"Killer past couple of weeks for you, huh, little brother?"
Paul and I were finally on the road, heading to California. We had the top down on my convertible Beetle, all our stuff was piled in the back seat, and I was grinning at him from behind the wheel. Although there really wasn't much to see out there in the middle of nowhere, we didn't care. We were excited to be rolling at last, just the two of us together on the open highway.
Driving along, I'd been teasing him about everything that'd happened.
"First you become this raging horndog with me, then you're totally fucking Lisa like crazy! Are you
sure
you were a virgin, or was that all just some big sympathy scam?"
"You got me, sis. I engineered everything, right down to the finest detail. Behind your back I got Rick, Donny, Mom, and Dad together, and we conspired to brainwash you into doing exactly what you've always done anyway. Then I hypnotized us both so that I'd get all excited by seeing you in your panties, and you would get turned on by seeing what you'd done to me."
I had to grin as I listened to him lay it all out.
Returning my grin, he pressed onward. "The hard part was always going to be finding a way to get Mom on board with my wicked scheme. I had to get you to play with her, otherwise she wouldn't go for it. Getting you to convince her to join in was a real bitch, but I knew it would be the key to the whole thing."
We both laughed, yet I wondered at his joke about getting me to play with Mom. He didn't know about her coming to my room. I hadn't told him about any of the things she and I had done together. As far as he knew, she just suddenly started being sexier with everyone all on her own.
"What do you mean?" I asked. "How did I play with Mom? Like you said, I've only been doing the same things I've always done. Mom just finally decided to enjoy herself and not worry about you guys getting hard from seeing us. You and she suddenly changed, not me."
"Sure, Dawn, and you had nothing to do with it. Come on, are you saying you didn't encourage Mom to loosen up?"
"How did I encourage her? What do you think I did? She simply decided to start having fun again, and she made that decision all on her own."
"You didn't give her some sort of pep talk, convincing her to start dressing more like you?"
"No!" I said, laughing. "What in the world ever gave you that idea? I didn't do anything, Paul. I didn't need to. All I did was tell her how great she looked and how awesome it was to see her being so sexy around the house. You told her the exact same things."
"I suppose you're also going to say that you had nothing to do with Lisa either," he grinned, dropping the hammer on me.
Fidgeting in my seat, I returned his grin. "I just gave her my blessing. I told her how wonderful she is, and that I was happy for her to be the one for you."
He sat there, smirking.
"Okay, fine," I laughed. "Maybe I might have also encouraged her to make the first move, just to get the ball rolling, since you were obviously never going to do it!"
"Hey! Who says I wasn't?"
"So, were you? When were you ever going to step up and finally make a move on her?"
He gave me a sheepish grin. "Probably never. I didn't even know she liked me, and I just assumed she was way out of my league anyway."
Exasperated, I turned to stare at him. "Why on earth would you assume that? Paul, you're absolutely gorgeous. All the girls say so. You heard them totally spazzing out over you."
"Yeah, I heard them. That day was the first time, though, and you basically put them up to it."
"I did not! I didn't have to put them up to anything, and I certainly didn't tell them to slobber all over you about how hot you are. 'You can fuck me any time, Paul!' Yeah, right! You think I put them up to that? Baby brother, believe me, they came up with that all on their own."
"Yeah, okay, but you still started it."
"What do you mean?"
"Dawn, Lisa told me everything."
"If she really told you everything, then you know she already wanted you."
"Yeah, she admitted that, but you also told her to make a move on me before I left for our trip. She said it was your talk that put the thought in her head."
"Paul, she'd already told me point-blank, 'I want to fuck your brother.' She wanted you to be her first. She didn't know how, or when, but she knew she wanted you. I didn't have to convince her of that."
"Fine, but she never would have done it, not without you. She hadn't planned on anything like that, at least not so soon. She said you really did it to her when you took off your panties in front of me, then you pulled her skirt up. She said it was all you."
Smiling smugly, he knew he'd won that one.
"Okay," I admitted, allowing him his little victory, "she told me the same thing. So? All I did was help speed things up a bit. Unless you're a total retard, you were eventually going to figure out that she wanted you. Jeez, she allowed herself to be completely naked for you. Wasn't that a subtle enough hint? I mean, sooner or later, even you would have picked up on her intentions."
"Yeah, we probably would've gotten together eventually. It's not like I would ever say no to her."
"I would hope not, but she had to do everything. You were never going to make the first move, so you should be thanking me!"