This is the final chapter of Morning Wood. When I first published this story I got some complaints about the fact that after the first few chapters it becomes less and less of an Incest story. One of the major complaints was that the two main characters never actually had sex. I changed some of that, but I could not bring myself to change the story so drastically as to have Guinne and Art stay together. I feel that this story is their story, and though it may disappointed some to have it end this way, I feel it is the most honest way to have it end.
Ch 7: Meeting at Mother's
Art frowned at the name on his cell phone, his mother calling him again, ever since he had told her he was sort of seeing somebody she'd been hounding him to bring her to the dinner. He sighed and pressed the receive button.
"Hey mom, I'm a little busy at the moment, do you need something?"
"Oh, too busy to talk with your mother, I understand, perhaps I could go die and then maybe you'd have time to come to my funeral?"
"Mom, don't be so melodramatic, I'm just working, and I could have just pressed ignore, but I answered, because I love you."
"Fine, fine, are you bringing that nice young girl to dinner yet? Guinne is bringing her roommate, so it won't be like it's just the three of us and her, she won't feel so pressured."
Art rolled his eyes, "I'll ask her Mom, but I can't promise she'll say yes."
"I suppose that'll be good enough, I'll see you Friday then."
"Love ya mom, see you then," Art hung up, sighing at the phone and dialing June, it took a few rings before she picked up.
"Hey bug," came her voice on the other end of the phone.
"Hey hon, you know that dinner this Friday? Mom keeps asking me to invite you, I know it's still early in our relationship, and I hate asking, but she's being really persistent, so I promised I'd at least ask. It's up to you though."
"Hmmm," there was a long pause, and he knew she was tugging at her hair, trying to decide.
"You're gonna pull that chunk out if you don't stop doing that," Art said, smiling.
"Hrmph, you're not supposed to know my habits that well yet!"
"Err... Sorry? We talk a lot babe and you do that any time you're thinking about something really hard."
"I'm thinking about something really hard right now," June said with a giggle.
"We're both at work, get your mind out of the gutter," Art tried to sound scolding, but it came out as him kind of laughing in the end.
"Alright, alright, I'll go with you Friday. I have a feeling I'm gonna have to meet your family sometime and I might as well get it over with now."
Art wrinkled his nose a little, he had kind of hoped that she would say no, but it was her right to say yes and it would make his mother very happy. "Alright, I'll let her know then, I better get back to work and you prolly aught to as well."
"I suppose I should at that. You should break your computer so I can come out there though, bye!" She giggled and hung up before he had a chance to respond. He shook his head, setting his phone back on his desk and looking at his computer. Now it was time to email his mother about June coming.
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Guinne frowned at her laptop, and wrinkled her nose a little, "We're gonna have company at my family dinner, Art is bringing that girl he started seeing. June," she said looking over at Maria, who was at her own computer.
"Okay," Maria said, glancing back at Guinne but then returning to her homework. She seemed rather intent it, and Guinne grunted softly in frustration, and turned back to her laptop. Maria blinked and turned to look at Guinne for a moment, realizing that she had wanted more than just an 'okay'. Homework could wait, Maria supposed, as she crawled out of her chair and on to the bed next to Guinne.
"You okay with that?" Maria asked, running her hand up and down Guinne's spine gently.
"I guess, I dunno, it just feels weird," Guinne had opened up a lot to Maria in the last weeks, telling her about her fixation with Art, her morning habits when she was younger, everything. It had felt good to get it all out, and Maria had been understanding and willing to listen.
"I'm sure it'll be alright Guinne, I know it will be weird, seeing him with her, and ... not being able to be like that with me in front of him."
"I'm just not ready to tell my mother yet, you know I want to, and you know I'm not ashamed of you, I-"
"Shush, I wasn't trying to get in an argument or anything, I was trying to be helpful," Maria kissed Guinne lightly on the tip of her nose. "It'll be fine, I'll be there to help you through it, just remember this is as good for you as it is for him, okay?"
