BigBasher:
Keep it coming.

Desire4life:
Me: You’re drop-dead gorgeous, so I’m definitely looking forward to seeing you in a bikini.
Rose: Too bad I don’t wear bikinis, though. I only wear one piece suits, lol.
Me: Aw, that’s a shame. :-) Still, I’m looking forward to seeing you, no matter what you wear!
Rose: Even if I don’t wear anything?
Me: … huh?
Rose: Oh, nothing, I was just joking, haha.
Me: Lol, okay. I’m getting another beer.
Rose: Me too.

I went and got a beer, thinking about how the conversation was going, and when I returned to the couch I sat so that my wife wouldn’t see the computer screen easily. I didn’t know how things would progress, and maybe it was all in my head, but I just had a feeling that I should casually make my own screen a little more private. Again, Patra (my wife) was too drawn into whatever baseball game was on TV, and several she was tracking on her computer, to pay much more than passing attention to anything I was doing.

Me: I’m back.
Rose: Me too
Rose: Brother, you don’t know what a strange sister you’ve gotten, lol.
Me: Well, don’t feel bad; I’m pretty weird myself. (If you’ve read any of my other stories here, you know I wasn’t just saying that. I am a freak! But as it happens, so is Rose.)
Rose: Oh, I don’t think you can come close to me in that regard, haha.
Me: Oh, yea? Hit me with your best shot!
Rose: No, I better not say anything else.
Rose: But I wonder if I can make it two brothers!

Now one of the things I’d found out almost from the beginning with Rose was that she had another, younger half-brother on her birth-mother’s side, named Chuck. This was starting to sound more interesting by the minute!

Me: I’m sure you could if you tried :-) Uh… make what two brothers?
Rose: Hehe… I’ve presumably said too much already.
Me: Okay.