This is the last part of a four-part story. To make sense of what follows you need to read the previous three parts. The story ending may not be to your liking. I can live with that. Life deviates from the straightforward as do the stories we tell.
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Anne did not have time to get home and change after school, so she arrived at the Pub about half an hour early. She knew she had a pile of grading to do and wanted to get away as quickly as possible. She was half regretting she agreed to meeting on a weekday evening. Yet part of her also wanted to meet her newly found brother. She decided to get her meal over with ordering the Shepherd's Pie and an orange juice.
She was eating and reading the Teacher's News, when she was aware of someone standing over her. "How did you get here before me?" Anne looked up at a tall somewhat overweight man grinning at her.
His grin quickly turned to a puzzled look." Sybll?"
"No. But close."
"I'm so sorry. I'm meeting my sister here and you look so much like her. It's quite eerie. Wow."
"I'm the person Sybll was going to introduce you to. My name is Anne." Anne saw Sybll coming over to the table. "Here she is now."
Harry hugged Sybll and kissed her on he lips. "Hello sweetheart."
"I see you have met."
"I just arrived and mistook" Harry reached for the name. "Anne for you. You look so much alike." Anne was now standing, "but I now see you have a couple of inches on Anne."
"Sit down Harry. Premium draft? Anything for you Anne, I see you've started without us."
"No. I'm good. I was hungry and I have a bunch of grading to do after this so I thought I'd make up some time by starting early."
"Harry, your usual steak and kidney pie with fries?" Harry nodded. Sybll went to the bar to order and bring back the drinks.
"So how do you know Sybll? Were you in a look-alike competition together? Its amazing."
"Well, Harry, it's a long story. We'll get to that when Sybll gets back and settled." Anne saw Harry looking at her breasts appreciatively. 'Direct' she thought.
With Sybll's arrival and a toast, "Here's to us, none like us." Sybll launched in. "Harry I'd like you to meet your long lost sister Anne." Harry embarrassingly spluttered a mouthful of beer all over Sybll who was sitting opposite him.
"What?"
"You heard me. Anne is our sister. Really. Confirmed. DNA. We share a mother and father."
"I hear you. I hear you," Harry jumped in. "Another beautiful sister. This is wonderful. Wonderful. I can't wait to tell Lorraine. She'll be amazed and delighted. The kids get a new auntie to play with. Wow."
"Harry, only Gail's not a kid any more."
"I know. I know."
After a moment of silence as the food was delivered, Harry continued, "So tell me how did you discover each other?" Sybll gave a brief summary of the events that took place without any reference to sex play involved. Anne added the odd detail, and a one-minute biography, with emphasis on her teaching career.
"Harry this is going to be tough for you"
"What is tough? This is wonderful."
"No the really tough part for you - something that is totally contrary to your nature - is that you have to keep this a secret until we have told Jamie and my hubby. It's important to both of us that we break the news to Jamie ourselves at the right moment. We have to set that as we have here with you. Can you do this for us, Harry, keep a secret?"
"I guess so. I can see that you wish to tell him yourselves, but you could do that tomorrow, couldn't you?"
"It's a bit more complicated than that Harry. If you tell Lorraine, she may let slip to Berny - you know how close they are - and he's thick with Jamie. So your lips are sealed, right? Tell me now - lips sealed?"
"OK. Ok But this is the most exciting news of the year, of the decade... I'm so excited."
Anne rose, "I'm afraid I have to leave. I really do. You finish you meals and we'll arrange another get together in the not too distant future. Weekends are best for me. Anne went home without any great sense of kinship with Harry, who she thought was nice but she felt no inner recognition of a blood tie that she had half expected.
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Sybll phoned Anne the next night. "So what do you think?" "Harry is really nice, but I have no real sense of him at all from that one brief meeting, except he looked and appraised at my tits."
Sybll laughed. "He was turned on by you - us - the situation. I did the only thing possible to ensure he kept quiet with him on such a major high. I exhausted him. We took a room at the Sheridan and fucked like bunnies for three hours. He settled down after that. He did hint that it would have been even more fun had you been there too. Dirty old man."
"Does Lorraine know what you are doing? And still stick with him?"
"She knows. Has for about eight years. They had a trial separation for almost a year after we told her but they got back together with an agreement that Lorraine had some freedoms as well as Harry. Lorraine, I think, rationalized our relationship as one that kept him close and one that would not allow him to marry someone else, nor get a dose of something."
"Harry did have a vasectomy as I told you, but it was after the fourth and fifth children - twins. So the youngest, Gail, is not his. Now you may want to get your mind around this. Harry had a secret DNA test done on Gail and it showed that the child was probably his, except it couldn't be. He was tested and the vasectomy was solid. You work it out. The oldest, Berny, was eighteen at the time of the separation."
This was a lot to take in for Anne. "Jeez, Sybll, screwing your brother with gusto and this. What sort of family have I landed in?"
"Will 'horny' do it?"
"Tell me what are the names of my other nieces and nephews"
"First, there's Berny, actually Bertrand, he's twenty five now. They started young. Lorraine did not finish her nursing course. She's a bit younger than us. He was named after Bertrand Russell, the philosopher/mathematician. He's just finishing his Ph. D. in astrophysics. Bright kid. So is Gerty, for Gertrude, after Gertrude Stein, also a philosopher. She's at medical school to become a doctor."
"Then came Grace. She's just graduated high school with no idea what she wants to do - a private school, not yours. Then came the twins, Barry and Bruce, both in grade 11, and finally little Gail, she just eight. Got all that...there'll be a test. Notice something? All the girl's names start with 'G' and the boys with 'B'. Slightly weird in my book."
"I'd like to meet them. When can that be arranged?" Anne loved kids.
"First things first, sister of mine. Jamie. We have to tell him. I have an idea to break the ice. Why don't you request a refresher on your spider reaction?"
"But I don't need one, as you well know."
"I do know that. I was trying to see how we can get Jamie in a frame of mind to accept you as an Aunt."
"You think fucking him again will do that? You must be nuts."
"I was just wondering. It would sort of lock him into something that has happened before."
"But this time I would know I was with my nephew."
"Doesn't that turn you on a just a bit?" Anne was reluctant to admit it to herself but she was a touch aroused about having Jamie again.
"Let me think about it."
"Don't think too long. I am not sure how long Harry can hold the secret in."
"OK. I'll call you on Sunday with the Ok. Maybe I'll come up with an alternative approach. Must run. Gotta finish the damn grading."
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Anne called Sybll first thing Sunday morning. "I don't like your idea at all. As much as I hate doing things after school, make sure Jamie is at home next Friday evening. I will come over and we will tell him in a straightforward way as we did with Harry. Only this time I will do the talking." Anne was so forceful in the way she told her plan of action Sybll quite meekly accepted.
"What time?"
"Make it for seven, after supper. No more fucking around. Lets just do it and get on with our lives." Anne found herself easily irritated over the last few weeks.
"I'll have the door open for you."
As Anne drove up to the gate it opened automatically. She followed the route to the house and was met by Sybll at the door. "Where's Jamie?"