chapter twenty five

"Keisty what?", what did that even mean.

She scooted closer and took my palm in hers. She slowly laced our fingers. I looked up at her, her eyes had turned into a darker hue. They were wide open, pupils dilated, her eye lids alluringly droopy. She batted her long eyelashes impudently. l almost couldn't recognize her.

She licked her lips then gulped. No matter how l was trying to read through her, my thoughts were only depicting one thing and l was hoping that l was wrong.

I stiffened when l saw her inching her face closer to mine with her lips slightly parted. Her warm moist breath was carrying a sweet scent of wine. I tried not to jerk at the closeness.

My heart started hammering against my chest when I felt her unlacing our fingers from one hand and lightly gliding her finger tips up along my arm to my neck. A trail of goosebumps followed everywhere her hand had roamed.

The most unnerving thing was that her eyes were calmly looking into mine. Her gaze was hypnotizing, keeping me from looking down at what she was doing. It felt like she was testing for a reaction from me.

I felt her hand on the side of my neck brushing back the few stray strands of hair covering my nape. She still looked into my eyes, searching if she had elicited sensualism.

My composure finally broke when she suddenly dipped her face in the crook of my neck. A spasm travelled from my back down to my toes like an electric shock. A shiver followed after that.

"Ke-keisty ...", l struggled to come up with a full sentence, my mind had gone haywire.

"Mhm?", was the only thing she hummed before l felt her teeth gently nibble over my pulse.

"Ahhh", l almost couldn't recognize my voice. It was so weak, chocked and bothered.

She drew away from the bite and l saw a small victorious smile on her face. She leaned back on the bite but this time she didn't use her teeth. Her soft lips soothingly encompassed the bite, almost like she was murmuring an apology. I felt her tongue caressing the teeth marks before she harshly sucked on it.

My whole body turned to jelly and l could certainly feel some jelly oozing out of me. I wobbled before l slumped onto the soft bed covers causing Keisty to hover over me. She straddled me, her eyes still intensely looking into mine.

I looked back into them trying to grasp back my sanity that had momentarily escaped me. No this can't happen, this is incest. How will I be able to look at her from tomorrow onwards if l succumb to the moment of madness.

"Keisty no", l used my hands to stop her body midway when she was about to lean back on the burning bite.

"But why?", she whined.

"We're cousins and this is wrong", l said trying to sit up but she pushed me back to the bed.

"Arielle, l have been patient all along and it's not helping. If l let you go, someone will claim you and l will live to regret it".

Okay, now that did shock me. She was having these feelings for me all along. How did l not see it. However that doesn't justify this situation.

Before l could say another word l felt her full weight press on me. I was pinned down to the bed by her body. She tilted my head with her hand under my chin. Like a vampire starved for a century she started sensually sucking again.

Her tongue was flicking multiple times and her teeth nibbling every few inches. I writhed as if in pain. My back arched from the bed, my stomach clenched.

I don't know which one was gnawing me more, guilt or pleasure. What ever it was, l was wishing for it to stop.

Tears gathered in my eyes and ran down my face. A jumble of emotions playing on me. Keisty had to stop because l was starting to feel vulnerable and hot all over.

"Ke-keisty pl-ease stop, l- l can't take it anymore ", l pleaded in a whimper.

"Arielle ", her voice came out husky in a panting breath, "l'm so sorry, l can't... stop"

That was my last hope gone down the drain. As if on cue, my entire body just gave in to arousal fatigue, the tensed muscles in my body limped and l just surrendered.

I know she felt it because her sucking became more gentle until they were merely butterfly kisses. She slid the black straps of my night dress from my shoulders then hooked her fingers on the hem of the loose dress just above my cleavage.

She pulled back and hovered over my vulnerable form for a few seconds. Her eyes were glazed, lust veiling them. She licked her lips twice before she bunched my dress and pulled it down, just enough to expose my full pecky breasts.

Without as much as a warning, she dipped her head between the two firm peaks. My stomach flipped back and forth. My mind disconnected, euphoria was now working on its part.

Her tongue circled the summits of the peaks without grazing on the erect cherry top. This only caused them to harden more with anticipation. She continued to circle around them until it was frustrating. My nipples were hardening so much that they were starting to hurt, they tingled painful. l saw green veins starting to protrude visibly around the area where Keisty's tongue was caressing. I almost bagged her to let me off. I was starting to feel the need to relieve the painful pleasure.

