Sharing the burden

You could tell Lucy was starting to get tired as you finished up your discussion, seeing her slouched on the stool while you had your head leaning back in your office chair. You had actually made a lot more progress than you expected to have made with only one minor interruption.

Mom had briefly entered the room to ask you something but as soon as she saw Lucy and her state of undress, she made a small yelp and closed the door as soon as you and Lucy looked in her direction. You expected Lucy to revert back into her shell after being seen like that but Mom’s overreaction just made her chuckle and you couldn’t help but join in.

The door remained closed after that and you didn’t move to open it up again to add it back to Lucy’s punishment and you continued working through your current harem problems. You didn’t phrase any of these as ‘harem’ related to Lucy but you were pretty sure she caught on as each problem related to a different person that she knew you were getting involved with.

The next topic after Sarah’s was one of Mom’s. You mentioned how you had been trying to get her to come out of her shell a bit more and your plan’s for taking her to the gym tomorrow. Lucy reluctantly agreed that what you had been doing with Mom did seem to be making her stand up for herself a bit more and given that she hadn’t backed down at dinner, Lucy had to admit the effect you were having on Mom when it was directed straight at her.

You spoke about wanting her to be strong enough to face your father if there ever came a time which seemed to greatly improve Lucy’s opinions on the topic and promising to try and be less judgemental if she ever saw you with Mom. She also said she would make plans with Sarah for tomorrow's dinner which would hopefully give you another reason to stop Mom from backing down when going to the gym.

Next you mentioned that you would be hopefully getting Mom to go drinking with you and Grace after the gym so to just be ready if Mom ended up drinking more than one or two glasses of wine and getting drunk just off of her low tolerance.

You could tell that Lucy wanted to ask about Grace given that she knew you were pursuing her but she never outright asked you for more details. You did want to think about how to use her exhibitionist kink more but that could wait until after the weekend where you had a chance to hopefully get Grace to level 3 on the KDK.

The final topic that you got around to was about the person Lucy had dismissed to get her punishment in the first place, Rebecca. Lucy still hadn’t said she was sorry about what she had said but given her stubbornness once she had already committed to something, you didn’t think you would get an apology out of her, not unless she had a drastic change of heart any time soon.

Still, you made it clear that while Rebecca was going to be coming around for dinner and that she was going to be a part of your plans no matter what Lucy said, you weren’t going to **** the two of them to get along if they clashed. You’d like to think that Lucy’s prior comments about calling Rebecca a slut were solely based on the fact that the two of them had never met and hoped the picture Lucy had in her mind would be vastly different from the truth.

And that was pretty much it. You could tell Lucy was getting bored after the mini-lecture about Rebecca and you didn’t exactly find it to be the most exciting conversation in the world. Your only solace was that you got to stare at your sister’s body whenever you wanted which kept you from giving up more than once.

“I think that wraps it up for now” you announced, watching Lucy sigh in relief.

“Thank god. Don’t get me wrong, helping out with Sarah was fine but the rest was just…” Lucy replied, trying to find the right word without annoying you.

“Boring?” you suggested, giving her a way out.

“Yeah, I don’t think you needed my input for that stuff” Lucy added.

“Well now you know what trying to manage the lives of 6 other people feel’s like. It isn’t all it's cracked up to be sometimes and it doesn’t help when one of them starts insulting one of the others even when they haven’t met” you teased, a hint of a smile forming on your lips.

“Geez, I’m already being punished so you don’t need to keep reminding me” Lucy shot back with no actual anger in her voice.

“Speaking of your punishment, I think that can be pretty much over now” you replied, taking a glimpse at the time on your desktop.

You saw from the clock on your taskbar that it had been nearly an hour and a half since you and Lucy had entered your room. The majority of that was your discussion on Sarah’s career prospects and given that Mom had walked in halfway through, you considered that to be enough to end the punishment at this point.

“Unless you want to sit around naked for the rest of the evening, you would be within your rights with the new house rules… Not that anyone has actually used them yet” you mumbled, having found them to not be as directly useful as you first thought.

They had set up a platform for Mom to put forward her rule earlier so you did get to enjoy some of the unintended consequences from that at least.

“Nah I’ll stick to wearing clothes for now. I don’t think I’m ready for something like that yet” Lucy answered, getting up from her stool to get dressed.

Lucy didn’t seem to even realise how her own wording might hint at her wanting to start walking around nude later on down the line but you didn’t mention it in the chance that there might be some backlash, limiting yourself for now to just watching her get dressed.

“Do you really have to watch me whenever I get changed?” Lucy asked, more curiosity than anger in her voice still.

“Why miss out on looking at the most beautiful thing in the room? It would be a waste not to look” you dramatically replied, still not letting your eyes leave her body.

“Whatever” Lucy said back, letting you catch a glimpse of a smile before she turned to hide her face.

Apparently, your comment had more of an effect than you thought it would as you were pretty sure you caught a blush on her face along with her smile. If being praised was another one of her turn-ons then you would have to test that out. Lucy seemed pretty keen on leaving after she had put everything back on but she waited for you as if wanting to get permission to leave.

Instead of telling her, you got up and went to the door before her, opening it fully and letting her pass by into the hallway. She had told you that you always took things a step too far but you couldn’t help but consider adding one final comment to end everything off, debating with yourself whether it was a good idea or not.