Part 12: Incest
Chapter 27: Incest - How Ian started sleeping with his sister and mother.
After our last exams, Clarice and I decided to spend the night together before we went home to spend Christmas with our families. After Christmas, Clarice was going to come by train to visit me and stay until New Year's Eve. The O'Briens were having a big New Year's Eve party, so we planned to drive back for that. After New Year's Eve with the O'Briens we were going to spend the rest of our break with Clarice's family.
We decided to splurge on a nice restaurant to celebrate the end of the semester and have our own early Christmas celebration. Clarice looked fabulous as always wearing her little black dress with her hair down the way I like it. I dug out my one suit and even ironed a shirt. She said I looked dashing and hot.
After dinner we went to a little coffee club near campus. The owners combined a coffee shop with the atmosphere of a jazz club from the '60s to come up with a quiet place to hang out. It was popular with the non-drinking student population. We found a loveseat in a quiet corner and sat to talk.
We'd been talking about our plans for the holiday and what we expected for the next semester, when Clarice changed the subject, "So, when you get home will you sleep in your mom's bed?"
"Maybe."
"I mean, Patty's always talking about how she loves sleeping with her parents and Mark when she goes home. It sounds like she never sleeps alone. It's not that way for you and your mom?"
"That's kind of why Patty and I didn't work out. Patty doesn't think she ever needs to draw a line between her sexual relationship with someone and the rest of how she relates. Mom and Karen and I had to learn how to do that, or it could have been really weird."
"How do you mean? You never really told me how you started sleeping together. All I know is that it had something to do with your father's death."
"Karen and I have always been really close, including physical closeness. Dad's death just pushed us over the edge."
"Close how?"
"It goes way back to some of my earliest memories when I was just a toddler. A lot of nights when we were little, Karen and I would climb into Mom and Dad's bed, or we'd sleep together."
"The way Mom tells it; Karen startled easily when she was a kid. Thunder, a dog barking, even howling winds would wake her up and she'd go cuddle with Mom. When I was big enough to have my own bed, I didn't like being left out, so I'd follow Karen and all four of us would sleep together."
"I was one of those kids who loved to feel the boom of thunder. When we went to see the fireworks, I always wanted to be close enough to feel the concussion when they went off. And I could sleep through any racket. But if someone else in the house woke up in the night, I'd hear it and wake up too. So when Karen went into my parent's room, I'd hear her and I'd follow, pretending I was scared too."
"Mom and Dad knew it was a scam, but they played along. Mom said they liked having us all cuddled together. But as we got bigger, eventually their bed was cramped with all four of us in it. That's when they told Karen she had to be a big girl and stay in her own bed."
"I felt bad about pushing Karen out, but I wasn't going to give up cuddles. Mom said I came up with a solution, asking Karen to cuddle with me since she was a big girl and could take care of me."
"That worked for Karen and me, but then we could tell Mom and Dad were missing their cuddles. Karen came to me one night during a thunderstorm and said, 'Mom might need some cuddles.'"
"Eventually Mom and Dad had told both of us both we were too big to share their bed, so when we wanted to cuddle, we slept together. That's how it went until my parents realized I'd started noticing Mom's lady parts. Then Mom and Dad had a talk with Karen and me and we stopped sleeping together."
"I can only remember a couple of times after that when Karen crawled into my bed for comfort because something traumatic happened, like when one of her best friends moved halfway across the country. Even then, she'd just lay with her head on my chest and cry, and when she was done crying, she'd go back to her own room."
"At about that time, Mom and Dad started getting calls from school about my behavior. I'd started noticing the girls at school and I became that kid who pushed girls and punched them in the arm so they'd notice me too."
"Dad took me aside and told me that I had to be nice to the girls if I wanted them to like me. The problem is, at eleven years old I didn't know what girls thought was nice. Karen tried to talk to me, but it was like she was speaking a foreign language. I got frustrated and I kept acting out."
"The other thing Dad said to me, which I didn't understand but could follow was, 'Girls don't like to be stared at. You know you're going to see your mom without a lot of clothes on from time to time. If you stare at her, it makes her uncomfortable. Think of staring at a girl as being bad for you just like staring at the sun. If you stare at a girl, she'll think you're just a horny peckerhead.'"
"After that, if Mom caught me ogling her, she'd say, 'Are you staring at the sun, peckerhead?' Mom and I were talking about that recently and she said it was just a phase that lasted two or three months. Then she was just Mom again, not a woman."
"By freshman year, Karen and Dad had convinced me there was a better way to get girls to notice me. I found out that girls noticed me because I was big and I was on the football team, and Karen says I was a hottie even then. I was able to get a couple of dates early in the year, but they ended badly because the girls said I was going too fast."
"When Karen came home from school, she talked to some of her friends who had younger sisters. Then she came to me and said, 'You're not allowed to date a girl until I say so. We're going to teach you how to treat girls right, so they'll be asking you out.'"
"I wasn't thrilled about not dating, but by then I was getting shot down every time I asked a girl out, so it was a moot point. After Karen talked to me, I figured out that the girls I'd dated were talking about me, and not in a good way. I thought if I could get girls to ask me out, it would be worth it, so I said okay."
"Karen told me she was going to give me homework assignments. The first one was to go to the mall, find a girl I'd never talked to, get her name, and find out why she was at the mall."
"I spent a whole afternoon and couldn't get one girl to do more than say 'Hi.' When I went back to Karen and told her I'd failed, she asked me, "Did you go by yourself?"
"I told her I had."