Author's Note: Happy Mother's Day to all. All characters older than eighteen.
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Kasey calmly sipped her tea as Hunter burst into her apartment and began efficiently swiping things off her table. She winced as something shattered on the floor, but just sighed and took another sip.
It was Mother's Day Eve, after all. Her brother always got a bit squirrely as the day approached. Had done for years, ever since some new family traditions had arisen when he was eighteen. Or maybe nineteen. Kasey couldn't remember exactly.
Arguably, years later and now in their mid to late twenties, both of them should have been more grown up and mature individuals. That had yet to properly manifest. Despite occasionally flaunting her elder status, Kasey wasn't always any more mature than her little brother.
"I got a map," Hunter declared, unrolling a large sheet of paper on the now empty table.
But then, sometimes he made it easy to look like the saner one.
"Well done you."
"So I thought we-"
"Why?"
Hunter stopped and turned his head, blinking slowly. "Why what?"
"Why did you get a map?"
"It's of Alex's house. I found a satellite view and recreated it in a more basic format so it'd be easier to print. Then I-"
"Why?"
"Well... Alex is Mom's new boyfriend. She-"
"Hunter, dearest brother, why the fuck do we need a map?"
Again, Hunter stopped and had to really think about the question. "I don't get to print maps very often," he mumbled.
"Aaannnd?"
"And the girl at the print shop's cute."
"There it is." Kasey leaned over the map. "So what good is this? Couldn't you just have shown me the picture you found if we really needed it?"
"Well... she's really, really cute."
"Got it." Kasey nodded and sipped some more tea. "So fine. Use the map. What very important things do you need to tell me?"
"Well Mom said she wanted us to meet Alex."
"I know. She told me."
"But... but it's Mother's Day."
"I know this too."
"That's our day."
"Well-"
"Our traditions. You know."
"Fair enough."
"So I don't think we can stop Alex coming over, but maybe we just delay him a while. Get our traditions out of the way before we have to meet this guy."
"He's probably nice," Kasey said. "I assume."
"Yeah, I know. He probably is. That's not the point. Are you with me or not?"
Kasey tapped her mug thoughtfully. "Mother's Day is important," she admitted. "It seems weird that Mom would pre-empt it like this. Meeting her new boyfriend instead."
"I know, right?"
"Maybe she doesn't want her wishes this year?"
Hunter shook his head firmly. "It's tradition," he insisted. "For years now."
"Yeah, I know. I'm with you. Mom would have said if she didn't want the usual for some reason. She's known us long enough not to take chances with something like this."
"That's what makes this whole thing so weird," Hunter said, looking down at his map again. "She didn't say anything about it one way or the other. Just... just that Alex would be coming over and she wants us all to get to know each other."
"You know much about him?"
"Not a thing."
"Yeah, me either. Don't know what the secrecy's about."
Hunter shook his head, slightly irritated. "Doesn't matter. Maybe he's cool, maybe not. Not the point. We delay him."
"Delay. Right. With the map?"
"No, with... I mean, here's his driveway, right?" Hunter said, pointing at the map.
"Sure."
"So his car'll be there. And we can just... make sure he has a flat."
"Ah. Is that strictly legal?"
"No reason he'd ever know it was us."
"That's a no, then." Kasey took another sip of her tea. "What other Home Alone shit do you have planned?"
"I thought about locking him in, but-"
"Locking him in?"
"Yeah."
"To his own house?"
"Right, well-"
"To which he presumably has the key? Nevermind that from the inside he can just... unlock the door."
"I was gonna say it wouldn't work, if you'd stop interrupting."
"Fine. What else?"
"Well... we lock Mom's place after we're in."
Kasey sighed and sat down. "Did you get a map printed so you could point at the driveway and say 'there's probably a car there'?"
"... and because this girl is-"
"Yeah, yeah. Super cute girl at the print shop. Got it. If you need an excuse that badly, let me know next time and I'll get you to print me a large novelty copy of my grocery list or something."
"Why would you need that?"
Kasey stared crookedly at her brother. "The same reason you needed this map. For an excuse to chat this girl up."
"I don't chat her up."
"Then... then what-"
"She's at work. I'd feel bad hitting on her there."
"You're really something, Hunter."
"In a good or a bad way this time?"
"Don't know yet. Meet you there tomorrow morning?"
Hunter nodded. "Early."
"Yeah, of course early. You're not even setting traps with remote control cars and buckets of glue over doors. I can't see us getting much delay out of any of this."
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Kasey was getting impatient the next morning by the time Hunter rolled up. She was parked on the street outside their mother's house, and Hunter pulled up just in front of her.
"Took you long enough," she said.
Hunter shrugged. "I had to swing by and delay Alex."
"Yeah, I know. But how long does that take?"
"Well... I had to look up how to let air out of tires without causing damage. That took some time."
"Really? You printed a giant, useless map, but didn't look that up beforehand?"
"I've had a lot on my mind. There's a lot of planning involved, you know."
"Not really. We could just show up like normal. No planning to that, really."
"You just don't take this seriously enough sometimes."
Kasey grinned and ruffled Hunter's hair. "Hey, I'm here, aren't I? I want Mom to have her happy Mother's Day just as much as you do."
"I know."
"You just gotta chill a little. It's gonna be good."
Hunter grinned back cautiously. "It is, isn't it?"
"Definitely. We're good at this."
"Yeah we are."
Kasey started toward the house. "Come on."
Hunter nodded and tagged along just behind her.
Kasey used her copy of the house key to unlock the door, then locked it again once they were in. They crept through the dark house lit only by the dawn's light breaking through the windows.
As they'd hoped, Lianna, their mother, was still snoozing in bed, totally oblivious.
"Think she's naked?" Hunter asked as he pulled off his shirt.
Kasey shrugged and slipped out of her jeans. "Probably. She knows how much harder it is not to wake her right away if she's wearing stuff."
The sneaky siblings shed their clothes without any fuss. Kasey glanced at her brother, then reached over and wrapped her fingers around his cock.
"Hey! What-"
"Shush," Kasey hissed. "You're not hard."
"Well I was gonna get there."
"I'm just helping."