[All characters in this story are 18 years of age or older.]
***
So I didn't tell my family I was dropping out of college, and apparently, I should have.
Like,
really
should have.
But who in the world would think things would
ever
go... the way they did?
I didn't sleep well
at all
when Seong dropped me at home after midnight that Friday. Tossing and turning in my bed, thinking about Brandt and Eddi, crying over him cheating on me with her, steaming over both of them letting me
catch
them... I mean, what a couple of shits. How could I stay in the house we all rented together, knowing they'd done that? No fucking way. So I stuffed some crap in a backpack and had Seong drive me, which of course she did because Seong can't say no to anyone, but also of course she spent the whole ninety miles telling me what a mistake I was making, how I could just move my stuff to the fifth room we hadn't found a housemate to fill yet, how I'd be screwing up my whole graduation schedule if I blew the semester off and left, how she knew if I tried, I could ignore the fact that Brandt was in half my classes and Eddi was in the other half. You've got to give it to Seong -- she's a ray of sunshine telling you how much she believes in you and how she knows you can do it, you've just got to try. If I hadn't already been gut-sick of my business admin major, she could've convinced me. But half a semester of Finance 327 and Econ 314 made me want to throw myself off a building. That's how I finally got her to shut up, by saying, "You don't want me to throw myself off a building, do you Seong?" And of course then I felt even more like a shit-slug under a moldy rock in an all-weeds garden, because it was hurtful the way I said it, and nobody with three-sevenths of a heart could stand to hurt Seong's feelings and see that thing her face did when she was working her ass off trying to swallow how she felt about whatever they'd said that bothered her. Poor Seong. Nobody should be that good a friend.
Long story short, not much sleep, bad dreams when I finally did get to sleep, and then I woke up at 9:42 with the sun peeking in through my curtains and the house mostly quiet except for Dad and Kellie's voices coming from somewhere down the hall.
Oh god, please let me get to the bathroom without them noticing I'm up and asking me what I'm doing home.
Dad's almost as sensitive and supportive as Seong, and Kellie's always hated Brandt, so as soon as they found out what had happened one or the other or both of them would start driving me crazy with advice or I-told-you-so's.
Headphones.
I put my earbuds in and got my phone and Pandora-ed something and felt pretty good about my plan: keep my eyes down on the screen, nod my head to the beat, and if somebody spotted me and said something, pretend I didn't hear and scoot into the upstairs bath where I could lock the door and run the shower at least half an hour and the hair dryer at least twenty minutes past that.
Yes, great plan.
Opening it as slowly and quietly as I could, I got through my bedroom door into the upstairs hall, walked a little ways down, got to the study, saw that Kellie's door just past there was half-open, caught a glimpse of the happy peach walls inside, realized I could half-hear that the voices were coming from in there, got ready to zip past into the bathroom door kitty-corner to hers... let my eyes flick over to look through the gap --
And froze like... I don't know, like some epic-level mime doing a statue impression for a billion-dollar statue-impression competition or something.
Because...
I shit you not, there they were.
My dad and my sister.
In her bed.
Naked.
And fucking.
Oh, and it wasn't some tender, slow, quiet, eyes painting portraits of each other's souls kind of thing. No, he had her on her hands and knees and was slapping it into her like a porn star. And apparently doing it really well, because right then, she let it out so loud I could hear her over Pandora in my earbuds.
"Oh
shit
, Daddy! YES! Oh God, Yes -- Fuck Me!!!"
So, yeah, that happened.
I hit the pause on my phone immediately in case any notes might get out past the buds, and for that caution I got rewarded with hearing Kellie say in a just barely quieter voice, "Ahhh... Jesus...
Jesus,
Dad!
Nnnnnnhhhh I'mabouttocome
..."
And Dad saying back to her, "Yes, Baby.
Do
it.
Come
for your Daddy..."
And then some of that raw-sex grunting -- the kind that, you know, absolutely explodes your sanity if you hear it coming from your father and your sister over the squishy smacking sound of him doggy-styling her into a nuclear orgasm.
"Oooooohh
AHH
--"
Luckily they were facing the headboard against the far wall, not the doorway. I backed very slowly away. Churchmouse quiet, although I'm pretty sure even a megaphone-equipped Richard-Dawkinsmouse wouldn't have gotten their attention.
The riot of bedspring sounds and other... oh my god,
incest
noises followed me past the study, where I let myself turn and sneak the rest of the way to my room as hush-fast as I could.
"Kellie... oh...
oh, Kellie
..." I heard on my way through the door. Then she was squealing and he was groaning and I kept the knob turned as I pulled it shut and then inchworm-slow let it rotate back to its neutral position.
What the holy
hell?
With the door closed and their voices muted, I realized I could hear my own breathing,
crazy
fast and loud. My heart was like,
ricocheting
off my lungs, it was beating so hard.
And my brain was
throbbing
.
I don't mean like, I had a headache all of a sudden. I mean like, imagine if every neuron in your skull started going,