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Luke eventually went to sleep but it wasn't easy with a naked twelve-year-old in his bed. He and Annette were quiet in the morning as he watched her pack for her week in France. He had to stop her from putting in some of the sexier clothes that he had bought for her at Chimes. She would only be there a week and her mother said that where they were staying had a pool and beach close by so she packed the two modest swimsuits and the green bikini.
Annette was quiet on the drive across interstate 75 to Miami. He tried to point out the Everglades on both sides of the road but that just brought back the memory of the alligators. She didn't even try to flirt with him because she had worn a conservative dress and plain white panties. Her mother had reserved a room at the airport hotel for the night so after lunch they waited for her in the lobby.
Nicole came through the door looking like something out of a magazine. She was wearing a wide brimmed hat and dark sunglasses and a designer outfit that looked like it cost thousands. It was so tight she couldn't kneel down to give Annette a proper hug. Luke wondered what France had done to his neighbor.
"Hi Nicole, how was France?" he asked after Annette stopped hugging her.
"Oh Luke! It's wonderful. It's life changing. It's so free there. Pat and I felt right at home. The place we're staying this week is a beautiful chateau and the owner is Pat's boss. He and his family have been so welcoming. He has an eighteen-year-old daughter who is lovely and a fifteen-year-old very handsome son who can't wait to meet our beautiful Annette."
"Mom, ew!"
"Ha, ha. Give it a chance. I think you will love it there."
"So, are you bringing her back a week from today?" Luke asked.
"Actually Luke we wondered if you would be okay with something different. Annette can fly direct as an escorted minor and you would be able to get a special pass to meet her at the gate inside security. An employee would stay with her until you showed her your id and pass. We'll book you a room here for the previous night so that we know that you're here before she boards. Would you be okay with that?"
"Sure if that's what you want. It makes sense. You save two tickets."
Luke gave Annette a goodbye hug that she held a little too long and then left his young love looking sad and lost. He had a bad feeling about the way Nicole had talked but Annette was her daughter so there was nothing that he could do. The drive back to his house was lonely and to pass the time he turned on the radio. The first song to come on was Pink Pony Club and his eyes were wet by the time he sang the last few words.
As soon as he entered his house he went online and ordered a soft pink pony stuffed animal that had darker pink spots all over it. He also downloaded the Signal app and created an account. He saw that it was encrypted from end to end and had an automatic delete function. On a whim he downloaded an encryption program to his laptop that was supposed to be unbreakable.
He messaged Dan at work and found out that George had been fired and a new consultant was brought in who was no better. Dan also said that Luke's boss refused to ask Luke for help because he didn't want to admit that he needed him. Luke thought that the steady income from his investments was looking better and better.
The first message from Annette was all bubbly 'twelve-year-old in France for the first time' cute. She said that the place they were staying was amazing and the daughter Yvette was very nice. Near the end of the message he sensed some discomfort. She said that the boy Paul, was weird and a little creepy and that the parents were strange. She ended it by saying that Yvette said that he should get signal and send Annette his username.
Luke sent a generic reply and gave her his new Signal username. Annette was six hours ahead of him so he waited until morning to reply. On day two without Annette he did some work around the house and started some research on how to be an independent computer contractor. It was afternoon when he received his first signal message from Annette.
"Hi, I hope you get this. Yvette took me shopping, just the two of us. I bought a new swimsuit. I hope you like it. Yvette says I won't need the top at the beach. She offered to shave my privates since the suit is kinda small. They don't close doors around here and Paul walked in while I was changing. He said it was no big deal because he sees his sister changing all the time. This family is kinda strange but my parents seem to love them."
Attached to the message were two picture files. Luke opened the first one and saw a front view of Annette in a bikini smaller than anything that would be sold in the US. The two triangles barely covered Annette's tiny breasts and the bottom scrap of cloth was below where her pubic hairs used to be. When he opened the second picture he saw the back of the suit although there really wasn't a back, just a waistband and a string pressed between her butt cheeks.
"That's quite a suit. Do your parents know you bought it?"
"No, it's a surprise for you but they said something about I wouldn't need a suit by the end of the week. Paul keeps trying to get me to go to his room with him. I think he wants to have sex."
"Paul sounds dangerous. Don't let him get you alone!" Luke replied.
Luke wasn't sure if he was jealous or being protective. Either way he was worried about Annette. The living arrangements sounded strange. He tried to keep busy and not think about Annette but before he went to bed he checked his phone and found a message from Annette.
"This is to hold you over until I get home." she wrote.
He opened the message and jumped. Annette was sitting on the edge of a chair with the new bikini on. She had pulled the bottom piece to the side and exposed her entire pussy. Her smile said 'come get me' and he wanted to jump into the phone and arrive in her bedroom. He transferred the pictures to his encrypted drive on his laptop and deleted them from his phone.
The next day's message was similar but with a picture of the pool area. The house and pool looked like it cost millions. Annette was in a lounge chair and a boy was standing near her. Luke instantly hated the boy because he made Annette uncomfortable.
The next day's message had been sent around eight PM French time. He read the message first and could almost hear Annette's excited voice.
"Luke!!! Yvette took me and Paul to a beach today. Luke, you wouldn't believe it. No one at the beach wore any clothes, except for a couple babies wearing diapers. It was a nude beach. You can go to jail for a long time if you take pictures so me and Yvette took selfies in her car in the parking lot.
Luke hesitated before opening the attached file. When it opened he saw Annette and a beautiful girl who must be Yvette. The picture only showed from the waist up and both of them were topless. He studied them both and even though Yvette had perfect young woman's breasts with no sag, he preferred Annette's still forming bumps.
