Author’s Note – All characters are 18 and up. Thank you to everyone who has enjoyed my story so far, and I hope that I can keep up your high praises. I do have much of this story planned out, so I will do all I can to get these chapters out in due time, but I don’t want to force these out and ruin the story I’ve worked so hard on. And I will be working on The Bet as well so look out for that! Enjoy.
“Sean…I’m in love with you.” Is this real life? Am I still in the hospital right now? Deep in a coma, unable to wake? Emma waited to see if I was going to break my “no interruption” rule. Unbeknownst to her, my brain was frozen due to shock. “Sean, I’m sorry,” she continued. “This is just a feeling I can’t escape. I’ve tried to run from it. I’ve tried to suppress it. I just can’t do it anymore. After everything that happened yesterday and today, I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t get this off my chest. When I took you to the hospital yesterday, I truly thought I was going to lose you forever. I told myself, if you made it through the surgery safely, I would tell you no matter what. I know that this is something a sister should never feel for her brother, but like I said, I can’t stop these feelings for you. But now you probably think I am a sick freak or something, and never want to talk to me ever again. That’s why I wanted to have tonight, one last night of us being siblings, before you hated me and wanted me out of your life.” She lowered her head in defeat. I took this as my chance to speak again, but I was still in shock to the point the words wouldn’t form themselves. I took my hand to her chin and raised it, so she was looking back at me again. Tears were running down her face, which broke my heart. But the tears helped me find the words I had been longing to tell her for so many years.
“Em…I love you as well.” Yeah, I thought to myself, this is real life. Fate had finally smiled upon me. It looked as though her mind had frozen up, like mine had. But I left it at that as I worked to wipe away her tears, and smiled at her.
“You do? Like ‘Love, Love’?” I smiled even wider and nodded, almost ready to tear up myself. Emma started to bawl as she dove into my chest, hugging me as hard as she could.
“Careful there baby girl. Still recovering here.” I said trying to hold back a grimace. She started to pull away but I pulled her back, just more gently this time.
“I’m sorry, I’m just so happy you don’t hate me, let alone feel the same way.” She softly wept into my chest.
“I know how you feel. It almost seems too good to be real.” Emma pulled away from my chest, but stayed close. We sat there for a few minutes, just thinking and praying this was not a fever dream. She finally broke the silence.
“What do we do now? If this was a movie or something, we would have probably tackled each other to the ground and started ripping each other’s clothes off by now.” I wasn’t sure if she was joking, or trying to hint at something. Even though I had been wishing for this moment for so long, I never really put any thought into what I would do first if this dream ever became real. I was sure of one thing though, I did not want to ruin this moment by just rushing forward into sex and mess up this once in a lifetime opportunity. I grabbed her hand in mine.
“Emma, I know already in my heart that I love you more than anything on this planet. I do not want to do anything that might jeopardize this, like rushing into all of this like an idiot.” I took a deep breath in, so I could stop shaking. My nerves were trying to get the best of me. “I know that if we actually try and make this work that we will have higher obstacles than any other couple, but if that means I get to spend my life with you, then baby girl, ‘There ain’t no mountain high enough’.”
“Wow,” she breathed.
“What?”
“I guess I never knew how much of a romantic goofball you are.” She giggled. “But if I get to spend all of my life with you, then ‘there ain’t no river wide enough’.” We laughed together, and slowly grew quiet. We both knew what should happen next. Our faces were already a foot or so away from one another, and the nervous energy grew within both of us. We both seemingly pushed through it as our faces grew closer and closer. I could feel her breath on me. Fate had been so good to me just now, but like luck, it flipped as the telephone began ringing. It startled both of us, as Emma looked at me and rolled her eyes, as she got up to answer it.
“Hello?” Emma said to the person on the other side. She then called out to me. “It’s mom, they made it to the hotel.” She then began to speak a bit more softly, as she continued the conversation with our mother, while in the kitchen.
