“You’re late,” Tera said, whipping her ponytail around as she flopped into the car with her dirty cleats.
“I know honey,” Janine said, “I am sorry. I told you that I might be late.”
“You forgot, Rachel or Roseanna told you about it when you got home or something huh?” Tera asked and stared out the window, pointedly not looking at her mother.
“I can honestly say that is not the case, why didn’t you just get a ride with a friend?” Janine said, realizing she had missed this prediction by only a few short seconds.
“Because you said you’d be here, and I am not rude. If I said I’d be here, I’d be here,” Tera said. Janine didn’t feel like fighting.
“Come on, its Taco night. I know it’s your favorite. No one else likes it as much as you,” Janine said, attempting to change the subject.
“Okay,” Tera said and smiled, she wasn’t a little girl anymore, she got over these little things faster, not like a teen. She was a woman. That was one thing that Janine knew for a fact, there was little that could really get to her youngest daughter and when it did she was able to get over it quickly and smile.
They both walked into the house a few minutes later and the twins were already getting dinner together. Jackie arrived a few minutes later and Janine’s favorite part of the day commenced. The whole family would prepare the dinner together and then they would sit down at the table and talk and eat and Janine would feel whole in a way that she never imagined that she would have in her life.
Finally, the girls would go their separate ways to do homework, watch TV, hang out with friends, or talk on the phone. Generally Janine would finish up any of her work on her laptop and try to convince at least one of her daughters to watch TV with her or go for a run. Generally she was successful with the former, but less so with the latter. As the sun finally fell behind the trees in the De Luca family backyard, everyone would make their way up to their various rooms (Only Rachel and Roseanna had ever shared space but once they got to high school, Roseanna had moved to a room in the attic to gain privacy) and go to bed for the night. Little did Janine know that the peace that settled on her home that night would be short lived and something new, wild, and perhaps more wonderful would be rising with the sun.
*******An Old Secret, Nearly Revealed******
The next day began largely the same, with the same morning routine and the trip into work. However, things changed from there. It was one of the most stressful days at work Janine could remember. It just seemed like the work had piled up behind her back and she now found herself surrounded by tasks that she hadn’t even remembered starting, but which now needed to be finished. She spent most of the morning on the phone with customers who seemed either distracted or angry, all the while fighting off constant memos from her various bosses regarding new issues. Further, she had forgotten to schedule a yearly performance review session and she was now in a good deal of trouble and was probably going to have to come in on a weekend to begin the process. She felt downright tired by the end of the day and felt like she was already sleeping as she drove towards home.
Janine felt the stress of the day gnawing at her as she ate her dinner with the girls. She heard them talking and enjoying themselves, but couldn’t manage to get into it herself. She didn’t think that the girls noticed, but they were so in-tuned with her behavior that they could tell she had a bad day and that another one was on the way. They pretended like nothing was wrong because this was what their mother would prefer that they do. Minimize the stress and help her to relax.
That night, after dinner, Janine went up to her room immediately and had a plan to relax. She was generally a shower person as she was very busy and because she liked to do it early in the morning, before she went to work. However, sometimes she felt that the best way to relax was to fill the tub up almost all the way to the brim and lay back in the water for a while. She had been imagining it almost from the moment she got to work that day and it was basically the only thing keeping her going.
Because Janine never worked outside of the office on Tuesdays, she was allowed to dress very casually on those days. She removed her t-shirt, bra, and blue jeans and then slipped off her panties while the water slowly inched its way up to the top of her claw foot tub. The water was steaming up the mirror and Janine was starting to feel better already. She was surveying the bath when she noticed a box of bubble bath that one of her daughters had gotten her for Mother’s Day. She usually just like a normal bath, but on a whim today she decided to pour in a large batch of the bubble bath. Quickly, the water got frothy and white and before she knew it she was ready.
