Restraint
"Lisa, I know you're the last person in the world that's going to answer this properly," Brad began. It was insensitive, even brutal, but true. "But you're the only one I can ask."
Lisa looked across Cassie at him. They sat together in the sun on the floating dock, out at the edge of the swimming area of the beach. There had been some kids there, jumping into the water with annoying screams, but they'd tired of their game and were now swimming ashore.
"Go ahead, asshole. I'll do my best," Lisa said, but with far more kindness than the words conveyed.
"Is what we're doing horrible? Cassie and I? I mean, when it started, it was an adventure, and it was exciting just because it was incest, because it was forbidden. But it keeps going further."
And he wanted it to keep going further, Brad thought. It had gotten so that he couldn't stand being away from Cassie. If he was with her, he had to be in contact with her. If he touched her, he had to touch her more intimately, or to hold her tightly. He was in love with Cassie, in a way he'd never imagined.
"'A madness most discreet,'" Cassie said, softly, but firmly.
"What?" Brad had asked it, while Lisa looked the same question at Cassie.
"Romeo said it. Shakespeare. But about love, not incest," Cassie explained.
She took Brad's hand in hers and leaned on his shoulder. Brad brushed the hair from Cassie's face, as he often did before he kissed her, but held himself in check, satisfied with looking into her eyes.
It fit, Brad thought. Too well.
"'Tis our mad sister, I do know her voice,'" Cassie added.
"More 'Romeo and Juliet'?" Lisa asked.
"Troilus says it about Cassandra, in Shakespeare's 'Troilus and Cressida'."
Cassandra. The mad sister. Cassie.
Brad kissed her now, on the forehead, but only quickly.
* * *
They all piled out of the car. It had been a tight fit, but Brad didn't mind. He had been squeezed in between Lisa and Cassie in the back seat of Aimee's Honda Civic. Tara had made some jokes about Brad enjoying it, or at least enjoying the feel of Lisa's tits squeezing against his arm. She had no idea that it was Cassie's tits that he wanted to feel.
Brad had thought briefly about trying to get Cassie to give him a hand job during the ride. Lisa wouldn't have minded. She'd probably have gotten a kick out of it. But Tara kept turning around to make jokes about Brad keeping his hands to himself. She had no idea how much she was annoying him.
Once out of the car, they went to the bar in a group. As it was, both he and Cassie were underage. He had "found" his fake ID, and they were all shocked when Cassie produced one, too. But with or without it, Cassie looked so young, they figured they had better all enter together in a clump, so someone would be less likely to pick her out and tell her to leave.
* * *
They'd gotten there early enough to get a table in the corner. Brad had gone to get their second round of drinks when three big guys came in and immediately started to eye the girls. Aimee and Tara flirted shamelessly, posturing and boldly looking their way with willing smiles. Lisa radiated cold disinterest and Cassie was just Cassie, fading purposely and easily into the background like the noise of other conversations in the bar.
Brad returned balancing five mugs of beer by their handles, then took his seat between Lisa and Cassie. Aimee and Tara made looks at him as he approached, as if he should stay away to improve their chances.
When he sat, Lisa moved closer to him, clearly trying to use him as a ready made excuse to keep the guys away from her. He did something similar, moving closer to Cassie, trying to make them think she was already taken, as if it weren't obvious from their similar looks that they were brother and sister.
* * *
The guys were tickled to find that Tara, Aimee and Cassie were sisters, and clearly happy that Brad was a harmless brother. That seemed to make the whole thing more exciting, the thought of seducing three sisters on the same night.
Aimee introduced the three of them as "the experienced one," herself, "the wild one," Tara, and "the shy one," Cassie. Lisa was introduced as a long time friend that was "like a sister" to them. She was "the cool one." Brad was introduced as and treated as an afterthought.
It wasn't long before the guys were sitting at the table, squeezed between and subtly leaning into their respective targets. Aimee and Tara were eating it up, soon letting their hands find their guy's hands and knees, broadcasting their interest.
Brad had foolishly gone to get the next round, too, and one of the guys had quickly stolen his seat. The jerk leaned in toward Cassie, who instinctively cowered back, trying weakly to maintain her own personal space. Cassie's black hair almost completely covered her eyes. She bypassed her usual habit of pushing some of it aside. It was as if it were a curtain shielding her from him.
Brad watched thankfully from the bar as Lisa came to her rescue. She made some laughing comment about the guy's ear, then used it as an excuse to touch his ear lobe, only to hold it and massage it. After an awkwardly long moment, she let her hand fall down to his back and stay there.
The guy soon got the message that she was interested and Cassie wasn't. He indelicately looked down into Lisa's generous cleavage, as she artfully inhaled to expand it for him. She winked at Cassie with a smile as she did it.