[Standard Disclaimer: All of my stories, including this one, are purely works of fiction, and any similarities to real world persons or events are purely coincidental. All characters involved in any sexual content are 18 years of age or older at the time such content occurs.]
October and Early November make up what my family has come to call "Birthday Season". My younger sister, Amy's birthday is on October 18
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, my birthday is on October 26
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, and my older sister, Jenny's is on November 6
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Until recently, the three of us, along with our dad and two moms, Mama Janie and Mama Helen, all lived under the same roof. When Jenny went off to Grad School earlier this year, Amy and I started getting closer than we ever had before.
When October arrived, Amy and I, along with the rest of our D&D group (my best friend, Tommy, his sister, Ashley, and her boyfriend, Jaden) all planned a trip to the local Renaissance Festival, which had been overhauled into a full fantasy-based kingdom. We all decided to dress as our favorite character from our D&D games, so Amy and I dressed as Grogun, the Half-Orc Barbarian, and his elven wife, Elyveria Flamewind, Elven Sorceress.
During the festival, we had all decided to stay in-character, pretending we were the characters from our games, which led to some intimate, but not-quite-inappropriate interactions between my sister and me. We had a lot of fun together, as a group, and everything seemed fine until that night after Amy and I had gone to bed.
I woke up in the middle of the night to pee, as I often do, but while I was in the bathroom that connects to both Amy and my bedrooms, I heard her crying and muttering to herself:
"He's my brother. How could I expect him to share the feelings I have? I know it's wrong, being in love with my brother. But I can't help it. I just whish he loved me back."
Hearing that my sister was in love with me made me realize something I had been denying for years: I was in love with her, too.
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When I next awoke the sun was already up, and I could smell the aroma of bacon. I got up, relieved my bladder, got dressed, and ventured down stairs and into the kitchen. Amy was already at the table, her mouth half-stuffed with a pancake. Mamma Helen was cooking breakfast: bacon, eggs, grits, and pancakes.
I sat across the table from Amy.
"Good Morning, Gabe," she said with a smile. She seemed to be back to her usual chipper self.
"Good morning." I replied, trying to return her smile.
As our eyes met. For just a moment, I could see the sadness in my sister's entrancing gaze, despite her seemingly genuine smile. As we looked into each others eyes, seconds felt like minutes. I flashed a warm, knowing smile. As I did, I could see Amy take a short breath, and hold it for just a second before blinking and looking away.
"Gabe, are you listening?" Mom asked.
I shook myself out of my own thoughts.
"Sorry, Mom, I zoned out for a moment."
"I asked how you wanted your eggs cooked," she said.
"Oh, scrambled's fine," I replied.
Like usual, it was just the three of us at home on Sunday mornings. While Mamma Helen, Amy, and I are not very religious (I have nothing against people believing in something, I just prefer science over faith.) Dad was raised Catholic, and despite "living in sin" with two women he's not married to, he still apparently gets something out of going to mass. Mamma Janie started going with him when she was pregnant with me, and so they continue to go together. Mamma Janie even officially converted to Catholicism. Of course, the Church they go to thinks they're married, since we all share a last name, and they don't know about Mamma Helen.
Sorry, that was a bit of a tangent.
In any case, as we ate, Mamma Helen told us that she was going to go shopping after breakfast, in order to get party supplies for Amy's birthday party next weekend.
Despite how close all our birthdays were, our parents all decided to celebrate our birthdays individually, rather than with one big party, as other parents do. They said that "Each child deserves a day to feel special." Since our birthdays were always during the school year, we always had our parties on the closest weekend to our birthdays. Since Amy's birthday was on a Thursday this year, we would be having it on the following Saturday.
After we finishd eating, I decided to see if there was anything worth watching on one of the many streaming services we had on our family television. Normally I prefer to watch shows on my own in my room, on my computer or phone, but we occasionally watched TV as a family, especially when the new Star Trek shows come on.
I was browsing through the shows on our family watch list when Mamma Helen left the house. Almost immediately, Amy came over and stood next to the couch.
"Gabe," Amy's voice shook me from my daze, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah," I put on a smile to try to ease the tension.
"Um...," she began, "Can... can we talk?"
"Of course," I patted the seat on the couch next to me, signaling her to sit with me, "what's on your mind?"
She looked relieved, as she sat next to me, "Um.. about what happened at the Renaissance Festival..."
"What do you mean?" I asked, pretending to be oblivious.
"When we..." She took a deep breath, but looked at the floor before continuing, "When you agreed to go to the Lover's Grove... with me." She began to blush as the words stammered out, as she stared at the floor.
"what about it?" I again feigned ignorance.
"I mean..."Amy continued, stuttering, "I know I s...s...s...said it was j...j...just being i...i...in char...r...racter."
Her face was bright red now. I should have stopped her, or even helped her out, but she was too cute being this embarrassed.
"B...but the t...truth is..." she paused, finally looking up at my face to see the playful grin that had made it's way onto my face, "What?"
I wrapped my arms around her, holding her close. I gently stroked the back of her head and whispered softly in her ear, "I was disappointed we didn't get to go, too."
Amy's body went limp in my arms. All the tension she had been holding in suddenly released, almost visibly floating away. I held her for just a few moments before she pushed us apart. Tears were streaming down her face, her eyebrows were lowered, as if she were angry, and she was obviously desperately trying to hide a smile,
"You knew what I was trying to say the whole time and you let me babble on like an idiot?" Amy scolded as she punched me gently in the shoulder over and over.
"I'm sorry, Amy," I replied sincerely, "you're just too cute when you get embarrassed like that."
She punched me once more, harder this time, "You're such a meanie sometimes."
I gently placed my hands on her bicepts, "And you're my adorable little sister. You will always be my adorable little sister."
Her face dropped, truly sad this time.
I hugged her again. This time she returned my embrace, "But that's the problem," she whispered, "I don't want to be your sister... I... I..."
"You want to be more," I finished her sentence for her, unwilling to let her struggle anymore.
She didn't say anything, but I could feel her nodding, her head on my shoulder, whimpering as tears began to soak through my shirt.