Hey, everyone. I'm a long-time reader but first time poster, so I appreciate criticism, but try not to be too harsh! I'll learn things about what formatting looks good and everything else from this story, so excuse me if the presentation is a little rough around the edges.
Usually when I read stories I find a very fine line between what is contrived enough to be funny, and what's just too contrived to be any degree of realistic, which I just find annoying. I think this story teeters on the edge of the latter to be honest, but I had fun writing it, and I hope you all have fun reading it too. I wrote this as a standalone, but if anyone is interested in a sequel or anything, let me know, and suggest ideas too, if you want!
Also, sorry about the names! I initially had a second sister who I cut out, but I left her name all over the place, which reading it back I noticed made no sense at all- it was pretty jarring. I guess that's why you use editors, huh? It should all be fixed now, so sorry if you read the stupid version.
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"Dan! Get up!"
"I'm coming, mum" Dan yelled back, dragging himself out of bed and heading downstairs, still groggy and bed-headed from a bad night's sleep. His watch read 9:02, or as his brain saw it, "far too early to be out of bed."
Dan walked into the living room to find his mother and sister already dressed, made-up, and clearly more awake than he was. His mother, Carol, was wearing tight white jeans and a light blue tank top. The jeans hugged her wide hips and made her butt look perfect, whereas the tank top allowed more than its fair share of cleavage to peek out of the neckline. His sister, Claire, was dressed more modestly in a white sundress they went down to her ankles. The dark hair she shared with her family was tinted slightly red, and was tied in a ponytail. Her smaller, perkier breasts seemed to defy gravity as they stuck out from her chest, but perhaps that came from being just eighteen, Dan thought.
Dan didn't exactly make a habit of eyeing up his family, but he considered that they had clearly tried to make themselves look especially good for a reason. If he was judging, he would say they had definitely succeeded.
"Claire and I have some shopping to do in town. We'll probably get some coffee and lunch while we're out, so we'll be a few hours." His mum said, zipping a coat over her generous chest
"...Ok." Dan scratched his head, confused. "So why do I need to be up?" He asked, strongly regretting his decision to get out of bed at all.
"My new laptop should be arriving today, but the courier didn't give a time. I need you to be in the living room while we're gone so you can hear when the guy knocks at the door" Claire said.
"Fine" Dan sighed. His old PS3 was in the living room anyway, so it wasn't like he had nothing to do.
"Thanks! Love you!" Claire squealed as she picked up her handbag and left the room. "Come on, mum!"
Their mother picked up her own bag and hung in the doorway of the living room before turning around and speaking to Dan.
"I know it isn't fun, but she's been super excited about this. For all we know it could arrive in ten minutes and then you can go back to sleep or something" she smiled sincerely, her kind, brown eyes lighting up. She left the room, but with a raised voice asked "Is there anything you want me to pick up while we're out?"
"No, I'm good thanks!" Dan shouted back. A few seconds later, after the sound of shuffling to put on shoes and fumbling in bags for door keys had faded, he heard the front door open down the hall, followed by it slamming shut a few seconds later. Dan sighed again and collapsed onto the sofa. He ruffled his own dark hair and reached for the TV remote.
Half an hour later there still hadn't been any sign of a delivery person, and Dan was starting to get bored. He booted up his PS3 and played a game for another hour but still heard nothing. It was only 10:30, and his family wouldn't be home for hours. By his guess, he probably had at a minimum of another three hours to loiter in the living room until his sister could take over his role.
Dan headed up to the bathroom, assuming for at least a few minutes that that would be ok. He looked at himself in the mirror, and saw the same tall, skinny nineteen year-old he always did, with lank hair hanging slightly over his eyes, and dressed in a black t-shirt and grey sweatpants. He stripped off and took a much quicker shower than he would have liked. He toweled his hair dry as he always did, but was struck by the thought that he would be home alone for at least a few more hours. Enticed by the thought of walking around naked, he stuffed his clothes in the laundry basket and headed back downstairs completely nude. Should he need it, his dressing gown hung on a hook by the front door for when he needed to answer the door.
He sat back on the sofa completely naked with his laptop beside him. Filled with a sudden naughty surge of exhibitionism, he opened one of his favourite porn videos from his bookmarks and started to tease himself into an erection right there on the living room sofa.