Last night I had this absolutely delicious dream about fucking my cousin, and fucking him hard. In it, we were sitting on a couch in a room I didn't recognize (but in the dream I knew it was in some family member's house), and something was said and suddenly his hand was reaching in between my legs, pushing up under my skirt, fumbling to push back my panties, and then there it was – rubbing against my lips, pushing in, funneling in wanting to find that special little place between, and he was just about to when...oops, the door opened and my mom walked in. and the hand was pulled back and I pulled a pillow onto my lap, and for the rest of the dream, everyone seemed to know something that I knew but thought I didn't.
So I have to wonder where such a funny dream comes from, and I say funny because it is funny, and it's been on my mind since I woke up. The other funny thing is that I had the dream around 8:14 this morning (I woke up in the middle of it because the cat jumped on the bed) and I curled up around my pillow and went back to sleep. And the dream continued (maybe it repeated) and then I dreamt other things, but when I woke up woke up around noon, it was still in my head and it's been there all day. It's not the sort of feeling I would expect either. It's this naughty, fun little feeling that has been in my head and between my legs all day long. I turned on music this afternoon and was dancing around the apartment while I cleaned, and it's hot so I was only wearing a mini skirt and a bikini top. And while I danced, while I rubbed up against the door frame – the wood sliding between my breasts and between my legs – I was thinking about him. I was thinking about the next time I'd see him (probably not for awhile), and how I wanted him to notice the curve of my breasts, the curve of my ass, the way my stomach looks when I'm naked. I want him to imagine that when he looks at me, and it will make me smile. And he's my cousin, and this is all crazy.
I remembered later that he has a girlfriend now, and I thought about how I wished he didn't, or if he did, I wished he'd think about fucking me too. I wonder if he thinks about fucking me. I wonder if he notices the sexual tension between us or if it's just me. I think he must because I'm pretty good at reading those types of things usually. But then again, this is new territory. This is cousin territory.
So today, as I've been awake, cleaning and going about my day, I've been thinking about all the moments we've shared in my head. It's not shared moments in the sense that I share moments with a close friend. We don't share moments, and we aren't close and I've always put it down to age difference (he's 33 and I'm just about to tip 21), but now I have to wonder if that's the real reason. Or are we not close because underneath the hello-goodbye hugs and the few words we exchange in between, we really just want to fuck each other's brains out? And what would they all say if they found out?
Now I have to dissect all those moments like an 8th grader to think about what they mean. It's funny, now, to think about those hugs. His brother always gives me big bear hugs, big paternal hugs because he's so much older than me and there is a very older cousin-younger cousin vibe that passes between us. But him – there are no bear hugs there. His hugs are always there, but they aren't paternal and it always feels like he is inwardly pulling away. Is he pulling his hips away? Should I push mine in? What would I do if I pushed against something hard?
And then there are other moments. The way he gave me this sidelong, inquisitive glance the day we played that word game in the kitchen at his brother's house, and they all drank beer (I was, of course, at 18 too young) and when the word was spit, I said swallow and they all looked at me in surprise, and at the time I didn't think to look at his face. But later on, as I slid out the door, I caught that look floating across his eyes as he turned his head towards me. Did I unmask it that day, with such a blatant form of sexuality that was surprising to all of them but inspiring to him? Did I hurtle myself from that young cousin to a young woman with hips and breasts and lips and this reeking sexual identity that other friends have told me I put off? Is it there around family too? I've never thought to notice.
At his sister's wedding, he was a little drunk and I was wearing a tight purple dress and a flat stomach and long, toned legs and a pair of heels, and I'm sure he'd never seen me like that. He called me over, loudly, wanted to tell me that his friend wanted to know how old I was – was I old enough? That was the real question. And I laughingly declined the request. I was, in fact, old enough (19) but I had a date, a boyfriend, a loving one, and I wonder if I actually tossed him a saucy smile as I hip-swung away or if that was only in my imagination. Who was actually asking the questions there? Who was disappointed?