The Book of Meredith talks about the first 'great breeding'. I'll give you the condensed version. A young newlywed named Abraham, not to be confused with the old testament Abraham, anyway, his village had been devastated by war with all of the other men having been killed or enslaved. Now the women in the village had very few sons to carry on their fathers names or tend their farms. Meredith had the brilliant idea to bring the widows into her home and share her bed and husband with them. He had a stretcher, but he had only ever lain with Meredith. She had the idea to get her husband drunk and darken the room. She would then send the women in one at a time to lay with him. After he released his seed inside her, she would leave and the next woman would join him in bed bringing a new glass of wine with her. This went on all night and by morning he had bred every one of the widows that were still young enough to bear children."

Tina recited, "Come forth my sisters, partake of my husbands rod that your fields become sown."

Sonia smiled at her and said, "Tina, I'm glad to see you know your scriptures. Abraham had become a Stretcher King, but no one knew it yet. Meredith confessed what she had done to Abraham and he forgave her. But he was still the only man in the village and the women wanted more of him. Meredith gladly shared with them. Even thousands of years ago women enjoyed seasoning their food with a man's cum. It wasn't until disease in the village began to disappear that they had realized what he had become."

"So breeding parties were originally held to commemorate that event and were more like a reverse gangbang than an orgy." She concluded.

"I noticed you used the past tense. Are they not like that today?" Amelia pointed out.

"Well in the present, breeding parties are not strictly sex between a man and a woman with the purpose of getting pregnant. Some women want to be stretched, some want to be healed of a disease, and some do still want to be bred. But since the Stretcher King is the only male in attendance most of the women engage in the Sapphic pleasures while they hope to be chosen to join with him."

Hazel stated, "You mean lesbian sex."

"Well yes, I do. Most members of the sisterhood are either lesbian or bisexual, and the scriptures encourage women to lay with other women. Several of our scriptures speak of the love that can be found between women. In fact, in our entire history we have always been proponents of marriage equality, even when our religion was considered immoral or illegal by others. In the past, many of our members have had to marry in secret or even marry men they do not love to avoid suspicion."

"Wait, so you don't believe in love between a man and a women?" This was June.

Sonia turned to her and said, "Oh no. That's not what I meant at all. We have no problems with women and men falling in love and marrying, you love who you love after all. But the truly devote, most of the priestesses, all of the high mothers, and the Mother Superior, remain single or only marry other women. You will find they have devoted their life to serving and pleasuring the Stretcher Kings and will bear a Stretcher Kings child or none at all. If such a devoted woman meets a man and decides to marry, they will step down from their position. It does happen, but is very rare."

"Wait, so when Tina took over jacking Caleb at the restaurant that was her showing her devotion?" Hazel said confused.

Sonia asked, "Well, hmm how to put this... There are many areas where the Sisterhoods scriptures cross over with other religions. For example, Our version of the tale of Krishna is not that different from the Hindu version. We believe him to have been a mortal Stretcher King but they do not, worshiping him as the eighth avatar of Vishnu and also as the Supreme god. The story of Krishna and the milkmaids is used as an example of why we discourage jealousy among a Stretcher Kings wives and concubines. A truly devote woman should encourage other women to lay with her man, even join with them, not prevent it entirely. Have any of you heard of the Christian story of Onan?"

Seeing that none of the women were familiar with the story she said, "Well, to answer your question Hazel, in the Christian version Onan was punished by God for refusing to breed his dead brothers wife and instead shooting his cum onto the ground. In our own version, Onan was doubly sinning, masturbating AND refusing to plant his seed in her or on her that was the cause of Gods punishment. We believe that a man's cum, especially that of a Stretcher King, should not be wasted. One of our religious chants literally translates as 'In me or on me' So you see, Tina was trying to prevent Caleb from the sin of spilling his seed. Technically, it wouldn't have counted as masturbation because he had just been fucking her and was intending to gift her with his seed for her own consumption later."

April interrupted, "Wait, I came into this conversation late. I'm still trying to catch up. So what you're saying is that when Caleb and I had sex earlier his seed was wasted because I didn't get pregnant and it spilled out onto the couch?"

Sonia smiled, shook her head no and said, "No, no. It wasn't wasted. I don't want you to think that we believe that sex is only for procreation. It was at least inside you before it spilled onto the couch. If you didn't want to become pregnant, but wanted to experience the joy of feeling him fill you that is perfectly ok. His cum is both a gift from god and from Caleb, how you enjoy that gift is up to you. Ideally yes, our religion states that if he isn't going to impregnate you then he should at least shoot into your mouth or onto your body. Even if he misses, for example from shooting on your tits, and some splashes on the ground, intent matters. He wanted to shoot on your tits so it's ok if a little bit missed the mark or dripped off of you."