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Shooting (in) Hannah
Version Alpha
by Robert Lubrican
Original Edition
Copyright 2023 Robert Lubrican
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Table of Contents
Chapters: One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight
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Chapter One
They say fact is stranger than fiction, and I'm here to tell you that's true in spades. I learned that from my sister.
Hannah is my sister. You know her by another name, but we'll get to that later.
She's only older than me by ten months, but she acts like she's twenty-one and I'm ten. It was that way for the entire six years after I was ten. Personally, I think it started when she had her first period, but since we don't talk about that kind of thing in our family, it's just a theory.
Anyway, Hannah seemed to try to do whatever she could to make my life miserable. She ratted me out whenever she knew I did something against the rules. She told two of my girlfriends I was cheating on them and another one that I had an STD. That, of course, was ridiculous. She knew there was no way in the world I was sexually active. She was just trying to mess with what passed for my love life.
Not that that made any difference. I've never gotten a girl to let me do more than kiss her and maybe cop a feel of a boob, now and then. Truthfully, my girlfriends all know she's full of shit. I'm a nice guy. It's just how I was raised. When I started dating my dad sat me down and gave me this long lecture about how women are precious and should be treated with nothing but respect. I suggested he needed to give the same speech to Hannah, except about how boys should be respected, too, and he just laughed. He told me more, but I'll wait on that part until later, when it will make more sense.
Hannah, of course, never gets in trouble. She's the fair-haired child who can do no wrong. I'll give you an example. When she was around twelve she got into Mom's makeup and did up her face. Mom simply wiped it all off and said, "Not yet, Hannah. I'll tell you when you can wear makeup. Don't do that again." To show you the difference, the next year I tried to make a birdhouse in Dad's shop without asking him. How could I? He was at work. My mother yelled about how I could have cut my fingers off and that I tracked sawdust into the house and all that kind of thing. I got grounded for a month.
It doesn't help that because of some weird rule about birthdays in our school district, Hannah started school before I did, so now, after the previous school year had finished, she was a junior and I was just a lowly sophomore. I got better grades, but that doesn't mean diddly to anybody.
So now you can understand why, one Saturday morning, when Hannah came into my room (without knocking) and said, "Hey Dork, I need a favor," I was less than enthusiastic about doing it, even though I didn't know yet what it was. And yes, her pet name for me is "Dork." But only when the parents aren't around. It should be instructive to you that she called me that while asking me to do her a favor.
"Pound sand," I said. I had to keep things gentle like that. If I said, "Eat shit," she'd run to Mom and cry and moan about it. Cursing in our family will get you extra chores, like dusting the ceiling and washing out the garbage cans and stuff like that.
"Do it and I won't tell Mom and Dad you lied to them about going to Kevin's and went to the mall instead," she said, sweetly.
Crap! How the heck did she find out about that? One of her menagerie of friends probably saw me and reported to her on my movements. It wouldn't surprise me if she had a whole spy network out there with orders to keep a list of everything they ever saw me do. In any case, I knew better than to deny it. She'd have rock-solid evidence.
"Why didn't you tell them already?" I asked, sarcastically.
"A girl needs leverage sometimes," she said, smiling.
I knew I was screwed. I actually thought that: "I'm screwed." Which, by the way, is kind of ironic, as you'll see later.
"What is it?" I groaned.
She held out her smart phone. I didn't have one, yet. You have to be a junior in our family before you get a smart phone. Another example of how Hannah got her way all the time was that she got her phone in the summer after she was a sophomore. Her argument was that she had graduated from tenth grade and that made her a junior, even if school wasn't in session yet. Naturally, they bought her argument.
"I need you to take some pictures of me. I want to send them to Steve."
Steve was her boyfriend. He's a jerk. He's a bully, and he thinks he's tough. But he's just a jerk.
"Go in the bathroom and take a selfie, like thousands of other sluts do," I said. It just came out. The part about the sluts, I mean. I think it's because when she said Steve's name I got distracted or something. I really hate that guy. I winced. She'd really go off on me now.
But she didn't.
"One, I am not a slut," she said. "Two, it's not that kind of pictures I want taken. I want something nice, and you can't do nice with a selfie. Besides, you know Daddy snoops on my phone."