"Okay," Guinne smiled as she said the last words, their paired green eyes locking for a moment and then Guinne pushed forward and closed her eyes as their lips locked together. Maria made a soft sound of pleasure in her throat as she returned the kiss.
It was a long few moments before they broke a part, both grinning, "As much as I want to roll you over and do naughty things to you, I really gotta get my homework done," Maria said with a faint sigh as she rolled away and on to her feet. "It's due in like 2 hours and I'm not even close."
Guinne pouted at her but nodded, "Alright, I'll get back to mine as well I guess."
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Friday rolled around, and Art was pretty busy at work. So it was a bit late when he went to grab June at her desk, an hour past 'close', and fifteen minutes before they were supposed to be at his mother's, which was a twenty minute drive if there was no traffic. He knocked at her office door and hearing her call 'come in' pushed the door open.
"Hey bug!" June said with a grin, coming around the desk and nearly tackling him, as she kissed him hard on the lips and squeezed him tightly.
"Hey June," Art replied with a grin when he was able. "We're gonna be late, we should get going."
"Alright, let me grab my jacket and save what I was working on."
Art nodded to her words and dropped down into the chair by her door. Her office was cluttered with computer parts, towers in various states of completion and monitors. On her desk sat her collection of action figures, from various animes and on the wall was a poster for Trigun. The company gave everyone a lot of freedom as far as that sort of thing went and being in IT she had even more, since nobody from outside the company ever came down here.
"Alright, let's go," June smiled at him, offering her hand as she waited by the door. He took it as he stood slipping out into the hallway, she paused to lock her office up and then they headed for the elevator.
"We could still call this off you know, go do something else," Art said looking over at her as they waited for the elevator.
"Am I really that awful?" June teased.
"No, but my family can be," Art said chuckling softly, "You're the first girl I've ever brought home June. It's going to be awkward for both of us, trust me."
"I'll manage bug, I promise," he smiled at her words, kissing her cheek lightly.
"Alright, well, I better call and let mom know we'll be late."
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Guinne picked up the phone, "Hey Art, mom's busy in the kitchen; she's making your favorite of course. So, bringing a girl home, I hear," Guinne was grinning, as she teased her brother. She knew she was using humor to deflect the emotions that were warring within her.
"Alright, well, will you let her know we're gonna be a bit late? I was swamped at work, so we're just leaving now and traffic prolly isn't the best at this hour. I would expect us in half an hour to forty-five minutes. As for the other comment, you can keep your teasing inside, thank you very much."
"Ahhh, behave? I suppose I can try."
"That doesn't sound too promising, I'll see you soon sis."
Guinne made a face at the phone as she hung it up, calling into the other room, "That was Art mom! He said they're running late, work was busy he'll be here in an hour." Okay, he'd said a bit earlier, but this way mom could compensate for dinner better, she knew how her mom's mind worked.
"Alright, Maria is helping me with the pie, she's quite helpful like that, I hope you're having fun out there on your computer."
Guinne sighed, rolling her eyes, her mother could be such a pain in the ass. She got up from the couch and headed into the kitchen, looking around. Maria was taking a pie out of the oven, that her mother had done all the work on, and made an 'I'm sorry' look at Guinne as she stepped into the room.
"I'm sure I could help in some way mom, why don't you tell me what I can do?"
"Oh, I'm sure me and Maria can handle it all, I know she drove all the way out here to help her roommate's mother with cooking, I mean, it's not like she has better things to do on a Friday, right?"
Maria blinked, not used to Guinne's mom, Guinne gave her an apologetic look of her own this time and then moved over to the sink, "It looks like this salad needs to be made, so why don't I go ahead and work on that? Maybe Maria, since she's not busy now that the pie is out of the oven, can help me chop some vegetables and you can do whatever it is you're doing at the stove over there."
"Well, if you really think you can peel yourself away from Facebook for ten minutes I guess it would be a help."
Maria couldn't help but giggle softly at that, as she came over to start helping Guinne.
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