I awoke with a shiver... dark shadows of black swirling in my head, concealing the images I had just been watching. Under me, the sheet was soaked and cold against my skin while I could feel a stickiness on my bare belly. Lying flat on my back, I was spreadeagled and sweating profusely, while the sheet that had been covering me was nowhere to be found.
As my eyes began to focus in the dim, morning light, I recognized the ceiling fan blades whirling above me at full speed. The air from them on my body was hot and stifling... not cool and refreshing as it would normally feel. Reaching down, I dipped my fingers into the substance on my belly and lifted it up to examine it, realizing it was semen. Apparently I had cum all over myself during my dream. Propping myself up on my elbows, I looked down... my stomach was covered with several small puddles of it just above my flaccid cock. I didn't have a clue what could have caused me to ejaculate like this, since I couldn't recall anything lately about my dreams.
My head was pounding. I had a headache... a bad one! Squeezing my eyes shut, I sat up and swung my legs off the side of the bed, encountering the missing sheet balled up under my feet. Grabbing it, I cleaned the mess off my belly before tossing it back to the floor. Dazed by the throbbing between my eyeballs, I stood and stumbled to the bathroom joining Jessi's bedroom to mine. Switching on the lights, I moved to the toilet and relieved myself before I turned to the sink and stared at myself in the mirror.
It reaffirmed that I looked like shit. My skin was pasty, my curly blond hair was ratted up and my face was gaunt like a zombie. I had taken it very, very hard. Losing a sibling can never be easy, but losing my twin sister felt like I had died, also. Just cut me in half... just smash my brain in with a club... I surely would have felt better than I was feeling now.
Even though I hadn't been there, I knew exactly what happened. I knew the road Jess was driving on to visit her friend, Susan, for the evening. I even knew the curve that the drunk driver had failed to negotiate just before he t-boned Jessi's little compact sedan, smashing it sideways into the deep ravine. The coroner said she died on impact... so had the drunk. At least we wouldn't have to go through a trial and relive her death over and over.
Lurching into the shower, I turned on the cold water before standing under the spray and feeling nothing but the pounding in my temple. It had been like this since she died... nothing to feel... feeling nothing. Still dripping wet, I stepped to the sink and leaned on the counter, looking into the mirror again for a long while. Suddenly, my reflection went out of focus and shifted... there was Jess looking back at me like a semi-transparent hologram... then it was my face... then hers... mine... hers. I shut my eyes tight, took a deep breath, then looked again. It was hers... her lips were moving but I couldn't make out the words. I closed my eyes again and this time, when I opened them, it was my face.
Before the image could change again, I turned from the mirror, opened the door to her room and went in, like I had done at least four times a day. It was still the same as the day after she left. The same clothes laying on the floor where she had dropped them after undressing... the closet door still open... her makeup stuff still strewn across her dressing table... nothing had changed. I sat on the edge of her bed and started to cry, just like I had every time I came in here to drown in my own self pity.
"John?... John!" A voice called out and I turned to see my younger sister, Jen, standing over me. I stared blankly at her as she tried to help me up. "Come on... stand up... let's get you to your room." As I stood up and put my arm around her shoulders, I realized I didn't have any clothes on.
"Shit!" I tried to cover my limp cock with a hand, but she ignored me and started to lead me back to the bathroom. "God, Jen, I'm sorry!... I can do this... "
"Nonsense, John. Nothing I haven't seen before... other guys, of course... not yours, but I'm a big girl." She stopped me when we were by the sink and grabbed a towel, methodically beginning to dry me off. When I protested, she ignored me and dried my cock and crotch before working her way up my body to my hair. Finishing up, she urged me gently into my room. Walking to my closet, I pulled out my bathrobe, slipping it on quickly and tied the belt. She moved to my bed, stripped the sheet, then gathered the one from the floor.
"Sit down... I'll be right back," she ordered me as she left my room with the sheets. I was still sitting on the side of the bed and staring out the window at the brightening sky and trees when she returned, carrying a cup of coffee. After handing it to me, she pulled my desk chair over in front of me, taking a seat facing me. She studied me sipping on my drink for a minute before speaking, "Talk to me, John... let me in... let me help you through this, please." When I didn't immediately reply, she pressed me more, "Look... I need help, too!... I need to talk about her and... .about us... Mom's a mess... and candy-ass Randy is never around - I'm not sure he gives a shit anyway - it's just you and me, bro... so, talk to me... please?"
