Author's Note: All parties taking place in any sexual actions in this story are of legal age (18) or above. If you are not of legal age, or do not wish to read erotic material, please use the back button on your browser to leave this page. Similarly, if you are uncomfortable with incestuous relations, this is not the story for you. Everything in this series is completely fictitious.
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Stretching my arms above my head, it took me a moment to remember why there could be a warm body laying next to me in my bed, let alone why it was my sister. Then, memories of the past night came to me like something out of a movie - the DVD, fingering my sister, both of us admitting our love for each other. Yet for some reason, there was a part of me deep down that still felt like this was all wrong. I mean, I knew I loved her, more than I had ever loved anyone in my life. But couldn't that just be because I knew her so well? Wasn't it possible that I was mistaking simple brotherly love for the love of a man and a woman, destined to be together forever?
I rolled out of the bed, making sure not to disturb Catie's sleep as I dressed in a t-shirt, jeans, and running shoes. It had been a long-standing tradition of mine to go running early in the morning, more than anything to help me wake myself up. I never was a big coffee drinker, and while I wasn't necessarily grumpy right off the bat, I was always better after a good run and a nice shower. I was just heading out when I heard my sister grunting her disapproval of seeing me leave.
"I'll only be gone a little while, Catie. I'm just going out for my morning run, I won't be more than half an hour max, promise." I gave her a smile, not letter her say anything against it before I headed out. To be honest, I wasn't in the right mindset to get into a talk with her yet; maybe once I woke up properly, I could set my mind to figuring out how my heart was doing. For now though, I was leaving the talking to my feet.
Sure enough, just as Catie had mentioned the night before, both of the cars were gone from the driveway. I glanced at my watch, and noticed that it was already 7 o'clock - about an hour later than when I usually went for runs, but still pretty early. Feeling the cool morning air on my face, I started remembering how much I used to love our old neighborhood when I was a kid. I went down the street, naming off in my head all the old families that used to live around us. By this point the only ones that hadn't either moved or divorced were the Geoffersons, and I made a mental note to stop by there sometime this summer to see how they were getting along.
I reached the top of the first hill after about 5 minutes, and was surprised to feel a slight pain in my right foot. I stepped up onto the sidewalk, pulling off my shoe to see if I could figure out what was wrong. Apparently, it was time for me to get a new pair of running shoes, as the backs of my current ones were in such disrepair that they were cutting into my Achilles' tendon, practically rubbing it raw. I slipped off my other shoe and my socks, walking back home barefoot, and a little disappointed. I barely used any time running, and spent absolutely none of it thinking about the situation between myself and my sister.
Opening the front door as quiet as I could, I heard someone rummaging around in the kitchen, and sure enough it was Catherine in all her raven-haired beauty. Somehow, in the 15 minutes since I saw her last, she managed to get up, and had started fixing a breakfast for (I presumed) the two of us. She didn't hear me walk in, so I decided I'd sneak up behind her and surprise her. I wrapped my arms around her lithe frame, and once I was sure she wasn't holding anything in her hands, trapped her in a bear hug and started spinning her around the kitchen. I may have been a little skeptical about the previous night, but that didn't mean I couldn't keep us both in a good mood while I thought about it!
"Well, isn't somebody home early? What happened to Mr. 30-minute man, hmm?" Catie spun around in my arms, and didn't give me the chance to respond before laying the most soulful kiss on me that I'd ever experienced. It was even better than the one from the night before -- something I didn't even think possible! -- and ended all-too-quickly in my opinion. Still, just seeing the look on her face afterward was enough to make up for it.
"I'm, uhm..." I saw the corners of her mouth twitch, she was obviously enjoying the effect she was having over me. "I'm gonna need to get some new shoes before I go running again. The heels in these are worn out." I took a deep breath, trying to calm my nerves, something that was becoming increasingly more difficult the longer I looked at her.
