The Ark

Copyright © 2020 by VeryWellAged

Birthday thoughts...9

Author's note: These chapters are NOT stand-alones...The story starts here.

Birthday thoughts...10

Lorie and her mother will be here in just a few hours. I still don’t know the woman’s name. All I have ever heard is nanay, and that is not a name nor a term I have any reason to use.

The gals have been out of the rooms. There’s a hotel pool outside and a fitness center inside. They went out to the pool early this morning before the sun got high. I guess they are in the fitness center now.

There are emails regarding my house I have been answering. Typing on a tablet really sucks, but it’s what I have, so the process isn’t quick. I send an email to a real estate agent in my town and ask what the market is like, in case I want to sell my place.

I send messages to the gals I haven’t seen, telling each that I have canceled my trip, and so, I won’t be seeing them. I then close the account entirely. No sense keeping it open, even though I guess it’s technically dormant and doesn’t get removed until the thirty days I already paid for. Paid for or not, I don’t want to meet anyone else.

I spend some time trying to read Philippine government websites. Maybe half of them are broken. Some are just way out of date. I find some non-governmental sites but one contradicts the next on what they say. It’s incredibly frustrating.

I get it that I can’t own land. But I can own a house. I find that really confusing. There’s this thing called an RFO certificate for buying a house, if I want to use it for a visa. I’m not sure what that is or how to get it. But I see that I can invest far less in a certain bank here, and if I just leave it alone, it’ll allow me to secure a long term visa. That’s confusing too.

There’s that immigration bureau across the street, but the visa I’m looking at doesn’t come from that office. It’s a completely different thing in Manila. It’s enough to give you a headache.

The girls are back and want to know where I want to eat lunch. Hell, let them eat wherever they want. I’m going to walk down to MickeyD’s. They want me to try something else. Maybe another day I will, but today it’s going to be a Big Mac.

It seems that if I’m going there, they are too. I tell them it isn’t necessary, but am told to please be quiet, they are coming along. And so they do.

They have been active all morning. I haven’t had a chance to even stretch my legs, and the walk to the restaurant is needed. Once again, MickeyD’s is consistent. When it comes to the Big Mac, it’s the same thing no matter where in the world you can order it, or so it seems to me based on my limited experience.

We get back to the hotel just before two. I gather Lorie and her mother will be here shortly, because Nelia gets a text indicating they are close by. So, she and Bim are waiting in the lobby for their arrival. Not wanting to even meet the mother, I go back to my room with Cincer.

Cincer has my tablet in her hand and is looking at some websites, but stops, looks at me and asks, You going to take both the mother and the daughter?

I don’t expect to take either of them.

OK, but if the mother pretty you tell her maybe. So you going to take the mother and send the daughter away? How that work?

Not well, I guess. It was a dumb thing for me to say.

She laughs. So true! Lorie will lie. Maybe the mother does not. Are you going to take both the mother and the daughter even though the daughter lies?

I haven’t even considered the possibility.

You need to. They are here and Bim says the mother is very pretty.

You got that from the tablet?

No, on the phone here, see? I am chatting them now.

Huh. OK… the daughter… has she told any more lies? What’s the mother’s name?

Just a second. I will ask. … And so there are a few minutes of silences, followed by … Lillian. The mother’s name is Lillian. … No lies they think.

Send the daughter up here. Just the daughter. And Cincer, I’m going to make it very hard on this kid. I know you won’t like what I’m going to do, but no problems please. Even if it repulses you. It’s best if we get rid of them fast.

I get her eyebrows.

We wait. I’m sure it doesn’t take as long as it feels to me, but time seems to be stuck. Finally, there’s a knock on the door. I make a face to suggest Cincer should open it. She figures out what I want, opening the door to Lorie.

Now Cincer is not the tallest of the gals, but seeing her with Lorie makes Cincer look like a giant. The girl is tiny. Maybe four foot eight¹ if not shorter. She’s cute, but is she really even nineteen? Are there other lies?

Good afternoon.

Yes, Po. Good afternoon.

Do you have any official identification on you?

Excuse?

Cincer says something in their language and I make a face. Ira, I ask her if she has any picture ID. That all.

I nod, and then looking at Lorie, Do you?

Po, I have my college ID.

Let me see it.

The kid is not happy, but she pulls it out of a small purse and hands it to me. I haven’t seen one of these before so it takes a few moments before I can find what I’m looking for.

How old did you say you were?

Twenty-one.

Do you know how old your mother told us you were last night?

Nineteen?

Do you want to tell Cincer how old this ID says you are?

Po, I can explain!

Tell her, Lorie. Tell her how old you really are.

Po….

Tell her or get out.

Seventeen. It say seventeen. The kid starts crying.

