Matt was engrossed in a very exciting science show on TV when his 18 year old, younger sister Gina asked him something about borrowing his computer for something. He waved her off with a sure, whatever, and went back to watching the show.
It was a good twenty minutes later, a few minutes after the show ended, that Matt's distracted brain actually began to register the information that Gina needed had asked to borrow his computer. Gina was using HIS computer. HIS computer, which had HIS stuff on it. HIS stuff, which included a folder, labeled "pics", sitting on the desktop. A folder that had a set of semi nude erotic pictures he had taken of himself, pictures he was going to send to his girlfriend Wendy.
Matt jumped up in a panic and ran to his room and threw open the door, to find nothing. Gina was not there. He looked over at her room and the door was closed.
Maybe he had imagined that she was going to borrow the computer? He took a deep breath and walked over to the desk with the computer on it. She had left a copy of a printout on the desk, so she had been there. The desktop looked like it did when he left it, and he noticed the folder titled "pics" was still in the same place.
Maybe she had used the computer but not noticed the folder? His heart was pounding as he checked the computer for recent documents opened, and then, his heart stopped. All ten of the pictures were listed as being opened within the past 15 minutes.
Matt felt his stomach collapse in a fit of anger and embarrassment. He resisted the urge to go bang on his sister's door and holler at her, because he wasn't sure what he would holler. He was more mad at himself than his sister, he shouldn't have left the photos out in the open. Normally he would've been more careful, but his parents were out of town for a few weeks and he hadn't expected his sister to use his computer.
He open up the pictures and scrolled through them, one by one. He had taken a series of semi nude shots, intended to be erotic and for his girlfriend's eyes only. These were the top ten that he was planning to send to Wendy. In most of them he was wearing a shirt with the buttons open and boxers, but then in some of the racier ones he had changed into black bikini briefs. He cringed when he got to the last one, he had his thumbs at the top of the briefs and had pulled them down and held them tight against himself, clearly showing the outline of his very hard cock.
He buried his face in his hands and thought about his options. After a while he decided the best way to avoid further embarrassment would be to pretend like he didn't know she had seen them.
Gina had indeed seen the pictures. She had sat down in front of the computer to print something out really quickly, a file she had on a thumb drive, because the house printer was in Matt's room. She had seen the folder on the desktop, labeled pics, and she thought it may have been pictures from a recent family vacation. The first few pictures she opened, she could not really see the person's face, and she did not realize it was her brother Matt at all. The guy in the pictures was a fit, sexy looking guy wearing an old plaid shirt and boxers. For a brief moment she wondered if Matt was gay and collecting pictures from other gay guys.
Then she saw the third picture and realized it was Matt. Matt, her nerdy, dorky, unattractive brother. Her mouth fell open, as she suddenly became aware that her dorky brother looked pretty hot. Mesmerized, she opened picture after picture, each one better than the last. When she opened the final picture, her heart nearly stopped. She blushed and gasped and trembled, but could not bring herself to divert her eyes from the sizable bulge in the briefs. After a long while, she closed the file, and then in an afterthought, she quickly copied the folder to her thumb drive and went to her room. She never suspected that Matt would figure out that she had seen the pictures, so she decided to just act normal. As normal as possible, she thought, for a girl who spent several hours drooling over a picture of her brother.
So she acted like she didn't see them, and he acted like he didn't know she had seen them. Which worked pretty well for the next four hours, but that was mostly because they didn't see each other for the next four hours. They ran into each other in the kitchen, where Matt was eating a bowl of cereal for dinner, and Gina was getting something out of the refrigerator.
"Hey, what's up," mumbled Matt, trying to seem normal.
"Ah, um, just the usual," answered Gina, looking away and fighting a losing battle against a smirk.
Matt watched her walk across the kitchen and sit down at the table across from him. He suddenly realized that she was more embarrassed than him. When their eyes finally met they both blushed and looked away quickly, then both laughed nervously. Matt made the decision to abandon his original strategy.
"Um, about those pictures ..." he started.
Gina blushed even harder. "I'm so, so, sorry, I shouldn't have opened up that folder," she stammered.
"I shouldn't have left it out there," Matt said. "I took those to send to Wendy, just a way to keep things interesting before we get back to college in the fall."
"Sure, yes, I understand completely," Gina said.
Matt took a long slow breath, incredibly relieved that they had cleared the air. "Again, I'm sorry I left those out there," he said, and then he jokingly added, "At least I didn't leave the full nude pictures out."
Gina's eyes got wide and she seemed to have an odd reaction to the joke, before she realized that he was kidding and she laughed.
She got up and walked back towards her bedroom. "Well I expect Wendy will be happy to get the pictures," she teased. "They were very good."
The way Gina emphasized "very" took Matt by surprise. What was that supposed to mean? Was she making fun of me, or did she really like the pictures?
Matt was gone all the next morning, and Gina snuck back into his room to snoop around on his computer and look for more pictures. Maybe he wasn't kidding about nude pictures, she thought. What would a nude picture of Matt look like, she thought. Maybe I need mental help, she thought. She nervously looked through his computer, found nothing more, and then went back through the pictures on the desktop, just for review. The she copied all of them onto her thumb drive, just for further study.
When Matt got home, he went to his room to check for email, noting that Gina's door was closed. He was in the middle of checking his email when he had an odd thought. He pulled the recent documents file up again, and to his shock, he saw that the ten pictures had been pulled up again while he was gone. Gina had looked at his pictures again. It didn't make him angry, or embarrassed this time. Actually, the thought of her sitting there and looking at him half naked made him somewhat aroused. Aroused, but confused.
He also noted that it seemed that she had been looking at other files, maybe looking for something, and suddenly he realized what it was ... she was looking for the naked pictures he had joked about. The fact that she was taking time to look for pictures of him naked made him even more aroused. And more confused.
Maybe it was because the pictures didn't really look like him. Matt had never been a super stud, both he and Gina were on the nerdy side. They were both fit, but they dressed very conservatively and weren't showy. Standard outfits were sweat pants or long shorts and bulky, unflattering t shirts. They tended toward academics over sports, but he was a swimmer and she had been a gymnast for years. And both of them were painfully shy, neurotically self conscious, and socially introverted. The pictures that Matt had taken of himself were definitely unusual for him. He might not be a male model but he was a good photographer, and he had managed the light and created poses that made him look ten times better than usual.
Just then Matt's phone buzzed with an instant message from Gina. It was odd to text someone from the next room, but texting was sometimes easier than face to face.
Gina: Hey, whatcha doin?
Matt: Just some computer stuff
Gina: Taking more pictures for Wendy, lol?
Matt: No more today. You've seen them all, so you don't need to snoop around on my computer anymore
There was a delay while this sank in.
Gina: Ooops. How did you know?
Matt: It shows up in recent documents opened
Gina: Damn. I didn't know that...