This is the fifth chapter of seven in Book 3 of the
Charlie and Mindy
tetralogy, which is a story of forbidden love between a brother and a sister.
This book stands on its own, but it refers to events that took place in Books 1 and 2. You may therefore want to read Book 1 and Book 2 before reading this book.
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—CarlusMagnus
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Mom and Dad were home for all of the long New Year's weekend, so my little sister Mindy and I had to defer our first love-making of 1988 until the Monday morning after the holiday. I tried to tease her about the delay, but when I tried, she smiled slyly and called me "scullion." After she'd done that twice, I looked the word up. I tried a few more times, but she responded the same way—and once I knew that a scullion is "a servant assigned the most menial kitchen tasks," it wore out pretty quickly. She definitely won that round.
The following Saturday, the mailman delivered two real treats. My birthday being the very next day, I thought of both of them as birthday presents.
The first of those treats was our grades. Mindy and I had both gotten all
A'
s for the fall semester. I'd never done anything like that before, and I was ecstatic. (So ecstatic, in fact, that Mindy's "I told you so" look didn't faze me a bit.) Mom and Dad were so pleased that they took us out to a fancy restaurant that night for dinner to celebrate.
The second treat was the new catalog from the Mountain Odyssey Learning School. That catalog has always been full of wonderful photography of the wonderful places where the school conducts its courses. And foremost among those places is the Wind River Range, where Mindy and I had fallen in love with each other. I spent the afternoon with my little sister, poring over that year's collection of wilderness photos—not to mention the course descriptions.
The pictures in the MOLS catalogs are mostly taken by students in the field on their courses. The front of that year's catalog showed a picture of several students cooking on a gravel beach—probably somewhere on the coast of Alaska. In the background, some other students care for kayaks drawn up on the beach. Photos inside showed students hiking, skiing, camping, and rock-climbing, as well as traveling on glaciers, fording rushing mountain streams, building igloos, and doing Tyrolean traverses. And always, in the background, there is stunning wilderness scenery: mountains, meadows, cliffs, snowfields, glaciers, veldt.
On the back of the catalog was a quarter-page photo of a granite ridge in the distance—and a grassy meadow, liberally dotted with purple mountain asters, in the foreground. It was heartbreakingly familiar. I had never been in that particular location, but I knew instantly that the picture had been taken in the Wind River Mountains. I didn't need to read the caption—which confirmed what I'd known at first sight.
We couldn't contain ourselves at dinner. Mindy wanted, more than almost anything else, to take a MOLS course. Our parents had promised her that she could, but with a significant catch: Being the one who had introduced Mindy to the backcountry, and thus given her the notion of taking such a course, I had to bring home more
A'
s then
B'
s, and no lower grades, this year in school. I hadn't yet fulfilled my part of the bargain entirely, but we certainly thought I'd made a big step in the right direction. So we asked if Mindy could submit her application to take a course during the coming summer. Mom and Dad were so pleased with my grades that they just looked at each other, smiled, and nodded in unison.
Dad added, "The deal's still in place. You haven't completed your obligations yet, but you've certainly shown good faith. Go ahead and apply."
Mindy whooped with joy, jumped up from her seat at the table and made a tour of the table, squeezing each of the three of us in turn—Mom first, then Dad, and then me. (Mom and Dad were right there, watching, so I had to remember not to slip in a feel or go for a deep kiss.) Then she remembered that we were in a fancy restaurant. People were looking at us. Her face turned red, and the rest of us laughed at her embarrassment. But she couldn't stop grinning for the rest of the evening.
The following day was my twentieth birthday. There were some small birthday presents—one from each of the three other family members—waiting for me on the dining room table when I got up. They were nothing spectacular—our family had never been very extravagant about birthdays, though we always marked them.
Mindy and I spent most of that morning in the living room with the MOLS catalog, as she decided which course she wanted to take. In the end, she chose the one she'd thought at the very beginning she'd want—the Wind River Wilderness Course. It was the one I'd taken two-and-a-half years earlier, and the one I'd thought she'd pick.
