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Stacey Holland
"The Best Friend"

Megan Andrews
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Amy Holland
"The Little Sister"




Meant To Be

Episode Two

"Third Time Could Be The Charm"

Written by TVM

Copyright © 2004

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Summary: In ALL NEW 2nd episode of 'Meant To Be', following the life changing events that occured with Stacey's unexpected meeting with her then "former" best friend, Megan, and not to mention the even more heart stopping events that occured just a few hours later. Stacey begins to realize her feelings for Megan are more than simple friendship and that their relationship has changed forever. Later, with Megan's constant presence, Stacey notices that her best friend may also have the hots for another member of the Andrews clan, Stacey's eager and seemingly very curious, but not at all little sister, Amy.

Story Codes: no sex

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My mother, my ever present caregiver, called early. Waking me from a peaceful slumber inside Megan's arms. Something I was fast getting used to. Mom rambled on about Amy and what I needed to do and not do, and then said she and Dad had been given an extension for the next cruise on the "Victor Maine" or whatever that big floating cod-piece is named. So they wouldn't be home as planned on Saturday. I nearly jumped out of my panties at the thought of NOT having to deal with the complete and utter chaos those two cause when they wonder through on one of their off weekends. Megan rose stretching and yawning from my bed as I hung up and jumped back into bed beside her excitedly, impulsively kissing her lips.

"EWWWWW, morning breath" I said trying to wipe the taste out of my mouth with my hand.

"Yeh you don't taste so good either" Megan said laughing at my reaction and kissing my cheek a second later, on her way to the bathroom. Her normal routine you see, was kissing my cheek, brushing her teeth and then dragging me down to the kitchen to make her breakfast. She's a terrible cook, as was evidenced by last night. When she managed to burn water, while attempting to help me and Amy cook pasta. She popped her head out of the bathroom and smiled at me, one which I gladly returned.

Ten minutes later, she was sitting at her usual place at the table reading the sports section and I was busily preparing breakfast. Megan had talked her Mom into letting her stay with me for as long as she wanted, as long as Megan attended school and kept her grades up and basically made her mother happy. Fortunately school had been out for the past week, after some water pipe broke in the basement and destroyed the first floor of class rooms (too bad!). So they sent us home and said they'd get us back in school as soon as they could. Looking back as my sister Amy came into the room, wearing virtually nothing, a Britney Spears esque naval bearing shirt and a pair of shorts that left virtually nothing to the imagination.

"Morning Dad, Morning Mom" Amy said laughing as Megan giggled in the background. I swear I've had the same thought almost every morning for the past week. Me and Megan are more like a married couple than most people I know. We even got a kid. That thought always made me laugh to myself. Considering that I was cooking breakfast, while Megan was reading the paper and picking on Amy. It was like she's the man and I'm the woman. I always dropped the thought before it could progress much beyond that. Because honestly I didn't wanna think about what was really going on with me and Megan.

"WOO HOOO cute butt" Megan said laughing after she had jerked Amy's shorts down to her thighs. Amy spun away as she struggled with her shorts, giving Megan a good view of her panties, trying to get them back up. She flashed me a nice shot of her butt too. Even I had to admit she was gonna be a looker with a butt like that. Perfectly heart-shaped and standing at attention. I had seen Amy naked several times in the last few months and she was definitely developing a woman's body and fast. While I was content with looking (she is my sister after all), I was beginning to think that Megan would like to do much more than just look at my younger sister. I saw her stealing glances at Amy on several occasions over the last week. Although I figured she'd never have the courage to mention doing something with her. For her part Amy enjoyed the attention, like this morning, she was wearing as little as she could possibly get away with. That was fairly obvious. Trying her best to get a rise out of Megan, I thought and reveling in the fact, when Megan took the bait.

"I'm beginning to think you wanna fuck my little sister" I said teasingly as I sat the food in front of Megan.

"Only if you join in" Megan said kissing me gently on the lips. I was dumbfounded by her comment, she didn't even deny it. She was serious too, or it sure appeared she was.

"So when, where and how many times?" Amy asked plopping down in the chair next to Megan.

