Their birthday was April 19th; two years apart. Ricky and his sister Elaine shared the same birthday. Astrologists suggest people born under this sign have either a fierce, antagonistic relationship or one of exceptional harmony and empathy.
It was the latter case with Ricky and Elaine.
As they grew up together as constant companions, they seldom seemed to let outsiders into their cosy sense of togetherness. They shared just about everything.
A friend of their parents said they seemed as if they were 'joined at the hip.' And as they grew older, the invisible bond between them strengthened.
It was as if they were a complete society on their own, needing no other friends, engaged in a quiet, secret world where only they knew the rules, understood the language and from which even their parents were excluded.
When Ricky was eight, the family moved to a larger three-bedroom property so the children could have their own rooms. Elaine could be heard crying herself to sleep for weeks after they moved in.
As they grew up, Ricky and Elaine inevitably had to cope with puberty. In their case it was 'ladies first' although Elaine was two years younger than her brother.
Sitting on a park bench at dusk one summer evening, Ricky felt Elaine's hand guiding his own up her skirt between her legs. She used his hand to caress herself through her cotton panties. The pace and pressure of the caresses increased until Elaine was gasping with pleasure.
"Are you okay, Elaine?" Ricky enquired.
"Of course, silly," his sister replied, "It was great."
The whole experience was somewhat lost on Ricky, who just didn't understand what had happened. He would, however, do anything for his beloved Elaine and, although he had sensed that what they did would not have pleased their parents, he acquiesced in satisfying her sexual desires whenever she needed him.
A few months later, his own sexuality began to awaken. After manually bringing Elaine to her climax, he held her hand against his mini erection. She knew instinctively what he required of her. She began massaging his cock through his jeans until he came, making a bit of a mess in his boxers.
For the next few years, their fairly innocent sexual encounters went no further than mutual masturbation. It was in their late teens after an evening when they had been to a college dance together that they took the next step. Their hot young bodies had been close together and in motion during the evening. Elaine felt hot and excited.
On the way home in Ricky's old car, she held his hand between her legs. He pulled her panties to one side and expertly massaged her to a very satisfying climax. Then she unzipped his fly, pulled his cock out of his pants, put her head into his lap and took the rapidly expanding cock into her mouth.
Ricky had to find a lay-by quickly as he could not concentrate on his driving with his stiff cock going in and out of his sister's beautifully well shaped lips.
She kept up the action until he cried out, "I'm coming, Elaine. I love you."
She let her brother come in her mouth, then spat the white sticky mess into a paper handkerchief. Then she lifted herself up and kissed her brother full on the mouth forcing her tongue between his teeth to give him a taste of his own cum.
"It tastes awful, doesn't it?" she said with a grin.
Ricky agreed. It certainly tasted a bit strange to say the least. He felt very grateful to his sister for the intense pleasure she had just freely given him. He pulled her across the seat, lifted her skirt and pulled her panties aside. Then he buried his face in her golden pubic hair, probing with his tongue until he found her cunt. He started licking energetically, driving his tongue into her with abandon. He wanted to please her for sucking his cock and he loved bringing her on. She began to pull his face into her as she came, crying out,
"Oh! Ricky, my gorgeous brother, I love you!"
She made his face, her skirt and her panties wet with her cum juices as Ricky did his best to lap it all up.
Three nights later, Elaine crept into Ricky's bed. The naked girl climbed onto her brother's body in position sixty-nine and they enjoyed giving each other orgasm after orgasm. It was all Elaine could do to prevent herself moaning and screaming in ecstasy.
They suspected their parents had overheard something when they were summoned to a painful confrontation with them both.
Their mother and father seemed intent on sorting out their errant offspring. The siblings had to endure a long list of their transgressions in their relations with each other. They were left in no doubt of their parents' determination, convictions and their steely moral stance.
Now Ricky and Elaine had always been obedient children and it would have taken a monumental combined effort on their part to break the habit of lifelong respectful observance their parents' strictures.
