Erasure and Affirmation (Hypernaturals 11)

Eat All Your Lori

We arrived early at the wedding hall to transport food and make sure everything was ready. Danny and Lori came with us of course.

I just finished carrying in the roasters full for Tamales from the car. Everyone else was running around doing things. Morgan was checking beer. Jessica was looking at the cabins with Helen. Rachel was goofing off with the kids.

Lori opened the lid on the roaster and inhaled. "Oh god, that smells good." She said.

I set the second roaster full of tamales down on the counter next to the first and plugged them in. Set them to keep things warm.

We made these all last night. Lori always gives me credit for them, but it is a family effort, especially to make this many.

I gave Lori a look intended to provoke comment. "What?" she asked.

"You are wearing clothes, so I assume you did not talk Danny into exchanging rings Au Natural?" I teased.

"No. How in the hell did you two grow up together and be so different about that?" Lori asked.

"No idea. He never judged us, or us, but he was never as easy with it. I don't know why. Not as if he looks bad naked or anything."

"Understatement." Lori said.

"Whatever."

"You have a cute ass too, so that is a tough call there." Lori widened her eyes dramatically at me and wiggled her eyebrows.

"Whatever again. Neither Dan nor Liz were into going to the beach naked either, so I am the hippie of the family. I always thought it was funny because Danny was way better with ladies than me. He had no problem getting them naked in his apartment. I assume. I was not there. We never really talked about stuff like that beyond "I had so and so' over last night. Once, when Vera was over at my house, she was going on about a party we went to, and later Danny was like 'dude! You went to a group sex thing?'. I admitted I had gone to a number of them. It was not the first time. Danny shook his head and was amazed. That was the difference. He was always one on one. Always in private. When he fell for you head over heels, that part never changed. Still very private about sex and skin. Never says a word about the fact that my house is a poly pool of Vampires."

"It's weird you guys never talked about shit like that." Lori said.

"No, it's not. We would not be as close as we are if we did. Neither of us talks much about our love lives. Not to each other. I talk about it with my loves, of course, but that is different."

"Every girl I knew growing up? We all talked about it. What we did. Who we did it with. If he was any good or not. I say 'he' because my Bi side was a secret then. I pretended to be a straight, except with the women I was with. That was always on the down-low."

"Yet you and Helen pinged each other right away. You knew she was interested, and she knew you were." I said.

"Oh. Sure." Lori said dismissively.

"Are you sorry Danny is not more open to letting that happen? You and Helen?"

"Danny is terrified of Helen." Lori said. "He is afraid she would eat him alive in bed."

"She could. I doubt she would. For one thing, she would be eating you alive." I said.

"Welcome to me, Miss Helen! Ding ding ding! Lori is served. Remember to eat all your Lori. It's not nice to have leftovers. Lori will make more." Lori agreed.

"I would love to be there when that happens, and I am not even a voyeur." I said.

"Oh. You will be. You are desert." Lori said. "Besides: after I eat the food off of you, you have to eat the food off me. Only fair. I wonder if tamales would really work? Kinda lumpy."

"Oh. I see." I said.

"If you are desert, then I guess that has to be Ice Cream. We'll figure out the tamales later." Lori decided.