Sisters & Daughters, Part 13 – The Hungry Ghosts

by Buck

This story contains less sex than usual and a little bit of violence. I intended for this to be a typical sexy S & D story, but it just didn’t flow that way. This chapter in the lives of Diane and company is a little too serious to be playfully sexy. But I think it’s an important part that needs to be told. By the end of this story the fate of Theresa and April will be decided…maybe.

Five weeks later, February 17, 2005. Thursday night.

“I’m just saying,” Nicky told her aunt Diane, as they lay naked in Nicky’s bed, Diane’s lips on Nicky’s breast, her fingers on her vulva, “that we have to do something. I mean you can’t even stay in you bedroom anymore.”

Diane let Nicky’s nipple go with a wet pop. “You trying to kick me out of your bedroom?”

“No. You know me better than that. But the ghosts are beginning to drive us crazy. You can’t sleep in the loft anymore and Aunt Luann and Annie can’t sleep in their bedroom anymore.”

Diane began kissing Nicky’s neck. “I know. Theresa and April used to be great to us. But now their sooo demanding.”

“Ever since the big party last month, they’ve just been out of control.” It started slowly, but became progressively worse. The two ghosts that shared their house, Theresa, the mother, and April, her daughter, were lesbians. When the family had moved in last October, the ghosts had started molesting them when ever the family was making love to each other. It was as if the ghosts were drawn to the sexual activity.

After a few months the ghosts would touch the women and girls even when they weren’t having sex, and even the younger ghost, April, began playing with the young girls in the house, ten year old Annabel, and the eight year old twins, Sun and Moon.

In January the family threw a big party at the house, and ever since then, the ghosts had been incredibly demanding on the family. From dusk until dawn Theresa and April would continually bring the females in the house to orgasm after orgasm. This was the curse inside the blessing, for eventually the live people would become exhausted, but the ghosts seemed to have limitless energy.

It was becoming so bad that the children’s friends refused to sleep over night any more, and even adult visitors were uncomfortable staying in the house for long.

Annabel, a cute little blond with tan skin, who had just turned eleven, lay in her sister-cousin’s arms. Tammy, almost seventeen, a pretty red head with freckles, held her little sister- cousin tightly. (For the explanation of Tammy and Annie’s unusual family relationship see S & D part 7: The Sweet Sixteen.)

“Don’t worry, Little One,” Tammy told her, “I won’t let anything happen to you.” They were lying naked on Tammy’s bed under her blankets.

“But what if they get me?” Annie yawned. “I’m soooo tired. Last night I had about twenty orgasms. I don’t even know if it was all Theresa or if April helped.” Tammy traced one of Annie’s little brown nipples. “Ow. Don’t,” Annie told her. “They’re sore too. One of them was sucking so hard on my nipples I thought I was going to grow boobies in one night.”

Tammy laughed, and hugged Annie. “Yeah. We have to do something about them. I’m sore too. And my butt…I think one of them was trying to put their whole hand up my butt hole.”

“Gross,” Annie said.

“Well, one finger feels pretty good. And it’s not so gross if you make sure you wash your hands before…and afterward.”

Sun and Moon were twin sisters who shared a room and had twin beds. The separate beds were for appearances sake mostly, like when social services came to visit the family. Right now the twins each occupied a separate bed, but they were not alone.

“Aunt Evie, how long are you going to have to sleep with us?” Sun asked. She was lying in Evelyn’s arms.

“I don’t know, Sun.” Evelyn looked at the other bed, caught her sister-in-law, Luann’s eyes in the glow of the night light. Luann was lying next to Moon. “How long ARE we going to wait for their activity to die down? I hate that our home has become a battleground.”

“What’s a battleground?” Sun asked.

“A terrible place to try to sleep,” Evie answered.

Luann propped herself up on one arm. “I was really hoping that they would settle down by now.” Luann’s hand was on Moon’s bare belly. “I thought if we stopped having sex, they would let us alone. But they’re still after us even when we’re trying to be celibate.”

Moon put her hand on top of her aunt Luann’s hand. “I don’t think I like April anymore. She used to be fun to play with, but now she doesn’t listen. When I tell her no, she doesn’t let me alone. I thought the rules were that when you say no…no means no.”

Luann lightly rubbed Moon’s belly. She noticed the dark circles under Moon’s eyes. “April and Theresa aren’t playing by the rules anymore.” She turned back to Evelyn. “You know, I’m not even horny. Haven’t been for like a week. The ghosts have spoiled it. I’m just sore.” Luann gingerly touched her own labia, traced her lips carefully.

“They’re being mean to us,” Sun said, as she climbed on top of Evelyn, put her face on her breast.

Evelyn let sun put her lips around her red nipple. She stroked the eight year olds hair. “They’ve been quiet tonight, so far. I’m getting paranoid. I’m expecting something bad.”

A shriek broke the still of the night. It was Annie screaming. In less than a minute the whole family was in Tammy’s bedroom. Being closer, Diane and Nicky were at her doorway first. They came upon a sight to chill them. The blankets were on the floor. Annie was on her back on the bed, her legs up in the air and spread as wide as they could be. As if Annie was doing an upside down split. Tammy was struggling with Annie’s left leg, trying to wrest it from the grasp of invisible hands.

Annie’s screams were replaced by her pleading, “No! No! Stop! It hurts! Stop!” She screamed again and then, “Theresa! Stop! You’re hurting me.”

Luann was suddenly there pulling on Annie’s right leg. She could see Annie’s eleven year old labia pulled back, her red, sore vagina open impossibly wide, filled with something invisible. “Let my daughter alone! Let! Her! Alone!”