"When your big sissy let's me in her pants" Megan said with a wry and teasing smile, while all attention turned to me.

"Hey look if you got the hots for my sister then go for it" I said getting up and walking away from the table as both of them began giggling. I stood at the sink thinking about how I should be mad, but then the weirdest thought came to me. It was obvious that my little sister was entering the stage of intense sexual curiousity, 13 will usually do that to you. Factoring in those pictures she so proudly showed me a week ago, and the way she was prancing around nearly naked in front of Megan, it became crystal clear in that moment. My sister was bi-curious. Now there's a sobering thought. That made me consider for the first time since that day at Megan's, about my own sexuality. Was I gay or bi? or was it just the euphoria of having my best friend back in my life that made me feel this way? I figured out rather quickly that euphoria or the state of, would have worn off long ago. I turned still deep in thought and watched as Megan and my sister openly flirted with each other. First Megan touched Amy's arm or thigh, like she would often do me, and then Amy would return the touch, although not nearly as natural as Megan made it look. For some reason I wanted to test Megan, to see if I could take her attention away.

"Hey, you" I said as both looked over at me and I raised my eyebrows suggestively at Megan and tried to look my sexiest, while feeling like a complete dork. "Are you gonna come over here and kiss me good morning or not?"

"Ok" Amy said getting up as Megan did, and proceeding to kiss me on the lips and starting to laugh out loud. Not that lips kissing is unusual in our family, cause it's not. Just that, well it was kinda of unexpected and weird to boot.

"Oh go on and put some clothes on already" I said blushing from head to toe and watching my goofy sister leave the room still laughing. Feeling Megan's arms wrap around me a second later and her smiling face meeting mine, when I turned to her. She gently kissed my lips, barely touching them with hers. Like always making me want more and forcing me to be the one to make the next move.

"Why do you always do that?" I asked pointedly. "you barely touch my lips and pull away. Why can't for once you just kiss me like we both know you want too huh?"

"Because" Megan said shyly and looking down at the floor briefly, while rubbing her fingers along my bare skin. "I'm still trying not to scare you off."

"WHOA, water shed moment" I said giggling. "I'm not scared of you. I like it when you kiss me, it feels really nice. Your a really good kisser."

"Oh yeah?" She asked shaking her head with a huge grin as she leaned closer to me, putting her hands on the counter behind me as I replied with an equally big grin and with my best sexy voice said, "oh yeah." This time she kissed me firmly, but softly and our lips fell in time with each other's for a long slow wet kiss. Her lips sucking at mine and vice versa for a brief eternity.

"Seems someone's been teaching you a few things about it too huh?" Megan asked.

"HMMMMMM my girl thinks I'm a good kisser too huh?" I asked teasingly and following it with a lingering kiss.

"Yes and OH YES" Megan said making me giggle as she once again kissed me.

"What was the first yes for?" I asked. "Cause I'm hoping the OH YES was for the kissing question."

"It was" She said grinning and lingering near my lips for a moment, "as for the other, I was agreeing with you about being your girl. Cause for the longest time that's all I've really wanted to be."

"Well your here now aren't you?" I asked slipping my arms around her neck and smiling. "Your holding me, and your making me happy. So I'd say your as close as you can get."

"True" Megan said kissing me again.

"Question" Megan said nervously after a long minute or so of kissing.

"Yeh?" I asked panting some what.

"When school starts back..." She said pausing for a long moment, "...what are we gonna do?"

That single 5 word question caused me to confront the feelings that I had avoided for the last week, since that night when Megan and I first kissed on the couch. I looked at Megan's smiling face and thought hard, letting the anger over what that asswhole Tommy did to me fill my body. And then the warm gooey, goofy feeling that came over me that night when Megan came over and how I felt post kiss. Was I honestly falling in love with my best friend? Or the more terrifying question was, am I already in love with her?

"I dunno" I mumbled finally as Megan looked at me, a totally perplexed look on her face.

