WARNING:

The following part of the story is the reason for the 'M' rating.

If you want to skip the implied sex, scroll down about a quarter of the way.

Monday 25 December 2017 - Christmas Day

The clock had ticked over past midnight, and it was now officially Christmas Day. Pete, Dylan and Kate had just arrived home from attending midnight mass, which they had done each year since Pete had told them about how he attended each year in honour of his mother.

As they entered the house, Kate told the men, "I've got a surprise present planned for you guys tonight, provided you're not too tired of course." She smiled mischievously at both men, who returned her smile and followed Kate to her bedroom.

Kate stopped the men at the door, while she entered the room first. She briefly turned on a small light so that she could see, then she moved around the room, lighting candles and tea lights that she had set up all around the room. Once the candles were lit, she turned off the electric light and gestured to the men to come properly into the room.

"Tonight is a present from me to you both. I hope that you enjoy yourselves. You need to take all your clothes off and lie on the bed, one on each side, with a gap in the middle. You can pull the sheet up to your waist or there's towels on the bedside table you can use if you want some modesty."

Both men did as she asked. After stripping off his clothes, Pete lay on the left of the bed as Kate stood facing the bedhead, while Dylan lay on the right. Neither bothered with the sheet or towel Kate had offered. Kate started to sit on the bed between the two men before she stopped herself, muttering, "Nearly forgot to take my dress off." She went to the walk-in wardrobe where the men could hear the sounds of clothes rustling. In a minute Kate came back into the room, wearing a comfortable t-shirt nightie. Her pregnant belly pushing out the nightie, Kate settled cross legged on the bed, in the gap on the mattress between the men at around the level of their thighs. Kate was as comfortable as a woman six months pregnant with twins could be.

"One rule guys. I can touch you, but you can't touch me tonight unless I say so." Dylan raised an eyebrow at this announcement, while Pete just smiled widely. "You have to close your eyes, both of you, and listen to my voice." Both men did as asked, then Kate started to speak again. Her voice was low and quiet, with a sexy undertone.

"So, imagine that someone, me for instance, is running her hand around on your stomach. Just a moving hand, going up and down, from your chest to your stomach, across from side to side." Kate reached out her hands, her left hand to Pete and her right to Dylan, and matched her actions to the words she was speaking. "Imagine that, after a while, the touch of my hand is replaced by fingernails, just the edge of the fingernails, running up and down, chest to hips, up and down and back and forth. And then, after a while, the fingers and the hand get lower, below your hips, into the curls of your hair down there. The fingers are combing through the hair, touching you on your lower belly, but nowhere else, not touching anywhere else." Kate's hands continued to match her words.

Both men had started to breathe deeply. Kate noted that this wasn't the only sign of their arousal and smiled. She kept up her stroking and soft talking for another few minutes before taking her hands away. Pete groaned a little in displeasure as Kate's hand left his body.

"And now imagine that hand touching you – here." She lightly touched each man's penis, but only very briefly. "Imagine those same fingernails running up and down, round and round, top to bottom. A fingertip running across the top, back and forth, spreading moisture around the tip." It was Dylan's turn to groan now, as the images conjured by Kate's words and touch danced through his mind.

"Think about two hands touching you now, one cupping you at the base, fondling you. The other hand circling you, going up and down, up and down, as you get harder and harder." Kate's voice continued in that vein for a few minutes watching the effect of her words on her lovers, before she moved on. "Now imagine that hand being replaced with a mouth, a wet mouth, with a tongue doing what the hand was doing before. A tongue moving up and down, round and round, sucking and licking, while a hand squeezes you at the base. The tongue keeps moving, always moving, always licking and sucking."

In a short while, matters reached their natural conclusion for the men. After the clean-up, the three of them settled down to enjoy the rest of the night.

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Christmas that year was a joyful event, not just for Kate, Dylan and Pete, but also for their friends. After their Christmas Day get-together, the next afternoon the group celebrated Nikki's hens' and Conrad's bucks' parties.

The men were picking up Conrad's friend Ian Lindsay, who would be his best man at the wedding, and some other friends of Conrad's, and planned to go down the wharf and do some fishing. Kate and the other women strongly suspected that the beers they were taking with them would be more interesting to the men than the fishing they proposed. None of them were expecting the men to return with much in the way of fish.

The four women and Chloe, along with some of Nikki's other friends, met at Sally's house to have a girls' day to celebrate Nikki's upcoming nuptials. They gave each other pedicures and facials and sent the men photos of them all in their face masks, including Chloe. Due to Chloe's presence, they had to forego some of the more 'adult' parts of a hen's party, instead making a selection of cocktails, as well as non-alcoholic mocktails for Chloe and Kate, and watching a series of movies that the men would have instantly dubbed 'chick flicks'.

The twins decided to have a busy time during the party, and kept up a steady stream of kicks, elbow pokes and other movements. Chloe was fascinated by seeing Kate's belly move through her dress, and spent a lot of time sitting next to Kate, watching for the next movement. The twins had settled with one on each side of Kate, and frequently both sides of her belly were stretched with elbows or feet as the babies moved inside her.

Kate's pregnancy had been largely trouble-free, for which she was thankful. Kate had been attending regularly for her pre-natal check-ups and tests, and both men had been able to attend her last ultrasound appointment and see the babies themselves. The doctor had been concerned about the possibility of gestational diabetes and Kate's blood sugar was tested regularly, but so far there had been no issues. She had been careful with her diet and was grateful to have had no issues to date in that regard.

