Friday had been a busy day. It involved driving all the way back to the city and giving his sister some cash as a gift. He was capped at how much he could just give her if they wanted to avoid taxes on the transfer. Amy tried to protest but Henry shut that down.
"What happened to me working for you?" she asked.
"I am still going to hire you. This isn't for that. This is me trying to take care of my sister. So now you don't have to feel trapped. You can stay or go home as you wish. I mean, I'd like you to stay but this means you don't have to if you don't want to."
"But I want to stay."
"Good. I want you to stay, but I want it to be your choice. Ok."
"Ok. My choice."
"And don't tell Ron about this money. That's a no no."
Also on Friday Amy met Merissa and they all had a late dinner together. Henry was happy to see that those two got a long so well. Someone had told him once that women needed other women to talk to. Who knows if that's really true or not but he was happy for his sister to have a friend one way or the other.
Henry was at the point now where he didn't even care if that dinner counted as a date or not. He was just counting down the days until that annulment hearing happened and then he'd be a free man and could marry Merissa or anyone else.
But of course, as soon as Henry had something good, Keiko had to show up and ruin his day. After dinner she was there waiting for him outside his apartment building. Henry told Amy to just not even listen to her. As Keiko loudly yelled out to him about money this and money that. She tried to block his way into the building but then another tenant was behind them who wanted to go in.
Amy and Keiko sort of got into a physical scuffle as Amy kept Keiko from following them into the building. Once the siblings were all the way up to Henry's apartment he just waited until Keiko found a way into the building and started banging on his door.
Bang, bang, bang
"Henry! I know you're in there."
Bang, bang, bang
"I'm going to call the police and tell them what your sister did to me if you don't come out here."
Bang, bang, bang
Henry didn't even think of opening the door. He called the apartment manager, who called security and then Henry and Amy listened as Keiko screamed at the top of her lungs for them to let her go. Once they had her removed from the building they came back up to let Henry know it had been done and that they'd call the police to have her arrested if she showed up again.
Well, that had been an interesting night. And what was even more interesting was when Henry looked at his numbers in the computer. So nice. He could see another deal in the works. He really thought he could see something. Maybe. Just maybe. He sort of felt like he shouldn't be cocky. But if he bought this over here, that might cause those people over there to do that. Then the numbers would move in the direction that Henry wanted and then he could strike and make even more money. That was assuming that people did what Henry thought they would do.
That was when he felt a kiss on his ear.
Henry turned to his sister. "What's up?"
"You only have one bed."
"Yeah, I'll sleep on the sofa. You can have the bed."
"It's big enough for both of us."
"I know but ... is that a good idea."
"I don't care."
"Well, ... um ... I guess ..." Henry was trying to think of something to say to get out of it. Mentally he knew that this was just so wrong. But it was difficult when his sister was giving him a hard on. He didn't know why that would be happening to him. In his head he new she was his sister but somehow, when she started to let her shirt slip off her shoulders and she put her hand on his crotch, she changed into someone to fuck.
"It won't be like before. I promise."
"What do you mean?"
"Could you be gentle with me this time?"
"Well, that's up to you."
She started to kiss Henry on the neck as her hands moved over his body to try and get him out of his shirt.
"Wait." Henry said.
"I've waited all day."
"Amy, just hold on. Please."
"We don't have to hold back. We've already done it once."
"I know. And ... and ... wait. Ok, so we did it yesterday. Maybe it would be best to space this out a bit."
"Henry please, I need something."
"Ok, but why is this the something you need."
She shook her head and closed her eyes. "It helps me feel normal."
"This is not normal."
"I know. I know that. You don't understand. Being with you is ... intense. I know it's wrong. I know everything about it is wrong. But it's not as wrong as the other thing."
"Other thing?"
"Yes. And as long as I'm focused on this, I don't have to feel the other stuff."
"Other stuff?"
She nodded and held his hand tight.
"Amy, I understand that there's something to work out. I just question if me and you ... doing it, is the best way to deal with it."
"Just do it. Come on. I know it's bad but is it really so bad?"
"Ok. We can do it. But you know, they say absence makes the heart grow fonder. So, how about we ..."
"I need it now."
"I got it. Listen. How about we do a little bit just to tide us over."
"Like what?"
"Like, we could just fool around a bit but not go all the way. Yesterday we just dived right in and I didn't have enough time to get use to the water. Come on. You have to meet me half way."
"Would you go down on me?"
Henry thought for a second. That could work. Sure, that could work.