Christmas is Cuming

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The last month had been rough emotionally, but at least with Steph away at college I had plenty of time to myself to think. I’d thought I was in love with Sonja Scott, a distantly related girl who was a year younger than I was, but sexually much more experienced than I was. She’d cured me of my seventeen long years of virginity on the last Fourth of July, but then slept with my cousin, Jason Williams right in front of me while letting Jason’s little sister Lilly pretend to be her in bed with me. That also proved to be her first time as well, judging from the blood she left on me.

The fact Lilly was a virgin until then and was more than a full two years younger than me made me feel a little weird, but after thinking about it, my dad was almost four years older than my mom. Steph had revealed that she lost her virginity at about that same age, so I guess that was not so unusual. But I was still mad that I was tricked by some scheme cooked up between them and my evil older sister.

I wanted to find some way of getting back at Steph, who had obviously set the whole thing up, and then went and snitched to Dad about the sexual encounter on Thanksgiving night. She’d had at least some sexual encounters at our house, I was sure, but even days of searching her room when I was home alone yielded no evidence or even a clue to any dirt on her.

I quietly turned eighteen at the beginning of December without any real party, just a cake from Mom and fifty dollars from Dad, but otherwise it was just another day. I decided the only other option was to try and steal her mobile phone when she came back home for Christmas. However that was easier said than done as she kept it with her at all times, and even locked her door now when she showered and slept. I didn’t get a chance to even touch it before we all packed up in the car for the long drive back to the farmhouse the day before Christmas Eve.

I had gotten just a few presents this year, some scented soaps for Mom and a tie clip for Dad, but I’d be damned if I was getting anything for my bitch of a sister. I got a video game for Jason, and I thought about getting something like jewelry for Lilly, but I didn’t want to send to strong of a message so settled on just a pretty charm bracelet. It was cute and had a few dangling trinkets of some of our mutual enjoyed hobbies, a guitar, soccer ball, and a book. The rest of our relatives just got a signed family card; our Mom took care of their presents which were usually just some clothes, often things we outgrew for the younger kids. All of that was packed up and we were back in the car for three hours.

I tried to ignore my sister Stephanie, but you cannot sit right next to someone for that long and ignore then completely them. Steph had her typical punk Goth look going, but I noticed she had a ring on her right ring finger that didn’t have a skull or an ankh on it. In fact it was a class ring like they tried to sell at school but this one was clearly a guy’s ring, big and silver with a football on it, along with the initials ‘KGL’.

Now if there is one thing I know about my sister it’s her disgust for football and all jocks in general. Every person in our school heard about the linebacker that went out with her once and was left naked on the side of the road. So unless it was a stolen trophy, I’d wager she was pretty serious with a football player at college with those initials.

I stopped looking before I was caught starring, but I still didn’t know how I could use this against her. I was lost in thought the whole rest of the drive, and that did make it seem much shorter than usual. Even more so than Thanksgiving, Christmas for our family was the smallest of the holiday events we came out to our grandparents’ old farmhouse for. Most of our more distant relatives all had more local traditions with the winter weather, and most of the closer ones were just here last month, so my family was about the most distant that came out normally.

The Williams’ were already there this time, as well as the four or five other local aunts and uncles. Only a few kids would be here, so it’d be much quieter than most of our other family gatherings. Jake met me at the door putting back on his coat, “Granada’s got the snowmobile fixed up and says the field is deep enough, follow me!”

Honestly the last thing I wanted after riding in a car for three hours was to go riding a Skidoo in the cold winter air for another hour, but Jake was already going and seemed excited, so I joined him. We got it started up and I jumped on behind him and hung on for dear life as he blasted the throttle and we zoomed across the fresh snow on the open field.

We’re only about a mile away when he stopped us though. “What’s wrong?” I asked.

“We need to talk,” Jason said seriously.

“We could have done that at the house where it’s warm,” I complained.

“Not without Lilly overhearing,” he explained. “So tell me for real, are you still interested in my sister, or what?”

I shrugged, “I don’t know Jay. I’ve always thought she was cool, but…”

“Look, the only reason I let you fuck her last month was ’cause Sonja said she’d fuck me. Even then it was just that she was already sucking my cock, so really my little head doing all the thinking,” my cousin explained. “But I think she’s really in love with you man.”

“I…” I wasn’t really expecting that so stopped and thought for a moment. Lilly was much like her brother, a little wild and adventurous and a lot of fun and smart. She wasn’t sexy hot, but still cute and I figured I could do worse. “I’m not going to lie to you. I’m not in love with her, but I’d like you’re permission to date her and go from there.”

Jason smacked me on the shoulder, “As long as you don’t take advantage of her. ‘Cause I’ll kick your ass if you do.” I laughed, but he continued, “No, I mean it. You don’t think I can take you?” Jason was a little shorter than me so we got to play fighting that turned into snowball throwing for the next fifteen minutes. Tired and laughing we got back on the snowmobile and this time I got to drive and make Jason hang on behind me.

When we got back I saw Lilly smile at me as we were taking our boots off.