Lil overhears them and asks about the job.

"That was Mom and Dad?" Lil said.

Bernie and Gary looked round. Gary's sister stood in the door of Bernie's room, nude according to Joyce Bernstein's house rules for family members and close friends. In the last few days, Lil and Gary had been part of Joyce and Bernie's nudist household. Seeing each other nude was nothing new to Lil and Gary, but what was new for them was openly watching each other masturbate when Joyce invited them to join her and her daughter Bernie in masturbating together.

Lillian looked across the room toward Gary and Bernie. Her brother and his girlfriend lay face down on Bernie's bed, their heads propped up on their arms, their bare buttocks side by side.

"Yeah, you heard that?" Gary said. "They're coming back tomorrow, and Dad said, you know, the job thing with Jim Walker's company? With the place downtown? That could start next week."

"Oh, yeah," Lil said.

"You in?" Gary said. "You could leave that crummy job."

"Yeah," Lil said. "Well, yeah, yesterday was my last day."

"Congratulations!" her brother said.

"But next week, um," Lil said. "Can it be next next week?"

"Sure, I bet," Gary said. "Why's that?"