Message-ID: <49048asstr$1093860601@assm.asstr-mirror.org> Return-Path: <poster@giganews.com> X-Original-To: ckought69@hotmail.com Delivered-To: ckought69@hotmail.com X-Original-Path: nntp.adelphia.com!news.adelphia.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:34:41 -0500 From: "Bernard Sagon" <bernard-sagon@hotmail.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Original-Message-ID: <uY2dncLGoJFs1q_cRVn-og@adelphia.com> X-DMCA-Complaints-To: copyright@adelphia.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.13 X-Spamscanner: mailbox3.ucsd.edu (v1.4 May 20 2004 13:55:33, 3.2/5.0 2.63) X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 51982 i7TLYhdu071049 mailbox3.ucsd.edu) X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:36:41 -0400 Subject: {ASSM} (New) Amanda, My Sibling - 12 of 15 - Chap. 8 (no sex) Lines: 707 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 06:10:01 -0400 Path: assm.asstr-mirror.org!not-for-mail Approved: <assm@asstr-mirror.org> Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: <URL:http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2004/49048> X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation <story-ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Story-Submission: <ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Moderator-ID: gill-bates, RuiJorge AMANDA, MY SIBLING Chapter 8 (no sex). By Bernard Sagon Copyright (c) 2004 - all rights reserved. ================================================================ This is Chapter 8 of the sequel to my earlier story "Sis On Tape". As always, any comments and criticism from those readers interested enough to write will be greatly appreciated. Please send any comments to the newsgroup or directly to bernard_sagon@hotmail.com - I will attempt to answer all E-mail within a reasonable time frame. Comments posted to the newsgroups alt.sex.stories or alt.sex.stories.d will be answered within the newsgroup they are posted to. ================================================================ If you are unfamiliar with "Sis On Tape", the prequel to this story, I highly recommend that you read it first. Although "Amanda, My Sibling" has been written to stand on its own merits (such as they are), this story and its characters will be more understandable if you are familiar with the earlier work. I am reposting that story to the newsgroups for your convenience. ================================================================ Disclaimer: The following story is a work of fiction and contains sexually explicit adult material. If you are not an adult, do not wish to view such material, or if such material is prohibited in your locality, you should exit at this time. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. ================================================================ This is a copyrighted work of fiction and the author retains all rights to this story. This story may be freely copied and/or distributed for non-commercial use or by archival services with this notice and any applicable headers and footers attached, as required by law. This story may not be reproduced in any form for profit without the express written permission of the author. ================================================================ This story consists of a prologue, nine chapters, and an epilogue. ================================================================ Chapter 8: You could feel the hush falling over the congregation seated beneath the stained glass windows. The moment that everyone had waited for finally arrived. "Do you, Amanda Elaine Carson, take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband - to have and to hold, for richer or poorer, in sickness or in health, to honor and obey, until death do you part?" "I do," she replied, giving the vow, the faintest note of a tremor in her voice. Amanda and Paul had written their own vows, and had decided to go with the feeling and most of the actual wording of the classic wedding vows. In particular, she had chosen to retain the "honor and obey" portion in her vow. It might be old fashioned, and it certainly wasn't politically correct, but as she told Mom when they discussed it, if you love someone, and believe that they love you in return, then you trust that person. The pastor now turned to the male half of the wedding couple. "Do you, Paul David Cartwright, take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife - to have and to hold, for richer or poorer, in sickness or in health, to honor and keep, until death do you part?" "I do," he replied, speaking directly to Amanda, not to the pastor who had asked the question. The pastor didn't seem to mind. He continued on, saying "Then by the power vested in me, before God and man, I do hereby declare you to be husband and wife." He then concluded, "You may kiss the bride." Paul lifted the veil from the face of his now-wife, folding it back over her head and, leaning into her, he kissed her. A renewed flurry of flashes exploded all around me, capturing the moment on film for posterity. It was quite a chaste kiss on the part