Moon and Sun stood by the doorway, watching the scene intently, as Annie’s shoulders were picked up off the bed, suspending the girl nearly upside down. They glanced at each other, then turned back to watch Tammy and Luann pull Annie down to the bed. Luann lay atop her daughter in a protective gesture.

Moon suddenly pushed her sister down to the floor. “Stay away!” An invisible force pulled Moon across the floor by her ankle, to the side of Tammy’s bed. Evelyn grabbed the girl around the waist, tried to pull her out of the room. Diane picked Sun up in her arms and fled to the bathroom between Nicky and Tammy’s bedrooms. She returned in an instant to see Evie on hands and knees on the floor, Moon under her. Evie’s head was pulled back by her hair and something was pounding into her vagina from behind, causing her ass cheeks to vibrate and Evie to cry out, “Uhhh, uhhh, uhhh,” in time to invisible thrusts. Moon’s wide eyes stared from underneath her aunt .

Tammy and Nicky had their heads buried between each other’s legs, and Diane was astounded that they would do this in the middle of what was going on, but then realized they were being held that way against their will. Both sisters were trying to pull their faces away, as their mouths and noses were being roughly dragged back and forth across the other’s vulva.

Luann picked up Annie in her arms and stumbled out of the room. Diane pulled Moon out from underneath her sister, Evie and turned to the doorway, but was thrown to the floor. She watched in horror as Moon was pulled from her arms, suspended upside down, and in a similar fashion to what had happened to Annie, the little girl’s legs were spread wide and something tried to push its way into her little vagina. As Diane grabbed her daughter around the hips with a, “NO!” blood began to flow down Moon’s ass and belly, running towards her head, accompanied by the little girl’s sobs.

In an instant the invisible attackers vanished. Without a word, Diane took Moon into the bathroom to check her injuries. Slowly Tammy and Nicky recovered and went to their mother’s side. Evelyn was lying with her face buried in the carpet, her ass in the air with her legs spread wide.

“Mom! Mommy!” Nicky pulled her mother over to face her. “Are you alright?”

Evelyn took a deep breath. “No. I’m not alright. I was just raped! Of all the things… I don’t know what they stuck inside of me, but it felt like a whole fucking arm!” Blood trickled from Evelyn’s vagina.

Tammy touched her mother’s arm. “What are we going to do?”

Evelyn sat up. “These ghost have got to go. Do you hear me?” She raised a fist to the air. “Theresa! April! I want you out of my house! Right now! Get out! You don’t belong here! You two are dead! Dead! Go to the light! Or go to hell! I don’t care, just get out! Noooooooow!”

In the bathroom, Diane and Luann were attending to their daughters. After checking Moon’s vagina, Diane said to Luann, “I just think her hymen’s been ripped.” Both mothers cuddled their daughters.

“She should see a doctor,” Luann suggested. “Just to make sure she’s okay.”

Diane made a face. “And tell them what? That she was attacked by a ghost? They will immediately think that one of us did something to them. They’ll take away all the kids and throw us in jail.”

“We have to do something. This has to stop.”

“Tammy, Nicky?” Diane called. “Someone get me the phone.”

Annie got her mother’s attention. “Mommy? Theresa and April don’t look right.”

“What? What do you mean?”

“They don’t look like themselves. They look weird, all stretched out and stuff. Their faces are like play dough.”

Luann looked at Diane, as Tammy brought the cordless phone into the bathroom. “I think we need to call a specialist.”

Diane held the phone up by her head. “You want me to call Ghostbusters?”

Diane called her friend Dulcy and asked if the girls could stay with her for awhile. The girls packed their sleeping bags, toothbrushes, and some clothes, and Tammy drove the twins, Annie, Nicky and herself to Dulcy’s house in town.

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It was early on Friday morning and Luann was in the house by herself. Diane and Evelyn had regular daytime jobs, but Luann worked as a realtor and made her own hours for the most part. She had one showing at one o’clock and that was all she had for the day. She went about the house straightening everything up and putting wash in the washer, thinking about the night before.

Slowly she left the laundry room, walked through the kitchen and to the bottom of the stairs that led to the loft above the garage. This is where her sister-in-law, Diane slept. Or used to sleep, but couldn’t anymore, because this is where the ghostly activity was the worst. This is where the young girl, April, was found hanging, a bed sheet tied around her neck, from the balcony that looked out over the front of the house.

Luann walked up the steps warily, gripping the hand rail in a tight fist, as if she feared someone or something was about to push her down the steps at any second. She made it to the top step and forced herself to step into the room. She noticed that Diane hadn’t bothered to make up her bed since vacating the room a week before. She began making the king size bed as the excuse for coming up to the loft.

When she was finished she turned to look out one of the two windows that faced the east where the sun was still shinning through. She sighed, feeling a little more relaxed. The ghosts had never attacked in the daytime, so she felt she had little to fear.

Gathering her courage she went over to the balcony doors, which faced the south side, and the front of the house. She unlocked the one door and pulled it open, stepped out on the balcony. The balcony was small, only about seven feet wide and jutted out from the outside wall of the loft by about four and a half feet. The black metal railing was about three and a half feet high, and Luann could comfortably rest her hands on it. The first rule they made for the kids, when they had moved in last October, was that they were not allowed out on the balcony unless and adult was with them.

Luann took the railing in both hands and leaned slightly out to look down to the ground below. The balcony was actually set on top of the garage’s roof and wasn’t suspended out in mid air, but the drop to the ground was about twenty feet straight down. In her mind she saw the man, Harvey, tie a bed sheet around his little girl’s neck, tie the other end to the balcony railing, and then throw the girl over the railing. She imagined her daughter Annie, who had just turned eleven, the same age as April when she died, in the same situation. She imagined her horror as she went falling over the railing only to be jerked to a stop, four or five feet down, by the sheet around her neck.

