"I don't know what I'd do without Tom."
"I know what you'd do with Tom -- you'd starve or freeze to death."
"I can't..."
"Stay away from that boy -- or else. I'm warning you. I'm not supporting him, and if you run off with him, you're no longer my daughter."
With that, Henry stormed away. Alice cried inconsolably. Her mother tried to comfort her, but to no avail. Mary held Alice until Alice was all cried out. Alice went in her bedroom in their little two bedroom house. She threw herself on the bed and lay there, trying to find some way -- any way to convince her father to let her be with Tom.
There was a Halloween dance at the school, and Alice got her father to agree she could go to the dance. Two of Alice's friends came over and Alice said the three girls were going to the dance together. They went together to the school, which was only a short walk away. When they got there, Alice met Tom, while the other two danced with a lot of different boys.
Alice and Tom were both eighteen and fairly innocent, though they'd done some kissing when they could get away with it. They danced a couple of dances, then snuck out so they could kiss. There was a park beside the school, and they sat together on a bench, holding hands and kissing. There were a few other couples on other benches around the park doing likewise.
There was no privacy, so there was no way to do more than holding each other, kissing, and a bit of fondling. Alice and Tom did their share of all that, while telling each other how much they loved them.
"Has your father had any luck finding a job?"
"Nobody seems to be hiring, and lots of folks are looking for work."
"My father told me I wasn't to see you."
"What do we do now?"
"I love you and I want to be with you."
"I can't imagine living without you."
"Can you come by my house later?"
"Your father will never let me in."
"I'll leave my bedroom window open. Come in through the window. We can talk and kiss, as long as you're gone before the morning."
The dance was starting to break up and Alice's friends came out of the school. Alice kissed Tom goodbye and walked home with her friends. Henry seemed suspicious at how happy Alice seemed to be and wondered if she had met Tom at the dance. Alice told her parents good night and went to her bedroom. It was a pretty warm night, so the windows were open in most of the house.
There were screens in the windows, with a hook latch to keep them shut. Alice unlatched the screen in her window. Tom waited until all the lights were out in the house, then snuck up, opened the screen and climbed in the window. They closed the screen, then kissed as they lay down on her bed. Alice was not sure she was ready for sex, but certainly was ready for more than they'd been doing.
As they kissed and touched, Alice let Tom touch her boobs through her blouse. Alice had something of a homemade bandeau which flattened her breasts, which was pretty common for young women at the time. Alice let Tom unbutton her blouse and touch her boobs through her makeshift bra. Tom loved being able to touch her like that and Alice enjoyed it as well.
It was warm and Tom took off his shirt, then Alice let him take off her bandeau bra. This was the first time Tom had been able to see her boobs or touch them directly. He played with them, then leaned down to kiss them. Alice stroked Tom's head and moaned as he made love to her breasts. Alice found herself thinking how much she would love it if they could do even more.
Though Alice tried to be quiet, Henry heard her moans. He got his double barrel shotgun went to Alice's room and opened the door. He saw the two topless teens in bed together and was livid. Before the two could react, Henry raised his gun and shot Tom in the chest. Alice screamed and tried to shield Tom, so Henry's second shot hit Alice. The two held each other and kissed as they died.
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Present day
Kara and Kyle spent the night at the little house and had no problems. There were no spectral appearances, nothing moving without being touched, no unexplained sounds. Everything seemed to go just fine. Perhaps the only unusual thing was that Kara had some strange dreams in which she was in love and kissing a boy and letting him touch her.
Kyle had some dreams in which he was desperately in love with a young woman who he didn't recognize. It didn't bother him, as it felt rather good to be in love with the young woman. He was just surprised that he dreamed about loving someone he didn't even recognize. There was a certain sadness about the dream, which he couldn't put his finger on.
The price for renting the place was quite reasonable, and since there had been nothing frightening, Kara and Kyle rented the house and moved in. They got very tied up with registering for classes and getting settled into the house. Most times, they cooked and ate at the house and they hung out and studied together often.