of both of them. They were, after at, standing in front of a pastor inside of a church. Still, the signs of the passion they felt for each other were there if you knew what to look for. His mouth was just a bit more open upon hers than was actually appropriate. She leaned into him a little too much, her breasts pressing into his chest just a tad too firmly. The kiss lasted several seconds longer than Miss Manners might have approved of before the happy couple broke. The signs had been subtle enough that no one had been disturbed by them, not even the pastor. But the signs had been noted with approval by the more observant of the congregation. Now that the kiss was complete, the organist began playing the recessional music. Everyone rose, and then Paul and Amanda, arm in arm, exited down the aisle, followed by the rest of the wedding party. The immediate members of the bride's and groom's families exited next. As I was part of this group, I soon found myself outside the church in the receiving line, waiting to be greeted by the bride and groom. In short order I was offering Paul my sincere congratulations, and receiving a "thank you" and a firm handshake in return. From the bride I received a very sisterly kiss - not at all like the frantic ones we had shared previously as lovers. It was so innocent I'm sure Miss Manners would have approved wholeheartedly. I moved on, letting the next person in line offer their greetings. I ended up watching from the sidelines as the rest of the line wound its way past the happy couple. I certainly didn't envy my sister and her husband throughout this ordeal, but they carried on stoically until the line was gone. This was the cue for the limousine to arrive and whisk them away to the reception hall. The limo was an especially nice one - not the usual Lincoln or Caddy. Instead, Amanda and Paul got to travel in a white Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud with gold trim. I was impressed, even though I knew it hadn't cost my dad that much more than a more conventional limo. Still, there is just something classy about a Rolls. Two additional limos - one for the bride's party, and one for the groom's - then gathered up the rest of the wedding party. A forth limo, occupied by the parents of the newly wedded couple, completed the ensemble. That left the other fifty-plus of the invited guests who like myself didn't rate a limo to gather up their cars and head over to Sander's Hall, a large multi-use facility that belonged to the local Elks Lodge and which had one major advantage over the admittedly more convenient hall adjacent to the church - it was not adverse to allowing drinking on the premises and even had it's own bar. By the time I managed to reach the hall, park my shitbox Ford Escort, and lock up, the wedding party was already inside, as was evidenced by the row of empty limos in the reserved parking area. I presented my engraved invitation and was allowed past the staff and into the banquet hall. Inside, my eyes were greeted with rows on either side of the hall of mostly still-empty tables covered with spotless white tablecloths. The wedding party and parents of the bride and groom were seated at the head table. The large dance floor in front of the head table was empty, even though the excellent six-piece band was already playing. Behind the head table a pair of tables was stationed to one side, a mountain of gifts covering them and the floor immediately in front of them. On the other side, a table with casters held the wedding cake - a multi-tier creation that must have stool almost three feet high. A sterling silver cutter and cake server rested on the table in front of the cake. The cake was presently located discretely out of the way. Its moment would arrive later. I found my seat with no trouble. As the closest relation to the bride that didn't rate a seat at the head table, I was seated on the bride's side at the end of the first table down, almost directly opposite my parents' location at the head table and next to my Aunt Mary and Uncle George's seats. All in all, the reception was nowhere near as awful as such things usually tend to be. The caterer was a friend of my mother and had taken personal charge of the arraignments, ensuring that everything would go smoothly. The salad wasn't wilted and the soup was good. I passed on the poultry entree, going instead with the other choice - some kind of beef in wine sauce. It was pretty good, if a bit too French for my taste. I managed to eat my fill, as did the rest of the guests. Finally, as if a signal had been given, members of the staff cleared the plates from the table, while others, carrying trays of stemware filled with bubbling liquid, stationed the libations for the traditional toast at each diner's location. The liquid in my glass looked identical to that in the glass of my Aunt Mary seated beside me. It wasn't. As I had discovered earlier when wine had been distributed with the meal, the place cards at each setting were coded by border color. Not wishing to risk their liquor license, the staff had strictly enforced the