Sister Got Cold Feet

This story is just a normal submission for the

Literotica Summer Lovin' Story Contest 2024

- a contest revolving around beaches, bikinis, and fun warm-weather activities. Yes, really.

"Rise and shine, Alice, ri-i-i-ise and shine-e-e-e-e!" yelled Finn barging into her room.

"Ugh!"

"What a lovingly warm summer day! Look how high is the sun already!" the curtains were drawn flooding the room with the light.

"You're the worst."

"Get up! Gonna get up, get up get u-u-u-u-up!" this cry was from his favorite song, at least when it came to waking his sister up.

Alice tried to kick her brother with her eyes closed but missed. Finn used this opportunity to tickle her bare sole causing her to shriek and jump up.

"I hate you so much, big brother!" said Alice sounding almost sincere.

"Yeah-yeah. Coffee's freezing, and I may have left you some beans. Come before I change my mind!" Finn left, closing the door behind.

Alice considered falling back, but the sleep was already gone. Despite wearing full-body pajamas she still wrapped herself in a blanket before slipping into her fuzzy slippers.

Only then did she rise up and stand by the window. Warm summer day indeed - slightly above zero degrees Celsius - evident by the fact it wasn't snowing. The brown and gray vastness of arctic tundra was all she could see up to the horizon.

That "The Sun Is Up" joke got old before they were born. Everybody knows that at this latitude the sun isn't going down the whole day - leaving you with 24 hours of sunlight every day. That is novel for the first few days and then gets infuriating.

At least it is so in the summer. The sun wouldn't rise here at all in the winter.

In the canteen, Alice kept throwing glances at her brother while eating her dose of canned beans and drinking a still-warm cup of three-in-one coffee.

Finn appeared enthusiastic - hopping around, joking, stoking a fire in the small furnace that warmed up their research facility. At first glance, it could seem like a normal day - by the weird standards of their family.

There was way too much force in Finn's enthusiasm.

***

Their father was an eccentric climate scientist. Their whole life was a constant ride from one extreme place to the other, following him gathering data. The numbers he obtained were then used by more renowned scientists - to forecast global warming, cooling, prosperity, or a total environmental disaster depending on whichever industry decided to "donate to science" more. Their father, however, was proud of not being a sellout.

Their mom, although respecting his convictions, groaned that it would be good to sell something - at least once in a while. This stoic woman saved her husband's life more times than she cared to count, all while ensuring that their kids would always have decent food, shelter, school, tutors, and hobby groups - no matter where they were. Even if that required her to reach out to local authorities in a language she didn't know, or to nag her husband to apply for a grant.

Big brother Finley was 23, and currently studying mechanical engineering in Europe - dreaming of landing a boring stable 9-to-6 desk job. He was tall and had chestnut hair and gray eyes. Finn wasn't afraid of manual labor since childhood, went to the gym, and was muscular and extremely outgoing. He made friends all over the globe, and conquered hears of local beauties in just as many places.

His sister Alice was 19, she was more closed one, and she was preparing for exams to study international law in the same city as Finn. With dad never having time for them, and mom constantly tired - her brother was the only person she could rely upon her whole life, and she hoped to stay together even in university - to help each other, or maybe even share the rent.

The two could bicker all day long. Finn teased Alice. Alice shouted through the walls when Finn's yet-another-girlfriends' moans were too loud for her to sleep. Either of them could pull a prank on the other one, but when it mattered - they would always be there for each other.

***

"I'd kill for a bowl of greens," said Alice during the lunch. It was rice with spam again.

"Throw in some oranges and you have a getaway driver!" joked Finn.

"I think I'll need a second vacation after this one."

"Oh yeah! A sunny day, a warm beach, pina colada in one hand, and a hot local in a bikini in the other!"

Normally Alice would have said something back - like calling her brother a dog, but not this time. After a brief pause, she inhaled sharply but still said nothing. Finn threw a quick glance at her. The two finished eating in silence and went back to their chores.

The station felt small, but they both preferred to avoid going outside due to the potential of meeting polar bears.

***

Even though Finn had his own room in the dorm by now, and Alice was trying to apply for one, their father still got them to help him out on one more adventure. A short maintenance shift during a brief summer on a research station beyond the polar circle.

