MY SISTER JEAN

            Chapter 4  --  The Hike


                  Hiking up the switchback climbing from Fourth of July
            Lake, I watched Jean in front of me.   More correctly, I
            watched Jean's legs and the movement of her buttocks.  She
            was a few feet in front and above me on the steep, dusty
            trail.

                  We'd broken camp a few hours ago after having spent a
            couple of lazy days in a remote part of the Sierras.  It was
            our family's custom to pack into remote areas at least once
            or twice a season and this was the first time Jean and I had
            gone alone.  With no agenda save a couple of day trips and
            some reading, we'd had time to further our connection. I
            suppose it's not unusual for siblings to know each other
            very well on some levels while being almost strangers on
            other levels.  It was that way with Jean and me.

                  For as long as I can remember, she'd been my older
            sister... aloof, superior and occasionally condescending.
            As with most of us, the position of apparent superiority
            was assumed to cover the usual teenaged feelings of
            insecurity, of being "less than."

                  I'd taken on a completely different persona in the
            family.  I was the joker, the hero and, deep in my own mind,
            the lecher...the closet rake.  A few months before, in an
            attempt to expand my licentious sphere and engage Jean in
            some "dirty talk," I'd turned up the intimacy current.
            Unexpectedly, we'd literally fallen into some near-explosive
            sexuality. While our "fooling around" had had sudden
            intensity, we'd not really "done the deed" and since then
            our connection was clearly more tender, yet guarded.

                  In my loving moments, I'd welcomed the chance to
            continue our process of a deepening relationship.  In my
            horny moments, I'd looked forward to escalating our
            previously ill-defined sexual connection.  In short, I was
            hot for my sister and hoped she was too.  What an opportune
            time, I thought, to explore our sexual side.

                    Jean, however, had reservations.  Oh, she'd shown that
            she was capable of intense sexual response once before when
            we'd been fooling around on the couch and it'd progressed
            into a short-lived voyeuristic masturbation. But since that
            time, as if frightened by the unplanned and seemingly
            uncontrollable force of the experience, she'd drawn back.

                  Her response to my plaintive entreaties of, "Oh, come
            ON, Jean . . . why won't you let me..."  (fill in the
            blanks) were met with a smile and her reasonable position of
            wanting to go very slow.

                  "Billy, you *know* I love you.  You're my kid brother
            and the sweetest boy in the world.  You're sexy and, most of
            the time, you're kind to me. But...(damn, there's always a
            "but" that follows such a good start)...but, this is scary
            stuff.  I don't know what's right and what's wrong.  I know
            how I feel, but that doesn't make it right. Won't you give
            me some space, please?"

                  When she said "please" to me with that certain sincere,
            loving tone of voice, I was a goner.   "Okay, okay.  But
            don't blame *me* if I'm limping around all the time."  (As
            if there were blame or that I'd really be limping. The major
            organ limping in me was not my dick... it was my brain!)

                  We'd gone skinny dipping each day in the freezing
            high-Sierra, snow-fed lake.  It was so cold that my pecker
            had attempted to crawl back into my abdomen.  My cremasteric
            muscles  - that thin sheet of muscle that envelopes the
            spermatic cord and testes  - had gone into such intense
            spasm from the cold that each day, on dashing back out of
            the water, I was doubled over with pain.  It didn't help my
            sense of dignity or my macho image when Jean'd point and
            laugh at me.  (I've since come to see the wisdom that warns:
            "It's okay to laugh in the bed room, but not to laugh *and*
            point.")

                  Anyway, my unflagging desire to see Jean nude was
            answered, but I was so blue and shivering that I could think
            only of jumping back into my sleeping blanket.  (My
            suggestion that Jean and I zip our mirror-image sleeping bag
            together elicited no more than a twinkle and a smile coupled
            with a mute shake of her head.)  So the wish that I carried
            with me on the backpacking trip that I see Jean naked had
            been filled each morning...when my dick was a negative
            impression.  The rest of the time, she'd managed to change
            clothes out of my presence. While we'd talked into the
            night, she wouldn't let me even cuddle her. Rats! I was
            frustrated.  Still, I was having a wonderful time.  What a
            collage of feelings.

                  Too, I thought I'd get a chance to spy on her peeing.
            Remember me? I'm the horny little kid who presses his ear to
            the bathroom door to listen to his sister take a leak?  Yep.
            That's me.  I'd almost come in my pants from smelling her
            panties and once, when finding some of her pale yellow urine
            and a used tissue in the toilet, I'd  jacked off right into
            the bowl...taking all of ten or fifteen seconds.

                  Out here in the great outdoors with no bathrooms, not
            even an outhouse, I'd surely get to peek at her...I thought.
            So far, no dice. Either she's got a holding tank for a
            bladder, or she was adept at slipping away.  I, on the other
            hand, believed that the only bad publicity was no publicity.
            I used every chance to casually take a whiz when I was
            around her.  Oh, I didn't come up and piss on her shoe, but
            I did things like continue a conversation, turning just a
            little aside as I took out my pecker and peed on a tree or a
            rock.  She didn't comment on my little exhibitionistic
            streak and I couldn't really tell if she was watching or
            not.

                  No cuddle, no peeks, no peeing.  Shit!  I just wasn't
            getting what I wanted and was feeling sorry for myself and
            not a little petulant.  So I employed the short form of the
            Serenity Prayer and said, "Fuck it." It was, after all, all
            right.  Here I was, in God's indescribably beautiful
            mountains on a primo day with my dearest friend and best
            buddy, and I was petulant. Boy, talk about an ungrateful
            wretch!