prohibition against alcohol in the case of minors like myself. Thus, I had to make do with what turned out to be Sprite when the best man got up and toasted the bride and groom. Bummer. I couldn't even drink. Things then continued to drag on at a snail's pace. Amanda cut the cake. Everyone got a piece and felt obliged to eat it. The wedding gifts were opened, Amanda holding each one up as the giver's name was announced, then opening it and dutifully displaying it for all to see. The band renewed their playing. The lights dimmed and Paul and my sister had the first dance alone, a spotlight following their movements as they glided across the floor. It was a nice touch. Amanda was beaming as she clung to her new husband. The song ended. The spotlight faded. The bride and groom separated, Amanda going over to Dad and leading him onto the dance floor with her. Paul did the same with his mother, a dignified looking woman with occasional strands of gray accenting her almost black hair. The music started and the couples, parent and child, danced. The process was repeated, this time with Amanda dancing with Paul's father while Paul danced with Mom. Lastly, the best man danced with the bride, while the groom danced with the maid-of-honor and both sets of parents joined them, four sets of couples moving across the otherwise empty floor. The whole thing had been so cliché, but I still had to smile. It had also been lovely to watch, though I doubt if I would have ever admitted to anyone that I had been moved by anything so corny. The four couples retired from the dance floor, which started to fill with other couples now that the show was over. I got up from my seat and headed for the head table. I would have to dance with Amanda - it was expected. But my sister was not who I was headed for. She had just gotten back to her seat and deserved a break. Instead, I approached the girl next to her, Cindy Hartwell, Amanda's maid-of-honor, and asked her to dance. Despite the fact that she had also just returned to her seat, she graciously accepted my invitation. The music having already restarted, we joined the other couples on the dance floor. We had been favored with a slow number. Cindy proved to be a very good dancer, blessed with a natural feel for the rhythm and following my lead easily, which was something that my sister, who had taught me how to dance, had never managed to master. We discussed the events of the day with each other as we danced. Being not only Amanda's maid-of-honor, but also her best friend, Cindy was a familiar face in the Carson household. I had gotten to know her somewhat in the months since she and my sister had started spending time together. She was a very nice person, and smart as a whip, with a dry sense of humor. Moreover, now that Amanda and her friends had made her over to accent her physical assets, she was also something of a looker. I hadn't paid that much attention to her when Amanda and I were still boffing each other every chance we got, but now that my sister and I had ended that aspect or our relationship and I had been left practically celibate over the last six months, Cindy (although three years older than me) had suddenly become a lot more intriguing. It felt good holding her close as we swayed to the music, feeling her small firm breasts press against my chest. Although there was no overt sexuality on her part, I was surprised to find myself responding to her - to the subtle scent of floral soap and shampoo rising from her hair - to the heady bouquet of the perfume that she wore - to the softness and warmth of her body where it made contact with mine. I could feel myself starting to get hard, despite my wishing not to. I willed my penis to behave itself. This wasn't the way I wanted my sister's best girlfriend to think of me. It didn't work. I had been without serious girlfriends for the entire time my sister and I had been engaged in our affair, and I had yet to find anyone now that we weren't doing it anymore. It had been too long since I had had any release other than from my own five best friends. My erection continued to grow. Cindy HAD to be able to feel it - she just HAD to. If she did, she did nothing to acknowledge my response to her presence. In fact, she continued to press against me a bit more than I felt was strictly proper. It was almost like she wanted to tease me - to prove to both of us she was truly a woman and capable of turning me on. The dance ended, leaving me feeling a bit dazed and confused. Cindy still acted like nothing had happened between us as I accompanied her back to her seat next to my sister. She was the same soft-spoken, quiet, slightly shy girl I was familiar with. But my sister gave both of us a questioning look as I held out Cindy's chair while she seated herself. And I don't suppose that the stupid grin I had on my face helped matters any. I returned to my seat. Being underage, I didn't even have the option of having a few stiff drinks. Instead, I spent the next half hour trying to assess what had happened out there on the dance floor. It didn't help matters any that I would