Luann shuddered, stepped back from the edge, closed the door from the inside and hurried down the steps to the kitchen. She was walking back down the hallway towards the living room when she heard the door bell.

Curious as to who would be at the door this early in the morning, she peeked out the dining room window first. It looked like a girl in a brown coat, her hood up. Cautiously she opened the door to find a teenage girl standing there, her nose and cheeks red.

“Can I come in?”

Only when the girl spoke did Luann recognize her voice. It was Angelica. “What are you doing here? You should be in school. How did you get out here?” Luann asked as she led the girl into the living room and took her coat.

“I walked,” Angelica smiled, as she sat on the sofa. The high school was on the outskirts of town so it was about a two mile hike to get to Luann’s house.

Luann sat on the love seat. “You walked? Why are you here? You just felt like walking?”

Angelica smiled again. Now that she was actually at Luann’s house, the plans she had made were beginning to look foolish. “I cut school today. Don’t tell my mom, okay?”

“That’s not like you. Why would you do that?”

Angelica rubbed her face to warm it up. “I was hoping you’d be home. I wanted to see you.”

“This probably isn’t a good time. I should take you back to school.” Luann rose. “We’re having a lot of problems right now with our resident ghosts. They attacked Annie and Evelyn last night. The twins, too.”

“Attacked?” Angelica eyes darted around the room.

Luann sat back down. “Relax. We’ve never seen them during the daytime. Apparently daylight does something to them. Disrupts their ectoplasm or something.”

“Oh, okay.” Angel licked her lips. “Like I said, I wanted to see you.”

Luann sighed. “Okay, how can I help?”

In answer, Angel stood up, moved towards Luann and pulled her sweatshirt off over her head. Next came her tee shirt, then she unsnapped her jeans, pulling the zipper down, letting them fall to her feet. “Make love to me.” It came out as something half way between a plea and a demand. Angel stood there in white panties and bra awaiting Luann’s reaction.

Luann smiled. And nearly laughed, but knew it would probably devastate the tenth grader. She bit back her smile and said, “No. Not today. Any other day, but not today. I’m just worried about the ghosts.”

“Your lips says no, but your eyes say yes,” Angel told her lowering her mouth towards Luann’s.

Luann did laugh this time. Angelica must have heard that line from an old movie. “I didn’t know you were so funny.”

Angelica did kiss Luann a short peck on the mouth. “There’s a lot you don’t know about me.” She sat herself on Luann’s lap, her arm around her neck.

The tall Hawaiian woman instinctively put her arms around the girl and squeezed her. Luann’s face only an inch from Angel’s, she said, “Are you trying to prove something here? Trying to make Demi jealous, by any chance?”

Angel swallowed hard. “I want to make love to you. I want you to make love to me. At the Halloween party I had to share you with Demi, and at the party last month I had to share you with about a dozen others. I just wanted to be alone with you.”

She kissed Luann again, this time longer, with a lot of slow tongue action. Something began melting inside of Luann. It was true her vagina and clit were sore. It was true she hadn’t been horny for days. But Angelica’s kisses were like sinking into a hot tub on a cold winter day. You just wanted to take refuge there and not come out for anything.

Angel undid the front clasp of her bra, letting loose her pale pink tipped breasts the size of navel oranges. Luann couldn’t resist taking one in her large hand and squeezing slightly. Angelica’s breast just fit her palm like it was made for it. Luann bent her head and kissed the pink nipple, held firm between her fingers, sucking it for a few seconds. She looked back up into Angel’s eyes. “Oh, what the Hell. You are damn near irresistible.”

“Thanks!” Angel smiled, jumped from Luann’s lap and began unbuttoning Luann’s blouse.

“Luaaaann.”

Luann looked around the room. “Did you hear that?”

“What?” Angelica pulled Luann’s blouse off and began working on her bra.

“Luaaaann. What are you doing, Luaaaann?” The voice sounded closer.

“Someone just called my name.”

“Are you trying to scare me?”

“No. Really.” Luann put her hands on top of Angelica’s to stop her from removing any more of her clothes. “I’m either hearing voices now, or….the ghosts are back.”

“Okay. Alright.” Angel began putting her clothes back on. “If you don’t want to do this right now you only have to say so. You don’t have to make up an excuse.”

“Aaaangel. Aaaangel. Don’t goooo.”

Angelica stopped with her jeans half way up. “Now I heard it.” She turned to Luann as she pulled her jeans up and zipped them. “Someone’s saying my name. You weren’t kidding about the ghosts, were you?” Luann shook her head, as she began buttoning her blouse. “I think I better get back to school.”

“I’ll drive you.”

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At noon, in a restaurant across the street from the accounting firm that Diane worked at, Diane sat in a booth with her friends and co-workers, Dulcy and Heather.

“You’re quiet today,” Dulcy told Diane.

Diane sipped her ice tea, shook her head. “How long can the girls stay with you? I hope they’re no bother.”

“No. Of course not. They can stay as long as you need them to.”

“What’s going on?” Heather asked from the other side of the booth. “Why are your girls staying with Dulcy?”

Diane glanced at Heather, leaned forward, lowered her voice. “Since our big party last month…our ghosts have gone…insane. It’s the only word for it.”

Heather put her hand on Diane’s. “What do you mean? What are they doing?”

Diane took a deep breath. “They’re…attacking us.”

“Like poltergeists? Are they moving things?”

“No. They’re attacking us sexually. They’ve attacked the twins and Annie, made Moon bleed last night. They’ve raped my sister. They’re really pissing me off. And every one of our…holes… are sore, if you know what I mean.”