"You see him every day," I said. "What does he need a picture for?" I grumbled. I should have been thinking about the fact that she hadn't gone off on me, but I wasn't. Maybe I was too shocked.
"Kevin ... mall ..." She just smiled at me.
I got up off my bed, where I'd been reading my social studies book.
"Go stand against the wall over there," I said, reaching for the phone.
"I said nice pictures," she said. "I was thinking outside, by those bushes in the back yard that have the red leaves."
"Come on," I groaned. "It's freezing out there."
"It's fifty-five degrees," she said, smugly. "Don't be a baby. Put on a jacket or something."
So we ended up in the back yard by a line of shrubs Mom said were called Spindle bushes. They'd been green all summer, but now they were fiery red. Hannah stood between two of them and struck a pose. I had to admit she looked good. I already knew that, of course. She'd been cute as we were growing up. Not that I had thought about that, but every relative we had gushed on and on about how adorable she was. I did notice when she started looking round in places that had been flat. Truth said, I noticed every girl who grew breasts, and whose butt filled out and got round.
She hadn't cut her hair since I could remember and today it was in a ponytail that went clear down to the small of her back. Her hair is that golden blond that has highlights of red and brown in it. I had, in fact, put on a jacket, but she hadn't. She had on faded and torn jeans with a pink T shirt that had something on the back, but was plain in front. She'd gotten it when she walked five miles to make money for breast cancer research. I thought that was appropriate since she had a rack to be proud of, but of course I didn't say that.
But it was not appropriate in terms of the two little bumps on her breasts that looked like they were trying to rip holes in her shirt.
I thought about that. It would be a pretty nice picture. From a guy's point of view, of course. I was pretty sure Mom would be unhappy if she saw a picture like that, seeing as how she'd been reminding Hannah to put a bra on ever since she'd started wearing them. Hannah had hated them back then, and wasn't fond of them even now, years later. That was made obvious by the fact she wasn't wearing one now.
Dad wouldn't just be unhappy. He'd blow his stack. He was the poster guy for dads who frown and stare at the boys who came over to study with her or whatever. She'd only been allowed to date as long as she'd been allowed to have a smart phone but she'd jumped into that with a vengeance and Dad had hopped on the "I'm dangerous, sonny, so watch your step with my daughter" bandwagon with both feet. The only thing I hadn't seen him do was that goofy thing with the two fingers, where you point them at your eyes and then turn them around to point at someone else, and say, "I'm watching you." He did, in fact, pick up Hannah's phone every once in a while and look around in it. I think he was terrified that some boy would sext her a picture of his dick and corrupt her or something. She complained about the invasion of her privacy but Dad said it was his job as a parent.
So, a picture like this would make people unhappy for sure, and might even get her grounded if they saw it in her phone before it got deleted. Even better if it showed up on social media. I thought about how I could "happen upon" such a picture and point it out to Dad. I had a quick little fantasy about that in which I was on Facebook and said something like, "Wow! I think that's Hannah! She sure looks cold." And then Dad would say, "What?" and I'd look uncomfortable and say, "Nothing. Never mind." That was like waving a red cape in front of a bull and he'd come over and look. I could just imagine seeing him getting red in the face and yelling for her.
"Well?" Hannah interrupted my reverie.
"Looks good," I said, holding the phone out and aiming it at her. I pushed the zoom button until she filled the screen. Her nips looked fabulous. "Smile."
"I want to look mysterious," she said, not smiling.
"We'll take it both ways," I said.
During the process I got carried away and zoomed in on the front of her shirt and got a nice one of just her chest. I had another little fantasy about Dad thumbing through pics and going ballistic. I also emailed myself that picture and another one where she had this impudent look on her face and it was obvious she didn't have on a bra. I would have emailed myself the one where she stuck her tongue out at the camera, but I didn't have time. You saw pictures like that all over Facebook, with a girl's tongue hanging out of her mouth while she grinned. There was a rumor going around that that meant the girl was willing to suck your dick and let you shoot on that flat tongue. I wasn't too sure about that. There were literally tons of those pictures out there and I'd seen girls doing that pose together in front of the school like it was no big deal. I'm pretty sure sucking dick is a big deal to most girls. If I was a girl it would be to me.