find myself looking at Cindy and speculating about what the body under her dress might look like naked. It was not an unpleasant thought. I still had to dance with my sister. As I said, it was expected. Of course, Amanda had spent most of her time either talking to Paul or dancing with the various male guests, but my sister and her maid-of-honor had spent part the time since Cindy and I had danced talking to each other and laughing. I might have been mistaken, but I could have sworn that they had glanced my way several times while they talked. I knew that things were not likely to get any easier and decided that I might as well get it over with. Circling the edge of the dancers, I found myself standing in front of Amanda. I asked her to dance with me. "I don't know, Kenneth," my sister replied teasingly. "I might want to walk out of here under my own power come the end of the day." I smiled at her witticism. "Don't worry, Sis. I'm not planning to cripple you on your wedding day." "Are you sure?" she continued. "I've danced with you before. You're not exactly competition for Fred Astaire." "You can ask Cindy there, if you want to. I managed to return her in a reasonably intact condition." Cindy and my sister exchanged sly smiles before my sister continued, "Well, she does seem to have survived. I guess I'll be alright for one dance." Getting up, she moved to me, sliding her arm into mine and letting me lead her to an open area of the floor. We began to dance. Glancing around to ensure that the other dancers were far enough away not to overhear us, my sister whispered in my ear, "I see that you're still hitting on my maid-of-honor." "I beg your pardon?" I answered, shocked. "You heard me." "You're kidding! You know I don't think of Cindy that way." "Oh? That's not what she said." "It isn't?" I said, my voice squeaking a bit. "No. In fact," my sister continued, giving me a steely stare, "what she told me was that she FELT that you had been real happy to dance with her." I gaped at her, open-mouthed, feeling my face turning red. Cindy HAD noticed! And she had told Amanda. I felt like dying. It was only reflex action that kept me moving to the music. Amanda continued to stare at me with daggers in her eyes, but then the facade began to crack around the edges. She couldn't hold the angry look. Hiding her face into my shoulder, my sister began to giggle. I suddenly realized that I'D BEEN HAD! "Damn, Amanda!" I whispered intensely into her ear. "That wasn't very nice!" That just made her giggle even more. I glanced around nervously. No one seemed to be noticing us, or if they did they were thinking that Amanda was just laughing at a joke or something. And she was. Only the joke was me. My sister finally got the giggles under control. "Sorry, Kenneth. I just couldn't help it. Not after what Cindy told me." "And what did she tell you?" I inquired, still red-faced. Amanda smiled slyly. "Just that you had responded to her in exactly the way a healthy twenty-year-old male is supposed to." "I tried not to," I whispered to her. "I really did. It's just that it has been a while and she felt so nice rubbing against me and... well, you know." "Oh, I know," my sister concurred. "Don't worry about it - she wasn't offended. In fact, she was rather proud of herself." "She was?" I replied. "That she was," my sister affirmed. She continued, "This was your fault, you know." "My fault?" I stammered. "How could it possibly be MY fault?" Now it was Amanda's turn to blush. "Because I told her what you had said about her. About how you insisted that you didn't think of her in THAT way." "You told her that?" I squeaked. "I don't think she appreciated it a whole lot. She doesn't know you like I do yet. I don't think she realized that it was a compliment - that you meant that you liked her as a person and not just as a possible conquest. I think she took it as a challenge to her femininity." "You weren't supposed to tell her what I said," I protested. "Sorry, but she IS my best friend, Ken. Other than you-know-what we don't have very many secrets from each other, and I didn't think you'd really mind. And like I said, she wasn't offended. In her own way, I think she threw herself at you to see if you would respond." That assertion got my defenses up. "I don't think I agree with you, Sis. She hardly threw herself at me." Amanda's whispering to me became even lower - even softer and more conspiratorial. "Trust me on this. I know her a lot better than you do. You have to remember who you're dealing with here. Cindy is a shy girl who isn't comfortable with her sexuality yet. What did you think she should do - drop down to her knees and give you a blowjob in front of everybody? That's not how a shy girl behaves." I thought over what my sister was saying. Cindy had been dancing awfully close - closer than I would have expected. And she HAD shown that teasing attitude toward me. And of course, I now knew that she had been TOTALLY aware of my boner pressing into her. "You might be right, Sis. There were a few subtle things going on. She might have been doing them on