3
Andrea's New Life
Andrea woke up to her alarm feeling lonely and empty, and slapped the snooze bar to shut it up. She'd spent the entire weekend with Terry and Esmay and now she felt their absence to her cor. She knew she would see terry today at school, and Esmay would be registering as soon as her family could make their arrangements. Still, it wouldn't be soon enough. She wanted to wake up with them every morning.
Climbing out of bed, she decided she was going to continue her home nudism and skipped the bathrobe. Making her way downstairs for a cup of coffee, she met Mel coming out of the kitchen with her own cup. She was happy to see her sister naked too. "Good morning gorgeous! You are so sexy that way! Do you think Mom and Dad will take to this too?" She leaned in and kissed her sister.
Mel was pleased by her sister's greeting and returned the kiss with interest, moving her cup of coffee out from between them as if this were their usual morning routine. She fervently hoped it would be. "Oh God I hope so, but even if they don't, I'm gonna keep doing it. I'm too comfortable this way to give it up unless they really have a problem with it. And thank you beautiful! Seeing you like that is turning me on too! Hurry up and get your coffee, I brewed a whole pot. Then I want you to come up and join me in the shower again. I want to get back to our old routine. I really missed our time together."
Andrea grinned at her knowingly. "I was already planning on it Sis. Great minds think alike! You know, I think we're two of the strangest sisters in the world; at least when you look at us from outside our little world. I mean how many sisters would find themselves in an incestuous totally open bisexual relationship, both of us with significant others and a group of friends like ours? Before Saturday night, I'd have said it couldn't happen."
Mel looked into her eyes, totally serious as she spoke. "Let those thoughts go. Believe me, that way lies despair. I know because I went that way when I was about fifteen and I realized I was in love with my little sister. I mean I really realized it then. I always knew I loved you more than I should, even as your big sister, but I didn't know what that really meant yet. Once I did, I got really scared. It took me a couple of years to figure everything out for myself."
"What I learned from that was that you love who you love and there's no getting around it, laws and society be damned! As far as I can tell, any other way of thinking about it leads to a personal hell that's nearly impossible to escape. I hated myself for the longest time. That's why I went through that moody dark gothic phase. That wasn't just me getting into that fashion craze, I was really depressed and I think now nearly suicidal."
Andrea felt her eyes filling with tears at that last thought. "Thank God you figured it out! If you'd gone that way, I'd have followed you. I wouldn't have been able to live without you. I'd have never met Terry and Esmay and gotten together with Vince. Together, we'd have ruined Mom's and Dad's lives completely!"
"Exactly." Mel agreed, "It took me seeing you loved me just as much and in the same ways to start pulling me out of it. When I started seeing the way your eyes followed me and the way you looked at me when you thought I wasn't looking, well, I think it saved my life! It was right after that I met my first girlfriend. I was alive enough to know it was all just a game to her and to appreciate that for what it was."
"I think that was where I learned I belonged in open relationships. I think that was one of the reasons Becca left me the way she did. She wanted something a little more exclusive. Actually, I think exclusive is the wrong word. She liked to share me with other girls, but she wanted it to be only when she was in the mood to play with someone else. She didn't freak out when I brought somebody else to our bed, but she wasn't always happy about it when I did either. She really seemed to get upset when I brought friends of ours to bed. She never brought any friends to sleep with us at all."
Mona and I have talked about this over and over and over again. I think we finally have it figured out, but I'm not sure Becca had that good an idea of what was happening. The way she thinks, I'm pretty sure she was just convinced it wasn't working, so it was time to move on. I wish she'd have talked to me about it though; at least have given me a clue she didn't see it working out."
Mel had followed Andrea back into the kitchen as they talked so she could get her coffee. Now Andrea turned and wrapped her in a reassuring hug that immediately quelled her oncoming tears. "Actually," Andrea murmured, "I wasn't thinking that way at all. I was just amazed at the impossibility of the relationship we've found ourselves in. It's like a lesbian incest fantasy of epic proportions!" That had them both giggling as Andrea finished putting her cup of coffee together and followed her sister out of the kitchen and upstairs.
"You know, you're right too!" Mel agreed sounding pleasantly surprised as they passed through Andrea's room and into their shared bathroom. She glanced at her bedroom doorknob at the other end of the bath to be sure it was securely locked. True, it was set up to be locked and unlocked from this side, but she and Andrea had long since agreed that seeing those locks turned from this side meant the other woman was supposed to respect the other's privacy and stay out. There hadn't been a single problem with that since Andrea had been about eleven or so and had reached the standard girls' prepubescent snoopy phase. Andrea's getting caught snooping in her personal privates drawer during the depressed gothic period she'd just been telling her about had led to the current working agreement.
Mel Turned on the water to get it up to temperature before they climbed into the shower. Andrea took a large sip of her coffee and set the cup down on the counter. "Mel, how do you stand waking up alone?"
Mel turned to meet her sister's earnest eyes. "Oh, you've got it really bad for Terry, don't you? You really meant it when you called her your soulmate didn't you." Her eyes were kind, not dismissive as she answered thoughtfully, "I honestly don't know. I think that's something you're gonna have to ask someone like Mom or maybe Tommy and Sheri. Much as I'd like to think she is, I don't think Mona's my soulmate."
"There wouldn't be a shadow of a doubt in your mind if she was." Andrea reassured her, "It hit me like a ton of bricks when I realized it night before last. I'd have known it the moment we met if I'd known what that feeling was! If you ever start dreaming about someone as soon as you meet her, or him I guess, don't ever let them go! That's how it was with me and Terry."
Mel laughed out loud as she followed Andrea into the shower and pulled the door closed behind them. "You're right Sis, great minds do think alike! I was gonna ask you how it felt. Now I know! Thanks!"
Following their usual shower ritual, Mel stepped under the water and soaked her hair, taking Andrea's place as she stepped clear. It had been a while since they'd done this because Andrea usually didn't get up this early for school. Mel's first class was far earlier than Andrea's at the high-school. That and for the last week or so, Mel had been sleeping over at Mona's Dorm room. Andrea whished she'd known that. It would've eliminated most of her recent confusion about her and her sister.