Part One: Home is where you hang your hard on.
I share a house with my three sisters. We're all living in the same city because we all went to the same college. My younger sister Bethany (Beth) is still attending; I'm taking a year off to work, and my older sisters, Anastasia (Ana) and Francesca (Fran). I'm Rupert Forrest III, but I go by my middle name, Jonas.
Bethany is a language studies major, Ana dropped out and became a hair stylist, I'm working on my history degree, and Fran finished in prehistoric science, which means she is working at the post office until the museum has an opening. I'm currently doing security for an office building. I do four nights a week, 12 hour shifts, watching a parking garage to make sure there aren't any bums sleeping in the stairwells or druggies shooting up in the corners. Pretty much, I sit in a booth for 45 minutes at a time, and patrol the four floors of underground parking. It's not very exciting, which is why I bought a laptop computer. Now I can watch movies, play games, or whatever while I'm not patrolling.
Recently, a coffee store moved into the front of the building, and they have a wireless access point, which they don't turn off at night, so I've been doing some web surfing late at night. So far, I have yet to be caught looking at erotic stories late at night. I guess the coffee shop never checks with their ISP to see who is browsing what. I have to say, I've been fortunate so far.
In the morning, there's usually no one home when I get back from my shift, so I can have the house to myself. I get the basic three S's out of the way: shit, shower and shave, then I make breakfast, and go to bed. It leaves me little time for a social life, since I sleep for eight hours, and then have to get ready to go back to work. My days off are at he beginning of the week, so there's nothing much going on for me to do besides watch TV or go to the bar and hope to get lucky. Unfortunately, I haven't been laid in many weeks, so the internet is my outlet. I've sort of had a routine going now for a few months, and I was getting bored with the monotony. I guess you could say I got careless.
I came home one morning, and as was my usual routine, I went to shower, leaving my clothes in a heap outside the bathroom door. After washing and shaving, I went to fix breakfast, wearing only a bathrobe. I was surprised as I came down the stairs to see my younger sister, Bethany, sitting on the couch in the living room, my laptop open on her lap.
"What are you doing home?" I asked.
"No school today. There's a break. I told you last week, Jonas."
"Oh. I guess I forgot. Listen, I'm going to get something to eat and then go to bed. So you had better be quiet. Oh, and put down my computer. There's some personal stuff on there."
"I'll say." Beth replied. Suddenly, a feeling of dread came over me.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Oh, I was just going to look up something, and I saw a few interesting items in your browser history."
"Uhβ¦listen. That's my computer, and what I do with it is my own business. Put it down now. If you want your own, go and buy one." I was starting to get annoyed.
"Oh, sure. I'll put it down as soon as you explain your history to me."
"I don't have to explain anything, now put it down!"
"Well, I'm just curious." Beth said, "What's with all these stories you've been reading? You know, about guys and their sisters. I mean, should I be worried?"
I tried to cover. "Hey, it's just fiction," I said.
"Is that so? Then it won't be a problem if I tell Fran and Ana." She replied, trying to sound casual. I didn't like where this was going.
"Well," I said, trying to salvage the situation, "there's really no need to tell them about this."
"Oh, I don't know Jonas. I mean, they might be concerned. I should probably let them know what you've been reading about."
"Shit, Beth, you know they'd flip out. It's just harmless fiction, you know that. It's something to keep me awake while I'm working."
"Yeah. About that β I wonder what your boss would say if I told her what you were doing on company time."
"You can't do that." I protested. I couldn't afford to get fired.
"I could if I wanted to."