Shawna waited anxiously for Jacob to get home from hunting with a friend. While she waited she indulged in a fantasy of her younger brother taking her hunting and ravishing her body in the woods. Then she remembered that she hated the outdoors and hunting. So much for that fantasy.
As Jacob pulled his truck up the driveway she noticed that he had a passenger with him. This must be his friend Chris, she thought to herself.
"Hi sis!" Jacob said with a warm smile. "This is Chris, the guy I told you about yesterday. Chris this is my sister, Shawna."
"Oh hello. It's so nice to meet you Shawna." Chris said as he exited the truck offering his hand. Then he turned to Jacob and scolded, "You never told me she was so beautiful."
Shawna blushed and said, "Jacob never told me how truly masculine his hunting buddy was either."
Jacob just chuckled a little and said. "Well I guess you two are going to hit it off just fine."
Then Shawna noticed antlers sticking up out of the bed of the truck. "Oh my god is that a deer?!" she gasped.
"Come take a look. It's two bucks" Jacob said proudly. "We each got one this morning"
Shawna slowly edged along the side of the truck until she could clearly see the two deer laying in the bed of the truck. Then she saw where the animals were shot and her knees buckled and she was on her way to the ground.
Chris saw that Shawna was about to faint and moved with swift determination and caught her before she hit the ground. He looked at Jacob and said, "I thought you said you hunt every year?"
"I do she hasn't ever been around it though. It's a long story." Jacob said. "We should take her inside and get her some water or something."
Chris picked her up with ease. He carried her in and gently laid her on the couch. Then Jacob brought her a glass of water.
"Shawna?" Jacob said as he patted her cheek. Her eyes fluttered open.
She suddenly jumped up from the couch and ran for the bathroom. The two guys could hear her getting sick. They both just stood there awkwardly for a few moments. Then they shuffled outside.
"Chris maybe we should go to your house to process these deer." Jacob said.
Chris said sarcastically, "Oh gee ya think?"
"I should go say something to Shawna." Jacob said and headed back inside.
"Shawna?" Jacob said through the bathroom door.
"I'm fine Jacob, just a little embarrassed. I guess it was a bit shocking to see them like that. Please tell your friend Chris I'm not really a wimp." Shawna answered back through the door.
"Well we decided to head over to Chris's house to process the deer so you won't have to see it." Jacob said with genuine concern in his voice.
"I'm so sorry Jacob. I just wasn't ready to see that." Shawna said with a quiver in her voice.
Jacob could tell she was really shaken up by it. He could kick himself for being so insensitive to his sister. "No Sis I'm the one who should apologize. I should have known better than to make you look at those deer when I knew you were unaccustomed to the realities of hunting." Jacob said with real sincerity and empathy in his voice.
Shawna felt just awful after the guys left. She wanted to tell Chris how sorry she was for reacting the way she did. She just never saw anything like that before and it was such a shock. She desperately wanted her mom to get home from work.
Carol Ann came through the door and was immediately engulfed in Shawna's arms. Her head was buried in her mother's shoulder and she was sobbing.
"Hey baby! What's all this?" she asked her daughter.
"Oh mother I'm so embarrassed!" Shawna said. "I fainted and got sick when Jacob and Chris showed me their deer!" Still sobbing.
Carol Ann couldn't help but smile a little ,but patted Shawna and told her not to worry too much about it. "These things happen, and your brother knows that some people are more sensitive to that sort of thing than others."
Being a good mother she knew the best thing was to get Shawna thinking about something else. "So what was Chris like?" she asked changing the subject.
"Oh, I guess he was, well very manly." Shawna said. Then she said. "He seems extremely masculine."
"Is he handsome?" Carol Ann asked pointedly.
"Well yes, I guess, but there's something more to him than looks. Something almost animalistic." Shawna said kind of wistfully.
"Well now I'm truly intrigued." Carol Ann said with a hint of something visceral in her voice.
Shawna picked up on this right away. "What do you mean by that mom? Are you thinking of going outside our little arrangement? How do you think Jacob would take it?"
"Oh baby, you can't tell he's growing bored and restless. He may welcome a change of venue himself." Carol Ann said very matter fact.
Shawna knew her mother was right, but that didn't make it any easier. She was truly in love with her brother and never wanted to lose him. The thought of it frightened her and made her sad beyond belief.
Chris was running the grinder while Jacob was cutting the meat up. They were getting their deer processed in record time. Then Jacob saw his mom pull in the driveway with Shawna. Chris just snorted.
"Come on man give her a chance. She just wasn't prepared for it that's all." Jacob said in defense of his sister.
Just then Chris's Mom Vivian came out of the house and said, "Chris you be nice to that pretty young woman." She gave her son a stern look that told him she means it.