"Are you ok?" Megan asked touching my face gently and bringing me back to reality. My breathing had quickened and I honestly think I was experiencing my first panic attack in years. See I used to have this bad problem with nerves and over reacting to everything, until my Mom (in one of her few good parenting decisions), sent me to a psychiatrist and with a little counseling I was able to handle it pretty well. Although I still had a terrible temper when someone pissed me off, the "Tommy" incident was proof of that. There had also been a particularly bad episode with an ex-friend named Tiffany who pushed Amy around one too many times and I went postal on her ass one day out by the pool (oh yeah we gotta a pool by the way.) She smacked Amy or something and pushed her in the water, so I tried to simply put my fist through her head, several times, until she was screaming for her life. For some reason she never came back over. Ok now I'm babbling...

"I said are you ok?" Megan asked hugging me tightly as my breathing returned to normal, "we don't have to tell anyone if you don't want too, I don't mind really, I love you and I can wait until your ready. If you ever are."

"I freaked ok" I said holding on to Megan now for dear life. Wrapping my arms tightly around her back. Laying my chin on her shoulder and closing my eyes, breathing in her apple scent from the bath gel Amy loved so much. "I didn't mean to scare you."

"I didn't mean to freak you out either" She said grinning hopefully. "I was asking more about what you planned to do about homework and stuff, I mean we used to do it together all the time. And I guess it sorta sounded like I was asking for a declaration of love or something. Which wasn't it at all."

"I know that, it's just me, I tend to do that sometimes" I said as Megan smiled at me with a glow in her eyes and said again, "I do love you, do you know that?"

"Yeh every time you kiss me" I said breathing normally again, "and I think I feel the same way every time I kiss you."

Megan grinned brightly and pressed her lips tightly to mine, almost forcing me to kiss her back. I did after a second or two, and our lips fell in time with each others. She pulled me tighter, mashing our breasts together and kissing me harder and with more passionaite than I have ever felt. I melted into her arms, feeling the anxiousness from the previous moments fading completely away now as my total attention and thoughts turned to this mind numbing kiss. Our lips literally sucked at each others, trying to milk the other's mouth of the saliva that was present. I wondered briefly what it must feel like to have that kind of incredible suction on another part of my body. A thought that made me tingle in that certain area between my legs. Or was it this kiss that was causing that tingle. I dunno.

"Shit" I said out of breath and panting as I looked at Megan and noticed she had the same look on her face.

"Yeh I know" She said biting her lip. "that was intense."

"Trying to make a point?" I asked.

"Nooooo" She said giggling, "you said you felt the same when I kissed you, so I figured I'd try it and see what happened."

"I do love you, you know that Meg" I said looking down and my eyes seeing her tits, and snapping away instantly, before thinking that it was ok to look, because then at least I'd know for sure. Cause every other time I'd been put in that situation over the last week, I'd resisted the urge and looked away. So I moved my eyes back and took a long look, and looked up at her and almost fainted when she asked. "You like my boobs or what?"

"Oh my god" I said blushing from head to toe and melting into her arms as she laughed out loud at me. "I'm just...."

"Don't worry about it ok" She said gently kissing me on the cheek and letting it linger for a long moment. "I've been were you are, I know how scary it is. Let me be your guide and if you wanna stop at any point just say so, ok?"

"Deal" I said not quite believing she was being so incredible about this.

"Wait" I said as she turned to go back to the table. "Let me finish what I was saying."

"Oh ok" She said waiting patiently with a shy smile.

"I love you, your my best friend, so I've always loved you in some way" I said choosing my words carefully as I went along. "But I don't know if I am in love with you. I know I really like it when you kiss me and deep down I'm so happy your back in my life and I get you all to myself so much. But I don't know if I'm ready for this type of relationship or even if I know what love is.....Does that make any sense?"

"Perfect sense" Megan said gently kissing my nose as I giggled in relieve, "it's just you being you. God knows I've learned to deal with it over the years." She started laughing at my look of mock horror as she turned and walked away. I picked up a dish towel from the draining board and spun it quickly, before she noticed and smacked it across her tail good and hard. She screamed and grabbed her butt as she spun and looked at me in shock.

"That'll teach you Megan Holland" I said pointing my finger and smiling defiantly, "you don't make fun of me."

