Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.
Spending the night physically between Susan and Karen is something I could do every night of my life. Sure, I love the others but, the others are really here only because I am with these two. Jenny and Elvie may be the palace guard but these are the jewels of the palace.
On a floor below are eight other females with other needs. One of them is experiencing things tonight that have been rattling around in her head for a few years. This is not my issue. I do not want it to become my issue. How it resolves is beyond me. What is clear is that I am not part of it. Pearl may want me to take Judith's cherry. I do not.
Susan cuddles tightly. She whispers over and over, We are having a baby! We are having a baby! And then I must have drifted off because it is half-light outside and Karen is sucking me off. I think she is trying to get me hard. If that is her intention, she is achieving her goal. She pulls her mouth off me and gives me a hand job as I get ready to unload. She has me close to cumming. Too close, because she has swiftly mounted me just in time to receive the package via unprotected sex. Is there no stopping a girl who wants to get pregnant?
She gives me a peck on the cheek and gets out of bed, throws on a robe and giggles saying, Got to go. School today! To which I respond, Who cares if it is your plan to get pregnant and leave school?
That actually stops her. She looks at me and nods. OK we talk about that tonight. Maybe it is time to quit school. And then she is gone.
You heard that, right?
Yes.
Well, do you really want your sister to quit school?
I think yes. But OK I think more later. Now I want to sleep more.
An hour later Susan is up and gone and I am exiting the shower. Breakfast is on the table and my breakfast companion is sitting, sipping on her coffee.
Good morning, Elvie. Any news from Pearl's room?
None except for the screaming that go on all night. What they do in there?
I have no idea. Please ask Ros to call the school and tell them that Pearl has some cramping and won't be there today.
OK. More driving lessons today?
Yes and at the same times. I will try to install a faucet before ten this morning. Elvie, k'Ren wants to get pregnant and Susan is taking her side. I would like your help in stopping this. k'Ren needs to stay in school and I don't want her pregnant this soon.
Nothing I can do about this. But maybe I have an idea. We will see. I will talk to Emelyn and Ros. Maybe they will help. ... Who tonight? I think not Pearl, di ba?
You are correct. You tonight.
Good choice!
Uh-huh.
Ron, we need to hire a painter.
I heard you yesterday. I know.
Jenny has a cousin who can do this. We call him?
We call him and get a price. No promises.
Good. Also we need to go to town. We have no food!
Well, if we do, then we have to change the driving lessons. One hour each. Ten and eleven. We will go to town after lunch. Do we have enough food for lunch?
Yes. That work.
There is knocking on the door but no one is coming in. Elvie gets up and opens it. Judith is standing there, quite unaccompanied.
Ros said Elvie brings you breakfast and talks over the tasks of the day each morning and that is where you both would be. Is it acceptable if I enter?
Yeh, come in Judith. What do you need?
Sir, I need many things. I know I am interrupting and am sorry. But might I have a few moments of your time when you are finished with the morning business?
I look at Elvie. I think we are done Sir. I will take my meal and go.
No Elvie, please stay and eat with me. Anything Judith has to say to me can be heard by you. Take a seat Judith. I am at your disposal.
Sir you up here alone. I can see that. The women all sleep below. Elvie is truly your person in charge of the house. I can see that now. I also know and believe from what everyone say, you deeply love k'Ren and Susan. But it also clear they have a bedroom downstairs. I just now see Susan come out of her bedroom dressed. So this is true. You not have sex with them but you not complain that I have sex with Pearl or with Jenny. You not concerned that girls have sex with women here. This confuses me. Why this Sir?
We all know you want sex with girls. We have known this for days. I know that Pearl wants sex with you, because the other girls told me what Pearl said to you on Friday. I spoke with Pearl after that. She wanted to know if I was angry with her. I was not. If this was in her heart, then to repress it is dangerous. You should know this better than anyone here. I also know that Jenny likes sex with girls and women. Jenny is here for many reasons. Not one of them is because I fell in love with her and wanted her as a wife. She is an important part of this house, and I do not care that she wants sex with women. As to the rest of the girls, you didn't have sex with them and you may not try. Do I make that clear?
Yes, sorry I should not have assumed it was sex between all the girls.
But it is true that you want sex with other girls, is it not?
Yes. Sir you know my secret but, you are not calling the police. So am I safe with you?
Yeh, you are safe so long as you do as I say and always tell me the real truth.
Yes, Sir. I will do this.
Are you desiring only young girls, or women too?
