Strange Tales to Astonish

Sean paced back and forth at the foot of the stairs. How long does it take to just to unpack your clothes and throw them in a drawer or closet? The young man wondered for the third time already in exasperation. Sean refused to go into the main room where the older adults sat in front of the fireplace. Ms. Goose continued to stare at him and touch herself when no one looked. The fucked up thing is that as much as she scares me, I wonder how she would be in bed. Yeah, that blowjob was painful as fuck, but I've never cum like--no, don't even go there. I'm not meeting her. Sean physically shook his head to dismiss the idea, earning a smirk from Kimberly across the room, as if she knew the internal conflict in his head.

Waiting in the kitchen was out as an option too. A surly Austin wasn't his idea of fun company. Normally, being near Ramsey would be high on Sean's list of things to do, but he couldn't bear to look at her at the moment. The thought of Ramsey and Jared together in any way sexual made it almost hard for him to breathe. If that wasn't enough, then there was Owen. Whitney's boyfriend appeared to be growing increasingly agitated with Sean as dinner went on, his dirty glares becoming more frequent. Whatever Whitney must have told him about the hot springs doesn't seem to have calmed him down for good. At this rate, if Owen doesn't take a swing at me on this trip, I'm one lucky guy. Bad enough I have Austin's dickish--finally! Sean thought until he saw his mom descending the stairs.

"Wow, you really meant it when you said you wanted to talk to JoJo," Bridget said with a grin at her son.

"Sean has a lot of things to tell, I bet. Okay, Mrs. Tarver, let's begin your tour," Whitney teased her classmate with a smirk as she led his mother into the main room. JoJo, the last one down, walked over to stand by Sean, who was now in the entryway just outside the main room. Curious about what could be so important, the brunette looked at her best friend, waiting for him to start.

"Stop right there, you two!" Kimberly loudly called out, surprising everyone on the first floor. Pointing up above the two teenagers, "You know the rules, Mr. Tarver. Get to it!"

Sean groaned when he looked up to see a twig of mistletoe. He had forgotten to investigate the cabin for the other twigs Mr. Diamond had brought up. When JoJo realized what the twig implied, she blushed a deep red in shock. "Bu-but we're just friends. You can't be serious?"

"Oh, I'm very serious," Kimberly stated in a firm voice, one that made her look sinister to Sean. The older woman had waited for just the right combination to be under the mistletoe before she spoke up. Whitney had been very tempting after the scene in the cave with Sean. However, that would've likely enraged Owen, something Kimberly didn't want, at least not yet. Bridget and her son? Kimberly badly wanted to **** that as a nasty form of **** but knew the others certainly wouldn't have encouraged them. Making Sean and his best friend kiss could easily help advance her seduction of the boy. If the kiss made for an awkward situation between the two, then Sean would be further alone and ****. It would be like a hunter separating its prey from the herd.

"Sorry, JoJo. We decided earlier that almost everything goes under the mistletoe," Harvey informed them. "And this isn't one of the exemptions."

Sighing, JoJo quickly kissed her best friend on the cheek. Surprised at her sudden move, Sean felt sorry for his BFF as he braced for what he knew was coming.

"Oh, sweetie, that sort of a kiss doesn't count. You're required to give a full kiss on the lips, not a short one either," Mrs. Lockett told her somberly, shaking her head in the process.

"Gabs, let them be. They're best friends, don't make things awkward for them," Bridget warned her friend.

"Sorry, Bee. Those aren't the rules we laid down for this stay. So what if they're best friends? It's not like you never kissed your best friend," she noted in a teasing tone. "When Lacey and Ramsey gave a half-hearted kiss earlier, Skye and I showed them how it should be done. You want to help me put on a show for your son and his bestie?"

"No, no, that's okay," an embarrassed Bridget answered quickly. Sean looked over in surprise at the revelation his mother had kissed at least one of her close friends. After a glance at him, she couldn't meet his eyes. What must he be thinking of me right now? Oh Gabby, maybe I should air some of your dirty laundry in front of Jared.

