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Chapter 1 -
When I was born, my mum died in childbirth, my deadbeat dad left before I was even born and I was left to one of my mom's friends, who took care of me as her own.
I lived with my new mums, sisters and our family pets that we treat as our children for most of my life growing up. My older sisters have now left for university for law and a traineeship in real estate. They're doing really well for themselves, leaving our mums, pets and sister in a pretty big house.
It's the first summer since my sister and I graduated high school. We spent the year working part time and relaxing before figuring out what we each wanted to do.
We've gotten really close over the year by ourselves, whenever we were home, we talked, played games, watched movies and just hung out.
Mum was always at work, but her strong work ethic was probably why my two older sisters were trying to be so successful, too bad it didn't rub off on Brooke and I.
Late one afternoon, Brooke came home earlier than normal, her shift usually lasted until 9 and she had only started a couple of hours ago.
I saw her face, it was red, her eyes were full of tears, it was obvious she had been crying.
"Hey, what's going on Brooke. Why are you crying?" I asked, putting my hands on her arms looking into her sweet teary eyes.
"I was let go. With the whole pandemic, they had to start downsizing, since I had been one of the newest hires, they chose me. I know that we had to downsize and it was out of their control, but it still sucks you know. I was saving so I could move out if I needed to." She said, sobbing.
Brooke took a step towards me and hugged me, laying her head in my arms, I hugged back, holding her head.
"It's gonna be alright. You might be able to find another job, or even just take a break. Have some days off in the sun and in our pool."
"Yeah, maybe." Still sobbing Brooke calmed down.
"Hey, maybe we can watch a movie tonight? We can grab some popcorn, ice cream, a large warm blanket and just relax on the couch tonight." I suggested.
Brooke looked up at me, nodded and made the sound a kid would make (mmhmmm.)
I let Brooke go, and she went off to her room, she looked happier than she did, but still needed some comforting.
Once it was late, we got the movie, popcorn, ice cream, and a large warm blanket and got on the couch in the theatre room.
"Thanks for this Simon. I really needed this. I haven't been doing well lately, all my dates have been flubs, I haven't seen my friends since they went to Uni and now with my job, I feel like I'm nothing. I haven't had a win in ages."
"Hey, you keep your head up, you're just loving life a little before you go settle down you know. When you get a job that leads into a career, it'll take over your life, you won't have time for any fun, so while you do you might as well take advantage."
"Thanks, I'm gonna have a little break from working, maybe just do some of the things I've wanted to do for a while, like creative stuff, drawing, music, maybe even do some videos for online?"
"Sounds great, you never know, maybe it'll turn into something."
We watched the rest of the movie, making little comments about the characters and the plot while cuddled up next to each other.
We haven't gotten this close before, I could smell the body lotion on her skin, it was intoxicating.
I never really thought about Brooke in a sexual way, she was drop dead gorgeous, but I always felt like a brother to her, even though we had no blood relation, and now something has changed.
I don't know how I feel, but I'm now seeing her as a sexy young woman, a woman that I could pleasure and have passionate sex with.
After the movie had finished, I rushed to bed. I was embarrassed that I got hard and horny thinking about Brooke in that way. I didn't want to think about it any longer, so I masturbated to an amateur porn actress and went to bed.
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Some time went by, Brooke spent most of her time in her room, doing all sorts of things, but she always came out for food during the day and dinner when Mum came home.
It was a Thursday morning, I didn't have work today so I slept in like usual, got up, had a shower, then got breakfast, which was also lunch.
Brooke came and joined me at the breakfast bar, drinking a juice and eating some toast.
"So I was wondering if you could help me with something today?" Brooke asked, not bothering to chew her food first.
"Sure, what is it?"
"I'm taking some photos of me, and I need a cameraman, some of the angles are really hard to get and it's been a bitch."
"Sure I guess, is this for instagram or something?"
"Yeah, kinda, I guess." Brooke responded somewhat awkwardly.
"When did you want to do this?
"Soon, I just need to put some makeup on and get into the outfit. Meet me in my room in an hour?"
"OK, sure."
We finished our breakfasts / lunch, and separated. I got changed into some clean clothes and watched some YouTube while I waited.
It had been around 50 ish minutes and I hadn't heard from Brooke yet so Ai went to check in on her.
Knocking on the door, I heard "come in" so I opened and walked through.
Brooke was laying on her bed, texting on her phone in a white spandex outfit. It took me a while but I recognised the design, it was Spider-girls costume from 'Into the Spider-verse.'
