David
The next morning I woke up early and just stayed in bed. It was the first time I had done that since I could remember. The house was quiet, and I knew my brothers were all still sleeping. They had been up much later than I had and all three drank a lot as well. I turned to my side and looked out toward the early morning light streaming in through the partially closed blinds. I needed to close the blinds and draw the curtains tonight. I would probably sleep later. But the morning was peaceful. I liked knowing my brothers were sleeping nearby.
More than that, I liked that I had helped them sleep well. I thought about John as I sucked his dick the second time. The truth was that I didn't so much suck his dick as he fucked my mouth. He was much more aggressive than the first time, holding my head and moving me into one position or another as he kept thrusting. Finally I knelt beside the bed and he held my head and fucked my mouth while he sat on the edge. I just closed my eyes and gave into the steady rhythm of his dick hitting the back of my mouth and his balls on my chin. Between those sensations and the sounds of my brother's grunts and breaths, I felt like I was in a simple, prescribed, emotional space. It was a kind of peace that I realized I always had been looking for, but never really found. Yet the word peace didn't feel right. I frowned and rolled over to my back.
Yes there was peace in that moment in the sense that I wasn't worried. My mind wasn't racing and I wasn't forced to make decisions about what someone was saying or what they felt or how I was supposed to act. My mind was almost just blank. Empty. I bit my lip and thought about John's hand gripping my hair in those moments when his movements became erratic and urgent. That was the moment I enjoyed most and I fastened my lips around his cock. I made the face as I thought about it and realized my lips were in an O or perhaps a zero. Zero made more sense to me. The image and the number struck a chord. Zero. Then he grunted, held the base of my chin and the hair on the top of my head and he began to move his hips involuntarily. My blank mind would almost come alive because I knew what was going to happen. He was about to reward me and then he would. John came so hard that second time, bucking his hips wildly and the hair on my head was so tight that it hurt. It was a good hurt. Like an overdue deep tissue massage. When he came, John gave these grunts with each pull of my hair and thrust of his hips paired with the pulses of his dick--like he was pumping his cum into me. No. Like he was pumping his cum into my zero. He added to me. I was nothing and then I was something.
It was more than peace that I felt. Even when he was done, before he left he just said, "Thank you Kates, I am going to sleep so well now." I knew he was sleeping well. I had done that. Assisted in it. It felt good. Purposeful. It was more than that. But I didn't have the words. I never had the words.
Once you find the thing you were made for, everything else begins to fall away. I made my mouth into a zero again.
There was a knock on my door. My heart raced.
"Kates," It was David. "Are you up?"
I took a deep breath to calm my nerves. "Yes," I said, sitting up and stretching.
My oldest brother stepped into the room a bit sheepishly. "How did you sleep? Did we keep you up last night?"
"I slept well, thank you and no I didn't hear anything," I said honestly.
"Good," he said. He took a deep breath and it appeared that he was gathering his thoughts. "Hey I just wanted to say sorry for kind of blowing up at you last night."
"It's ok," I said remembering his look of embarrassment at my question about his sex life. "I am sorry that I was being too personal. I know we don't really talk about that stuff and..."
"No," David said strongly. A chill ran through me as my eldest brother, the Alpha of our family held up his hand for me to be quiet. "You don't need to apologize about anything. Kates, I know how you are. What I mean is I know you don't think about things the same way as other people and I need to be better about that. I know you weren't trying to pry, you were just being...you. I know better and I shouldn't have been such a dick."
I didn't know what to say. David wasn't the apologizing type. Yet even as he did all I could see was how direct he was. David was always so clear and so decisive. In some ways I was like him, but in many ways I was different. I was less than.
"Thank you for saying that," I finally replied.
He nodded. "I didn't want to ruin the week by being a dick to you for no reason. Especially after you told me you were having a hard week at work. That is just shitty and selfish."
I smiled at him.
He walked over and pulled me up and against him and gave me a hug. He held me close to him. I was suddenly conscious that I wasn't wearing a bra and I knew he could feel my body. I liked that. I wanted him to feel me. If he wanted to. I was here.
He held me.
"Are you ok David?" I asked.
He held me and nodded. "Yeah Kates," he said. "I am now. I had a long week too, to be honest and it is nice to just hug you know?"
I nodded. It was nice. "David?" I asked as I leaned into him.
"What is it?" He said to me tenderly.
"Are you ok? I mean with Erika and everything?"
He held me for a moment longer and then pulled away slowly. "Not great honestly," he said, looking away for a moment and then focusing on me. His face was a little red. "I think your question last night hit a nerve."
I nodded. I almost said that I was sorry. But he told me not to apologize. I didn't know what to do.
"That's why I reacted like I did," David said and then he smiled and added, "I won't do that again. Not on this trip at least. I promise."
I smiled at him.
He let go of me and turned to leave.
"David?" I said and he turned. "You know that I am...here for you right? You can talk to me or, I don't know, whatever you need. I am your sister and I am here. Ok?"
He looked at me for a long moment. I couldn't read his face. Then he finally said, "Thank you Kates, I will remember that."
I watched him go and before he left he turned and smiled at me. I noticed his eyes darted down to my chest and back up again. It was very quick but unmistakable. Then he closed the door and was gone. I felt a warmth run through my body as I sat back down on the bed. David has always been untouchable in my mind. He went through life so directly and unflinchingly that it never occurred to me that he struggled with, well, anything. He never seemed to care what anyone thought. This was especially true in his marriage to Erika. She was a difficult person to be around and I knew the two of them fought. Before they got married they were advised to take a step back and to take their time. Naturally David married her anyway. I just assumed they were ok. I frowned. I shouldn't assume anything about people.
I got up and went to the closet to put some clothes on. The truth was that I didn't want to. I was comfortable in my long night shirt and underwear and it was just my brothers. I looked in the mirror and realized that you could see my breasts and the faint outline of my nipples through the shirt. I smiled. That is what David looked at. I knew Jeff really enjoyed my breasts. Perhaps David could too?