She eased herself into the water and gasped at how good it felt. She heard herself humming contentedly without even realizing she was doing it. She sat in the tub for five minutes without even moving, just breathing in the smell of the bubble bath and the steam. She had by now completely forgotten all of her problems from the day and was even looking forward to getting to work the next day and setting everything straight.
She was thinking about the trip she needed to make that week. She had to go to her daughter’s father’s house, to drop off her twins. Neither of them had a car yet, and Jackie wasn’t going to drive them. They wanted to see him before Rachel went away for college and things got more complicated.
It was just when she was about to fall asleep that the door to her bathroom was flung open and Rachel stomped into the bathroom with an angry look on her face. Rachel was a very sweet girl but sometimes she was very self-absorbed. She had already forgotten her mother’s earlier unease was completely caught up in her new problem. Janine felt her blood run cold as her daughter barged into the bathroom.
“Rachel! What are you doing in here?” Janine said, shaken. She was thanking God a hundred times a minute that she had put the bubble bath into the tub.
“Jackie,” Rachel said, dramatically flinging herself down onto the toilet lid and putting her hands in her face. Janine slouched down in the bathtub and tried to get her thoughts in order.
“What about her?” she finally managed to blurt out.
“Her friend Dennis, you know him,” Rachel said, sitting up and talking with her hands. Janine nodded, “Well he asked me out, and I think he is really cute.”
“Okay,” Janine said without moving.
“Well,” Rachel said, standing up and pacing around the room, “Jackie says that she doesn’t want me to go out with him and she also said that she doesn’t want me to go out with her and her friends all the time at her school. She doesn’t have any reason. He is a really nice guy. She is just being a bitch to me and I really don’t like it.”
“What do you want me to do sweetie?” Janine said, “You girls are adults, you have to figure your own things out now.”
“MOM!” Rachel said and flung herself down on the toilet again.
“What?” Janine said, feeling claustrophobic and annoyed.
“I just want you to talk to her and get her to change her mind about this. It isn’t fair, like you said we’re adults I can choose to date whoever I want to date,” Rachel said, suddenly realizing how uncomfortable her mother was.
“Okay sweetie. I promise I will talk to her. I will do it tomorrow after work or something. I just… had a bad day today. Would you mind just letting me sit in the tub for a while?” Rachel was feeling a bit embarrassed now and she was placated by her mother’s promise.
“Sorry mom. Thanks,” she said sheepishly.
“I am not upset,” Janine said, feeling a bit guilty now, “I am just tired.”
“It’s okay,” Rachel said, standing up and heading for the door, “Just don’t forget to talk to Jackie for me okay?” she asked and Janine nodded her head once more. Rachel closed the bathroom door and Janine heard the bedroom door close as well and Janine was certain she was alone again. She sat for a while and then let out a sigh of relief. That had been much too close.
Janine shivered as the water had lost its intense warmth and she wasn’t really in the mood for a soak anymore. She pulled herself up out of the tub. The water dripped off of her chin and down her thin, elegant neck. She stood up and stepped out of the shower and looked at herself in the mirror. She smiled at her pretty face, her perky breasts, and her flat stomach. She ran her hands along her tanned legs. Then she stopped and looked concerned. There, between her legs was her five inch cock. The little secret in her life that she had barely kept from Rachel. She sighed with relief, but it was a short-lived relief. Within 24 hours her secret would be out.
***Janine’s Cock****
Janine got dressed and went downstairs. She felt more in control now that she had her clothes on. She even felt good. She had come face to face with one of her greatest fears and had managed to avoid a disaster. She walked into the kitchen and saw Tera and Jackie playing cards at the table. She smiled to herself. Her twin daughters Rachel and Roseanna were easily very close as is the nature of twins. Often times they were so close that the other two felt left out. As a result, Jackie and Tera had developed a very close and special bond despite the fact that they were separated in age by four years. When the twins went to go do something and Tera felt left out, Jackie would go to her youngest sister and get her out of the house. It worked out very well and it made Janine very proud of her eldest daughter. Jackie had just won a hand when Janine went into the kitchen. She was smiling and looked beautiful.