Author's note:
This is an entry to the April Fools' 2025 contest.
"Kate! Answer your phone. Something weird is happening, I feel..."
The bedraggled auburn-haired girl stumbled through the undergrowth into a small clearing. At the centre of the space was a ring of stones encircling the dull embers of a campfire. Set some yards back was a tent. It glowed with a soft, orange light from within.
"Kate?"
She pulled her torn blouse over her ample breasts and shivered despite the warm summer night.
"Kate? Jack? It's me, Molly. Are you there?"
The clearing was eerily quiet. A twig snapped loudly behind her. She froze and listened. She could hear her sister, just about. She sounded like she was in pain.
"I'm scared, Kate. I want to go home."
Her sister's whimpering grew louder as she approached the tent. Her fingers fumbled on the fly-zip.
"Kate, I'm coming in."
The tent flap fell open. Molly's hand covered her mouth.
Her sister was on the airbed. The pleated skirt and fluffy fleece she'd worn to the campsite only hours before were in a heap beside it. One of her hands was inside her plain white panties. Her other hand was groping her naked breasts. They were smaller than Molly's, perfectly shaped teardrops that jiggled in time with her movements.
"Kate!"
Kate's back arched off the airbed, her legs writhed, a silent scream hung on her lips, and a flood of liquid saturated her panties before gushing through them to puddle beneath her butt.
"I'm...I'm gonna take you home. O...okay, sis?"
"I want him...I want him to watch..."
"You're not yourself. You don't know what you want."
Molly pulled her hand out of her panties and tried not to think about the wetness on her fingers.
"Put some clothes on. Come on."
"He's coming..."
"Kate, we need to leave..."
Kate kissed her. Not like a sister. Like a lover. Her tongue slipped inside Molly's mouth. It was passionate and needy, and it caught Kate by surprise. She let her sister pull her down onto the airbed and roll on top of her, succumbing, for a moment, to the terrifying urges inside her.
Then Molly pushed her sister away.
"What the heck!?"
Kate sat up, straddling her sister's waist, her eyes lidded and unfocused.
"I want him to see...to see..."
"To see what, Kate? What's got into you?"
A figure stepped out of the darkness, filling the open tent flap and blocking Molly's only escape route.
"I want him to see...what a bad girl I can be..."
--
Four Hours Earlier
"I guess it's true what they say. The proof of the pudding
is
in the eating..."
Molly's twin sister, Kate, glared at her through tear-streaked eyes.
"What does that even mean?"
"It means..."
Molly hesitated. Kate could be fiery at the best of times and, at that moment, they were alone in the wilderness, miles from anywhere. It certainly wasn't the best of times.
"...forget I said anything."
"No, continue, please. I would love nothing
more
than to hear how Steve wasn't right for me and how you knew he was trouble from the word go. Just admit it, you always hated him."
"I didn't
hate
him..."
"But?"
"...but he always let you down...and, like I said, the proof of the pudding is in the eating."
Kate crossed her arms over her chest and huffed. "In other words, I told you so."
The tranquillity of the woods was suddenly broken by the roar of a V8 engine. Molly jumped as a 4x4 with a dented fender bounced into the clearing. It skidded to a halt beside the sisters. Jack, their big, muscular cousin with messy blond hair, leant out the window and beamed at them with a carefree smile.
"Cousins! What's up?"
He belatedly noticed the tension between the sisters.
"Uh oh. Did someone already eat the Graham crackers? Who was it? Fess up."
"Molly's just being a busy little know-it-all, as usual," Kate said, dropping onto a tree stump beside the fire pit and folding her arm.
"Am not," Molly protested. "Kate has the hump because her no-good boyfriend isn't coming."
"There you go again! 'No-good!' At least I
have
a boyfriend."
Molly's cheeks flushed. It was true, she'd been a late bloomer and boys hadn't paid much attention to her during high school, which was fine by Molly. She had choir and band practice and model UN and...and...and she didn't have time for boys.
Besides, she'd never really felt comfortable with her body. When finally it did catch up, Molly usually wore baggy sweaters to cover the DD's that caused her such embarrassment.
"Girls, take it easy. You know the golden rule of Camp Cousin..."
"...no family feuds." The girls said in chorus, with a heavy dose of irony.
Jack climbed out of his 4x4 and ruffled Molly's auburn hair before pulling her into a big hug. With her breasts squished to his chest, he noticed, not for the first time, how much his little cousin had grown. He felt a stirring in his pants and quickly released her.
"So what happened with Simon?" He asked, sitting on the tree stump and putting an arm around Kate. She was so different to her sister: the lithe blond was more athletic and toned, yes. But in character too. So much more confident and, at times, a bit of a brat.
"It's Steve."
"Right, Steve. What's the story."
"Something came up at work."
Molly scoffed loudly. "How urgent can flipping burgers be?"
"He's a Quality Control Supervisor,
actually.
"
"Uhuh."
Jack squeezed Kate against his chest to prevent her lunging at her sister. "I'm sorry, cuz. But we'll still have a fun time, right? It's Camp Cousin, after all. What's the worst that could happen?"
--
Dappled evening sunshine lit their campsite in a golden glow that cut through the campfire smoke in low beams. It was so idyllic that Kate had almost forgotten how annoying her sister could be. The chilled beers from Jack's coolbox helped, as did the scrumptious meal he had rustled up over the fire.
"This is delicious, Jack. What's in here?"
"It's a family secret, cuz."
Molly thumped her cousin playfully on the arm. "I
am
family."
"Right," Jack chuckled, "it's nothing special. Just beef, tomatoes, cumin, paprika, diced onion. Y'know, usual chilli stuff."
"Well it tastes incredible," Molly asked, "Can I have more?"
"If there's any left! It looks like Kate
really
loves the family recipe."
Kate wiped up the remnants of her second bowl with a crust of bread. "It's...mmmfp...the best...mmmpff...chilli ever! Come on, there
must
be a secret."
Jack scratched his head. Come to think of it, the recipe did taste slightly different to how he remembered it. Then it hit him. "Oh! I used some of those mushrooms in your bag. I hope you don't mind."
Kate suddenly went as white as a sheet. "What...what mushrooms?"
"The little smoky fellas. Figured they'd add some pazzam and I guess they did, huh?"
"Jack...how much did you put in here?"
"Oh, I dunno, a handful? Were they expensive?"
"Tell me you're joking? This is a prank, right? Did Steve put you up to this?"
Kate's eyes darted between Molly and Jack suspiciously.
"Who's Steve?" Jack asked.
"My boyfriend, asshole!" Kate jumped up from the fireside and started rummaging through the crate containing her belongings. "Fuck shit fuck!"
"Kate, speak to us. What's the matter?"
Kate held a half-empty bag of dried mushrooms up to her face. "Oh sweet Jesus."
"What is it, Kate?" Molly asked, beginning to feel afraid at the intensity of her sister's reaction.
"These aren't mushrooms. They're mu-