Of course, it was their father who had collapsed with an acute case of a sickness they couldn't diagnose on their own, and required urgent medical attention. The rescue helicopter had a place for only one extra person.

It said a lot about their family, that their mother felt way more comfortable leaving her children alone in the middle of a literal nowhere, rather than letting her husband wander on his own through the hospital.

But even Alice agreed they would be fine with her brother - most of the work was already done, and they had enough supplies. She could use the place to study without distractions, and all they had to do was wait for a research vessel to come pick them up.

***

It was late evening (with the sun shining bright outside). Finn was sitting in a radio room when Alice knocked and entered. Installing a satellite for internet connection wouldn't fit the expedition budget, so the only source of communication with the external world was a long-wave radio, where they had a few news channels and infrequent communications from their parents.

This was normally her brother's domain, as Alice was not as interested in all the technical stuff, but Finn greeted her and offered her to take a seat.

"How's the news?" Alice asked. She remained standing, leaning on a door frame, with her arms crossed.

"Oh, great! Yes, everything's great... No problem!"

"No worries?"

"Absolutely!"

"Finn. Cut the bullshit."

"What?" Finn did his best impression of confusion, but it wouldn't fool his sister.

"What is wrong?! Tell me!"

"Nothing is wrong, Alice, why..."

"CUT! THE BULLSHIT!"

"Research vessel will come pick us soon, and..."

"I'm not stupid, Finn!" shouted Alice. "It was supposed to come eight days ago already!"

"There's a repair..." started Finn, but by now Alice wouldn't be stopped. All the build-up emotions had finally broken the dam of her calmness, and now she was screaming and crying.

"Don't lie to me Finnley, I've seen it in your eyes..."

"Alice!"

"...that you've been hiding something, that you aren't telling me the truth!"

"Alice, everything..."

"Don't you fucking dare saying that, I see that it's not! Is it our father?! Is he... not well?"

"He's fine. It's like I've been saying..."

"Is the help not coming?! Are we stranded here?! I've seen the map, if we cross the island, if we make a canoe, then there's a village on a continent..."

"Are you out of your mind?!"

"We can cross the sea! I know it! Because I refuse! I will not!" Alice panted, tears rolling from her eyes.

"IT'S THE FUCKING PORN, ALICE! I lost my porn stash!"

"Finn, what are you even saying?!"

"Remember that hard drive that busted? The one I couldn't fix? There was a hidden volume with my porn collection..."

"Our dad is safe?"

"It's like I fucking said! He's recovering, the surgery went okay, he knew it might be needed beforehand, but still chose this expedition because of course he did!"

"And... we're getting off the island? Do you have a fix on...?"

"I didn't want to upset you, but yeah, old vessel's in repairs, some trouble with spare parts and it's no one's problem... But our mom is on it, so she should come through!"

"And if they won't?" food rations weren't a problem, but Alice would miss the admission deadline if they got stuck here for a full month.

"If it isn't - there will be an icebreaker with tourists returning from the Northern Pole. It's one of those large Russian ones, but who cares? Just don't debate politics there, and we'll get off on the first port and fly back to civilization! We're getting off this island either way, and you will still be back in time for your admission exams!"

"You... sure that everything's fine?" Alice finally calmed down a bit, comforted not even by the information, but by the confidence in her brother's voice.

"It's like I said. Yes. Everything - is absolutely fine."

"Okay. Okay," Alice wiped her tears and turned to leave, but then paused and giggled. "I'm sorry, what was it you said? Something about porn?"

"Oh no."

"No really? My big brother was so agitated because he lost his porn stash?"

"Yeah-yeah. Real funny."

"Come on, I was losing my mind thinking that something terrible has happened, and all this time it was about you not being able to rub one out?"

"Look, can we just pretend..."

"Oh no, not a chance!" Alice laughed, "That's that old gray drive, right? And our dad was wondering if he got scammed with its volume."

"Yeah, there's a utility that can make..."

"If I recall, a whole hundred gigs were missing! Mom argued we should send it back, you know? Just what exactly were you storing there?"

"Well, a bit of this, a bit of that..." normally confident Finn looked embarrassed, which only encouraged Alice to press further.