“Great,” I said softly and sarcastically more to myself than anyone in particular. I started to worry a bit though. Mom and Dad. How were we going to keep this from them? I doubt we could go very long without one of them figuring things out. What if we just were upfront with them and laid everything out? relaxbet güvenilirmi I doubt they would understand. What mother or father could cope with, let alone approve of their own children falling head over heels for one another? Either way, approval or not, I wasn’t ever going to stop loving Emma, and now that I knew the truth about her feelings, I would fight to the death to be with her. A sense of pride started to swell in me, which was a welcomed feeling, especially due to the fact that all night I was nervous and scared that I had ruined everything, and would never be able to talk to her again. I ran my hand through my hair, and just took a huge breath, which felt like exiling the stress and heartache of the past few years out of my body.
I began to think about how close I just was to kissing the girl I had dreamt about for so many nights. Then I thought about all the love stories I had ever read. Usually the two lovers would come close to their first kiss, hesitate or get distracted, then would have to wait for so long to share that moment again. This was my love story and I was going to kick that cliche to the curb. I had come somewhat to the brink of death in the last 48 hours and you aren’t promised tomorrow. So with all the strength I had, I got up and made my way to the kitchen. Emma must have seen the urgency in my eyes or thought something was wrong.
“Mom, I have to go. Sean needs me.” She had no clue how true that statement was. “Love you too. I will,” she said as she hung up the phone. “What’s wrong?” Without a word, I walked up to her and placed my hand on the side of her cheekbone. My thumb rubbed her cheek as I pulled her face into mine. Her lips were soft, and she instantly melted in my hand, as she started to kiss me back. It may have only lasted for a minute, but it was years of torment erased in a second. We finally parted lips, and breathed heavily towards one another. I could have had a heart attack at that moment, and I would have a smile in my casket. Emma just looked up at me for a moment, before I gave her another, quicker, peck on the lips this time.
“That’s what I needed,” I smirked.
“Glad I could be of service,” She replied giggling.
After that, we returned to the couch, and cuddled for a bit, just enjoying each other, not saying a word. We were finally able to enjoy being close to each other in our new romance bliss. Emma finally broke the silence.
“So are we a couple now?” I was confused by her question.
“Yeah, I do believe so, why do you ask?” I replied.
“Just wondering, since you know, how complicated things could become.”
“Well baby girl, I will never want someone else in my life, so I guess you are stuck with me until you see fit.” She looked at me and gave me yet another kiss.
“Forever and a day.”
“Excuse me?” I asked.
“You said however long I see fit. I see it being forever and a day.” I could only smile, and hug her closer. Then a new burning question entered my mind.
“How long?” I asked.
“Huh?”
“How long have you felt this way about me?” I asked again with genuine curiosity. Had she been fixated on me as long as I had felt the same for her?
“Well to be totally honest, it happened after ‘The Incident’.” She sheepishly explained. “I talked to mom after you saved me, and she said you bursted towards the pool like a torpedo. Then I remembered how you cradled me in your arms, as you lifted me out of the pool. It was like something out of a romantic movie. And to cap it all off, even though you didn’t have to, you stayed with me all day and watched the fireworks show with me. I knew in that moment that I would never find any man that cared about me as much as you do Sean. So I guess it just grew and grew from there, and yesterday it came to a climax with you going to the hospital.” I sat there in disbelief. Emma must have sensed something in my lack of a response. “What you thinking about?”
“I almost told you everything that day.” I confessed.
“How you felt?” I nodded. “Why didn’t you.”
“Ha!” I semi-scoffed. “Well let’s look back at it. For starters, we were surrounded by family, including mom and dad. Then there’s the fact that not in a million years I would of thought that you would feel the same as I did. Plus you just said your feelings had just started, which means you probably didn’t even know if they were true feelings or ‘just in the moment’ feelings. And lastly I guess I never picked up on any signals that you were crushing on your big brother.”
“Well I was, but apparently you were the only one not picking up on anything.” She sighed. It made me think back to the last couple months. Was I really so dense that I didn’t notice anything? I do remember her staring at me more, but I always shook it off. I couldn’t really pinpoint any one moment that made me feel as though she loved me more than her mere brother. Then I started to think about the people we had interacted with.
“The doctor today?”
“Yeah…that relaxbet yeni giriş upset me a lot.”
“I was meaning to ask you why that upset you so much. At first, I thought it was because someone would think we were dating, but…” I looked Emma in the eyes, hoping she would finish my thought. But she looked back, as if she wanted me to guess. “…You were upset, someone deduced how you felt, even though you were trying to hide it?”
