Repeating the scene in Stuart's van

Gary and Bernie cuddled together later that night in Gary's bed. The window was open, now that the air was finally cooling down from the hot summer day, and the sound of crickets chirping in the hillside grasses came in with the breeze.

"Thank you so much, Gary," Bernie said. "Just seeing that. Watching you and Trent together, the same way your mom watched you and Peter." She took a deep breath. "It feels like I'm really part of your life."

"Yeah," Gary said. "You were saying, you know, don't hide anything." He took a breath. "I guess when you caught me and mom in the van, it kinda blew everything wide open."

"Uh-huh," Bernie said. She squeezed his arm. "I'm glad we opened up and talked things out. I felt a lot closer to you after we could both admit we were sexual with our moms."

"Mmmm," Gary said.

"That I could be open to you that my mom and I have been masturbating together for a long time," Bernie said. "Not just at Pleasure Circles. And that you could tell me that your mom used to masturbate you when you were sick, to help you sleep."

"Yeah," Gary said. Mom's cool hand on his hot shaft. The twitch, the release. The little towel, blotting. Her lips on his cheek. Sleep coming quickly.

"So, that day in the van, it made me feel so close to you, to see you and your mom stimulating each other anally while you masturbated," Bernie said. "To reach your orgasms together, with each other. Because that's something Mom and I do too."

"Yes," Gary said. So crazy, that Bernie catching him and Mom in something so out there was what brought him and Bernie closer together. Because Bernie and her mom Joyce were already out there, exactly there, with each other.

Bernie said, "I want to be there as part of that scene, again, with you."

"Huh?" Gary said. "I mean, did you mean in the van, or watching? And did you mean, like, with your mom, somehow?"

Bernie nodded, her thick dark curls sliding across the linen. "Yes."

Gary blinked. Bernie could mean her mom watching the two of them, or Bernie watching Gary and her mom, or even Gary watching Bernie and her mom, kind of turnabout is fair play. "Your mom said yes?"

"Oh, yes," Bernie said. "She said to pull the van up into our side yard, behind the gate."

"Oh," Gary said.