July 2001 - Making it Happen
The Tangled Web is a story spanning several years and is based on the complicated lives of a brother and sister and those they live with. Set in the English Midlands, the tale is told through a series of interlocking short stories. Although designed to be read in sequence, I have tried to make each chapter stand as a complete and satisfying story in itself.
*****
Sara and her boyfriend David have reached a watershed in their relationship. David has proposed that they should get married, a proposal Sara has gently but firmly declined. At the same time, he also proposed that they should start a family together. This proposal set off a chain of thought in Sara's mind which required more time to consider. She told David that she needed a few weeks to think about it, which bought her a little time - time she spent making careful and detailed plans that eventually led to her making an extraordinary proposal to her brother, and for three years also her lover, Sam.
In short, Sara has persuaded her brother Sam that she should have a baby, that David should believe himself to be the father but that, in fact, the real father would be Sam. Over a quiet dinner in their favourite restaurant, she explained to Sam's open-mouthed astonishment how she had planned everything in detail, in particular how to ensure that, once she had come off the pill, it would be he and not her boyfriend David who impregnated her, even though she and David would have to be officially 'trying for a baby.
After careful thought, Sam has agreed and the two of them are now putting Sara's plan into effect. Having told David that she does want a baby and come off he pill, she has been having sex with him as infrequently as she could reasonably manage without arousing suspicion, and even then only at the least fertile times of her cycle. Her periods had been 'unusually long lasting' and on one occasion she had been forced to resort to using a diaphragm when sex had proved unavoidable (and, she would admit, she hadn't wanted to avoid it). Fortunately, David was rather drunk at the time and hadn't noticed.
With Sam, however, she had been making love almost every fertile day - and a few infertile days too, for luck. They have made love in cars, in hotel rooms, in the park, even on one occasion in a large cupboard.
By tracking her temperature on a daily basis, Sara was also able to predict on which days she had the best chance of conceiving, and on those days the two of them spent entire mornings or afternoons making love as often as they could manage.
Today is one of those days……
*****
With a raw, animal grunt, Sam closed his eyes and drove his erection violently into his sister Sara's vagina once again. A sharp burning pain pulsed through the base of his cock as, for the fourth time that day he began to cum within her. Sara, her eyes also closed, wailed softly beneath him and tightened herself around his shaft in an attempt both to heighten his pleasure and to draw every drop of his semen into her. Sam moaned louder, his cry, rising above Sara's familiar encouraging moans, was a mixture of pleasure and real pain as his climax finally shook his hot, sweating body and a final few drops of semen spurted from his erection and into Sara.
Sam's thrusts slowed and then quickly ceased. He held himself motionless, still embedded within Sara's hot, sticky body as he gasped for breath. Beneath him, Sara's small breasts rose and fell rapidly as her own climax faded away and panting, she gradually regained control of herself. Her face and chest were flushed pink. She was smiling.
Sam smiled back and silently rolled off his sister's spent body, exhausted, tearing his sore, flaccid cock from her vagina's loosening grip. He slumped alongside her on the rumpled sheets. Sara said nothing. She closed her legs, pressing her knees tightly together, and raised them to her chest as she had done after each of the three previous times Sam had cum in her that day. She lay still, her eyes closed, a smile of real contentment on her face.
Sam, face down on the bed, felt sore and drained. He giggled.
"I'm nearly dry, Midge. That one actually hurt."
"You poor darling!" Sara said mockingly, without opening her eyes or even moving. "Is it all too much for you?"
"Give me a few minutes and I'll show you, girl." Sam responded, poking her in the ribs with his finger. He rolled onto his back and began to drift into sleep.
*****
From the first night she had broached the subject three months ago, Sam had known that Sara was deadly serious about having their baby. He had listened, first with amusement, then in amazement as she had described her plans to ensure that he and not her boyfriend David would impregnate her. Sam had initially been shocked at the idea, but Sara had been so earnest and so persuasive that he had finally agreed. Sara had laughingly warned Sam that he would need to make love to her many times to have the best chance of conceiving and he had certainly been looking forward to that.
