Chapter Two
After school, the siblings were once again sitting in front of the television, doing their homework. When their mother said she had to run to the store, they took the opportunity to continue their private discussion.
"I think I have an idea," Seth told his sister.
"What?" Sarah asked eagerly.
"What if we set up a concealed video camera in here, pointed so that we can see the couch and the door. Then tomorrow, you can tell me what you saw and heard, and we can compare it to what we recorded. I'll be able to tell if you are sleepwalking, or if you really see everything through Mom's eyes."
"Do you really think that I'm sleepwalking?" Sarah asked self-consciously.
"Well, I don't know, but you have to admit that it's a more logical explanation than your being inside Mom's head, don't you? After all, the simplest explanation is usually the correct one," Seth observed reasonably.
"I guess," Sarah acknowledged dispiritedly.
With that, they set up the video camera near the TV with the longest running tape they could find, and camouflaged it on a conveniently placed shelf. It was set on the slowest speed and they turned it on right before bedtime, while their Mom was in the kitchen.
The whole family was at the dinner table eating their lasagna when the kid's mother asked, "Are you ready to talk about it yet?"
"Talk about what?" Randy asked.
"I don't know," Theresa replied. "The monsters have been acting weirdly all day, and they keep looking at us when they think we can't see. I don't know what they're up to."
"OK, spill guys," Randy demanded of his children.
"Look, it's just some private things that we were talking about," Seth said.
"And?" his mother prompted.
Seth looked at Sarah, who said, "Fine! If you must know, I had to get up to get a drink last night and I heard something from your room. When I went to investigate, I heard you guys having sex! I told Seth, and that's why we were acting so weird around you, and why we didn't want to say anything! It's no big deal, and we'll be back to normal shortly!"
"Oh," her mother said, blushing.
Randy took a deep breath and looked ruefully at his wife. "OK kids, I know that we had the bird and the bees talk quite a while ago, and we haven't really pushed you, but you do know that it's normal for married people to have sex, right?"
"Dad!" Sarah shrieked. "Of course we know that!"
"Well now that you are older, and you realize that we like sex and have sex, is there anything else that you want to know about it?"
"Do you mean like technique?" Seth riposted with an embarrassed but mischievous grin.
"Seth!" Theresa shrieked, sounding remarkably similar to her daughter's last exclamation.
Randy just chuckled and said, "I think we'll let you discover that on your own. No, we haven't pried into whether you are sexually active or not, but we want you to know that you could come to us with any questions that you have about it, whether its questions about the opposite sex, or if you need protection, or actually, even if you do have questions about technique. We may be old, but we still have some good moves left."
"Randy!" Theresa shrieked again, but her husband just laughed.
"Ummmm," Sarah stammered.
"Yes baby?" her father asked.
"God, this is embarrassing, but... can I go on the pill?" she asked, looking at her mother pleadingly.
Sarah's parents looked at each other, and Randy sighed. "Yes, dear," Theresa said. "I'll make an appointment for you and I'll take you down. Just remember to use condoms until they take effect, and they don't protect against diseases."
"I'm not doing anything yet," she said quietly.
"Well, it's a good thing that you are thinking ahead," Randy said.
After the kids went up to bed, their parents looked at each other helplessly. "Well, that was actually less painful than I expected," Randy said.
"Speak for yourself!" Theresa replied. "My baby is going on the pill!"
"Honey, they're sixteen," Randy said. "In today's world, do you know how amazing it is that she's still a virgin? Especially with her looks and body?"
"Don't be looking at her body!" Theresa said jokingly.
Randy wrapped his arms around his wife and said, "Why not? She looks so much like you when I met you. It makes me want you so much."
"She looks like you, not me!" Theresa disagreed.
"I can see you clearly in her," Randy countered. "At least enough to remind me of what a wild girl you were when we met."
"Well, you weren't exactly a priest yourself!" Theresa said with a laugh.