The outcome was that Ricky and Elaine were separated.
Ricky went to a different college some distance away and lived in a dorm, while Elaine studied nearby and lived at home.
Of course, Ricky and Elaine wrote, even saw each other on holidays but this was the era before emails and facebook. Their occasional phone calls were most unsatisfactory, each thinking afterwards of what they should have said, what questions they should have asked, how much of their inner thoughts they should have revealed. Inevitably they began to drift apart, almost imperceptibly, but remorselessly.
Their hormones were active, they were mature sexually and Ricky, especially, found it difficult to resist some of the blatant offers and sexual advances made to him by attractive young women.
It was Elaine who married first. At twenty-one she married a young entrepreneur called David who was already running his own import/export business. They went to live several hundred miles away from where Ricky was pursuing a career as a lawyer.
After a long series of girl friends Ricky eventually married Kathleen, a feisty Irish girl who worked as a secretary.
Their marriage started well enough but after six miscarriages in ten years, Kathleen, who had dearly wanted children and only married to have them, had a nervous breakdown. She ended up in a nursing home.
Ricky had made a success of his legal practice and provided the best care available but he realised that for all practical purposes his marriage was over.
Meanwhile Elaine and David had two children, Tom and Vicki, in the early years of their marriage. Hard work kept David away from home frequently and, perhaps inevitably, he developed relationships with other women. Elaine might have overlooked his dalliances but his neglect of her and the children left her feeling increasingly dissatisfied with him.
She filed for divorce. Her decree nisi came through on her 32nd birthday.
Elaine married again, almost on the rebound. Eric, her new husband was attentive, nice to her children and fucked her regularly. But he was one of life's perpetual losers. He drifted from one job to another, always finding something didn't fit with him. The money was too poor, there was no chance of advancement, he didn't get on with the boss or the job just got boring.
Elaine found herself moving from one small town to another. So quickly did they move, she wondered if she might one day forget where it was she was supposed to be living!
After eighteen months, Elaine and Eric agreed to part. He told her he would 'make it' easier on his own, almost as if she had been holding him back. Instead of which, her part time earnings had practically kept them afloat.
At 34 years of age and with two divorces, Elaine felt very low. She went to her parents' home.
It was not a happy place now. Her father was in the early stages of Altzheimers decease and her mother lived in dread of the future.
Elaine remembered the strong affection her
parents had always displayed to each other. Their love had been an almost tangible bond between them. She wondered about the truth of the claim that all love affairs must inevitably end in tragedy, misery and loneliness.
Then, one day, to everyone's surprise, Ricky called in on a flying visit and as she caught sight of him, Elaine flew into his arms. Momentarily he felt a thrill as her soft body leaned into him. Then he realised she was crying. Not just crying but weeping floods of tears. He ignored the wet patch on his jacket and tried to get her to tell him what was troubling her so much.
But she couldn't find the words.
She gradually subsided and, after some nose blowing and eye wiping, he was able to walk his sister back into the house. Fortunately Elaine had used little make up that morning so her face looked puffed, soft and vulnerable as she tried to smile at him. She was, Ricky thought, still the loveliest woman he knew.
Like Elaine, Ricky was upset by his father's affliction and his mother's despair. He played with Elaine's teenage children and sat up with his sister after their parents and Elaine's kids had gone to bed.
They did their best to catch up, related long stories of their lives over the last dozen years. Elaine was especially reluctant to end the evening. In fact the sun was up before they got to bed. Ricky had to set an alarm to get up later that following morning, promising to return soon.
Actually he managed to get back late the following Friday.
Once again, as he got out of his car, Elaine flew into his arms - in sheer joy this time!.
"Still crazy after all these years!" she muttered, almost to herself.
But Ricky knew exactly what she meant. He bent and kissed her lips very, very gently, moving them so slightly, gradually increasing the pressure between them and folding her body into his.
"Yes!" he said as they came apart, "Still as crazy as ever!"
That night, sitting up late together again, Ricky explained to Elaine what he had been up to during the week.
