A Picture With Sister
[note: all characters therein are over the age of 18]
Hey
The short text message had popped onto my phone screen unexpectedly. It was from my baby sister, Noah. I had recently had to move back in with our parents after a few personal disasters in my own life, so I was suddenly seeing a lot more of her. Which was very strange, as I had left home for school and then work on the opposite side of the country when she was all of twelve. Now she was nineteen and...honestly still as much of a brat as when I left. While she had grown, she remained short and flat as a washboard. The real draw--not for me, her older brother, of course--was her ass. Noah ran track in high school and still found time to jog almost every morning. This gave her a bubble butt that she constantly kept in shape and loved to show off.
What's up
I texted back
I waited as those three unholy "still typing dots" danced on screen.
R u gonna be home tonight?
Yeah, probably.
Do u want to watch a movie or something.
Now, this was very odd. As long as I had been back, Noah had wanted nothing to do with me. Like I said, she was still a bit of a brat, even as an adult. I didn't take it too personally. Honestly, before I was forced to come home, I never made much of an effort to visit. I talked to my parents on the phone, but Noah always seemed busy with her own life and her own friends. I was far away and she was busy growing up. Maybe that's all it was: a little sister wanting to reconnect with a sibling she hadn't seen hide or tail in seven years.
I'd be down for a movie.
She "heart" reacted and texted back:
ok, what should we watch?
Hey, isn't this your idea???
I know, but I never know what to pick :( That's why I never watch movies alone.
You're on Netflix all the time?
Uh, watching tv? like a normal person???
Okay, I'll pick something out that we'll both like.
She heart reacted again and replied:
it's a date.
The conversation wrapped up after that, but it was still all so strange.
It's a date.
That seemed so out of character for Noah to say, especially to me of all people.
I decided I was overthinking it and got back to my day. After all, part of me was looking forward to getting a chance to just hang out with my sister. The only hurdle now was picking a good movie.
(- - -)
Evening rolled around and I made my way to the living room. I had to pass by the kitchen to get there and found Noah by the oven.
"Are you cooking something?" I asked her.
Noah turned to me and for a second, I was struck by how much she'd grown up while I was gone. I gave her a hard time, but she really had become a beautiful woman. She had on a blue dress that complimented the runner's body she had given herself. After wearing her hair short for years, she had grown out her dark curls to perfectly frame her face. When her eyes caught mine, I froze in place.
"Yeah," she said, "I'm making us some pizza for our movie."
"You didn't want to just order out?"
Noah made a mock offended expression, "Are you scared to try my cooking?"
I laughed and replied, "No, I'm sure it'll be great. I guess I'm just used to movie nights being low threshold events. Order out, stream something, pass out on a couch..."
"Oh, like all your movie nights end on a couch," she said, rolling her eyes. Again, it was a strange comment. I was talking about watching movies in general, and suddenly she's accusing me of Netflix and Chilling...not that she was off base. Don't get me wrong, I was definitely one of those kids who used "cinephile" as a personality description for a couple years, but I wasn't above using the storied medium of film as a pretense to invite a girl over and hopefully get a piece of ass.
Which made the whole situation stranger because Noah was obviously
not
a piece of ass. I wouldn't deny that I thought she was very attractive, but that was an objective aesthetic response. I already had no idea where this night was going.
(- - -)
Noah pulled her pizza out of the oven --- diced chicken, banana peppers, black olives, and a creamy alfredo sauce for toppings--- and we settled on our parents' couch to stuff our faces and watch something.
"Are Mom and Dad going to join us?" I asked.
Noah gave me a funny look and then said, "Nah, they've got a thing?"
"A thing?"
"Yeah," she said, and I didn't press further. Like I said, this night was getting weird.
I clicked through the myriad of apps on our parents' smart tv to my desired choice. It was a sort of fantasy-western mash-up movie that was a few decades old but I had been wanting to see for a long time. I was about to hit play when Noah stopped me.
"So, I was thinking..." she started to say.
"Yeah?"
"Did you maybe wanna drink while we're watching?"
Alcohol. In my experience, alcohol was not a good way to make it through the full runtime of a movie, especially when a cute girl was involved. What was going on? What was Noah thinking?
Of course, I had an obvious justification: she still couldn't buy alcohol herself. Our parents weren't super-conservative, but I imagine Noah wasn't getting quite as much booze in her living in their house as she had been during the school year.
"Sure, I could use a drink," I said, deciding not to argue the point, "I hope vodka's okay?"
"Vodka's my favorite!" Noah practically shouted. It was almost cute, "What do you have for mixers?"
"Uh, I don't know, check the kitchen."
"What you don't mix your drinks?"
"Straight vodka, baby," I told her, "I'm sure we can find you something. Maybe a screwdriver?"
"No," she said, her hand grabbing at my wrist, "I'll drink it straight."
The touch was unexpected. It rattled me a little. The whole night already had an off vibe and now this. Should I really be drinking with my little sister? She was family.
It would be fine.
"Okay, I'll be right back," I said. Noah squealed in delight and gave me a peck on the cheek. I just smiled and averted my eyes, quickly making my way to my room for my secret stash. While Noah had only asked for vodka, I had paraphernalia for a few "other things" we could do, but I didn't want to push it. The last thing I needed was my kid sister trying to press me for weed and Adderall at odd hours of the night.
I made my way back to the kitchen with the bottle. Noah had already put out some glasses with ice.
"Oh, you used coasters, even," I said as I poured us each a drink.
"Well, of course," she said, "I'm not an animal."
We laughed and settled in to finally start the movie.
(- - -)
An hour later, I was seriously questioning my thought process over the course of the day.
We still had an hour of the film to go and had put a serious dent in the vodka. I was feeling pretty loose, so I could only imagine how Noah was holding up. Even after I had stopped pouring drinks for her, she just started to help herself. Tiny as the girl was, she drank like a monster.
None of this was the upsetting part, but it definitely enabled it: Noah and I were cuddled up like horny freshmen on a first date. We had been sitting close together at the beginning, but by this point in the movie she was basically on top of me. My little sister was sitting in my lap in a dress that I was suddenly very aware of being much, much too short. It had all happened pretty imperceptibly. It seem like she shifted herself a little closer to me every few minutes, but the more we drank, the less I thought of it. It was only in a brief moment of clarity that I realized we looked like that couple at a house show whose age difference you cringe at a little but don't say anything about. Sure, I lusted after eighteen year-olds the same as anyone, but once I left college and hit the real world, I gave up on hitting the high of that brand of fresh, young...you get the idea.
So that it was happening now, with my little sister of all people, was a little upsetting. Not that she seemed to mind: she was the one who had devoted the past hour to slowly planting herself in my lap. The weight of her ass pressed down on my crotch and it was honestly driving me insane.
At this point, I still had no idea what her game was, and I was so inebriated I couldn't think straight enough to make sense of what was going on, much less stop it.
In this haze of alcoholic and sexual confusion, I was ill prepared for Noah to turn to me with half-lidded eyes and a little smile on her face.
"This is a really, really good movie," she said, her words slurring a little, "You always pick such good movies."