Heather’s blue eyes went wide. She sat back. “Oh. Oh, dear.” She thought a moment, then said, “Diane? Would you consider seeing a psychic about your problem?”

“At this point I’ll try anything. We love the house. We don’t want to move.”

Heather dug in her purse for a minute, bringing out a slightly crumpled white card. She handed the card to Diane. “Call this woman. Or just go see her. She’s usually not that busy.” The card read Madam Jade, Seer, and a phone number. “She calls herself a seer. I just think of her as a psychic.”

“What’s a seer?” Diane asked.

“She sees things. Things other people can’t. And she’s been known to talk to ghosts.”

“What have I got to lose?”

“Do you want me to go with you?” Dulcy asked.

“No. You’ve done enough for me. I’ll pick up Evie on the way.”

Diane and Evelyn arrived at the ordinary looking house on Piper Street, a side street leading off of Market street, parked their car out front and walked to the front door. A sign posted near the front door read: Madam Jade in Basement Around Back, with an arrow pointing the way.

Exchanging looks, Diane and Evelyn walked around the side of the house, where a narrow sidewalk led to cement steps that led down to the basement door. Evelyn adjusted her new glasses on her nose and knocked on the door.

A high feminine voice called out, “Enter!”

Exchanging looks, Evelyn and Diane pushed the door open. The interior of the basement was lit by florescent lights set into transparent ceiling tiles of a drop ceiling. A slim woman in a bright dress was sitting behind a large wooden desk at the front wall of the house, next to bare wooden steps that led upstairs. A sofa, perpendicular to the desk, was along an outside wall, and two office chairs, in front of the desk.

Diane shut the door behind her and Evelyn asked, “Are you Madam Jade?”

“Who else would I be?” The woman rose and the sisters noticed that there was a computer on the desk and filing cabinets behind the desk. “Come. Sit.” Madam Jade had an oriental looking face, neither pretty nor homely, and had an uncertain age about her. She was small featured and could have passed for fifteen, or she could have been thirty. Her hair was hidden under a kerchief. As Diane and Evelyn took seats in front of the desk, Madam Jade sat and said, “You must be Diane and Evelyn.” She spoke with the confidence of an adult, despite her appearance.

The sisters exchanged looks. “You’re good!” Evelyn said. “Especially since we didn’t call ahead.”

Madam Jade smiled and she suddenly looked twenty five. “Your friend Heather called me a little while ago. She said you were having trouble with a ghost.”

Diane sat up straight. “Two ghosts actually. A mother and daughter.”

Madam Jade raised her left hand. “They were killed there, in your house, by a man, the husband and father. The spirits have been…harassing you. Your family. Your children.” She suddenly turned to her computer and began typing away. “I’ll need some money, if you want my help.”

“How much?” Diane asked.

Madam Jade suddenly stopped typing, leaned forward across the desk. “How much have you got?”

Evelyn hesitated a moment, then dug into her purse. “I can give you…” She pulled some money out of her wallet. “Fifty.” She handed the money to the bizarre woman. Madam Jade left the money lay on the desk.

“What do we need to do?” Diane asked. “Exorcism? Some kind of magic spell?”

Madam Jade bit her bottom lip, then closed her eyes and leaned back in her office chair. Without opening her eyes she whispered. “You two sisters have a very close family. Your family enjoys close physical contact. You have this in common with the spirits inhabiting your home. This is why they stay.”

“Why have they become so…mean to us,” Evelyn asked.

Madam Jade opened her eyes and launched herself across her desk, shoving papers, paperclips, a magazine, and the money to the floor, stopping nearly nose to nose with Evelyn, even though Evelyn had leaned back. “You make love to your sister.” It was just a statement, not an accusation. “You make love to your daughters. You make love to other women, and their daughters. You especially like teenage girls…around fifteen, or so.”

Diane touched Jade on the shoulder. “We know all that. Tell us something we don’t know.”

Jade smiled and pushed herself back across her desk to sit in her chair. She went back to typing on her keyboard for a minute, hit the print icon, reached across to the printer and pulled a sheet of paper from it. “Please hand me that folder on the sofa.”

Diane picked up a folder she hadn’t noticed before, and handed it to Jade. As she did so she saw the name on the tab. It read Diane and Evelyn _______. Jade took it and slipped the sheet of paper in the folder, opened her top desk drawer and shoved the folder inside.

She stood, scooped up the money, leaving everything else on the floor, hiding the money in a pocket of her skirt. “I need to go to the scene of the crime. You’ll drive me of course.” As she reached the basement door, she turned back. “I need to be back here by nine o’clock. Can that be arranged?”

“Yes. I suppose so,” Evelyn said. “What, um…what crime are you referring to?”

“Why, the rapes, of course. You. The little Korean girl. The blond Hawaiian girl…blond Hawaiian girl?” She snapped her fingers. “You have a blond niece who has an Hawaiian mother.”

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Tammy drove through the drive thru at the burger hut, three miles outside of town, near the highway off ramp. She was there to pick up supper for her sister and cousins, and Dulcy’s family as well. After paying with Dulcy’s debit card, she spotted Tonya in the drive through booth. She smiled at her girlfriend. “How’s work?”

“It’s work. I’m not supposed to talk to the customers.”

“I know. I don’t want to get you in trouble. But are you off tomorrow?”

“I have to start work at two on Saturday. So I have the morning off. Why?” Tonya handed drinks in a carrier through the window to Tammy.

“I think we need to go see that June girl. You know, the one who survived that…you know. Did you find her address?”

Tonya nodded, began passing bags of fast food to Tammy. “I didn’t get a chance to tell you, but yes, I have it.”

