Acting Out

All characters are above the age of 18. The stepbrother and stepsister in the story did not meet until they were both 24 years old.

Logan was the son of a famous movie director and grew up in Hollywood. His father got divorced from his mother, a famous actor, when he was a teenager. The divorce was amicable, as they had just grown apart and were too busy with their careers. His mother re-married a wealthy business mogul, retired from acting and moved to Europe. Although his parents were quite wealthy and lived in a Hollywood Hills home, as well as a Malibu beach house, they tried to not spoil him. He did well in high school and graduated from a prestigious university with a business degree, working part time in high school and college. After college he got a job for a studio working behind the scenes, while pursuing his dream of being an actor.

Eventually he was able to get parts and was getting noticed more and more in each film role. He had a California surfer look, so he was often was cast in comedic roles, but he wanted to also get parts as a leading man in drama and romance movies. Logan was extremely good looking, which also stereotyped him as more of a model than an actor, even though he never did any modelling. He had no shortage of girlfriends, and as he was becoming more well known, he was often the target of the paparazzi. He did want to find someone to settle down with, hopefully someone who was not in the entertainment industry.

Lexi was the daughter of a famous movie producer. Her mother got divorced from her father, a well-regarded actor, when she was a teenager, and she was closer to her mother than her father. She actually graduated from the same university as Logan, but they never were aware of each other while at school. She also was pursuing being an actor and was getting larger and larger roles. Like Logan, her beauty was holding her back from getting more serious roles. Lexi and Logan had some mutual friends, but had never run into each other, since neither of them were into the Hollywood party scene. She also dated some famous men, but the relationships never lasted, and she was concerned she would end up divorced like her parents or never even get married.

Lexi’s mother and Logan’s father met while working on a movie, when Lexi and Logan were both 24, and their parents fell madly in love, getting married only a year later. While their parents dated, and during the two years since the marriage, Lexi and Logan got to know each other when they weren’t on movie sets. Besides spending time together when they were with their parents, they also hung out together when they were with mutual friends.

Over the course of three years spending time together they started occasionally feeling a little attracted to each other, but felt weird about it, and hid their feelings from each other, their parents and their friends. They were so comfortable around each other though that when some people met them, they actually thought they were a couple, not stepbrother and stepsister, which made them feel uncomfortable. They did tease each other more like a couple would than how a brother and sister would.

On New Year’s Day Logan’s father Robert let Lexi and Logan know about an upcoming Caribbean vacation he was planning with Lexi’s mother Jean, while Lexi and Logan were eating dinner at their parent’s house.

“Jean and I are planning to take two weeks for a nice island vacation. We have a friend with a house and private beach on a secluded island. There are other houses on the island and a few restaurants, but his house is away from other houses, so we can hopefully avoid paparazzi. He also has a private dock and a cabin cruiser we can use. Are you two interested in joining us?”

“I would love to dad,” replied Logan enthusiastically. “I don’t have any projects coming up until next month and would enjoy getting out of this town for a while.”

“I also have free time for the next few weeks and would like to go too,” Lexi added. “We’ve never had a vacation together just the four of us.”

Logan and Lexi excitedly planned for the vacation, buying some new bathing suits and casual wear. They both recently finished shooting movies and their personal trainers had gotten them into top shape. They looked forward to being able to have fun eating and drinking whatever they wanted and not have grueling workouts.

They were at their parent’s house a couple of days before the trip and showed each other their new clothes. When Logan saw Lexi’s new bikini, which was a sexy floral print string bikini, he kiddingly made a wise ass remark. “Wow Lexi. I’m glad my dad and your mom are going to be chaperoning us on vacation. I wouldn’t want to be trapped alone with you with that bikini.”

She wasn’t sure if he was kidding and replied back, “that’s gross Logan, I’m your sister.”

“You’re actually my stepsister, but I was just teasing you. It was a gross thing to say, sorry.”

