Where do I even start when talking about something like this? I suppose the logical place would be to start at the beginning of our relationship, but honestly? Our relationship developed so gradually over so many years that it's tough to pinpoint exactly when the "start" would be.
When it came to discovering our bodies and sexuality, Danny (my brother) and I took every step of that journey together. So when the time came that we wanted to have sex, it seemed like the most natural thing in the world for us to have sex with each other.
It was pretty soon after we had started our senior year of high-school (I suppose I should go ahead and mention that we are fraternal twins. I'm older than him by about fifteen minutes. A fact I never get tired of reminding him of) that we started actually, legitimately, fooling around and exploring each-other's bodies, instead of just our own. Lol and after that our hormones REALLY opened the flood gates, and we couldn't keep our hands to ourselves. And try as we might, we weren't nearly as covert about our escapades as we thought, and our mom caught on to our shenanigans pretty quickly. She made several attempts at keeping us apart, to the point where she even considered sending me to live with her parents out of state, but I just told her that she could send me anywhere she liked because I would be hitchhiking back by the next day. Eventually she finally came to the conclusion that we weren't going to stop no matter what she did, so rather than risk driving us away, she relented, and simply told us to try and keep it behind closed doors, and then promptly took me to the doctor and got me started on birth control because she didn't "want a grandchild with an arm growing out of their forehead".
But I guess for the sake of simplicity, I will just tell you about when we had sex for the first time and lost our respective virginity. It was on our eighteenth birthday, and that morning, I approached Mom and told her I had plans to make it an EXTRA special day. She fulfilled her parental obligations by yet again voicing her disapproval at our continued relationship, going as far as making several retching noises as I explained what I wanted to do, before laughing and saying, "Fine. It's been ages since I've been out without you little cretins in tow, so tonight I'll treat myself to a night on the town, and you two can have the house to yourselves for a few hours."
And if she had left it at that, things would have been perfect. But of course, she had to go on to say, "Who knows, maybe I'll meet a nice gentleman while I'm out, and you won't be the only one to get lucky tonight, and then you can have the house to yourselves for the entire night!"
First of all, I can't begin to describe how awkward it is to have these conversations with the woman who gave birth to me, but being the kind of person she is, she just had to add one final parting shot, and said "Oh, and can you all make sure to clean up after yourselves this time? I REALLY don't need to come home and accidentally sit in your wet spot again." (an incident I definitely don't feel like getting into right now). I must have turned a very amusing shade of red, because she cackled maniacally before wishing me happy birthday and leaving to go to work for the day.
I grabbed a glass of orange juice, made myself some toast, and sat down to have breakfast, and was muttering to myself about wishing I was old enough to move out when Danny came stumbling into the kitchen, still thoroughly disheveled from sleep.
I don't know why, but seeing him standing there in his sleep pants with no shirt on, hair a complete mess and eyes half-closed from residual sleepiness, always made me think wicked thoughts. He just looked so innocent and adorable in that state that I couldn't help but have my mind fill up with sinful ideas.
"What was Mom laughing about?" he asked, rubbing groggily at his eyes.
"She was making fun of me." I grumbled into my glass.
His face screwed up with confusion, and he asked, "About what?"
I turned to face him fully and said, "It doesn't matter," then grinned at him and continued, "Happy birthday, lover!"
He grinned back and said, "Same to you! What was Mom making fun of you about?"
Great. Just great. The dog had smelled bacon, and now he wasn't going to let it drop until I told him.
"She brought up the 'wet spot' incident." I muttered.
His face screwed up in confusion again for a moment before the realization dawned on him and he began laughing.
"Oh yeah!" he exclaimed between laughs, "How could I forget about the Great Soiled Couch Disaster?"
"IT'S NOT FUNNY!" I yelled at him, "Do you have any idea how embarrassing that was for me?!"
"You?" he chuckled, "If you think it was bad for you, you should've seen Mom afterwards. She was so horrified that I thought she was gonna have a stroke and die right there!" "Christ, I don't think she left the shower for like, three days after that, trying to scrub herself clean!"
Typical. That was one of the top three WORST days of my life, and he thought it was absolute comedy GOLD.
"SHUT UP!" I screamed at him, and when he saw that I was on the verge of tears, he sobered quickly.
"Shit, Sami, my bad. I was only goofing around." he said. Then he walked over to me and wrapped me in his arms, and I couldn't stay mad after that.
"I know," I whispered, still sniffling, "and I know I'm being too sensitive about it. But it was just so EMBARRASSING."
"I can imagine," he replied, "but if it helps, in the moment it was, like, the sexiest thing ever."
I scoffed and slapped his chest, "God, you are such a guy!"
"Would you rather I act like a girl?" he laughed, "I could grow out my hair, and we could talk about cute boys!"
I snorted out the orange juice I had been in the process of swallowing, and turned back to him, saying, "Don't you dare! Besides, you don't want long hair. Trust me. It's always getting blown into your face, and getting tangled. It's just a certifiable nightmare to deal with."
Danny chuckled at that, and asked, "If it's such a pain in the ass, why do you keep YOUR hair long?"
"Because if I cut it short I'd look like a boy." I replied simply.