Randy snuggled into her neck and said, "Want to go to bed early?"
"Mmmmm," Theresa purred. Then she pulled back and said, "But what if they hear us again?"
"Then they'll really realize how hot-blooded their sexy mother is," Randy replied. He looked at his wife right in her eyes and said, "If this makes you hold back from your pleasure one bit, I will take you over my lap and spank you until I am sure that they hear the shrieks. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Daddy," Theresa said giggling, then she took off for her bedroom.
Seth was settling into bed when his sister knocked on the door. When she came in, he asked, "What's up."
"I was thinking about what you said, and I'm worried that I may be sleepwalking. Can I sleep with you?"
Seth was taken aback. When their parents had forced them to sleep in separate bedrooms, the twins had refused and they continued to sleep together by slipping into each other's rooms. However, they had not done it in a few years. Seth looked thoughtfully at his sister, dressed in a long tee shirt and, presumably, panties, her perky breasts pushing out the front of her shirt. Seth reflected on how much Sarah had grown in the last few years, and what a stone cold fox she had become. From her long, straight brown hair to her far too visible breasts down her flat stomach and ending with her perfectly formed legs, she was far over her gangly phase.
Seth thought about the looks that his friends had been giving his sister when they thought that he wasn't looking, and he realized that if she weren't his sister, he would be doing everything he could to get between her all too uncovered legs.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Seth asked. "You know Mom would have a cow if she found you in here."
Sarah thought about Seth's question, and she knew that he was not just asking out of concern for their mother. Sarah was not unaware of the way that she affected boys. She had not let any of them act on their desires because she had not yet found one that she thought was worth it, but she still knew what happened to boys when she was around.
Seth had seemed immune to it, but judging by the way he had looked her up and down, that was no longer the case. To be fair, however, Seth was not exactly Quasimodo either. While he was closer to his awful pubescent change, he had filled out within the last year, his face was completely cleared, and he carried himself with a confidence that made a number of her girlfriends cream themselves, as they had clearly informed her when trying to get her to set them up on a date.
Seth, however, like Sarah, had not found any girl that he felt was worth spending quality time with. What neither of them realized was that the example that they set for each other had raised their expectations to a point that the typical high school kid just could not reach. They had unknowingly doomed each other to a sex-free high school experience.
"You know she never comes into our rooms," Sarah reassured him. Their mother had long ago made their rooms their responsibility. She stayed out of their space except for every other Saturday, when she came in to make sure that each room was clean and neat.
"Still... Still..." Seth hesitated.
"Stop being silly," Sarah said, lifting the covers and getting in.
Seth yipped as his body was exposed, showing Sarah that he slept dressed only in a pair of gym shorts. Sarah put her pad and pen next to the bed and shut off the light. They jockeyed a little for comfortable positions before Sarah rested her head on Seth's shoulder.
They rested quietly for a few minutes before Sarah said, "Remember how we always used to do this?"
Seth nodded in the dark.
"I miss it," Sarah said.
"I miss it too, but we're older now," Seth told her.
"I know that, and now we're even older," Sarah said. "And now we're even older than that. So what?"
"You know very well, what," Seth said. "We weren't as... physically mature back then."
"So we're bigger. I still miss it," Sarah continued obtusely.
"Will you miss it in the morning when I wake up with my hard on pressing into you?" Seth responded in exasperation.
Sarah giggled and said, "Will you really do that?"
"I can't help it," Seth protested. "I always wake up like that, but when I'm alone it's not a big deal."
Sarah turned and pressed her body against her brother, snuggling up to him.
"And you lying there with your tits pressed against me won't help!" Seth exclaimed.
"But I'm your sister!" Sarah protested.
"Again, so what?" Seth asked. "Do you think my body cares that the sexy girl pressed against me is my sister? All it knows is there is a scantily covered woman pressing into me!"
Sarah was quiet for a moment before she quietly asked, "Do you really think that I'm a sexy woman?"