I look at Cincer. I have had enough of the lies. The kid isn’t done. Po, you know it say I turn eighteen next month. It say that.

Yes, it does. I fail to see how that makes any difference.

It is OK, Po. I old enough.

I don’t think you are old enough, legally. But beside that, you lied. Lying gets you kicked out.

Po, I only lie so you will agree to meet me. I must lie about my age or the website not allow me on it. So the lie, it required. But if I put eighteen, there are perverts, Po. I not want one of them. They say, if you put a little bit older, the perverts leave you alone. My mother, she just try to protect me so you will see me. That why she lie. Po, this is true. I never lie again. Never!

I can see from Cincer’s face that she is buying this. Maybe that is true, but you were rude to me the first text. I don’t like rudeness either.

Po. When you say come to you and not meet my mother I think, Oh, no! Maybe you a pervert! Maybe I make a mistake. Best to not meet you. … Nay² not know what I do! But she see me crying after I tell you I not meet you. She say, tell me everything. I do. I show her your page and your messages. She tell me I am a foolish girl. You are a good man. Nay say no man wants to meet family unless he likes the girl. We talk and talk. She think I am too young but I tell her, Nay what my life to be? I want better. Finally, she say it probably too late, you already meet another, but send you a message, say I sorry. I do that. But wala³! Then I get a text from Nelia. I so happy! Nay know if she tell you seventeen you will say not to come. So she lie for me. Please, I promise, I never lie again!

I have three gals. None are as young as you. We have sex together. Do you understand what that means?

Yes, I meet the other two but, really? Really, sex all together? All the girls together?

Are you saying I lie like you?

No! No! I not think you lie! Sorry! I truly sorry. I not mean to say you lie! Oh my God! Please no!

I may not be a bad man. I may not be a pervert. Still, my life with my three is a different type of life. You really want sex with my three girls and me?

The kid turns to Cincer and says, Ate⁴, you be good to me? Not hurt me? I be good, I promise.

Cincer just smiles at the kid. I’m not sure she really knows how to respond. I didn’t lie, but I may have made it wilder than it is. Still, the kid didn’t say no, so how do you parse that without testing it? There’s no sense asking her if she knows how different our ages are. She knows.

I’ve only one more thing I need to confront her with. And then, if that doesn’t shake the tree a bit, I think I may push the female-female sex bit a little harder. Words are one thing. Deeds are another. I’m not sure how Cincer will deal with it, but I might as well do all I can to get the kid to back out. Then none of my gals will be criticizing me later. The kid’s explanation was enough to sway Cincer, and that is not a good sign.

Lorie, downstairs your mother is waiting to see if I’ll take her too. Did you know that?

The kid’s eyes get really big. I don’t think she had any idea. My gals tell me she is pretty. What happens if I take you and your mother? We all have sex together, remember?

You wouldn’t!

Oh, yes, I would. If I accept you, I’ll probably need to accept your mother, because of your age. So are you really ready for that?

Ate, is Sir just trying to scare me?

Friend, maybe it a little of both. Yes, he hope you will say you not want this. I know that is true. But it also true what will happen. It true that we all in the same bed having sex at the same time. So that is true. This not what you really want so, Ira, think you need to make the decision to go. If you not, I think he will take you… and your mother because he say you too young! So it best you be honest. I know this not what you think it like. Best you go home with your mother now. If you stay, you know what it like with us.

Ate, if I not rude, would Sir be different now?

Some yes, some no. Your mother not be here then, correct? So that is different. It be Nelia after you, but she would have joined us. But, when Ira learn your age and your mother not here to say you can join with her, I think you will not join. No way he allow without your mother I think. But maybe not allow because of the lie.

Po, may I ask some questions?

Yes.

What my life like if I stay with you?

I’m looking to buy a home here. We will settle down. I guess you would go to school or work. It would be up to you.

How I pay for school?

If it isn’t too much, I would have paid for it.

Excuse me, Ira. Let me answer. I know the cost of things here and your finances. Friend, Ira will pay for your education. No problem with that.

Oh, my God! Really?

Cincer gives her the eyebrows.

So, my life will be better. My future better. Po, will you give me children?

Do you want that?

Oh! Yes! Of course, yes! Ate, don’t you want, Sir’s children?

Yes, friend, but we have not spoken about it yet.

Oh, I sorry!

Cincer smiles, It OK.

So I get educated, children, and love? Po, will you love me?

Yes, I would have, Lorie, if you were good, and honest, I would have loved you. But you have lied over and over. Why should I even agree to be with you?

Because I never lie again? Because I be good?

Cincer is trying to get my attention and, when I turn to her, she comes to me, leans in to my ear and says, Allow this.

