Growing up, my whole family was close. Both of my parents had strenuous relations with their own immediate families, and so they wanted to make sure that didn't happen to us. Because of that, we spent a lot of time together, just the four of us. Family dinners, board game nights, camping trips, family vacations, the whole nine yards. Me, my younger sister, and our loving, if at times overprotective, parents. We had our own ups and downs, but overall I was always proud of how well we got on as a family.
When I was little, I remember me and my dad would hang out a lot, just us guys, while the two girls did something together. Then as me and my sister got older, I remember us hitting a sweet spot, where it was often the kids vs the parents. Olivia was two years younger than me, and always trying to be like her older brother. I have this one memory of the four of us at Disney. We weren't the most well off, so it was rare we went on what we called a 'fancy vacation', but our parents still made it happen every few years. This particular time I was twelve, or thereabouts, and my sister was ten. I remember it being the first time we really teamed up. Every ride Liv wanted to go on with me, a big change from her usual habit of only wanting to ride with our mom. I remember that trip being exceptionally fun, the two kids sticking together while the parents watched on. It was the first time I really felt like Liv and I were friends.
That lasted for a while. We hung out a lot in those few years before puberty. Then, of course, things changed a bit when we were teens. The raging hormones hit and we both rebelled in our own ways, against our parents and against each other. We took turns being the disgruntled teen, me with my hood up and music blasting on one trip, Liv haughty and ignoring everyone on the next. We fought with each other as much as our parents, plenty of slamming doors and loud words exchanged at the smallest things. She was mad at me for stealing her blanket. I was mad at her for showering too long. We wanted to see different movies or eat at different restaurants. Normal sibling stuff.
Things quieted down somewhat as I got ready to leave for university. I had started to confide in Liv a bit more during my later years of high school, and I liked to think she was starting to get sad I was leaving. For a bit it was almost like we were best friends again. I'd knock on her bedroom door late at night, after coming home from being out with friends, and decompress by telling her about my night. What girl I'd been chasing after or what crazy shit I'd gotten into with my friends. I'd pull her desk chair out and sit with my feet up on her dresser, and she'd tell me not to sit like that and I'd pretend not to hear her. I was always disappointed if I got in too late and she wasn't still awake, missing our nightly chat.
When I left for school, a long time passed before I spent a meaningful amount of time with her again. With her or with my parents. I went to university pretty far away, breaking up our pattern of spending a lot of time together as four. The only time I made it home was Christmas. On top of that, the summer between my freshman and sophomore year, I took a job on campus, an internship with a professor I liked, so I didn't go home. The three of them still went on a summer vacation. I got plenty of pictures and messages in the family group chat talking about how it wasn't the same without me. As much as I was enjoying the independence on campus, I have to admit I was sad not to be there.
Then my sophomore year I even missed Christmas. I was doing a semester abroad in the spring, and decided to head to Europe early to travel with some other people on the program. Mom was pretty devastated, Dad was excited for me, and came back with a list of things I needed to see and do while over there. Liv was strangely non-reactive. At that point in time it'd been close to a year since I saw her person. Dad had visited me over the summer, and mom had helped me move in the fall, but my sister hadn't found a time to visit her older brother. If I'm being honest I didn't think about it that much. We texted and talked on the phone every once in a while, but I figured she was busy with her senior year of high school. When I broke the news I wouldn't be home until May or June, she didn't say much beyond 'have fun abroad!'
So going into this summer, it had been close to a year and a half since I'd seen Liv. I decided to go home, it'd been a while, I couldn't find any enticing offers on campus, and I missed my family. Excited by the news, my parents wanted to celebrate my return (and Liv's high school graduation) with a trip, like we used to do all the time. Just the four of us. Hence the cabin.
My semester ended later, and on top of that I dallied in Europe a bit, seeing some more sites with friends. So I didn't get home until well into June. I needed a summer job and Olivia had already gotten one life guarding, so our parents wasted no time in planning our trip out to the lakeside cabin, making sure it could happen before we all got too busy. I was skeptical when I first heard the cabin pitch, but was preoccupied with travel, and didn't think much of it.
Essentially the timeline was as follows: I got back to the states late on a Wednesday night. Dad picked me up from the airport. I spent Thursday/Friday jetlagged to hell. I saw Olivia and mom briefly, gave them hugs and we all ate dinner together, but I was generally too groggy to be good for anything, and they were working during the day. Then Saturday came along, the four of us piled into the car, early in the morning as dad preferred, and off we went. Roughly an eight hour drive later, through most of which I slept, and here we were, cleaning out an old cabin by the lake.
I'll spare you the details, but it took a few hours. Our parents started in the master bedroom, while I did the kitchen, and Olivia worked on her upstairs room. Eventually my dad went to work on the bathroom, and us three moved to the big main room. The deep clean was definitely needed, but I think we were all pleasantly surprised with how well kept the cabin turned out to be. It was hidden under a layer of dust and cobwebs, but it wasn't half bad. One bathroom might be a little annoying, but over the years we had definitely stayed in much worse, and much smaller, places. Dad had rented the cabin until the following Sunday, so we had a little over eight days. Plenty of time to get in the missed family time.
I collapsed onto the couch, residual jet lag and hard scrubbing having done me in pretty well. I was covered in sweat. Despite the sun sinking low into the sky, the heat had not abated. Taking a breath, I watched mom finish up around the stove, finicking with the door. Dad was in the bathroom still, messing with the water pressure. Liv had gone back up into her room, but there was a loud creak from the loft ladder as she descended. The couch I was seated on was to the right of the ladder, so I glanced behind myself and up at the noise.
I was met with one of the most amazing asses I had ever seen in my life. It took me a second to realize it belonged to my sister. I snapped my head away, embarrassed even though I had no reason to be.
"C'mon WIll. We have some daylight left." Olivia said as she jumped the last few rungs and came to stand in front of me. "Swim time." My sister had changed into a red bikini, and it was all I could do not to stare.
The year and a half had been kind to Liv. Maybe too kind, seeing as she was my sister.
My kid sister
! I had to remind myself. 'Kid' sister no more. Olivia had a September birthday, and so was eighteen going on nineteen. The last time I'd seen her she'd been barely seventeen, and the last time I'd seen her in a swimsuit she'd not even been sixteen, a far shot from a woman. It was a young woman that stood in front of me now. I knew she'd gotten really into swimming, but hadn't realized the wonders it worked for her figure. She was skinny and toned, and tall like me. She'd filled out, her boobs and hips rounding out beautifully. And that ass, oh my god that ass. I'd gotten a great look as she came down the ladder. Firm and shapely, it moved in all the right places, while still being perfectly proportionate to her size. And Liv had always been cute.
Fair skin dotted here and there with the odd freckle, she still had that early summer paleness. Sandy blonde hair framed her sleek features, her lips pouting impatiently at my failure to be ready. She had hazel eyes, a color I had always thought too pretty for her own good. Mixed with her newly matured features, it was all a deadly combo. Add on her choice of bikini, and I was having very sudden, and very dirty, intrusive thoughts. The swimsuit left very little to the imagination, definitely an unorthodox choice for what was supposed to be a family only vacation. Small triangles covered her breasts, and an equally small section of fabric made up her bottoms. I'd already caught a glimpse of the back as well, which was little more than a thong.
I tried to focus on her face and eyes. It was harder than I ever remembered it being.
"Give me a second, I'm exhausted." I yawned, half to distract myself, half because I was in fact exhausted.
"Oh come on," Liv insisted. "Don't you feel gross from the drive, and all the cleaning? And who knows when dad will have the shower ready."
"Not soon." He shouted helpfully from the bathroom.