Chapter 2: Lovers Found
The next morning dawned and we found the storm had deposited at least a foot of snow on the ground. I tuned our parentsā clock radio to a station and listened for the cancellation announcements while Rene continued to sleep. During the night, weād ended up facing each other, curled up next to each other. While I listened, I stroked her silky hair, tussled from sleep and our lovemaking the night before. She looked so much more beautiful in the morning sunshine streaming through the window, I couldnāt help think how Iād ever resisted her before.
When I heard the announcement on the radio that school was closed, I nearly yelped in excitement, not because it meant we could spend three blissful days together alone now, more because it meant I just didnāt have to get dressed and go to school to be bored. No kid knocks an opportunity to skip school, in the winter praying each night for snow just so they donāt have to go the next day. Now, I had extra incentive, the fact not lost on me.
My hand found the radioās off switch. I laid a gentle kiss on her lips as she slept, then stood up to go to the bathroom. Feeling the bed shift, she moaned in her sleep, hand searching for me. When it didnāt find me, she stirred, opening her eyes to look at me putting on dadās robe. āWhere are you going?ā
āJust to the bathroom,ā I answered as I tied the robe. āSnow day today, so you donāt have to get up yet. We still have to go out, though. Mom left some money for groceries and thereās still Will to deal with.ā
At breakfast we talked about all the things weād done and all the things we wanted to do. The torment of last night had faded, of what weād engaged in, replaced by the affection of two people in love. There were so many things we wanted to do to each other, having just discovered the joys and delights of sex.
Our parents hadnāt exactly kept their own affections hidden, only more subdued than in the bedroom. Compared to our friendsā parents, they were practically porn stars. The sex talks over the years had been always followed by a genuine, āFeel free to come and talk to us.ā They didnāt try to scare us, except about incest, but they made sure we knew the consequences. Dad advised me to buy condoms, but it was mom who bought me my first ones at 13. The rule in the house was, if you engaged in sex, at least be careful enough not to catch any diseases or get a girl pregnant. They even kept the rules with their little girl, even though Rene didnāt have much interest in it, she told me, at least not until the night before.
After breakfast, I went out to clear the driveway. Fortunately, dad had it paved years ago and he bought a snowblower for just this time of the year, so it took no time at all. We both made a list of the things we wanted, figured out what weād do in town while we were there, all before getting into dadās SUV.
The roads into town hadnāt finished being plowed by the time we started off, only enough room for two cars to pass each other if they went real slow. Once in town, it was off to the police station, where Rene made her statement and all the usual police things. When she got to the part where Will began saying certain things, she didnāt lie to them, only lying about what caused me to find her sobbing. I stood there with her throughout the entire ordeal, even holding the skirt and shirt heād ripped while trying to attack her. It only then appeared to me, handing them over to an officer, that her skirt had a spot of dried semen on it, a large one. It only burned my blood more but I resolved to let it go. Later, I found it rather funny, since the implications would leave him with a much different reputation once I was through.
Once the police let us leave, at around noon, we decided to find a place to eat. After a quick lunch at the town McDonaldās, we moved on to shopping, breezing through. Anyone seeing us would have caught the looks we had in our eyes by then, the nearness of our lover without the ability to do anything out of the ordinary for siblings. Codes and signals weād developed years ago, things fallen into disuse, now became our only way of communicating our feelings in public. Of course, we modified it, having grown some years older. Shopping still flew by with sexual tension between us mounting. Nothing could move fast enough for us, and it seemed the eyes of every man were on my sister, despite her eyes very much carefully avoiding me. It sent me a thrill knowing every guy in here wanted her, knowing Iād had her first, knowing I might be the only one to ever have her.
Soon enough we were driving home, copping feels of each other. Once we were in the country just outside the town proper, we even managed a very long kiss at a stop sign before driving on. The ride home certainly felt a bit different, with the needs in both of us defying the rules weād set against public attention, though we assured no one could see us.
Reaching the house, a red pickup drew us from our reverie. The tall, muscular Will stood in the driveway as we came in and parked by the barn. I told Rene to keep her door locked, deciding to confront the attacker myself.
āAbout damn time you got home,ā Will said as he came up, smiling stupidly. āThink I can have a moment alone with her?ā
I just looked him up and down, then stared him straight in the face so he could see the burning rage. āGo home, Will. You think Iād dare leave you alone with her after last night?ā
The goofy look on his face turned to anger as he grabbed my arm. Itās cliche, but I looked at the hand holding my arm and then at him, shooting him a warning in my expression. He ignored it, of course. āLook, this doesnāt have a damned thing to do with you. If you donāt want to me to beat your ass, boy, youāll let me talk to her.ā
āWell, since you put it like that...ā He never saw it coming, my hand forming a fist and connecting squarely with his chest in a blink of an eye. The other fist connected with his face, just to under the side of his jaw as I hoped, sending him down to the ground. Willās bigger than me physically, but you donāt take martial arts for years and not learn a few things in the process. I stood above him as he held his wounded face. āGet out of here before I call the police. Youāre in enough trouble as it is.ā
It took him a few minutes to get off the icy blacktop, but he managed to make it and stand up in front of me, puffing out his chest. By this point, Rene came running up behind me. It was reflex that I used an arm to keep her behind me, but I felt her gripping my hand tight, the very gesture caught by the one person neither of us feared right now.
āSo, itās true! I was only kidding last night, but you really do have the hots for your brother,ā he stated in stark clarity. āGod, this is sick, just fucking sick!ā
āGet out of here, Will, you donāt know a goddamn thing!ā Rene screamed, her hands gripping mine more tightly now. āItās not at all what you think it is!ā
I turned my head to look at her, seeing a fear in those lovely eyes. Not fear of discovery but fear for a loverās safety. The blow caught me off guard as I fell to the ground with my attacker standing above me. He landed a good solid kick while I was still stunned, but when he bent over to grab me, Rene sent him a kick into his side, knocking him to his back. She kneeled down to me, examining the bruise on my face. Her hands felt so warm on my skin, then the look in my eyes exchanged with hers. Lips laid a kiss before she could stop herself in full view of Will, who gawked at the proof of his accusations.
āGawd, the schoolās gonna love this one! Itāll go around and ruin you both!ā He got up as we watched him, walking to his truck. āWonder if this is something the police would like to know about.ā He climbed into his truck as we got up. The truck started up and sped off down the driveway, spinning out on the road before finding a grip and shooting away.
āRick, are you ok?ā My sister just stood in front of me with all the concern Iād ever seen, like Iād been shot in the back of the head and would only live a few more minutes.
āIām fine, just shocked really.ā My hand rubbed the bruised cheek, thinking in the back of my mind just how weak the punch had really been. I wish I could say the same about the kick but heād wound up on that one, putting his all into it. Heād gotten my thigh, making it feel worse than it being broken, a feeling Iād known recently enough it stuck in my mind then. I limped to the Explorer and opened the trunk. āCāmon, we need to get this stuff in.ā
With grocery bags in her arms, Rene didnāt try to hide her concern watching me, but she did see to putting away the food. With the car unloaded and food put away, I felt it time to see to my leg, a sentiment she echoed and led me to the living room. Our coats came off before she undid my pants, pulling them down to better see the black and blue welt on my leg. She did her best to make the pain go away, even holding ice on it.
āThis is why I didnāt want you going after him. I didnāt want you getting hurt.ā She gave me a little kiss as she held the ice. āPromise me you wonāt do that again, love, please.ā