Resigning himself to this fate, Sean turned back to face JoJo. His brown-haired best friend looked ready to run out of the room, so he gave her a sympathetic smile. "Let's just get this over with."

Noticing JoJo taking a step back, Sean reached out with his hand and gently cupped her cheek to stop her. Leaning forward, he brought his lips to hers. A squeak sounded from JoJo as their lips met for the very first time. A soft, gentle kiss followed. Sean wanted to make sure there would be no complaints from the others, so he pushed his tongue forward slightly as if asking permission to enter her mouth. Her mouth opened, more in shock than desire, and their tongues did a couple of quick swirls around one another before they broke off the kiss.

It's happening. It's really happening! What I've always hoped to see. Maybe this will be the moment they realize they are meant to be together. Bridget cheered in her head. Perhaps I should give Gabby a big kiss for making this happen. Unfortunately, in her excitement, Bridget failed to hear the follow-up conversation by her son and his best friend.

"That was..." Sean started.

"Weird," JoJo finished.

"Yeah, maybe that's what the saying it 'felt like kissing your sister' means," Sean remarked, thinking how awkward it would be to kiss Peyton.

"You might be right," JoJo responded, thinking of her sister, Zoey.

"I think that kiss was perfectly fine, right, everyone?" Harvey stated, noticing the awkwardness between the two.

"Yeah, it was fine. Lacked any passion, but it will do," Gabriela noted. The rest of the adults just shrugged; none of the teens who had peered over from the dining room to watch had anything to add. Only Bridget and Kimberly appeared gleeful over the kiss, for much different reasons.

"You know what, how about we take a walk, Jo?" Sean suggested, in hopes of some privacy and to get away from the scheming adults. Happy to get the hell out of the room, JoJo nodded. They moved over to the front door to grab their coats.

"Make sure you grab one of those flashlights on the shelf. Those trails can get pretty dark until the moon rises," Harvey told the two teens.

Walking outside, Sean turned them past the garage, as he thought Lookout Point might be a good spot to walk to. "Sorry about that. They seem hell-bent on embarrassing us this week."

"What's so important that you can't wait to tell me? Is it about with you and Ramsey?" JoJo asked, making a point to ignore his apology over their kiss. If she had her way, they would never bring it up again.

"What? Ramsey? No, no, that's not what I need to talk about," Sean said, surprised at her, thinking that even though the brunette was the second of the three people he had told about his crush. "I feel like I'm losing my mind."

"What? Why?" JoJo asked in her own surprise.

"I-I just can't stop thinking about sex. I keep having these visions...daydreams, whatever you want to call them about the women in the cabin," Sean told her, becoming agitated in recalling the scenes. "Most of them are about my mom's friends too."

"Um, okay...so you're just noticing they're pretty women. There's nothing wrong with that, Sean," his best friend assured him.

"Oh, Jo, it's way more than that! I pictured Mrs. Stratton naked while sucked on her big tits. I imagined Mrs. Lockett in a dominatrix outfit at breakfast this morning. Even at dinner, when they were talking about getting girls pregnant, I pictured myself knocking up the women at the table," Sean manically rambled. "And I'm always fucking hard! I know Aunt Gabby felt it pushing into her when she arrived. I had to jack off yesterday just to get through dinner!"

JoJo stopped walking and stared at her best friend. This had turned into a very uncomfortable conversation. Sure, they had talked about girls who Sean liked or his relationship with Beyza, but never had her BFF discussed his sexual fantasies. Newt did say Sean was having a nervous breakdown; I guess this is what he meant. How the hell am I supposed to deal with this?

"Uh, okay...so you're having these weird daydreams--," JoJo started before she was cut off.

"Oh, it's just not during the day. I had this insane dream while sleeping last night. I was finally making out with Ramsey when Beyza showed up. They got into a catfight before making out and announcing they would both be my girlfriends. I started fucking them, and they morphed into Mrs. Stratton and Aunt Gabby. Jared and Lacey caught us, and they told them that I was their new dad!"

