Please excuse the deviation from my normal, more light-hearted erotica but this story has been in my head for a while demanding space on my flash drive. For all of this to make sense you may want to (re)read Parts I and II as well.
Kari watched Jesse read the Sunday paper in the bed next to her and couldn't help but smile. If anyone had told her a year ago that she would be involved with her little brother's childhood friend she would have laughed right in their face.
"What's so funny?" He asked, looking up from the business section.
Kari shook her head, unsure how to put it into words. "I think I just like the way you look in my bed on a Sunday morning."
"I know I certainly enjoyed the way you looked on top of me in your bed on Saturday night." Jesse responded in that low growl that always managed to turn her on.
Kari put her cup of coffee on the bedside table and scooted in closer, her hand wandering under the pile of papers on his lap to find his cock stirring back to life. "There is more where that came from, you know."
Jesse chuckled and carefully folded the newspaper in half before transferring the entire stack onto the floor next to the bed. "Have I mentioned just how much I like that you're an insatiable sex addict?" He murmured, curving his arm around her waist and pulling her closer.
"Once or twice." She answered before surrendering to his mouth on hers.
Jesse rolled her onto her back and had just started to nudge her legs apart when his cell phone rang on his bedside table. He groaned and gave her a quick kiss before rolling away to answer it.
Kari guessed that it was probably someone in his family calling to check in on him. After a few frantic messages when his mother couldn't get in touch with him early on in their relationship, Jesse had suggested that she use his cell number instead and had promised that he would always have it with him.
When they had first started 'dating' neither had shared the news with their respective families at home, unsure how they would take the news...especially since Kari was six years older than Jesse. For some reason or another they had never seen the need to update that information back home and had managed to gloss over the usual questions about their respective love lives.
"Hey, what's up?" She heard Jesse say into the phone. Kari looked at his straining cock with some disappointment, thinking that something particularly delicious had been 'up' here only moments earlier. "No kidding? That's great!"
Kari smiled slightly to herself, deciding that she was un-inclined to waste a perfectly good hard-on and knelt down on the bed next to him, her hand gripping his cock firmly. "Oh yeah. Of course." Jesse cough/choked slightly when she sucked one of his balls into her mouth, his hand hovering uncertainly above her head. Kari gently rolled her tongue over his sac, humming teasingly. She tuned out his phone conversation, her hand sliding up and down his length as she carefully sucked in the other testicle as well.
"Okay...yeah...see you then." Jesse mumbled distractedly, his hand tangling into her hair as she moved up to focus her attention on his straining cock. "Uhm, you might not want to do that." He mumbled as soon as he turned off his phone.
Kari gently tongued the head of his dick, looking up at him invitingly. "Really? Why not?"
"Because—" he gasped, struggling to focus. "Your phone is about to ring."
Kari was about to ask him how he knew this when her bedside phone did, indeed ring. Looking at him suspiciously, she rolled away and reached for her phone on her bedside table. "Hello?"
"Hey Kari...it's Josh." How had Jesse known that her brother was about to call her?
"Hey little bro." She had always called her 6'3" brother 'little', even if she had been looking up at him since he turned twelve. "What's up?"
"I called to tell you some news." He paused for a moment. "Melissa and I are getting married."
"Wow! No kidding!" Kari said excitedly. "That's great."
"Yeah." She could hear the smile in her brother's voice. "I just talked to Jesse and he's going to be my best man." Kari looked over her shoulder and gave Jesse an arch look.
"Well, of course Jesse would be your best man." Kari had a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach.
"You will come in for the wedding, won't you?" Josh asked hopefully. "Maybe you and Jesse could fly in together?"
"I wouldn't miss it for the world." Kari assured him, her mind racing past Josh's impending nuptials to the details that she and Jesse had never found time to share with their families about their personal lives.
Josh gave her the date and other pertinent information before hanging up the phone. Kari sat quietly for a moment, trying to figure out how to deal with their immediate problem.
"Well?"
