Author's note: This isn't meant to be a stand-alone story. You really need to read the first part to know what is going on in this story. Again, reading part one is highly recommended. Enjoy!
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We both sat on the couch, hastily dressed, as Mom marched back and forth in front of us. I was almost huddled into myself, with my hands trembling slightly every few seconds. I wasn't able to process what had just happened. I felt disoriented, disconcerted, and the world I was in just a few moments ago now seemed light-years away. My mom had just caught me fucking my sister.
"I don't believe this, I can't believe this!" Mom said. "Over 20 years of raising two kids on my own! I thought I was doing a good job. There were literally no signs that anything was wrong!"
"You didn't do anything wrong, Mom," I mumbled. I didn't want her to put this on herself.
"Then what was it?" she asked. "Are you doing drugs? What would make this seem okay?" she pleaded.
"No Mom, no drugs," I said lightly. "I...I..." I said as I tried to find the words.
"Oh my God," she muttered as she turned around and paced with her hands on her head.
I turned and looked at Kelly sitting right next to me to see if she was as much of a nervous wreck as I was. Kelly sat while leaning forward, with her right elbow on her knee and her chin resting into her right hand. Her eyes were droopy as she turned to look at me. She looked... bored?
"Kyle," Mom finally said as she faced us again. "What would cause you to pursue and persuade your sister this way?" Mom said with despair clinging to her voice.
"Well, I, uh," I started, but then realized I couldn't find an answer for something that didn't actually happen. I looked at Kelly, who raised her eyebrows at me, as if to say, "Really?" Now I was in a conundrum. While I was a total mess, I didn't want to throw Kelly under the bus on this. Luckily, I wouldn't have to after all.
"That's not what happened, Mom," Kelly finally piped in.
"What are you talking about?"
"I kind of bankrolled the operation," Kelly replied.
"I beg your pardon?"
"You shouldn't be asking Kyle that 'pursue and persuade' question," Kelly said.
"What should I be asking him, then?" replied Mom.
"Not 'What' you are asking, but 'Who' you are asking it to," Kelly told her.
The look on Mom's face after that line could have sunk a ship. Her unusually smooth facial features had become sullen and sunken. Although Mom and I were close and had no problems with our relationship, she was at least twice as close to Kelly. To hear this must have felt like a stab in the back, something I could read off of her face even in my shaken state. Mom eventually responded by leaning down in front of Kelly, her face only inches from my sister's face.
"Here is a more important question then. Why?" Mom asked.
"Well, Mom, I tell you all the time about how hard it is to meet guys when I go to an all-girl school. Hell, I even said I would transfer to somewhere else if I could afford it," Kelly said.
"So that means your only option is to fuck your brother?!" Mom screamed this time.
"No! But it doesn't change the fact that sex is great, it's just better with another person," Kelly rebutted. "And besides, it's not like you've never done this before?"
"Fucked my brother? No, I never have!"
"What about Aunt Katie, huh? You two talk all the time about how you would fool around with each other during college," Kelly said.
"When have I ever said that?" Mom asked.
"Just last year! You really should have gotten rid of the landlines a long time ago, Mom. Anyone can listen in on those things," Kelly said.
I sat up as I heard Kelly spill the beans. Mom and our Aunt Katie had been intimate? This was news to me. While I viewed my Mom as a very sexual being, and have noted her attractiveness myself, I couldn't picture her taking it so far as to become incestuous with her own sibling. Then again, I could have never imagined fucking my own sister, no matter how much I noticed how hot she was. My body suddenly stopped shaking. I was still nervous, but something in the universe just made a little more sense now. Sometimes things happen without any notice or signs.
Mom's jaw hanged open in disbelief. Everyone was silent for what seemed like minutes. Mom turned around and put a hand to her head.
"I always knew you were a little snoop," she muttered.
"I know you have. I read about it all the time in your diary," Kelly said. Mom spun around and gave us the death stare again.
"This isn't the same. First, we were usually drunk. Second, it was with a girl. Fooling around and having sex aren't the same thing. Degree matters," Mom told her. Kelly started getting exasperated and threw her hair back.
"No, Mom, listen to yourself! You're trying to find a reason to be pissed because you think you should be! Things happened with you and your sister and you two are great! It's like you-"
"Don't tell me what I should be feeling!" Mom screamed. She turned back to me. "And you! What do you have to say for yourself?"
I was still shaken by the uncertainty. What had just been happening still was clear, at least in my mind. Did I just destroy 21 years of family bonding over this? Why didn't I just say no to Kelly's challenge? Had I done that, then Mom would have come home, the three of us would have been laughing while redecorating the house and having fun just like we were doing before this happened. Even if I had gone along with the game, all I had to do was push her back when she kissed me and everything would be all right. Oh wow, my sister and I saw each other naked. Okay, what's for dinner? But with this, you don't just move on, no matter how much my sister may believe we can.
"I'm sorry, Mom," I said I planted my face into my hands. "I don't know what I was thinking. It just kind of happened," I told her.