For two days I was successful in avoiding my sister and her friend. I wore my headphones on the plane ride, I read a book on the boat between islands, and I planned to wander off as soon as we unpacked our bags into the suite.
It’s strange what time can change. Two years ago, things would have been reversed. I would have been avoiding my parents and spending most of my time with Brandy. Now I expected that most of my activities would be the awkward kind you do with your parents instead of the awkward vacation you spend with your sister.
What had changed between us siblings? I boiled it down to one word: Jolene.
Brandy and Jolene had been friends since middle school. I used to like the girl. Now I wondered whether the darkness had been growing right along with her ass or if she had been hiding it from us the entire time, duping us with her bright smile and fake innocence.
The girls had a habit of people watching. They would whisper to each other, usually out of earshot as they made up entirely fictitious lives for the unsuspecting victims.
On the plane ride I could hear them rip on the stewardesses between quiet moments of the song.
“Alice always had a fascination with public displays and finally worked up the courage at the sex club to volunteer for the glory hole. She surprised herself by lasting for two hours!” Jolene said to my sister despite the stewardess’s name tag reading Katelyn.
I turned up the music.
On the boat ride I tried to ignore my sister’s whispering, but even though I was almost as far away as the couple she was mocking, I could still make out her words.
“Spencer was excited for tonight, for it was the first time Elizabeth would let him have her. Unfortunately for her, she was about to find out why he hadn’t pressured her for her first time until after they tied the knot!” The two girls giggled as they seemed to be unaware of how loud they were.
The couple ignored them, encouraging the girls to continue.
Jolene took the torch. “Spencer had always been ashamed of his micropenis. But now he had a girl locked down, unable to escape the disappointment in his pants!”
I said nothing as I continued reading my book on screenplay crafting.
Brandy had gone off to college a year ago, and since then I’d only seen her over Christmas break. I had already been apprehensive about how she and her tag along would act, and they were proving even worse than expected.
The thing that had me worried was knowing we would share a room for a week. It was a big suite, but my parents had told me before the trip that each room was five hundred bucks a night and they could only afford to cover two.
When we checked out our room the girls ran in and jumped on the king sized bed. I took the L-shaped couch on the other side of the room as far away as possible. The only problem with my arrangement was that the girls could pop up their heads at any point to look in my direction, leaving me with nothing in the way of privacy. It was going to be a long week.
I wandered off, finding a nice chair on the beach to read my book under the shade of an umbrella. The beach put me in a good mood, and I took a walk to the ABC Store close by to pick up some drinks for the mini-fridge.
As I toured the resort, I passed the gaming room with a billiards table and an assortment of arcade games where parents could drop off their teens. The shuffleboard table caught my eye, making me sad for a moment as I realized that was no longer a destination where I could spend an afternoon wasting time with my formerly tolerable sister.
“And yet I’ll still be spending time there,” I said out loud as I noticed the girl behind the counter. She was built like a wet dream and if I had seen her anywhere else in the resort I would have mistaken her for an Instagram model. The only reason I wouldn’t have placed her as a professional model was that most clothing brands didn’t like their models to display massive tits.
I continued on to the store and debated buying an overpriced bottle of whiskey to go with my twelve pack.
I went out of my way to buy options I didn’t think the girls would like. I’d let them have a taste of booze a year ago and fully regretted it when they turned into even worse versions of themselves.
Back at the room I used my key to let myself in.
“Hey!” Brandy yelled at me. “Are you not going to knock?”
“If we establish that rule, sure,” I said as I turned away from her to load up the mini-fridge.
“Are you kidding? We could be changing!” Her tone changed as she realized what I brought. “Oh! What did you get?”
“Beer and bourbon,” I said smugly.
“Beer? Eww.”
Yesss.
“But I could do some whiskey!”
“Hell yeah,” Jolene added. “Mix it with some coke.”
Damn it. Should have paid extra for the scotch.
“Sorry, girls,” I told them. “I’m not looking to get killed by our parents.”
“Fuck that,” Brandy said sweetly. “There’s no way I’m spending a week in this boring place with my lame ass brother sober.”
“We did it a few years back,” I reminded her. “It wasn’t so bad.”
“Yeah it was. It fucking sucked.”
I had no response, so I cracked a beer.
“Hey, Dan?” Jolene turned to me. “Since I like you and all, I want to warn you that we are going to finish off that whiskey bottle in one night and you should probably get a bigger one.”
“Not happening.”
Jolene reached into the fridge and grabbed my bottle of bourbon. “Oh, it is. That’s what we’re telling you.”
“Jolene, you know I love you, but let’s keep things up here at the adult table.”
“That’s my point. We’re all adults here, so we’re going to do adult activities. Like drinking.”
I took a sip of beer. “Don’t make me say it.”
“Make you say what?”
I sighed as she unscrewed the top and began tipping the bottle into her mouth.
“Please don’t force me to snitch on you.”
“You wouldn’t dare.”
She took a gulp and handed the bottle to Brandy, who also took a sip.
“MOM!”
Brandy coughed. “Dan! Are you kidding? You know she’s just going to be mad at you for buying booze.”
“Which is exactly why I begged you not to do it. I’ll burn down the ship as long as I bring you both down with me.”
“Asshole!”
We heard the adjoining door click as my mother attempted to open it. “Why is this door locked?”
“One moment!” Brandy called out as she gestured at Jolene to hide the bottle.
“Should have listened to me,” I whispered to the two girls glaring at me.
Mom walked in. “Never lock this door. I told you that when we checked in.”
“Sorry, must have been Dan,” Brandy said.
“Nope,” I said flatly.
“Well, you called?” Mom asked me.
“Yeah-”
“Dan was creeping on Jolene!” Brandy shouted over me.
“What?” Mom looked at her, confused.
“Not true,” I said.
“He was talking about how we’re all adults now, and how he wants to take us both down, whatever that means.”
“Dan! What the hell?”
“Also not true.” I stood up. “The reason I called you in here, Mom, is because I told them both that you would not approve of them hijacking my whiskey.”
“Oh, bullshit!” Brandy said.
“And yet, smell their breath,” I said.
“He would love to! Dan was checking her out the entire plane ride here! He was making her uncomfortable!”
Fuck. How should I play this? Whether I admitted or denied it, I would allow Brandy to hijack the conversation. I’d already played my cards and had nothing else to add to the conversation. The worst part was, my eyes actually had been wandering over as I sat next to the girls on the flight.
The past year had been very kind to the two girls. They had both gained the typical freshman fifteen, and it had gone to all the right places. For Jolene it had filled out her ass, showing off her proud black ethnicity. She’d also learned how to style her hair to frame her face and spent time watching makeup tutorials to accentuate her high cheekbones.
She had turned from the awkward teenager I’d grown up with into a force to be reckoned with. Jolene had hips, she had curves. She was a woman. But I couldn’t see her ass when she sat two seats over on the plane. What had kept my eyes flickering over was, in fact, my sister.
For Brandy, the freshman fifteen had seemed to go entirely to her tits. Well… I judged now with my peripheral vision as I stood there, still trying to plan a response to the current situation that maybe five had gone to her ass and ten had gone to her bra.
Ten pounds is a lot of flesh on a skinny girl, especially when she had already been a small C cup a year ago. Now I guessed her bra to be double D, and she was overflowing it.