Tammy perked up and nearly bounced in her car seat. “You’re the best. Thank you, thank you. Will you come with me?”

Tonya nodded. “I’ll come with you.”

“I’ll talk to you tomorrow.” Tammy drove into the darkening evening.

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Night had nearly fallen by the time Diane and Evelyn brought Jade back to their house. They stepped inside to be greeted by the smell of hot pizza. The women made their way to the kitchen. It felt strange to Diane, not having the girls there. It was too quiet.

Evelyn pushed her glasses up. “New glasses, huh?” Jade asked.

Evelyn nodded. “I turned 36, and suddenly I need glasses,” she said sullenly.

Jade nodded in return. “I had to get glasses too when I turned 36.”

“You’re not wearing glasses,” Evelyn told her.

“Oh, right.” Jade felt her face to make certain. “I mean I WILL get glasses when I turn 36.” Shaking her head she muttered, “It’s a pain in the ass knowing things ahead of time.” As they entered the kitchen they found the pizza on the counter, in its white delivery box, still steaming. Luann stood at the counter, pulling slices apart.

“Ooooo. Is that meat lovers?” Jade asked, as she took a slice.

“Jade, Luann.” Diane introduced the women. “Luann, Jade.”

“The Hawaiian sister-in-law. Right,” Jade said, around a bite of pizza. “You have a cute little ten year old.”

“Eleven,” Luann corrected her. “She just turned eleven.”

Jade nodded. “Of course. Now where’s your ghosts?”

“Yeah,” Diane turned to Luann. “Where are they?”

“It’s been quiet. Well, since this morning anyway.”

“They were here this morning? In the daylight?” Evelyn was concerned.

Jade turned to Diane. “When that pretty red head was here. Theresa and April like her.”

“Tammy?” Evelyn asked.

“I think her name is…I’m getting a picture of an angel,” Jade said in all seriousness.

“How could you know that?!” Luann said.

“Get down!” Jade screamed, dropping to the floor and rolling against the center island of the kitchen.

Luann was pushed against the refrigerator. The buttons of her blouse flew across the room as her blouse was ripped open, the two sides pulled down over her shoulders. Evelyn’s pants were pulled to her feet and she fell backwards on her butt. “No. Not again!”

Diane watched Madam Jade begin shaking her head from the floor, like a dog shaking a chew toy, as she tried to help her sister up. Jade began moaning, “Oh yes! Oh yes!” Her hands clutched her head, as if she were trying to keep it from oozing between her fingers.

Evelyn fell to the floor again, as her panties were pulled to her knees. She lay back on her elbows as something unseen began to molest her. Diane screamed, “Evie!” and tried unsuccessfully to stop whatever or whoever was attacking her sister.

Jade suddenly sprang to her feet, her kerchief on the floor, and ran for the steps that led up to the loft, her long black hair trailing behind her. “Follow her!” Evie told her sister. Diane moved to follow the strange woman, stopping momentarily to watch Luann’s bra fall to the floor, and her right breast undulate as if being squeezed.

Luann’s face held more anger than fear. “Find out what she’s up to,” Luann said. “I don’t trust her.”

Diane turned towards the steps and ran to the top to find Jade had already opened the balcony doors and was stepping outside. “Jade! Wait!” Diane caught Jade by her skirt just before she leaned too far over the railing. “What are you doing?” Diane found she had to hold the strange woman in a bear hug to keep her from moving. “What’s going on?” The cool night clashed with the heat coming off the woman.

Jade focused on the night sky. “I’ll kill you, you little bitch! You and her!” Jade’s hands slapped at Diane. Diane struggled to hold the woman’s hands still. “No. No. No. You couldn’t love me. No! Not like her!”

Jade suddenly broke free and threw herself back inside the loft and headed down the steps. Diane followed her down the steps and down the hall past the family room on the left, and Nicky and Tammy’s bedrooms on the right. At the end of the hallway was Evelyn’s room on the right, and a back door to the patio, on the left. Diane followed Jade out onto the patio, momentarily in the dark. The motion sensor in the ceiling turned on the patio lights.

Jade rounded the corner and came to halt between the doors that led to the master bedroom and the doors that led back into the living room. She pressed her nose and palms against the glass of the living room door, and began sobbing. Diane took her by the shoulder and spun her around. “Jade! Jade! Snap out of it!” Diane snapped her fingers in front of Jade’s eyes, smacked her cheek, then shook her by the shoulders until the woman stopped crying and became limp. She sagged to the patio, Diane followed her down until they were both crouching.

With a hand to the side of her head, Jade whispered, “I’m sorry. That was the most powerful…possession I’ve ever experienced.”

“Who was it? Theresa? April?”

Jade shook her head. “Both. Neither. It wasn’t an ordinary possession. And someone else was there.”

Evelyn pushed the door open from the living room. “There you are. What’s going on?”

Luann appeared at her side, holding her blouse closed. “Get in here. It’s cold out there.”

“The ghosts?” Diane asked.

“They disappeared as soon as Jade ran up the stairs.” Everyone entered the living room, sat on the sofa, Diane and Jade in between Evelyn and Luann. “So, what can we do?” Luann said to no one in particular.

Jade took hands with Luann and Diane. “Theresa and April were almost gone when you moved in here.”

“Gone?” Evelyn asked. She shook her head. “But we sensed them when we were first just looking at the house, before we bought it, or moved in.”

“Another year and they would have evaporated. Poof. To the ether with them. You didn’t sense THEM. THEY sensed you. You, your family…your guests. You got them interested in life again. That’s what’s driving them now.”

“We had about twenty women here last month,” Diane said. “You saying we stirred them up?”

“You had twenty women and girls here having sex.” She paused. “What is sex?” Jade looked at each woman in turn.