"Don't be ridiculous," Seth said. "You know I do, and so does every boy in the school. Don't play dumb with me."
"OK, so I know it, but a girl likes hearing things like that every now and then," Sarah said teasingly.
"Well you are, and you're making it difficult for me to go to sleep, and you also need to be asleep before Mom if you're going to see if it happens again."
"OK," Sarah said, and she ceased teasing her brother.
With her head on his chest, listening to his quiet breathing, Sarah was soon asleep. After adjusting himself in his shorts, Seth soon followed her example.
"Wake up, Seth," Sarah said, shaking her brother a little. She reached over and grabbed her pad, turning the bedside light on and furiously jotting down her thoughts.
"What happened tonight?" Seth asked.
"Nothing much," Sarah replied. "Mom was in her nightgown already and her body felt all... tingly."
"Tingly?" Seth questioned.
"Yeah," Sarah replied. "I think that Mom and Dad may have had sex before."
"I guess our sex talk got them worked up," Seth said.
"Well, she stayed up for a while, then went up to her room, got ready for bed, and went to sleep. The weirdest part was being her when she went to the bathroom."
"What was so weird?" Seth asked.
"It's a very private thing," Sarah explained.
"And giving Dad a blowjob isn't?" Seth teased.
"I wasn't there when she did that!" Sarah protested. "Did you feel me leave the bed tonight?"
"I don't think so," Seth replied.
"But you were asleep, so you might have missed it," Sarah said. "You didn't wake up when I got up after my 'dream'."
"Sorry," Seth said. "We'll have to figure something else out for next time."
Exhaling sharply, Sarah put her pad down and shut the light off again, getting back under the covers. "You're not going to dream again tonight," Seth said. "Shouldn't you go back to your bed?"
"I like it here," Sarah replied resting her head on Seth again. "Now go to sleep."
Seth sighed, but did as he was told.
The twins first thought about checking the tape out in the morning, but decided that they should wait until they had time after they got home. Sarah sat through school trying to decide what to do if the tape didn't show her sleepwalking, and could not reach any conclusion.
Both siblings hurried home after school. "Get your pad so that we can compare what happened last night with what we see on the video," Seth instructed as he rewound the tape. While Sarah complied, he fast-forwarded until their mother came into the picture. He paused it until Sarah was finished writing.
When Sarah was done, he picked up the papers and read it. Sarah had paid attention to her dream, and she had a pretty detailed list of items, from what was on TV to the times that their mother moved around the room. Seth pressed play, and they watched the events unfold almost exactly as Sarah had described.
"Freaky," Seth said quietly.
"I didn't see myself in the room at all," Sarah said.
"Neither did I," Seth agreed. "I guess it's possible you were just out of the frame. But even if you were, I think you wouldn't have been able to describe what was going on in the room as well as you did. Plus, Mom would have noticed you and said something."
"Still, tonight we need to make sure that I don't go wandering away," Sarah said.
Seth nodded absentmindedly as he considered the situation. "I think that we have to assume that somehow you get into Mom's head when you sleep."
"Like ESP?" Sarah conjectured.
"Something like that," Seth agreed. "I can't think of what else it could be. I wonder if it's only Mom, or will it happen with anyone?"
"It hasn't happened with anyone else yet," Sarah noted.
"But so far you've only been at home, and Mom is the only one that's up that late," Seth countered. "Maybe if Mom weren't around, you'd do it with someone else?"
"Maybe," Sarah agreed. "Should I go to Jill's house for a sleep-over and see what happens there?"
"Possibly, but we should make sure that you're not sleepwalking before you do that," Seth replied.
"OK, I'll stay here tonight. Tomorrow's Friday, so I'll spend that night at Jill's," Sarah decided.
"OK," Seth said. "I'll think about this more, but I need to do some actual homework now."
"Me too," Sarah agreed, and they both buried their noses back in their homework.