They gave each other a quick hug and Zoe went back into her room while Adam went back to watching his TV show that he'd been wanting to finish for a long time.
He thought about what might have been going on with his sister. She assured him it wasn't something too much for him to be concerned about, and that it was a female problem that he probably shouldn't get involved in. But still, she was his younger sister, and he always looked out for her.
Zoe was 19, about two years younger than Adam. She was a little shorter than he was, with short auburn hair. Ever since she started working out with Adam at the gym over a year ago, she has developed a very lean body with curves in all the right places. Adam felt guilty for noticing his sister's body like that sometimes, but he couldn't resist. She had big breasts, a small waist, and a good-sized ass. He tried not to look but sometimes found himself checking her out when she walked by. He hoped that she didn't notice him taking a quick glance at her tits when he spoke with her earlier.
Adam finished his show, plus a few more episodes. He heard her swearing from her room a few more times since then, but not as loud as before.
Later, she joined him for dinner. They heated up one of the dozens of meals their mother made and put in the freezer for them before she went on the cruise. They liked to joke about how their mother went overboard with her cooking and they had enough of her food in the freezer to feed three families.
While they ate, Adam avoided bringing up the subject she was upset about earlier. He figured if Zoe wasn't going to talk about it, then he wasn't going to bring it up either.
Zoe was still wearing her shirt from earlier, and Adam did his best not to look at her cleavage again, but it was hard to resist. He knew what he was doing was wrong, but he hadn't been with a girl in over six months at that point because he had been too busy with work and school to go out with anyone. So now, he was getting so sexually frustrated, even his sister was starting to look good to him.
He only found himself jerking off to her just once fairly recently, but not on purpose. A couple of days earlier, when Zoe was out with her now ex-boyfriend Rick, Adam had nothing else for himself to do that night, so he decided to watch some porn and jerk off to release his pent-up sexual energy.
He was trying to focus on the pornstar he was watching on his computer being fucked by two guys when halfway through, Zoe came to his mind. When she left for her date, she was wearing a short black dress that showed off much of her legs and enough of her cleavage on top. He couldn't help imagining how sexy she looked in that dress, and then imagined her taking off the dress in a sexy striptease. He tried to focus on the woman on his computer, but his mind kept going back to Zoe. Soon he was imagining himself fucking his sister in every possible way, and eventually he shot a big load of cum in some tissues he had ready for that moment.
He felt guilty about what he had just done but was glad that he had at least gotten those thoughts about Zoe out of his system. After that, when he was ready to go again off again, and this time his mind was able to focus on the pornstar he was watching. Even the next day, he managed to focus enough to jerk off to another pornstar without Zoe entering his mind.
After dinner, Zoe watched some TV with Adam before going back to her room. Later, Adam went to his room where he played War Mania 7, the newest online multi-player shooter game. He was wearing his headset, talking to his friends, who were in their own homes playing with him in the game. Their players were part of a military unit fighting an alien hoard, who were played by another group of players in Korea.
Adam's team won, and they all logged off. It was at that moment that there was a knock on his door and his sister was asking if she could come in. He told her yes and she entered.
"I thought I heard you finishing your game, so I thought I'd come by," she began to say. "I was hoping I could talk to you about the problem I was having earlier."
"Sure, no problem," said Adam.
Zoe sat on the bed, and Adam went to join her. She was very nervous about what she wanted to say, but Adam didn't pressure her. He let her get to what she wanted to talk about on her own.
"My problem is kind of embarrassing," she began to say. "Obviously, I would normally ask one of my female friends for help, or mom if she was around. Hell, if I was still seeing Rick, I'd probably ask him for this kind of help before I'd ask you. But surprisingly, every woman I know seems to be unavailable, and I can't wait until one of them is available to help me. And, of course, Rick and I are officially over, so I can't go to him. So, after much consideration, I'm left with only you."