But she again surprised me, as I prepared for her revenge. She smiled and bit her lip as she wrapped her arms back around me and said softly, "would never make fun of you." Simply said, I thought as she kissed me softly. "Your lips are so soft" She commented as she walked away still rubbing her cute little ass (did I just say that? Well it is!) and sat back down at the table. After a while I started feeling really guilty about whacking her with the towel, as I watched her shift uncomfortably back and forth on the hard kitchen chair as she tried to eat. It only got worse as the day went on and I spotted her several times rubbing her butt through her pajama shorts. I thought maybe she was plotting a big revenge plan, something that would lure me in and then whammo, but that's not Megan's style at all. She's one of the most forgiving people I know. Which made my guilt all the worse.

"Did I really hurt you?" I finally asked coming up on her in the bathroom as she inspected her butt. I leaned against the door facing and smiled apologetically at her as she pulled her shorts back over her bottom.

"No I'm fine" She said smiling at me.

"Can I see?" I asked not really thinking in the context to which my question came out.

"You wanna see my butt?" She asked with a smirk.

"Oh yeah baby, let me see that hot little ass" I said grinning as I took a seat on the toilet and she laughed and turned her back to me, and looking to me like she was nervous. But still she lowered her shorts and let me see the damage. At first I thought she lowered her panties too, but then I realized Megan Holland was wearing a THONG. Geez, talk about sexy (Ummmm...you know what I mean). She lowered them to just below her cheeks and I gasped when I saw the long red mark my towel snap had left. Not really thinking about it at first I rubbed my hand over the mark and asked "does it hurt?"

"Stung like crazy, but not so bad now" She said as I stood and acting like my Grandma Peppy, started ordering her around. "Let me put some of this lotion on it ok?"

"Lower your shorts" I said as she lowered them to her knees, giving me a perfect of her firm taut butt, and raised her shirt above her waist. "On second thought just take them off for now. Might be easier."

"OK" She said as they dropped to the bathroom floor and she stepped out of them, bending over and picking them up, giving me a few that I couldn't even resist to admire. "Get a good look?"

"UMMMM....yeh I did" I said after stammering for a moment and returning her smile.

"You know I can do this" She offered.

"No I think I owe you this" I said filling my hand with the skin lotion and wiping in one long motion across her cheek. She jumped from the coldness of the cream and I laughed as I massaged it in for her. Taking more than enough time, but for some reason I didn't really wanna stop. But too soon the lotion dried on my hand I was forced too. "There is that better."

"A lot better actually" Megan said contently as I spied in the mirror with her eyes closed and a sorta of dreamy look on her face. I hadn't thought about it till then, but maybe she had enjoyed it more than me. "Doesn't sting anymore."

"Maybe I should do the other one?" I asked filling my hand with cream again as she looked back.

"I think you should I feel so uneven" She said giggling. I did just as I did with her other, and massaged it in slowly, even raising her thong and going around the panty line a bit. My hand slipped between her cheeks for a brief instant and I swear I could hear her gasp, I followed the line of the thong and brought my fingers back out to her cheek for one more long rub. I caught a weird scent with my nose then and leaning closer I recognized it almost instantly. It was the scent of arousal, female at that. Now I'll admit this made my nipples hard and some dirty thoughts form in my mind, but it didn't make me wet. Megan's who-haaa was wet and you could smell it. I sniffed again to be sure and found myself getting that way from smelling her, forcing those thoughts out of my mind. I stood and confronted her.

"Megan Holland your getting turned on by this you slut" I said with a huge grin as she looked back at me with a victorius smile and said, "now we're even."

"You set me up.... but how did you know?" I asked in total shock.

"I know my best friend better than she knows herself" She said standing now eye to eye with me as she pulled her pajama shorts back up and wrapping her arms around my waist. "And I knew if I played it up good you'd do something to make us even."

"I don't believe this" I said looking at her smiling face as she laughed softly. "you basically got me to feel you up."

"Uh huh and you did a good job of it too my love" She said holding me tighter.

"Ok we're even" I said putting my arms around her neck and conciding defeat for the moment. "Honestly did that really turn you on?"

