Kathy Learns - Family Secrets, 7

It was the first of March, two months before Kathy's second
birthday.  Joanne was pregnant with her third child. If all went
well, it would be born in June.
 
Seth had gone into town to pickup a few things they needed.  It was
cold and raining when he left the store and started to drive back to
the farm.  As he moved slowly down the road, a large truck came out
of nowhere and broadsided his pickup truck, killing him instantly.

The sheriff knocked on the door of the farmhouse and walked inside
when Betty opened the door.  Joanne and Rich were in the kitchen
feeding the kids when they heard their mother's blood curdling
scream.  The two teens ran to the porch and saw their mother in the
sheriff's arms.  She sobbed, shaking her head, and repeating the word
'no.'

Rich took his mother into his arms and held her as the uniformed man
told him and his sister what had happened.  Joanne began to cry
uncontrollably and Rich put his arm around her to comfort her.  With
the help of the sheriff, Rich got his sister and mother into the
living room and on the couch.  Rich went into the kitchen with the
sheriff, listened to the details and thanked him for coming.

Back in the living room, Betty and Joanne hugged each other and
continued to sob.  Rich stood in front of them and rubbed their
heads, waiting for them to calm down.  He heard his son calling from
the kitchen and went to see what he wanted.

Most of the folks in the area attended the funeral, all having known
the family for many years.  After the service, everyone went back to
the church for a luncheon, prepared by some of the women of the
church.

After the luncheon, the family went back to the farm and into the
house.  Betty and Joanne put the kids to bed and went to their rooms
to change out of their dresses.  Rich made small talk with his sister
as he removed his new suit and hung it in the closet.  Once they were
in comfortable clothing, the three went to the living room to discuss
their future.

"I think we should sell the farm and move into town," Betty said. 
"I think it's just too much for us to take care of without your
father."

"What are we going to do for money if we sell this place?"  Rich
asked.

"We don't have to worry about that for awhile Rich.  Your father had
a couple of life insurance policies; both of them are quite
substantial," Betty said.  "Besides the insurance, we have our
savings."

Joanne began to cry.  Rich put his arm around her shoulders and
pulled her to his side.

"I always dreamed about Mike and Kathy being able to have the fun
we've had here," Joanne said, wiping her eyes on her sleeve.

Rich glanced at his sister and she slapped him on the leg.  "Not
that!  I mean playing in the loft and swimming in the creek."

Betty started to laugh, the first time she was able to since the
accident.  She shook her head and looked at her son.

"You're just like your father-a dirty old man," Betty said.

Joanne started to giggle also and said, "Mom, he's not old!"

The three of them began to laugh in earnest.  Betty had tears
running down her cheeks, tears of joy.  For the first time in days,
she realized that things would be okay and they would survive.

It was about ten o'clock when they all went upstairs and went to
bed.  The long day had taken its toll and they were all exhausted. 
Rich and Joanne lay quietly in bed and listened to their mom softly
crying down the hall.  When Joanne started to get up, Rich stopped
her.

"Mom will be okay, Sweetheart.  She just has to grieve.  It's going
to take some time for her to accept that dad is gone.  If she needs
us, she'll let us know."

"If you're sure, Rich, I feel so bad for her."

Rich comforted her and soon they fell asleep.

Joanne didn't go to school for the rest of the week, staying at home
to help her mom.  Rich tended to the chores and the livestock.  On
the following Monday, Joanne went to school and Rich helped his mom
pack up some of his father's old clothes.  While they were working,
the telephone rang and Rich went to answer it.

"That was Mr. Wilkins mom, he sends his best for all of us," Rich
said.  "He also wants us to consider leasing the farm to him.  He
said he could use the extra acreage and we could stay in the house if
we want to."

"Rich," Betty said.  "Come over here and sit down for a minute.  I
have been thinking about the farm and have decided to move.  It just
isn't the same without your father and I really don't want to stay in
this house."

"I understand mom, but we could always lease the farm and rent the
house.  That way if we ever want to return we can.  I know Mr.
Wilkins will give us a fair price."

"That's an interesting idea, Rich.  I think that would work out for
us.  We can talk to your sister when she gets home and see how she
feels about it."

