Since I was a little kid and just after my baby sister was born, I have had a fantasy about suckling on a woman’s pregnant breast and drinking the warm sweet milk that I could draw out. I think it all started when I was about 12 years old and was walking past the nursery and heard my mother singing softly to my new baby sister. Christine was only about 2 months old and Mom had decided to breast feed the baby rather than use the bottle.
The door was ajar and I watched as Chris hungrily sucked at Mum’s nipple. I couldn’t see much but I think at that time; I might even have been a little jealous of my baby sister.
Flash forward now; it is some 20 odd years later and I am a 34-year-old once-divorced man. I teach English literature at a very small western college (nowhere near the ivy league that my ex wife expected me to attain). I suppose that’s why she decided to leave me; I am truly satisfied with living in a small college town and enjoy working with small classes and most of my students. The salary isn’t spectacular but I manage well enough to have my own small three-bedroom home on a couple of acres. I even have a nice grove of trees with a shallow pond sitting in the middle of it. How “On Walden’s Pond” can you get?
I have close remained close with my sister who lives in the city some six hours drive away. She married fairly early at 20 but still wanted to get a kick-start on her career as a journalist. She and her husband Dave did not plan on starting a family for at least five to seven years to allow them to settle in as a couple. As we all know, the best-laid plans often don’t work out and, within six months, she was pregnant. This did not sit well with Dave and he wanted her to have an abortion but Chris refused; she wanted the baby in spite of her plans. Well, they fought about it for about three months and Dave finally gave her an ultimatum – get rid of the baby while there was still time or he was out of there! I never did like that man from the day I met him two years before the wedding; he always
did
strike me as selfish and self-centred. We found out later that he had moved in with his young secretary only weeks after he left so my feelings were bourn out.
When Chris called his bluff, he was out of the door and had served her with divorce papers within a couple of days. Although he agreed to child support, he offered no alimony. Unbeknownst to me, Dave came from money and had a prenuptial agreement drawn up for Chris to sign before they married. My poor sister was so ‘in love’ she never even gave a thought to a divorce. She was in this marriage for a lifetime.
Since they had been living in a rather posh apartment and the lease was in Dave’s name, his lawyer served notice on poor Chris that she had to vacate the premises within two weeks. Since our parents had been killed in a winter car accident only two years ago and there were no other siblings, I called Chris and asked if she would like to come and stay with me at least until she got on her feet. She broke into tears of relief and asked how soon she could come; she couldn’t stand the city anymore. Of course, I said, “As soon as you can get here”.
Living in the small town where everything was within walking distance, I had long ago sold my car and just biked to work. Therefore I couldn’t drive down to the city but Chris said she would come on the bus since she had little luggage to carry. I agreed to pick her up at the bus station the next day in our one cab in the town. Meanwhile, I busied myself fixing up one of my two extra bedrooms for Chris. I figured that if the baby came along while she was here, we could always fix up the third bedroom (it was pretty small) as a nursery.