I sighed, and turned to face our mom. 'What the fuck are you doing?' Now, no longer in the public spotlight of the restaurant, she was furious. Or, perhaps, that was because she just caught her only son and daughter making out in public. I looked her up and down, taking her in properly for a moment. She was dressed up, which made the guy she'd gone back to even more confusing.
Wait a second, I realized. She shouldn't even be here. She lived clear across the country, easily a full day of flying - longer by car - away. "What are you doing here? I didn't know you were planning to visit," I asked, confused.
"It's a business trip," our mother curtly responded, the words quick. Almost, rehearsed. Stranger and stranger.
"Well..." I started, unsure of how to continue the conversation. "I don't think you need to worry about what is up between me and Kelly." I turned to Kelly, jerking my head toward the parking lot. "Let's just get out of here." As we turned away, I felt a hand grab my arm, gripping tightly. I shrugged it off, but it persisted and grabbed hold of me again. I turned back to find our mom on the verge of tears.
"You're both dressed up, at a fancy restaurant, holding hands... making out." She took a deep breath. "Are you... on a date?"
I could feel my head about to shake 'no', but at the last moment I froze. I felt not only mom's gaze on me, but also Kelly's. I couldn't lie, even if it was the smart thing, and say I wasn't on a date with my sister. "Yeah... I guess we are..." I mumbled, looking at the ground.
"Did... I do something wrong? For you two... to end up like this?"
The question took my breath away, and I paused in my tracks. Kelly clung to my side, her breath heavy and ragged in my ear. I glanced at her, watching her bite her lip aggressively. She was fighting the insistent buildup of the broken vibrator that was still in her, trying her best not to cum in front of mom. I needed to wrap this up quickly, though something told me that was easier said than done.
"You didn't do anything wrong, mom." I sighed, rubbing my temple. "You wouldn't be asking me this if I started being with a childhood friend, someone I grew up around. Why does this have to be different?"
She sputtered, gesturing between the two of us. "Because... well... because you're siblings! You're related!"
I nodded, gesturing toward Kelly. "Yeah. The person who knows me best in the world, who would do anything to take care of me, who took me in entirely on her dime... what a shocker we'd get closer and closer, especially after--" I cut myself off, internally cursing myself.
My mother was immediately curious, looking between the two of us. "Do I want to know, 'after' what?"
Kelly let out a moan, seemingly without realizing it, as she opened her mouth to jump into the conversation. "Jake... protected me... he saved me, mom." She yelped as the buzzing got a bit louder - surely audible to our mother now - and clung to me tightly as though to encourage me to finish the story.
I looked my mom in the eyes. How to tell her everything that was going on? I guess, just from the beginning, like I would any other story. "You know that big fancy house Kelly lived in? The one I moved in to?" Our mother nodded, waiting for more details and something new to her. "Well, the reason Kelly was able to afford that was she had this guy paying for everything for her. Her house, her car, her clothes... everything. Except this guy was an asshole and wanted nudes of her and stuff to keep paying for everything, so Kelly decided to make some money selling nudes on the internet for random other people to pay her, so she wasn't dependent on this one asshole."
I paused for a moment, letting her take everything in. She tilted her head a few times, as if pondering the information. She gestured for me to continue.
"Well, when I moved in, I kinda... discovered that she was making porn of herself, and when she explained why, I started helping her with the photography and marketing and stuff, so that she'd make more money. Well, it really took off, and then the asshole guy wasn't happy about not being needed, so he tried to kidnap Kelly. So, I tried to fight him off--"
"Jake got beat up, a lot," Kelly interjected, to which I glared at her for a moment. Like, come on, mom didn't have to know I was that weak and pathetic.
"--Yeah, ok, he beat me up, but I called the cops and didn't let him get to Kelly. He's currently in jail, and we're ok. And now, thanks to Kelly's... adult content business, we've got enough money to live comfortably; even enough to come to a fancy restaurant like this. So... we've kinda just gotten closer and closer. Even..." I snuck a peek at my sister, "I don't know, we're a bit of a thing now."
Mom took a step back, looking us up and down. It looked like she was judging us, being critical of the life we'd been living. Finally, she sighed, shaking her head. "I really fucked up, huh?" I looked over at Kelly to find her as stunned as I was. "The money problems, this... stalker guy... everything. I should've been there to support you both, instead my son was beaten to a pulp and my daughter had to sell her body..."
I shook my head, and stepped forward toward our mom, Kelly following. I put my arms out, and mom quickly embraced the both of us, squeezing us close to her chest. "Look, mom... we just... couldn't tell you. How does someone tell their mom they're making porn? Or that they're starting to be with their brother?" Kelly softly whispered, trying to reassure her.