"Goddammit!"
The curse slipped out under my breath—but not as far under my breath as it should have been.
"Careful, Mase." my twin sister whispered. "Mom or Dad might hear you. And you know what happens when they hear us talk that way."
I looked her in the eyes. "Yes, Madison, I know," I said. I was whispering quietly now, though I was still upset—upset enough to have used her full name. "Sorry. But this problem shouldn't be so hard. What am I not seeing?"
It was a little after eleven on a Saturday night near the end of January—late, maybe, but not too late for a night when there was no school the next day. In fact, even though Mom and Dad had gone to bed an hour and a half earlier, it was still early enough that you might ask why a brother and sister—a couple of eighteen-year-old twins, high school seniors—were sitting in their mom's kitchen, studying calculus instead of being out partying and trying to get laid before curfew.
The answer to that one is easy: we were taking calculus; we had a test on Monday; and we had gotten
C
s on the last test because we had dicked off for a few weeks. We'd managed not to let Mom or Dad find out about that, so it wasn't because we'd been grounded that we were studying on a Saturday night. But if we didn't do pretty well on this exam and the next, there would be no way to conceal a semester grade that was—shall we say, "less than optimal.". And then, for sure, the fecal matter would experience a collision with the rotating air circulation device. And, in consequence, we would find ourselves in the headwaters of the proverbial polluted tributary, lacking the proper means of propulsion.
"Which one?" she asked. She leaned over from where she was sitting next to me at the kitchen table, and I moved the book toward her to show her the problem.
"That's an integration-by-parts problem," she said. "It isn't very hard at all."
"I tried that," I answered. "But I couldn't make it work. What am I doing wrong?" I showed her my scratchwork. She leaned over to look at it; a boob rubbed against my arm as she did. The mound of flesh was distracting, but, somehow, I maintained my focus on the problem.
"You stopped too soon," she replied. "This is one of those problems where you have to repeat it a couple of times."
The technique came back to mind. "Shit!" I said. "I should've remembered that trick."
She punched my upper arm. "Not so loud, Mason," she growled in a stage whisper. She was a little pissed, now, that I needed a second warning about noise and bad language. "If they hear us, we'll have to explain why two healthy eighteen-year-olds are so worried about their calculus that they're studying it on a Saturday night instead of being out trying to do things they don't want their parents to know about."
They'd been upstairs in bed for a while, so they had no idea that we were still up, still studying. We hoped they were asleep, but there was no guarantee. She went on, "But first, you'll get grounded for saying 'shit.' What's wrong with you tonight?"
"I don't know, Maddie" I said as I started working out the problem that had been frustrating me. "I guess I just don't like having to stay in and study tonight."
"Okay," she said. "I get it. I don't like it either. It's boring. This sure isn't the way I want to spend Saturday night. Let's each do a few more problems and then take a break." She got up from the table where we were sitting and, carefully and quietly, pulled a pan out of the cupboard. "I'll put on some water for cocoa, and we can each have a cup while we think about other things for a little while."
"That works for me," I said. "Then maybe we can study for another hour or so before we go to bed."
"I was thinking of hitting the hay around one," she said, as she ran water into the pan.
I thought about it as she put the pan on the stove and got two cups out of the cupboard. "Sounds good," I agreed. "Cocoa, study until one, and then bedtime."
She grunted in agreement as she put a spoonful of mix into the second cup.
She reseated herself and I went back to my problem—and had that one and the next two worked out before the water boiled. The one that had stumped me had been easy, like she'd said—once I remembered the trick.
The two that followed were just as easy, using the same trick. I got them both done in the time it took her to leave the table, get a pot holder out of the drawer, pick up the metal-handled pan, pour hot water into the two cups, and give them each a stir.
I was just finishing that last problem when she came back to the table, a cup in each hand. She put her own down where she had been sitting and moved to place mine where I could reach it. As she leaned over, a boob pressed into the back of my shoulder again. This time, I couldn't resist the urge to wiggle against it.
