*- CHAPTER 2: Alexandra -*
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"You okay, bro? You seem a little... distracted. Did you not get a good night's sleep?"
Michelle looked at me with genuine concern as she joined me at the dining table. I had been staring off into space, holding my spoon a few inches in the air above my bowl of cereal, and I belatedly realized I had been grinding my teeth a bit. I blinked a few times and looked at her, shaking my head in the negative. "Uh, no, nothing like that. I slept great actually."
It was true. I had slept like a baby. Well, not like a *baby* - waking up three times in the middle of the night screaming for milk or having wet underwear. Truly, that's a strange idiom. But I digress...
I'd been doing that a lot this morning. Digressing, not wetting my underwear. One moment, I'd been pouring milk into my bowl of cereal. The next, I'd been remembering what Alex's lips felt like as she nibbled on my mushroom head like a fuzzy caterpillar. Which is a really strange metaphor that I don't understand. And I'm digressing again.
"I'm fine," I lied to my little sister. "Just thinking about a quiz I have in ten minutes."
'I'm wondering if Lex hates me for what we did last night while simultaneously reminiscing about how supremely talented my sister is at giving blowjobs,' I didn't say.
"Uh-huh," Michelle replied noncommittally. But she took her seat and said nothing further, digging into her own bowl of oatmeal.
"Morning, rugrats," Alex greeted us with a perky grin as she tore into the kitchen like a tornado. Moving more quickly than I could believe, she grabbed coffee grounds from the pantry, stepped across the kitchen to the coffee maker, poured the coffee grounds into the coffee maker, put away the bag, crossed to cabinet, pulled out a big coffee mug, crossed to the sink, filled the mug with water, returned to the coffee maker, poured in the water, placed the mug under the spout, and hit the start button. And while that seems like very long run-on sentence, it doesn't actually take very long to read, and yet somehow Alex managed to execute all those steps in even less time.
"Bye, rugrats," she called in a sing-song voice as she exited the room to go back upstairs.
Michelle and I exchanged amused looks. "When was the last time Lex called us 'rugrats'?" she wondered aloud.
I arched an eyebrow and thought about that. "She was probably still in high school."
Michelle chuckled and shook her head. "I'm just glad she seems to be in a good mood. You'd think she got laid or something last night."
I promptly choked on my next bite.
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Alex really did seem happy this morning, as her perky-hyper mood continued when she returned downstairs to collect her coffee. Seriously, if the girl was moving that fast to begin with, why the hell would she even need the caffeine?
I'm digressing again.
The point is: I started to relax about the whole 'Does my sister hate me' thing. I had been at the sink rinsing out my bowl when she picked up her coffee mug, took a sip, and actually winked at me over the rim. I smiled in response, a reaction that only made her even happier, and I could've sworn she waggled her butt at me as she left the kitchen to go back upstairs.
It was a good thing Michelle had already left by then, taking her oatmeal and a glass of OJ up to her bedroom. Her class started five minutes before mine.
So with my mind much more at ease, I headed up to my own room to start classes for the day, worried less about whether or not Alex had irreparably harmed our relationship, and wondering more about what would happen next.
But I would have to wonder quite a bit longer. While Alex continued to spend more time with us, the same as she had done for the past week, there were no more late-night visits to my bedroom. She made no comment or reference to our illicit blowjob. She talked to me the same way she had always talked to me. She hugged me the same way she had always hugged me. And if I hadn't been abso-smurfingly certain that the blowjob did indeed happen in real life, I might've started wondering if it wasn't some kind of wet dream.
The rest of the school week passed without incident. On Saturday, the three of us masked-up and took a 4-mile loop trail through a canyon filled with spring wildflowers and topped out at a nice bluff with a view. Sunday, we played a few board games and watched a movie together, all three of us, and then video chatted our parents (and grandparents) just to check in. And Monday we went right back into the school routine.
I never said a word about what had happened.
Alex never said a word about what happened.
I wanted to ask her about it. I wanted to talk about it. But for some reason I could never bring myself to broach the subject. My big sister seemed inclined to let the whole thing pass as if it had never happened, as if we'd never crossed that line. Maybe if we both ignored the whole situation long enough, if we pretended like everything was completely normal, everything WOULD actually go back to normal.
So I jerked off to internet porn and read erotica. Alex video chatted with her friends. And if I listened carefully enough outside her door at night, sometimes I could hear her moaning as she pleasured herself. I didn't walk away quite as quickly as before - sometimes I would linger and listen for a little bit. But apart from moments like that, as time went on, I thought less and less about the blowjob that never should have happened. Maybe it really WAS just a wet dream. I came to realize that it had been a one-time thing, destined to never be repeated or mentioned ever again. And with that realization came acceptance.
Which is why what happened next came as such a surprise.
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Something tickled my balls, and with a start, I jerked awake.