"I'm glad I was your final choice," Adam joked. "But whatever this embarrassing problem is, we're adult enough to handle it."
"Please keep what you said in mind," Zoe continued. "Because this isn't just embarrassing, you might end up laughing at me and I need you to promise you won't laugh."
Adam thought about that for a moment.
"I have to be honest with you, I don't think I can promise that," he told her. "If what you tell me is funny enough to make me laugh, I won't be able to help it. Do you remember what Uma Thurman's character from Pulp Fiction said about this similar situation?"
Zoe nodded as she remembered that scene. Uma's character, Mia, was asked not to be offended about something that John Travolta's character wanted to ask her about. Mia explained that she couldn't promise that, because if she did get naturally offended, then through no fault of her own she would break the promise of not being offended. The same thing would go for Adam; if he promised not to laugh, but if there was something funny enough to make him laugh, through no fault of his own, he would end up breaking that promise.
"Ok, fine," Zoe said, feeling very annoyed. "I'll tell you anyway. Hopefully, you won't laugh too much."
"So, what's the problem?"
"I have been stuck wearing this bra for two days now," Zoe finally revealed.
Adam thought about his response for a moment, but all he could say was, "Say what?"
Zoe explained how, after her disastrous date with Rick, when they broke up, she went home and wanted to change into her pajamas and go to bed. But that night, she found that she couldn't take off her bra because something was wrong with the clasp. Feeling frustrated and upset about her breakup with Rick, she decided to let the bra problem go until the next morning. But the next morning, she found that she was still unable to take off her bra.
She couldn't figure out why it was stuck the way it was, but she could only conclude that the clasp was the main problem. She did try turning the bra around her torso so she could look at the clasp, but from the position she was in, she had trouble getting a closer look at that clasp.
She explained how she tried to just lift it over her head, but the underwire around the bottom of it was preventing her from doing so. She had no choice but to admit to her own brother that her breasts were too big to pull the bra over her head. She then told him that she even tried to push it down past her hips to get it off that way, but again, the underwire prevented that from happening. She didn't think she had a big ass, but it was big enough to prevent her from achieving that goal.
After trying multiple ways of getting her bra off, she tried calling her friends for help. Surprisingly, each of them was too busy in one way or another to come to her aid. It was very bad timing that they all couldn't help her with this all at once. The best they could do was offer her some advice about what to do, but none of the advice worked. A couple of them said they could come to her aid in a couple of days when they were ready, but Zoe couldn't wait that long.
Zoe finally called her mother while she was on her cruise for some advice, but she could only offer the same kind of advice that her own friends were offering. When her mother found out that none of Zoe's friends were available to come and help her take off her bra, she suggested she should ask Adam as a last resort. Zoe was appalled by that suggestion and told her so, but at the same time admitted that the thought had crossed her mind that she should go to Adam if all else failed.
So, after two days of trying to take off her own bra, without any success, and the fact that she hadn't taken a shower in two days because of this, which grossed her out, she felt that she had no choice but to go to Adam for help.
"So, that's the story," said Zoe. "Do you think you can help me?"
Adam was just silent. Throughout most of the day, he was pondering what his sister's problem was, but he would never have guessed this was the situation she was having.
"So, are you going to ask me what I think you're going to ask me?" he asked.
"Yes. I need you to help me take off my bra."
After a few seconds of silence, Adam burst out in laughter. Not a big laugh, but enough to make Zoe roll her eyes at him. He really tried not to, for his sister's sake, but he just couldn't resist. Zoe, feeling very embarrassed, got a little flushed in her face. She couldn't blame Adam for laughing; the whole situation was too ridiculous not to.
"I'm sorry, I really tried not to laugh," Adam said as he finally settled down.
"It's OK, I can't blame you," said Zoe. "So, can you please help me or not?"
"Of course, I will. The clasp is probably twisted in some way. It shouldn't take me that long to fix it since I can get a closer look at it than you can."