Holy shit! He's thinking of getting the women pregnant and now being the stepfather to people our age! JoJo exclaimed to herself. Seeing the wild look in Sean's eyes as he shared far too much information over his dream, JoJo had another thought.

"Sean, I want you to be honest with me, okay, I won't judge you, I promise," JoJo calmly informed him before asking her question. "Are you high?"

"What? No!" Sean shouted, looking at her as if she was the one on ****.

"It's okay to tell me if you are. If Whitney's college boyfriend or this woman Jared told me that Austin thinks is a stripper brought some **** and you gave in to peer pressure, I would understand," JoJo soothingly suggested, but Sean started laughing madly at her theories, scaring her even more.

"Hahaha! That's a good one. Jo. Owen might have done **** in the past, but he's a real straight arrow now or at least trying hard to be one. And Skye...she's not like that at all. She's really nice and sweet," Sean explained as his laughing stopped, and he calmed down slightly.

"Are you sure? You're imagining some strange things here," the brunette dubiously asked. Maybe I should talk to his mom about this. What the fuck has Newt's lazy ass been doing?

"I'm not just imagining it all. They are making it far worse with their behavior, their teasing and touching me," Sean revealed.

"Teasing and touching you?"

"You know Mrs. Lockett's always been a tease, but she's far worse these last two days. I know she felt my hard dick against her, and I think she liked it. And she's brought Mrs. Stratton into her teasing; they both want to help find me a girl. They want to know all the stuff I like in girls, so they can decide if I need a nice girlfriend or a slutty fuck buddy," Sean reported, as he noticed the doubt on her face. "I'm serious. You better hide, or they might drag you into it. They suggested asking Lacey, Whitney, and my mom for tips. Luckily, Mrs. Stratton sounds sorry for the teasing, so it might calm down a little."

"Okay, that does sound like teasing; I'll give you that. What about the touching?" JoJo asked, now getting curious that he might be telling the truth, at least somewhat. Finding Sean a girlfriend might be a good thing. If he's this crazed with hormones, he might need an outlet.

"Oh, that didn't start up until the hot springs. After the ranger caught Whitney and Skye making out, with me taking pictures, and I went back to the hot spring."

Whitney Diamond and this Skye were making out while Sean took pictures, and a ranger caught them?! What the hell is going on up here? JoJo wondered in bewilderment but didn't interrupt him.

"That's when Ms. Goose started to give me a footjob under the water," Sean revealed. He then went on to talk about discovering Fred Singer and Skye having sex, Kimberly catching him and giving him a painful blowjob. Then, Whitney walked in and stayed to watch. "And if you don't believe me, you can at least ask Whitney about it. She'll back me up," he pointed out as he finished his strange tale.

Holy fuck! Sean's day at the hot springs sounds like the start of a porn film. And now this crazy bitch, Ms. Goose, wants him to come to her room tonight. Not to mention what his mom and I walked in on earlier. Maybe I should have stayed home; this cabin sounds insanely fucked up. JoJo stood still, staring at Sean in astonishment.

"Uh, that's...quite a story. I don't know what to say. Maybe there's something in the water?" she said, attempting a joke.

"Shit, you never know. I thought it might be because I finally had sex with Beyza," her best friend said, seriously considering her joke. "I just don't know what to expect yet. Whitney's boyfriend seems to suspect something more happened based on how he's looking at me. I don't know what to do about Ms. Goose."

"You're not seriously thinking about going to her room?" the brunette asked in shock. What is wrong with him?

"No! Well, I don't know. She scares me, but then I think about how wild I bet she can be at sex," Sean said, while JoJo shook her head at him. "I know, I know, it's a bad idea. It's just I've been getting so horny that I don't trust myself."

"I never liked that woman either. Whenever I met her, she always seemed to treat Prof. Lufflutz poorly. You need to avoid her, or tell your mom if it gets too bad," JoJo replied to his confused thoughts.

