Three Women by Marge Piercy

different from Evan, sort of bigger and looser around the top. “I’m not circumcised,” he said. “My father doesn’t believe in it.”
    Evan straddled his desk chair, keeping out of the way. Elena waited until Chad had undressed completely and sat on the bed’s edge next to her. Then without waiting for him to make a move, she slid toward him and, taking his face in her hands, gave him a sensuous tongue kiss. She moved her thigh against his. She wanted him so bad she ached. She did not think she had ever wanted Evan this strongly, but she would never let him know that. It would hurt his feelings, and he was her own. Her flesh. Her more than brother.
    Chad’s hand was on her breast now, a little awkwardly, squeezing hard. With Evan she would have instructed him, but she could not take a chance on discouraging Chad. They had wanted him and now they were going to have him, both of them. Now he was lying on top of her, kissing her almost frantically. She put her hand on his prick and guided him in. Normally she would have liked fooling around with him longer, but she did not want anything to go wrong. He thrust hard and came almost at once, long before she could. Then he lay spent on the bed, while she eased out from under him.
    Evan let him lie like that for several minutes. Then he motioned for her to get up. She took the desk chair, which Evan had dragged to just beside the bed to watch more closely. Evan lay down beside Chad. At first he just caressed him from the back, making spoons. Evan’s chest and pubic hair were dark, almost black, and Chad’s body hair was the palest brown. Chad was tanned over his arms and chest. Evan was milky pale. Evan patiently caressed Chad, reaching around to his cock. Then he rolled Chad onto his stomach, used the surgical jelly and slowly, caressing his way, put himself into Chad’s ass. Chad winced and bit at the pillow, but once Evan was in, he seemed to mind it far less. She liked watching. She loved watching. She was possessing Chad through Evan’s cock. She was fucking him through Evan. She wanted Evan to thrust harder, but he was careful, gentle. She could almost feel his come. Then he rested for a moment, turned Chad over and began to suck his cock. She came just watching them.
    Afterward Chad lay as if dazed. “Do you do this a lot?” he asked finally, trying to recover himself.
    â€œWe fuck all the time,” Evan said. “We study and we fuck. But it’s the first time we’ve ever taken anybody else with us. You should consider it an honor.” He was grinning widely.
    â€œDid you like being with us?” Elena asked almost shyly. He was so beautiful, Chad with the blue blue eyes and the carved face.
    â€œI’ve spent worse afternoons.” He reached out and pulled her down on the bed with him. He was staring into her eyes. “I don’t understand you.”
    â€œSometimes I don’t understand myself.”
    With a light caress now his hand moved over her breast. “You’re like something I made up lying in bed at night.”
    She jerked away. “I’m no fantasy.”
    Evan said, “You know, we could all have a lot of fun.”
    Chad looked at him, his hand coming to rest on Elena’s bare thigh. “I think you’re right.”

5
    Suzanne
    Rachel was silent for an entire week. Suzanne tried to call her twice at the apartment she shared with two other rabbinical students. Suzanne left pleas on the answering machine, but Rachel did not return her calls. Finally a reply came in her E-mail.
    Mother:
    I really can’t imagine what you were thinking of, to give my room to Elena. I just can’t believe you did that to me. I think it was incredibly selfish of you not to give up your gym or your office, but to make me the sacrificial lamb. I am certainly not coming home until I have my room back. You are always expecting me to put up with anything to satisfy Elena,