Janet and Max sat in the café booth in the kitchen at their parent's house, their old childhood home. Their father had died eight years earlier and their mom had died a week ago. Friends and family had finally all left. This was the first time they had been alone since she died.
Max sighed and said, "This feels so weird."
Janet chuckled. "Probably not as weird as the last time we were alone in this house."
"Uh, yeah but that wasn't weird at the time, it was sexy and very intense, as I remember it."
Janet laughed. "Intense enough for both of us to get ourselves off on our own."
"It sure started me on a lifetime of red headed and freckled girlfriends."
"And you never married any of them," Janet pointed out.
"True but I never stayed in one place for very long. The Marines are like that. The saying goes, 'If we wanted you to have a wife, we would have issued you one.'
Janet shook her head. "There had to be one that grabbed you by the balls and wouldn't let go."
Max grinned. "Several but those were a whole other story."
"That's the opposite of my life. Two husbands, two divorces, and no kids to show for it."
"Maybe that was for the best," Max said and sighed. "No kids for me either."
Janet looked around the room and shook her head. "I should have come home for more visits over the years."
Max chewed on the inside of his cheek and nodded. "I know that feeling. Too much time overseas and on both coasts. Never enough time or thought to make it this way."
Janet stood up, walked over to the island, and pulled out the end stool. She looked over her shoulder at her brother and grinned. "I sure was teasing you that morning."
"Yeah you were and I was too dumb to even realize it at the start."
"I think you were more in shock than anything."
Max chuckled and nodded. "You can say that again. My prime and proper younger sister was showing me things I had only dreamed of."
"Prime and proper? Who me?" Janet said and then sighed. "Not in my mind. I had my experience with Jenny and a vivid imagination that created some big fantasies. I thought of myself as worldly, whatever that meant."
"Talk about big fantasies, I had a ton of them after that day."
Janet laughed. "Before you only had Jenny to drool over and that was all fantasy."
"I still did but I also had you and you and her to add to the pile."
Janet looked at her brother and shivered. "Yeah, Jenny and I piled up quite often during college. We were more interested in an education than guys."
Max looked confused for a second. "How did you end up marrying that guy right after college if you didn't date?"
Janet grinned. "She graduated a year before I did and I got horny and then I thought I was in love."
Max sighed and shook his head. "I've been in lust but I don't think I've ever really been in love."
Janet nodded. "I was in lust with Bob and he was in lust with me. It took me three years to figure out that sex was all we had in common." She paused a moment and grinned. "It was good enough for us to get together as often as possible even after the divorce."
Max chuckled. "I had a few relationships like that. We'd date, fuck our brains out, and then breakup. A little while later, make that a few days or a week later, we'd be somewhere fucking our brains out again and again."
"And none of those were good enough to marry?"
Max shrugged. "They usually lasted until I was shipped off somewhere else or overseas. That alone usually killed the relationship."
Janet sighed. "I thought the second try would last forever. We had everything in common."
"What happened there?"
Janet shook her head. "I'm not real sure. I came home early from work one day and found him in bed with a girl half my age."
"Ouch!" Max said. "I never knew that. All mom ever said was that you two had some kind of differences."
Janet chuckled and shook her head. "Yeah, he wanted to keep the girlfriend and either I agreed or he dumped me. I wasn't into playing second fiddle to someone I didn't know."
"I was overseas in Japan back then, I think."
"You were all over the world and I was stuck in Chicago."
Max shivered and said, "Brrr! One of the coldest cities in the world from what I've heard."
"In more ways than one," Janet replied. A moment later she whispered, "That's probably as much my fault as the cities."
"What do you mean by that?"
Janet shrugged. "I threw myself into my job and quit going out or having friends. I just shut down. What was the use, I kept asking myself."
Max stood up and walked over to hug his sister. "I should have been around more or at least paid attention to what was going on."
She hugged him back and then pushed him away. "Go sit down before I start crying."
Max grinned at her and said, "Hey, I'm waterproof."
"So am I, remember."
Max laughed as he returned to take a seat in the café booth. "Waterproof but not water tight."
Janet stuck her tongue out at her brother and shivered hard. "Yeah, between your eyes and my imagination, I was dripping wet."
"Not to mention that butt plug up your ass."
Janet groaned softly. "I still have that butt plug and still wear it from time to time."
"Uh, how about now?" Max asked with a leering grin.
Janet laughed and shook her head. "I have it with me but I'm not wearing it."
"Go get it and I'll stick it in for you," Max said as he wiggled his eyebrows suggestively.