purpose." "Subtle? Yes, that would be Cindy," Amanda agreed. Then she sighed, "I don't know what it is about you, Ken. You bring out the devil in people - at least in female people. Cindy's never thrown herself - even subtly - at any other guy before. At least not that I know of, and I think she would have told me if she had. She tells me practically everything. You just better remember what I told you when I found out Cindy and you had gone out together and were planning to do so again. I don't want to see her get hurt." **************************************************************** I had no problem remembering what my sister had told me. That conversation had come from so far out of left field that I could remember every detail of it. I would probably still be able to remember it verbatim twenty years from now. It had been during the final hectic countdown toward this day - Amanda's wedding day - that my sister had managed to corner me out of earshot of our parents and had confronted me sternly. "Are you trying to hit on my best friend, Little Brother?" she interrogated. "Am I what!?!" I had answered, horrified. "I'm asking you if you're hitting on Cindy. She told me that the two of you had gone out with each other and that you had asked her out again. You're not planning to try anything with her that I might not approve of, are you?" "Jesus, Amanda," I continued, my head spinning, "I am NOT trying to hit on Cindy. She's YOUR best friend, not mine. And we haven't exactly started dating either. I wouldn't have gone out with her at all if it hadn't been for your pushing." "My pushing?" she sputtered. It was her turn to be stunned. "Yes, your pushing. You were the one who volunteered my services to Cindy when her car was in the shop and she needed to do some shopping. I don't exactly call performing chauffeur duties my idea of a hot date." "But Cindy told me you had gone out together...," my sister protested. Well," I admitted, "I guess you could call it that. Cindy had a bunch of shopping to do and we were at the mall long enough that we ended up having lunch together. Then there was a movie that I wanted to see and you know how I hate watching movies alone, so I asked her if she wanted to see it with me and she said yes. That's all that happened, Sis. No plotting - no planning. Just one of those impulse things." "And you asked Cindy?" "I was WITH Cindy," I replied, exasperated. "Who else was I going to ask?" I could see my sister pondering the information I had given her. She seemed reassured by my explanation, but wasn't ready to accept the entire package quite yet. "Cindy said you asked her out again." I had to think about that statement before I answered. "Well, I did enjoy the movie with her. She really is a very nice person to be around. So yeah, maybe I did tell her that we ought to try seeing another movie together sometime. But that was all, Sis. I wasn't ever thinking of trying anything with Cindy. I've never thought of her in that way." "Are you sure?" Amanda demanded. "Absolutely certain. You were always the one I thought of when my imagination took off in that direction." My sister blushed, smiling coyly at my declaration. "But," she protested rather feebly, "we aren't like that any more." "No, I guess we aren't." "And Cindy will still be there after I'm married and gone." "Now, Sis..." I began to protest, but Amanda cut me off. "No, let me talk, Kenneth. I want to say this." She locked her eyes with mine. "I don't mind if you go out with Cindy. I really don't. I know what a nice person she is. She would probably be very good for you. And I know after all that we've been through together that you could be good for her. But..., well... " "Yes?" I prompted. "If you do go out with her," my sister admonished, "I want you to make sure she doesn't get hurt in the process." This hadn't been quite the declaration I had expected from my sister. "I would never try to hurt one of your friends," I retorted. "You know that." "I KNOW that, but that's just the point, Little Brother. You could hurt her without even trying." Amanda paused, as if building up her courage for a difficult and unpleasant task. "If I tell you something, can you hold it in confidence and never tell anyone - especially Cindy - that I've ever told you?" "I promise," I said, agreeing to her request. "O.K., then," my sister continued, "Cindy had a crush on one of our classmates during our sophomore year of high school. You don't have to know who it was. All you have to know is that her feelings weren't reciprocated. The guy did go out with her, but all he really wanted was to get into her panties." "Oh. And did he?" I inquired, fearing that Cindy's history might parallel my sister's. "No," my sister answered. "The guy was enough of a gentleman not to force the issue, and Cindy's standards were such that she wasn't about to give it up to a man who didn't love her." "That's good," I responded. "Well, It's better than the experience I had, but it still left Cindy leery. She hasn't had a real boyfriend since then. Once bitten, twice shy, I guess." "So, no sex for Cindy, right?" "That's