Then she had to decide on her first, second, and third choices from among thirteen offerings of that particular course that coming summer. She settled, at last, on three that ran from dates in late June to dates in late July.
In a moment of privacy when Mom and Dad were in other parts of the house, she snuggled up against me, kissed me thoroughly (while rubbing her tits and her pussy against me), and whispered that my "real" birthday present would be a day late because we'd need to get naked in order for her to deliver it properly.
Eyes glinting, she added that my birthday present was going to include a reward for getting all
A
s. Naturally, I had an instant boner. Then we heard Mom coming toward the room; fortunately, she was far enough away for us to separate and my boner to wilt before she got there. Mindy wiped the smirk off of her face at the last possible second before Mom stepped into the room.
Mindy's MOLS application, together with a check—bearing Dad's signature—for the application fee, went out with the next day's mail.
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That Monday, Dad left town for a business trip to Washington, DC. He was working on some legal matter that involved courts in several South American nations, and he needed to spend a couple of weeks conferring with Big Wigs and Important People in the State Department. He would be back home for the last week of January, but Mindy and I would be back in school a week earlier—so we wouldn't see him again during our break. Knowing that he would be leaving before we were up that morning, we said good-bye to him on Sunday evening.
He would go to Chile for a few weeks at the beginning of February, and from there to Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia. He anticipated that his business would be concluded in early March. Mom was going to join him then in Colombia, and the two of them would spend two or three weeks together seeing South America. They planned to be home by the beginning of our spring break, in early April.
Mom took him to Stapleton Airport, in Denver, early that morning—around half-past five; then she went directly to work from there. They'd timed it so that she could get to work at the same time she would've otherwise.
Mindy slipped into my bed at about seven. I woke on my side to find my naked little sister backed up against me (and my morning wood). She'd pulled my arm around her and placed my hand on her boob. It could've been better—but only if she'd spent the whole night naked in my arms.
Groggily, I nibbled on her neck a bit, while kneading her tit. She moaned and wiggled her ass against my boner. Then she clenched her ass-cheeks around it—making it throb with happiness.
"Go do your morning pee," she said, "and think about how we're going to celebrate your birthday. Hurry back." I could hear the evil grin in her voice.
Still half asleep, but feeling pretty randy anyway, I climbed out of bed, clumsily shed my shorts and T-shirt, stumbled into the bathroom, and obeyed orders. I paid particular attention to the instruction she'd given me about hurrying back. We hadn't made love since the preceding Friday—three days earlier, and when I got back to my room my cock had stiffened again and led the way.
I found her curled up under the covers, still lying on her side and facing the door—watching for me—when I reentered the room. She was still a bit sleepy herself; her hair was tousled, and her eyelids drooped a bit. But the smile she gave me was real, and so was the look of frank desire that she gave my rod.
Mom and Dad, too, turned the heat down at night—though they had a thermostat that handled it automatically. Left to itself, that thermostat would've kept the house chilly until just before they were to get home for work. Mindy had turned it up before she'd crawled into my bed, but the house was still chilly.
I slipped into the welcome warmth of the bed, and I took her even more welcome naked warmth into my arms. Still a bit dazed, I pulled her gently against me and kissed her. She wrapped her arms around me and—a bit fuzzily herself—returned the kiss. The smell of her own warm bed—quintessentially feminine—lingered on her skin and mingled with the smell of mine. My cock throbbed and pulsed where it had come to rest between our bodies. At least somebody was awake.
She broke the kiss, and brought her hand up, out from under the covers, to stroke my cheek, where she rasped against the stubble of my beard.
"I love you so, Big Brother," she said, pushing me over onto my back and rolling on top of me. My prong took the opportunity to slide between her thighs and stroke along her furrow as she straddled me.
"I love you back so, Little Sister," I mumbled—I was having a good bit of trouble waking up that morning. Fuzzily, I understood that she was going to do something about that—something I'd enjoy very much.