When Joanne came home from school that afternoon, the family sat
down and talked about Mr. Wilkins' offer.  They weighed the pros and
cons, finally deciding that leasing the farm would work out for
everyone concerned.  When they finished their talk, Rich went out to
the barn to tend to the animals.  Joanne changed into her work
clothes and went out to help him.

The siblings finished their chores and were about to head back to
the house when Joanne grabbed her brother's arm.  She led him to the
upper floor of the building and started up the ladder to the loft. 
When she was half way up, Joanne looked down at Rich and told him to
follow her.

Joanne sat on a bale of hay and Rich stood at her side.  She started
to giggle and looked up into her brother's eyes.

"Remember how much fun we've had in here?  Remember how we couldn't
come up here without fooling around?"

"Yeah, Sis, I sure do.  I'm going to miss this place."

Joanne stood up and began to unfasten the straps of her brother's
bibs.  She pulled them down until they lay gathered at his ankles. 
Sitting back on the hay, she pulled him close to her.  She took his
cock into her hand and slowly stroked it.

"I want to suck you."

Rich stepped closer and she opened her mouth, letting him slid in
over her lower lip.  She closed her lips around him and rubbed him
with her tongue.  Rich put his hands on her head and gripped her hair
as she slowly moved her mouth over him.  She took him into her throat
and rubbed her nose in his pubic hair.

Joanne pulled back and took his member into her hand.  She rubbed
his penis against her cheek and looked up at him.

"I still remember when I would gag on this thing."

"Me too," Rich chuckled.  "You don't seem to have that problem
anymore."

"Nope, not anymore," Joanne said and took him back into her mouth.

Joanne bobbed her head over his penis, letting it slide into her
throat.  When his hips began to thrust, she pulled back, warped her
fingers around his shaft and waited for his cum to flood her mouth. 
Holding him just behind the ridge with her lips, she pumped her hand
over his throbbing shaft.  She felt his cock swell and began to
swallow as soon as the first pulse of semen hit the roof of her mouth.

After several jets of cum coated her tongue and mouth, she removed
her hand and pushed her head forward.  She could feel him swell in
her throat as his orgasm began to subside and his strong spurts
stopped.  Backing off slightly, Joanne opened her mouth and took a
deep breath.  Rich felt the cool air bathe his member and groaned
when she clamped her lips back around him to suck out the last drops
of his cum.

Joanne held him in her mouth until he began to soften.  She sat back
and looked up, running her tongue over her lips.

"I hope you don't get mad at me, but I like sucking your cock almost
as much as I like having it my pussy."

"Why the hell would I be mad at you, Jo, I love it when you blow me.
You give the best head in the world."

Joanne squeezed his flaccid penis and said, "And just who are you
comparing me to?"

Rich thought for a second and said, "Well, let's see.  There is
Mary, Sue, Tammy, Beth…"

"You asshole!" Joanne said as she tugged sharply on his penis.  "You
haven't had any other girl suck your cock before."

"Only one other one, and you're better than that."

"Who?  Who else has had this thing in their mouth?"

Rich smiled and said, "Mom."

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot about that day.  That doesn't count."

"Whatever, let's get going.  Mom is going to start wondering what
happened to us."

Joanne stood up, took off her jacket and tossed it onto the hay
bale.  She lowered her bibs and panties, sat on the jacket and spread
her legs.  Rubbing her crotch with her hand, she looked up at her
brother.

"Let her wonder, you have a pussy to eat."

Rich giggled, knelt on the floor and buried his face between her
legs.  He probed her with his tongue and fingers, sucking her hard
clitoris as he did.  In a little while, Joanne began to jerk around
and she came, her juices covering her brother's face.

The activity renewed Rich's erection and he stood up.  He pushed her
back onto the hay and entered her, sinking slowly into her heated
vagina.  She kicked her overalls off one foot and hooked her leg
around his back as he stroked his shaft in and out of her.  They
humped at each other and once again Rich came, filling her with his
semen.  Joanne wiggled against him as she felt his member throbbing
deep in her vagina.  When he collapsed onto her, she wrapped her arms
around him and held him.

Rich slowly pushed himself up until his penis came out of her.  When
he bent down to pull up his bibs, she engulfed his cock and sucked it
clean.  Once she had his penis void of any trace of their combined
fluids, she released him and started to get dressed.

