Author's Note: All characters engaging in any sexual acts are over the age of 18 years.
Edited by: WAA01
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"Finally!"
Laura rushed to answer the doorbell. Connor, her brother, was supposed to arrive two hours ago but his flight had gotten delayed. She couldn't hold in her excitement as she fiercely hugged him.
"Hey, Sis!" Connor called out as he scooped his big sister into a bear hug.
"I missed you!" She replied laughing and giggling happily, wrapping her arms around his neck.
Connor returned her enthusiasm with equal force. He chuckled as he lifted her up in his arms, "I missed you more!"
"Not possible in a million years," she snorted and ruffled his hair playfully.
He shrugged in defeat as he gently set her back on the floor before he brought in his luggage. It was only a single bag.
"That's it?" Laura peeked out in the hallway. She added when she couldn't find anything else, "Where's the rest of it?"
"Um... it's all I have."
"What?!"
"I figured buying stuff would be more in line with my abstemious lifestyle." He said with a shrug.
"Abstemious is it?" Laura snorted at him, "Look at you with the fancy words."
"Of course, now that my big sister's a hotshot executive at her law firm, how can I afford to not learn some "fancy" words?" Connor smirked.
She rolled her eyes as if she was unimpressed by his flattery while inwardly her heart soared at his indirect praise, "If you keep this up, you will be a big hit at the weekend."
"Weekend?" He asked her, a look of intrigue in his eyes.
She feigned nonchalance, "A little something, I set up," she tried hard to be calm as she continued, "You know... since you've moved here and all."
"Ah... really?"
"Nothing too big... just some of my friends, and," she paused for effect. She observed him with the corner of her eyes and then added with a smile when he looked like he was getting impatient, "...Maggie."
"I love you!" Connor embraced her and pecked her cheeks while shouting, "You're the best sister ever!"
She flicked her locks behind her head and with a smug smile commented, "Of course, I am." Still held tight in his arms, she mused, "Hmmm... Did you call Mom yet?"
"Oh, Shit!" Connor spouted out.
Laura had to shake her head at her brother's carelessness. Their mother must be hyperventilating by now. Even if her fear of airplanes was irrational, it didn't hurt to tell her when he landed.
"I guess he's cute that way..."
She stared at his figure. His face had matured a bit since she last saw him a few months ago. He didn't exactly have a baby-face but he looked a lot younger than his age of twenty-three. With his six-foot-tall and athletic frame as well as the sharpening features on his square face, definitely, he was handsome, she thought.
"The job hunt had him worried... The hair is also back to the natural black."
Laura ran her fingers through his hair as she passed him on the way to the kitchen.
"I didn't like the bleached hair look anyway."
"Get changed, I'm preparing dinner," she knew it would be a while before he got off the phone. Their mother's "love" wasn't to be underestimated in these kinds of situations.
"It's hard being the only man in the family, having to constantly deal with suffocating affectation of all the women,"
She sighed and turned away from his pitiful eyes. She had long become immune to his begging looks. It would be madness to try to make an excuse for him now when their mother was going ballistic.
***
Connor tiptoed behind her to catch her off guard. She was focused on her work and didn't seem to notice his presence, or that was what he thought.
"Stop being a creep and help me," Laura commented without turning back.
"Oh, you knew?" He replied drily, unamused by his apparent failure.
"Of course I would know if someone's ogling at my ass!" she spoke teasingly and twerked her hypnotic butt as she felt his receding gaze.
"You wish," Connor scoffed, unperturbed by the obvious provocation. He pecked her head from behind and then mumbled, "So..."
"Just dice them in small pieces and then you can go back to being a creep who checks out his own sister," she giggled by the end of her words.
Connor was shaken this time around and defended himself, "I- I wasn't really-"
"Haha... I know Baby!"
She gave him a soft kiss on his cheek and said in an apologetic tone, "I was messing with you," with a twinkle in her eye and her lips pouted, she added, "Sorry!"
"You know I don't like it when you do that, right?" He commented in her direction in an annoyed tone, but only after a few seconds of uncomfortable silence.
"I know... but I hadn't seen you for so long so..." Laura's lips curved in a sly, almost evil smile as she swirled the ladle stirring the contents of the pot.
He was amazed at her words. It was the first time that he had heard someone say something so nonsensical. He often wondered about that, about why she liked to make him cringe. He knew a lot of other siblings that were close but Laura was too unique in how she acted with him.
He started to chop the veggies with a knife and asked her, "So how would it work?"
"What? Work what?"
"You know... should we take the same car or..."
"Oh, so you want to ride with me?" She turned to look at him, a sensuous smile on her lips, "Or..."
"Don't Laura-" Connor was already shaking his head at what was about to come next.
"Or ride
me
?" She burst in giggles, her eyes locked on to her brother's steely gaze.
"Really?!"
"Fine... Fine... It was the last time." She relented as she thought about all the time she would have now that her brother was going to stay with her.
"I promise," she insisted under his glare.
"And yes we will go together...Unless you have other ideas?"
"I don't know. I'm a little nervous to work under you-" He planted his face in his palm as he realized what he'd just said.
"Oh yeah?" Laura was chewing her lips in order to not make a quip. She kept stirring the curry to hold back from laughing.
He, though, ignored her, "It's my first serious job and it's... you'll be kind of my safety blanket but-" He stopped midway as she thrust a spoon in his mouth.
"How's it?"
"Perfect..."
Her eyes lit up at the praise. Connor smiled at her inwardly and then continued, "But it's also a little awkward? Don't you think it will be awkward?"
"Why?" She sprinkled some seasoning before she turned to face him, "A lot of families work together in the same place. Why would it be awkward?"
"But you are different!" He added in the same vein, "You are too crazy and embarrassing."
She was stunned for a second before she raged and twisted his ear, "You little shit!"
"I get you a wonderful job, let you stay at my place, and
you