INTRODUCTION & DISCLAIMER - Growing up in Perth, Western Australia Jeff always had a secret crush on his older sister's best friend, a beautiful and tall blonde named Gabrielle. On a rather dull evening at one of Perth's nightclubs early in 1986, 18-year-old virgin Jeff has a chance meeting with the older and more experienced Gabrielle, and it turns into the best night of his life.
All characters are aged 18 or older and are fictional, with similarity to real persons living or dead coincidental and unintentional. Please note for North American readers unfamiliar with Australian sexual slang, the term fanny is used for vagina on several occasions. Please enjoy 'Seduced By My Sister's Best Friend', and rate and comment.
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When I turned 18 early in 1986 one of the things I was most excited about was that I could now go out and enjoy Perth's pubs and clubs and drink legally, but this particular Friday evening I was wondering what the fuss was all about.
I sat at a table in the smoke-filled nightclub sipping at a small glass of beer that was bitter and stale, and was not enjoying the music which seemed to be just that one decibel too loud. Despite it being very early in the night, my friends had met a couple of girls and long since split for a pub up the road, but had I gone with them I would have felt like the spare wheel, so stayed back at this club hoping that something exciting or interesting might happen. This appeared unlikely, until I heard a young female voice behind me, struggling to make herself heard over the music. "Hello Jeff."
I turned and saw the six feet tall and very pretty blonde aged in her early 20s walking my way. I would have been excited enough had she been a stranger given how attractive she was, but this girl was no stranger. She was my older sister Jenny's best friend Gabrielle.
My heart pounded in my chest and my adrenaline surged through my body as Gabrielle, dressed in a pink tee-shirt, blue stone-washed denim skirt and matching jacket and white flat heeled shoes, her long blonde and lightly permed hair tied back in a pony-tail with a pink scrunchie approached me, her smile making her even prettier.
"Hi Gabrielle," I managed to say, hoping I didn't sound like some star-struck teenager meeting a pretty and famous female celebrity. Obviously Gabrielle wasn't a celebrity, but there was the chance she might be in the future. Gabrielle had recently finished a journalism degree at university and was working for a Western Australian media outlet as a researcher. However, given Gabrielle's talent, nice speaking voice and her good looks it was obvious that she would be in front of a camera rather than behind it sooner than later. It all sounded a lot more interesting than my life in which I studied commerce at university and worked at a supermarket part time, where old ladies complained to me about how they disliked the sound of these new machines that scanned their groceries, that it was better before when checkout operators keyed the prices into the tills manually.
"You don't mind if I join you?" Gabrielle asked.
"No, not at all," I said, indicating for Gabrielle to take a seat.
My simple statement was possibly the biggest understatement of 1986 to date. I had encountered Gabrielle with her friends, my sister included, at pubs or clubs in Perth or Fremantle on a couple of occasions on Friday or Saturday nights, and whenever Gabrielle appeared to me it was like the best thing that had happened in the history of the world. Not that this was a new thing. For the longest time, I had had a massive crush on my older sister's best friend.
Gabrielle had been part of my life for as long as I could remember, she would cycle over to our house to spend time with Jenny and their other friends too, and I would always count down the minutes until she arrived and get that warm fuzzy feeling when she finally appeared. Jenny and Gabrielle played netball together and we would go and watch their games, and sometimes our families would go out for the day together, much to my pleasure. Other times we would go to Gabrielle's parents' house which I also liked. Gabrielle had a younger brother Richard a year older than me and whom I became friends with, and he was an absolute wizard with computers. He could do the most amazing things with a Commodore 64 computer I had no idea it could do, and was even designing his own Atari video game, the plans for which I found unintelligible but amazing. Of course, my favorite holiday experience as a child was when we all went camping with Gabrielle's family in Western Australia's South West when I was 9 and Gabrielle 13. I never wanted that week to end.
Being 4 years younger I had always worried that Gabrielle would think I was just some stupid kid, but she was always nice to me. I always had nightmares about Gabrielle finding out I had a crush on her and being embarrassed, or other people finding out about it and teasing me or her. But if anybody had noticed anything they hadn't said so, and perhaps I was good at hiding my emotions.
One thing I had done as a kid was write these really dumb stories in an exercise book about Gabrielle, often about me saving her from some situation. Some were realistic, such as one I wrote after a day trip to Rottnest Island where we had spent the day riding bicycles and meeting the quokkas. In the story Gabrielle had been caught in a rip and swept out to sea, and I had been the one to swim out and save her. This hadn't of course happened in real life but could have in theory, unlike another story I wrote where a UFO had attempted to abduct Gabrielle, and it was hero Jeff to the rescue. In another story I wrote about Gabrielle we were grown-ups and we got married. I reminded myself that I should have been writing stories about Star Wars or something similar, but was only really interested in writing about my older sister's pretty best friend so continued writing these stories and others like them. Of course, I kept the exercise book very well hidden, never to be read by anyone else.
Now the object of my affections sat opposite me, bringing with her a glass of water from which she took a sip. I reprimanded myself for looking at Gabrielle's chest, where her large breasts filled out the pink fabric of her tee-shirt, and tried to look somewhere else, but not stare at her pretty face. In the end I was able to concentrate on Gabrielle's earrings, noting that they were the same shade of pink as both her tee-shirt and her hair scrunchie.
"How are things tonight, Jeff? Are you having fun?" Gabrielle asked, again trying to make her voice audible over the music.
"Pretty good I guess." Like Gabrielle, I had to talk as loudly as possible without actually shouting.
Gabrielle smiled. "You look like you're having as much fun as if you were in church or in a statistics lecture."
I laughed. "That obvious?"
"Yeah, I mean you've hardly touched your beer."
"It's pretty flat, doesn't taste too good." I watched Gabrielle take a sip of her drink. "So what are you drinking?"
"A cocktail," said Gabrielle. "Two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen. That's one of the reasons I'm finding this evening a bit boring."
"Would you like something more interesting?" I suggested, looking at the crowded bar.
Gabrielle shook her head. "No thanks. I can't actually drink at the moment, I had a bit of a chest infection after a cold two weeks ago, and I'm just finishing a course of antibiotics. Mixing booze and antibiotics is never a good idea."
"Sorry, I didn't know," I said.
"Well, you couldn't have," said Gabrielle. She finished her water. "Do you want to get out of here? How about we go for a drive? I brought my car, to stop me being tempted to drink tonight."
Given the suggestion was made by the young woman I had a massive crush on, Gabrielle's suggestion was to me like she had suggested that we spend a week at a luxury resort, rather than a simple drive through the Western Australian capital at night. "Really? Are you sure?" As soon as I had said it, I cursed myself for sounding too over-excited, but if Gabrielle picked up on it, she didn't say anything.
"Of course I'm sure, I think we'll be getting lung cancer if we stay here any longer, even though we don't smoke." Gabrielle waved her hand in front of herself to clear a smoke cloud.
Gabrielle put her bag over her shoulder and got up from her seat, me following her out of the nightclub, where quite a line was forming to gain entrance. "They're in for a boring night," said Gabrielle as we walked towards the multi-story car park where she had parked her car.