“You have sex with her?”
“No, nothing like that.”
“Didn’t think so. You don’t have that… look… The one you normally get after cumming. You’re still all tense inside.”
I shrugged.
“You want to talk about it?”
I shook my head.
My little sister circled around in front of me, hugging me firmly. And then she got up on her tiptoes and tugged on the back of my head to kiss my cheek tenderly. Then she went inside the cabin.
I sat back down and waited.
And waited…
And waited…
“Ben, wake up.”
“Wh-huh?” I blinked my eyes open, my left eye wincing against the porch light to that side but my right eye was just fine. The moon hung high in the sky above me, a beacon in the darkness. “Adrienne?”
“C’mon, Ben. Let’s get inside.” Hr expression was unreadable, odd shadows from the lights giving her face a dark edge.
“Where were you?” I asked blearily. My girlfriend didn’t answer, but she stood me up and hooked her shoulder underneath my arm, supporting me as we headed for the front door.
“What time is it?”
“It’s late. We need to sleep.”
“Where were you?”
“Shh…” Adrienne stopped me just as she got the door open, putting a finger to my lips. Then she leaned in a kissed me softly, firmly, it was our slow-burn kiss. And when she pulled away, she whispered, “I love you, Ben.”
“Wha—?”
“Shh… later. We’ll talk in the morning.”
Adrienne and I woke up relatively late. But apparently it wasn’t an issue because we weren’t going to breakfast.
“We’re not?” I questioned.
Adrienne just shook her head no. I knew better than to ask any more questions. When Adrienne got like this, just making plans and not telling me what they were, good things usually happened to me… Usually. So hoping for the best, I shut up and did as I was told.
We got dressed, I put on my hiking gear, and a few minutes later, Mom returned with coffee and paper bags with bagels, yogurt, and slightly cold waffles. The two of us ate and I shot questioning glances at my girlfriend. Where were you last night? Who were you with? Where are we GOING?
Adrienne ignored my looks, concentrating on her food. Then Mom returned. She looked at Adrienne and said, “Dawn’s waiting for you guys outside.”
Furrowing my eyebrows, I asked, “What?”
Mom looked at me and shrugged before leaving.
Confused, I quickly got up from the table and went outside, turning left to look towards the Evans cabin just a few dozen yards away. No sign of Dawn.
And then I felt a pair of arms sliding around my waist from behind, startling me. It was HER. The warmth of her body and the instinctive knowledge that my Dawn was hugging me quickly calmed me down, and I sagged back against her embrace. I sighed with unbelievable relief and then felt a shiver run down my spine as Dawn’s lips softly touched the back of my neck. It was a very intimate touch, and yet… platonic. Dawn’s kiss back there made me feel that she loved me, and yet wasn’t interfering in my relationship with Adrienne.
It felt perfect.
Adrienne then appeared in the front door, a warm smile on her face.
Dawn released me and stepped back, finally allowing me to turn around and see the beautiful sunny blonde, dressed in her typical day hiking gear. And my eyebrows shot up when I realized she once again had the silver ‘Ben Forever’ bracelet around her wrist. How the hell did she get that back?
But Dawn wasn’t looking at me. She grinned at Adrienne and chirped, “Ready to go?”
To my utter amazement, Adrienne stepped forward and the two girls hugged. “Ready,” Adrienne nodded.
Dawn glanced mirthfully at me, a twinkle in her crystal blue eyes. “Does he have a clue what’s going on?”
Adrienne turned, and side-by-side the gorgeous blondes (one sunny, the other golden) scrutinized the baffled expression on my face. “Nope. Not a clue,” Adrienne confirmed.
“Good. Let’s roll.”
I bit my lip nervously. Either something wonderful was about to happen, or my absolute worst nightmare.
It took me about ten seconds on the trail to realize where we were going. “We’re going to the clearing?”
Dawn, in the lead, turned and nodded. “The perfect spot for the three of us to talk.”
I glanced at Adrienne, who’s expression was unreadable as she walked just behind me along the trail. I arched an eyebrow in confusion.
“When we get there, Ben,” Adrienne said, nodding forward. I looked up to Dawn, who similarly turned her head and nodded.
I had a million questions running through my head, not the least of which was: What the hell is going on? But I knew both girls. They were so vastly different in so many ways and yet very similar in others. Perhaps that was why I was attracted to both. And right now, I knew both girls weren’t going to tell me a thing until they were good and ready.
So I sighed, put down my head, and hiked forward quickly to pass Dawn and take the lead. “If you won’t tell me until we get there, then I’m going to get us there are little faster,” I grunted.
Dawn came to an abrupt halt and held her hand up for Adrienne to stop as well. I took two more steps and then turned, a pleading look on my face.
“We’ll get there… when we get there,” Dawn said coldly.
I whimpered and tried to cradle my balls between my thighs, feeling like I’d just been castrated. But Dawn had made her point. I was NOT in charge of this. It was a mild blow to my ego, but with everything going on, and facing two absofreakingly gorgeous young women, I could wait.
I would hate it, but I could wait. So I nodded, and Dawn strode past me, once again taking the lead.
It took about forty minutes to get to the clearing. Dawn was taking her time and Adrienne didn’t know the trail at all. For example, she had to pause and more carefully navigate her way across a couple of rocks in the creek that Dawn and I could do in our sleep.
We’d turned off the trail and headed for bushes without any exterior sign or marking. No one else would know where to turn unless they had prior knowledge, and it was a miracle Dawn and I had found it when we were eleven. We pushed through the bushes, and I heard Adrienne take a deep breath as she looked at the pristine beauty of Dawn’s and my ‘special spot’. I decided to look at it freshly from her eyes.
The now fifteen by ten foot flat clearing was shaded and blocked on two sides by trees, with the bushes behind and the creek before us. We had a view of the canyon beyond and a constant but gentle breeze. It was quaint, and calm, and beautiful. It was our private paradise.
Dawn was in first and she and I automatically started laying down the ground mat and blankets, enough to cover the entire clearing. We’d needed the space before, especially when bringing down our sisters for some less than platonic family bonding. Memories of those times stirred my loins, but I tamped down on those urges. For all I knew, Dawn and Adrienne wanted to slit my throat and dump me in the creek.
Fortunately for me, things didn’t turn out that way. We’d no sooner gotten settled than Dawn nodded to Adrienne, and my girlfriend leaned over to me, held my chin in her hand, and planted a firm, nuclear kiss on my lips.
The explosion lit up in my brain as Adrienne poured more passion into that kiss than she had in days of moping about how she’d ruined everything. And I let out a keening moan of relief into her mouth as I felt the wave of pleasure and joy shooting up and down my spine. My body turned to jello and I nearly fell backwards, but my giggling girlfriend pulled away before I collapsed.
Then Adrienne nodded to Dawn, and to my utter shock and amazement, my lifelong best friend leaned over and gave me HER volcanic kiss.