I woke up and remembered, and I looked across the bed.
Yes. Good girl, Ann. She was gone, and she had rearranged the sheets and pillow to make sure it didn't look like she'd been there. The lie was complete. We could both pretend like nothing happened.
Well, that's not exactly true. Ann would have to pretend like nothing happened. I didn't have to; I had been "asleep." I fucking laughed.
I threw off the sheets and sat up. Recalling the night's ending, I looked down at my dick. My little vixen of a sister-in-law had sucked that thing, fuck yeah. That sexy little blonde swallowed my cum, fuck yeah.
I cheated on Jen. Shit.
If it came down to it, I had some deniability, though. As far as Ann knew, I was asleep. Jen knows how hard I sleep. She would have to take that into consideration. She did it to me, I could say. I just fucking hoped it wouldn't come to that.
I went downstairs with some excitement as to how morning was going to play out. Ann was at the kitchen table, reading on her phone with a cup of tea.
"Hey, Ann."
"Hey." She didn't look up.
I poured myself a huge glass of milk. "End up sleeping okay?" I asked.
She looked up at me. "Yeah, actually. Eventually." She hesitated.
Oh, shit. "What?"
"Last night, after you went to bed, did you hear screaming outside?"
"No, I slept pretty hard."
"Yeah."
"What kind of screaming?"
But, I already knew what kind. Last night after I went back to my room, I called this crazy fucker neighbor friend, and I offered him twenty bucks to go outside for a few minutes and start screaming into the night like an axe murdererβand loud enough that I could hear it. He came through.
Yes, I'm fucking twisted. I get ideas and I see a potential outcome and I act without really knowing jack shit. Ann had already been spooked, but she needed another push, so I made it happen.
Ann said, "I don't know, but it sounded scary."
"Shit, I'm sorry, Ann. You could have woken me."
"I tried. I mean, I thought about trying."
"You just have to hit me hard in the face."
"Okay."
"You're not thinking it was Kenny again, are you?"
"I don't know."
"Ann, he's never coming back here. The guy left here covered in dog shit, in a car with a flat tire, after getting caught and kicked in the nuts by a Marine carrying a pistol. You won't see him again unless you invite him."
"That won't happen."
"Roger that."
"Thanks, again, you know, for last night."
"My pleasure," I said, and my brain was grinning.
And a fucked-up idea jumped in there.
And I knew it was probably a bad idea the second I began.
I glanced from Ann's eyes to her lips, and then I raised a finger and pointed to them. "You've got something..." I said, and I pointed back to my lips and scratched my upper lip a bit.
She wiped her upper lip, and then stopped and looked at me.
"Yep, you...you got it."
She looked into my eyes; there was a beat.
A beat of understanding. "Thanks," she said, after the moment passed. "So, you say you slept well?"