She took the phone, said, "Thanks, Dork," and went back inside.
I went back inside too and back to my room. I opened my laptop and the screen of my computer came to life. I typed in the password (no snooping parents for me!) and went to my email. I tapped on the picture with of the close-up of her chest and it filled my screen.
There were Hannah's admittedly sexy breasts, covered only in thin, pink cloth, that did nothing to hide the fact that she could feed a baby any day of the week if she wanted to. And if she had milk. You know what I mean.
It suddenly occurred to me that those breasts could feed a baby! It was amazing. I mean you know from the time you're about eight how babies are born. At least I did. You know that men and women have sex and that babies come from that. You don't really apply that information, except maybe to stare at a woman who is holding a baby. Even then you don't reflect on how some guy climbed on top of her naked body and they did this and that (which was clear in my mind only because of the internet) and he shot his sperm in her and it knocked her up. You don't think of that when you see her, but there's this place in the back of your brain somewhere where stuff gets processed and things get confirmed. Such as having sex makes babies.
What had me holding my breath was that I had never once thought about the possibility that some day Hannah might let some guy climb on her naked body and put his dick in her and make a baby in her and that then her breasts could feed that baby. I knew she fooled around a little on dates. A couple of the guys she'd gone out with claimed she fooled around a lot, but since she never went out with them again, I figured they were engaging in the time-honored process of bragging about pure bull shit. And I knew her. She wouldn't risk college by getting pregnant. Not even with Steve.
But there they were. Real, live, warm breasts, with nipples a baby would probably some day suck on. Sure pink cloth covered them, but that made no difference to me at all. I knew they were there.
I felt dizzy and realized I'd been holding my breath. I let it out and dragged in another one. I still felt dizzy. My sister was a ... girl!
Of course I'd had the odd fantasy about various girls in my life. I'd looked at them as females of the species and wished there was a way I could be fully male with them. But along with that speech Dad had given me, he'd told me a story, too. It was about when he was a Boy Scout and his troop went out to this farm owned by the scoutmaster for a fourth of July campout. They had lots of fireworks and all that and they set up their tents by the pond. The scoutmaster's family had come along, and that included his daughter, named Merril. Merril had been sweet on my dad, according to him, and when it got dark and everybody was running around not paying attention to her she found him and got him off away from the group. The way he said it, "Things got intense and she wanted me to have sex with her." By this time I was hooked and listened avidly.
"I didn't do it, Bob. I knew it was wrong. She got mad and went back to the house, but I was glad I didn't do it. I was even more glad I didn't do it three weeks later, because word got around she was pregnant and that some boy was going to have to marry her."
"Wow," I'd said.
"Yeah," he said. "I figured it out. She was already pregnant that night. The guy who got her that way was a jerk. I think she decided I'd be a better candidate and that's why she wanted to have sex that night. She was going to blame it on me, and I wouldn't have known the difference. You have to be careful, Bob. That kind of thing is like a shark, underwater where you can't see it. But it can come up fast and bite you right in the ass."
So I was satisfied with fantasy. I jerked off of course. I didn't feel bad about it, either. They were just fantasies, and the sperm I was producing couldn't possibly get the girl I was thinking about in trouble. Or me, either. There was a certain freedom to jerking off. That's safe sex to the max, you know?
Anyway, I was still sitting there, gob-smacked about the fact that I was enjoying the crap out of staring at my own sister's boobs, when she slammed through my bedroom door.
"You little shit!" she yelled.
She'd actually looked at the pictures, instead of just sending them out on her phone. What caused that was the close-up of her chest.
Then she saw that same close-up on the screen of my laptop.
"You pervy little shit!" she screamed, adding a qualifier to her previous accusation.
What was really creepy was that I knew she was right. I was a pervy little shit. Being called a little shit didn't bother me. She deserved what I'd planned to happen for all the years of abuse she'd sent my way. But the pervy part did bother me. And I knew I was a perv because what I'd been thinking about just before she stormed in was what those breasts would look like without that pink cloth covering them.
"What are you doing?" she gasped, as her mind began to process things.
"Nothing!" I gasped. You know the deal. It's the stock reply to that question. You know it won't hold water, but it's all you got.
