When Tony's family finally got home after their long Christmas break with Caitlin's family, Tony went straight to his room and went to sleep.
When he woke up, Tony played Call of Duty. He took breaks for lunch, for dinner, and to sleep, but always resumed playing.
He'd done the same routine each day. His mother had nagged him at first, his dad had yelled at him, but something about Tony's vacant gaze and uncaring manner made them give up and leave him alone.
After a while, the nagging stopped, and his parents let him continue his morose behavior. At least it's winter break, they reasoned to themselves. Let him get it all out now and we'll see how he handles going back to school again.
His parents had no idea what was wrong, because they had missed all the crazy drama from their trip to Caitlin's house. Tony had always been attracted to Caitlin, but they had always drawn firm boundaries with what was and was not acceptable behavior. On this past trip, he and Caitlin had flirted with each other, skirting the line, wandering right up to the edge of the unspoken standards that governed conduct between two cousins.
Then they had barreled right over it. Tony had sucked and fucked Caitlin, and she had welcomed it. He had fucked her in the ass, which she had not wanted. In her anger, she had retaliated by using his cell phone to text message Ms. Miller and tell her exactly what had happened.
And now, Tony was depressed. On some deep level, Tony felt that the greatest thing that had ever happened to him was his affair with Ms. Miller. She was his first partner, his first conquest, his first love.
And he had blown it.
Tony kept playing.
Didn't care, didn't want to think. First he beat one game, then another. Then he locked himself into a multiplayer online game.
Sleep, eat, play video games, eat, sleep. The cycle repeated itself. Four days passed like this, then five. Tony dimly understood that his parents would enter and leave the house, but didn't care to ask what was happening.
On the sixth day after had had returned from Caitlin's house, Tony became dimly aware that someone else was present in the house, someone different.
It was Caitlin. She sat next to him.
Tony didn't know how to react at first, and then acted as he had with everyone during the past week. He ignored her.
Caitlin's voice broke through the sound of clicking and explosions that filled the room. She said, "Your mom is letting me stay here for a bit. My school's winter break lasts another week."
Tony kept playing. He was working through the latest RPG.
After a while, Caitlin went away. Just like everyone else in my life, thought Tony miserably.
Over the next days, Tony tried to continue to ignore his cousin and play his games. He felt her presence, though, even when he was trying to tune out the world.
The guest bedroom and his bedroom were adjacent, so Caitlin and Tony shared a bathroom.
One morning, Tony had just rolled out of bed, and went to empty his bladder. The bathroom door was open, and Tony walked right in.
In the bathroom, Caitlin was apparently in the process of getting herself ready. She was bent over the sink. She was wearing only her underwear, and Tony got a brief glimpse of tight skin-colored lace panties before staggering out the door again.
Caitlin wasn't used to being ignored. As Tony went to his bed that night, he heard Caitlin emerge from the guest room. She was only wearing her panties and a t-shirt. Caitlin didn't say anything, but blocked Tony's way briefly along the narrow hallway above the bannister.
Despite himself, Tony found himself staring at her.
Though Caitlin's t-shirt was large, it couldn't quite hide the ample chest which Tony knew was there. Her panties were tight, white lacy affairs that covered the upper half of her butt. The panties displayed Caitlin's long, athletic legs. The lower globes of her ass were bare, and despite their size and fleshiness, didn't sag at all. Caitlin's ass was Tony's favorite part of her body.
Tony grunted, "Excuse me," and brushed past her.
On the afternoon of the third day, she stood up and moved between Tony and the television, but Tony just paused the game and stared at her, trying to will her to move. She was wearing a jean skirt with a light green blouse.
After a while, Caitlin said, "What are you playing?"
Tony pretended he hadn't heard, and asked her to move so that he could continue playing his game. He was now working his way through the newest version of Madden NFL football.
Then Caitlin said, "Can I play too?"
Tony didn't respond. After the game he was playing was finished, Caitlin picked up a controller and initiated a two-player game.
Tony didn't acknowledge her at all, but just continued to play as if he were matched against the computer.
During their first game, Caitlin lost 45-7. Then they played again, and she got beaten badly again, 63-10.
