This is my first story on Literotica. Hope you guys like it.
Feel free to comment and tell me about any scope of improvement.
Also a big thanks to Marshalmarmont1815 for editing the story.
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Ralph and Andy had been friends since childhood and their friendship continued to remain strong even in the final year of high school. Ralph used to spend a lot of time at Andy's huge house as an escape from a very cruel aunt (he was an orphan) who thought Ralph was a very bad boy and needed to be tortured at every chance possible and he also had a huge crush on Andy's twin sister Susan, but never asked her out of the fear of spoiling his friendship with Andy.
Andy and Ralph were so close that his mom considered him her second son. Susan was in the same class as him and Andy while their mom Margaret was a single mother and a reputed lawyer. Ralph was just a normal high school kid with an average life (except the aunt of course) with good grades and big ambitions.
Until one fateful day...
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I wasn't able to sleep that night, I knew something was wrong. I had very strong premonition that something bad had happened. Feeling the need to talk to someone I called up Andy but it turned out his phone was unreachable, after several more futile attempts calling him, I lay on my bed staring at the ceiling and drifted off to sleep.
My phone rang at 3:25 am waking me up from deep slumber, I saw it was Susan's call, my heart fearing something had happened and I picked up her call reluctantly.
"Andy's dead" Susan said and burst out into tears.
As it turned out, Andy had gone to a takeout place to buy dinner for his family when he lost control of his car on a bridge and his car nose dived into the river. I couldn't believe my best friend was gone.
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I could not make out that the wetness on my cheeks was due to the rain or my tears as I stood at Andy's funeral. I had not been home in the past two days and constantly remained with Susan and Margaret as a firm pillar of support, looking after them as both of them had gone completely numb after Andy's death.
After the funeral the journey to Andy's house was a silent one as none of us spoke anything. After we reached home I made both Susan and Margaret a strong drink which both downed in one gulp. Alcohol seemed to have it's effect as Susan started weeping silently letting her feelings out, I instinctively sat by her side on the sofa and hugged her as she cried her heart out over my shoulder.
It was after a while that Margaret spoke, "Ralph you have been our greatest pillar of support in this tragedy, I don't know what we would have done had it not been for you."
Silently sobbing she continued, "I know I'll be asking a lot from you with a request of mine and I would understand if you say no, but if you are fine with it can you please move in with us for a while?"
After thinking for a while I replied, "I would love to move in with you both, but it's my aunt I need to worry about as she had strictly said the moment I move out of her house she would stop paying for my expenses and won't even pay for my college leaving me in a sticky spot as I would have no place to go to after I leave your place."
Margaret simply replied, "Who said anything about leaving us, You and Andy were best friends and moreover you are like a second son to me, I had saved enough money for Andy's college fees which I would happily spend on you rather than keeping it in the bank",
"Thank you Margaret but it would be a very big favor to take and I cannot be such a burden on you." I replied.
Margaret just got up put a finger on my lips and said, "No more words young man, you're moving in and I'm paying your college fees, that's final.''
She then hugged both me and Susan and said "The three of us are a family and nobody is a burden in the family."
We stayed in this position for long time hugging and crying at the same time. I moved in with Margaret and Susan the very next day saying a final goodbye to my aunt and found Andy's room prepared for me. That night the three of us had dinner together, both the women were a bit cheerful from yesterday and we had a long talk after dinner where Margaret told us about her first love, a big jock from high school.