It turned out Hannah was smarter than I'd given her credit for being. Not only had she inspected the pictures, she'd understood that they had been taken precisely to highlight those stiff nipples. I hadn't taken any of her that didn't show her breasts. She'd even told me to be sure to get a close-up of her face and while I'd said, "Okay," I hadn't done that. Maybe it was women's intuition or something, but she figured out I'd been fully, completely, overwhelmingly aware of her stiff nipples.
She had not. Been aware that her nipples were telegraphing like crazy, I mean.
That was the first thing she noticed, of course. The telegraphing nipples. That, alone, didn't bother her too much. She had no intention of showing them to anyone, but she couldn't help admiring them as making her look ... sexy. Then she moved on to noticing that there were no close-ups of her face, but there was that close-up of her boobs. And that led to the knowledge that her brother was a freak.
"Yes you are!" she snapped. "You're looking at my boobs!"
Imagine being in a room where suddenly something sucks all the air out of it. You'd like to breathe. You'd love to breathe. But you can't. Not only that, you can't speak, either, because there's no air to make your vocal cords vibrate. Of course there was plenty of air in my room. I just couldn't use it because I was in a blind panic.
So I cried instead.
I didn't cry on purpose, of course. It was just my body trying to release the stress. That it chose crying was just what happened. I suppose it could have chosen laughter. That's happened to me before. I'm sure it has to you, too, where you laugh when it's inappropriate to laugh but you do it anyway because it lets the tension out. You laugh because you don't want to cry. That's happened to me at movies.
But my body decided crying was better. I suppose it made sense. I was crying over the fact that I'd never grow up because my sister was going to have me killed by my parents. Or I'd go to jail. Even if none of that happened she'd tell all our friends about the pervert and I'd be shunned. My life was over and I knew it. That's worth crying about. I was also crying because when I turned to look at her I looked at her boobs. Yup. Straight at her breasts, covered by that pink shirt. The nipples were even still there, though this time it was from anger rather than the chill.
So I knew I was a terrible person with no future, so I cried.
And then the most amazing thing happened.
Her face changed and went all soft and she said, "Bobby!" and she came over and hugged me!
"It's okay, baby," she crooned, mashing my face into ... you guessed it ... those breasts. "Don't cry, honey. It's okay."
"It's not okay," I groaned, wanting to rub my face around in something that felt soft and warm.
"Yes it is. I'm not mad at you. I was mad at you, but I didn't know. Don't cry, please? You're going to make me cry. We can talk about this. Please don't cry."
That penetrated. All of it. Some of it made sense, but some of it didn't. I put my arms around her waist and held on while my mind tried to cope with all this. But I stopped crying. I hiccupped a little bit, which was humiliating, but holding onto her was better than doing what she'd suggested ... talking about it.
She actually stroked my hair, like she petted Killer, our miniature Daschund. She fawned over that dog, which couldn't kill a moth, much less anything bigger, but strutted around like it was proud of its name.
There comes a time, though, when you can't keep your face pressed into your sister's boobs, and I had to pull away.
"I'm sorry," I said. I was sorry ... about the realization that I was some kind of sex fiend.
She got down on her knees. She actually got down on her knees!
"We can talk about this," she said.
"Why do you want to talk about it?" I moaned. "I'm a creep, a pervert."
"Maybe," she said. "Maybe not."
That got my attention.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, when you think about it, it's kind of normal for a guy to stare at boobs."
"Not his sister's boobs," I groaned.
"Hey, I'm a girl," she said.
"Obviously."
"What I mean is that it makes a girl feel good ... sort of ... when a guy stares at her. At least if he's not creepy, and you're not creepy."
"You didn't sound like you felt good."
"I didn't," she admitted. "I'm not mad now, though."
"I don't get that," I moaned.
"I don't either," she said. "I don't want you to get all warped by guilt, though. That's why we should talk about this."
"Really?"
"Look. I know I've been a little shit, too. I'm not proud of that. I just thought that's how a sister was supposed to act. But I don't like it when we fight all the time. I don't like being mad and I don't like it when you're mad at me."
I stared at her, blinking. My eyes were still wet.
"Me neither," I said.
