“So, after Vaughn moved away, things kind of fizzled out between Peter, Lani, and me. We all wanted to keep doing it, but none of us had the guts.
Then Lani and I had a sleepover, about a month after Christmas. We stayed up late and talked, serious best-friend stuff. And we picked up where we’d left off. With… you know… making out and playing with each other.”
“I kinda figured,” I chuckled.
“Right. And then one day I was hanging out at their house after practice.
She left Peter and me alone. He started hinting about what we’d done with Vaughn. Lani must’ve told him how much I liked it. Anyway, she came back and told us she had to run down the street and do something for her mother.
She’d be gone about half an hour, she said.”
“Sounds like a setup.”
“Totally. I knew it at the time, but I only figured out later what she’d really done.”
“Which was?”
“You know. I can feel it.” She stroked my hard-on. “She snuck back and watched. Peter must’ve known too, ’cause he came really fast. He wanted me to keep going, so I did, and he came again. Lani ‘coincidentally’ returned after he put his penis away and we straightened up.”
“Yep, a total setup.”
“Mmm hmm. And a couple of days later, he said he had to go do something at the neighbor’s. Oh, Paul, I was so naïve back then. I had no idea. I just thought Lani wanted to fool around like usual. But we normally did it in her room or mine, never out where someone might see.”
“But you did it in the living room, didn’t you?” I said. “Because Peter wanted to watch.”
“Exactly. I wasn’t a total idiot, though, so I figured it out. Lani and I got in a big fight about it. But then we made up and did it again. It was… really exciting, especially knowing that Peter was probably watching. Lani wanted us to take all our clothes off—”
“Hadn’t Peter seen you before? With Vaughn?”
“Uh-uh. We always kept them on. Vaughn felt me up through my shirt and bra, and a couple of times under, but he never saw me naked. I was so skinny and flat-chested that he probably didn’t care. But… it was different with Peter. He asked me to take my shirt off. He was sweet about it. And he was kinda rough when he played with my nipples, which I liked.
“I also felt really naughty when I realized he and Lani were watching each other as much as me,” she said. “It was kinda weird, though. We all pretended not to know what the others were doing. But sometimes she’d let things slip that she couldn’t know unless she’d seen.
“Still,” Christy continued, “we did it any time their mom was at her volunteer job. I think that’s when my mom figured out what was going on, although she probably thought Lani and I were kissing and experimenting, or something silly like ‘playing doctor.’ I don’t think she had any idea what we were really doing.”
“Probably not.”
“Besides, she thought Peter’s part-time job started right after swim practice. I… um… might’ve let her think that even though I knew better.”
“You’re a sneaky little thing.”
“I had to be! Even without my brothers watching over me, I still had my dad’s stupid rules.”
“I’m just teasing,” I said. “Although I’m going to have to pay more attention. You did the same thing with me when you and Wren started fooling around in Siobhan’s office.”
“Yes, but I told you about that.”
“Eventually.”
“Like you ‘eventually’ told me you were talking to Gina instead of Sara?”
“Ouch!”
“See,” she said, still a bit testy, “I’m not the only one.”
“Fair enough. Anyway, I’m sorry I interrupted. What happened next?”
She shrugged. “We didn’t have as many excuses to see each other after swim season ended, but we did it every chance we could. And all through the spring and summer, any time we weren’t surfing or hanging out at the beach.
But then school started again and I realized things were different. With them, I mean.”
“They’d started fooling around with each other.”
“How’d you know? Never mind. I forgot who I was talking to. Of course you’d know.” She kissed my chest and gave my stomach a friendly little
caress. “I never saw them do it or anything,” she continued, “but Lani bragged about a secret guy she was ‘seeing.’ She told me she was giving him blowjobs. She was even thinking about going all the way.”
“How’d Peter handle it?”
“That’s how I figured out who it was. He stopped doing anything with me and became really weird. He worked more and avoided me or was angry whenever I saw him. I think he felt guilty.”
“Incest isn’t something you do casually,” I said. “Society has a huge taboo about it. I mean, I used to feel guilty too, especially about my fantasies.
I don’t anymore, but I’m an exception to the rule that incest is bad. Still, a lot of people think about it.”
“You can say that again,” Christy said under her breath.
I heard it but didn’t think anything about it till later. Instead, I continued,
“My situation isn’t unique, but it’s pretty rare. I mean, Erin and I were kind of encouraged to experiment, although not necessarily with each other. We knew about sex and the consequences—not just physical, but emotional too
—so I probably adjusted better because I was raised like I was.”
“Yeah, I guess so,” Christy said softly. “Peter didn’t do so well. Lani didn’t really change, which was weird in its own way, but he turned into a jerk.”
“He probably liked what they were doing but felt guilty about it. No clue what was going through her head.”
“I… think I know. One of the things girls worry about most is ruining our reputation. Lani knew Peter couldn’t brag about what they did, so it was perfect for her. She could do things with him and no one would know. That’s a big part of why I do things with you. I love you, but I also know you won’t tell anyone.”
“No, definitely not. But what happened with them? Did things ever go back to normal? Or did they get worse?”
“Sort of worse. They eventually went all the way—I was up close and personal with Lani, if you know what I mean. I saw her before and after.”
I chuckled. “So that was your introduction to the hymen?”
“Yeah. I knew what it was—every girl does, a cherry—but not for real, not till Lani lost hers. And for the record, she didn’t ‘lose’ anything. It was just this little piece of skin that tore. I never even knew it was there or what it was. I just thought it was part of her, until it was different. And I probably wouldn’t’ve noticed if I hadn’t been suspicious already.”
“Did she change in other ways? Emotionally?”
“A little. She was more secretive, maybe, but I didn’t really notice at the time. Peter changed a lot, so that’s what I paid attention to.” She shrugged.
“We didn’t hang out as much because of it. I was really upset. I mean, I had no idea what was going on. Not at the time. I’m pretty sure I do now, but…”
I nodded and stroked her back as she fell silent. She’d stopped playing with my dick sometime during her story, and she simply held me as her emotions settled.
“How’d things end?” I asked after a while.
She drew a deep breath and plunged into the story again. “Peter quit the swim team. He got a new job and worked every day right after school, for real. In the spring he applied to go to school in Hilo instead of Honolulu. I think he wanted to get away. Duh.”
“Not just from the guilt,” I said, “but from the temptation too.”
“You’re probably right.” She sighed. “Lani and I were still friends, but things were never the same. We were real intense for a couple of weeks when my dad got a new command and we knew we were leaving for San Diego, but that was probably the one time I was happy to move.