The men came back to Sally's house in the early evening, having caught very little, which surprised none of the women. Sally had arranged for pizzas to be delivered for dinner and they settled down to enjoy those before heading home for a (relatively) early night.

Sunday 31 December 2017 – New Year's Eve

Nikki and Conrad had decided against having a church wedding, and chose instead to have a celebrant perform the ceremony, which took place just before sunset in Kate, Dylan and Pete's backyard. The men had decorated the house with lights as usual that year, but had refrained from putting up the inflatable Santa or other decorations in the yard, in order to leave room for the wedding guests. They figured that the party boats going past for the lights would just add to the celebratory atmosphere.

Nikki's parents along with her four brothers and their wives and children had flown in from the east for the wedding. Born and raised in Perth, Conrad's family, in the form of his parents and his brother and sister and their partners, all still lived locally and were present. A number of Nikki's friends from the base and Conrad's friends from his work were also guests, as well as Sally and Chloe, and Lani and Andy.

Nikki looked gorgeous in her boho-style wedding dress. Off white in colour, the dress was made of lace and French tulle over georgette. The lace overdress was embroidered with leaves. The dress had wide shoulder straps and a V neckline; it fell in a softly draped skirt from the waist to the ground. On her feet Nikki wore flat sandals with diamante decorations, suitable for standing and walking on the grass. Nikki's hair was worn half up and half down; some of her hair was plaited in thin braids which were secured around her head, with flowers tucked into the braids, while the rest of her hair was lightly curled and left to fall onto her shoulders.

Kate, as Nikki's attendant, wore a similar style dress to Nikki's, but without the lace overlay, and in an attractive shade of dusty lavender. She also wore flat sandals, although in Kate's case, they were more for comfort as she was starting to experience swollen ankles when she stood for too long. Kate's hair style was similar to Nikki's, although her hair was merely twisted away from her face and curled, without the braiding or flowers like Nikki's hair.

Both women carried bouquets of mauve and white flowers, including ranunculus, roses, lavender and sweet peas; they differed in that Nikki's bouquet was bigger and had more mauve flowers than Kate's bouquet, which had more white flowers.

The men were both dressed in off-white linen trousers. Conrad's open-necked shirt was a dark purple, almost eggplant in colour, while Ian's was lighter, matching Kate's dress. The men had boutonnieres of white flowers, the same as those in the bouquets.

Nikki and Conrad had decided on a simple ceremony, standing at the edge of the waterfront with their friends and family gathered around them. They exchanged their vows and rings and the celebrant declared them man and wife.

Kate and Nikki had arranged for caterers to provide the food and drinks for the wedding meal, which followed not long after the ceremony. The meal was served family-style with platters and bowls of food set on each table for the guests to serve themselves. The entrees were a selection of cold foods such as mini sushi rolls, bruschetta and beef carpaccio with goat cheese. The mains were a choice between slow cooked beef medallions, baked salmon and spiced chicken, with platters of mixed vegetables and salads to accompany the meats. Desserts were mini-pastries such as profiteroles, eclairs and danishes, and also individual finger lime cheesecakes.

After dinner the happy couple cut their wedding cake to share amongst the guests. The cake was three-tiers high and decorated with a lace pattern in icing which replicated the lace pattern of Nikki's dress. The cake was detailed with mauve flowers, both real and icing ones, to tie in with Kate's dress, the men's shirts and the flowers the women carried. The flower detailing trailed down one side of the cake as well as along the edges of the tiers. The cake itself was chocolate mud cake with raspberry mousse filling.

Nikki and Conrad had decided not to have a formal wedding photographer, and instead had asked Dylan to be in charge of taking photos for the night. He had been honoured to be asked and threw himself into the role, taking photos of singles, couples and groups, ensuring that everyone was in at least a couple of photos. Music came from a playlist that Conrad and Nikki had put together and included a good mixture of slow songs for couples and some livelier songs, which got lots of people dancing out on the terrace and on the grass.

There were no formal speeches planned; every so often during the evening someone would call for quiet and would make a short speech honouring the bride and groom. Kate talked about how Nikki and Conrad had met. She told the story of how she and Nikki had been having a day out in Rockingham, over a year ago now, when there was a car accident on the road in front of them. Their Navy training had kicked in, and the two women had taken charge of the situation, calling triple 0 and attending to the injured as best they could before the emergency services vehicles had arrived. Conrad had been one of the paramedics in attendance at the scene, and had asked for Nikki's number before leaving. He had later called her, and their relationship had gone from there.

It was late in the evening before Conrad and Nikki left in a taxi to their hotel for the next couple of nights. On Tuesday they would fly out to a luxury resort in Sri Lanka for their honeymoon. Prior to leaving the party, Conrad called for a moment's quiet and on behalf of himself and his bride thanked everyone for attending.

The wedding guests stayed on at the house until after the midnight fireworks had taken place. Although not a great view from the house, the fireworks could be seen high up in the sky. Kate and Pete exchanged a sly grin at the reminder of their first night together.

The catering group had done a good job of cleaning up after the guests and next morning all that had to be done was to wipe down the tables and chairs and stack them in preparation for the hire company to pick them up.