Sis Comes Home for For Memorial Day A Year Later – Part 1

Although this is a sequel I tried to write it so that you don’t have to read the original story.

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Sis Comes Home for Memorial Day – A Year Later – Part 1

“Aunt Melissa,” Shawna Spencer innocently asked, “Is Uncle Shawn your brother?”

A loud crash came from the kitchen as Melissa Graham dropped the ceramic bowl she was getting out of the cupboard. The bowl shattered as it hit the floor. Melissa tried to gather her thoughts as she recovered from her neighbors five year old daughter’s question. “How could such a young child have figured it out?” she thought. Melissa and her brother Shawn and taken great care in hiding the fact that they were siblings that were living as husband and wife.

Melissa was watching Shawna while the girl’s parents were attending a wedding. Shawn meanwhile had taken Shawna’s eight year old brother Mike fishing. Melissa and Shawn had become close friends with the children’s parents Wayne and Angie Spencer shortly after they had a commitment ceremony and subsequently purchased a house across the street from them. Melissa and Shawn never had children of their own when they were previously married, so they enjoyed watching Shawna and Mike when the kid’s parents were away and had become close enough to them that the kids referred to them as aunt and uncle since they had no real aunts and uncles.

As Melissa was cleaning up the broken bowl, Shawna came into the kitchen holding the 8 x10 portrait of Shawn and Melissa from their commitment ceremony. She held it up pointing to a picture in the background. It showed two children at the zoo holding hands. “See… that is you and Uncle Shawn,” the girl said. “Mommy is right. You do look like each other.”

Melissa not sure what to say and not wanting to lie told her,. “Well Uncle Shawn and I grew up together. We were friends even when we were your age.”

“But I heard you tell Mommy that you two met in high school,” Shawna responded. “My mom thinks he is your brother, just like my mommy and daddy.”

Melissa was speechless. If Shawna’s first question wasn’t shocking enough, the revelation that Angie and Wayne were siblings as well completely blew her away. She had always had a gut feeling that the couple shared something unspoken in common with her and her brother. Could this be it?

Almost as if to relieve the tension the young girl told her, “It’s okay Aunt Melissa, I know I have to keep it a secret from everybody just like I do for Mommy and Daddy.”

Melissa knew that the Spencer’s were very open with their children so did not think the girl was making it up. She wanted to talk to Angie first before admitting to the girl that Shawn was her brother. “Honey… can we talk about it later when your mom is with us?”

“Yea, we can do that, but Mommy will tell you the same thing. Can we have a tea party?” Shawna asked changing interests quickly as she often did.

Relieved in the shift of things Melissa answered, “Of course but you have to help me by setting the table, while I heat the water.”

Shawna quickly went to a floor level cupboard where Melissa moved the tea cups and saucers when she learned of Shawna’s joy in helping with their little tea parties. The girl carefully got out the saucers and put them on the table and returned to get the cups. While Melissa fixed them some weak green tea, Shawna went to the spare bedroom and retrieved two fancy hats for her and her Aunt Melissa to wear while they had tea. They sat together and had girl talk about how Shawna liked her first year in school.

The phone rang and it was Angie to let her know they were on their way home and if things were okay with Shawna. “She’s fine, but the two of us need to have a private talk and then probably talk to her together about something she asked me.”

“What did she ask you?” Angie asked. She had a feeling she knew because it wasn’t until after she talked to her husband Wayne about her suspicion that the Grahams were siblings, she noticed their daughter may have overheard. This was the first time that Shawna had spent much time with Melissa’s house since that conversation.

“We can talk about it when you get here.”

“Okay. Give me about 15 minutes to change when I get home and I’ll be right over.

When Angie and Wayne got home they went to their bedroom to change out of their formal clothes. Angie was down to her bra and panties when her husband came over and started to run his hands over her soft skin. He reached around and cupped her small breasts in his hands as he kissed the nape of her neck. Angie could feel his erection pressed against her. “The kids are gone we have the whole house to ourselves. It’s been awhile since we’ve made love outside of the bedroom,” he said.

Angie couldn’t help but respond to his advances and wanted him badly. They had both been busy the past few days and hadn’t had sex since earlier that week. She turned toward him kissing him softly on the lips and running a hand over his erection. “You know how much I want this,” she told him. “but Melissa said she needed to talk to me about something Shawna told her when I got home.”

