Dorsai - Full Circle

After that, the rest of the questions and conversation were pretty routine – but after the girls went home, Kelly and I decided that that question had been something of a toe dipping into the pool, checking the temperature.

A week later, and the girls were back again – and that time, the conversation ranged far and wide. There still wasn't any overt discussion of anything intimate, but the things that they did ask and want to talk about made it pretty clear to Kelly and me that they were getting comfortable with us.

It was the week after that that they finally felt brave enough to begin asking the kinds of questions that we knew they were really interested in the answers to. It began with Claire asking Kelly if she'd ever had, you know, feelings. Despite Claire's visible embarrassment at my presence, Kelly asked a few questions to make sure of what she was asking – which, not surprisingly, was whether or not Kelly ever felt horny.

At different times, all five girls looked over to see that I was utterly indifferent to the subject matter as Kelly assured them that she most certainly did have 'feelings' – and that if a girl didn't have someone else to help her with those feelings, then taking care of them yourself was perfectly acceptable. That prompted Bonita to ask if Kelly didn't mean that the girl should have a guy to help her. Kelly's response was that no, it didn't have to be a guy – if the girl had a friend that was willing, she didn't see anything wrong with two girls helping each other that way.

That seemed to surprise the hell out of all of them, and it was the twins that brought up the Church's position about such things. I could see from the expression on their faces that Kelly was surprising them when she said that she didn't think that the Church had quite the right attitude: that she didn't think it was right, reasonable, or responsible to punish people for giving in to the very desires that God had given them.

From there, it was Evelyn that questioned whether such a girl was a lesbian; I offered the opinion that as long as the girl was willing to at least consider being with a guy, then she couldn't be lesbian – that she simply didn't know if she was interested only in girls which was what the definition of lesbian required. Besides, I asked them, what's wrong with lesbians? As long as they weren't forcing anyone, who was being hurt?

Crissy and Sheri tried to argue religion with me, and I reminded them of a number of Bible stories that shed a little different light on the idea of a kind and benevolent God. That seemed to give them something to think about for later; it was Evelyn that suggested sex – whether between a girl and a guy, or two people of the same sex – was dirty, anyway. Kelly and I took turns explaining to them that sex, in and of itself, was neither good nor bad – it was the reason why the two people were having sex that mattered.

A bit later, Bonita changed the subject to boy-girl problems, and specifically, problems she'd had with different boyfriends. On that subject, I was able to explain what was likely going on in the kids empty head – with Kelly adding to the conversation by explaining to them about love and values and the like.

By the time the evening ended for us, we'd covered a lot of different subjects and expressed a wide variety of views and opinions. But the girls all seemed to be willing to consider the things that Kelly and I had told them. That both of us had encouraged them to think about what we'd said, and then make up their own minds, appeared to have a lot of impact on them.

When Kelly came back from teaching her class the following week, she came into my office and told me "I asked Jan to do something on Sunday, and I found out the results of it today."

"What was that?", I asked.

She gave me a big grin and said "I asked her to talk to a couple of the girls and see if they would say anything about what we've been talking about. She did, and there wasn't a one of them that would say anything. The most they'd do was admit that they were asking questions, and listening to the answers – but not a single word about what it was they were asking, even in general terms. When she came right out and asked Claire what we were talking about, Claire told her that she probably needed to talk to us – that she didn't think that she was able to answer that."

I smiled back at her and said "Sneaky little thing, aren't you? But that gives us a pretty good idea that they're trustworthy, doesn't it?"

"I think it does. From what they were asking last time, I don't think its going to be too long before they get down to the nitty-gritty. When that happens, I want to test them, and see how serious and sincere they are about wanting to learn."

I raised an eyebrow, and she told me "No, I'm not going to grab one of them by the tits or anything – but I plan to draw a pretty clear line, and see if they're willing to cross it."

I just shrugged my shoulders and told her "You know the chance you're figuring to take. I'll leave it up to you to decide if it's worth it, or not."

Kelly stood up and came over to give me a kiss on the cheek and tell me "I think it will be", before leaving to her office.

It was a couple of weeks before the girls were able to come over again – but when they did, they'd barely sat down before Crissy and Sheri were telling us that Jan had been asking them about our talks. Kelly and I looked suitably surprised, then reassured, when all of them informed us that they hadn't admitted to anything. Once that was out of the way, we were back to talking about the kinds of things that were on their minds.

Kelly and the girls had somehow gotten onto the subject of whether or not there was any difference between a girl being seen in her bra and panties, and a bikini, when Kelly told them "Oh, poo! It doesn't even matter if your naked when you're with other people, never mind whether you're wearing a bra and panties or a bikini! What matters is the kind of people around you – and I can prove it!"

"How?" Crissy (I'd gotten pretty good at telling the twins apart) asked.

"Easy!" Kelly told them – then stood up, unzipped the sun dress she was wearing, and let it drop to the floor, revealing that she didn't have a thing on under it. Looking at them, she said "I'll bet that if any of you have the courage to wear just your panties and bra – while I'm naked! – that it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference to me – OR Dan!" – and with that reminder, all of them looked over at me. I didn't have to pretend to be disinterested whether Kelly was naked or not: I'd simply seen her dressed, undressed, and everything in between too many times. And when I looked at each of them, I looked them directly in the eyes – making it clear to them that it didn't matter to me either way, whether they wanted to do as Kelly challenged, or not. When they turned back to her, Kelly sat down again, a smile on her face.

Initially, none of them was ready to do much of anything except stare at her. To get things off of dead stop, I asked them how they were doing in school – the incongruity of it made all of them smile, but they answered, even though Kelly continued to get the occasional look. After a bit, the conversation was in full swing again.

As we continued to talk, though, I was discretely watching them to see what kind of reaction they would have to what Kelly had done (which HAD surprised me). After a bit, I noticed Crissy and Sheri having one of the silent conversations with each other that Kelly and I had grown used to witnessing. A bit later, both of them stood up, and to the surprise of the rest, proceeded to strip down to panties and bras before sitting down again and rejoining the conversation. A couple minutes later, after a quick glance at me, Claire followed their example; shortly after that, Evelyn did. Last to go was Bonita. The whole time, though, Kelly and I kept the rest in conversation, totally ignoring whoever was engaged in taking their outer clothing off.