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"Andrea, do want you anything from the fridge?"
"No thanks, Kevin."
"Ellen, can I get you anything?"
"No, I'm fine. Thanks, Kevin."
"Okay, well if you need anything let me know."
"Thanks, Kevin."
"I'm amazed at how your brother is always so nice, Andrea. James never asks me if I want anything."
Andrea smiles. "He wasn't always so nice. I've been training him."
"Training him? What do you mean?"
Andrea smiles again. "Sexual attraction."
"Sexual attraction?"
"Yes. I'm tapping into one of the most basic mammalian urges. We need to eat and we need to breed to survive. So evolution has made both of those physical processes enjoyable. Eating feels good and so does sex."
"Ya, but brothers and sisters are not normally interested in each other sexually."
"True, but part of that is social conditioning. You're not supposed to be interested in your brother so you're not. But you can overcome social conditioning. And I'm still a female and Kevin is still a male. And even better, I'm an attractive female. Kevin didn't use to notice me at all but he does now."
"What do you mean? What did you do?"
"I started broadcasting sexual energy at him."
"Sexual energy?"
"Yes. We all emit energy. Have you ever noticed how you can feel it when someone walks into the room and they're angry or upset or depressed? You can feel their negative energy. And it affects your mood. It drags you down. On the flip side, there are people that light up a room when they enter. They radiate positive energy and you feel it and it perks you up."
"Then there is sexual energy. Some people ooze it. It radiates off them like a blow torch. You can feel them when they walk by and you look up. Think about when you're in a room at a party and someone is checking you out. You feel it even though they may be on the other side of the room. And you look up. And you make eye contact. And if you're both interested it's like you're connected by an invisible energy beam pulling you together. And the closer you get the stronger the connection is. And when you're side by side it can feel like the air is crackling with sexual energy. It feels magnetic. You want to touch the person. You want to kiss them. You want them to touch and kiss you. You want to feel your skin on theirs. You want to jump their bones! It's a very powerful enjoyable force and I've been tapping into it with Kevin."
"How?"
"I broadcast sexual energy at him. I pump myself up sexually and then focus on him and he notices. He looks up and I smile at him and he feels my sexual interest which ignites his. An attraction develops between us."
"Um, okay, I'll take your word for it although I can't imagine that happening with James."
"Why? He's handsome. Don't you find him attractive?"
"Ya, I guess, but I don't think of him like that."
"Exactly! You don't think about him like that so he doesn't feel it. But if you did think about him like that, if you broadcast sexual energy toward him he would notice. He would look up and feel sexual energy from you. His body would automatically respond because it's hardwired into our brains. He would think about you sexually as opposed to you just being his sister."
"Okay, so even if he notices me sexually, how does that translate into him treating me the way Kevin treats you?"
"Once James thinks of you sexually you reel him in. You're an attractive woman. Use it!"
"What do you mean?"
"Do you share a bathroom?"
"Yes."
"Well, pump your mind full of sexual energy and then flaunt yourself. Flirt with him. You don't even need to say anything. Enter the bathroom in the morning in your nighty when he's there. Smile at him seductively when he sees you. Think about him sexually. Walk by him closely so that your body grazes his. Once he's thought of you sexually, it's in the back of his mind. Then you reinforce that feeling by continuing to flirt with him. Keep broadcasting sexual energy at him. Smile at him sexually. Wear sexy things around him. He'll notice you more and more. He'll start to think of you sexually more and more. When he does, you can take advantage of that."
"How?"
"Well, at that point he's like a guy that has the hots for you. He wants to be around you. He wants to do things for you. He'll be happy to help you. He'll be thinking about you. Thinking about doing things for you that he knows you like. He'll want to please you."
"You mean like when he asked us if we wanted something from the fridge?"
"Exactly! But Kevin does lots of things for me now. Some things I ask him to do and some things he initiates because he knows I like them."
"Like what?"
"Well, he's better at math than me so if I have problems he volunteers to help me. He never used to. I had to ask him and he wasn't always enthused. Now I go to his room wearing my nighty and sit beside him on the bed with hardly anything on. I usually wait until later when he's in bed in his undies reading or looking at his phone or tablet. My bare leg is against his and I crank up my sexual energy. I think really naughty thoughts. You can feel the sexual tension between us. It's so thick you can cut it with a knife. He tries to hide it but he often hard."