"Beautiful picture. Did you say someone was with you? I only see you." Luke replied, generating a loving smile on the other side of the Atlantic.
He saved the picture on his encrypted drive and deleted the original. Annette was smiling so it didn't look like Yvette was forcing her to do anything.
The day before he was to check in at the Miami airport hotel he received a very different message from Annette. Instead of a picture of her it was a picture of the whole pool area from a distance. He had a feeling it was taken secretly. The text message was short.
"I can't wait to be back with you. My parents have gone insane. Zoom in the picture."
Luke downloaded the picture and transferred it to his high-resolution tablet. When he zoomed in on the people at the far end of the pool his mouth dropped. Nicole was lying in a lounge chair with Paul next to her. In the next chair Pat was stretched out with his arm around Yvette. It might have been an innocent picture except that all four of them were nude!
Luke thought that Annette was probably asleep but he needed to respond.
"I'll be at the gate waiting for you. Don't let them force you to do anything you don't want to. Stay away from Paul."
Luke hit send and was surprised that it said that Annette had read it. Her reply came quick.
" I will, and his dad too. He's worse but he spends most of the time with my mom. It's weird here."
Luke didn't sleep much that night and the next day he headed to Miami as soon as possible. He killed time wandering around at a local mall when he couldn't find a Chimes store. As soon as he could check in he went to his room and connected to the hotel Wi-Fi. He had a message from Nicole asking him to confirm that he was there and with the information he needed to get through security. It also said to check his email. He opened his personal email and found a long letter from Nicole.
"Dear Luke,
A lot has changed in the last three weeks and I need to explain before you meet Annette. Please compliment her hair style. She just had it done today and she isn't sure about it but we all love it.
Mr. Jean Martin is in charge of the office here and he has welcomed Pat into his office and us into his home. Things are different here. That's probably the understatement of the millennium. You need to know that everything that has happened here is completely legal in France. I couldn't say that where you are. For one thing, Annette is used to swimming topless at the Martin's pool and has visited a nude beach. We hope that you can let her continue that at your pool.
I won't keep you in anymore suspense. The Martins are what used to be called swingers. They enjoy sex with multiple partners. Naturally Pat and I were horrified but as Jean and his wife Marie explained it and we experienced things like nude swims with them and their children we began to change our minds.
We knew it would be a shock for Annette and we tried to get the Martin's daughter to ease Annette into it. Yvette told us that Annette was very receptive to her advances in bed at night but Annette never warmed up to their son Paul or to Jean.
In case there is any confusion, yes, I have had sex with fifteen-year-old Paul while Pat had sex with Yvette in bed next to me. We invited Annette to join us in any way that she was comfortable with but she declined. My mother's intuition told me why. I think she is in love with a certain handsome neighbor waiting for her in Florida.
Pat and I want you to know that we have fully embraced this lifestyle and I would not judge you in any way if you and Annette were to experience it privately. She was very careful what she said but it’s obvious that she’s been doing some serious flirting with you. She said that you helped her pick out her new clothes and I’m pretty sure that she modeled them for you. Obviously, the US laws there are very different and you would need to be extremely careful and discreet. We want Annette to be loved most of all.
We know that we will have a problem at the end of July. If this lifestyle is never going to be for Annette then forcing her to be around it, even if she doesn’t participate, would be bad for her. This will sound completely insane but we would like you to consider letting her stay with you for a longer period of time. I'm sure you think this horrible and that we are trading our daughter away for sex but we think this is the way we should live and if Annette can't learn to be comfortable with it then the best thing for her is probably to be with you until she is old enough to live independently.
If you agree we can work out financial arrangements and the legal issues for you to be her permanent guardian. We already have a college fund started for her and will continue to add to it.
Please don't hate us and take good care of Annette. She will need a lot of hugs for a while.
Love
Nicole and Pat"
Luke put his tablet down and stared at the wall for a while. It didn't seem possible that the nice couple from Kansas who had been his neighbors for so many years could turn into completely different people and abandon their daughter for the opportunity to have sex with strangers, including a fifteen-year-old boy. Of course, what he had been doing with Annette was just as bad but he told himself it was for love and not his own gratification. He needed to reply to Nicole about picking up Annette. He composed a text to send because it was faster than email.
"I am at the Miami hotel. Put Annette on the plane. I will meet her at the gate. Got your email. Have you gone completely insane? I will not be your nanny while you 'find yourselves' or whatever the hell you’re doing over there. You and Peter need to come here August 1st.
If you are actually considering giving up your beautiful daughter for a life of mindless sex then she shouldn’t be around you and you need to relinquish all of your parental rights so that I can adopt her. You will not be allowed any contact with her until she is eighteen. You need to decide by August 1st and explain it to her in person. That part is not negotiable. If you don't I will have you charged with abandoning her and apply to be her foster parent until I can adopt her. I already love her like a daughter, something you wouldn't understand."
Luke checked it for errors and hit send.
Forty-five minutes later his phone dinged. It was from Nicole.
"Understood. I didn’t expect you to understand. See you August 1st. We will have the necessary papers ready to make you her permanent guardian along with a lawyer to witness the signatures. The lawyer will start the adoption process for you if you want. We will need time alone with Annette to explain it. This is the best option for her."
Luke wanted to reply that any option would be better than Annette living with such fucked up selfish people but he resisted. He knew that Annette would need a lot of love and patience and considered ordering fifty more of the stuffed pink ponies but decided that what she needed was hugs and stability.