“Charles” Brenda calls and runs to hug him. Elizabeth felt relieved of the unending stare which Brenda had helped her end.
“I thought you were coming later in the week” Brenda poked Charlie on the chest.
“I had nothing else to do in the dorm” he turned his eyes to Elizabeth “I see somethings had changed..I saw a dog outside roaming around and he had barked at me” He said the last part to his sister.
“It’s a she and she’s mine and also am wondering..” Brenda excited entwined her shoulders with Lizzy’s “if you know who she is” Brenda who had done a good job of making Elizabeth the way she was demands appraisal from Charles.
“Her name is Lizzy and she’s my sister and you Brenda did a good job..am I free to go now” Charles said all that to remind himself who she was to him though another side of him is screaming ‘stepsister’.
“Charles” Scarlet called when she sights him walking into the living room. She had been busy watching her favorite show and sipping from a cup of champagne.
“Look at you..looking like a grown ass man now” Scarlet gives him a warm hug.
“I am a grown man now Scarlet” He hugs her back.
To Charles, Scarlet had been the mother he thought he should have had since he was six when he lost his mother but he only met her three years ago. He hadn’t approved her at first but on a rainy night when he had his trauma moments, Scarlet had comforted him all night long which was the last thing he expected from her, for her to care and that had been the only thing he had been waiting for all along. That had made him a good son to Scarlet ever since.
“You should have gave us a hint you were coming..I would have made your favorite meal” Scarlet frowned jokingly at him.
“You can make that for dinner” Charles said.
“Oh right, dinner it is” Scarlet snaps her finger and chuckle.
“If you may excuse me..I need to go take a shower and maybe take a little nap”Charles fakes a yawn to escape to his room.
“Where is Allen and Caleb” Charles remembers his two little brother who he knew never stay silent.
“I think they are in their room,no one expected you coming today” Scarlet says and return to her seat.
“And dad?”
“He’s probably in his study gluing his eyes on the papers like he always does” Scarlet said in annoyance. Charles knew something had gone wrong with both again. Their fights had always been the regular in the house so Charles sees it as no big deal.
‘They would probably end it with a glass of champagne and a steamy night’ Charles thought.
When he got to his room, he got off his clothes and saunter off to the shower. After taking a nice dip, he dawdle back to his bed. He lay flat on it naked like the day he was born. He heard a door open from outside his room and right then he remembers his stepsister’s room is opposite to his.
Just from the thought of her, he was getting a hard on. His mind drifted back to when he had first met her. He had often thought his concern over her was because she is his stepsister but now to his realization, he had found her attractive,sexually attractive. He also thinks the cause must have been when he had accidentally saw her naked in her room two years ago on a night when he had the intention of blasting her for something he thought she did but she didn’t.
‘Could this s****l attraction of his to her stop after he f***s her?’ he thought but he knew that day would never come. At least that was what he thought.
His thoughts drifts him to sleep as he lay naked on the bed.
Elizabeth shut her eyes closed and instantly open them again. She had laid on her bed ten minutes ago thinking of Charles since.
She wishes to clear his face off her head but she couldn’t find herself doing that. She stands up swiftly and head over to check herself up in the mirror.
‘Perhaps it was a good thing she had agreed on getting her hair styled in balayage’ she thought to herself.
She was wearing a white camisole on top of a split front mini skirt.She had worn a blue sapphire necklace to adorn her neck.
Six months ago she would have felt uncomfortable with the skirt but Brenda had said something that changed her ‘We are only young now and it’s right to do it’__Those words of hers had made Lizzy felt like she had been wasting her youth being the good girl with no fun so she rebelled against her inner self.
She begins to straighten her lashes with mascara and adding a little bit of lipstick to her lips and then eventually start wearing skimpy wears,not too skimpy though,her inner self still stays in control.
She recalls the intense moment with Charles. She knew he was stunned to see her that way and she begins to contemplate whether or not he found her attractive.
‘But it doesn’t matter if he does, after all they are siblings, he would want to keep his boundaries’ she thought disappointedly.
“Nothing matters”She said out loud.
Scarlet made sure she made dinner that night. Except the momentary tradition of hers making special dinner on special days, she had wanted to give Steve no chance to talk to her so she kept herself busy in the kitchen.
Charles had come down from his room earlier after he had woken up from his beauty sleep to talk to his father.
He had eye searched the room but couldn’t find Lizzy.
“Brenda go tell Lizzy dinner is served, she’s always busy with that new boyfriend of hers now” Charles was stunned when he heard Scarlet say that.
“Not official yet” Brenda informed Scarlet which made Charles relieved.
“And I can’t walk up the long stairs, you made me sleep in the guest room because of that__remember” Brenda made a pity face for herself and pats her left leg.
“Oh I forgot darling__I’m sorry__Charles won’t you mind calling Lizzy for me” Scarlet said.
“What is wrong with her” Charles asked of Brenda’s leg.
“Some i***t at school accidentally threw a bowling at me and my leg got hit” Brenda was picturing how she could have hit the boy who had done that to her but she never got to.
“I do mind ma’am” Scarlet muttered ‘please’ to him and he stood up to go upstairs.
He stood still in front of her closed door contemplating whether or not to knock. Not meaning to eavesdrop but he heard muffled moans from Lizzy’s room. He glued his ear on the door trying to hear more of it but the sound suddenly stopped. He still glued his ear on the door hoping the sound will continue but to his dismay, the door opens and he found himself laying flat on the floor.
“What are you doing”