“Fun?” Evelyn offered.

“Maybe to you, but to spirits, female spirits, sex is the creative force in the universe. You gave them energy AND gave them a reason to want to live again. They want to experience that creative energy again. Like the way they did in life.” Jade put her head in her hands. “I’m sorry. This isn’t coming out right. I’m not sure I’m making sense. Your resident spirits are hungry, hungry for life.” Jade looked at the time on the DVD player. “I need to get back home. I’m working third shift this week.” She got to her feet. “I hate working swing shift.”

“But what can we do?” Evelyn asked again. “How can we get them to settle down?”

“You can’t. You need to get them to leave now.”

“How?!” Evelyn cried. “Give us a straight answer.”

Jade took Evelyn’s hand. “Your problem is being solved right now. Or…it will be solved tomorrow. I think.”

After they got back in the car, Jade spoke from the back seat. “If one of you can pick me up tomorrow about nine o’clock, I’d like to come back here. I wanna see how this all turns out.”

“Me, too. Me, too,” Evelyn said with no humor.

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Saturday morning Tammy and Tonya knocked on the front door of an old farm house on Oak Road, one of the two roads that led out of town and to the highway. “I can’t believe she never left town,” Tammy told her girlfriend.

Tonya knocked louder. “Maybe she did.” They looked at the shingle siding with missing shingles and the peeling paint on the screen door. “This doesn’t look like a place someone would want to live in.”

The inside door opened a crack. “Who’s there?” a dry voice asked.

Tammy had her face an inch from the screen door, trying to see inside. “Are you June ______?”

“Who’s asking?”

“Oh, sorry. I’m Tammy and this is Tonya. I’m living in your house. Well, in the house you used to live in. Back when you were a kid.”

“The house your mother and sister died in,” Tonya offered.

“Tonya!”

“Sorry. I only meant…”

“Look,” Tammy began again. “I know this is going to sound weird, but we think your sister and mom are haunting our house. We want you to come back there with us. We hope you can do something about it. Maybe make them leave.”

The door opened enough to show them a skinny girl in dirty clothes with stringy, dirty blond hair, more dirty than blond. The girl didn’t look at either of them, but kept her eyes on the porch floor. “There’s no such thing as ghosts. Mom always told us that. If there’s something in your house…it can’t be my mom and sister. I really have to go, now. I’m…expecting a phone call…and I have something on the stove.” The door shut quietly.

Tonya banged on the door again with her fist. “Hey! Hey! June!” She looked at Tammy, then looked back at the closed door. “We know what your mother and sister were doing! We know how much they loved each other. And you.” Tonya was just guessing at the last statement.

The teens heard stomping towards the door and it swung open violently. “What do you know about my mother?! My little sister!” June looked from Tonya to Tammy.

“Just that your mother and sister…” Tammy began, “were lovers. That’s why your father…murdered them.”

June stepped out onto the porch, but kept the screen door between herself and Tammy. She wore a long sleeved, pink, sweater decorated in coffee stains, and blue jeans with holes in the knees. June’s eyes were slits of anger. “Did you talk to my father?! Has he been telling you lies?! Who are you, anyway?! What do you want from me?!”

“Please, calm down,” Tonya said quietly. “We’ll explain if you let us.”

June took a deep breath, let it out. “I’m listening,” she said evenly.

“It’s just like I said,” Tammy told her. “We moved into the house where…where the murders were committed. Two…um, ghosts started interacting with us. Me and my whole family. They let us know that their names were Theresa and April, April being a little girl.”

“We did some research,” Tonya continued. “We found out what happened, who Theresa and April were.”

June turned her whole attention to Tonya. “Who told you they were lovers? Who said that my mother and little sister were having sex?”

“Um, they did,” Tammy told her, bringing June’s attention back to the red head teenager. “Like I said, they have been interacting with us. They let us know things. They…they’ve been, well, making love to us, my whole family.”

June’s lips parted slowly. She shut her brown eyes for ten seconds, opened them quickly. “What!!”

“It’s true,” Tonya said. “Everybody in her family is gay. All the women like…girls.”

“A whole family of lesbians?” June laughed shortly. “I’m supposed to believe that my dead mother and my dead sister are having sex with your family?!? What do you want from me? Quick, or I’m shutting this door and calling the cops.”

“Just that…they’ve gone out of control,” Tammy said. “It was pleasant at first, even if it was a bit scary, and we kinda got used to them. But lately they’ve become more…aggressive, I guess is the word. They’ve been attacking us. Thursday night they raped my mom, my little sister, and my eight year old cousin!”

“Even if all this is true, what do you think I can do about it? I don’t know you. I don’t owe you or your family anything.”

“Just come with us,” Tammy told June. “I don’t know if you can do anything, but I’m out of ideas. If we can’t get them to stop hurting us, I think we’ll have to move. I don’t want to move. Our family will probably have to split up…” Tammy fell to her knees, her hand on the door handle of the screen door, her other hand took June’s hand. “Please!”

Tonya touched June’s arm. “You’ve just made my girlfriend beg. Don’t you want to at least see if you can help? They’re your family. What have you got to loose? And maybe you can finally put your past behind you. Put your ghosts to rest, so to speak,”

“What makes you think…”

“Have you looked in a mirror lately? I don’t want to be mean, but when was the last time you washed your hair? Or stepped out of your house? Even if you can’t admit it to yourself, you look like you’re haunted.”

June pursed her lips, shook her head. “Aaaaah! Let me get my coat! Wait here!” She stormed back inside, letting the door stand open. She returned a minute later wearing an old, dirty, faded blue winter coat. “Let’s go before I change my mind.”

