Chapter 2

Unlike Laurie, I made sure my door was shut and locked before I dropped my shorts.

I couldn’t remember ever having been this hard. It was almost painful. Seeing my sister have sex had fried my 14-year old nervous system.

To say I was on a hair trigger would be putting it mildly. Grasping my shaft, I barely got 3 strokes in before I was desperately reaching for a tissue, then exploding into it, visions of my naked sister still swimming in my head.

How long had she been having sex? I had thought she was a virgin. That’s what our church encouraged, and by all other appearances, she seemed to follow the faith. She never turned down an opportunity to go on a youth temple trip in our ward.

It didn’t make sense.

But, the bigger problem remained. How was I going to face her at breakfast, knowing what I now knew? It wasn’t that I was suddenly thinking less of her, that was the problem.

How was I going to see her in the morning without thinking of her naked? Of remembering how her body looked, spread out on that bed?

I swore, if it were possible, I would probably lift my side of the table without using my hands.

But, I was tired from the trip, and post ejaculation sleepiness was hitting me hard.

I thought “I’ll just have to face this as it comes.”, and laid down on my bed.

After 10 days of being away from it, my bed felt heavenly. I was asleep within 30 seconds.

I was awoken by Mom calling up the stairs “Laurie! Gabe! Come down for breakfast!”

I rolled out of my bed and started to put on the shorts I was wearing last night. But I guess, in my excitement, I hadn’t quite been able to catch everything in the tissue. The front was a little damp.

After switching out my boxers and shorts, I went downstairs to the kitchen.

Mom, Dad, and Laurie were already there. Laurie and Mom were talking. Dad, as usual, was staying out of it. Smart man.

“Honestly, Honey.”, our mother chided, “Almost all the food in the house is gone. I have no idea how you ate so much in just one week! You even got into our emergency preparedness, for heaven’s sake.”

“It was a week and a half, Mom.”, Laurie retorted. She added something else at the end, that I couldn’t make out.

“What was that, young lady?” Mom asked. She wasn’t really scolding her. Laurie had never back-talked our parents before.

“I said, it felt longer.” Laurie said, looking off to the side.

“Awww, honey,” Mom said, giving Laurie a hug, “we missed you too!”

After releasing the hug they both sat down, Laurie opposite me. Mom had made biscuits and gravy from scratch for breakfast.

“Well, it’s ok. We will just have to go to the store and replenish the pantry.”

We passed plates around until we had 2 biscuits each, along with a healthy portion of gravy.

“And, of course, We could use the help of a big, strong man, Gabe.” Mom said to me with a wink.

I acted put upon and did my Cartman bit, adopting a stereotypical southern slave accent, “Days neva finish. Massa got me workin’. Someday Massa set me free!”.

I always thought it was a hoot, but for some reason, Mom failed to see the humor in my obvious impeccable sense of humor. Laurie, however, for the first time I saw that morning, cracked a small smile.

“Gabe! You know that’s totally inappropriate! Especially after all the blessings we’ve just had!” Mom said, aghast.

“Yes-um, Ma’am!”, I said, refusing to let the bit die.

Mom just rolled her eyes and went back to her plate.

“Speaking of which, I got you something over there, Laurie. It’s not much, but I thought you would like it.” I slid the bracelet across the table toward her.

Her eyes lit up, like she had never seen anything so beautiful. In reality they were just some opal, quartz, limestone, and sandstone beads. But, I guess it mattered that she wasn’t expecting them. “Will you put them on me?” Laurie asked, coming around the table.

Laughing at her exuberance, I picked up the bracelet as she extended her left wrist. I fumbled with the lobster-claw style latch, then was able to hook it on the small ring on the other side.

“Thank you, Gabe!” Laurie said, leaning down and kissing my cheek and giving me a hug.

“Yeah, no problem.”, I said, returning her hug.