"And now I find out my little brother thinks I'm hot, right?"
I still felt guilty, even more so now, because I could tell her confession to me was sincere. The urge for me to confess something was strong and I was still off center, so I just did it.
"That's not why I took those pictures," I said. "Well it is, but I was going to screw you over."
She frowned.
"Go on." Her voice sounded more like it had in the past, when she was annoyed with me.
"I was going to show one of them to Dad and get you grounded."
"You are a little shit!" she gasped.
"I am," I admitted and I felt the tears coming again. "I'm sorry."
"Is that why you were looking at that picture?"
"Yeah, I guess. But something changed."
"What?"
"I don't know. I guess you did look hot. I never saw you that way before. Then I felt strange for thinking about that and then you came in here and I realized how I could have messed up your whole life and ..." I started sniffling again.
Don't hate me. It was normal for me to stretch the truth in my own defense. What I mean is that it was my own life I'd been worried about when she caught me, but her behavior towards me since then had made an impact. I didn't think getting her in that kind of trouble would have ruined her life, but it wouldn't have been fun. To a seventeen-year-old girl, being grounded for a month can seem like her life is over. Especially if she has to miss some important social event. Being grounded suggests you're a child, and that's the worst part of all because your friends might perceive you that way.
"Don't cry," she said. "My knees hurt. Let's sit down somewhere." She stood up.
I was already sitting and I guess she decided not to sit after all, because she paced instead. As I watched her pace I couldn't help but look at her chest. The nipples were gone and the front of her shirt was as smooth as could be.
Finally she turned to face me.
"Do you like me, Bobby?"
"Like you?"
"You act like you hate me sometimes."
"No. I don't hate you. I get annoyed at you a lot, but I don't wish you were dead or anything."
"Gee, thanks," she said.
"I do like you when you're not messing up my life," I tried.
"If a boy tried to force me to do anything, what would you do?" she asked.
"I'd kill him." It just came out of me without thought. That sounded a little harsh, so I amended it. "I'd crush his balls ... or something."
She stopped pacing and looked at me.
"Really?"
"Of course," I said.
She went to the bed and sat down on it.
"I didn't know you felt that way."
"How is a brother supposed to feel?" I asked.
She shot me an impish look.
"He's not supposed to stare at his sister's boobs," she smirked.
"I told you, I'm sorry about that. I couldn't help it."
"I don't really care about that," she said, waving her hand. "Like I said, boys do that."
"But you were mad."
"Yes," she said. She appeared to be thinking. "But that was before ... I can't explain it. And it's even more different now that I know you like me."
"Of course I like you. We're family."
"I get that," she said. "The thing is this is the first time I've gotten that. It changes everything."
"You don't have to worry about it," I said. "I won't look anymore. I promise."
"I told you I don't mind you looking. It really does make me feel good. I just don't understand why it makes me feel good."
"That's very generous of you," I said.
"Maybe," she replied. "What I do know is that I want a truce, and this feels like a good time to do that. Deal?"
I blinked several times while I tried to take that in. I was a pervert. It wasn't much of a defense to say I'd taken those shots to get her in trouble. First off, that wasn't a laudable thing to do either, and secondly, if I was being honest, I'd been pretty excited by those nipples at the time.
"Deal," I said.
"Good. I feel a lot better knowing we won't be going at each other's throats anymore."
"Me, too," I said.
She stood up.
"Okay! Delete those pictures from your computer!"
"Do I have to?" This is an example of how stupid the teenage male can be.
She tilted her head, examining me like I was an outfit she was trying to decide whether to toss out or not.
"You really want to keep them?"
I blinked.
"I'll delete them," I said.
"You can keep one. Not the close-up. How many did you send yourself?"
"Just two."
"Let's see the other one," she ordered.
I pulled it up and it filled the screen. She was smiling. She looked delicious.
"That's a good one. If Mom or Dad sees it they won't be happy, but it's not like I'm flashing the camera, but you have to swear they won't ever see it."
"I don't have any porn on here," I said. "Dad doesn't look at it like he looks at your phone, but I'm not taking chances. I can bury that picture in a subfolder that has to do with Windows files."
"You promise?"
"Yes."