She leaned up and smiled, enjoying how much she had tempered with my innocence. My breast were now full perfectly round swollen peaks. The lingering feeling after she pulled away left them throbbing.

She lightly grazed the tip of her finger on the summit of my left mount causing me to jolt. With a mischievous smile she pinched the overstimulated nipple causing me to squirm uncontrollably.

She stroked my cheek with pity, she wasn't started yet. I tried to plead with my eyes. This was so wrong. I made one last attempt to speak.

"Ke_, kei-keisty, please stop, this is a taboo. Besides..."

She didn't seem to be listening. She was now bunching up the bottom part of my night dress. She slowly pulled it up, baring my legs in plain sight. She gathered all my dress over my belly in one hand.

I almost saw her drool. All the blood ran to my face with embarrassment. Noone had ever attempted to look at the essence of my maidenhood like she was just doing, not even l myself. Her hands became shaky. Lust was overpowering her like a blinding fog.

I clamped my legs shut. She obviously wasn't going to give up. She pressed her leg between my knees causing them to part a bit. She drew back a little and for a moment looked into my fearful eyes apologetically.

She gently forced my legs to open wider with her hands. I watched her position her upper body between them. She pressed open mouthed kisses on the part just above my knees before sliding her tongue between her parted lips. Her warm moist tongue slowly licked its way into my inner thigh before taking a long stroke up towards my damped flower.

My legs began to shake on their own accord. This was the end of me. I had to try one last time before something so irreversible occur.

"Besides, you look so much like auntie, how am l going to look at her without being ashamed...", l tried to say it all in one breath.

This made her halt at once. I saw her lustful look slowly turning back to normal, like she was being pulled from a deep sleep. Realization of the truth in what l was saying had hit her on full force.

She quickly pulled away as if l was burning her. Instead of the bold look she had, she looked at me regretfully. I could see that by herself , she also couldn't believe what she had done.

I slowly heaved myself up from the bed with the little strength that was remaining. My night dress fell to the floor. I pulled the comforter from her bed and wrapped it just above my breast.

All the while l kept my head bowed down shamefully. l couldn't bring myself to look at the girl who had almost completely humbled me.

I picked my slippers then headed for the door without looking back. I could feel Keisty's gaze on my back without looking. I grabbed the knob and twisted it before pulling the door open.

"Arielle l'm so sorry", l heard her whisper before l closed the door behind me.

Things will never be the same again between us, l thought.

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An ache in my chest made me clutch the comforter wrapped around me tightly. I didn't know what was hurting me but tears started running down my cheeks.

It was like the after effect of the intense emotions was now catching up on me. The tension was still lingering on my body like a strong scent.

I slowly walked back to my room, failing to look anywhere but the floor. I was feeling ooey gooey between my legs.

Just around the corner l almost fell back after l collided with someone in a hurry. The person quickly held my hand to stop me from falling while I swiftly used my other hand to pin the bed comforter which was about to fall from my chest.

"Arielle?", Julie's voice was surprised.

I looked up and saw her looking at me suspiciously. Her line of sight was constantly trying to connect with my eyes which kept averting her's.

"What's wrong", she said brushing back the messy hair from my face.

She suddenly froze. I finally managed to look up at her. She had narrowed her eyes into a scrutiny. She brushed her hand down to my neck then she frowned.

"Arielle, is that a...?"

I realized what she was looking at. How stupid l have been to forget about that mark.

"I'm sorry, l have to go", l mumbled before rounding her in haste and fast-pacing to my room.

This day couldn't get any worse.

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I've never felt so helpless in one day. First the confession in the car then the knowledge about my mother, and finally this...

I twisted the knob to cold shower. A pathetic attempt to relax the hormones that were still raging in my blood.

Something thick and sticky was dripping down my inner thighs. I reached beneath and wiped it with my fingers. It was colourless but thick like lube.

There goes my innocence, l sighed.

With another sigh, l stepped under the cold pressured shower. I stood still, failing to digest everything that happened, just hoping l would wake up to find it was a nightmare.

After a long while, l turned off the water guns. I walked out of the bathroom and dried myself. I then climbed into the bed and went under the covers in my lace undergarments. I didn't want to remember what happened to the night dress.

I thought my rushing thoughts wouldn't permit me to even doze off a second that night but my exhausted body wasn't in support of that perception.

The last thing l remember saying to myself before totally shutting down was:

"Well, at least tomorrow is a new day"