"So, care to explain what I just walked in on out there?"
I looked from my mother to my sister and back again, not sure of what to say. The truth was that she had stepped outside onto the porch, right as I was about to shoot a load of sperm all over my sister's face! Obviously, I couldn't tell mom this... I had finally resigned myself to make something up, if only to save my dear sister, when Catie spoke up herself.
"It was my idea, mom. Once I got the letter saying that I had been accepted to college, I mean obviously I was excited, but I was really nervous, because I don't have any experience with... well, anything. so, I asked Riley if I could try with him, but I never really gave him a chance to say no, and, well... yeah..."
As my sister trailed off on her sentence, I tried to make it look like as though this was all familiar with me. To say I was shocked with her outburst would have been a severe understatement! Our mother, however, didn't seem to be buying it, as her eyes kept flickering between the two of us. She took a deep breath, and I could tell that she was weighing her next words very carefully.
"OK, look... I'm still not sure exactly what's going on between the two of you, and part of me is saying I probably don't want to know. I'm also not going to pretend like I'm happy with it, because I'm not. For Christ sake, you're brother and sister! At the same time, though, you're not only both adults, but you're both still experimenting. At least you're not actually having sex or anything-" (I made a nearly audible gasp at this point!) "-just do me a favor. If you really insist on continuing with this kind of behavior... don't let me walk in on it?"
Catie and I both got sheepish grins on our faces, and got up to head down the hallway to our seperate rooms. Just when I was ready to let out a sigh of relief for getting off the hook, though, our mother cleared her throat to give us one last piece of advice;
"Don't tell your father."
*****
"Riley... hey, Riley, wake up. I need to talk to you about something... Riley!"
I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and rolled over to look at my clock: 2:30AM. If I hadn't known that it was my beautiful sister trying to wake me up, I probably would have punched the person full-on in the face. I had to fight back a groan as it was as I sat up, running a hand through my hair in an attempt to get it to lay flat... no such luck.
"Hey, Catie... what are you doing in here so early? If mom knew what you were doing right now, she'd probably chew both of us out..."
"That's why I'm in here now, dummy; I wanted to wait until after mom and dad were asleep so they wouldn't get suspicious." I felt her get up off the bed, and before I had a chance to react, the lights in my room came blazing to life, forcing me to move my entire arm across my eyes to shield them.
"Sorry, guess I should have warned you... anyways, I wanted to talk to you about what happened with mom earlier tonight. I was really uncomfortable lying to her about that, considering what we've said about telling them eventually. At the same time, though..."