Sir?
Come on. You understood the question.
Young girls, Sir.
How young?
Thirteen, fourteen.
Are you still a virgin?
Yes, are you going to take that?
No. I am not.
You not like girls, Sir? Damn it, Elvie laughs and almost chokes on her spoonful.
I like girls, women. But I am not going to fuck you for two reasons. First is, I do not love you. The second is that you don't want sex with men. So I do not see the point in taking your virginity. So you want other young teens, and you are around them all day long but, cannot really touch them for fear of the police. Is that correct?
Yes, Sir.
You are a licensed Social Worker?
Yes, are you going to report me?
No. I will not. Now stop the fear crap and just answer the questions, or leave if you wish, or ask me another question if you have one.
No, I have no other questions. Please ask yours. I didn't think she had any questions, as I have taken the other girls off the table.
Is the Social Worker license a general one, or just for the school?
It is a general one.
Are you permitted to operate an orphanage?
Sir?
I have seen two orphanages around here. Is a Social Worker allowed to run one, or is that a different license?
I am permitted.
So why don't you do that, Judith? It would give you the type of access to girls that you want and there are no parents for the girls to confide in at night. You can conduct deep psychological exams of the girls to determine which ones you can have and leave the others alone.
Sir, how I afford such a thing?
Find a church here that needs to be saving girls' souls. Offer to run the place for room and board, until you can get the place up and running. They can collect the funds for the orphanage and take the credit. You just want to help kids. The orphanage will specialize in girls only as then you don't have to build duplicate facilities and you don't need any male staff members. You start small and turn one or two of your first group of girls into your assistants who know all and will tell no one. It is perfect for you and most of the kids in the orphanage get exactly what they should. A good, safe and caring place to grow up.
How I find such a church?
Look for the ones that are just starting to build a real building and are still holding services in a nipa hut. They have no formal mission yet. Give them one.
Sir, how you know so much?
I read books. Sometimes you get ideas from reading.
May I come back if I have more questions?
Yes.
Thank you. Thank you for everything. Sir, I know you not having sex with the girls here. But I think they want you to have sex with them. If you did, I would understand it, just like you understand me.
Thank you for your words but, I am happy with how things are here now. Good luck with your future efforts.
Thank you so much! May I go now?
Yes, that is fine. You may go.
Elvie wants to say something in the worst way but I signal her to keep her mouth shut until I hear the 125 start up. ... OK, speak.
OMG! OMG! OMG! What you do! You convince her that you not have any sex? How you do that? OMG! And then you explain to her how she can have all the young girls she want for life and never come back to us for sex? OMG! How you think of that?
You see that orphanage on the other side of town? The one with the sign, Tree of Life Orphanage?
Yes. So?
Well, I look; all those kids are girls. The counselors I see are all men, with one exception. I start thinking about how that is. And then it comes to me. That is the perfect way to develop a sex home. If that is what you want, and if you are a Filipino, it can be done. So here we have a licensed Social Worker who is known to be very prim and proper. No sex at all in her life. If they gave her a physical – and I doubt they would – she is still a virgin. She's the perfect person the authorities are looking for. It's a great fit.
Sir, you know she thinks you have 'saved' all the girls here. And she is still working at the school.
OK and?
She owes 'Ron the Saint' her trust but she is also still concerned with protecting families in need. She might see you as a very safe resource. See?
Oh. Shit. I had not thought of that. Well, we can always hope that doesn't happen. OK, anything else?
No. I'll tell Ros and Emelyn about the lessons and get the shopping list ready. You install a faucet. And I get a kiss before she loads the tray with the empty dishes and departs.
I am wet, dirty and have a wrench in my hands when Pearl squats down by my side as I lie on my back, looking up at plumbing.
She will not come back to me for sex. You know that?
Yeh, I figured it was a one-time only. You OK with that?
Yes. She is too – how you say it – she needs too much?
Too needy?
Yes! Too needy.
She wants committed love but, we know each other too well. She knows I will not give her that. I was, I think you say, something she needed to do once?
You were an itch she needed to scratch. Now no more.
Yes, exactly. And Jenny teach her a lot she not know. She know Jenny is my lover, I do not need her.
So she was an itch you needed to scratch too.
Hehe, yes. This true.
You don't need it any more.
Correct.
Good.
Ron, thank you.
You are my girl... or does that bother you?
No. It what I want. I want to be yours. I have Jenny when I need that too but, I yours. Mom is yours too. She tell me that.
How does that make you feel?
