This is a stand-alone story, but it follows the story arc begun in 'Amy.' I think reading that story first would be a good idea.
My name is William. While there had been a little bit of chatter for a couple of days beforehand, it was still a shock when at the end of March 2020, just a few weeks before my 20th birthday, the University I attended announced that it was closing down due to the pandemic. Everybody was being sent home, at least until the fall term.
That put a huge crimp in my plans for the remainder of the semester, and for the summer. My girlfriend, Micky, and I had made plans. But apparently everything had just been canceled. She and I headed off in different directions. Which I thought on my way home, really rots. Then I heard from my sister, Amy-- a year-and-a-half younger than I, and a senior in high school-- her prom and convocation ceremony had just disappeared.
Dad works for a trucking company, and mom got a job there as well. The firm was having trouble finding enough drivers for all the new business, so they dropped the minimum age a year to 20. Which meant that if I could find somebody to give me the test-- which had to be taken in person-- I might be able to get on there as well.
I wasn't having any luck with that. While it wasn't the internship that I had lined up before, at least it would be something. As opposed to sitting around the house all day doing not much of anything.
Mom and dad left early for work. I was in my room, half-heartedly looking up information online for a paper that I now had four months to complete-- instead of four weeks. Amy bounded in, all cheerful. Happy to have a distraction, I closed the laptop and listened as she started talking about something.
More than anything I was digging her mood, she should have been a lot more depressed than I was over the whole situation. But, honestly, I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to what she was saying until she got to the part about Christine wanting to have sex with me.
Christine was Amy's best buddy-- and while lots of times in school a really cute, really athletic, or really bright girl seems to have a best friend who is her exact opposite-- Christine and Amy were far more alike than different. Both of them being attractive, coordinated, and intelligent.
I didn't know Christine nearly as well as my sister but from what I did know I could easily see a world in which I had a future with Christine-- you know, should anything happen to my relationship with Mickey, which was quite possible because people don't often marry their high school or college sweethearts.
My immediate thought about Christine's relative compatibility then brought a pang of guilt because I was thinking about the high statistical probability of the end of my relationship with Mickey-- someone whom I was really missing. Then Amy said something that threw me a bit for a loop. But that can easily be chalked up to the fact that while I was thinking about all this, I wasn't really listening to my sister's words.
I thought that I heard Amy say that she-- meaning my sister Amy-- wanted to have sex with me. But it was right after she-- Amy-- had just said that Christine wanted to have sex with me, leaving me momentarily confused.
I had been daydreaming and half-listening. But now, it became imperative for me to understand what exactly was being said. Without letting on to the fact that I hadn't really been listening. Because that is something I've been annoyingly accused of doing fairly often. Which is possibly because it is absolutely true.
Then my sister made it clear that she had given some considerable thought to the concept of having sex with me-- her brother-- and she had discussed it with Christine. Further that neither Christine nor Amy seemed to object or be the slightest bit jealous when discussing the concept of both of them having sex with me. Oh, and she dropped that little tidbit of information that apparently Christine-- someone whom I saw as being so compatible with me-- had an ongoing sexual relationship with her own older brother.
I was really dying to know how that worked out-- not that I could ask...
Then I suddenly got guilty again. Because when I weighed the options, having a sexual relationship with two wonderful young women who were open to freely discussing having a sexual relationship based on sexual needs not abstractions... Two intelligent, attractive, non-couch-potatoes who were accepting of the concept that I had a sexual relationship with both of them...