This is the sixth chapter of seven in Book 1 of the
Charlie and Mindy
tetralogy—which is a story of forbidden love between a brother and a sister. I am rewriting and reposting a series I removed over two years ago.
It takes time for the chaste love between a brother and a sister to become erotic love between a man and a woman, and the first few chapters of this book chronicle that transformation, so the early chapters of this series may not be what you're looking for. While there is sexual activity in every chapter, the "good parts" of the story don't appear until later chapters.
You can follow Charlie and Mindy's hike on USGS topographical maps or on on-line versions of them. (There are a number of good ones on the Web.) Their Belford Lake campsite is at 42° 56' 26" N, 109° 37' 51" W.
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Saturday
The night hadn't been as cold as the night before: We were 700 feet lower, and we weren't as exposed to the nighttime downhill breeze. We had slept in the tent, though we'd left the door open. This was the fifth consecutive night I had spent in the doubled sleeping bag with my little sister. We had become thoroughly re-accustomed to sleeping together—as we had when we were children.
I woke once, around midnight, I think, needing to unload the extra cup of cocoa. I was on my side, and she was snuggled up against my back. I tried to sneak in and out of the sleeping bag without waking her, but I failed. She, too, had to unload. She didn't take long, but I was almost asleep again, on my other side, when she crawled back in. I remember how she backed up against me and pulled my arm around her. I remember, too, that I squeezed her and heard her "Mmmm" as I drifted back to sleep.
We slept soundly for the rest of the night. We awoke together in the early light, and I felt—knew—that we had kept in close contact through the night. We were still in close contact; we had surely flipped and flopped through the night, but we awoke in almost the same positions in which we'd gone back to sleep. My arm was draped over her waist.
Her first waking act was to bring my hand up to cup her bare tit. Naturally, I squeezed it. She responded, just as naturally, by clenching my boner—which extended, in its accustomed way, from the fly of my boxers—between her ass cheeks.
She spoke first. "Do you have a boner every morning?"
I replied, "Yeah. Almost. Even when I sleep alone."
"God!" she said. "You are so randy!"
"Nah. I don't think it has anything to do with being randy. I didn't even notice it this morning until you squeezed it."
"Like that?" she asked, clenching her ass cheeks again.
My cock surged, earning me another clench. I squeezed her boob again. That earned still another clench.
I went on. "I think most guys wake up with boners. There are even jokes about it. I think it's just the way cocks work."
"Isn't it inconvenient?"
"Well, yeah, it can be. It even made me think I ought to lie to my favorite little sister one morning not long ago. But what do you think I ought to do about it?"
"Charlie, I'm really sorry I was so hard on you—"
I interrupted: "I think I was the one who was hard on you, so to speak."
That got me an elbow in the ribs—poorly directed because she had a bad angle. I said "Oof!" anyway to prevent another, better aimed, one.
"Bozo! You know what I meant. Settle down. I'm trying to apologize. You knew I would think you'd gotten hard because of me. You were embarrassed because you hadn't, and you were afraid I'd think that you were…" She paused, searching for a word. "…molesting me. When you weren't."
"That was it exactly."
"I'm sorry, Charlie." She was contrite. "I was the asshole that morning—not you."
"You weren't being an asshole; you didn't know about morning boners."
I went on, "I tried to get right with you later that morning. But I was still confused. All I'd figured out was why you were mad at me, and I didn't get the rest. You really are better with words than me, because I couldn't put that part in words until you just did it for me. Except for the part where I tried to lie. That was dumb, and I'm really sorry I did it."
"I'm sorry we misunderstood each other."
She turned her head and grinned at me. "And now you know that you can molest me any time you want to. The oftener, the better!"
"Now who's being randy?" I said as I squeezed her tit again and kissed her on the back of her neck. And got a shiver and a big ass-clench in return. But we had to pee, so not much more happened then.
