Change Can be Good_(1)

Kathleen Casey waved goodbye to the receding taillights of her parents’ SUV. She stood with her sister, Violet in front of the garage, having just helped their mom and dad load up their baggage for their cruise vacation to Alaska. Yes, Alaska, the worst idea for a cruise.
“Why would anyone want to go in a cruise where it’s as cold year-round as it gets in the winter here?” Violet pondered aloud.
Kathleen turned and headed back towards the front door, “I think Jack London went there once or something. You know how dad is about old authors.”
Violet rolled her eyes and followed her sister. Their father had a sizeable library at the back of the house, his ‘inspiration’ as he liked to call it, since he was a writer for the city newspaper, and was working on his own novel. Their mother was a doctor of medicine, so the girls grew up surrounded by books and intelligence, which explained the straight-As in high school.
But since it was the ides of July, with an empty house and no school to attend, the two sisters would have to find some way of entertaining themselves.
Kathleen was currently in the last few pages of an exceptional mystery novel, so sometime soon she would have to find something else to read before she turned into bed, as was her nightly mantra. Although her younger sister liked books, she was more into nerd stuff and videogames than Kathleen, who enjoyed history, politics, balanced out by westerns and mystery novels.
Kathleen held the door for her sister, and watched her as she moved into the house; smelled her as she passed. As a lesbian, Kathleen could not help noticing Violet every so often. With her straight reddish-brown hair worn down to her shoulder blades and her sage-green eyes combined with the smell of her shampoo, Kathleen had to occupy her mind with something else quickly, else things might get a little damp downstairs.
Violet stopped at the kitchen threshold and looked back at her sister, “So what do you want to do for a week?”
Kathleen’s eyes snapped back up to her sister’s face; they had been intent on watching Violet’s ass work on her way across the den. She quickly recovered her mental capabilities, but not before one of Violet’s eyebrows arched in confusion.
“I-I was thinking of getting into videogames, honestly.”
What a dumb thing to say.
Violet’s other eyebrow rose to join the first. “You? Videogames? I thought you said that they were for macho boys or little kids?”
Kathleen’s mind was racing. “Yeah, I was thinking that they’re pretty much movies that you can kind of control, right? Some of them have got to have decent plots.”
Violet’s sage eyes blinked. She agreed, still confused, and proceeded into the kitchen. Kathleen breathed a silent sigh of relief. Violet had caught her staring at her usually skirt-clad ass before, about six months ago. Although there was no incident, Violet had looked very confused and unsure as to what was going on, and Kathleen didn’t want to hurt her little sister in any way shape or form. Balancing her lust with her propriety was like walking a daily tightrope with no balancing pole.
Besides, Violet was her sister. These kinds of thoughts were just plain wrong. As she tried to work out the moisture that had dampened the front of her panties, Kathleen vowed to keep a stronger vigilance against her own wandering eyes and lustful heart.
Surprisingly enough, the siblings found a film that they agreed on watching that evening. Even with the house at a level of almost eerie silence, they managed to enjoy themselves through the movie. When it was finished, they closed the house against the chill and the darkness and bid each other goodnight.
Kathleen sank into her moon seat against the windows of her upstairs bedroom and looked out at the moonlight-streaked pine tree forest that stretched back away from their home before tearing into the last chapter of her mystery novel.