The two parts to this story do, just about, stand on their own. However, they are intended to provide a back story to an episode written earlier, 'Cocksucker'.
Possibly, you will get the most out of this tale if you read that story first.
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Candy was nervous. She didn't really understand why β she was only meeting her brother.
Mind you, she hadn't seen him for over two years, and although they had spoken on the phone it had been difficult to talk about anything in depth. Especially after the way they had parted.
She checked her appearance in the mirror once more. She had dressed in a more feminine way than usual, and certainly differently than she did for work. Her summer dress fitted her figure perfectly, and the light and flimsy material accentuated the curves of her body.
Quite why this was important, Candy wasn't exactly admitting to herself. There was a lot that she hadn't been open about recently.
She had wanted to meet him at the airport but he had insisted on coming to her flat himself. He had always had an independent streak and his back-packing and travelling adventures seemed to have made it stronger.
He had also always been a stickler for punctuality though, so she wasn't surprised when the doorbell rang at exactly 7.30 pm β just at the time he said he would arrive.
Candy opened the door. She couldn't help but look him up and down β immediately she realised that when they had said goodbye he was still a boy β he had returned very much a man. She noticed that he was appraising her as she was looking at him. 'Candy', he said, and smiled. 'You look gorgeous!.'
His smile was infectious. She managed not to say, 'So do you' but the thought lingered in her mind. She was pleased with hid comment and smiled right back. 'Hello', she said. 'Hello, Frances'.
Everyone else called him Frank but she was the only one, including their parents, who still called him by the name he was Christened with.
They hugged. It was the first time she had touched his body for two years and he was bigger than she remembered. There was a muscular hardness about him that she guessed must have come from his travels.
'My God, look at you' she said. He was tanned. He was good looking β well he had always been good looking, but now he seemed to have the confidence to go with it. He was not the same little brother who had left to go on his travels β he was more her equal than he had been before. That was both interesting and a little worrying to her.
In an attempt to reassert her control of him, and the situation, she insisted that he dump his bag as quickly as possible and that they go for a drink in a nearby bar. Frances seemed happy with her suggestion.
Several drinks later and despite the loud music they had got all the small talk out of the way. He had made her laugh at his tales, and wonder at some of the sights he had seen. Candy had to admit that he was more mature, a more rounded man β and a damned attractive one at that.
She watched him now as he weaved to the front of the bar, chatting to one person, charming another. On the way back he was waylaid by one of the regulars and began dancing with her. He moved well, with an easy grace and sexual confidence.
Two years ago she had very definitely been his older sister, more experienced, more the one in charge. Now she wasn't so sure. The travelling that Frances had done seemed to have given him a new assurance and certainty in his manner. He was charming, more urbane, and his body movement definitely had the air of a predator about it.
Candy found, to her shock, that she was a little jealous that others were taking an interest in him, and that he could show such easy interest in them. She didn't have to look far for the reason though, and cast her mind back to the events just before Frances had started his trip.
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Back then, Candy had just started working as a secretary and Frances had just completed his exams and was awaiting his results before departing on his trip. This meant that he was hanging around their home all day with not a lot to do, while Candy was up early getting into her working day.
Even then Frances was a good-looking boy, but he remained largely unaware of his effect on the opposite sex. To Candy, he had until that summer been nothing more than her innocent kid brother.
That all changed when she started work. She had always been a late riser β it had been Frances who was in the habit of getting up early. The change in her routine meant that they were bumping into each other in the mornings much more often, particularly around the bathroom, which separated their two bedrooms, and the pool at the back of their parents house; they both had a love of swimming, and brother and sister had got into the habit of sharing a morning dip.
On one of these mornings Candy discovered that there was something else that Frances liked to do in the morning as well.
The pool had a changing area and a shower so that you could rinse off after a swim; nothing too grand just big enough to ensure that water from the pool wasn't walked all over the house after someone had been swimming. As a result of their new routine Candy and Frances had an unspoken arrangement that she would use their shared bathroom first, as she had to get to work β her brother would swim for a little longer after she had gone.
It was a gloriously sunny day and Candy had returned to their bathroom to find that the only towels were the ones that they had used at the pool β so she went back in through the rear entrance, where the towels were kept, expecting to see Frances doing some laps.
Instead, she found him under the pool shower, rinsing himself off. He was completely naked. It was the first time that the sister had seen the brother that way in years.
Candy nearly spoke, but there was something about the scene in front of her that made her voice catch in her throat.
The sun was shining in through the glass doors that opened out on to the garden. Frances was illuminated by the bright light, which outlined his body with a warm glow. The water from the shower made it seem as if his skin was glistening.
For Candy, it was as if she was seeing him for the first time. He really had a good body - a taut, lean, musculature enhanced by the swimming that he had been doing. With sun and water playing over his skin, she suddenly became aware of her brother in a completely new, and forbidden, way.
Candy found herself paralysed by a sudden stab of lust for the young man. Her guts churned with a sick forbidden sensation. She should have turned away, returned to her room, left him alone.
Instead, Candy couldn't help but wonder what else she might see and, instead of leaving, slipped into the shadow where she was hidden, but where she still had a good view of her suddenly sexy brother.
It was hot watching him - and not because of the sun. She knew she was breaking some dark taboo; she was thinking of him, for the first time, sexually, but she convinced herself that if she just looked, it couldn't hurt, could it?
Her breath may had been taken away by the sight of him; at the same time, her blood had begun to pound around her body and an unfamiliar excited feeling, fluttered in her stomach.
She pressed herself back into the shadows, praying that he had not heard her. Yet she could not leave yet.