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Diane had picked up Jade in the morning and now she sat in the living room with Diane, Luann and Evelyn. “So, what happens now?” Evelyn asked. She was beginning to dislike this strange girl. At the same time she was becoming increasingly attracted to her as well.

“We wait for your daughter to bring your solution here.”

“Tammy?”

Jade nodded, smiled prettily. “She’s bringing June here.”

Diane said, “The girl who used to live here? What can she do?”

“We’ll see,” Jade told them.

“You know something, don’t you?” Luann asked.

Jade sighed. “I only know that all this will work out. But I don’t know exactly HOW it will work out. I can assure you that by this time tomorrow everything will be back to normal, whatever normal is for your family.”

“While we’re waiting, can you tell us what you do know?” Diane said.

Jade sat back in the recliner, raising the foot rest. Her eyes closed. “That man Harvey. He lost his mind when he saw his wife making love to his daughter. He was at war with himself. He wanted to protect his daughter, that was true, but he also was aroused by what he saw. Part of him wanted to join in, make love to his daughter and his wife. He felt betrayed by his wife, like she had cheated on him, but he was jealous of her as well, that HE didn’t get to make love to his daughter. He was also homophobic. He had an irrational fear of homosexuals. This made him afraid of his family, afraid they were all gay.”

“If your trying to make that man sympathetic,” Evelyn told her, “you won’t get any sympathy from me.”

Without opening her eyes, Jade shook her head. “No. I’m just explaining his side. His thoughts and feelings are still very much present here. They’ve become part of Theresa and April’s spirits.”

“He’s not dead is he?” Diane asked.

“No. He’s still in prison. He thinks about what he did every day.” Jade opened her eyes, pushed the recliner to a sitting position. “I do feel that Theresa and April have forgiven him, because they understand his feelings…when it happened.” Jade put her hand up to stop any protesting from Evelyn. “Things are different after you lose your body. Things aren’t so black and white. Things that seem so important to your corporeal life become meaningless when you become non-corporeal.”

“But they still remembered and enjoy sex in the after life,” Luann said.

“Like I said last night. It’s the seat of the creative energy in the universe. All universes.”

A car pulled into the driveway. Minutes later Tammy and Tonya, with June trailing a few steps behind, came into the house. “We’re in the living room,” Evelyn called out.

Tammy said, “Everyone, I’d like you to meet June. She used to live here.” She noticed Jade in the recliner. “Hi.”

Diane said, “This is Madam Jade. She is here to help with our…problem.”

“June is here to help with our problem, too.”

“I really don’t know what I can do,” June began. She was looking around at the walls and furniture. “It feels strange being back here. Everything looks different…but the same.”

Jade got out of the recliner, took June by the arm. “I know what you can do. First, let’s get you into a shower and clean clothes.” She leaned into the girl, whispered into her ear, “Cleanliness, etcetera etcetera.”

Tonya dropped herself into the recliner and reclined back. “Just so you all know, I need to be at work for two. If one of you could take me, I’d be grateful.”

Diane took June’s coat and she and Jade took her to the bathroom outside of the twins bedroom, the one nearest the front door. “You offer a shower to all your guests?” June asked. When Madam Jade began pulling the girl’s sweater off, June said, “I think I can manage a shower…Madam Jade, is it?”

“Call me Joey. That’s my real name. Madam Jade is just my working name.”

June began taking her clothes off, folding them and setting them on the closed toilet lid. “So what are you, some kind of psychic, or something?”

“I like ‘seer,’” Joey told her. “It’s more descriptive, you know. Because I see things. Things that most other people can’t see.”

Diane turned the shower on for June, and she stepped in. “I want to thank you for coming. What on Earth did Tammy and Tonya say to make you come?”

“They convinced me I had nothing to lose by coming here,” June said from under the shower. “Plus, the red head begged.”

Ten minutes later June turned off the water and opened the shower door. Diane took a quick glance at the very skinny girl’s body before wrapping her in a towel. Diane began to tell the story of their ghostly visitors, how they were gentle at first, but a little disconcerting. By Christmas the family had gotten used to them, Annie and the twins even played with April. But since the big party in January, Theresa and April were just out of control, even hurting the family. (See S & D parts 10, 11, and12.)

Madam Jade, in turn, told June what she felt was going on.

Tammy knocked and opened the bathroom door with a pair of socks, jeans and sweatshirt. “I hope these fit.” She handed the clothes to Diane, as June dried off.

Dressed and in the living room again June stood beside the sofa. “Can I look around?”

“Sure,” Evelyn told her. Then, looking at the others, “I don’t want to say it, but where are they?”

“I only heard their voices yesterday morning,” Luann reminded her.

“Maybe June can hear them right now. You think that Theresa and April could talk to just one person without anyone else hearing their thoughts?”

Jade nodded. “It’s easier for spirits to speak to one than more than one.”

“Follow her,” Diane said.

Jade found June on the balcony above the garage. Evelyn and Tammy were close behind her, with Diane, Tonya, and Luann last. Jade walked out on the balcony, put an arm around the girl. There were tears streaming down June’s cheeks. “I know,” Jade said softly. “I understand.”

June shrugged Jade’s arm off, turned to see everyone standing just inside the loft. “Nobody understands. Nobody could understand what I’m going through.”

“Everyone loses people in their lives,” Jade said. June did not look at her. “We all lose friends and family.”

“My mother died when I was only five,” Tonya told her. “She had cancer.”

“Our parents died in a car accident when we were still young,” Evelyn admitted.

“I don’t remember my grand parents,” Tammy added.

“My best friend from college,” Luann said, “committed suicide…just because she couldn’t handle the pressure, and she felt she couldn’t quit.”

“See,” Jade said. “You’re not alone.”