“Pretty much, if she could see it, who else could have seen it? She assumed, therefore how many other people have made the same assumptions?” Her face started to droop in sadness. I quickly took her face in my hand so she was again looking me in the eyes.
“Let them assume. All that matters now is you and me. But we both know the risks involved in all of this, so we need to be smart and careful.”
“Well we have a little help coming in that department.” I looked at her puzzled. “We have someone in our corner.”
“What? Who?”
“…Mom,” she whispered sheepishly.
“Wha…Hu…How?” My brain fried for the second time tonight.
“Let me explain before you have an aneurysm.” I just nodded. “After ‘The Incident’ I confided in her how I was feeling. At first, she assured me it was just damsel-in-distress/knight-in-shining-armor syndrome. But after a while the feelings persisted, and she realized I was serious. She wasn’t thrilled at the idea of her daughter being romantically involved with her son. But she made me promise not to bring it up to you.”
“So you’re going behind her back now?” I asked, finally able to speak.
“Not really. Like I said, we have an ally. After your surgery, I told her that I couldn’t wait any longer, and had to confess my feelings. She made me promise I would accept whatever reaction you had, good or bad.”
“From the sounds of it, you were as pessimistic as I was.” I said as I gave her another kiss on the lips. I pulled back and my side began to hurt, but the kiss acted like a natural painkiller for a moment.
“Yeah, trust me, that was the last reaction I expected from you tonight.” Emma exclaimed.
“Why’s that baby girl?” I asked, getting used to the nickname she apparently really liked.
“Well look at you, football superstar, every girl in school would kill to sleep with you, and you are just perfect. Then you look at me and I’m so…”
“…Perfect,” I finished.
“But Sean, I’m not. I’m plain, uninteresting, and there are rumors I’m messed up in the head about my brother.” She was trying to lighten the mood as a defense mechanism.
“Emma, in my eyes you are more than perfect. I don’t know why I have these feelings for you, I don’t know where they came from. All I know is that you are perfect in every way and I have been in love with all of you for a very long time.” Emma looked as though she was going to argue back but I put a finger on her lips to stop her. She huffed in response. “So did you let mom know of our little development tonight?” I asked, trying to change subjects.
“Yeah, I did when she called earlier.”
“…And?”
“She didn’t sound at all surprised, maybe she knew more than she let on? Either way she said that we have her blessing as long as we behave and act like family around her.”
“Wow.” Emma raised an eyebrow in question. “It’s like a two for one. I get the love of my life and our mother’s blessing.”
“Well there is a possibility you may get a three for one.” She giggled.
“How?”
“Mom says she will do what it takes to smooth the news over with dad.”
“Oh god, I almost forgot about dad, he is gonna murder me.”
“Mom doesn’t think so apparently. I thought the same thing for me, but mom says she will ease him into the idea. Plus it sounds like she has some news to soften the blow.”
“Like what?”
“I don’t know, she wouldn’t even tell me.” I started to think on what could possibly trump the news of Emma and I becoming a couple. My thoughts were interrupted by Emma.
“Sean?” Emma’s tone was a bid sadder now.
“Yes baby girl?”
“Do you really think I’m perfect?” This again.
“Of course I do, why would I ever lie to you?”
“I wasn’t insinuating you were lying, maybe just thought you were saving my feelings. I know if you really wanted, you could have any girl you want. I mean, Roxxy could be sitting right here in my spot.” It all became clear, she was jealous all this time.
“Emma, you never needed to worry about Roxxy, I was trying to get you out of my head, when I dated her. I was trying to move on from a dream and I probably made my feelings stronger for you. Things never went anywhere because I couldn’t love anyone but you.”
“Really?”
“Yes! I hated that she seemingly got attached, and now I’m sorry that I put you through all that. I didn’t know I had a better choice right in front of me.”
“So you’re totally sure you want to choose me over Roxxy?” I pulled her a bit closer.
“I would choose you everyday of the week and twice relaxbet giriş on Sundays.” We both giggled and shared another kiss. That had seemingly cheered her back up.
“Well, that begs the question,” I raised an eyebrow. “Were you in fact trying to spy on me earlier?” I should have known this was going to come back up, especially after the revelations of tonight.