Somewhere, Tony felt a flicker of satisfaction at his victory. It felt good to repay his cousin in some small way for all the grief she had caused him.
Tony gave Caitlin a small smirk that signaled that she should go away and leave him alone.
Caitlin said, "Listen. I'll make you a bet. If you win, I'll leave you alone."
I'll kill her, he thought. She's never played this game in her life.
"What if I lose?" Tony responded with a sticky and gummy mouth. He felt like he hadn't spoken in ages.
Caitlin paused, then said, "If I win, you have to me a favor. I have to lift some heavy stuff, and I could use a hand."
Tony thought about it a minute, and said, "I don't want anything to do with you ever again. If you make me do something I don't want to do..."
"...you can leave whenever you want," Caitlin said firmly.
Tony paused. He didn't want to ever get involved with Caitlin again, and didn't know what she had in mind with her favor. But he didn't think he'd lose.
"Deal." Tony said, "Start the game."
During their next game, Caitlin played at a far different level. She selected a variety of defensive schemes that stifled Tony's typical attack, and did a few tricks on the field that he'd never seen before in the game. She ended up winning comfortably, 45-31.
Tony slumped in disbelief. He looked up at Caitlin, who was stretching with a self-satisfied smirk on her face.
"I may have played Madden before," Caitlin said simply.
She's scammed me, Tony realized. Caitlin's actually a scratch Madden player.
Tony felt a little angry, but nonetheless admiring of his cousin's trick.
So, reluctantly, Tony got up from his spot on the couch, got up from the spot where he'd been playing video games nearly non-stop for eight days, and agreed to go with Caitlin.
He took a shower, shaved, and ate a sandwich. When he returned, he found that she had changed into a pair of khaki shorts and a tank top. The tank top was yellow, and clung to Caitlin's large breasts tightly.
They drove together to a community park about forty minutes away from his house. They didn't talk while she drove.
When they had arrived, Caitlin opened the trunk. Inside were large black plastic bags, filled with something heavy. The two of them carried them over, one-by-one, to a bare corner of the park which was marked off with orange tape.
They pulled out a pair of shovels and began digging. There were white "X" marks where the park rangers had designated planting spots for the shrubs.
It was hard and sweaty work. The soil resisted their work, and they had to dig three foot holes for each of the plants.
As Tony stopped for a cool drink of water, he watched Caitlin finish up with one bush. Despite himself, Tony found himself admiring his cousin. She was very attractive, he admitted.
Her red hair was pulled back into a practical ponytail. Her yellow tank top, damp with sweat, clung tightly to her large, well-formed breasts. She was wearing a white bra with a heavy amount of structure to support her breasts. She was sweating so much that there were dark spots at her nipples. Her long smooth legs were folded up under her as Caitlin knelt on the moist soil. Although her face glowed with perspiration, her expression showed that she was at peace.
Tony reviewed the mix of feelings he had towards his cousin.
On one level, Tony was attracted to her physically. And possibly Caitlin was attracted to him. She had come on to him strongly before their encounter in the pool locker room, and that had ended up in sex. The fact that she was his cousin just added a spice of forbiddenness to their relationship.
On a second level, Tony was just a little bit scared of how Caitlin thought about him. He had taken her anally, against her protests. Would she be angry? Would she tell his parents? Would she tell the police? That neither his parents nor Caitlin's parents had said anything to him probably meant that Caitlin hadn't told them, at least.
From a third angle, Tony reminded himself, I should really be angry with her. Caitlin had texted Ms. Miller after their fuck in the locker room, telling Ms. Miller how Tony had cheated her. Since that moment, he hadn't heard from Ms. Miller at all. So Tony knew that his torrid affair with his calculus teacher was over.
But Tony wasn't angry. Instead, he more felt... confused?
The more Tony thought about it, the more it seemed that Caitlin had intentionally tried to seduce him. Did she really want to seduce her cousin? Moreover, Caitlin wasn't just his cousin, but a good friend. She knew how much his relationship with Ms. Miller meant to him. Why would she try to break them up?
What was going on in that woman's head? Tony thought, not for the first time.