"Then you can keep that one. I wish I could keep some of the others, but it's too dangerous and I'm not sending any of them to Steve."
She picked up her phone and punched buttons, erasing the pictures I'd taken of her.
"Now you need to take one I can send him," she said. She looked down at her breasts. Her nipples were showing again. "Be right back," she said.
When she returned, you could see the outline of a bra under the shirt. We went back outside and I snapped half a dozen pictures of her, including two close-ups of her face. She looked at them right there and hugged me.
"Thank you. I'm glad we're not going to fight anymore."
"You're welcome," I said, feeling her soft body against mine. "Don't let Steve touch you," I added.
She laughed and pushed me away.
"That wouldn't be any fun at all, now would it?"
"Hannah!" I groaned.
"Don't worry. I'll be a good girl."
"Thank you."
"I have to go send him one of these," she gushed. "See you later."
I went back to my room. Foolishly we had left her original picture on the screen. It had gone dark while we were gone, but popped right back up when I touched a key.
I stared for a good five minutes.
I have to say I wasn't proud of the thoughts I was having.
Chapter Two
I thought that was it. I'd gotten caught, but it made her feel good so she didn't burn me. I thought it was over. It would have been, too, if something else hadn't happened.
Months passed and we got along a lot better. It wasn't like we were best buddies or anything, but we no longer snapped at each other and we chatted about stuff once in a while. Our parents noticed it, and expressed pride that we were growing up.
Then Hannah entered a Valentine's Day contest that was put on by a local photo studio. It was characterized as a search for models.
They took "complimentary" head shots and then sent those off to various modeling agencies. If they got a positive response back, they showed that letter to the girl and tried to sign them up to create a portfolio. The girls had to pay for that, of course, which was the whole point of the exercise.
Two things got this business plan messed up. One was that the portfolio cost a thousand bucks. The other was that to increase business, they made up phony letters from modeling agencies. They were stupid about this because they took real letters and spoofed them on the computer, putting other girls' names on the letters. Some girl's parents did some checking and found out the letter about their daughter was counterfeit and the shit hit the fan. The studio closed down and there's even a rumor there's going to be a court case.
But part of the investigation into all this was that the cops verified which letters were real, and which were fake.
Hannah's was real.
That didn't really matter, though. There was no way our parents could afford a grand for her portfolio.
So there she was, with stars in her eyes, and in need of a portfolio.
She did her due diligence. She spent hours researching what should be in a portfolio, the order pictures should appear in and all that sort of thing. Everybody recommended that she use a professional photographer and makeup artist, but she couldn't afford either of those.
She felt confident she could do her own makeup.
And ... she had a brother who had taken killer sexy pictures of her in the past.
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"Hey."
I looked up from my book. This time it was a Clive Cussler novel about some guys who went looking for a civil war era ironclad that somehow ended up in the Sahara Desert, and was reputed to hold a fortune in gold. It didn't have much sex in it, but it was an exciting read. It was May and school was almost over. Finals were scheduled for the next week, but I wasn't worried about that. The homework load was getting light and when I woke up that morning I felt lazy and just stayed in bed to read. Hannah was standing in the doorway to my room, leaning against the door jamb.
"What's up?" I asked.
"I need another favor."
"And what dire consequences will befall me should I refuse to offer this boon?" I asked.
Yeah, I know. That's pretty silly talk. Who talks that way in real life? What can I say? I think I do that because of all the reading I do.
"If you do this, you'll be glad you did," she said. Then she added, "I think." She made it even more interesting by tacking on an, "I hope."
"That doesn't sound very dire."
The truce had led to terms that were very different than they'd been a year past. I was aware of this, but it seemed normal, now.
"I need you to take the pictures for my portfolio," she said.
"Is this for that modeling thing?"
"Yeah. All the sources I checked say you should have a professional take the pictures, but I can't afford that. I don't have a fancy camera, but they're shooting movies on iPhones these days, so maybe my phone would work. I just need somebody to take them."
"And none of your bevy of bff's can do that?"
"I don't want them for this. I want you."
"I'm honored, but could you explain that? The last time I took pictures of you they didn't turn out the way you intended."
"Actually, the first time you took pictures it was that way. The second time was completely to my satisfaction." She didn't smile.