"It's your mother." Mom knocked. She sounded concerned. About an hour had passed since Nell had fled my room, flushed in the face from shame and her orgasm. I wondered why Mom had waited so long to investigate.
"Yeah, Mom? Come in."
"What the hells happened between you and Nelda?" She stepped halfway through the door and stopped. She didn't look mad.
"You don't want to know. But ask her if I did anything wrong."
"I did."
"What did she say?"
"That's private between she and me."
"She and I." I had to tease.
"Very funny. I want to hear your story."
I stood my ground. "That's private between Nell and I. Because I don't know what she told you, I can't risk saying something she didn't." I began scratching my crotch, subtly.
Mom pursed her lips. "Now I know why fanatic conservatives don't want their children educated in critical thinking and reasoning. So they can spin an earnest conversation however it suits them."
"If she hasn't accused me of abusing her, Mom, I'd rather talk about a better remedy than Dad's worthless ointment."
That took some of the wind from her sails. Her pursed her lips relaxed, although she steamed silently for a couple seconds. "Is it bleeding? Are there pustules?" She sounded concerned but not very.
"No, but it's red and sore." I looked down at the soft but thick bulge in my trousers. "At least, last time I looked." I turned my eyes back to her and stuck a thin smile on my face. "It's strange that scratching feels especially good down there."
Mom cleared her throat. "Your father will be home soon." Her eyes were glued to the slow rising bulge in my trousers. It grew bigger and bigger- "He'll take you to an urgent care clinic if it's too uncomfortable."
"Talking about it helps, Mom, but I'm a little embarrassed."
"Why?"
"Two days ago, I was all in your face with my hard-on. Now nature is punishing me. I can't stop scratching it, even in front of you." I played my mother like a hooked fish. "I'm sorry."
"Yeah, well I am too - about your rash. Only that." She said evenly while her eyes widened as my crotch panel ballooned.
"I'll make up with Nell, if she'll let me."
"I think she was angrier with herself than you." Mom was slow to blink.
That sounded about right. I kept scratching, waiting for Mom to realize how much she looked like a deer frozen in cock-lights.
"I'm glad you checked in on me, Mom."
"Huh, what?" Her light trance broke upon my confession. "Yeah, well, I um, need to make sure there's plate of dinner for your father to warm."
"Can I help?" I imagined following her, rubbing my groin all along the way.
"No. You should talk to Nell." She turned her head from me and backed into the hall, leaving my door open as she stepped away to the kitchen.
"Right. Okay." I played a video game in my room for a while. When I heard Mom enter her room, I crept out and down the hall. "Nell?" I knocked.
"Nell's not home right now. Go fuck yourself." She sounded bored, actually, or possibly sad.
"You busy with homework?"
"Why are you bothering me?"
"I just wanted to give you a chance to tell me what an idiot I was."
"Chance given. Not accepted."
Silence.
I started to return to my room.
"No, Craig." She spoke in a normal tone. "You didn't do anything wrong, well not much." My big sister wasn't going to give me a complete pass.
"Neither did you."
"Yeah, well you haven't got a clue. Good-bye."
I abandoned her closed door.
I stayed up until Dad returned from work. I showed him my dick.
"I don't see anything wrong." His face wasn't happy at what he was seeing.
"This rash is normal?" I kept up the pretense.
"What rash? If it's bothering you, and the ointment didn't work, make an appointment with Dr. xxxxxx. (family doctor's name redacted) Dad went quickly to the kitchen. I grinned behind him and returned to my room. I slept very well that night.
My mood remained upbeat in the morning, until I saw the note on my desk. "Find me. Nell."
She was in her room and bade me to enter when I knocked. "Sit." She pointed at her desk chair. Nell began her prepared lecture while I was adjusting the seat's height. "I'm only going to say this once." She fumed at the wall opposite me. "I've got a problem, and you're going to help me with it."
"Ohh-kay." I probably sounded a bit too smug.
"Bastard." She muttered. "I'm sorry. I'm upset and confused and don't mean to sound mean."
"I got your back, Nelda. You know that."
"Yeah, well it's your front that's fucking me up." More prophetic words had never been spoken.
"Nell, I get it. You like big cocks. Your bro has one, and he's not playing nice."
"I smell chicanery all over you. I don't trust you, but I need your help."
"Tell me what I can do." I lifted open hands and shrugged. "I'm worried that you'll end up hating me, if I don't help."
"I don't want to hate you. I want to stop hating myself."
Mom had been right. I slumped in the chair and gave her hopeful eyes. "Tell me."
"The only way, I figure, to fight my urges for your dick, is to go all in."
I nearly had a heart-attack. "Nell?"