Potential - S01 E286

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Potential - S01 E286

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 286

On the patio, Sally asked, "Everything good with the kids?"

"Evan and Deana said they didn't burn the house down," Candy said and pressed a towel to her face.

"Sounds like something you would have said. Are they still as close as they were as kids?"

"Ah, yeah, they are, they really are," Candy said.

"Gloria?"

"They all get along, but she's at Tonya's with her softball friends, so I didn't call her. She'd fuss at me for checking on her and embarrassing her."

"Sounds about the way it should be."

Candy bent over and roughed up her wet hair with a towel then flung it back. "I better brush this mess."

"Me too, except mine will really be a mess, Sally said. "I was always envious of your hair. It never goes all scarecrow, like mine." Sally dried under each of her breasts, circled her middle, rubbed her groin, between her legs and finished with her incredible ass, "Bring the brush out here. I'll do yours, and you can do mine. It'll be like when we were kids, except we're allowed to drink the alcohol now."

Candy smiled. "I think I still am a kid. I've sure been acting like one."

"I know I haven't grown up yet, and hope I never feel like I have," Sally said. "Go get that brush and I'll get more wine, lots more."

That sounds like a good idea, Candy thought, I'll use alcohol instead of sex tonight.

After some wine and brushing out the redhead's hair, they switched, and Sally brushed Candy's while she stared off into the black between the trees in the distance. "You said was a good mother before, but I'm not. I knew, saw it coming, and I didn't do anything."

"What are you talking about?"

"I knew Evan and Deana were going to have sex. I didn't try to stop them. I gave Deana my birth control, and I watched it happen the first time. I saw him take his sister's virginity, and I got off on it. What kind of person, mother does that?"

"God, Candy, you of all people should know there wasn't anything you could have done to stop them if that's what they wanted to do. Giving her birth control was the best thing you could have done for them. Not taking yours was pretty stupid, but at least Deana won't get pregnant. I wish Mom had done that for me."

"If she had known, she might have, or at least tried to stop it from happening."

"She knew," Sally said. "She didn't care. Well, she did, but only because Bobby was fucking me, not her."

"Sally, are you saying she knew about us, about Bobby and me, too?"

"Of course, of course, she knew, I just wish I had known sooner. Baby, we got dealt a bad hand in the family department. Dad was the only good one and he, he-Fuck, you know. You're a great mother, and once this is over, everything will get better."

"I need to know everything. What aren't you telling me?" she asked and finished her wine.

Sally dragged her chair around in front of Candy. They sat with their knees touching. "I can't, can't tell you everything, not yet."

"Why not?"

"Because if you knew everything, you wouldn't be able to go home and act normal, and you have to be able to do that while we figure this out. If you start acting different, if he knows you know something-Ah, it's just too dangerous. Damn it, why did Cindy have to say anything. She shouldn't have told you."

"Sally, you're scaring me."

"You should be scared, but it will be easier to work this out if you don't know anything."

"What are you so worried about? I've been living with him for thirteen years already, and I'm okay."

"Seriously, you're okay? Come on, Candy, be real, and trust me on this, at least for now."

She was reasonably buzzed. mavbe even drunk. so she said, 'For She was reasonably buzzed, maybe even drunk, so she said, For now, tonight, but only because I'm a little tipsy, Tomorrow, we talk more.

Sally nodded. "You better eat something, or you're gonna be a lot more than tipsy."

"Oh yeah, I guess I didn't do that before. What'd you make?"

"Nothing," Sally sald. "I saw how exhausted you were, so I waited a few minutes, and you were out."

She sighed. "Great. Let's go in, and thanks for brushing my hair. It was nice, felt nice, like old times."

After really watching TV until they were both fighting their drooping eyelids, Deana said, "Let's go to bed."

"My room?"

"No, I can get away with sneaking up to your room anytime. It's not like anyone could climb the stairs without us hearing them, but you can't ever be in my room at night when, you know, let's go to my room."

Deana's logic was sound, but he hated the idea of not being able to visit his sister during the night. Another one of his father's stupid rules. "Sounds good."

'Carry me the way you used to, except this time you get to stay with me."

Evan got his arms under Deana's body and lifted her off the couch. They both knew every minute of freedom that they enjoyed would make the transition back to normal more difficult, but they didn't care.

Light from the hallway reached Mary's closed eyes along with the sound of her door opening. Two seconds later, Becky whispered something, but Mary pretended to be asleep. If it were important, her daughter would be persistent.

The door clicked shut, and Mary sighed with relief. A sound made her open her eyes in time to see Becky moving out of view at the end of the bed. What was the girl doing, Mary wondered? The mattress shifted behind her. Don't overreact, she warned herself. It had been so long since her daughter had gotten in bed with her.