"I don't know what it is, but there is just something about making
love in the hay.  I don't think I will ever forget the fun we've had
up here or how much we've learned," Rich said.

"Me either, Honey," Joanne said as she hugged him.  "You know that
there's a very good chance that we made at least one of the kids
here."

Rich laughed and let her go.  They climbed out of the loft and went
to the house.  Betty was putting supper on the table when they walked
in, dressed in their underwear.

"What took you two so long," Betty asked as she glanced up at her
daughter and saw the hay in her hair.

"Just reminiscing about old times, Mom," Joanne said.

Betty went over to her daughter, pulled some of the hay from her
hair and chuckled.  "I can see that, Jo.  You and your brother go and
get cleaned up for dinner, your children are hungry."

Mike and Kathy were playing in the floor in the corner of the
kitchen.  Rich went over to them, stooped down and tickled both of
them.

"Grandma says you two are hungry," Rich said.  "Are you ready to eat?"

"I want my food, Daddy," Mike said.  "Kathy is hungry too.  She's
trying to eat my hand."

Kathy looked up at her father and grinned she grabbed her brother's
hand and pulled it to her mouth.  Rich stopped her and said, "Now
Kathy, you can't eat your big brother."

The toddler giggled and once again tried to put Mike's hand into her
mouth.  Rich pulled it away and picked her up.

"Kathy, what'd I say?  You can't eat Mike.  You have to eat your
dinner."

Rich put her back on the floor and left the kitchen with Joanne.  On
the way upstairs, she broke out into laughter.

"Like mother like daughter, Honey," Joanne said.

Rich smacked her bottom and she ran the rest of the way up the
stairs.  They jumped into the shower together and quickly washed. 
When they were finished, they put on clean sweatpants and sweatshirts
and went down to eat.

Joanne helped her mom clean up the kitchen after supper while Rich
played with the children.  He took them into the living room and sat
on the floor, playing with their toys.  Finished in the kitchen,
Joanne and her mother went out into the living room and sat on the
couch.  They laughed as they watched the kids playing on the floor
with their dad and egged the two little ones on.  After an hour or
so, Rich took the children upstairs and put them to bed.

"I think Rich is a great daddy," Joanne said to her mom.

"He is wonderful with the children, Jo, you're very lucky.  I know a
lot of men that leave the kids to the mother.  Your father was pretty
good with you two, but not as good as Rich."

Rich came downstairs and sat in his father's chair.  Like it or not,
he was the man of the house now and felt responsible for the care of
the family.  They three talked about moving and set a date.  Joanne
would have to move between semesters and finish at a different school.

"You know mom, I have enough credits to graduate in January.  I
don't really care about the ceremony, not if I can't be with my
class," Joanne said.

"Why don't you take your diploma and we can come back for the
ceremony if you want to, Jo," Rich said.

"Maybe, I'll think about it.  Did you talk with Mr. Wilkins about
leasing the farm?"  Joanne asked.

"Yes, we have agreed on a price.  He is going to have his brother
and his brother's family move into the house, but he said if we ever
want to come back to just let him know and they will move out," Rich
replied.

"I have been talking with a real estate agent and may have found a
house for us," Betty informed her children.

"Where is it, Mom?" Joanne asked.  "Is it very far away from here?"

"It's in Florida, Jo.  I want to move where it's warmer.  The man
from the real estate said it has four bedrooms so we can all have our
own.  The price is right and I can make the payments with the money
Mr. Wilkins will be paying for the lease," Betty said.

"When are we going to take a look at the house, Mom?"  Rich asked.

"I thought we could drive down to Florida in a week or so.  Joanne
will have to miss a few days of school, but I'm sure it will be
okay," Betty said.  "I'm ready to get out of here, I miss your dad
and a change might help."

Betty stood up, told her kids she would be right back and left the
room.  She returned with a small box and sat back down next to Joanne.

"We are going to be starting over in a new town with new people,"
Betty began.  "I think it's important to protect our family secret
and just keep it to ourselves.  I want you two to have these and I'm
not going to take no for and answer."

Betty removed the lid from the small box and took out three rings. 
She slipped two of them, and diamond and a gold band, onto Joanne's
left ring finger and a plain gold band on her son's.

