Editor's note: this story contains scenes of incest or incest content.
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I'd seen Dylan like this a hundred times - desolate with heartache over some wonderful girl. Juliette, Amy, Lucy, whoever. I lost count, and can't remember all their names. It cut him up the same every time.
I hoped to find him happy and well when I stepped off the late train to Manchester. Smiling wide and sad, he gave me a big squeeze and made lame jokes. But I know him too well, and could see immediately that his luck in love had not improved since leaving home.
He wouldn't let me carry my sports bag, pushing me affectionately backwards when I tried to retrieve it.
"Is that my shirt?" he glowered, recognising his green Fred Perry polo, "Honestly, turn my back for fifteen minutes and you're going through all my stuff!"
I always liked this shirt, or at least Dylan made it look sexy.
"Nah, keep it, looks good on you bro," he granted, holding a pub door open.
We managed to laugh over the first pint, but by the second he was telling me about Joanne and how it hadn't worked out. His eyes began to glisten with those familiar tears and I hated her.
He'd never let me say anything mean (he was too much of a sweetheart to get bitter), but I thought they were all fucking thick in the head. My Big Brother Dylan was the most total babe you could dream of. And hot AF, with a broad Rugby-champ chest and little blonde hairs. How could they let him go?
Dylan sniffed and straightened himself up, trying to change the subject,
"What about you tho, Louis boi? Got any sweet action back home?"
I blushed and said I wasn't seeing anyone at the moment, being deliberately vague because at 19 I'd still never actually had a boyfriend yet.
"What? A handsome young buck like you still single? We need to get you laid!"
Dylan was so super supportive of me since I came out the year before, but he often overstepped in awkward ways like this.
"Hey, maybe we should date each other!" he guffawed, ruffing my hair.
I told him to shut up or something as I took our empties to the bar. But waiting to be served I couldn't help think that if Dylan wasn't my Brother I'd jump at the chance to be his boyfriend. He was so big and warm and lush. And he always smelled so good. His body smelled good. I'd never send him away in tears like all those stupid women.
I could see Dylan resolved to be cheerful when I returned with new drinks, and knowing he wanted to forget I bought several Sambucas.
"Louis, mate!" he chuckled, and took a snap of the teetering shot glasses for Instagram.
Before long we were properly drunk and Dylan was tugging me close with his hand clenched in a tight blokey fist. He always got sentimental when he drank, planting kisses on my cheek and swearing his fealty.
I don't know what made me do it. But when I knew the next kiss was coming I turned my head.
Our lips met, and Dylan opened up. Without the faintest flutter of resistance or shock we fell into one another's arms and kissed. Deep and passionate, swimming in the bliss of a love kept too long in doubt.
I'd hardly let myself even think it before now, but suddenly everything was clear. The way I looked up to Dylan was so much more than a little brother's admiration. My long glances at his body when he stepped from the shower had been more than adolescent fascination. I missed him with more than a familial bond now that he was gone. I was jealous of his women. I was pining for his touch.
I had always been in love with Dylan and in this moment I knew I wanted only him.
New fears crashed into my heart as our lips slowly parted. Did Dylan feel the same? Was this just some drunken mistake?
"Louis boi..." he panted, catching his breath, our eyes locked into each other, "Let me make love to you, Louis."
We stopped a dozen times under street lamps and in doorways to push and pash as we staggered back to his place. I couldn't hold him close enough. His hands, his face. I wanted his hands on me forever.
Falling into his sheets and enveloping myself in his bed scent was a wild dream. He threw his t-shirt off in single swing, revealing those broad pecs and the tattoo on his shoulder. Then he tumbled over me.
We kissed again, but he was impatient to get me naked. Clamped between his mighty thighs I remembered the horseplay of our childhood. How I'd missed his dominance. Happily he'd not lost any of his power, and pulled me around the mattress like the Heavyweight he'd always been.