Author's note: All characters are 18 or over. This is a quickie story with a little buildup. I tried to proofread it. Let me know if you find mistakes. Also let me know what you think of it in the comments.
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Nate stumbled a little as he and his sister Emmaline climbed into the bus. When Emma asked the driver if the bus was indeed going to stop in Fancy Gap, the uniformed man just rolled his eyes and glanced up to the list of stops on the laminated sign taped on the pole two feet in front of her face. The bus driver had been driving this route for twenty years. These white college kids could be clueless when they interact in the real world. He looked at the couple to judge how wasted they were. The woman had painted her face with UNC Tar Heel colors which were somewhat smeared after so many hours partying before, during and after the game. The man was wearing a Duke Blue Devils shirt.
"How was the game?" He asked.
"Duke dominated!" declared Nate with some exhilaration. Now it was Emma's turn to roll her eyes.
"By four points, idiot. Hardly what you'd call 'Domination'."
The driver, satisfied that they weren't so drunk that they were going to be belligerent or vomit in his bus, smiled and warned them that the bus might be late pulling into Fancy Gap because of the storm. Emma nodded and the siblings headed to the back of the bus. They didn't have notify anybody if they were going to be late; The parents were out of town. They'd walked to the bus station this morning, and it didn't matter how late they got home.
The bus was nearly empty, which was unusual after an important game like today's, but the stadium was actually one-third empty because of the weather forecast. Only the die-hards wanted to be out and about today. They plopped them selves down on the back row of the bus. Nate had that twinge of being watched and he glanced up to see the drivers large white eyes in the mirror.
Emma also noticed, then looked at the backpack and half-whispered to Nate to be cool because she didn't want to get kicked off the bus.
Nate looked at her and grinned.
'What are you talking about, Em? You're allowed to have a Diet Coke on the bus, ya know.'
"He's not stupid. I'm just saying be careful. Best behavior."
Why is she always such a rule-follower? He thought.
"Hey Em, your face is all over your shoulder."
"Oh shit, it's coming off!", she said as she pulled her head back to look at her left shoulder.
Nate opened his backpack and down beneath all the full plastic bottles of cola were some mashed-up fast food napkins. He handed Emma several of them and a Diet Coke.
"Put that away!" She hissed. Both of them pointedly did not look up to see if the driver was still watching them.
"Dry napkins won't do anything but smear it around. Diet Coke will take the rust off a nail. I'm sure it will work great on face paint."
"And the vodka will make it work even better!" Ha added with a big smile.
"Would you just shut the fuck up!" She grabbed the napkins and bottle from him.
As she began to remove the makeup, Nate watched her with side eye. She looked to be the stereotypical college girl from a nineties movie. Blond hair, blue eyes, pouty lips. She was not super althletic, but just a little curvy in the right places. He knew she wasn't a natural blond. He wondered if the carpet matched the drapes, or maybe there is no carpet at all.
"Stop farding," he said.
"What?"
"Stop farding!" he repeated more loudly.
"I'm not farting. What the fuck are you talking about?" She was getting annoyed now.
"You shouldn't fard on the bus. There are other people here, and it is an enclosed space."
She stopped and just stared at him.
"Farding is a verb. It means to apply cosmetics," said Nate as he took a gulp of his own Diet Coke.
"You'd know that if you went to Duke instead of a party school."
Emma shook her head at him in disbelief.
"I'm not 'applying' makeup. And you are such a fucking dick. And a skinny immature gangly-assed troll. I can't believe I went to the game with you."
"Aw, you're just made because UNC sucks ass, and the Blue Devils are awesome!"
That was it. Emma threw the dirty napkins and the Diet Coke at him. The bus came to a stop. Both siblings looked up to see the driver's eyes on them again.
Both knelt down to pick up the napkins and the bottle of coke rolling around on the floor.
They made a show of putting the dirty napkins in Nates backpack. The light turned green, and the bus began to move again.
Emma's face was red with anger and embarrassment.
Nate decided to stop teasing her.
"I'm sorry, Em. I'm just all happy that my team won and couldn't resist teasing you a little. I'll be good."
She said nothing and looked out the window at the snow falling. It was coming down hard now. She looked out the front window of the bus an wondered how the driver could see anything.
Nate looked at her in earnest now. He hoped he hadn't really pissed her off. It was her idea for them to go to the game together, and they had had a lot of fun so far.
"Thanks for going to the game with me," he said.
"It was a lot of fun."
Emmaline just gave him some momentary side-eye and got out her phone.
Nate took the hint and pulled his own phone out of his pocket and put his ear buds in.
For the next hour, neither sibling interacted.
"So, about Frank...," said Nate out of the blue.
Emma opened her eyes and looked blankly at him.
"You know, the guy who came out of your dorm room when I knocked this morning."
"He's just a friend"
"A friend who makes your face red and mussed up your hair."
"Yes, a friend"
"A friend who makes your dorm room smell like..."
"Shut the fuck up!"
There was an awkward silence.
"A friend with benefits, that's all."
"Ahh, ok" said Nate. "No big deal. I was just asking."
The snowstorm worsened as darkness descended. Nate got out another Diet Coke and gave another to his sister, who had finished off the farding remover many miles ago. There was no danger of catching the attention of the bus driver now. The treacherous road demanded all his attention.
The bus was barely moving. It was going to be hours before they got home.
Nate was drunk and very bored. He eyed his sister. Surreptitiously he shifted in his seat to face her a little more and turned his phone screen so there was no way she could see his screen.
Emma noticed his movements, because Emma was the kind of woman who noticed everything. But she didn't say anything. She was still a little irritated with her brother.
The bus went over a large bump. Emma lunged for his phone and snatched it away, pulling the earphones from his ears.
Nate jumped up but slipped on a wet napkin with UNC Tar Heel face paint on it. He went down.
She hunched over and managed to put the right ear piece in her ear.
"Hah! I knew it! You were watching Porn!"
Triumphantly, Emma watched a few more seconds of the video.
"Incest porn?! Really, Nate? On the bus?!!!"
Nate had regained his footing and was trying to wrestle his phone back from her. She held it tightly to her chest with both hands. Then she noticed that the girl in the video was a blond with a college t-shirt laying on a couch while her step-brother buried his face in her pussy. The girl looked a lot like Emma.
Emmaline was stunned and stopped trying to keep Nate's phone from him. At the same time she felt something odd press into the side of her leg for a moment. She looked down and saw that Nate was tenting his jeans.
Nate was back in his looking straight ahead. The phone and earpieces were shoved in his backpack. Nate's face was a brilliant shade of red.
"You've got a boner, brother," she said with glee.
"A big fat boner. On the bus. With your sister."
She laughed at his embarrassment, feeling the exhileration of triumph.
"Let me get a picture" Emma held up her phone.
Nate pulled his backpack onto his lap. Emma took the picture anyway, still laughing.
"I'm going to post this with the title 'Nate hiding his boner on the bus with his backpack.'"
Nate looked over at his sister.
"You would never do that, because you are a good person."