Sorry it took so long to get this chapter. Some of the parts are stressful to think and write about. It's a little short, but the concept was complete and a new one about to start.
Hope you like.
Lissa
CHAPTER THREE - Mood Swings
Maolisa woke to an empty bed and sighed. Resisting the urge to reach for a dressing gown, she walked down the hallway to Aislin's room. As she expected, Ash was there. On the floor just inside the doorway. Mail curled up beside her, spooning, and tried to doze off.
Aislin woke up with her sister snuggled up to her bum, snoring softly. Slipping out from under Mail's arm she made her way down to the kitchen and reached for the coffee beans. A box got in her way so she had to pull it out and then get what she needed from it. She smiled suddenly, remembering. There is a routine for making coffee. Laying out everything she would need first and then following the steps, she soon had fresh ground coffee brewing. She resisted the urge to jump up and down and clap, thinking she might be too old for that kind of thing.
The aroma of fresh brewed coffee guided Mail to the kitchen, where she found a naked Ash sitting cross-legged on the counter sipping a cup and looking out the window. "Morning, Sis." Maolisa rubbed at her eyes and got an empty cup and started making some coffee for herself. "Um, how come I found you sleeping on the floor in your room in the middle of the night?"
"I don't know. Were you looking for something?" Aislin looked a little confused, "although if it was the middle of the night it probably could have waited for morning."
Maolisa giggled as she figured out how Aislin had interpreted her question. "I meant to ask why you were sleeping there. When I fell asleep we were on my bed all tired and comfortable. I thought you would like sleeping with me."
"When I was sleeping it was fine but then I woke up and it wasn't my room and you were close so I had to be scared. I couldn't go back to sleep so I went to my room and I could." Ash looked down shyly, then shivered as Mail finished making her coffee and came to stand in front of her, resting a hand lightly on her foot.
"Would it be better for us to sleep in your room, in case you wake up?" Maolisa caressed Aislin's toes, smiling as her sister started getting excited and squirmed on the counter top, wiggling them.
Aislin sipped at her coffee, wiggling her little feet as her sister teased her, "You're going to make the counter all messy and have to wash it." As her body started to tremble slightly, she frowned. "I don't think that would work too well. When I wake up in the night and close to you and not too horny then I would still get scared. It's two things. A different place is scary and a person is scary." She looked thoughtful, or spacey, as she stared into her coffee cup. After a minute she brightened, "but I think I can stop being scared of you cause you're my sister and I wasn't scared before, and new places can be old places in time and then not scary, but that means sleeping in the new place and being scared for a time until it's not a new place any more." She smiled wide, "that's how come I can sleep in my room now; it's been time."
Leaning over to kiss the tiny toes, Maolisa thought about it. "Okay. How about we work on getting you comfy with me in your room first? I can spend time with you, maybe make you stay near me?" She reached for her sister's cheek, caressing it, then stepped back as Ash's trembling threatened to spill her coffee. "And we have to wash the counter anyway, you put your bare bum on it."
Once Maolisa was far enough away to stop being scary, Aislin realized she had asked two questions. "You should only ask one question at a time." She tried to scowl at her sister but ended up looking silly, "I might get confused and it would be your fault." She stuck her little tongue tip out between her lips.
Giggling, Maolisa moved close again and tried to bite Aislin's tongue, then asked again, "Would it be good to first try to get you comfy with me in your room?" While she waited, she let her hands wander over her sister's body, enjoying the shudders and shivers it caused both of them.
"Maybe we can do that. I don't know how to get comfy, though." Ash shrugged, "just happens with some people sometimes but not much." She unfolded her legs and slid off the counter into her sister's arms, then shuddered heavily at the skin to skin whole body contact, "but we can try over and over and over," she trailed off, grinning and fidgeting nervously.