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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âCarlusMagnus
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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 wayâand 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 photosânot 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 beachâprobably 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 distanceâand 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 captionâwhich 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 turnâMom 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 presentsâone from each of the three other family membersâwaiting for me on the dining room table when I got up. They were nothing spectacularâour 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 wantâthe 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.