Coming Up With A Tactic

So they went into the kitchen and Both Lynn and myself went into the living room and immediately sat down on the couch. No sooner did Our butts settle on the cushions than Lynn spoke up.

“Oh my god if they Marry that would make us step siblings! And I don’t know about your mom but Dad would disown me if he knew that we slept together!”

"Trust me, mom would castrate me, even if we slept together before they became a couple. She’s against the idea of step-sibling having sex with each other. The one time she caught me watching a porn site on my laptop, she made me feel like I was an abomination and made me promise that I would never do something like that in real life!”

“Then what are we going to do?”

“I don’t know about you but I don’t want to give up what we have!

“So what are we to do?”

“Come across like we don’t like each other when they are around and look for any chances we get to be together!”

A minute later mom and her dad came out with the beginnings of dinner. Mom the bowl of pasta and Mr. Webber having a bowl of salad and a bottle of vinaigrette dressing. Mom already had the dining room table sat before going to get dressed, so serving dinner was easy for the pair.

“Well you two, coming over to get something to eat?”

I got up and offered Lynn my hand to help her up. Lynn must have decided that now would be a perfect time to start our little charade. Waving away my hand, “No thank you Mr. Turner, I’m more than capable of getting up by myself!”

Over she went to the table and her father pulled out her chair and pushed it back into its place when she was seated. I was left to sit down, serve and clean up after myself and our ‘guests’ I had just came back from the kitchen when Mom spoke.

Looking at both Lynn and me, “Jim, Mr. Webber and myself have something we want to tell you both!”

I had no idea about Lynn but the bottom fell out of my stomach as I guessed what I was about to hear.

Mr. Webber let mom speak first. “So we have been seeing each other for a year now and we feel the same way about the other. I know that since he’s been in my life I’ve been feeling things that I haven’t felt since your father died!”

Mr. Webber looked at Lynn, “The same but since we lost your mother!”

Mom started again, “So we want to tell you both that we have decided to get married!”

Outwardly, I was thrilled, one look at Lynn told me she was feeling similar. When she looked at me, more than my stomach fell!