The first year, they were both taking a lot of the same classes, which was a boon. They could compare notes and work together on homework and help each other with projects. Neither one was exactly a social lion and they didn't have a lot of money for partying so they spent a lot of evenings together at the house studying, listening to music and watching television.
There was a sofa and they would sit together on the sofa when they watched TV, and a few times they fell asleep sitting beside each other on the sofa. They both knew there was nothing to it. They had no sexual attractions to their sibling. Still each had dreams in which they were somewhat intimate with someone of the opposite sex. Sometimes it was the same person they dreamed of the first night, and other times it was their sibling.
The latter kind of bothered them. They didn't even want to think that they saw their twin as a sexual person, or at least as a person whom they might have sexual interest in. Still they hung out together, studying and watching shows. One night they fell asleep beside each other on the sofa, as they seemed to do regularly.
They had strongly sexual dreams as they slept, and woke up kissing each other and fondling each other. They were still half asleep, but Kyle was stroking Kara's breasts as Kara ran her hands over Kyle's crotch feeling his hard cock. Kyle quickly had his hands under her top and under her bra, stroking her boobs directly. Kara had unzipped Kyle's pants and was pulling out his hard cock when they both became aware of what they were doing and with whom.
They stopped and both rushed to their respective rooms and closed the doors. Kara shook, both from the thought of what they'd done and from more physical desire than she'd ever felt in her life. She found herself regretting not having dated more as her body ached from wanting more. She curled up on her bed, spooning a pillow, with her body aching for what she knew she couldn't have.
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Kara found herself wondering about the young couple who had been murdered in the house where she lived. The library at the university had microfilm copies of old local newspapers. It took a while to find the right date range and track down articles in the paper. Needless to say, it was a very prominent story in the paper at the time.
At first the lawyer for Alice's father had tried to claim that Tom had broken in and was raping Alice. That was undercut when Alice's friends testified that Alice and Tom had been close and that Alice had confided that she was letting Tom come by later that night. That, it itself was something of a scandal and not the sort of thing that 'good girls' were supposed to do.
It became obvious during the trial that the couple was strongly drawn to one another, but that Alice's father objected to that. The true shock and scandal came when Tom's mother testified. She and her husband had dearly wanted children, but had not been successful at that. Tom's mother, Mary decided to get help in getting pregnant by having an affair with another man.
The man who Mary had the affair with, and who was Tom's biological father, was Henry. So the relationship between Alice and Tom was between two teens with the same father. That, more than Tom's economic situation was apparently why Henry had objected so strongly to the relationship and why he reacted as he had.
As Kara read the accounts of the trial and the underlying scandals, she felt deeply sorry for Alice and Tom. They had not known they were related when they fell in love. Kara felt an aching in her heart for Alice and Tom, and a longing for Kyle that she knew she could never satisfy. She felt afraid to even tell Kyle what she'd found in her research.
Along with the news articles on the trial, were photos of Alice and Tom. Kara was shocked when she realized that she had been seeing Alice and Tom in her dreams, even before she knew what they looked like. She wondered whether her dreams were related to the ghosts of the lovers that supposedly haunted the house. She was afraid to stay in the house, but was even more afraid to leave.
Kara was frightened, while at the same time, feeling a kinship with Alice. The problem being that Kara knew Kyle was her twin. She understood how Alice felt about Tom and began to feel the same desire for Kyle. Kara began to avoid Kyle as much as possible, given that they shared a house and were in most of the same classes.
Kara's dreams not only continued, but intensified. Not only did she dream of making love to Tom, but also of making love to Kyle. They became one and the same in her dreams. The face of her lover would shift between the two and she found herself torn by her desire. She saw herself as Alice and almost felt as though they were one person.
The night came when Kara lay down in bed and felt a presence in her room. She was half afraid it was Kyle -- afraid because she both wanted him, and was repelled by the thought if incest. Kara saw a glowing in the room and knew it was Alice. The room Kara was in had been Alice's room when she was alive. Alice moved over to the bed where Kara was.
"We are trapped."
