I went through my usual morning routine. I got up, fed the cat, took a shower and ate breakfast. What to do next? Channel surf and try to find something interesting to watch? Surf the web for a bit? Call my friends and see if they were up to anything interesting? Watch one of the over 200 movies I had on DVD and Blu-Ray? Or find out who just rang my doorbell? That last one. Definitely that last one.
I looked out through the peephole to see a good looking woman on the other side of the door. I just hoped she wasn't selling something. I opened the door.
"Hey, what can I do for you?" I asked.
She stood about my height, had shoulder length jet black hair, big brown eyes, and a look on her face that was a mix of surprise and confusion. She looked even better without the peephole distorting her features. In fact she was probably one of the most beautiful women I'd ever seen. Top 3 definitely.
"Um... I'm looking for Paul Reynolds." she finally said when she regained her composure. "Does he live here?"
"If you're looking for my ol' man, you're five years too late." I said, "I'm his son, Tommy."
"Oh," she said, looking disappointed, her whole face seemed to fall when I said that. It was only then I noticed the suitcase behind her.
"What did you want with my dad?"
She looked back up at me, "Well, this is kind of odd, my name is Carol Stevens and I think I'm your sister."
My what now?
"I think maybe you'd better come in." I said, stepping aside.
She picked up her suitcase and stepped into my apartment.
"Have a seat," I said, gesturing to the couch as I closed the door behind her. She took a seat on the couch and I joined her. "So, maybe we should start at the beginning. You're my sister?"
"Well, half-sister I guess, but yeah." she said. "My mother recently passed away, and shortly before she died she told me about my biological father. She got a friend of hers to do some internet research who was able to figure out this might be the most likely address for him."
My parents had moved into the apartment shortly after I was born and had lived there ever since. I found out after my mother died that they had left the apartment to me, so I moved back in. I'm guessing that somehow the research her mother's friend did had this listed as the last known address for my father.
Now I won't bore you with the nearly hour long conversation we had, but between what her mother had told her, what I vaguely remember my father telling me (on the rare occasions I asked him what his life was like before he met my mother), and a bunch of old pictures here's what we figured out.
My father dated Carol's mother, Ellen, for about a year and a half. She showed me a picture of the two of them. That was my father all right, I'd know that smile anywhere. They split up when my grandmother got sick, and since my grandparents were divorced, it was up to my father to go back home and take care of her. However, he left Ellen with a parting gift. Carol. Only neither of them realized it at the time, as best we could figure my father got Ellen pregnant at least a week before he left to take care of his mother. Since he was more concerned with taking care of my grandmother, he never got back in touch with Ellen, and since she had no idea how to get in touch with my father (this was the mid 1980's, the internet wasn't a thing yet), she turned to her family for help during her pregnancy. Shortly after Carol's first birthday, Ellen met a man named Doug, who she married a few months later. Doug had no problem becoming a father to Carol, and as far as Carol was concerned, he was her father, as he was the only one she'd ever known.
Unfortunately, my grandmother passed away a few months after my father returned home to take care of her. A couple of months after that, he met my mother, and they dated for about a year and half before getting married. Carol noticed the time stamp on the wedding pictures and realized she would have been two years old at the time.
"And I was born two years later," I said, "So that would make you four years older than me, and since I just turned 31 a couple months ago, that would make you 35."
She smirked, "It's rude to ask a lady her age."
"But I didn't ask," I said, "I figured it out."
"Fair enough," she said laughing, "But, yeah, you're right, I'll be 35 in a couple months."
"Wow, so I guess you really are my sister. And all this time I thought I was an only child." I said.
"I know, freaky, right?" she said, smiling.
We looked over all the pictures she had bought with her, along with the ones I had.
"Do you mind if I ask how he died?" she asked.
"Heart attack," I said, looking at a picture of my father holding a one-year old me. "He'd had heart problems for a while, and one day, it just hit him, and just like that, he was gone."
"What about your mother?" Carol asked.
"My mom passed away a couple years ago." I said, "She had a whole slew of medical problems, and it was too much for her body to take. What about your parents?"
