My Cousin Susie

As I lie here, I can still hardly believe it all happened, what a crazy incredible day. I rewind my memory to where it all started with Christmas, Susie and a game of sardines.

As usual my Aunt Rita, Uncle Pete and their daughters Susie and Annie came over to our place on Christmas afternoon to spend the day with us, exchange presents, eat, drink, eat some more – I’m sure you know the drill.

I really had never noticed Susie in that way before, she was three years younger than me, a pretty little girl but just that – a little girl, so nobody was more surprised than me to see that puberty had taken hold since I’d last seen her and I was now confronted by a very pretty 13 year old with a budding young body to match.

Susie has always been naturally tall and slim and nothing had changed in that respect although she had filled out slightly and grown a nice, small firm pair of tits. Below the waist her slightly flared hips hinted at approaching womanhood and her long slender legs tapered up to a beautiful little heart shaped arse. She still had a little angelic face, with big brown eyes, small nose and neat little mouth all framed by her thick, shoulder length auburn hair. I was smitten there and then.

During the evening, my little brother Rick suggested we played Sardines – for those of you who don’t know it’s a variation on hide and seek where one person hides and when found, they hide together in the same space and so on until the last person eventually finds them. If you think it sounds a bit lame then you’re right but it is a Christmas tradition at our place and to please both the younger ones and my parents Susie and I joined in.

Besides, my mind was suddenly alive to the possibilities that the game could give me this year. After a couple of turns where we let Annie and then Rick hide first, it was Susie’s turn to hide. I hung back a bit behind the two youngsters as they charged headlong up the stairs, shrieking as they ran towards the far end of the house to start searching. I guessed that Susie would try to find somewhere new to hide so I went in the opposite direction and into the small guest bedroom.

Without turning on the light and just using the light from the hallway, I quickly searched the room before continuing down the corridor towards the study. I could hear the kids down the corridor frantically searching and quickly entered the study and shut the door. I could see a movement in the shadows behind one of the filing cabinets and found Susie crouched down behind it. ‘Didn’t take you long, how did you guess?’ she whispered.

‘Well, after a few turns there’s a limit to where you can go’ I replied. ‘I expect Annie and Rick will search every room before they get here’. Susie giggled beside me, her teen perfume and the smell of her shampoo a heady scent in my nostrils. I felt I had to do something quickly and seize the moment for better or worse so I stretched out my arm, making contact with her leg just above the knee. ‘Oi, what are you doing?’

‘What’ I said with feigned innocence. At that moment, Annie came through the door closely followed by Rick and that was that. I felt wretched, partly fearing that she would tell her or my parents and partly kicking myself for the stupid thought that I could make out with my cousin. I felt a total idiot.

After a few more turns I was getting a bit bored but Rick wanted one more go. I was breathing a bit easier as Susie obviously could not decide if the contact had been deliberate or accidental but things still seemed a bit strained. On the final go, Susie was to hide again and this time I searched pretty close to the youngsters. After one sweep of all the rooms we couldn’t find her and as Rick and Annie ran back down the corridor to search again, I paused to think about it.

The only room we hadn’t searched was my parents and while not exactly out of bounds, nobody usually hid there out of some kind of respect I guess. I quietly entered the room and again did not switch the light on as there was a little light coming in both from the corridor and the street light outside. As my eyes became used to the dim light I could see a darker shadow between the wardrobes and found Susie hiding there.

‘Neat hiding place’. Silence.

‘I’m sorry about earlier, I didn’t mean to’. ‘It’s OK’ she replied. ‘I’m sorry too; I shouldn’t have jumped to conclusions’. I felt a total fraud but I figured that all in all there was no harm done and I left it at that as it seemed to have broken the ice. As I squeezed in beside Susie I made exaggerated efforts not to touch her although in the tight space it was impossible. Again I was engulfed by her heady perfume and wished that I could feel her, kiss her, wished that she could feel the same way about me as I felt about her. ‘Wonder how long they will take to find us here’. Susie was giggling again and I felt a lot easier. ‘I got a new computer for Christmas, can you help me set it up tomorrow?’ she continued. ‘Sure, I’d be happy to’ I replied just relieved that things were returning to normality. ‘What did you get’? ’Dell XPS’. ‘Nice machine, I’m jealous’. At that moment the door opened and Rick was silhouetted in the doorway closely followed by Annie.

The rest of the evening was spent talking with Susie and getting to know her better. She had certainly grown up in the past year – we talked about what we got for Christmas, music, games, school, our friends and found we had a fair amount in common. To be honest I was getting a bit fed up of the whole Christmas ritual but having someone to talk to of my own age group made the whole thing a lot better, while at the same time a little voice in the back of my head was making me feel bad for treating her with so little respect.

The party wound up late in the evening. Susie went home with her parents and we all filed off to bed to get some sleep before going over to Susie’s house the following day – yet another part of our Christmas tradition.

I awoke in good spirits, looking forward to the day ahead, the morning crisp and bright as we drove to my cousin’s house and after the obligatory hellos to my aunt and uncle I went upstairs with Susie to sort out her new PC. To be quite honest there wasn’t a lot to do apart from put the thing together, complete the set up and reload the data from her old machine but I had another bright idea and downloaded Messenger and set myself up as a friend so we could chat when we wanted as we didn’t see each other too often.

As I talked with Susie, the tone became a bit more intimate, mainly on the subject of my girlfriends which was a fairly short topic as I went to an all boys school. Susie had not had a boyfriend at all but was inquisitive about all sorts of things – how do you kiss?, how far should you go on a first date?, the kind of stuff that made me think there was someone she fancied and caused me some pangs of jealousy.

We weren’t left on our own for long before we were called down for lunch and to my frustration we found ourselves spending the rest of the day with the family.

After Christmas I kept in close contact with Susie and we would chat over the net most days. I was right about one thing – she definitely fancied a guy called Dave in her class at school and kept asking for advice on how to get him interested. This caused me some pain as I still fancied my cousin big time. I answered as impartially as I could but in truth it was eating me up, every fantasy I had was about her and I could get hard just by imagining her gorgeous, firm young body next to mine and frequently jacked off in bed thinking about her.

After a few weeks she sent me an excited message saying she was planning to go on their first date at the cinema with friends. It all seemed to be going really well for her and I wasn’t about to spoil it so I wished her good luck and asked her to tell me all about it the next day. In the following days Susie was not on line and I was a bit worried but as we were visiting the following weekend I guessed I would speak with her then. When we arrived that Saturday, Susie seemed agitated once we had said all our hellos she grabbed the dog and me and headed for the door. ‘Just taking the dog for a walk’ she shouted over her shoulder to nobody in particular as we headed out of the front door and along the road to some nearby woods. It was March and the air was still cold, making me grateful I had pulled on a jacket.

Back at the house, Mum looked quizzically at Rita. ‘What’s all that about?’. ‘Oh, she went out with a boy in her class and she has been a bit funny ever since’ replied my aunt. ‘I hope Tony can talk it through with her because she won’t talk to me’.

Susie and I walked in silence into the woods. ‘Er, so how did the date go?’. My tone was uncertain as I guessed that something was up. Susie was a little way ahead of me and I could see her body start to shake with silent tears. I put my arm around her in a brotherly way and guided her over to a bench to sit down, leaving the dog snuffling nearby through the undergrowth.

‘What’s the matter?, please tell me’.
‘It w-w-was awful’ said Susie through her tears. ‘It was OK in the cinema, but after we left he wanted to walk home instead of getting the bus’.