"My mom? I don't want her to know any of this. Gawd, that would be even more embarrassing," he cringed at the thought of his mom knowing her frenemy gave him a blowjob. Looking around at how little a distance they had walked before stopping, he brought up an idea. "If you don't care, how about we just head back to the cabin? I'm feeling kind of exhausted after all this."

JoJo agreed, and they turned around on the trail. Walking back, both teens became lost in their thoughts. Sean worried that his mom would find out what had happened, or even worse, that he'd been fantasizing about her friends. JoJo ran through her mind any ideas that could help her frazzled best friend.

"Um, Sean, I think you need to get laid."

"What?" he exclaimed.

"I think maybe you're right about your Beyza guess. I've never...you know, did it, but it seems like your brain is consumed with thoughts of sex. Maybe going without more since the breakup is what's driving you crazy," JoJo wondered aloud while throwing up her hands. "I don't know; I'm just throwing out ideas."

"Say you're right, but with who? It's not like I can just walk up to someone ask them to screw me," the blond-haired teen noted.

"Yeah, they would need to be pretty slutty to do it. Hmm, maybe throw yourself at Lana when she gets here, ask her for a mercy fuck." JoJo tried to hide her grin from Sean's shocked face before she broke into giggles.

"Very funny. I'm shit out of luck. Almost everyone up here is either married or dating. I'm so screwed," Sean moaned out in anguish.

"Wait, what about Ramsey?"

"I'm not walking up to the girl I've had a crush on for years and asking for her to fuck me. What's wrong with you?" he responded, surprised she would even suggest it.

"No, that's not what I meant. I wanted to know what's going on with your plan to finally tell Ramsey you like her," JoJo explained. Damn, you must be messed up to think I would suggest that. Ramsey's about as likely as I am to screw some guy that just walks up to me and asks to have sex.

"Oh, that. I think she likes Jared," Sean started to explain, looking over at JoJo for the surprise on her face, but it wasn't there. "Newt went hiking with her, Whitney, and Lacey this morning. He said they were teasing her about Jared, and it must have struck a nerve, as she got mad and pushed Lacey. It doesn't surprise me after she spent all last night in the hot tub asking him questions."

"Wait, Newt went on a hike?" JoJo asked in surprise at that revelation.

"Oh, yeah. Whitney said it was his punishment for skipping out on the hot tub last night. She's got some bug up her butt about him having fun this week," he explained but was distracted by another thought. "Uh, Jo, what did you see when you got here? You know with that fight and all."

"I think we walked in pretty far into it. Lacey and Austin were naked," she informed him, blushing at the thought of the first penis she had ever seen. "He and Jared were definitely going it at. It was kinda brutal. Um, Ramsey wasn't doing much. She seemed upset...and she had her pants pulled down a little." JoJo hadn't wanted to tell Sean the last part but felt he had to know.

Sighing, Sean nodded his head. He had expected news along these lines. Once again, I pussy out and waste my chance. It's going to be just like when she got with Micah. Only this time, she's with a guy that's going to expect her to put out. Why do I even bother?

"But there could be a perfectly good reason for that not having anything to do with Jared. It sounded like Ramsey was in the doorway, watching Lacey and Austin for a little bit before Jared showed up. It must have been a decent amount of time since Lacey saw her but not when he showed up," his best friend speculated in an effort to lessen the heartbreak she could see him suffering through.

"Maybe," Sean barely got out as he kicked a small pile of snow in frustration. "Hey, was that light on in the garage when we left?"

The two teenagers had reached a point where both the cabin and its garage were in view. Light shone out through the side window of the garage nearest to the cabin.

"I'm not sure. I don't think so, but I wasn't paying attention," JoJo admitted.

"We better check. I don't think I left it on when I pulled the car in, but I was the last person inside before we left," Sean pointed out, although he knew he didn't turn a light on. It might have been already on from before he parked his mother's car inside. Walking over towards the window, JoJo abruptly stopped in her tracks.

"Whoa," she softly uttered.

Coming up behind her, Sean saw the sight that had startled his best friend. "That seems about right for today," he sarcastically remarked. Inside, a woman was bent over a workshop bench, getting fucked from behind by a man.