"Fine! Fine!" Finn finally gave up, "I have nothing to hide anyway! It was big boobs! I like girls with massive bonkers! No offense please..."

"Why should there be any?" asked Alice, Finn's sister with A-cup breasts. "So, wait, it's only titties? That's it?"

"Well, there was a striptease, there was boobjobs, cum on boobs, lesbians... with big boobs... What can I say, I'm a simple man!" Finn was a bit embarrassed, but he owned his preferences.

"Well, that does explain your choice of woman," remarked Alice.

From his first love - a young ebony student with perfect skin; to European girls; to a half-Japanese half-Mongolian hostess they met - all of his partners were well endowed in regards to their breasts.

"At least I'll know now not to make friends with big-tiddied girls - it's super annoying to find them in your bed."

"It was one time, and she practically forced me to!"

"Aww, you poor boy!"

"I'm older than you, you know?"

"No but really, is it all just tits with you?"

"What else there is? I'm not a butts guy!"

"Well, feet, maybe?" Alice faltered, cursing herself silently.

"What about those?" Finn's confusion seemed genuine.

"I mean, titties was all you looked at? No fetishes no nothing?"

"What fetishes? Like latex and stuff?! You know how much I hate perverts!"

"Whatever. So, you can't do it without big titties, and that got you so nervous??

"Well, it worked for me to remember Silvia at first. But then Mom felt the need to transmit that she's now with Andre, and that's a... Well..."

"Mood killer?"

"Babayaga. The thought of her going for Andre of all people goes full John Wick on my mood. It's just devastating."

Alice suppressed the urge to chuckle, seeing how sad heartbroken Finn looked. The issue was real to him, so it's not to be made fun of. Alice reached out and hugged him for comfort.

"Oh, brother, you are so funny sometimes!"

Finn embraced Alice too. The two stood hugging for a moment, but then Finn shifted awkwardly in place. The next moment Alice pulled back.

"Hey, Finnley. What the fuck?!"

"Oh, I'm sorry..."

"Ah! Big brother! You are so big!" said Alice in a high-pitched voice, without taking her eyes off Finn's flushed face.

"You know I can't control it?" Finn tried to defend a tent in his shorts.

"I know. I know." Agreed Alice seriously, before switching to a seductive porn voice: "You can't control your deep... primal... urges when you are around your defenseless little sister!"

"Okay, Alice, what the fuck!" yelled Finn, the tent in his pants now gone.

"'Help me, big brother! I'm stuck!', 'Oh, sis! You are of age already, it's time you become a woman!'" Alice narrated, changing the tonality of her voice.

"What the!" yelled Finn, barely able to stand from the laughter, "I don't have anything for you!"

"Gasp! Brother! You're breaking my heart!"

"And we're siblings for fuck's sake!"

"It's okay! You are actually adopted, and/or I'm on the pill!" Alice kept joking, by now her shoulders shook with laughter too.

"Can't we... pretend... like nothing happened?" Finn collapsed on the floor from laughter.

"Oh I don't know if we can, after what happened..."

"I have a quiche!"

"Deal!"

The two finished laughing and then took a moment to catch their breaths.

"Okay, but really. Please don't hide any news we have on our ship, okay? I got mad worried there."

"Right. I just tried to protect you."

"I know you did. Good night, brother."

"Good night... Alice."

And with that, Alice left.

***

Alice decided to hit the shower first before sleep. They had warm water from the electric boiler, but the water pressure went down recently. Finn promised to fix the pump outside but hasn't gotten around to it yet.

Locking the door, Alice stripped, then glanced at herself in a tiny mirror. Brown hair, blue eyes, a nose she was proud of, and a mouth with lips that could be puffier, and slightly protruding cheekbones - all making up her memorable face.

Looking at her own reflection Alice frowned. Maybe she shouldn't have ridiculed her brother this much? After all, it's not the worst that has happened between the two of them growing up together.

Alice remembered the words of her mother: "Know yourself - and control your emotions".

When Alice was very young, a ship they traveled on was attacked by pirates - "just like in a movie" - except that they could all die. Their father was sick with something, and it fell to her mother to stare down a gang of armed thugs. They managed to come out alive - unscathed and even not robbed. That's when Mom explained that emotions are good in ordinary life - but in a dangerous time, even a single misplaced emotion could doom her, and everyone she cares about.