Feeling my motion, she snorted "Are you perving on me, Mase?" And she pressed a little harder, imparting some motion to her tit as she did so.
"There's nobody else to perv on around here," I said, "so I don't have any choice."
After a final fillip, she pulled away from me and delivered another punch. "What about Mom?" she asked.
Mom was over forty, so she was ineligible—at least in
my
mind.
"Eww!" I groaned. "You've got to be kidding."
"You mean I'm your last resort?"
While this was brother-sister repartee, there was a hint—that I didn't immediately hear—of pain in her voice. "No," I said, after I'd taken a sip of my hot chocolate. "You're my
only
resort."
"I suppose," she said as she sat down beside me again, "I should be happy that at least I'm a resort!'
"Hey!" I replied, finally hearing the unpleasant note in her voice. "That doesn't sound like you. What's wrong?"
"Oh," she said, "nothing too terrible. It just isn't working with Gene. I like him, but I don't think it's going to last."
"Gosh, I'm sorry," I said. I took another sip. "Do you want to talk about it?" Gene was a guy she'd been dating for a few weeks.
"A little, I guess. But it isn't worth a lot of your time. He just isn't the guy I thought he might be. Probably time for me to move on." She brought her cup to her mouth and took a sip—too big a sip: she winced from the mouthful of hot liquid. "Ooh! That's still too hot!"
"Are you okay?" I asked. "Need some cold water? An ice cube?" I moved to get up.
She put a hand on my thigh and pressed downward, shutting down my motion before I was off the chair. "No," she said. "It was just a little too much. I'm okay."
We sat there for a minute or two, saying nothing, sipping on our cocoa. Then she broke the silence. "I think he's gay. But he hasn't figured it out yet. He hasn't made a move on me during the four weeks we've been dating. Even when I 'accidentally' rub against him. He never even kissed me until last week."
Pointedly, I scanned her body with my eyes. Like me, she had light brown hair and blue eyes. At about five feet, four inches, she was seven or eight inches shorter than I. We were both slender and moderately athletic. Her boobs were prominent, though not exaggerated; we differed in that respect. She had nice hips and a well-rounded ass. (I didn't have those, either.)
All in all, and even in the loose, flowing sweatshirt and sweatpants she was now wearing, my male eyes found her very pleasing. Admittedly, those eyes belonged to a pretty horny male: I didn't have a steady girlfriend, and I dated around. It'd been a few weeks since I'd gotten any action—let alone gotten laid.
"Yup!" I offered. "If he hasn't been trying to get your clothes off, he's gay. Gotta be!"
I sipped my cocoa. She smiled at the compliment. It was a subdued smile, but it was a smile. And, I noticed, her hand still rested on my thigh. "Thanks," she said. "But twin brothers aren't supposed to notice. And when one does, it's probably because he's trying to cheer his sister up."
"Well, I guess I am trying to cheer you up. But you're definitely hot, so wanting to make you happy isn't why I said it. It must feel awful to be with a guy who doesn't seem to be interested."
"Well, it doesn't feel all that good," she said, as she drew another sip from her cup. "But I'll survive. Maybe other guys will be interested." The hand on my thigh delivered a squeeze—and remained where it was.
"They will!" I said. "You can be sure of it."
The cocoa in both cups was gone now. The hand finally left my thigh. But as she removed her hand to reach for my empty cup, it brushed against my cock, delivering what I might have called a feel—or even a caress—if I hadn't thought it an accidental consequence of her other motions. Picking up my cup, along with hers, she stood. As she moved toward the sink ten feet or so away, cups in hand, she said, "Thanks. But we'd probably better get back..."
As she reached the sink and set the cups down beside it, she let the sentence hang. She turned and looked into my eyes. There was a peculiar expression on her face.
"What..." I mumbled, not sure what was on her mind.