"Kevin never used to think of me at all. He wasn't a bad brother but he just never thought about me. Now he thinks about me and is very sensitive to my moods. He notices when I'm up or down or whatever. It's like he's my boyfriend and he knows me inside out and cares about me. And I'm a lot closer to him. It goes both ways. I don't try to abuse his attraction to me but I do use it. I often broadcast sexual energy to him. He's receptive to it now. It's fun to flirt with him. I ask for things and he says yes or no. But usually, it's yes and he often does nice things for me without me asking. He likes me. He cares for me. He thinks about me and wants me to be happy and does things to make me happy. We have a very nice relationship."
"You think about him sexually?"
Andrea smiles. "Well, sexual broadcasting is by definition, sexual. And I'm not thinking about someone else when I'm doing it! Kevin's not the only one aroused when he's helping me with math in his bed!"
"Whew! That's mind-blowing!"
"You should try it with James!"
I don't know. I don't think I could."
"Sure you could! Kevin is one year older than me just like James is one year older than you. And James is pretty easy on the eyes! Just start small. Get him to notice you once sexually and go from there. Get yourself all horny thinking about sex. Then walk into the bathroom in your nighty when he's in there. And focus your sexual energy on him like a laser beam. He'll feel it! When he notices and looks up give him a sexy smile. After he's thought about you once sexually, it's in his head and you just need to reinforce it. After a while, that's how he'll think about you. Sexual attraction is powerful. I'm not suggesting you abuse it but wouldn't it be nice to have him think about how you are? Think about how you're feeling. Want you to be happy? And I can only speak for myself, but I quite enjoy the sexual tension between Kevin and me!"
"How did you learn all this?"
"From my aunt. I stay with her every summer for a few weeks. She's mom's twin and they look the same but my aunt oozes sex appeal while my mom doesn't. I asked my aunt about it one day and she explained to me what I told you. And it's real! It works! So try it. You've got nothing to lose and you could have a very enjoyable relationship with James."
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I didn't know what to think of Andrea's story.
I had experienced people that sucked the life out of a room when they entered and others that lit a room up. Humans obviously emitted energy that others could sense if the feelings were strong enough.
And sexual energy obviously existed and I'd felt it myself (a lot!) and felt guys checking me out. There was a reason the expression 'sex appeal' existed.
But Andrea implied that if I filled my head with sexual energy and directed it at James that he would notice. I wasn't sure about that. I had a crush on a guy in grade nine and he's all I thought about for months and he never noticed me.
And something about the way Andrea talked about manipulating Kevin left a bad taste in my mouth. She talked about 'training' him like he was a dog. She was deliberately trying to use her sexual appeal to control him. It didn't seem right although I guess women had been using sex appeal to control men forever. But I'd never done it and it felt wrong.
It would be nice to have more of a relationship with James though. At the moment we were like two ships passing in the night. We lived in the same house but had little interaction. James never did anything for me but to be fair, I never did anything for him.
But I could change that. There was nothing stopping me from doing more things with James. I could initiate things and then maybe he would reciprocate and we would have more of a relationship with each other. It wouldn't hurt to try but I wasn't going to broadcast sex at James in the washroom in my nighty!
I started small by just noticing James. It sounds weird but I rarely noticed him. We lived in the same house but hardly spent any time together. We ate supper together but I didn't pay attention to him. He was just there. He ate. I ate. I answered questions from mom and dad. I looked at my phone. I left.
So, I started looking at James. He was around six feet tall and lean. Think of Keanu Reeves's body. We both had thick jet-black hair from mom. Jame's hair was shoulder-length like mine but he never styled it so it often fell across his eyes and he looked kind of shaggy. I styled mine so it looked better, in my humble opinion. I must admit though, I liked his long hair and couldn't imagine him without it. We both had green eyes but I had big round eyes and long ears which stuck out past my hair. People said I looked like an elf with my round eyes, black hair, and long ears. I was okay with looking like an elf and actually had very good hearing.
James had several male friends but was somewhat of an introvert. He could take or leave people and didn't care what others thought of him. I was more social.
James was also quieter and didn't say much whereas I liked to talk.
I got a ride to school with mom in the morning but James liked to walk. He said it took about twenty minutes. He walked home as well whereas I got rides from my friends. Occasionally I would drive one of our cars to school when mom worked from home.
James didn't work out at a gym but he did situps and pushups and lifted hand weights in his room.
He did his homework after school and then ate supper and then he often disappeared on his bike but I had no idea where he went. Sometimes he was gone for a long time. Maybe he was visiting a secret girlfriend! Not likely! Then he came home and retired to his room and read for a while or watched something on his iPad in bed.
I gathered all the above information from watching James for a week. Before that, I couldn't have told you most of it because I didn't pay attention to him. Pretty sad, but true.
I decided to ask him if he'd mind if I walked to school with him. It would give me a chance to get to know him better.
"James?"
"Yes?"
"Would you mind if I walked to school with you?"