Lexi felt a little insulted by what he just said. That thinking of her as an attractive woman was gross?

The day before the trip, Robert and Jean called them to let them know an emergency had come up on a future movie project and they would be delayed going to the island for a few days, but that they should still fly there tomorrow as planned. Lexi and Logan met at their parent’s house waiting for the car to pick them up to take them to the airport.

“Well Logan it looks like you are going to be trapped alone with your hot stepsister for a few days,” she smirked to tease him.

“Now you’re the one being gross,” he laughed at her.

In the back seat of the car on the way to the airport, he looked over at Lexi, who had fallen asleep, and thought that if she wasn’t his stepsister, he would want to date her. They connected with each other so effortlessly as friends, and as stepbrother and stepsister. She was so beautiful and smart, and he started feeling jealous of the men who had been able to be her lovers. He quickly got the thought out of his mind, since he knew these were foolish unrealistic thoughts.

When they arrived in Miami, they had to switch to a smaller plane for the trip to the small island. As they chatted in the plane about the two weeks ahead and what had been going on in their lives since the last time they met, Logan starting feeling like he was going on a romantic getaway with a lover, but quickly tried to bring his head back to the fact that he just had a great stepsister, who had also become a good friend, and he didn’t want to have anything happen that would ruin their relationship.

Lexi had opened her eyes briefly on the car ride to the airport and saw Logan looking at her in an odd way, but she couldn’t figure out what he was thinking. Lately she felt nervous but excited whenever she was around him. On the plane ride to the island she also started fantasizing that she wished Logan was her boyfriend and she was also jealous of the stories the paparazzi wrote about Logan’s latest girlfriends. You could never tell if the stories were fake, and some stories were even created by the movie studios to hype the latest movie.

When the taxi dropped them off at the island house, they walked inside and marveled at how beautiful the house was. It was open and airy and decorated in a whimsical Caribbean style with bright bold colors. Each guest bedroom had its own bathroom and they acted like little children when they saw them.

“Logan, I call this bedroom. It’s bigger than the other one and the bathroom is bigger too!” She squealed as she dropped onto the soft fluffy bed.

“This one isn’t so bad either. I’ll be a gentleman and let you have the larger room. These rooms are pretty close together, so I hope you don’t snore,” he grinned at her.

“I snore very softly so you would only hear it if you were in my bed.” She didn’t mean it that way and her face turned beet red.

“Lexi, my girlfriend wouldn’t like me trying to find out if you snore and I am sure your boyfriend wouldn’t like it either,” he laughed.

“Lexi, let’s go to the beach tomorrow, but let’s go out tonight for a drink and dinner and come back and watch a movie.” They went into their bathrooms to shower and Logan finished his shower first. As he was walking past her bedroom to the kitchen to get a drink, he saw in the reflection of her bathroom mirror Lexi getting out of the shower. She was totally buff and thin, with barely any body fat. She was so beautiful with her clothes on, but naked she was even more gorgeous. He tried to look at her in a disconnected admiring way, like you would look at a statue of a naked woman in a museum, but he never wanted to have sex with a statue the way he started wanting to have sex with Lexi.

They took a taxi to a nearby restaurant, which was playing island music and serving local island dishes. They enjoyed a couple of drinks and dinner, but he felt so distracted talking to her. It was starting to feel like a romantic comedy movie, and they were playing the parts. Sometimes she would ask him something and his mind would drift off and she would feel that he wasn’t listening to her. He was kind of listening, but he was also mesmerized by her low cut sun dress and her tan skin contrasting against her long blonde hair.

Back at the house he asked her what type of movies she liked.

“I like romantic comedies. What do you like?”

“Well I like science fiction movies, but my girlfriend makes me watch romance movies. I’ll watch one if you’d like but you have to promise to keep your hands off me.”

Lexi didn’t even answer this time. She wasn’t sure anymore if he was acting, teasing or serious.