“Truthfully, no. I was really just coming to ask about meds. And there you were in all of your heavenly glory.”
“Hmm,” she pondered while smiling. “Just how much of heaven did you see?” We giggled together.
“I hate to tell you, but the image of your well toned butt and legs are burned into my mind.” She started to blush, then her face got serious, as if she was contemplating something. Determination got in her mind, as though she made up her mind about something. She slowly exited my arms, stood up, and turned towards me.
“Would you like to see more?” She asked seriously. Her hand grabbed the hem of the borrowed jersey she was wearing. My mind froze. But for only a moment. I knew she was trying to be rewarding for all the compliments and praise I was giving her body, but quickly remembered what I said earlier about making everything perfect for this relationship. Also a pulse in my side told me that I was nowhere near ready for physical activities of any kind.
I sat up a bit, and as I did I grabbed the hem of the jersey. Instead of lifting it up, I used it to pull her back down onto me. She fell, softly, into my chest and we were yet again face to face.
“Em, we have all the time in the world to be naughty, and make love. But I want it to be perfect, and right now I doubt I could stand up for 5 minutes, let alone give you the night of your life.” I explained.
“I guess you’re right. I’m glad one of us had a level head, because I was close to just jumping your bone with my ‘heavenly butt’.” Emma came in for a kiss, and as she did, I snaked both hands down to her butt and gave each of them a strong squeeze. Heaven indeed. Emma gave me a sultry look, followed by a yawn. I looked over at the clock, which read, 1:43 A.M.
“Bedtime for baby girl.” Emma gingerly rose off of me, got to her feet, yawned, then extended her hand out to me. I looked at her puzzled.
“My offer from earlier still stands, you can sleep in my bed.” I took her hand as she helped me to my feet.
“Where are you going to sleep?” Emma started to laugh at my question.
“The reason I got shy earlier when I offered my bed was because I was offering to share my bed, not just give it up.”
“So…you…me…same bed?” I asked dumbfounded. Emma giggled and nodded.
“Don’t worry, just sleep…and maybe some snuggles, probably a kiss or two.” She grabbed my hand and led me down the hallway to her room. I had been to her room many times before, but this time was the first time I would be sleeping here. Emma lifted the comforter up, signalling me to get in. I slowly and gingerly entered the bed, with Emma tucking me in. She bent down and placed a kiss on my lips. “Let me go make sure everything is locked up and I’ll join you.”
“Emma?” I called out before she left the room.
“Yeah?”
“I love you.”
“I love you too Sean.” I don’t remember her coming back. I was out cold soon after she left the room.
When I awoke next, it was still dark out, not really meaning much due to the fact that Emma had a set of sheets over her blinds to block out light. I had almost forgotten where I was, until Emma snuggled up to me from behind. Then the reason I awoke became more clear. A searing pain, like a burning knife stabbed into my side. I tried to shift my body, but that was a big mistake. The pain soared even further, causing me to cry out, which in turn woke Emma up.
“Sean?” She said a bit groggy, Then she saw the look on my face, and woke up immediately. “What’s wrong?”
“My side, It’s killing me.” I couldn’t see what she was doing in the almost pitch black of her room. But it sounded like she was fumbling for something on her bedside table. When she seemingly found what she was looking for, she cursed herself. Without another word, she burst out of the room. I sat up very gingerly and found the lamp on her night stand. I turned it on to see a little. I lifted my shirt to check the gauze pad, which showed no signs of leaks or drips coming out.
Emma returned in a flash, and she was a sight to behold. She was now clad in her white cotton bra and polka dot panties. Even though they were very normal types of underwear, she looked like a Victoria Secret model and the best part was she was dating me.
“I forgot your pain meds before going to sleep. So stop drooling and please take them now.” I quickly took the pills, and chased it down with some water provided by Emma. All she could do was stare at me with concern in her eyes.
“Can I start drooling again,” I joked, trying to cut the tension in her. It seemed to help as she started to smile, and roll her eyes. “But in all seriousness, you look amazing right now.”
“Thank you but I still feel bad. You’re in a lot of pain right now because I forgot I was still your nurse.” She said solemnly, taking a seat on the bed next to me. I stretched my arm around her and held her close, suppressing a tiny wince.