Chapter 159 Chaperone For Gang Bang(1)

• It had been her first date without a curfew so I had no idea when Annie got home. It had to have been sometime between two AM, when I fell asleep on the couch watching old movies, and eight, when I woke up with the TV turned off and Annie 's window-rattling snore reverberating down the hall. I went to check on her and the sight of her bare leg poking out from under her comforter made me smile. She was eighteen years and one day old, safe at home and not pregnant. In our family, that last point was something to celebrate.
• It was an unwanted family tradition. I had given birth to Annie when I was sixteen, my mother had given birth to me when she was seventeen, my grandmother had given birth to my mom when she was fifteen and she wasn't even her first child. And so it went, a long string of very young mothers stretching back into the mists of time. Whether it was a blessing or a curse or just a simple function of genetics, the matriarchal side of our family tree has always had three things in common; big boobs, raging libidos and frightfully fertile loins. As a result, our fore-mothers had been subjected to strident religious indoctrination, social chastisement, arbitrary punishments, and even quarantine, but they always ended up with a baby in their belly and a disappointed family reluctantly committed to helping raise yet another unwanted bastard infant.
• Obviously the old ways didn't work.