                  Knowing it was going to get very hot by midday, and
            that we had a twelve-hundred-feet climb out of that basin,
            we'd packed and started early after a good breakfast and
            tanking up on mountain water, both in our bellies as well as
            our canteens.

                  Jean was a surprisingly strong hiker and often, on
            long, uphill climbs, she'd naturally take the lead.  So it
            was that I was watching the roll of her hips from close
            behind as we were forced to take occasional extra long
            step-ups on the trail.  Her short-shorts, already revealing,
            had climbed up on her ass, framing the white, half-moons of
            her buttocks above her tan thighs.  The crotch of the shorts
            seemed to thin to a narrow band between her legs.  I already
            knew (from my snooping) that Jean had thong-type Bikini
            panties so I didn't expect to see them as we trudged along,
            but they were a green vision in my mind.

                  Except for the chatter of an occasional bird and the
            scrunch of our boots on the trail, there were no sounds...if
            you ignored my panting. We'd settled into that
            semi-comfortable, endorphin-enhanced pleasant walk-climb.  I
            was sweating lightly, feeling good, watching Jean's sweet
            ass checks bunch and relax in front of me and thinking, I
            can't believe how beautiful and sexy this girl is.  And
            she's my sister! How lucky can a guy get?

                  I am not the one with the cast-iron bladder in the
            family.  It's almost a joke that Billy has to take a leak
            more frequently than anyone else.  Jean was not surprised
            when I called out, "Pee break."

                  "Okay.  I could use a breather anyway."  She swung her
            pack to the ground and turned back to look back down the
            mountain toward our camp site, now barely perceivable.

                  In genuine relief, I moaned, "Ah," as I peed into the
            dust on the side of the trail. Jean, this time, was clearly
            watching me so I made an extra production of "shaking it"
            when I'd finished.  "Hmmmm, that felt good," I added in a
            redundant fashion.

                  To my surprise, she said, "I've gotta go too.  Don't
            watch."

                  It might have been easier if she said, "Don't breathe."
            Was she kidding?

                  "Okay," I answered, turning only my head away, still
            watching her movements in my peripheral vision.  Yet another
            surprise.  She didn't step off the trail; there was a bush
            ten or fifteen feet away, but she didn't use it. And she
            didn't turn away from me.

                  My head pulled back to watch her, not even pretending
            to look away. She unbuttoned the side of the short-shorts
            and, with her thumbs hooked into the top, pulled the yellow
            shorts and white panties down while squatting in the same
            continuous motion.  My position, downhill from her, afforded
            me a bore-sight view  right between her thighs.  Now for the
            second time in my life, I had a clear view of her
            closely-cropped, curly, auburn-haired pussy.  After a
            weekend of horny frustration, hard-ons and surreptitious
            masturbation, I was getting, without guile, a look at Jean's
            treasures.  Full on, up close...and damn personal!

                  For a moment, nothing happened.  Her smooth anus pushed
            out just a little as she strained and then a trickle of pee
            dribbled out into the dust. The dribble increased and then a
            stream, clearing her pussy lips and arcing out several
            inches in front of her started that familiar hissing.  It
            was happening.  I was getting a chance to watch Jean pee for
            the first time in my life.  Something that I'd fantasized
            about, something that I'd failed to do with deception was
            happening right in front of me.  The erotic intensity of it
            was gut wrenching.  My cock, trapped in my Jockeys, had
            erected  so fast that it suddenly hurt.

                  Something caused me to look up.  Jean was looking right
            at me!  Her clear, ice-blue eyes were looking into mine,
            into my soul.  Her eyes seemed to ask, "Is this what you
            wanted, Billy?  Do you want to see me pee, Billy?"

                  For all I know, she'd been saving it for a long time.
            Her urine continued to gain force and the hissing sound
            increased as the gusher of pee ran over a rock and pooled at
            my feet.  I was struck numb.  Not having the presence of
            mind I have now, I forgot to touch it, forgot to dip my
            finger into the pool and taste it.  I just stared,
            dumfounded and struck terminally horny. It didn't last for
            minutes, it just seemed that way.  In comparison, mine was a
            piddle.  Her's was a production.

                  It slowed and stopped after one final, small squirt as
            she clenched her bottom, making her little rose bud wrinkle.
            If I'd expected her to stand suddenly, hiding herself, I was
            wrong.   Rather, she squatted there, uncovered, hovering
            over the trail of now-wet dust and rock.

                  "Well?" she asked.  It sounded so loud in the sudden
            quiet of the mountain, I was startled and looked at her
            dumbly.  "Is that all you've got to say," and you could hear
            the smile in her voice.  "Do you have a tissue?" she added.

                  Gaining my sodden wits, I said something cleaver like,
            "Sure... if you let me help."

                  Pulling some Kleenex from a side pocket, I took the few
            steps to her. She hadn't replied so I simply kneeled in
            front of her and extended the tissue in my hand between her
            legs, watching her eyes.  She nodded only, with a little
            half smile.

                  Leaning forward, looking under her shorts bunched and
            pulled apart above her knees, I softly patted her pussy
            slit, slowly, from front to back.  I was acutely aware of
            her warmth and her breathing, now quickened.  I was even
            more aware of her pubic hair brushing across the tops of my
            fingers.

                  Unthinking, I dropped the tissue and traced a
            feather-light touch along the inner lips of her cunt.  Jean
            made a soft, sucking sound and looking up, I noticed that
            she'd closed her eyes.  I continued to "pat" her.

                  The lips of her pussy were swollen and slick and they'd
            opened up a kind of blossoming.  Laying the pulp of my
            middle finger along the length of her cunt, cupping her mons
            in my palm, I slowly pushed in.  It was like pushing my
            finger all they way into China...or a ripe Papaya.

                  Now, years later, when I think of love, I think of
            this.