"Well, like I said, my mother passed away a couple months ago, due to kidney failure. Dad was a pretty heavy smoker, he got lung cancer, and died about ten years ago."
"Why'd your mother wait so long to tell you about my father?"
"Well originally they were going to tell me right around the time my father was diagnosed with cancer, and they figured that wasn't the right time. After my father died, I was so broken up, my mother knew that wasn't the right time. After that I guess it just never came up again. When she got sick she finally told me. It was kind of jarring to realize the man I thought was my father was actually my stepfather. But as far as I'm concerned he'll always be my father. He raised me and took care of me, even though I wasn't biologically his."
"Sounds like you two were very close." I said.
She nodded, "We were. He was a good man. All that time and he never once treated me like anything other than his daughter. Not his stepdaughter, not some girl he had to deal with because he married my mother. He was for all intents and purposes my father."
I nodded, that made sense. "Any man can be a dad, but it takes a real man to be a father. I saw that on a t-shirt once."
"So, what does my little brother do for a living?" she asked, looking around at my apartment. "I don't mean to be rude, but this place must cost an arm and a leg."
"See that bookshelf over there?" I asked, pointing. "All those books on the top shelf; I wrote those."
She walked over to the bookshelf, and I couldn't help but to notice my sister had a nice ass. I admit I took a moment to admire it as she stopped and looked over the 10 science fiction books I had written over the last 12 years.
"Wow, 'Ride Into The Sun'? Wasn't that made into a movie with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones?" she asked, pulling out the first book I ever wrote.
I nodded, "I actually wrote that when I was 15, but it didn't get published until I was 19. I spent four years re-writing it because I hated the original draft, the plot and characters were paper thin, it was filled with grammatical and spelling errors, and it was only about 70 pages long. So I beefed up the plot, added a couple of subplots, put in a ton of character development, fixed all the grammar and spelling errors, and expanded it to nearly 400 pages. Once I did all that my parents convinced me to shop it around. Only one literary agent was willing to take a chance on me, and she's represented me ever since."
She looked over the books again. "You wrote 'The Smuggler' too? That was a movie with Dwayne Johnson, right? Wow, my brother's famous!"
I laughed as she came back over to join me on the couch, "Not really, I had nothing to do with those movies other than writing the books they were adapted from, but I did make a nice chunk of change licensing out the rights to them."
As she walked back over to me, my cat emerged from the bedroom and meowed at her.
"And who is this?" she asked, kneeling down to pet him. As she did, her shirt hung open a bit, and my eyes were instantly drawn to the slight curves of her breasts before they disappeared into her bra. From what I could see, my sister also had nice tits. I felt the blood rushing to my dick, so I adjusted myself while she was preoccupied with the cat and averted my eyes when she looked back up at me.
"That lazy lump of fur is Ash," I said.
"Well hello Ash." she said as he sniffed at her outstretched hand.
"He likes you." I said as Ash let her pet him. "He usually hates strangers."
She gave the cat a scritch, and returned to the couch. Ash wandered into the kitchen. "So do you just write sci-fi?"
"Yeah. I've always been interested in it. It sells, so obviously other people like it too, so I keep at it. I can usually knock out a book in about 4-5 months. I just sent off my latest manuscript to my editor yesterday. So what about you? What does my big sister do for a living?"
"I'm a massage therapist." I raised an eyebrow and she laughed, I could see a little of my father in her when she did. "Not like that, it's all above board and professional. I'm certified and licensed and I work out of a medical office, not some seedy massage parlor. My clients are athletes, dancers and people who work physically demanding jobs."
"Sorry, I didn't mean to imply..."
"It's okay," she said, waving it off, "I get it all the time. It's why we prefer to call ourselves massage therapists instead of masseuses. If you don't mind, can I have something to drink?"
"Oh, of course," I said, getting up. "Lemme go see what I've got in the fridge. I don't have much since I don't have many guests. I got some ice tea, Coke and beer."
"I'll take a soda."
I grabbed a couple cans and headed back to the living room to see Ash had made himself comfortable in my spot.