"What's it like kissing another girl, Joan?"
It was the last thing the startled woman expected to be asked by her holier-than-thou sister at the breakfast table.
"How should I know?" she answered, trying to buy herself some time but knowing that her blushes were going a long way to repudiating any innocence she may have on the matter.
"Well, I overheard some gossip in the staff room and I began to wonder if it might be true."
Joan tried to busy herself making the coffee while wondering who had been talking about her and her most private secret.
"Why would you think such a think?" she asked her older sister.
"Well, thinking back, I've never seen you with a man."
"Iwe went to a convent school, Mary, and now we teach in one. There haven't been a lot of men in our lives."
"Be that as it may, I didn't really pay any attention to what they were saying at school until I saw you come home last night."
Now Joan's face really started to burn with embarrassment. She had been totally unaware that Mary was still awake when she came home last night. It had been late and all the lights were off so she had thought she was perfectly safe lingering in the car with her girlfriend. It had been such a wonderful evening back at the other woman's house and neither of them had wanted it to end at that point. They had obviously spent too long kissing in the car. If Mary had been shocked by what she saw, Joan wondered just how shocked she would have been if she had known the couple had spent the last few hours doing much more than just kissing and that they could still savour the taste of each other's pussy on their lips.
She had wanted to tell Mary for some time now but she had never managed to pluck up the courage to tell her older sister that she was gay. They had both grown up together and even went to the same convent school. While Mary was always seen as the good girl, eventually taking her vows and joining the Order when she finished school, Joan was definitely seen as the black sheep of the family, even though she went on to university, eventually training as a teacher.
When Mary had called her one day out of the blue and said she was leaving the convent Joan was stunned but also delighted and immediately offered her sister a room with her. That was a couple of years ago now and, with Joan's encouragement, Mary had also trained to be a teacher. Joan was more than happy to put in a good word for her with the Headmistress and soon they were both teaching at the same school.
They continued to live their own lives, however, Joan enjoying the best of the nightlife their city had to offer, while Mary stayed at home and watched TV. Now it seemed she had taken up spying on her sister as well as spending her time praying in her room, just as she had done when she was still in the convent.
Joan knew she could never expect her sister to understand the depths of her own depravity but maybe this was the time to take the plunge and explain how she had never been interested in finding a "good man," as their saintly mother had always wanted.
"You never really liked boys, did you?" prompted Mary, smiling at her sister, letting her know that she wasn't going to be disgusted.
Even so, Joan just gave a shrug and wondered if anyone else in the family held the same suspicions. For some reason her mind wandered back to the first time another girl had kissed her, really kissed her, and all the doubts of her teenage years had been swept away in an instant.
They had been at a party together and were walking home when her friend suddenly stopped walking and forced Joan to turn to face her. Joan wasn't too sure why the other girl had come to a halt but, when the other girl leaned in slightly towards her, she realised it was finally going to happen. She felt her girlfriend's hot breath on her face as she waited for Joan to close the distance between them.
The rest of the world seemed to disappear as her whole being now concentrated on the other girl. She smiled nervously and moved in, closing that tiny space between them, until their bodies were just touching. Joan tilted her head slightly and their lips finally met in a way that was much more sensual and passionate than any kiss with a boy had ever been.
She marvelled at how soft her girlfriend's lips were as they both explored forbidden territory and wondered if her own felt the same. Neither of them wanted that moment to end but both knew that, when it did, they would be forever changed.
And so it had proved for Joan. From that night on she had never been interested in boys, or men, and had resolved to fully embrace the lesbian lifestyle at university. What she would do once she moved back home was another matter.
But that was a long time ago and the more pressing issue was what was she going to tell her sister now? She looked across the table at her innocent, older sister, and knew they would both have to wait a long time for another moment like this one.
"I suppose I've known that I'm gay for a long time, Mary, but I just never knew how to tell you or anyone else. You're not going to tell our parents, are you?"
"Of course not, it's no-one's business but your own but I'd be surprised if they didn't already know."
This shocked Joan almost as much as her pious sister's acceptance of her sexuality.
"So, you're ok with it?" she asked, still fearful of the answer.