I apologise for how long it took to submit this chapter. I actually finished writing a while ago, but the sex scene was too bland, so I had to redo the whole thing starting from the dance in the club. I just got myself a job so the next chapter might be a while, but I promise there will be a next chapter.
I didn't use an editor this time, but I re-read my work repeatedly to make sure there were no errors. That's not to say there won't be mistakes, you'll just have to forgive any mistakes you find. Also I'll advice you to read the previous chapters, although if you don't it won't make you understand this chapter any less.
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All the characters in this chapter are 18 or older. This story and all its characters are fictional. And although it contains incest, I do encourage incest in any way.
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I woke up at about 4 P.M; my head was still aching. Although the sharpness of the pain had reduced, I still felt like my head might split in half if I didn't take care of it soon. So I dragged myself off the couch to dad's office and took two aspirin. I felt its healing effect immediately.
The question of why I was so emotional after I got back home from mom's office still nagged at me, but I decided to ignore it seeing as how an answer was not forthcoming. Instead I focussed on more pressing things, like how I was going to survive the one week left before I went back to school.
I was looking forward to getting away from all the craziness, escape to my own personal sanctuary: school. To resume my life with friends who had travelled to be with family or others who had just travelled to have fun. God! The trip to Hawaii I was invited on by a close friend sounded so good at that moment. Of course dad said no when I asked him because he knew mom would blow a fuse if she found out he'd let me go on a cool trip with friends.
I felt like a zombie just standing there in dad's office. I was lost and confused; it was like everything I knew up until that point had been one giant lie. My life as I knew it was ending, at least that's how I felt and I didn't even know why.
I knew mom was cheating on dad; there was no surprise there. I knew my parents would eventually get divorced, although I have to admit I didn't expect it to happen so soon. What surprised me however was how much effect my lying, cheating mother still had on me. I was certain I was immune; I was the person who had a cold hearted bitch as a mother but didn't care because he was immune to all her hate.
All it took for me to realise otherwise was a trip to her office and her reminding me that she would never love me. I guess I forgot at some point how it felt every time she was less than loving. Well now I remembered and I didn't care how I was going to do it, but I was going to make her pay.
Why bring a child into the world if you couldn't love it? I knew she had me at a young age, but if she felt she wasn't capable of raising me there were other options. My presence in her life didn't exactly change anything. She had to leave school for a couple of months when she was pregnant with me, but after she gave birth she was back in school studying law as she had always planned.
She couldn't feel any resentment towards me because of that. She didn't even have to skip classes to take care of me, I nursed on my maternal grandmother till I was old enough to stop. To say I was lucky she still produced breast milk would be an understatement; it was practically a miracle.
So it's not as if my birth destroyed her life. She didn't have to drop out of school, she didn't have to raise me on her own, my father did not bail on her when he found out she was pregnant. So I didn't understand why she hated me so much.
My hatred on the other hand was understandable, in fact it was well deserved. One could even call it self-preservation, mum hated me and treated me like the enemy, to survive and protect my heart from unnecessary heartache I had to hate her, a tactic that evidently didn't work.
I was still in dad's office, in my reverie when the sound of my phone ringing brought me back to reality. The caller I.D showed that it was Ashley calling; I wondered why she would be calling me at this time.
"Hello."
"Michael I need you to come get me, please," She said, she sounded hysterical.
I guess that even though I was having an emotional crisis, I was still a good brother who couldn't ignore the voice of his sister crying out for help. "Calm down, where are you?"
"Club 69, do you know where it is?" she asked, she sounded like she was crying.
"Yeah, relax okay. I'll be there as soon as I can," I said, already heading out the door in a hurry.
I saw Ashley standing outside the club and she headed towards my car as soon as she saw me pull up. One glance at her and it was obvious what she was doing here. I don't know if it's all that's been happening with me lately, but I remember thinking she was hot as she was walking towards my car.
When she got in I could tell immediately that she had been crying, her make-up was all messed up. "You look like crap," I said with a teasing smile, and she playfully punched my arm, "So what happened?" I asked eager to know why she called me of all people.
"Colin and I broke up," she said, staring straight ahead as if she would start crying again if she looked at me.
"Oh," was all I said as I started the car and drove away.
I have never seen my sister so vulnerable before, she looked like she might shatter into a million pieces if I said or did the wrong thing. As I drove I could tell she was fighting the tears. It was a very quiet drive, but that all changed as soon as I asked, "So what happened between you two? It sounded like you were really into him on the phone."
The dam broke then, the tears just kept pouring, "I don't want to talk about it," she said in-between sobs.
I felt like an idiot, there was nothing I could say to console her, and I wanted to console her so much. I wanted to show her somehow that she would be fine, that everything would be okay. But all I did instead was pull her towards me and wrap my arm around her shoulder. She rested her head on my shoulder and sobbed quietly for a minute or so.
When I pulled up to our old house, I saw the black Porsche parked in the drive-way. Obviously mum was home, and so was Josh. The protective instincts of a brother in me must have kicked in, because suddenly I didn't want Ashley going anywhere near the house. And so I blurted out, "Hey Ash, it's only 5. Wanna go do something fun?"
She looked at me funny and I wondered if she had somehow guessed my intentions. If there was one thing I knew about my baby sis it's that she hated being shielded from things. Even as a kid she'd always yell she could take care of herself whenever I tried to help her fight her battles. She was very feisty, much like mum.
"Uhm—fun like what?" she asked, her brows were furrowed which meant she was thinking hard.
"I don't know—we could go to a movie or something." She gave me a weird look, as if I had an alien standing on my head or something. And so I quickly added, "look I just feel really uncomfortable leaving you like this, besides I've wanted to hang-out with you for a while now."
"Look Mike I'll be fine okay. I promise I won't be shedding anymore tears for that jackass," she said as she proceeded to get out of the car.
I was becoming desperate now, searching for an excuse to keep her away from the house. And so I said, "Well sure you'll be fine, but you'll feel great after a bowl of ice-cream."
My sister had a weakness for ice-cream, still does. I knew she couldn't resist the offer; she wouldn't even try to unless she really did not want to spend time with me, which I was sensing was the case.
"Alright fine, but you better prepare for your wallet to lose a lot of its fat," she said with a broad smile.
I know I was only trying to get her away from the house, but when she smiled it felt incredible. She looked heavenly when she smiled, and in that moment I loved her more than life itself. In that moment she was the little girl I remembered from my childhood, my baby sis before she became sarcastic and contemptuous.
In that moment she was the little girl who loved to go hunting for sea shells with me whenever we were at the beach. She was the little girl who would always scream my name when ever she heard the sound of thunder. She was the girl who once asked me to marry her, the little girl who cried for days when I told her we couldn't get married. I loved that little girl.
That little girl wasn't so little anymore, she was all grown-up now. She was usually sarcastic, although I liked that about her. She was condescending, although I guess most girls as beautiful as her usually were. But now she couldn't care less about her brother. Now everything I did only embarrassed her. Now I was the dumb brother who could never understand what she was going through, so she wouldn't bother talking to me.