In the upstairs bedroom, which belonged to their mother, Michael and Katie were just concluding another round of hard, sweaty sex. It was late Sunday morning and they had decided to get in one more fling before their mother, Julie, returned home from visiting her sister.
"Fuck that was good!" panted Katie.
She rolled off her brother and lay limp on the bed beside him, trying to catch her breath. Michael lay on his back taking long deep breaths, staring at the ceiling with a satisfied smile on his face.
"What time is it?" he said, drawing circles around his sister's nipple with his finger.
Katie looked at the clock on the night stand. It was 10:42. Their mother was supposed to be home sometime between three and five. That meant there was still time to get in one more good fuck before she got home.
"About a quarter 'til eleven," she said, her breathing a little more controlled. "We've still got plenty of time."
"Now might be a good time to change the sheets though; we can hit it again in my bed later," Michael said, sitting up.
They both rolled out of the bed and pulled off the sex stained sheets. During the process of putting down new covers, Michael couldn't resist grabbing his sister's ass several times and giving her little squeezes, making her squeal with laughter.
"Mike!" she laughed. "C'mon, let's go shower."
"Right behind ya; giving it to you, that is."
Katie went and started the shower while Michael disposed of the dirty sheets in the laundry room. He happened to glance at the phone and saw the message light blinking.
Huh, I don't remember hearing the phone
he thought.
Well of course I wouldn't have heard it we were upstairs; God she's got some lungs on her.
He hit the play button.
*Beep* "Hi kids, this is your mother calling. Just wanted to let you know that I'm going to be coming back a few hours early, so make sure to clean up any party messes before I get there! I'm leaving at eight tomorrow morning so I should be home by ten or so. Love you! See you then! *Beep* End of message."
Michael's heart froze. It was now 10:50.
Ten? Oh shit. Oh SHIT. Please, PLEASE let her have been late.
He ran upstairs, his stomach filling with guilt. At the end of the hall, Katie was standing naked, waiting for her brother to join her in the shower. She noticed the look of panic in Michael's eyes.
"Mike," she said worriedly, "what's wrong?"
"Fuck, Katie. We may be in deep shit. Mom left a message, said she was coming home early. Thought she would be here around ten."
Katie felt her stomach drop and panic started to spread.
"Ten? Fuck, oh no, shit; Mike, you don't think she heard us?"
"Well Christ, if she did come home, there's no way she could have stepped foot in the door without hearing us. We always left the door open, remember? And we made no attempt to be quiet."
"Shit. Shit! Well is her car out there? Maybe she's running late," she whimpered.
"It's not, I already checked. Either she's not home yet, God I
hope
that's the case, or she's SERIOUSLY pissed and is on the rampage somewhere."
"Fuck. Well what should we do?" she asked, her voice raising with panic.
"If she heard us then all we can do is wait for her to get back and accept the consequences," he said with a shaky voice, feeling he might vomit at any second. Then remembering that his sister was also just as afraid, he tried to play the courageous big brother and added, "Unless you wanna make a run for the border or something, my car could probably make it."
She appreciated his attempt to soothe her. If they got out of this alive, she planned on giving him a very special 'thank you'.
They both got dressed and went downstairs to wait, either for their mother's second return and the inevitable fury, or for her to return from their aunt's, oblivious to their activities.
There was no discussion between them as they waited. Each was lost in their own thoughts, imagining what terrible fate might await them if their mother had discovered that her children had been fucking the living shit out of each other in her bed. Michael feared his mother would return accompanied by the police, who would then haul him off to jail on charges of abuse. Katie was thinking about which of her girlfriends she could call to stay with after her mother disowned her and threw her out.
At length, they heard a car pull up into the driveway.
"Shit. I think I'm going to be sick," Michael said in a low wavering voice, staring at the floor. His normal calmness had utterly abandoned him at the prospect of having been caught with his sister; not just caught with his
sister
, but caught by his
mother.
The air was still, like the silence before some terrible storm that was just on the brink of exploding forth with all its fury. The shadow of their mother passed by the living room window. The knob turned slowly; Katie could have sworn that it was turning in slow motion, drawing out the moment before their inevitable doom.
It opened and Julie came in carrying her suitcase in one hand and her duffle bag slung over the other shoulder.
"Hi kids!" she said smiling. Noticing the fearful look in Katie's eyes, she quickly added, "Katie! What's wrong? Are you okay? Where's Michael, is he okay?"
Katie, with a surge of relief washing over her, tried to answer her mother in a casual tone.
"Hi Mom, everything's fine. Michael's right there on the sofa," she pointed to where her brother was sitting, now slouched so low that she could only see the very top of his head.
"Hi Mom," he said, standing up and walking over to hug her as though nothing was wrong. He took her bags from her.
Julie saw that something was also bothering her son and was determined to find out what it was. Had they had a party and were only hoping she wouldn't notice the missing vase that had been broken? Had they wrecked one of the cars?
"Kids, what's going on here? You two look like you're waiting for the executioner!"
Thinking quickly, Michael replied:
"Well Mom, we were just worried something might have happened to you. Your message said you would be here at ten. We thought you might have gotten into a wreck or something since you hadn't called to say you were running late."
"Oh," Julie said sounding relieved, "no honey, I'm just fine. I left your aunt's a little later than I planned. She cooked a very big breakfast for all of us and I got away a little late. I appreciate the concern though!"
She hugged him and Katie came over to hug her as well. Fate had spared them! Thank heavens! Thank Aunt Sarah and her bad sense of time! Thank pancakes and eggs and bacon and all big breakfasts everywhere!
Julie went upstairs to unpack. Michael unconsciously watched her ass as she mounted the stairs; he quickly snapped out of it as he realized it, though not with disgust, just surprise. He had never considered his mother sexually before. Then again, he had never considered his sister either. The thought stayed with him for a moment as he considered it.
"Katie," their mother called down the stairs, "come up and look at the jewelry your aunt bought for you!"
Katie quickly glanced at her brother with a look that said "Thank God she didn't catch us!", and went up to her mothers room, where they had, only an hour before, been fucking quiet hard.
The rest of the afternoon passed uneventfully. Michael fell back into his usual routine and sat down in front of the TV. Katie and her mother were trying on the various bits of jewelry that Sarah, Julie's sister, had given to them. Sarah was a bit of a pack rat when it came to jewelry and had decided it was time to clean out a little of her 'treasure chamber', as she called it. Usually she would give it away to her friends and relatives. This time she had also gone out and bought some for Julie and Katie, while of course replenishing her own stockpile.
***
Julie fixed dinner and everyone sat down at the table together. It was a normal meal, except that because Katie and Michael hadn't eaten much during their weekend of marathon fucking, they both ate ravenously.
"You two act like you haven't eaten in a year!" Julie commented.
"Well of course not mom, we spent all the food money on beer," Michael said in a straight tone, masking sarcasm.
They all three laughed. Katie went to the stove and got more of the macaroni and another piece of hamburger.
"Hey, just bring the pot back with ya," Michael said through a mouth of partially chewed beef.
"You didn't
really
spend the money all on beer did you?" Julie asked, not understanding why her children were so hungry.
"'Course not mom, I was just joking. There's an old pizza box if you don't believe me," Michael replied. He scooped out more macaroni onto his plate and nodded towards the box on the counter.
"I've been following your advice and have been out exercising every day over the weekend. I even went out to a bar a couple of nights ago with Tim, you remember him? One of my school buddies," this last bit was a little psychology trick he employed to change the subject, avoiding having to explain why Katie was likewise so hungry.