"Goodie, that gives us a reason to go out shopping today! I was just making us up a little breakfast, just some pancakes and eggs, nothing special. Once we're both fed and cleaned up, we can figure out what we'll do with the rest of the day." It never ceased to amaze me how much of a morning person my sister was. Not even 20 minutes since she woke up, and she was making plans for the rest of the day, for the both of us!
"Well, while you finish making breakfast, I'm gonna head up and get a quick shower in." As soon as I said this, Catie's head spun around so fast I thought it was going to snap off her shoulders. I cocked an eyebrow, trying to figure out what could've brought upon that reaction. "You ok Cat?"
"Yeah, I just thought that we'd wait to shower until after breakfast..." She quieted down a bit, turning back to the skillet as she flipped over the pancakes. "You know... together?" She said the last part more hopefully than anything else, and by that point I was feeling about as tall as the pancakes we were getting ready to eat. Here I was, wondering if what we were doing was right or not, and all she cared about was spending as much time with me as she could. Little did I know I was going to make the next mistake right after the last one.
Catie had barely put the pancakes and eggs on the table when I sat down in the chair opposite her, and said those 5 little words that always seemed to lead to something horrible: "Catie, we need to talk."
She immediately slumped down in her chair, and I could see the tears starting to well up in her eyes. Oh no, I thought to myself, what am I doing? Catie's happier than I've ever seen her, and I'm going to sit here and stomp all over that just because of some stupid suspicions? But I knew deep down that it wouldn't be fair to keep this from her... and who knows, maybe once I got it off my chest, I'd feel better about the whole situation.
"Catie... what happened last night was nothing short of magical. I meant it when I told you last night that I've loved you for as long as I can remember, probably even longer. But we're siblings, and what we're doing is wrong!" I found myself involuntarily raising my voice, more out of anger at myself than anything else. "What do you think mom and dad would do if, God forbid, they found out? Not to mention our friends, the rest of our family, anyone! Brothers and sisters don't go around doing these things, not normal ones at least."
"Well who ever said we had to be normal? Look, Ri..." I could tell she was fighting to hold back her tears. "You may not realize it, but I could care less what mom, dad, or anyone says about us being together. Yes, I know it's not 'normal', that it's supposedly immoral and taboo. But I don't care about any of that! All I care about is my heart, and my feelings, and they're all telling me that you and I are meant to be together." She bowed her head down, swallowing back a sob before going on.
"Last night... last night was the culmination of months of planning for me. I've been trying to think of a way to tell you how I've felt about you, how to tell you how much I love you, but I could never find the words. And now, now that I finally know -- or rather, thought I knew! -- that you feel the same way about me, you're going to rip all that away from me because of what mom and dad think about it?!" Now it was her turn to raise her voice. "You know what I think about that?!" She was standing up at this point, and pounded her fist on the table, making me jump a bit. "FUCK mom and dad! I love you Riley, and I know you love me, but if you're going to let what other people think about us get in the way, then maybe... maybe..." She shook her head, walking off out of the kitchen without even finishing her sentence.
I sat there in shock for 5 minutes straight, just staring at the stack of pancakes sitting on the plate in the middle of the table. I knew that everything she said was right. Mom and dad, if they found out, would more than likely be a little skeptical, but I doubted that they'd completely lose it. I mean, they'd asked me before I left for college if I had ever 'done' anthing with Catie, and almost seemed surprised when I said no. And yet here I was, using petty excuses to ruin the best thing to ever happen to me. Sometime during this train of thought, I heard Catie's bedroom door slam shut, and a few seconds later the pounding beats of her stereo drowned out any other possible noises coming from there.
What stunned me the most was what she had said during her speech. Obviously, she wasn't quite as innocent as I thought she was -- she proved that to me last night. But as long as I'd known her, all 18 years of her life, I had never once heard her curse. Not while talking to her friends, not playing video games, not one single time. So for her to literally yell "FUCK mom and dad!" at the top of her lungs... that made me realize how stupid I was being. I stood up, running a hand through my hair, and wiped the solitary tear from my cheek before walking back to her room.