Chapter 4: A Happy Portent of the Future
The next day, we woke up, made love. Ate, made love again. Watched some TV, made love a third time. Basking in the newfound love, we were like two married people on their honeymoon, caring little about the outside world. When the phone rang, we answered it. When we needed to take care of bathroom needs, we took care of them. How much we wanted each other let us block out the world at large.
We didnât really explore new positions that morning or that afternoon, deciding instead to just get more experienced in the sex weâd engaged in already. It took practice to get better, something we wanted to be very good just to please each other, and we put our all into this.
But, five oâclock came around really fast. I had to get to work quickly, with Rene teasing me the entire way. We showered together, though she definitely had other activities in mind, then I got dressed. Looking through my drawers, she located one of my larger t-shirts, throwing it on her nude body. Though we were twins, I stood a good head taller, with a compact, muscled frame. The shirt covered her well, oversized on her small body, just coming down to her mid-thigh. She modeled it for me and it dawned on me she shouldâve a model, as hot as she looked. Oh, well, I thought, their loss, my gain.
I left the house after giving her a long kiss and a word to call me immediately if she needed me. It might take me awhile to get home, but at least I knew a good back road to get me there faster. I worked a couple towns over, in a video game store in the local mall. It wasnât as big as the ones in Hartford, but it was good-sized and got some good business.
Only after the mall closed when I was helping to close the store did she call. The giggling in her voice and in the background hinted it was her playing around, maybe just to tell me to get home, maybe even just to tell me how much she loved me. Not wanting Chris, one of the other employees who was only a year older than me, to hear what might be said, I took the phone call in the back room and closed the door. Iâd been right, all she wanted was to make sure I knew she loved me. I whispered the same to her while doing some of the nightly paperwork, careful to avoid being overheard. When she hung up, Chris made his way in, carrying the last piece of paperwork for the night.
Chris and I never really worked together before that night, usually finding different schedules for us. He played baseball for his school like I did, and he seemed like a pretty okay guy. Only the managerâs scheduling left us without much time to get to know each other. Itâd change after that night, as the two of became good friends, but at the moment as he stood there waiting on me, it felt he knew something.
âSo, that your girlfriend?â he asked while grabbing his coat. âShe sounded fucking hot, man.â
My eyes turned to him for a moment while my mind grappled with math. âYes and no to the first one, and very hot.â
âSo you two fucking yet?â His words might have caught me off-guard a week ago but I just kept working.
âNot any of your business. Got a reputation at school, Iâm the nice guy that never talks about that stuff to other guys.â
âOkay, just trying to make conversation.â
âSâok, Iâm cool with it. Besides, donât want to jinx things with us right now, so new and everything.â
He understood, nodding. âNot quite dating but youâd like to be. Interesting.â
Something in Chrisâ tone caught my attention. I looked at him out of the corner of my eye while he waited for me to finish. âYou got something to say?â
âNah, just wondering how long youâve been doing your sister.â
Something caught hard in my throat, sending me into a fit of hacking coughs. It took a few moments to get control, before the shock let up a little. âWh-why do you even think that?â
His grin beamed at me, stretched ear to ear in its smugness. âYep, thought so. Canât blame you either.â
âHuh?â was all I could manage.
âTodd pointed her out to me one day when she and some friends were down in the food court. He told me you two were twins and very close as kids. Always kind of interested me, incest, but Iâm an only child. Canât say it stopped me and my cousin though. Not as sexy as your piece of ass, but still something nice to have.â
âYour cousin? Thatâs not incest-â
âAre you kidding? Sheâs my fatherâs sisterâs daughter. Damn right its incest. But our parents donât care about us dating.â He started pulling something out of his pockets absently, while I watched him in shock. âI wasnât sure youâd even do that kinda thing, though, not until I heard you and her on the phone. Well, it couldâve been someone else, but youâre shock just vindicates me.â
Still dumbfounded, I did manage to say, âBut youâre wrong. Itâs not her.â Part of me wanted to give in, to blurt out, Yes, it was my sister, because I love her more than a sister, but as a man loves a woman. The cautious side didnât let it out, keeping it bottled up.
âAm I? Look, you can tell me. If not about how good she is, at least admit it. No one will know, okay?â
Voices cried out in alarm to keep my mouth shut, but the urge to admit to it enticed me more. âSwear on your game system you wonât tell a soul.â Itâd become a joke in the store, how important our game systems were to us. Video games werenât just our product, they were our hobby in this store. Anytime someone wanted to invoke an oath, they swore on their game system, whatever it might be. So I meant business, and he nodded. âAlright, weâre having an affair, but only you and one of her friends know so far. If it got out in school or my parents found out, weâd never see each other again.â
âLet me guess, your parents are the really religious prude types, huh? Man, I donât envy you now. Itâs gotta be hard keeping this secret from them.â
âActually, theyâre away right now and weâve only been together for a couple days now.â