Readers, in the first installment of this story, Theron went to pick up Vicky, his date who wasn't home and took her little sister Gem out instead. This chapter begins the day after that date. Thank you for reading my work and I sincerely hope you enjoy it!
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I was working on my hydrology practice exam when my phone buzzed. Vicky.
"Hey. Sorry, I forgot about last night. Are you mad?"
"It's all right. No, I'm not mad."
In the background I could hear store sounds and announcements and her breathing. "You took Gem out, didn't you?"
"Yeah, just for a quick bite. We were both hungry. We just ate and came back."
Silence. Finally, "We went to the reservoir, ended up going swimming and then, well.."
My phone beeped. Gem.
"Lemme go, it's the guy coming to fix my computer."
We rang off. (There was no guy fixing my computer). And I didn't want to hear her story if I wasn't in it. "Hello."
"My sister is so strange. Arrgh!"
"Arrgh? Like in pirate talk?"
I heard Gem turn on a faucet. "Yeah. She called me, while she was standing in Housewares looking at a two quart boiler. She was wanting to know all about my night." She paused and I could hear the dishwasher start. "So, were you able to go to sleep when you got home?"
I chuckled, "Like a baby. The evening came to an exciting conclusion I'd say."
"Me too. I never even heard Sis come in and then I slept through breakfast. So Vicky's suspicious, so it seems."
"I thought we just had good clean fun."
"Uh-huh. Talk to my nightshirt!"
"Oh. Well, there was that."
"And my panties, and my shorts, and.." She paused, then talking lower, confidentially, "I was putting my things in the wash and started remembering things, exciting things, you know?"
"Uh-huh. What are you wearing now?"
"Princess Jasmine pajama top."
"No you're not."
My phone dinged. Text. Gem, lots of hair, pajamas with a smiling princess on the front.
"What are you, ten?"
She giggled. "I got 'em as a joke and a back up nightie. Never know what you'll find in the Junior Miss department. But, did I seem like I was ten last night?"
"Can we facetime?"
"Sure. I'm going to sit for a minute. Mama and Vic still have to go to the fabric store."
Poof. There she was. Sitting in the recliner. The parakeet chirped and the ceiling fan spun lazily above her. She smiled and mouthed 'hi!' She was wearing glasses.
"Hey, I like the specs, it makes you look all smart and..."
"Shit!! I forgot. Wait."The glasses disappeared and she racked back in the chair. "That's better." Gem propped her phone on the side table. "Can you see me good? (Reaching for a plastic bottle) I need to take off this old nail polish. It got chipped last night somehow."
I could see her from head to waist and all that pretty hair that only young girls can grow and wear. "Yep, you're fine."
"So are you, boy. Those old gym shorts are looking spiffy. I need to ask, if it ever comes up again, am I supposed to swallow?" She started dabbing with a cotton ball.
She said it like, would I check the oven or did I mind feeding the dog. Now glib ain't me but this grounder was heading for the outfield. Damage control. "Wha-what do you mean, like when I.."
Laughing, pearlies flashing the phone, little nose wrinkling, "Think about when you get a drink from the faucet. I mean, you get some of the water and the rest goes on down the drain, right?" She switched hands, grabbing the bottle. "That's what it was like last night. And that's what I was thinking about when I woke up."
I nodded, "You were driving me crazy, what you were doing."
"Doing? Ha! I was learning." She looked into the screen, "I didn't know THAT would happen. It was so much!" She made kind of a Mona Lisa smile, "When you came, it made me feel powerful. It was like, Woo-hoo! He likes this, there's the proof. It makes me tingly to talk about it." She studiously gazed at her pinky nail coming clean, a smudge on the cotton.
"Well, to answer your question, it will come up again, especially if you mess with it-"
"Oh goody!"
"But unless you like oysters, you can aim it away-"
"Oh, I like oysters. I just don't know if I can handle a whole dozen all at once.."
"We'll work on it if you want."
"Can we work on it some now?" Gem capped the bottle, putting it away.
"We're not in the same room, so I..."
"So, it's safer this way, right?"
I considered, "What, did I scare you or something?"
She smiled, regarding her now very pink fingernails. "No, huh-uh, I scared me. I was THIS close to doing the deed, you know?"
"You said I'd never fit inside you, remember?"
"Well I wanted to try and see, at least just then. YOU made the call to be a gentleman. That's why I wanted to, you know, experiment out on the porch. You didn't conspire with my hormones."