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The morning chores were soon done, and we were on the trail again. The weather continued to hold; it looked like it was going to be another clear warm day. Once again, we had a good bit of ground to cover—including the lower two of the three Pole Creek crossings. From there on, though, it would be mostly downhill.
It took us a little less than an hour to reach the middle crossing. Before long, we'd made both crossings. As before, Mindy had no trouble. Following a short break, we headed up over the rise toward the Chain Lakes.
It was too early for lunch when we passed the northernmost of the Chain Lakes, and reached the spot where we'd taken our lunch break on Tuesday. So we walked until we reached the large grassy area above the north end of Barnes Lake. There we stopped in the shade of a small pine grove that commands a view of the entire length of the lake. We shed our packs, sat down and munched on trail food. We had plenty of time, so we extended the break to work on our journals, read, even nap a little.
Eventually we set out again. In about a half hour, we reached the junction with the Timico Lake Trail and made our turn. A bit later, Lake Jacqueline came into sight. Soon, we passed the point where we'd met the skunk, and yielded right-of-way. There was no sign of him (her?) this day. Around mid-afternoon, we came down a rather steep quarter-mile descent to see, on the left side of the trail, the ruin of Black's Cabin.
The campsite we'd used on Monday was unoccupied when we arrived. We were well practiced at setting up camp by then, and we were done within an hour—laundry included. We had also checked my shin, and found that it was healing well. But, just to be safe, we had smeared more antibiotic over it, and taped a new piece of sterile gauze over it.
It was late afternoon when I put water on the stove. We had used most of our food, so there wasn't much choice that night: We could have chicken, we could have noodles, or we could have chicken and noodles. I picked the latter—planning to add our remaining freeze-dried peas to it. There were also some dried apples left; while we ate the main dish, I would stew them with some brown sugar for dessert. We would have to wait a bit for them to cool, but time wasn't a problem.
I needed only a minute or so to dive into the food bags, and gather what I would need to fix the meal. When I finished, the water was nowhere near boiling, so I looked around for Mindy. She was standing about 30 yards away—near the lakeshore, looking out over the lake. Knowing that it would be a while before there was more to do to get supper ready, I walked over to her. She heard me coming and looked around, smiling. I stepped up close to her side and put my arm around her waist. She wrapped her arm around me, and we held each other close, side-to-side, as we looked at the lake.
We stood there for a minute or two, drinking in the beauty that surrounded us.
I broke the silence: "I think this is the loveliest of the campsites we've used."
"I do, too. I'm glad you shared these mountains with me over the last week." She turned her head to look up at me; I looked back down at her. She went on, "And I'm glad we had this time together alone to reconnect with each other."
I smiled at her. "I think we've done more than just reconnect."
She smiled back at me, and nodded. Together, we turned to face each other. My free arm found her waist; she placed her other hand on my shoulder, resting her arm on mine. We held each other, not tightly, but close. She looked up at me expectantly. Wordlessly, I lowered my head and kissed her tenderly on the lips. Tenderly, she returned my kiss.
Our mouths remained closed; it wasn't passion's demanding kiss. But neither was it the chaste kiss proper between brother and sister. That kiss was a lovers' kiss, and with it I communicated the new bond I felt deepening and strengthening between us. I finally recognized that bond for what it was—and for what it entailed. In that kiss, I accepted and acknowledged a new relationship with her.
The kiss ended, and our lips parted, but we continued, wordlessly, to hold each other close. I looked at her with new eyes, and I believed that she saw newness in my eyes—as I saw newness in hers. From that moment on, I knew beyond all doubt that we were no longer merely brother and sister, but that, at some future time, we would come together as man and woman.
She had not been ready for that on Wednesday evening, and we hadn't known then if she ever would be. I looked into her lovely blue eyes. In them I could see that she would resolve the problem of half-measures, of
whether
. She would resolve it in favor of what we both wanted: One day, we would be lovers. We would commit ourselves to something that is forbidden. I would embrace that commitment, because I understood, now, what we had come to mean to each other. We would overcome the prohibition.