Leaning in, she placed her hands on my knees and looked at me with a pained and pleading expression on her face. I nodded slowly as I studied my sister. Two years younger than me at 18 years old, she had lost that look of a child and was now a full blown woman. Her dark gray eyes were framed by her medium-brown, curly hair that fell just past her shoulder blades. Clad in a simple t-shirt and cutoff levi shorts, you really couldn't see much of her body which was fairly voluptuous with maybe a touch of baby fat here and there, but suited her full breasts and hips nicely. She wasn't wearing a bra, so I could see her large nipples poking against the shirt with a hint of her dark areolae through the thin material. I had seen her in a bikini often enough to know her body was nice. She was definitely sexy... but she was my sister and I didn't really think of her that way.
"I'm sorry, Jen." I apologized, reaching out a hand to cup her jaw. "I'm such a mess and I just can't seem to get it together. Thank you for just being here and putting up with my bullshit." Leaning in, I kissed her on the forehead. She had a tear in the corner of her eye which I wiped away, then she put her arms around my neck and moved in to give me a big hug, her head pressed against my cheek and breathing softly in my ear. I set my cup on the nightstand next to me and put my arms around her. We clung to each other for a minute before she slid from the chair and sat next to me on the bed, her arm around my waist and her head resting against my shoulder.
After a spell, she asked me, "You seemed so out of it this morning... what happened? I know you've been going into her room a lot... I've heard you in there just banging around, but this morning was different." All our bedrooms were on the top floor with Jessi's and mine on one side of the hall while Jen was across from me and another bathroom between her room and our parents at the end of the hall.
Pushing some loose strands of hair off her face, I tried to explain, "It's hard to describe, but I feel as if... even though I manage to get to sleep late... even when I do sleep, I'm not really sleeping... I'm exhausted!... I know I have dreams... big ones, but I can't recall them... they vanish before I can remember them... and I can't... " My voice trailed off as I failed to find the words. Hanging my head down, I shook it in exasperation.
Her hand moved to the back of my shoulders as she began to firmly massage my tense muscles. "Okay, let's just try to start with this morning." She was being her 'get-the-facts' self as she tried to help me sort it out. "What do you remember from the time you woke up?"
"I was laying in a wet bed, sweating like hell... and... this is embarrassing, Jen... " She gave me an encouraging smile, so I went on, "Well... I had cum all over my belly. I don't think I jerked off... but I sure as hell came." I felt my face flush, but she just looked concerned as she continued to work on my neck and shoulder muscles. "I used the sheet on the floor to clean off, then I went into the bathroom and took a shower... then I was looking into the mirror and I felt like I was on acid or something... it was my face, and then her face... then back and forth. I felt like I was freaking out, so I walked into her room and then you came in."
"You left the shower running. I shut it off before I found you in her room," she informed me with a quick hug and peck on my cheek.
"I did?... See what I mean?... I'm losing it."
"Do you remember anything about your dream?" she probed for more.
Falling back on the bed, I closed my eyes, trying to visualize what I thought I'd seen before I woke up fully. "Shadows... lots of darkness... and things in the shadows... I think there was a face... maybe a female, but not sure... and voices... several voices mumbling low, but I couldn't make out the words... I think a female and maybe one or two males... but I'm not sure." When I opened my eyes, Jen was leaning on her arms and staring at my chest. When she saw me looking at her, she suddenly flushed bright red, then quickly turned away.
"I'm sorry, John!... I didn't mean to... " She sounded mortified.
"Mean to what?" I asked, raising up on my elbows. Glancing down, I saw that my robe was laying open, exposing my semi-hard cock to her view. She jumped to her feet and stood with her back to me as I tried to console her, "Jen, I didn't realize...it's not your fault, sis... shit, I'm sorry!" Sitting up, I covered myself while attempting to grab her arm.
She took a couple of steps to the door before pausing and glancing over her shoulder at me. "I'm gonna make us some breakfast. Come on down in a bit so we can talk some more, okay?"
"Okay... down in a minute," I confirmed with an embarrassed smile. She smiled back as she left. Dressing slowly, I threw on my boxers, khaki shorts and a polo shirt along with tennies and no socks since it was supposed to get near 90 this afternoon.