Curious as to the reason for the knock on the door, I looked through the peephole and saw my sister, Renee. It was a very unexpected visit. "Hey."
"Hi," she responded as she pulled me into a hug. "How are you?"
"Good." I pulled away and directed her to the living room. "Not that I'm not happy to see you, but what are you doing here?"
"I can't just come see my sister?"
"You can. It's just that we haven't talked much since I left home."
Renee sighed as she approached the playpen where RJ was taking a nap. "I know. I'm sorry. It just hit me the other day that I have a nephew I haven't really met. I saw him in the hospital but not since. Wow, he's big but so small."
"I know." I couldn't help smiling down at my beautiful baby boy. "He weighs a ton but at the same time he's so fragile."
"So how's motherhood? Really?"
It was my turn to sigh. "Hard. Even now when he's asleep there's stuff to do. But at the same time it's amazing. While I wouldn't have chosen to have things happen the way they did, I'm so glad to have him."
"Nice. And what does Ryan think about being a father?"
"He loves -" I looked at my sister with wide eyes. Her face expressed nothing beyond understanding. "How did you know?"
Without any hesitation and a little sadness, Renee said, "I saw him sneaking in and out of your room a lot before you moved out when Mom and Dad didn't even know he was there. And more than once, I came home and saw the two of you in bed together doing things."
"Oh." That was pretty damning evidence.
"I'm not going to say I'm okay with it but I'm also not going to judge you two. I've thought about it a lot and it actually kinda makes sense."
"How?"
Renee took a breath and looked at me seriously. "Since you were born, you two have had a very different relationship than what he and I have. Don't get me wrong, he's been a great big brother to me and I couldn't ask for better. Sure, we have our issues, but it's nothing that other siblings don't experience. With you, he's always been protective, almost like you were his responsibility but not like a big brother. It was almost possessive but not in a bad way. I don't know if he's told you this, but he's hated every boyfriend you've ever had. And whenever I told him he sounded jealous, he always brushed it aside and changed the subject. I could tell that you felt something different for him as well. You always got so wide-eyed around him. So the first time I saw you two in bed together, I wasn't surprised. How long has it been?"
"Since my birthday," I answered.
"That's what I thought." Renee put an arm around me. "After he left the house, I saw him drive down the street and park while I was closing my window. I figured the reason why you never told Mom and Dad who was in your room that night was because it had been him."
"Did you tell them?"
Without hesitating and sounding offended, she replied, "No. And I'm not going to. It's not my place."
I wrapped my arms around my sister. "Thanks."
"No problem." After a brief paused, Renee said, "Can I ask you a question?"
"Sure."
"I don't want too much detail, but wasn't it weird being with him your first time? The first time I had sex -"
"You've had sex?" I couldn't hide my surprise. Renee had always been the good girl. She lived at home because she worked at our church and didn't yet make enough to live on her own. Admittedly, next to me and Ryan, she was a saint. Still, even though she had had a few boyfriends, I didn't think she had gone all the way with them.
Renee smiled understanding the reason for my question. "I have. And I guess we can talk about that and other things later, but I want to know how awkward it was having Ryan as your first."
I thought about it for a moment before I said, "It was honestly perfect. The only thing I would change is not getting caught."
--
"So you'll never believe who stopped by," I said as I followed Ryan into our room while holding RJ, who was babbling calling out for his father.
"Who?"
"Renee."
In the middle of pulling off his pants, he stopped and gave me a look that expressed the number of questions running through his head. After a moment he settled on, "Why?"
"To see RJ. And to tell me she knows but isn't going to tell Mom and Dad anything."
"She knows what?" he asked slowly.
"About us." I held up a hand as he opened his mouth. "She came home a few times when we were alone and saw us. And apparently you weren't as sneaky as you thought because she saw you in the house a few times when you snuck in."
"Well, shit. So what now?"
As Ryan resumed changing clothes, I said, "Nothing. Really. She's not going to say anything. She's a little disturbed by it, which is understandable. But she just asks that we not shut her out. She kinda feels like it's us against our parents and she's caught in the middle."
Ryan nodded slowly. "Okay. I can see how that might make her feel."
"And she's offered to babysit sometime. I think she just wants to play with RJ."
Ryan came over and took our child from me and blew a raspberry on each of his cheeks. "Who wouldn't want to play with you? You're the cutest baby in the world."
I couldn't help the smile that lifted my lips. The older brother that I had known for so many years was now much different yet somehow more of who he had been. For as scattered and unfocused as he had been while spending his time and energy bouncing between different jobs and girlfriends, he now used that energy to work in order to provide for me and our son. Having gotten the promotion, he made more money and was now home more often but still worked extra occasionally as he wanted to save up some money for our future. Additionally, he had let the shorter hair on the sides of his head grow out long enough so he could style it into something that was more appropriate for the office he worked in. And the long nails that he had once cultivated were now completely gone. Since I had moved in with him, I had seen his attitude mellow as my pregnancy progressed, but with RJ's arrival he had become a doting father. Even Gary couldn't believe how much Ryan had changed over the same time period. Ryan loved being a father and was very good at it. And while we didn't know what term to use to describe our relationship, he was a great partner and provider.
--
"Morning," Ryan said after turning off his alarm.
"Good morning," I responded quietly as I rolled over and pulled the covers snug around me. I felt Ryan spoon against me, pressing his morning erection against my backside, and I intentionally ignored him.
Seeing that I was not moving to service him as I had each morning for over a month, he asked with a genuinely worried tone, "Are you mad at me or something?"
"No," I said with exaggerated sleepiness.
"Then why aren't you sucking my dick like you usually do?"
Hiding the smile on my face I said, "I was thinking that if you could skip a blow job this morning and tomorrow morning, I could make it up to you tomorrow night."
"What? How?"
"Sorry. I thought I told you," I said knowing that I hadn't told him anything of my plans. "The doctor said I'm healed. So Gary's going to be out tomorrow night and Renee said she'd take RJ for a few hours to give us some time alone."
Ryan grabbed my shoulder and rolled me onto my back before straddling me. His erection was sticking out of the fly of his boxers but the smile on his face indicated that he had no intention of using it. "Seriously?"
"Yeah." I reached out and stroked him knowing it was a bad idea. "I can't wait to feel this inside me again and want to make sure you have no problem performing."
Ryan leaned down and kissed me deeply. As he did, he moved his hips slowly, thrusting his cock through my fist. It wasn't a motion necessarily intent on getting off or even enhancing his arousal, it was merely an involuntary response to the pressure wrapped around him. After breaking the kiss, he said, "First of all, I never have trouble performing. Secondly, I could go into work late this morning."
"I'm not turning you down, but I am saying no. You can wait."
He leaned down to nibble and lightly kiss my neck. "But it's been months since we fucked."