Intro: This is a total work of my imagination. Any resemblance to anyone on this planet is just your imagination. Yes, I have sisters. We never banged. You can't think I'd write something I could get sued over. Half siblings, Shelby (29) and Jason (27) have moved back in with their mother, Katherine (49). Jason and Donna have fallen in love, but what about Shelby?
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"I'm nervous about this, Jase. I don't want to piss her off."
"Well I'm not ready to lose her. I just fell in love with her. This is bullshit, not taking our calls and not returning texts." Jason said with anger in his voice and desperation in his heart.
In the two weeks since Anna's wedding, Donna has been withdrawn. She saw Jason and Shelby a few times but seemed distant and scared. Now the siblings have staked out a table beside the pool of the hotel that Donna helps manage. They have vowed to sit there until she comes to talk. They both love her and that's the problem.
Finally, Donna Smith emerged from the lobby of The Roadside Pioneer. She slowly and purposefully walked to the pool area. "I guess you two aren't going to leave until I come out here."
"Hey, baby. We just want to talk to you. We love you." Shelby pleaded. "Please sit a minute."
"Look, the fact that both of you love me and I love you is the problem. It's fucking with my head." Donna said fighting back tears that came anyway. "I can't do this here. I'll try to come over tonight or tomorrow night and we'll talk about this."
"Bullshit!" Jason surprised the girls with his forceful tone. Yet he was not loud. "Please don't make me pace the floor at home hoping. This is everything to me. I love you and I'll do whatever it takes to make this work. I've missed you like a lost limb all this week."
Tears streamed down Donna's face. Jason looked at Shelby and she was crying too. "You two calm down and get your shit together. Donna, we'll come to your apartment at seven tonight. We will make this work because love matters." Well, that got Jason's tears falling.
Donna heard his words and felt his heart. She looked up at him with the sparkle back in her eyes despite the tears. "You mean that, don't you?" Shelby squeezed her hand.
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Jason and Shelby left the hotel when Donna was able to go back in.
"I know what is fucking with her head." Shelby said. "So, she comes over. Who does she sleep with? She won't sleep with me because of you. She won't sleep with you because of me."
"She has an apartment. She has her own place." Jason said.
"Look, you big dummy, it's the same, really. I go off with her, she thinks of you. If she goes off with you, she worries what it will do to me." Shelby lectured.
"She knows it's OK with me that you are lovers. And she knows you've been pushing us together for two months." Jason said.
"Who, me?" Shelby smiled. "I didn't think she would hang on to me like this. Love is very strong in this one, ass-hopper."
Jason rolled his eyes and sighed at Shelby trying to be funny while his heart hurt so much.
"We've just got to tell her." Shelby said flatly.
"Oh, fuck no. If she finds out we had sex, she'll freak the hell out and we'll never see her again."
"Maybe not. Then we could have it all. We could both openly love her. Imagine holding her in your arms while I pet her. It would be beautiful." Shelby the sales person.
"And what happens when I start petting you. She's going to freak. I tell you, she's too old-fashioned for that shit."
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The siblings walked up the stairs to Donna's apartment. "This is a nice building. I don't know why she says she hates this place." Jason said.
"Bad memories and a few bad neighbors. She moved in here after her divorce. Some of the men around here were relentless. Thus, the birth of 'Bitch Donna'" Shelby told him.
"Two condemned for the hangman." Jason mused.
"Don't be so dramatic. I'm betting my love on this, too."
Donna answered the door in loose house clothes. "Hey, you two." She hugged each and then all in a group hug. "This would be easy if I didn't love you both. Come in. Sit."
Shelby started. "Look, I'll give you up, if you and Jason will be happy."
"I knew you were going to say that." Donna snapped. "It's not as easy as that."
"I know you want the family and the white picket fence." Shelby said.
"I know, I want kids. You think I prefer men, but I have really come to enjoy women. When Anna turned me on to it, it was just a way to find some comfort. I found out it's something special. I love you both. Jason are you strong enough to have a bisexual woman, even if she has a girlfriend?" Donna asked him.
"Yes, but only if it's all honest. I couldn't have someone cheat. Also, I'd do anything to have a woman like you in my life."
"See he's cool with you being with me." Shelby said, thinking it was settled.
"Well I'm sorry Shelly. It's still fucked up. I'd think of him with you and think of you when I'm with him. I did when we went to the wedding. I had the best day of my life, but you were in the back of my mind. And we can't be a triple because you two are siblings. It's fucked up." Donna teared up and dropped her head to her hands.
"We can be. It doesn't have to be fucked as bad as you think. It's just fucked up in a different way."