All characters in this story are 18 years of age or older.
The pandemic that spread across the globe in 2019/2020 had myriad consequences -- trivial and catastrophic, isolated and intertwined, temporary and permanent. One thread of such consequences began, you could say, when Jimmy Cameron came home early from his first year of college. Schools all over the US were going online; any students who could leave campus were asked to do so. And everyone throughout the country and beyond was ordered to hunker down with minimum human contact outside the household for the foreseeable future.
For Jimmy, returning home unexpectedly was quite a disappointment. He had been having a lot of fun at college. His parents, Frank and Sharan, welcomed him back with love and sympathy, of course. His younger sister, Mira, whose high school had already switched to online learning, was unabashedly delighted to have him back.
Because of the lockdown, Mira and Jimmy only left the house to exercise or occasionally scrounge supplies from stores' eerily empty shelves. Sharan and Frank were less confined, as they still went to work outside the home. Sharan was a medical doctor, and worked three to five ten-hour shifts a week, usually during the day but sometimes at night; she mostly had weekends off as well as one or two other days, which varied. Frank, who was in municipal government, could have done some of his work from home but had resolved not to until it was mandated. He worked the typical nine to five on weekdays. So, as time passed, Jimmy and Mira spent a lot of time with only each other for company.
At first the siblings' isolation wasn't as pronounced because they each spent a lot of time on schoolwork, including online video classroom sessions, where they interacted, however claustrophobically, with teachers and peers. But after Jimmy finished his term at college and Mira graduated from high school (with no ceremony, depressingly), the sting of social deprivation in lockdown truly asserted itself. With businesses shuttered, there were no jobs to occupy them. With social mixing forbidden, their in-person social circle was limited to the four people living in the household, two of whom each spent most days outside it.
Jimmy had attempted to keep things going with his college girlfriend, but the distance and the turbulence of the times poisoned the well. Mira, too, started the lockdown in a relationship, but over time she couldn't seem to talk to her boyfriend on the phone without arguing about trifles, and eventually she didn't talk to him at all.
And so the siblings were in it together, which was a blessing. They had stimulating conversations. Mira impressed Jimmy with how thoughtful and mature she had grown. Jimmy shared stories about new experiences he'd had in college that fascinated his sister. As the days and weeks passed they discovered, without putting it into words, that each had in the other a close and cherished friend.
But Jimmy and Mira having only each other for company was also a challenge: The human needs that are satisfied by social contact are plentiful and various, and within the bounds of societal mores a brother or a sister is not always the most appropriate to fulfilling some of them. In short, while Jimmy and Mira each loved the other and greatly enjoyed their companionship in isolation from the rest of the world, there was also a sort of tension growing between them. Sometimes it manifested in bickering or someone staying in their room with the door closed all day. They discovered that either one could easily hurt the other's feelings. Now and then they would be playfully bantering and both would suddenly blush as they realized that they had crossed the line into outright flirting. It was very disconcerting.
Mira was the one who finally thought of a way to relax this tension, though perhaps that was not her goal when the idea struck her. You could say it began as mere whimsy. The two siblings were sitting in the living room, she reading a young adult novel and he scrolling a feed on his phone, when Mira suddenly looked up at her brother and said, "Hey Jimmy, I'm going to take a shower."
Jimmy looked at his sister nonplussed. "Ok," he said.
"Want to join me? I could wash your back and you could wash mine. You know, like we used to."
The proposal took Jimmy by surprise, to say the least. He did remember showered together with his sister long ago, but he thought that what Mira was proposing right then might not be as innocent as it sounded. However, as he looked over at her, with her blonde hair and blue eyes, her pretty face, and her shapely form, he could not help but find her beautiful; in fact, he'd been admiring the woman his little sister was blossoming into for weeks now. An opportunity to see and touch a female body as becoming as Mira's was too alluring to pass up, sister or not. "Ok," he said, and followed her down the hall to their shared bathroom.
Mira started the water and then stripped off her house clothes, which consisted only of a tee shirt, athletic shorts, and panties. Jimmy eyed her nude form as he shed his own tee shirt and sweatpants (he did't usually wear underwear in the house). Mira's body was slight but athletic, and curvy in all the right places. She had firm peach-sized breasts and a flat tummy over a patch of soft blonde pubic hair. Her hips flared out over a firm, heart-shaped ass and muscular legs toned by playing on the school volleyball team.
Having noticed her brother looking her up and down, Mira treated him to the same attention. Jimmy was no body builder, but he kept himself in good shape by running every day and doing all the yard work around the house. He had powerful arms and legs, a strong core, and a shapely ass. His pubic hair was a little thicker and darker than his sister's, and his half-chub, which Mira looked at last and longest, dangled between his legs promisingly.
When the water was warm enough, Mira and Jimmy got into the shower, which was the basic bathtub-and-curtain setup. There wasn't a lot of space for two people, which meant that they crowded each other the whole time -- which was exciting, really. They took turns washing their own faces and hair. Mira soaped down the parts of her body that she could reach and then handed the bar to her brother and asked him to do her back. He picked up the washcloth and said, "Ok, turn around."
"That's not the way we used to do it," Mira said.
"How'd we do it?" Jimmy asked.
Mira took the bar of soap from his hand and reached around him to rub it directly over his back, pressing her torso flat against his. "Just like this," she said. Because her front was already covered in soap, her skin slipped over his tantalizingly. Her soft tits pressed against his body, her nipples hardening under the pressure. She ran the bar of soap over her brother's back all the way down to his ass, which she pulled tight as she pressed her crotch against his. Jimmy's cock began to swell against her mons pubis. After spreading the soap all over his back, Mira handed Jimmy the bar and ran her hands all over the area she'd soaped up to scrub it.
Taking the bar of soap, Jimmy ran it across Mira's back, pressing his body tightly against hers in the same way. He did her ass, too, and when he went back over it with just his hands he made no bones about squeezing and caressing it as he rubbed the soap in. His cock grew so hard that it lifted up and settled between Mira's thighs, pressing along her cunt. Mira smiled at Jimmy and turned away to step under the shower nozzle and rinse off. She waited for him to wash and rinse the rest of his body, then shut off the water.
And that was that: each sibling dried off and went to their own room afterward. Jimmy didn't know what Mira did in hers, but he spent the next few minutes jacking off his rock-hard cock to a much needed release, spraying gobs of cum into a handful of tissues.
For the rest of the day, Jimmy and Mira got along quite well. Whatever tension may have settled between them had been greatly diminished.
* * *
Not long after showering with Jimmy, Mira picked up her phone and sent a text message to her best friend Livie, with whom she shared everything important that ever happened to her. Their message exchange went something like this, except it was replete with misspellings and emojis and lacking in capitalization or punctuation.
Mira: Livie, I've got some news.
Livie: What's up?
M: I just took a shower with Jimmy.
L: You took a shower with your brother?
M: Yup
L: As in you got naked with him????
M: Yeah, whats the big deal?
L: Thats called incest, some consider it a big deal.
M: We didn't fool around, we were just having some fun.
L: Did you touch each other?
M: He washed my back and I washed his.
L: That's it? You just touched his back with your hands?
M: Well, we were facing each other as we did it. So, our fronts also touched.
L: Mmm hmmm, your "fronts" touched. Did your naked tits touch his chest?
M: ...Yes.
L: What parts of him touched you?
M: His chest
L: Anything else?
M: His legs
L: Anything ELSE?
M: Ok, his cock touched me too.
