I came home to my sister rocking on the couch crying.
She didn't notice me watching her until I cleared my throat.
She looked up.
"What's the matter, Bridge?"
She wiped her eyes.
"Nothing. I'm just tired."
I sat next to her, and she curled up again, sniffling.
"You can tell me."
Bridge was younger than me by two years, making her eighteen.
She was a mousy girl, brown hair that curled at the ends, with big blue eyes.
She looked up at me with them now.
"Evan tried to... He tried to have sex with me. I wanted to, at first. But he was rough. He knew I was a virgin. Evan told me to just do it to myself, and he would watch. I told him I didn't know how, and then he got mad."
I suppressed my anger.
"Ava, he almost..."
I stood.
"I'm going to kill that son of a bitch!"
She grabbed my shirt, and sat me back down.
"It's over with now. He broke up with me."
"Bridge, don't you cry over that piece of shit."
A tear slid down her cheek.
"It's not him. I have never...never felt that."
I didn't know what she meant until she looked up at me again, biting her lip.
"Oh."
Bridge buried her head in her hands.
She looked so miserable.
I figured it was time for her to get to know my secret lesbian side.
"I will help you, Bridge."
She didn't look disgusted as she raised up, she actually smiled at me.
"Are you sure?"
I nodded.
I stood, and this time she came with me, up the stairs and into my room.
Our parents would be gone for the next two days. My father works for a construction firm, and he had a major meeting. She went with him.
Hopefully it will be like a second honeymoon. They both need to get laid.
My sister sat down on the bed.
She was beginning to look a little nervous.
But that wouldn't stop me.
My juices were flowing like crazy.
This must have been the way that my friend Jessie felt when she taught me.
Thrilling.
I sat next to her.
"What have you done?"
Bridge looked confused.
"How much do you know about masturbating?"
"Oh...not a lot. I know it feels good when I wipe after I went to the bathroom sometimes."
I wanted to laugh, but I didn't. How could she not know how to make herself feel good?