Kari turned to face Jesse. "Josh sounds pretty excited. I'm sure they'll be very happy." She said, sounding very unenthusiastic considering the news she had just received.
"Yeah. I'm sure they will." Jesse looked surprised. "But what does this mean for us?"
"Well, it shouldn't affect us in any way." Kari said simply. "It's Josh and Melissa that are getting married."
Jesse looked a little annoyed. "And you don't think anyone will notice when we share a hotel room?"
"Why would we do that?" Kari returned.
"We shared a hotel room in Cabo San Lucas last month." He reminded her. "Is there some reason we wouldn't share one now?"
"Yeah...because it's Josh and Melissa's day. Not ours."
"You're still afraid of anyone knowing about us." Josh said accusingly.
"No I'm not." Kari got up and went for her robe behind her door, feeling unusually exposed right about now. "I took you to the staff Christmas party."
"That's not what I meant and you know it." Jesse said tersely, following her out of the bedroom and into the kitchen. "I think now is as good as a time as any to tell our families that we're involved."
"I disagree." Kari argued, shaking her head. "We really shouldn't detract from their big day."
"It probably wouldn't be anything more than a footnote." Jesse assured her. "Kari, I—"
She quickly cut him off. "Besides, your parents will want you to stay at home anyway."
Jesse closed his eyes and took a deep, calming breath. "Just what is it, in your opinion, that we have going on here?"
Kari looked at him uncertainly. "Really great sex?" She offered with a weak smile.
Jesse's shoulders slumped. "Yeah. Okay. Great sex." He turned and headed for the bedroom.
Kari followed after him. "Jesse..."
Jesse was angrily climbing into his jeans. "There's a reason why the sex is so great, Kari." He muttered as he slid his t-shirt over his head.
"I know Jes, but..."
"No 'buts' Kari." Jesse shook his head. "I'm not ashamed of us or how I feel about you. I've held back on telling our families because I was waiting for some kind of sign from you. But you always manage to distract me when I bring the subject up." He stood in front of her and ran his the back of his knuckles gently along her cheekbone. "No more distracting me."
Kari swallowed hard. "I really don't think now is the right time Jes."
He looked at her sadly. "It never is." Jesse kissed her briefly before leaving her standing alone in the room. She heard the front door click and blinked away the sting in her eyes. 'After all, there was no way that it could have really worked out for them anyway' she assured herself, hoping that if she told herself that enough she might actually believe it.
******
Jesse supposed he should have been surprised when he saw Kari sitting at the airport gate, but somehow he knew she'd be there, even if they hadn't talked to each other in the last month. He watched her from across the lounge, aching just to talk to her again. He was about to give in and go over to her when the first boarding announcement was made, saving him from embarrassing himself yet again.
Jesse was hunkered down in his aisle seat, feeling sorry for himself, when a shadow fell across him.
"Excuse me, I'm your—" Jesse looked up and found Kari standing there, looking flustered. "I'm your window seat." She mumbled uncomfortably.
Jesse stood up so that she could get to her seat. He could smell the citrus scent of her shampoo that he knew so well at this proximity and his dick reacted enthusiastically as her body slid past his. Kari must have been able to sense it because color flooded her cheeks. She busied herself with stowing her carry-on bag and avoided eye-contact until the plane moved away from the gate.
"So, how have you been?" Kari asked tentatively as they taxied down the runway.
'Miserable,
' he thought to himself. "Busy." He replied instead. Well, that was true at least. He had kept himself busy so he wouldn't have as much time to be miserable. It hadn't worked very well, but that had been his intention.
"Yeah. Me too." She nodded, looking out the window as the plane picked up speed. He wondered briefly if she had been busy because she was miserable as well. "Have you talked to Josh?"
Jesse chuckled darkly. "Oh yeah. Almost on a daily basis." Every time the cell rang he kept hoping it was Kari but it was usually Josh with some crisis or another. Apparently that whole family was riddled with relationship issues.