But Sam had not quite been prepared for the reality that was now upon them. Once she had come off the pill, life for Sara had become a desperate race to make Sam impregnate her before her boyfriend David could - while at the same time making David believe himself to be the father of the child she knew in her heart she would conceive.
Sex had become an obsession. Sara and Sam met almost every day, snatching opportunities to make love wherever they could find them - lunchtimes, in the car, after work - and had already spent two whole mornings in bed together on Sara's previous 'hot' days making love every hour, like today.
Ever practical, Sara had telephoned Sam the previous evening to let him know that the following day would be a 'hot' one - when she was most likely to conceive - and that they must make love as much as possible while it lasted. In the morning they had both called in sick from work, and after Sara had given Sam the 'all clear' by phone to tell him David had gone out to work, Sam had driven quickly over to her flat.
They had spent the entire morning in bed together, making love, being close, Sara always on her back to give Sam's sperm the best possible chance of impregnating her.
They were both now sore; Sam's cock and Sara's whole vulva both a deep red-purple colour, their bodies flushed and tired. All around them the damp, stained sheets bore witness to their passion.
As she lay listening to her brother's slow, steady breathing, Sara closed her eyes and tried to imagine the millions of Sam's tiny sperm swimming inside her, upwards and upwards towards her womb, anxious to fertilise her. She willed them to succeed. A warm glow spread through her tired body as her mind drifted.
They both slept, exhausted.
*****
Across town, David sat in the Singing Kettle Café, waiting for Sophie. She was a little late and he was horrified at how much it seemed to matter to him. He shook his head in self-criticism, and then smiled broadly as the door chimes rang and Sophie appeared framed in the bright sunlight of the summer’s day.
Over the past year, they had met for coffee regularly. Sophie had not mentioned love again and David gradually began to realize that this disappointed him. Shuddering slightly, he tried to pull himself together. She's just a girl. He couldn't be falling in love with her!
Today was a special day – Sophie’s seventeenth birthday had arrived, and they were to have lunch in their favourite café. As she settled in the seat opposite, David watched Sophie as closely as he could without staring. She had come fresh from her Sixth Form classes and looked very young. Her long slim legs were clad in a bright summer skirt which fell to just above the knee and the tight sleeveless top she wore over her slightly overweight tummy and tiny breasts made her look sweet and innocent. Crowned with long strawberry blonde hair drawn back in a pony tail, she looked young and lovely – that was the word for it, David decided. Really lovely.
David himself had come directly from school and looked the young, slightly trendy teacher he was in tight light coloured trousers, a short sleeved shirt and tie. There were two pens in his breast pocket – one blue, the other red. She made him feel old, he realised.
Sophie was clearly pleased to see David and, after a few minutes of smiling, and animated ‘Happy Birthday’s’, a plump young waitress arrived to take their order. They knew the café menu by heart now and while David ordered their meals, Sophie briefly visited the ladies’ room to ‘powder her nose’.
When she returned, there was a gift-wrapped parcel on the table at her place.
Sophie’s face lit up. She picked up the package and, carefully opening the wrapping, took out the slim poetry book within.
“Dave!” She exclaimed. “It’s exactly what I need!”
“I know. I'm a teacher!” he teased. She reached across the table to show him the inscription and her hand touched the back of his as she thanked him. To his astonishment he found himself trembling. This was, he realized, almost the first physical contact there had been between them.
She did not rush to remove her hand, and he did not remove his.
“They’re mostly love poems, too.” Sophie said, almost casually and David blushed despite himself.
The tension was broken as their food arrived. They ate heartily, their conversation lively and cheerful. Time passed too swiftly and David for one was sorry when the clock eventually told them it was time to get back to work.
David paid their bill and made to leave, but as he pushed his chair back, Sophie grasped his hand in hers. She leaned towards him and whispered earnestly.
“Dave! I want you to know that I still love you. I know you only see me as a child, but whatever I look like, I'm seventeen now.” She paused, wondering how to go on.
“We've been getting on well for a year, now. Will you take me to the movies tonight?”