If there's a moral to this story it's that you should never pass up on an opportunity to fuck your sister.
We'd been out for a ride that afternoon, on Emma's new motorcycle -- which Mom doesn't know about yet -- and had ended up making out under the railroad bridge at Conway. Only the walkway under the bridge is really old and unsteady and when the rail cracked behind us we did the smart thing and sat down and ate lunch and chatted.
Like friends. Like two people who don't jump on one another whenever we're alone because that's the only times we can jump on one another.
Only if we had maybe we wouldn't both still have been so horny that we wouldn't have ended up in the storeroom of the comic book shop where I work later that afternoon, and my friend Zack wouldn't have walked in to find me with my sister up against the shelves with her leather pants unzipped and my fingers in her pussy.
Yeah, we should have risked it under the bridge. The worst that could've happened is we'd have fallen to our deaths into the valley below. Right this second that doesn't sound so bad.
= = = = = =
"Dude... you know that's your sister, right?"
"Zackwhatthefuckman!" I spin round and gesture wildly, both hands, for emphasis. Behind me Emma yelps because yeah I shouldn't have pulled my fingers out of her so fast, and falls on her ass because I was holding her up against the shelf. I spin back. "Fuck! Sorry, Sis!"
"S'okay, " she says as I help her up. She leans on my shoulder, half behind me while she zips up her black leather pants. "Hey, Zack."
"Uh... hi."
"Kinda awkward, huh?"
Zack just bobs his head and swallows a few times. At the best of times he looks like a fish or a frog -- or Elijah Wood if you ask Tina but she's just nice like that -- and right now he looks like he's one step away from going full Kermit.
The door behind him is still open, and I can hear the background buzz of the shop down the length of the short corridor. How long before someone else walks in on us? Emma sidles past me, her pants now zipped up again and her belt buckled. "I should get going before anyone else comes in, " she says to me.
"Yeah."
She walks past me, stops at Zack. "Zack?" She puts her hand out, on his shoulder. "Please don't tell anyone, okay?"
"Yeah..." he says.
I'm amazed at how cool my sister is being. She's calm, controlled, I wouldn't say relaxed but she's definitely the coolest person in the room, which admittedly isn't saying much right now. She gives Zack a smile and walks past him, stepping out into the corridor. At the door she looks back at me, and since she's now behind Zack she gives me a look that's a lot less cool than the one she gave Zack.
I nod, vaguely, and she steps out. Zacks own cool -- or shock or whatever -- breaks about one second later.
"Jesus, dude, what are you doing?"
"It just happened."
"What? Now?"
"No, about... three weeks ago."
"You've been fingering your sister for three weeks?"
"Keep it down!" Neither of our voices are actually higher than a stifled whisper, but still... "We've been doing... a lot of things."
"You're fucking?"
"No!" Except even at a moment like this I just recoil from the idea of saying we're not fucking, we're making love, because you don't say stuff like that to your friends. "Yes! But not like... yes, we are."
"Wow."
"It's not weird..."
"Yeah, I mean it kind of is."
"Okay yeah, but..."
"I mean this is wild, freaky shit." Zack gives a weird little laugh. "I mean this is next level freaky."
"Zack..."
"Does anyone else know?"
"No!"
"Wow."
"Zack, you can't tell anyone. Seriously." I'm almost pleading, but that only makes him even more uncomfortable.
He nods his head and shrugs at the same time. "Yeah, sure. I mean bros before... uh, whatever. Right?"
"Right." I go to shake his hand. "Thanks, man."
Zack pulls his hand back from mine awkwardly. "Dude..."
Oh yeah. I forgot where my fingers had been.
= = =
I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to watch Zack while looking like I'm not trying to watch Zack, because I don't want to freak him out -- more -- by making him feel like he's under surveillance. Luckily, I guess, the shop is quite busy so neither of us have time to get back on-topic. I do keep catching Zack looking at me weirdly but I guess that's to be expected. It's also hard to tell the difference between Zack looking at me weirdly because of what he knows now, and Zack looking at me weirdly because that's how Zack always looks.
Now that the initial shock has worn off I think I've lucked out. I mean relatively. If it had been Trent or Chris or -- god no -- Kenny that had walked in on us we'd have been utterly fucked. I can't even imagine what would have happened if it had been Tina or Steve. Tina's the Mayor's daughter and there's probably a law against fucking your sister in front of the Mayor's daughter. As for Steve... oh fuck no.
So yeah, of all the people who could've walked in on us we lucked out with Zack. He's my best friend, he's in my guild and he's not judgemental about other peoples' sex lives because he's too busy trying to get one of his own.
At least that's what I tell myself.
At the end of the day I head for home, hoping that this will be as bad as it gets, today.
Which it is, kind of. Mom and Dad are going out tonight -- some social event at the hotel -- and by the looks of it I've already missed Mom's reaction to Emma's new bike, and the fact that Dad signed off on it. They're still speaking. Kind of.
"We'll be back late, " Mom says as they're heading out of the door. "But not that late."
Emma turns to me as the door closes behind them. She's sort of dressed down tonight, in a black tee and hoodie and faded black jeans.
"So, " she says. "Want to watch a movie?"
"Sure."
We order in pizza and an hour later we're doing the Netflix thing where we spend more time browsing than we do actually watching anything.
"How about that?"
"Seen it."
"That?"
"Meh. C'mon, let me have the remote."
"Okay."
"What about this? Finish season 1 before season 2?"
"I tried but even Colleen couldn't keep me watching."
"Got a thing for her, little brother?"