my guess. I'm pretty sure she's still a virgin." "And you want to make sure that I leave her that way," I concluded, filling in the blanks in my sister's little narrative. My sister smiled wryly. "It's not quite that simple. Cindy is a product of her background. That's left her wary about sex. But she is also a produce of our times. That means she is almost EXPECTED to be sexually active. Cindy is the same age as me - 22 years old. There aren't very many 22 year old virgins around these days." I pondered what my sister was trying to say. "O.K., I can see what you're saying. I'm just not too sure what point you are trying to make." "The point is that for Cindy sex and love are the same thing. She's ready to give up her virginity, but only to a man that she loves and who she thinks loves her. And I'm sure you can see the potential problems that could occur - the potential hurt that Cindy could face." "And that is?" I asked, although I had a pretty good inkling of what my sister was about to answer. "For Cindy, sex and love are joined. If a man wants to get into her panties, he has to tell her that he loves her. And if he lies..." "Then Cindy will get hurt." I said, completing her thought. "Yes, she will. Cindy may be my age, but she's really still an innocent. And I think she's a lot frailer than me. I don't know how she'd react to what would be such a profound betrayal to her, but I am certain it would be bad. That's why I'm warning you about how you should treat her." "But...," I started to protest. "No, listen to what I'm saying," Amanda continued, cutting me off. "I know you only too well, Kenneth. You may be sleeping alone at the moment, but that's hardly voluntary. You enjoy sex too much to go without a girlfriend for very long. Now I may be being overly cautious. You'll probably find some nice coed at that college you're going to and start doing her, but just in case you are EVER tempted to hit on my best friend, I want you to know what you're getting into." "I told you I don't think of Cindy that way." "And I believe you, Ken, but weird things happen sometimes. So if you ever do start thinking of her that way - if you ever DO want to sleep with her and feel you should tell her that you love her, you better be telling her the truth. I'll be on you like a ton of bricks if I ever think you're treating her wrong." "Jesus, Sis. I'm not out to sleep with your girlfriend," I insisted. "I just don't see myself and Cindy together. I'm not ready to let myself get tied down like that." This last statement seemed to mollify my sister a bit. "Well, I'm just trying to cover all the bases," she explained. I made her an offer to get her off my case. "If you'd prefer, I won't go out with her again." "You don't have to do that. I just wanted to let you know you need to be careful with Cindy." "Don't worry, I insisted. "There's nothing to be careful about. Nothing is going to happen between us." **************************************************************** That conversation with my sister had been bizarre enough that even now I could hardly believe it had taken place. The very thought that I might want to sleep with Cindy, of all people, was downright ludicrous. No matter how hard I tried to imagine it, I just couldn't picture her sleeping with me - that would just be too weird, what with her being Amanda's best friend. The music ended and I escorted my sister back to the head table. I snuck a glance at Cindy out of the corner of my eye as I held my sister's chair out for her to sit down. I had to admit she WAS kind of cute. Certainly worth a movie or two. But my sister was way off base about her underlying thought. There was no chance Cindy and I were ever going to be lovers. I was certain of that. Eventually the festivities wound down. The bridal bouquet was tossed and was caught by a cousin of the groom. Then the bride's garter was to be tossed, and as I was a single male, I was forced to participate. I made no effort to catch it, even though it nearly bounced off my head when it was tossed. I had no intention of jinxing my bachelor status, but then, lacking a girlfriend, there was little chance of that happening anytime soon. **************************************************************** End of Chapter 8 of "Amanda, My Sibling" bernard_sagon@hotmail.com Additional Bernard Sagon stories can be found at storiesonline.net or the alt.sex.stories text repository at http://www.asstr-mirror.org/ -- Pursuant to the Berne Convention, this work is copyright with all rights reserved by its author unless explicitly indicated. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | alt.sex.stories.moderated ------ send stories to: <ckought69@hotmail.com>| | FAQ: <http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/faq.html> Moderators: <story-ckought69@hotmail.com> | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |ASSM Archive at <http://assm.asstr-mirror.org> Hosted by <http://www.asstr-mirror.org> | |Discuss this story and others in alt.sex.stories.d; look for subject {ASSD}| +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+