"From now on, you two will be Mr. and Mrs. Morris.  As far as anyone
knows, you are husband and wife," Betty said with tears in her eyes.

Both Rich and Joanne hugged their mom.  They thanked her, held up
their hands and stared at the rings.

"This is the greatest gift I could ever receive," Joanne said, also
crying.  "To have my brother as my husband to love for the rest of my
life is more than I could ever ask for."

Joanne turned to Rich and took his hand, fingering the ring on his
finger.  She looked deep into his eyes and smiled.

"That is if you'll have me, Rich, have me as your wife," Joanne said.

"I'm proud to have you as my wife and sister, Jo, I'm as happy as I
could be.  I promise to love and take care of you and the children
for the rest of our lives," Rich replied as he hugged her.

The three of them talked for a while about the upcoming changes and
then went to bed. 

Over the next month, they went to Florida, closed on the new house
and made plans to move.  They packed their things into boxes,
carefully labeling each one.  Rich stacked the boxes in the living
room and Kitchen so the moving company would be able to load their
truck easily.

On the day of the move, Joanne and her brother went out to the barn
and made love.  They didn't know if they would ever have the
opportunity to relive the joyous times they shared it the hayloft and
wanted one last chance.  When they were finished, they slowly went
back to the house and watched as the movers loaded the last of their
things into the truck.

Betty and Rich had sold the older car and truck.  They bought a van
with plenty of room for the five of them, deciding they would pick up
another car once they settled in at their new home.  After looking
around for one last time, they all climbed into the new van and
started for their new home, their new lives.

****

Rich finished telling his children that their mother and he were in
fact brother and sister.  He had told them about fooling around and
how Joanne became pregnant with Mike when she was only fifteen.

While he didn't go into every detail of the relationship, he told
his children enough so they would understand.  From time to time
Joanne would add a little tidbit to the story, mostly about how much
the two children were loved and how happy she and Rich were as
husband and wife.    

Kathy and Mike sat spellbound as they listened to their parents
confess that they were really brother and sister.  Kathy was crying
and Mike's mouth hung open as they tried to absorb what they learned.

"How could you act like you're married?" Kathy sobbed.

"We love each other, Kathy," Joanne said.  "Just like I'm sure you
love your brother.  We chose to live as husband and wife because we
wanted to be your parents.  If we would have decided to find someone
else, we could have never done that.  One of us wouldn't be able to
see you two and we didn't want that."

The family members talked for an hour longer.  Joanne and Rich felt
they had done the right thing by telling their children even if they
were upset at the moment.

"What about Mandy?"  Mike asked.  "Are you going to tell her?"

"Yes," Rich said.  "We'll tell her in due time.  Right now we are
relying on you two to keep our secret.  If anyone found out, we may
lose you.  We're sure you can keep the secret, but Mandy is still too
young."

Rich asked if they were hungry and ordered a pizza.  When it arrived
they all went into the kitchen to eat.  They were about half finished
when Mandy came bounding in the back door, grinning from ear to ear.

"Hi everyone, can I have a piece of pizza?  I ate at Suzie's house,
but I'm still hungry," Mandy said.

"Sure honey," Joanne said.  "Grab a plate, there's plenty for
everyone."

Kathy glanced at her little sister and noticed her blouse wasn't
buttoned right.  She caught the younger girl's eye, smiled and pulled
at her own shirt.  When Mandy look down, she ran off, telling
everyone she had to go to the bathroom.  When she returned, with her
blouse fixed, Mandy joined the rest of the family at the table.

After dinner, Kathy and Mike went outside and sat in the backyard. 
They talked about what their parents had told them and tried to make
sense of it all.

"Mike," Kathy said.  "Do you think mom sucks dad's cock?  I just
can't picture her on her knees with his dick in her mouth."

"I don't know, Kathy.  I guess she does," Mike replied.  He started
to laugh and added, "Why don't you ask her?"

"I don't think I'll ask her that, but I am going to ask to be put on
the pill.  That way we can fuck anytime we want to."

"You still want to do that with me?"  Mike asked in a surprised voice.

"Yes, silly, I want to do it tonight as soon as everyone is asleep. 
Can you get any more rubbers?"