This is absolutely a true story that happened back in back in 2004, before I got married. I used to work as an IT Technician in the ICT Department of a popular hotel in Rustenburg, South Africa. The hotel had staff accommodation on the premises and I qualified to stay on the premises due to the distance between my home village and the hotel. I am originally from an area called Klipgat in the North-west province which is about 180km away from Rustenburg.
Working in the hospitality industry is challenging because it's operational twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week. Being an It Technician meant being available even beyond your normal hours of work.
What the establishment always advised though was that staff, especially those of us who resided on the premises, should always go off-site every chance we got because staying in that environment without a break for a prolonged period of time can get overwhelming. Not that there were no interesting activities to indulge in, there were pubs and a whole lot of recreational facilities. Be that as it may, every opportunity that I got I used to break away and drive home for a weekend or so.
At home we're five boys and one girl from the same mother. I am the fourth boy and the last-born is a girl. The wife of my third oldest brother, who is fifteen years older than me is very beautiful, light-skinned and very curvy. She was thirty-seven years old at the time and I was twenty-two. She was very close to me since she was married into the family when I was only fifteen years old so we got along quite well. There was a time that we were at a family function, I was seated very close to her and I always referred to her as "my crush" throughout the day and she just laughed it off telling me that I was very young. I loved visiting them every time I went home on a break. My brother developed a habit of drinking non-stop over the years and his drinking habits started to rile my sister-in-law up.
This particular weekend on a Saturday I went to visit them and we sat chatting with my sister-in-law, I truly enjoyed her company and stealing subtle looks when she was not looking. That evening we even had supper with her and their 2 kids aged five and seven. The two kids went to sleep immediately after we ate supper and I sat there with her and continued chatting while she was cleaning the dishes. At some point she complained that for a while now my brother comes back home every night completely wasted. I had my cans of Heineken to keep me busy and she was drinking her soda because she doesn't drink alcohol. Eventually she asked me to sleep over because she said she doesn't know when my brother will return home and she's scared being left alone with the children.
Around 20h30 while seating and still chatting about nothing much really, we heard my brother's erratic footsteps as he approached the door. When he entered the house, he almost fell inside the house and he just greeted and staggered to his bedroom. Fortunately their house is a flat floor plan and not a double storey where he would battle to go up to the bedrooms. We just watched him until he disappeared down the passage to their bedroom.
At around 21h00 my sister-in-law said that she was calling it a night and told me she prepared the guest bedroom for me. She left to go to bed and I sat there watching the television while finishing my can of beer, I'm a slow drinker. After about fifteen minutes I heard their bedroom door open, she stood by the door in her transparent nighty that came just under her butt chics and called me. When I stood up I thought maybe she wanted me to come and help her with my brother because clearly I saw that he was out of his wits.