I swear to God I don't have a foot fetish. Yet, once again, Christie's feet had coaxed pre-cum from my cock. I was worried it would seep through the light-colored fabric of my pants.
As Therese and my dad entered the kitchen, I hopped away from Christie to keep the island between myself and them, blocking their view of my compromised crotch.
The sudden movement startled Therese. She darted her eyes to me, then Christie, then back to me.
"Mom," Christie said, "I am so,
SO
sorry about church. I slept in late, and--"
Therese cut her off.
"Where's Aaron?"
Though addressing her daughter, she glared at me, like maybe I'd offed the guy.
Christie was halfway off the stool, no doubt intending to greet Therese with a hug, but she stiffened at her mother's harsh tone. After a pause, she resumed her perch, swiveling to turn away from Therese and fill another pastry.
"You mean the boy with the arrogant smile who shares vulgar memes and has a friend list full of degenerates? I broke up with him. Aren't you happy?"
Therese tossed her purse on the table and rolled her eyes. "I didn't call his friends degenerates. For Heaven's sake, I've never even met him."
"It's okay." Christie's shoulders slumped. She abruptly dropped her salty attitude. "You were right, Mom. He was a jerk."
Therese squinted, appearing mistrustful of the sudden surrender. But before she could say anything, my dad strolled up to the island.
"Well, well, well! Looks like you two have been rolling in dough!"
Christie beamed at him and proudly proffered a finished puff.
My dad's eyes lit up... until he glanced at Therese. "I suppose I'd better not."
Arms folded under her ferocious bosom, Therese turned to me. "What time is dinner?"
Her narrowed eyes asked the real question:
What have you been doing with my daughter all morning?
Flustered, I cleared my throat and lowered my head, becoming more flustered when I realized pre-cum had indeed soaked through the chinos. "Uh, well, the, uh, hens will, uh, only, uh, take, uh, two hours, uh..."
"You mean you haven't even started them?"
I kept stammering.
Christie intervened.
"Mom," she said sweetly, "Sunday dinner's always at four. It's not even one-thirty yet. But... if you're hungry..." She held up a cream puff and waggled her eyebrows.
Therese was not amused. She pinned a final, suspicious look on us, then marched out of the kitchen, and we watched through the living room archway as she raised the remote to click on the television. Though I'm sure Therese often found comfort in prayer or reading her Bible, sometimes, in hours of darkness, she watched reruns of
Friends.
My dad cast a forlorn glance at the cream puffs, then joined her.
Christie hopped off her stool and clapped her hands together. "Welp! Guess we'd better get started on those hens!"
Suddenly, she was bustling around the kitchen like nothing was wrong.
I stared at her, mystified. She had played footsie with my
naked cock
this morning, gotten a faceful of
cum
, and now her scary church-lady mom was
suspicious
. Why the hell wasn't she freaking out like I was?
However, as Therese settled on the sofa with her knitting, and my dad leaned back in his lounger, I shook off my anxiety and went through the motions of food preparation with Christie.
We cleared away the cream puff stuff. We pulled the stuffing from the fridge and the bagged hens from the sink. We emptied the marinade from the bags into a pot. But when we slapped the hens on the island, and they lay before us with their legs splayed, ready to be stuffed, I just... couldn't.
Jesus. I'd nearly lost it when we were shooting cream in pastries. Sticking our hands up bird twats together? Nuh-uh.
"Hey Christie, thanks for your help, but I'll take it from here."
"What? No!" she cried, and held up a handful of stuffing. "This is the best part!"
I lowered my voice. "Christie. Please. I've got this."
Seeing I was serious, she pouted, flinging the stuffing back into the bowl. "Oh,
okayyyy
." She wiggled a hen's leg as if bidding it farewell. "Guess I'll just go to my room and..." She rubbed two fingers against the fleshy wet lip of the hen's hole. "... find something else to do."
After shooting me a sideways glance, she smirked and flounced out of the kitchen, bare feet smacking brazenly against the linoleum.
Blood dropped straight from my head to my dick, but lust wasn't the only reason my vision blurred and gray dots danced in my eyes. No, I was momentarily blinded by an emotion I'd never felt toward Christie.
Anger.
Because now I knew that my wholesome, pure-hearted, virginal stepsister was fucking with me.
I'd been drooling over her for three damn years, yet she'd never shown a hint of attraction to
me
. Now, suddenly, she was teasing me, taunting me,
torturing
me.
I could only think of one reason. This was payback for what happened outside.
My vision cleared, but the anger remained.
My eyes settled on Therese.
She was sitting rigidly on the living room sofa, joylessly jabbing yarn with her knitting needles. Dad said she took up knitting to help her relax. Didn't seem to help. I glanced at the prescription bottle she'd dropped while scrambling to church this morning. Maybe her uptight ass needed stronger tranquilizers.
Fuck this shit. I had to get out of here. I stuffed the stupid hens and threw them in the oven. Luke said his party started at seven. He hadn't said where, though. Did he still live with his parents, or did he have his own place? I grabbed my phone to text him.
A fresh wave of anger hit when I realized my phone was dead. Goddammit. My charger was in my bedroom, but now that Therese was home, I felt self-conscious going back there.
As I passed through the living room, I held my phone up for Therese to see.
"Dead," I muttered. "Charger's in my room."
Translation:
I will not be masturbating.
Without waiting for a response, I proceeded to my room (passing Christie's cracked-open door without a glance), walked straight to my charger on the dresser, plugged my phone in, and pressed the power button repeatedly until it finally had enough juice to start.
When the phone came on, I rejoiced--then groaned when I read the notification:
Installing updates
...
Your phone will turn off and restart several times
.
God fucking dammit. I drummed my fingers on the dresser, watching the progress wheel spin and the percentage numbers tick. This could take forever. I considered lying down, but ugh, I couldn't even look at my bed. The memories were too fresh.
The longer I waited, the angrier my predicament made me. Why was I cowering in my room, hiding from everyone in shame? I had done nothing wrong. I was a man. Men masturbate. Men try to help women when they faint. Men ejaculate when women give them foot jobs. Nothing that happened today was my fault. So why was I letting a judgmental stepmother and a cock-teasing stepsister make me feel like a freak in my own fucking home?
Leaving my phone to its reboots, I threw open my door and alit for the living room.
Dad was slack in his La-Z-Boy, deep in a sitcom-rerun-induced daze. But Therese raised her eyes from the afghan she was knitting to watch me plop into an armchair. She observed my defiant manspread for a moment, then resumed her needle-jabbing.
"So," she said with chilly formality. "Dinner will be at four, then?"
"Hens'll be ready in two hours," I said. "You can eat 'em whenever you want."
She bristled at my disrespectful tone. "Well, since it's a
family
dinner, it might be helpful to set a time, don't you think?"
"Yeah, sure, whatever. Four's fine with me. I'm leaving around six-thirty."
Her needles jerked to a halt. "Oh. You're... going home tonight?" She couldn't quite conceal the hope in her voice.
"Nope," I said. "Party at a friend's house. I'll be out late. Don't wait up."
She may not have appreciated my snotty delivery, but she clearly didn't mind the news I'd be leaving the house. "An
Easter
party," she said, as if enchanted by a quaint yet inspired concept. "Well, I hope you enjoy --"