With that in mind, Alice thought she handled the incident with her brother well - no one got hurt or bitter, and they shared a good laugh. Humor is important.

Alice cupped her small breasts with nipples hardened from cold air. Time for the shower.

Alice wasn't concerned about her figure. Sure, some men - like her brother - would drool over massive tits or fat butts. Alice wasn't like that - she had small perky breasts, a tight round ass, but her face was lovely, her tall figure refined by years of training gymnastics and martial arts making her very nimble. There was no shortage of men trying to make a pass on her, and up until now it was only her decision that kept her single.

Under the coughing shower cap, Alice began soaping up her biggest pride - her legs. She had long and straight legs that she always kept smooth-shaven, and her Greek-type toes well pedicured.

Alice frowned again - about two things at once. She ought not to have mentioned "feet" as a sexual fetish to her brother, that was a slip-up. From the depths of her mind, a darker memory emerged.

All she learned about foot fetish, she learned against her will.

Her whole life she was getting compliments for the beauty of her feet - even from complete strangers, but she never gave it much mind. Well, sure, her feet are long, so what?

That was until their family - through some miracle - landed in a decent hotel. Separate rooms, large beds, all-inclusive breakfasts and dinners. Young Alice - who was 14 at the time - was overjoyed and went round the place filming all she could see - the trees, the sea, the rooms. She filmed dipping her toes in a pool as a way to brag about having one. She uploaded it online for her friends - girls her age - to bicker from envy all day.

She never gave it any thought, until much later in the evening she received a direct message. Some old creep found a video with her toes and wrote her a large letter, which, being a curious little girl, Alice read... almost till the half. By then she felt physically sickened. Repulsed, she blocked the messenger, but the creep persisted. He started writing her from other accounts, calling her names, saying that "she knew what she was doing" - which she clearly did not. She was barely a teen, and she had no idea that someone could even conjure in their mind something as sick and disgusting, let alone send that to a young girl!

Later, knowledge that was forced upon her, affected Alice's socialization with her peers and adults as she fled from every shadow. "Classmate that I like mentioned my feet while talking about basketball - what does he mean by that?!", "Passenger in the bus asked me to move my legs as he got out - is he a creep?!", "Mister Dupert - a friendly trainer at a gym - compliments my thighs and offers private training sessions - is he a pervert too?!"

(Alice moved and was unaware of the sentence Mister Dupert got when police checked his hard drive - following the lead from one of his "private lessons" victims speaking up.)

But that night she ended up wiping all her social media accounts and crying till the morning. A bit of childhood innocence was stolen from her via text by a freak from the opposite side of the world, who, for all she knew, would never face any accountability for his actions.

Alice finished showering and grabbed a towel. Pressing it onto her face she stood still for a few moments contemplating life. She can't change the past, but now she's a grown-up woman. She is no longer afraid, but rather curious to explore - just how much could her feet affect men?

If only she wasn't stuck on this station this summer...

Later in her bed, one more thought came to her mind - her brother was genuine and completely oblivious to the existence of foot fetishes or kinks. Is that because he never had the need to explore porn genres with all the sex he's been having? Anyway, it was good to know that the person she relied upon the most was completely normal and not perverted at all.

***

A few more boring uneventful days went by. The lingering tension was gone and siblings went back to sharing laughs, talking future, and occasionally hugging. There still was a strain in the brothers' posture, but at least now Alice knew what it meant and tried not to bring it up.

It was another evening. Alice finished painting her toenails, and was waiting for them to dry - being alone hundreds of kilometers from civilization was no excuse to look like a rug! Finn was on a tablet, scrolling in annoyance back and forth through a saved movie collection without picking anything, awkwardly shifting in place and hiding his crotch.

"That bad, huh?" Alice asked.

"Bah. Trust me, you don't want to know," Finn wasn't in the mood to go back to the same talk.

"You're right, I don't." Alice thought for a bit. "And yet here we are. By the way, you... haven't tried reading erotica? Y'know, instead of watching?"

"Like what, fifty colors of gayness? That's for women!" Finn was outraged.