I've never kissed my sister.
I first heard that phrase from my high school coach. We'd just tied our cross-town rivals and he addressed us in the locker room, saying, "Well, we kissed our sister out there." It was off-putting at first, but I got the meaning. Something that could have been either good or bad ended up just being pointless.
I've never kissed my sister.
She's two years younger than me. Mom named her "Mercedes" because she thought it sounded pretty. When we were kids I used to call her "Volkswagen" to make her mad. Mom wanted me to stop, but dad laughed affectionately and started calling her "Bug", and that one stuck. Back then we were always either provoking or ignoring each other. These days we're both adults and we get along just fine, but growing up every little thing would be a huge drama.
I've never kissed my sister.
I can understand why guys would want to, though. I'm tall like our dad, but Mercy takes after our mom. She's short with not much up top but plenty of curves below. C-plus tits, A-plus ass, cute face, bouncy black hair. She's never been the type of hot girl you'd see in a magazine but she's attractive enough.
I've never kissed my sister.
But there was one summer ... a long time ago ...
When we fucked the absolute
hell
out of each other.
It was the summer after her high school graduation, when she was eighteen and I was twenty. I was home from college and living with our parents while I did part-time jobs for cash. It was the last time we all lived together in the home where we grew up and the cramped quarters were really starting to weigh on me.
We lived in a split-level house out in the suburbs. The kind with a walkout basement family room, half-stair up to a kitchen and living room area, then half-stair again to the bedrooms above the basement. There was one main bathroom up there, with the master bedroom just past it where our parents slept. They had their own little bathroom and shower but my sister and I had to share the other one.
The other large bedroom had been mine when we were growing up. Big brother privileges. But after I left for college Mercy took it over so when I came home for the summer I was crammed into the small room directly across from the bathroom. Between my sister's old desk and the twin bed, there was barely any floor space. I had a small TV hooked up to my N64 and a worn-out bean bag chair to sit on but that was it.
The bed itself was a whole other thing. I'm not super tall, but my feet would still hang off the end more often than not. I had to sleep in a kind of fetal position, with the wall pressing on one side so I couldn't even stretch out. That and our dad's refusal to set the thermostat any lower than 78F made it so I was in a constant state of low-key grumpiness.
Mercy didn't make it any better. She was loudly annoyed at having to share space with me again. The tiny bathroom vanity we shared was covered with sprays and lotions - not to mention her curling iron and hair dryer. I had to keep all my bathroom stuff in my room. Sometimes she'd even throw the shampoo bottle I kept in the shower on my bed while I was gone, leaving a wet spot on the covers.
Mostly I survived it by not being around. I worked as much as I could and hung out at my friends' houses a ton. But sometimes I'd still end up at home. I worked a lot of late shifts, so this would often be during the day when our parents were both at work and Mercy was used to having the house to herself.
She'd get up around noon and wander around in a t-shirt and a pair of Care Bear pajama bottoms she'd had since middle school. They were still the right length since she hadn't grown an inch since then, but they clung snugly where her ass and hips had filled out. She'd usually complain about how I'd left the shower dirty or how my clothes all over the floor of my room made it "gross" to walk down the hallway. Then she'd go into her room and blare the annoying local pop station on her crappy little boombox.
Most of this I took without responding. I was the older one and I was supposed to be more mature, after all. Plus, living in the college dorms for two years had taught me that sometimes you just had to let the little things go for the sake of getting along with people. And I still had my CD player to drown out her music with some Zeppelin when I couldn't stand it any more.
When she had friends coming over she'd spend a whole hour in the bathroom getting ready. This was just to hang out
in her room
. If she was going out somewhere it would be two hours - and god forbid if I had to go to the bathroom during that time. I'd have to walk all the way down to the guest bath in the basement.
When her friends arrived she'd walk ahead of them and shut my door before they passed. "That's my brother's room - it's gross," she'd say. One of her friends would make some joke about me jacking off in there and they'd all laugh. But after they'd passed I'd open the door again, since otherwise I felt like I was in a closet.
As a result, I ended up hearing a lot of their conversations. I wasn't eavesdropping on purpose - teenage girls just tend to be loud. I'd never paid much attention to my sister's social life, but gradually I picked up on a few things. Apparently she'd gone to prom with some boy who'd cheated on her the next day and she and her friends were still angry about that. She'd dumped him, of course. So they talked shit about him and the "skank" he was dating now. Their words, not mine.
They also kept trying to set her up with various guys. Mercy seemed eager to go along with that. More than once I heard her allude to wanting to get laid, which would make her friends giggle. She'd go out on what were obviously dates from time to time, though she was cagey about the details when mom would ask. I never knew the specifics, but it always seemed from her grumpy mood the next morning that none of them went very well.
On one particular weekday I was playing games in my room, sitting on the bean bag and keeping the fan pointed at my face. She'd had a date the night before, but today she was just listless rather than grumpy. She wandered past my door several times wearing those PJs and a Michael Jackson
Thriller
tour shirt. Finally she stopped at the doorway and stood there staring at me for a bit.
Then she stepped into the room. "Sup, dweeb?" she said.
"Nothing, bug," I answered. She rarely started conversations that didn't quickly become arguments, so I braced myself for a wave of invectives.
She looked around for a minute as I ignored her and continued to play my game. "You picked your dirty clothes up. It's some kinda miracle."