Oh Jeez. Fuck. I turn back to the kid. The next time you lie, I’ll kick you out and I think that will be soon enough.

No more lies! Not one. I swear this true! Po, I will do the sex with all. It is only the body and if all love, then it good I think. Po … I think if you tell Nay she have sex with me, she will not stay! I hope! Please allow me without Nay, Po. … And then the kid giggles. When we do the sex? I need to prove it now?

No, Lorie, not now, but maybe you will kiss Cincer good so she knows you mean to love her too.

Lorie gets up from where she is sitting and goes right to Cincer, who stands up too. Lorie is on her toes, but does kiss Cincer well and good on the lips. Cincer, being the good soldier that she is and knowing that I want to push the kid as far as possible, slips a tongue into Lorie’s lips … and I’ll be damned; the kid goes for it and reciprocates with her own tongue.

OK, Lorie, I’ll accept you, provisionally. But I have yet to meet with your mother. If there are any lies, or problems, it will be the end. Depending on how things go with your mother, if you are good and honest, you may be here permanently. If she doesn’t stay and really is OK with you being mine, I’ll allow it. … Cincer is going to put you alone in another room while all of us meet with her. She may well leave, but she may not. That is just the risk you will have to accept. If she is as pretty and as nice as my gals’ think she is, and if she agrees to how we do things here, I may accept her too, and then … if you stay … you will be having sex with your own mother. … Cincer, please take her to the other room and come right back.

I text Bim.

You and Nelia bring Lillian to my room. Both of you and Cincer will stay with me while I am with her. Bring her now.

OK

Cincer returns to the room before the other three arrive.

Lillian is a very attractive gal. There’s no question about that. She is no taller than her daughter though they really don’t look alike. Everyone sits, though Cincer and I are on the bed. There are only two easy chairs and one desk chair.

It’s my show, and the gals aren’t talking.

Lillian, my three tell me you are very good looking. You are. And they tell me they like you. I’m glad they do. But first, I’ve a problem with you. I think Cincer may know what my problem is, but my other two do not and they look a little panicked.

You lied to us yesterday. Lying gets you excluded.

Nelia blurts out, How?

I give Nelia a cold look and she shuts up.

Now Lillian, would you care to explain to the others here what I already know?

Po, it was a harmless thing. It was just so you not reject my daughter.

There’s no such thing as a harmless lie, Lillian. I do not tolerate any lying.

Yes, Po. Po, it is different here. These things are done. I not know your rules. I sorry I tell you my child is nineteen when she not.

Bim gasps. Nelia shouts, How old?

Seventeen, friend. She seventeen. She be eighteen next month and then you know we always talk about what comes next. So it … The woman starts crying. I have no idea what she means about the next year.

Cincer sees my confusion and says, Ira, when we are asked how old we are, it is common in our culture to say what we will turn next, not what we have already turned. Lillian is saying that since Lorie will turn eighteen next month, it wasn’t a very big lie because next month the coming birthday would be nineteen.

Thank you for the explanation, but it’s still a lie and Lillian knew it. I get a nod of acknowledgment from Cincer.

Lillian, you did not know my rule, and given Cincer’s explanation, I’ll not tell you to leave because of it, but there must never be another lie. Not one. Do you understand?

Yes, Po.

Now it occurs to me that you don’t know how we as a group function. I went over this with your daughter earlier and she knows, and, because of it, she hopes you will not join us. Cincer was there when I told her. Cincer, did I tell her daughter anything that was not absolutely true?

Friend, Ira only told true things to Lorie.

As Bim and Nelia were not with us, they don’t know what I’m about to tell you. I do not know if it will embarrass them but they are to say nothing while I tell you, regardless of how embarrassing it is or for any other reason. So do not turn to them. You may turn to Cincer if you need to do so. Am I clear?

Yes, Po.

We, the three of us, and now it’ll be the four of us, with Lorie … in sexual matters, we are all together. We are all on the bed having sex with each other at the same time. If you stay, you will not just be with me alone. You will be with me and the others in this room plus your own daughter. That will be true even when my cock is in your cunt. Do I make myself completely clear?

Lillian does look at Cincer and Cincer bless her heart speaks up and says, This is completely true and if my friends here do not tell you the same thing they would be lying. Since they do not lie, they will agree with me. I know Ira say they to be silent, but Ira, allow them to say this is true.

OK.

Both Bim and Nelia tell Lillian it’s not only true but we were all together last night, swapping positions as the evening progressed. They didn’t explain what that meant, and so they gave nothing away.

Po, I not know this. I see why my daughter hope I leave now. Will she leave if I stay?

Probably not. I suspect she will stay if you permit it.

Yes, I will permit her to stay, but I am OK with what you say. When we do this? I like women. For me this is good.

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Birthday thoughts...11