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An Taste of Incest: A Taste of Lemonade
(Mom and Sis are so very helpful!)
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"Fuck!"
Terry did not sound happy.
My brother was working SO hard. And the day was SO hot. Despite wearing only his Speedos, he dripped like a squeezed sponge. Even his six-pack abs were sweating as he leaned back from his Mustang's engine compartment.
This was freaky weather for Portland, the hottest I could remember. Oregon's biggest city is known for rain and clouds; this Palm Springs-like summer sun is alien to us. I guess those climate change guys are right, after all.
But Terry just HAD to do this work now, whatever it was. Something about dual Webrings, and Moon units, and turbo Flowmaster -- I thought that was some kind of laundry soap. (Not that I do much laundry; Mom handles that.) Terry insisted that this mechanical work was immediately vital. Whatever.
Anyway, we had record heat here in the Sellwood neighborhood. Flowers and vines were wilting. Mom and I would have wilted too, so we put on tiny bikinis, and ran the lawn sprinkler, and stayed as cool and wet as we could.
And Terry kept pounding and scraping his knuckles, and shoving tools in and out and back and forth, and struggling with cables and hoses and shit, and swearing loudly, and sweating profusely.
Mom and I lay in plastic chaises on the back lawn. The old oscillating sprinkler kept us nicely drenched. We watched Terry labor and drip.
"Take pity on your poor brother, Ronni," Mom said. "He's going to dehydrate and collapse if he keeps that up. Be a dear and make him some lemonade."
"Sure thing," I agreed, and hopped up. The grass was soft and squishy under my flip-flopped feet. I dried off before entering the kitchen; Mom did not like us dripping in the house.
Ah, lemon beverages. After-dinner called for
limoncello
with lemon zest soaked in sweetened raw spirits a few weeks. Cool evenings called for WPLJ, white port and lemon juice, heated to steaming like
sake
. Grey mornings called for lemon-ginger tea. The spice shop SAVORY on 13th Avenue had the best ingredients for that.
But a hot day like this demanded icy lemonade. And not that instant crap, all chemicals and sugars, no way. Not the frozen stuff, either. No, Mom had our own special recipe, with fresh fruit: a pile of Sunkist lemons, a couple kiwis, a clump of strawberries, and a big glob of clover honey.
I squeezed the citrus and threw everything into the big blender, along with enough ice cubes. One minute later, an icy, slushy kiwi-strawberry lemonade froth was ready to serve. Fucking perfection!
I poured a tall glass and flip-flopped out to where Terry clawed and cursed at his car. Damn, the guy was built! Too bad he was my brother. I could not help but notice the bulge in his Speedos.
I touched his shoulder. "Hey bro, want to cool down a little?"
He glanced at me. My bikini -- just a thin strap and a thick thong, really -- covered rather less flesh than his briefs. His hands reached for the iced glass. His bulging crotch reached for... frustration, not freedom. Too bad, bro! Hmm, my nipples reached out a little, too.
No breeze blew past the high fence surrounding our backyard. No eyes peered over the fence, either. Only sunlight and sounds connected us to the outside world.
Terry slurped. I heard faint carousel music from Oaks Amusement Park down the hillside, and traffic rattling across the old Sellwood Bridge, due to be torn down soon. (Want to buy a bridge? It's for sale! Cash and carry, though.) A small jet left a contrail high overhead. And Terry slurped again.
"Thanks, sis." He chugged more of the slurry, upended the glass, drained it, and shivered as the ice hit his core. "Wow, that's great! Got any more?" He aimed his dark-brown begging puppy-dog eyes at me -- up and down my near-naked body, then back to my face.
"For
you
, there's always more, count on it," I whispered seductively, and grinned. I wiggled my hips as I walked back to the kitchen for a refill. I felt his eyeballs burn into my bouncing butt.
I poured the rest of that batch into his cup. Would this be enough? Better make another half-gallon, I thought. I checked the ingredients; we were almost out of Sunkists, but there were some Meyer lemons and a bunch of key limes. Okay, the next run would be a little different. In time, in time...
Terry looked fairly refreshed after slugging-down my offering. But he still looked frustrated -- mechanically, more than sexually.
"Damn, this is harder than I thought. I just don't have enough hands. Say, could you help me here? Nothing hard; just hold stuff for me." His warm, pleading puppy-dog eyes were on me again. Down, and up, and back again.
How could I refuse?
So my brother and I, both nearly naked, leaned together over the engine, and did mechanical stuff, with our butts bumping together every now and then. I held stuff, and he twisted or poked or screwed stuff, and cursed.
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Maybe I should tell you about us. Terry is tall and thin and dark and strong. And smart; he will be a great geologist some day. I am almost as tall and thin, except for my big boobs, and I am not so dark -- dirty-blonde, even, taking after Mom, who looks like I will in a decade or so, I hope.
Terry is more like Dad, except that Dad is off in Tierra del Fuego chasing Chilean Sasquatches or something. He has been gone for quite a few years now. Maybe he will finally make his big find someday. Whatever.
I am a music major, and maybe not so smart as Terry. I
am
smart enough not to carry a clarinet into the sprinkler. My plastic Suzuki alto recorder survives water. I pipe Baroque tunes into the spray.
I have always had a kind of a thing for Terry. Does that make me a perv? I do not think so. Remember what Joan Rivers said: "A man can sleep around, no questions asked. But if a woman makes 19 or 20 mistakes, she's a tramp." Okay, I had boyfriends, and girlfriends. But no doggy friends. I am no slut. And I have not played my brother... although he
is
tempting.
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Terry and I worked away, and swore, and got hotter and sweatier. I ducked back under the sprinkler more than once. I dragged Terry with me more than once, too. Then we went back and worked and cursed some more.
Our heads were stuck deep inside the Mustang's guts when Mom's nearby voice startled me. "How are you kids doing there?" she asked.
"Ow!" I said as I straightened too fast, bopping my head on the raised hood.
"Heh heh, watch it, sis," Terry chuckled, moving himself more carefully. "Yeah, could be better. There are just too many loose ends flopping around."
"Damn," I grunted, "too many thingamadiddles and whirligigs and shi... and stuff. This is a job for an octopus, not humans."