The night was cold, not a sound in the air except the gentle breeze passing by my face. I was standing outside the house on the veranda to get away from the crowd inside, my eyes closed and taking in deep breathes. The cold air and the smell of pine always intoxicated me. The simple solitude of it all made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I hadn't been home for a while and I missed it a lot.
It's just the same ol' story. Guy goes off to college, guy feels home sick, guy comes home for a Christmas. It's one of those things that are programmed into people, and I was one of those guys that missed home so much he came back for Christmas. Sure I wrote many cards, made a bunch of phone calls but the presence of your family and your home...that was the one thing I missed, the on thing I longed for.
The front door opened and shut in an instant. I turned and saw my dad. he grabbed a smoke from his pocket. He took the match lit the cig and walked over to railing next to me.
"You miss it any bud?" My father said while taking in the smoke.
"Yeah I do. I love it here..." I paused for a second and looked over to my dad "...I'm glad you didn't cut down the forest. I know you wanted to give the farming bid a try."
"Yeah, well some things are better left alone, plus you, your sisters, and the rest of your crazy family loved those pine trees."
I took in another deep breathe." Still do dad."
"Yeah, I still do too." My dad nodded "So how come you're not inside with your family?"
"Ah, they're here all week and I'm tired. I just want to chill for a little bit, take it all in."
"Take all what in?" He asked?
"I miss home, I miss the open space, and I miss the snow white forest. There's not one real blade of grass at my college! Also everything is so fake." Dad looked at me puzzled. "Like they have fake grass, fake smiles on there faces, fake bull...crap, the place is filled with sluts, whores, and drunk bums who have the equivalents of and 8 year olds brain!"
"Sounds awful Blake"
"It is, and you know what the worst part is?"
"That you're so far away from home." Dad said knowing that was my answer
"Exactly! Sometimes I wish I took your advice and went to the college out here."
"Well you wanted that scholarship."
"Yeah, but now that I take a look back at it all...I wish I didn't go...But hey I graduate in a couple of months and then I'll head back out here to teach at my old school."
"Sounds good to me." dad replied. "You know Blake, when I'm gone I'm giving you this place."
"What do you mean when you're gone?" I asked
"You know, when I die."
"Dad, you're not going to die for a while"
"I know that, but when that fateful day comes I'm giving you this land and everything on it."
"Really? That's awesome dad, I love this place."
"It's got to stay in the family, and I can't think of anyone else to leave this place to, except your sister."
"Speaking of Shady, where is she, I thought she would be here by now."
"Oh, she'll be here tomorrow, she had to finish some things up before coming down."
"Okay, hey pops"
"What's up Blake?"
"I love you."
"I love you too son."
Yeah I love my dad what are you going to do about. I have always been affectionate about family and I always will. Dad took one final drag on the cigarette then threw the bud away. About that time my mom called us in.
Dad and I entered the house and immediately everyone was asking me about school, life, job, love. I was overwhelmed and looked at my mom in dismay. She saw the look that I had given her and took me out of the swarm of family members. She told everybody it was late and time to clock out for the evening. Everybody agreed and said there goodbyes, got into their cars and drove to the hotel in town.
"I hope that wasn't to much for you Blake." Mom said
"No, I just loved being surrounded by people asking a million questions in my ear" I replied with a smirk on my face.
"Well for better or for worse they're gone for the night."
Dad nudged me and spoke "Get your bags dude and head up to your room. Me and your mom are going to crash so if you want to stay up keep the volume down a little bit."
I nodded my head and went to the car to get my luggage.
The moon was out and it wasn't really dark. After setting my bags down on the front porch I stopped and looked at to the land that dad said would be mine in the future. I smiled at the satisfaction that the infamous spit of land would remain in the family. My glance turned to the forest, I smiled as I remembered all of the times I spent in there writing, reading, or just hung out. Then I wondered if my spot in the center of the woods was still there.
I opened one of my bags and grabbed a coat. I started running toward the almost magical woods. The woods were a fair distance from the house. Just picture two football fields put together and that would be the distance from the house to the forest. The forest trees were white with snow on them. Pine still filled the forest with its amazing smell. I breached the trees and ran through the rows of them mind set on my special spot in the center of the woods. I then stopped at an opening in the center. I started to grin when I was met with the sight of a huge tree in the center. Snow covered the tree just like all the others, in front of the tree was a frozen lake. I walked slowly towards the gigantic tree then placed my hand on it slowly. Then I looked behind the enormous trunk to see a bench, a bench that I had made for the very purpose of staying in there to write. I was an amazing writer some people even called me the next Shakespeare. I always had a little journal with me and when ever I felt like writing I did. Poems, sonnets, stories, letters, everything, I wrote anything that popped into my head. I was planning on making my little journal into a published book but I didn't have the money. So there I sat on the cold bench that hadn't been used in years, I was the only one who knew about this little secret spot. The forest was so wide and vast that no one dared to venture to far into it, but I did and I turned out to find one of the best hiding spots.
After reminiscence I realized that it was getting late and the temperature was getting colder. I headed out of the woods and back to the house. Once at the porch I sat down to catch my breath, the smell of pine was inhaled in every breath. Pine was my weakness, my euphoria. After that small rest I got my bags and headed into to the house.
The next morning I woke up early. Knowing that the house wasn't alive yet I went for a run through the woods to my secret spot. I rested a bit, ran back to the house and started the process all over again. I did this for a couple of hours then went inside. Sweaty and hot I went straight up to my room grabbed some fresh clothes and headed toward the bathroom to take a quick shower. When I walked in I ran right into my baby sister in nothing but her birthday suit. I stood there stunned at her beautiful body that I didn't remember her having when I left. She had maroon hair, dark green eyes, perfectly round tits, brown nipples, and lost a lot of her baby fat and when I say a lot I mean a lot. She was a cow when I left her 4 years ago and now she was this skinny golden tan fox that I am ashamed to say made me get a small erection. She let out a scream and I ran out and closed the door. I shouted through the door "I'm sorry!" Then looked down at my pants and saw my member begin to shrink. "I'm so sorry." I said under my breath. What the hell, I can't lust over my sister, for crying out loud it sounded wrong even thinking about it.
A couple of minutes later she walked out of the bathroom and I jumped right into it. I turned on the water to the shower and striped my clothes, thinking about what I had just witnessed. Shady was cute when I saw her last, overweight but still cute, but now she was a babe, and for the first time I had a feeling for her that wasn't natural. I hopped into the shower and started soaping up, my mind still on my golden fox sister. As the water fell down on my head I kept thinking about how incredible Shady looked. Once I finished I grabbed a towel, wrapped it around my waste and headed for my room. I quickly changed into the clothes I got from my suitcase and head down stairs.
When reaching the bottom step Shady was there waited for me.
"Shady, I'm so sorry, I didn't hear any noise from the bathroom, so I thought it was safe."
Shady gave me a huge hug then released and said in an excited voice 'It's ok Blakey I understand, besides it's not like it hasn't happened before."
"Yeah but that was a while ago. I haven't seen you in 6 years and now I saw all of you,"
"Yeah, still I'm glad to see you, it's been forever bro!"