"Yeah" She said biting her lip, "wouldn't you be if I was rubbing all over your butt."

"Prolly" I said trying to look cute.

"I bet your just boiling hot right now huh?" She asked touching her forhead to mine.

"Nope" I said confidently. "no effect what so ever."

"Ok then why are your nipples hard?" She asked as I glanced down and noticed they were still standing at attention.

"Ok maybe a little, and besides it's drafty in here" I pointed out.

"I'm in my underwear and I don't think it's chilly at all" She replied with a grin, "matter fact I think it's kinda warm."

"Me too" I said in a seductive voice as Megan's lips lingered near mine.

"Is my butt cute?" She asked in a whisper as I seacrched for her lips with my eyes now closed.

"Uh huh really cute in that thong" I said almost breathless with anticipation, waiting on her kiss.

"I bought one for you too" She said as I opened my eyes in surprise.

"You did? When?" I asked.

"When me and Ames (her nick for my sister) went to the store Saturday" She said (this being tuesday now).

"Megan" I said in surprise as she laughed, "there's no way I'd ever have the courage to wear something like that."

"Even for me?" She asked with a seductive grin. "alone when it's just you and me?"

"You just wanna see my ass" I said as I pushed her away.

"Yeh like you wanted to see mine huh?" She asked as she reached the bathroom door and ran as I started after her. She ran down the steps loudly and circled the corner headed for the kitchen as Amy came though the door with an ice cream sundae in a bowl. Megan grabbed her and hugged her on the way by, as she tried to stop, sending my poor little sister spinning around, the ice cream spinning out of the bowl and splashing across the walls. Splattering Megan, Amy and lastly me as I arrived. Megan, now standing behind Amy, hugged her as they laughed and I glared at her, thinking to myself how this was gonna be a bitch to clean up.

"Your cleaning this up you know" I said to them.

"I am not" Amy said as she confronted me, "I wasn't the one who did it."

"Yeh well..." I protested, but Amy knew this was one argument she was gonna win.

"Yeh well nothing" Amy said pointing her finger, "you and Megan did this, you caused her to run into me and all I was doing was fixing myself a sundae. So if you think for one damn minute I'm cleaning this up, your crazy and so is she."

"Oh knock it off Ames" Megan said from behind her, "don't get your panties in a bunch already, I did it I'll clean it up."

"And for your information my panties are not in a bunch" Amy said turning and looking at Megan with her hands on her hips. "I'm not wearing any."

"GRRRRR MMMMMM" Megan said purring like a kitten and pawing at Amy's bare arms as Amy blushed a deep crimson and giggled like a schoolgirl with her friends. "Did I make them wet this morning at the table?"

"NOOOOOOO" Amy said blushing another color, one I had never seen before and covering her face with her hands as Megan looked at me and smiled. I watched Megan (as I have been doing daylight to dark lately), as she picked on my sister. "Oh so you pooped them and didn't have any more clean ones?"

"God your so disgusting" Amy said as she laughed.

"You should see her naked" I said to Amy and flashed Megan a devious "got ya" smile and ran off. To my surprise she didn't follow me as I ran into the bathroom and slammed the door shut. I waited for a minute and getting my giggles under control, figured she was cleaning up the mess in the kitchen and decided to do my business before she did come to seek revenge.

I thought for a while about leaving this out, being that I wasn't in the room and didn't observe it personally, unlike everything so far in this story. But this part was later relayed to me in great detail by Megan, and much later on, confirmed (more or less) by Amy. And being that it was appearantly the first confirmation of many of my earlier speculations, I thought I needed to tell you about it. So anyway on with the story.

After I was gone, Megan dragged Amy into the kitchen and got her to help clean up the ice cream mess. A few eyes bats, light touches on the arm and a "pretty please", usually did the trick for Megan with Amy, and she'd do almost anything Megan asked. That was the case here too. After they finished Amy took this oppurtunity to ask some questions I'm assuming she had been wondering about.

"Are we friends?" Amy asked.

"Ofcourse Ames what makes you think we're not?"

"Nothing" Amy said shrugging her shoulders and after hesitating for a while went on, "so I can trust you to keep a secret?"

