As soon as I heard the captain come on the speaker during the flight, I knew I was in for a delay. I was flying into Houston to catch a connecting flight home, but knew the storms in the area were wreaking havoc. Sure enough, our plane was being diverted to the nearby Air Force base until the weather cleared over the airport.
As soon as we touched down, I powered on my cell and called the hotel at the airport and reserved a room. Having been delayed in Houston on a previous trip, I knew the hotel would fill quickly, so wanted to be ahead of the game.
Two hours later we lifted off and hopped over to the airport and were allowed to disembark. My connecting flight had been cancelled, so I hopped the trolley and went to the hotel. The lobby was a mad house and people were getting frustrated. They had a line set up for people with reservations, and I was shuttled through and given my room key. I turned and walked away from the lines of grumbling people and headed to the elevator.
I was halfway there when I heard someone call out my name. "Noah!" I heard. I turned to look and saw a slim brunette with shoulder length hair waving. I walked towards her and was shocked to see my cousin Cheryl. I had not seen her since our grandfather's funeral five years before, and her appearance was drastically changed.
At the funeral, she weighed upwards of 180 pounds and had bleach blonde hair. The Cheryl standing before was 120 at the most, and had reverted back to her natural deep mahogany color of hair.
"Cheryl! What are you doing?"
"I just flew in from Midland and got stuck heading home. I guess all the flights are done. The hotel is booked already, so I guess I am going to grab a cab and find the closest one." She stepped out of line and came closer.
"I have a room. You can crash with me tonight if you want. It'll save a trip."
"Really? You don't mind?"
"Of course not," I said. "I can't throw my favorite cousin out on the street." She was my only cousin, so she had to be my favorite, which was a long standing joke. Her mom and my mom are sisters, and we are both only children. Both our dads are only children as well, so we have a very limited family.
I grabbed one of her bags while she rolled her suitcase and we went to the elevator. I let us in the room and she made a small pile with her bags.
"One bed?" she asked.
"Yeah, sorry, I didn't think about that. I can take the floor."
"No you won't! We can make it work."
She went to freshen up and I got my stuff situated. She came back out and sat on the bed.
"Want to go get a drink and catch up?" I asked.
"Maybe three drinks. Sounds great."
We found the lounge and sat at a small booth and gave the waitress our drink order. I sank back in the booth and looked at Cheryl. She looked really great, especially since she had let herself go in the past.
She is a year younger than me, and had married a few years after high school. Her husband had family oil money and even though he supported her well, I always thought he was a callous prick. I went ahead and got him out of the way.
"How's Chris?"
"He was why I was in Midland. He's working for his dad at their office there. I don't know if your mom has told you, but we are separated. I went over to see him to see if we could salvage our marriage. After the last few days, I am more than ready to sign the papers and be done."
"That's too bad," I said. "What happened?"
"All the old cliches. He cheated, I caught him, he swore he would change. I realized when I found women's panties in his dirty hamper that he would never change. And you? Still a devoted bachelor?"
At 33, I had never married or even come close. I had commitment issues and never had the urge to settle down. "Yes. Probably til I die a lonely, bitter old man."
I knew Cheryl and Chris never had kids, so at least that part of her separation was easier. I couldn't imagine giving someone 10 years and having it end.
We had a few drinks and I enjoyed catching up with Cheryl. We had grown up living near one another and had gone to school at the same schools. After I graduated and went to college, we slowly drifted apart, which was sad. I forgot what a big part of my life she had been and it was great to see her again after so long.
"So, you look really different," I ventured.
"That's right! Last time you saw me I was a fat cow!"
I laughed at her candor. "Well, a little bigger," I admitted.
"No, sweets, I was fat." I smiled at her calling me sweets. She had called me that from the time she was seven all through school. "I was miserable, my husband was cheating on me and I just let myself go. I ate my sorrow away one pint of ice cream at a time. Chris decided he wanted me to go blonde, so on top of the weight gain I looked like a bleach blonde heifer. About two years ago I started letting my hair go back and exercised and dieted. It took a while, but I finally got my self-esteem back and was happy again."
"Good for you."
We were both feeling little or no pain, and I was enjoying our talk. She came out of left field with her next question, and it took me a minute to answer her.
"Do you remember the night of my graduation party?" she asked.
When she graduated high school, I had just finished my freshman year at ASU. I came home the week before and after watching her walk, we went to her house for her party. My aunt and uncle were the "cool" parents, and alcohol flowed freely as long as the kids didn't drive and had their parents permission to drink. They even rented two limousines to drive kids home. I planned on staying over in the spare room, so I drank heavily.
Her question brought back a lot of memories of that night. "Yes," I said, "I remember. We haven't ever discussed it, have we?"
"No," she said, her cheeks flushing a little.
At the party, we had a lot of fun. Cheryl had even set me up with one of her extremely cute friends, and the friend and I had spent some time in a quiet corner of the backyard making out. Before I could seal the deal and get laid, the friend had thrown up and we had to send her home in one of the limos. Much later, after everyone had left and my aunt and uncle had gone to bed, Cheryl and I had sat on her back patio and talked for a long time.
Eventually, we had started rough-housing like we had when we were kids, and that is where the night turned into one of the most erotic experiences of my life. Prior to that night, I had never viewed Cheryl as a woman, despite her obvious attractiveness. Other than a passing glance noticing her beauty and body, I never considered her as anything other than my cousin.
She had ended up in my lap, trying to get at my ticklish spots. I was trying to get her back, when I realized I was hard and my cock was pushing into her ass as she squirmed on top of me. My hesitation at our game made her realize what was going on between us, and we stopped and stared at each other. The 18 year old Cheryl was suddenly a beautiful woman in my arms, and my body realized it before my mind ever did.
I expected her to jump off in disgust, but she stayed there, and subtly ground her ass against me. As I said before, she had long, curly, dark brown hair, set off by glacial blue eyes. Her lips were full and sensuous, and I noticed she was more beautiful than I had ever realized. Her body was a work of art, with small, pert breasts, a flat, toned stomach and an ass to die for. She played volleyball all through school and had an athlete's grace to match her perfect physique.
"Is that..." she started, then blushed deeply.
"I am so sorry, Cheryl. I swear I didn't mean for that to happen."
"Shhh. No, sweets, don't apologize." She squirmed a little and my cock settled in between her round cheeks and fit into the contour of her ass perfectly. In that moment, I knew I should move away, but when she leaned I towards me, I met her and we kissed. It was the best kiss I ever had, and we naturally fell into a rhythm unlike any I had experienced.
We stopped and looked each other in the eye, and started kissing again, this time with an urgency. My hands slid down and cupped her ass, and I lifted her and began to slowly thrust my cock against her pussy. She moaned softly and rode me, stroking my clothed cock with her body. As she took over, I unbuttoned her shirt and pushed her bra over her tits, gazing at her perfect breasts with the dark areola and proudly jutting nipples. When I touched them, she moaned again.
"God, that feels so good," she said softly.
We continued and I sucked her nipples as she continued to tease me with her lower half. We adjusted positions and she reached down and grasped my cock through my jeans, stroking it slowly as I played with her breasts. After a few minutes I unbuttoned her pants and tugged them down enough to give me access. I slid my hand into her pants and under her panties. She had a little hair, and when my hands slid past her tiny bush, it found pure wetness. I rubbed her and she pulled my hand closer as I slipped a finger inside her.
"I want you,"'she said. "I want you to be my first."
It was those words that caused me to stop and think and it was those words that sent us on a path that damaged our relationship.