Safe. Good. Home. This now our real home. We are very lucky we yours.
You will be luckier if this faucet doesn't leak or spray when I turn the water on. Here we go! It holds. Now that the faucet is fixed I need another shower before the driving lessons.
The lessons go OK and lunch is a nice plate of a scrambled egg with a vegetable over rice with lots of garlic. It works for me.
Jenny, Elvie and I drive into town for the shopping trip. We are at the supermarket close to three hours before we are through the checkout aisle and have the bags in the van. We drive over to the school and pick up three girls before driving home.
Because there is no time for Elvie to cook once we get home, we stop for some pork and chicken barbeque at a stall on the road. We also purchase three plastic bags filled with a broth type of soup from another stall. That, plus the rice which is being prepared now back at the house by Ros, will be the supper. The BBQ will be dipped in a sauce of soy sauce and calamansi. That writer spells it with a 'k' but around here you see it spelled with a 'c'.
The BBQ pork are little pieces of marinated pork that are on a bamboo skewer and cooked over a low flame. The meat cooks but the skewers do not burn. The chicken pieces are marinated legs and thighs in one large hunk, skewered and grilled as one piece. It will also be dunked in the sauce we will put on the table.
Karen is unusually quiet as we drive on, and Joriz, who simply doesn't go for discretion, asks her, What's the deal, why so quiet?
I was just trying to see if I can understand how Ron thinks.
What that mean? I am listening to all this, as are Jenny and Elvie. Karen knows we are listening, of course, even though it is Joriz who is doing the interrogation.
Mom and me with him last night, instead of Pearl because of Judith. But with what happened last night, I don't think he be with her tonight either. So who he with? I am trying to see if I can figure out how his mind works. I don't think it Jenny for the same reason that it not Pearl. Maybe Mom and me but, I do not think this correct. So I guess it you Elvie. Elvie, he tell you yet? He tell you at breakfast when you ask him? Yes he must have! Right?
Elvie looks at me and smiles. She knows you too well, Ronald. There no hiding from this one.
There isn't any hiding but, she does not know Elvie as well. And today Elvie has been engineering a pushback on Karen's desire, with Susan's support, for early pregnancy. It is a cabal between Ros and Emelyn, with the active support that Jenny offers. If Karen gets pregnant, there will be pressure on the other three fourteen-year-olds. The moms are opposed to that. They want their girls in school and it risks bringing us too much attention. Susan has been getting hammered all day on the matter and other girls will get the message from their respective mothers to push Karen, to knock it off.
In truth, I have nothing to do with this other than to mention the problem to Elvie. I was busy with faucets and driving lessons. Karen needs to remember that Elvie is a real power in the house. I gave her the power with good cause. Her real need is to make sure we are stable. That is the only way she is safe. She knows it and, while Karen may have her dreams, if Elvie needs it quashed, it will be quashed.
That writer I have been mentioning doesn't seem to get that sometimes you need a balance of power and opposing forces among the girls but, it seems to me, without it, things go off the rails too quickly.
The quiet in the van is now broken by Joriz. Ron, Judith come back to work today. I see her this afternoon. She nice to me but no touching. She say that you told her to do that. She correct?
Huh, maybe she thinks that. I told her no sex with you girls. Maybe she doesn't know the difference between sex and touching.
So the plan for her is over now?
Yes, just ignore her unless it is a school matter.
OK.
When we get to the house, the plates are set and small, relatively flat plates (like saucers or small cake plates) holding the sauce are strategically placed on the table. Empty glasses are also set out. The rice is still in the cooker but is ready to be ladled out into two large serving bowls. All those who were with me are carrying in bags from the van and putting things that need refrigeration away. The rest will wait until after the meal.
The talk at the table is easy and filled with laughter and loud voices. The doings of Pearl and Jenny with Judith are of prime interest. Joriz mentions what Judith said and what I said later about it to Pearl. Pearl seems to think about this for a bit. She takes a bite of her chicken, looks at Jenny, takes another bite, and then a drink of water, before concluding that, yes, for Judith, all touch is sexual. She is both afraid of touch and needing it all the time. Pearl thinks that it is what has Judith so confused and frightened. For Judith, there is no such thing as safe touch.
I had not considered that. My comment to Joriz was an offhand, 'Judith is confused about touch,' sort of thing. But Pearl may be right. All touch may mean sex to Judith. Wow. That is potentially mind blowing. If she is in an orphanage with children who really need safe hugs, how is that going to work?