“What do you think she told her?” he asked.

“She wouldn’t tell me so I think Shawna may have heard our conversation about thinking that Melissa and Shawn are brother and sister and asked her if they were. You know how inquisitive she can be especially at her age.”

“Are you going to tell them that we are brother and sister?” Wayne asked.

“Let me find out just what Shawna may have told her,” she answered. “We already discussed telling them if it turned out that they are as well. Besides it might be something totally different. You know our little girl can come up with some pretty unexpected questions.”

“You’re right. Remember when she just dropped her doll on the floor and out of nowhere asked why airplanes don’t fall out of the sky like her doll did?” They both laughed remembering that day. “Well do what you seem to think is best for everyone Sis.”

“I will Brother,” Angie said. She gave him a quick kiss and they broke apart and finished getting dressed.

Angie went across the street and knocked on the door and entered. They were close enough friends now that they usually didn’t wait to be let into each other’s house. “Melissa,” Angie called out. Her daughter came out to give her mom a hug. “Hi honey. Did you have a nice day with Aunt Melissa?”

“Yea. We had a tea party and watched movies and stuff.”

“Angie, I’m in the kitchen,” Melissa called out.

“Be there in a second,” Angie said. Turning to her daughter she said, “You watch your TV show while I talk with Aunt Melissa.”

“Okay Mom,” Shawna said. She went back to watching her show while her mom went to the kitchen.

Not wanting to jump straight into what Shawna had asked about she asked, “How was the wedding?” She brought them both a glass of wine as they sat down at the table.

“It was beautiful, but I don’t think I’ve been to one that isn’t,” she answered. “So what did you want to talk about?”

Melissa and Angie had always been pretty open with each other so Melissa proceeded to ask, “Shawna seems to have the idea that Shawn is my brother. She said she heard it from you talking to Wayne about it. Is that true?”

“Yes, I didn’t realize she was within earshot until after we talked about it,” Angie answered. “I first noticed the picture of the two of you in the background of your wedding picture. Forgive me for checking further but genealogy is a hobby of mine. I found a couple family trees on a website that shows you and Shawn are brother and sister. The ages and birthplace are here in our city. If it hadn’t been for that picture I would have never guessed it although you do have the same nose. I noticed that after I figured it out and started to look for physical similarities. You looked even more alike when you were kids.”

Melissa sat there stunned and was thankful none of their other friends had come to visit them and seen the picture. The only other person besides their parents who knew their secret was their friend Amy who was there at the commitment ceremony. They had come to refer to it as their wedding even though they could not legally get married. She was afraid to ask about what Shawna had said about Angie and Wayne being siblings.

Angie saw the worried look in her friend’s eyes and knew what she had to say to ease her concerns. “Wayne and I are okay with it because you see Wayne is my brother. We will keep your secret to ourselves.”

Breathing a sigh of relief she said, “Shawna mentioned that too. So she knows?”

“Yes and so does Mikey. We told them both after Shawna overheard us talking about it. We felt it best to be honest with them so they didn’t say anything to others and explained it is not accepted by society for a brother and sister to be married. I guess she figured since the two of you are like us it was okay to ask you about it. That little girl is so smart for her age. I need to have another talk with her about not mentioning it to anyone else.”

“We both can if that is alright with you. I told her I would talk to her about it after I talked with you,” Melissa said. “I do have one question. From what Dan at the zoo said you had a legal wedding. How did you do that?”

“Yes we are legally married because we are both adopted as you already know. Our birth certificates shows our adopted parents names. It is referred to as an amended birth certificate. We actually didn’t know we were siblings when we got married. When I got pregnant we thought it was a good idea to find out who our natural parents were and maybe find out the medical history. It took some digging but eventually we obtained our original birth certificates and discovered we had the same parents and were brother and sister.”

“So have you contacted your natural parents? After Shawn and I discovered our true feelings for each other we both agreed it was best to have their blessing and not hide it from them. They accepted it and if fact it was our mom who suggested we have a commitment ceremony since we couldn’t have a legal wedding,” Melissa said.

“No we haven’t because we are afraid they might not approve and find a way to annul our marriage,” Angie confessed.