"You know you can" Megan replied (except from me that is....LOL).

"Ok here goes just listen ok" Amy said as Megan agreed. "A met this girl in a chatroom named Macy and she sent me this big bunch of pictures of her doing things to herself. I mean sex shit, God that sounded so babish (insert Megan's giggle here). She was fucking herself with a dildo."

"Whoa" Megan replied.

"And then she sent me a video of her doing some more stuff to herself" Amy said with that devious smile she gets from me. "Anyways after you and Stacey hooked up, it's got me wonderin if I like girls too. Cause I got off watching that video like 10 times, it's so hot. So could you answer some questions for me?"

"First stop worrying something is wrong" Megan said taking Amy's hand and lacing their fingers across the counter. "There is nothing in the world wrong with you. Every girl including me (and me) goes through this. In different ways, but still it's the same thing. Your just growing up Ames, your becoming a young woman."

"Oh god you sound like Oprah or that dumb whore Sally Jesse" Amy said giggling.

"My ass is way to cute to be either of them" Megan said defensively as she appeared from behind the counter and turned her back to Amy, "besides Oprah's a cow and Sally Jessie looks like a man. I'm much cuter."

"I'll agree" Amy said as Megan pulled her towards her as they started to dance back towards the table.

"So whatcha need to know?" Megan asked as they took seats opposite each other at the table.

"Just stuff like..." Amy said pretending to think, but knowing full well what she wanted to ask, "What's it like to kiss a girl, I mean it is different that kissing a guy?" Amy asked in an almost whisper, hoping I wasn't lurking around.

"The simple answer is yes" Megan replied, "It different for a lot of reasons."

"Like?" Amy asked.

"Well a guy's lips are stronger, more muscular" Megan said, "and a girls lips are so much softer, and kissing a girl is more gentle. It's more about the feeling of having your lips on mine, than trying to suck the spit of each other's mouth, like a lot of guys do."

"My lips on yours huh?" Amy asked teasingly.

"Yeh Ames my little wanna be lez" Megan said rubbing her hand up and down Amy's bare thigh under the table and feeling her jump away and giggle, blushing a deep red. "So you want my hot lips on yours huh baby? Come here."

That was the point at which I heard them go squealing by the bathroom as I came out and Amy's door slam shut. Megan's laughing drew me out into the hall, where she pushed me against the door and kissed me on the lips. And then uttered the famous line "How bout me, you and Ames have a three-way?"

"Huh?" I asked in shock at what she'd just asked.

"Ames is curious about girl on girl love" Megan said in a whisper as she kissed me again and I started thinking about this morning and their flirting at the table. "So I thought we could show her a few things. Whatta ya say hot stuff?"

"Don't you think we should do it first?" I asked, my mind reeling at the words that just came out of my mouth.

"WOOO HOOOO" Megan said pumping her fist in the air "Homer Simpson" style and grabbing my arm and dragging me towards my room. She pushed the door open with her foot and threw me down on the bed, as a fit of giggles over took me and she tried to pull my shirt off, without my assistance.

"MEGAN YOU HORNY SLUT STOP" I screamed with laughter as my shirt came up to cover my face and I felt her hand on my bare stomach.

To be Continued....

Bar

Comments and Reviews
Shi wrote this:
Hey very good story i would really like to see what happen's next please put up the next part as soon as you can.

Mary Jane wrote this:
hey that is an awsome story. I am so glad you are back and writing more ! You can really tell a story with emotion, not just sex. keep it up and quickly please!
Len wrote this:
Excellent story. It builds gradually. Just right. I love your main characters, and the dialog is really great. However, the best feature of this tale is it's HUMOR. It is loaded with many funny little happenings. Like when Stacey asks Megan if she is going to kiss her good-morning or not and Amy says OK and proceeds to kiss her (and then laughs out loud), as if she was talking to her (Amy). Another example: When Amy says to Stacy and Megan "Monring Dad, Morning Mom, and they realize that they are really functioning like Mother(Stacey), Father(Megan) and Daughter (Amy). These things are touching and funny! And there are many other funny and charming little things like that. I can't wait for part 3!

Bar


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