June swung an arm to encompass everyone. “You all didn’t have anything to do with it, with those deaths.”

Jade put an arm around her again. “Don’t blame yourself. I know what you did. They told me. They forgive you. Your mother and sister don’t hold you responsible.”

“I hold myself responsible!”

Tammy took a step forward. June backed up to the railing. “You didn’t kill them,” Tammy offered.

June looked out over the driveway, then straight down. “I called him. I called Daddy. I was mad at Mom. We had a fight. I stormed out that night, went to my girlfriend’s house. I called Dad from there. I told him he had to come home right away…then I hung up on him.” June sobbed. “I knew he was going to find them…Mom and April. I just didn’t know he was going to kill them!” June sunk to her knees at the railing. “I swear I didn’t know. I never wanted him to kill them. I just wanted him to know…because I was so upset at both of them. They…they…not Mom, not April…they didn’t want to love me that way!”

Jade put an arm around June and hugged her to her chest. “It’s alright now. Your mother and sister are so sorry they didn’t…love you like that.”

Evelyn stepped forward. “If there’s anything we can do…”

A gust of wind suddenly pushed them all back into the loft. “What the Hell!” Diane cried, as she fell to the floor.

Evelyn and Tammy sat up slowly, looked all around the room, as the others got to their feet. Tammy held her hand up to her face, as if she had never seen one before. Evelyn spotted June and crawled to the girl. They locked eyes.

“Mom?”

Evelyn’s voice sounded odd. “June. June-bug. I’m so sorry, Baby. I want you to know that I love you and I’ll love you forever. I should have made love to you that night.” They rose to their feet, ignoring everyone around them. They made their way to Diane’s bed and sank down on the mattress.

Tammy rose to join them, crawling next to June. “I’m sorry too Sissy. I didn’t understand that you…were like me. Did you really want to make love to me? And Mommy?”

“Of course, Silly,” June leaned up and kissed Tammy on the lips.

Jade quietly closed the balcony doors. Not quite understanding what was going on Diane, Luann, and Tonya stood around the room watching the three women. Jade herded them towards the steps. “Com’on, ladies. Let’s leave them alone for a little bit.”

“Are they going to be okay?” Diane was worried.

“Theresa and April only want to borrow their bodies for a while. You know they couldn’t have possessed them unless Evelyn and Tammy allowed them, too.” The women walked down the steps, leaving June with her dead mother and sister…in Evelyn’s and Tammy’s bodies.

They slowly peeled each other’s clothes off, kissing and tasting flesh everywhere. Theresa and April concentrated on pleasing June first. April kissed and fondled June’s breasts while Theresa slowly made love to June’s clitoris and vagina. June closed her eyes, feeling Tammy and Evelyn’s lips and fingers on her body, but in her mind’s eye she felt her mother and little sister making love to her.

This was June’s first sexual experience and her mother and sister knew it. They took it slow, repeating the things that made June feel good: licking her nipples until they stood up hard and tall and wet on her small pale breasts, flicking her stiff clitoris until it hurt so good, corkscrewing two fingers slowly in and out of her wet vagina until it gushed, caressing her thighs and ass, tickling her ribs, causing purrs and moans of contentment.

Later, June did her best to please Evelyn and Diane, until the three of them, exhausted, melted into a cuddle in the middle of Diane’s king size bed.

The three of them, dressed, came downstairs an hour later. Theresa in Evelyn’s body apologized to Diane and Luann. “Tell everyone we’re sorry. We kind of lost our…heads. Thank you all for trying to help us.”

Diane glanced at Luann, who wore a serious look. “Speaking as a mother, I think you’ll understand…that it’s going to be a cold day in Hell before I forgive you for hurting Moon and Annie, not to mention Evie.”

Evelyn looked sad. “I’m sorry. In my exuberance I went too far with the little ones. Please tell them I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt any of them.”

“This is our house now, our home,” Diane told Theresa. “We need you to leave. You don’t belong here anymore.”

Tammy and Evelyn held June from either side, smiling fondly at the girl. They each kissed a cheek and then their knees buckled. They caught themselves and sat on the floor.

Diane crouched next to Evelyn, Tonya, next to Tammy. “You okay?”

“I think so.” Tammy touched Tonya’s face. “It was strange having a little girl inside of me.”

“What are you talking about?” Tonya said. “You have little girls inside of you all the time. And vice versa.”

Tammy slapped Tonya on the shoulder. “Hey,” Tonya said. “Can someone drive me to work?”

“I’ll take you,” Evelyn said rising to her feet.

“I’ll go with you,” Tammy volunteered.

June hugged everyone, thanking them all for the opportunity to say goodbye to her sister and mother. When June took Jade in a hug, Jade bent her back and kissed her hard on the lips. Jade looked up at Diane and Luann. “I think this could be the start of a beautiful friendship.”

June shoved Jade onto the sofa, crawled on top of her and kissed her back. The others watched with amusement. “I owe you the most,” June told Jade. “I don’t think I could ever repay you.”

“If you want,” Luann offered. “We can take you guys home now.”

“Great,” Jade said. “I need some sleep, and I hate sleeping alone. Come home with me, June.”

Evelyn and Tammy dropped Tonya off at the Burger Hut, then Evelyn drove out to the Oak Hill cemetery. Without a word they walked, hand in hand, up to a double grave, stopping a respectful distance away.

They stood for a long time, not saying a word, then Tammy broke the silence. “Mom? Do you think that Theresa and April are gone for good?”

Evelyn shook her head. “I don’t…We should have asked Madam Jade. She told us, before you brought June, that everything would be back to normal by tomorrow. But normal for us, in our house, is…”

“Having ghosts make love to us,” Tammy finished.