Come Break Away With Me Ch. 01

"I hope no one realizes this thing is real."

Zerrafina protested when Eric had brought it home, but not at first. When she found out it was real, however, she had said, "Holy crap, Eric, I can't wear that to a Prom. What if it gets stolen?"

He had simply draped it over her neck line and with a smiling nod said, "It brings out your eyes. It was worth it."

Eric wouldn't even listen to talk of returning it. Zerra wasn't sure she deserved such a gorgeous piece of jewelry, but she was sure as hell going to enjoy how it made her feel since Eric was so dead set on her wearing it tonight. He always had a way of making her feel special, making her feel worthy of the good stuff in her life.

"I'm about as ready as I'm gonna get," Zerra said happily to her own reflection, hand on hip and an excited grin on her face.

"I'm actually looking forward to tonight. It's kind of my last hurrah. My last chance to just be a kid and have fun."

Just then the front door opened, and Zerrafina squealed in girlish delight when she heard her brother call out in a hopeful voice, "Zerra? You still here?"

"Eric!" she responded gleefully.

The decked out young woman ran as fast as her snug dress and high heels would allow and headed to the stairs. With one hand on the railing she took the steps at a breakneck pace and was amazed she didn't trip or fall in her exuberance.

"Hi," Eric greeted his sister with a smile and a quizzical look at her excitement.

"Eric!" Zerrafina repeated as she was almost to her brother.

A devilish thought suddenly struck the blonde, and she feigned tripping right in front of her brother. Eric instinctively reached out to catch her as Zerrafina fell forward. She ended up giving him a close embrace that was definitely on the unsisterly side.

"Oh my God!" Eric thought as he felt Zerra's entire body press firmly against him, his strong arms the only thing holding her up.

He could swear he felt the mound of her pussy grinding lightly against his own crotch as his sister tried to untangle her feet. It took supreme mental effort to hold an erection at bay.

"Sorry!" Zerra apologized, though she knew full well what she was doing. "Lost my balance. I don't wear heels this tall...well...ever."

With the added height she couldn't resist her small naughtiness since it put her love nest at the same level as her brother's penis. The feel of his prominent, manly muscle rubbing ever-so-slightly against her vagina was delicious. She had to keep it brief, however, so it didn't seem too obvious.

"Oh no," Eric's blonde sister thought with alarm as she realized she was starting to get wet down there. "Gotta calm down."

She pretended to regain her equilibrium then relinquished her hug and stepped back. Seeing the awkward look on Eric's face made her feel suddenly and honestly penitent. She hoped the closeness of their bodies hadn't been too strange for him, but the opportunity was too good to pass up. The sensual memory of their naughty bits so close together would tide her over until her next masturbatory session.

"I'm sorry," she said, truly contrite this time for making her brother so noticeably uncomfortable.

"It's okay," Eric pretended to dismiss the matter as he tried to put a normal look back on his face. "I'm just glad I was here to stop you from falling and hurting yourself. You should be careful in those heels."

"Shit...shit...shit..." Eric mentally intoned, still fighting back the hard-on that threatened to put a bulge in his pants that would be hard to hide.

Even though several layers of clothing were in the way Eric couldn't get the feel of her full length pressed against him out of his mind, so soft and warm and womanly. At that moment he wanted nothing more than to just say 'fuck it', pull Zerra in even tighter, and give her the most passionate kiss he could muster. It was like being granted a peek through the gates of heaven then being thrown unceremoniously back down to Earth.

"I'm glad you made it home before I left for the prom," Zerra told Eric sincerely as she placed both hands on her brother's well-formed shoulders.

"I still want to feel him...to touch him," she told herself. "Even this little bit."

"Me too," Eric nodded lightly, "because I wanted to be the one to surprise you."

"Surprise me?" Zerra asked as she cocked her head to one side, her curiosity piqued. "With what?"

"I rented a limo for you and your date," Eric revealed. "It'll probably be here any minute."

His sudden, beaming grin showed he was obviously quite proud of himself.

"The dress...the necklace...and now a limo? Eric, you're the best! You sure know how to make a woman feel special!" she enthused, echoing her earlier thoughts.

Zerrafina leaned in and gave Eric another affectionate squeeze, but this time she tried hard to restricted it to the realm of sibling affections. Eric returned the sentiment gladly and basked in the glow of her affection toward him.

"Tell her she's worth it!" Eric's mind screamed at him with a powerful intensity that demanded to be obeyed. "Tell her nothing is more important to you than she is! Tell her she means everything to you! Tell her you goddamn love her more than life itself! Tell her you fool! It's now or fricking never!"

Eric's heart was pounding in his chest like a jack hammer as he screwed up his courage. He opened his suddenly dry mouth to begin forming the words. Zerra relesed her embrace and stepped back from her brother. The sudden, inexplicable change in the tack of Eric's demeanor let her sense something momentous was about to happen.

"I..." Eric began.

Zerrafina peered intensely into her brother's pale blues as her emerald greens seemed to glitter in the light. Her brother had become so very quickly and acutely serious, and it had the young woman intrigued.

Their eyes locked so completely and deeply Eric felt as though his soul were touching that of his sister. He could see the future in her eyes, a long and wonderful road of profound happiness without end.

The doorbell rang loudly and shattered the spell before Eric could form the words he desired to speak. He flinched in surprise, and his mouth clamped shut.

"What is it Eric?" Zerra demanded in a quiet, almost desperate voice. "What were you going to say?"

Eric stood there in shock and rapidly blinked his eyes twice before looking away. He couldn't believe it. He was about to tell her. He was really going to spill it all to Zerra and tell her everything about how he felt. His mind raced in terror at what he'd almost done.

"I think your date's here," he responded instead and walked away to answer the door. "Wasn't his name Todd?"

"Yeah...Todd," Zerra confirmed, and she felt a sudden melancholy that such a seemingly significant event had passed unfulfilled.

"I just know he was going to say something Earth-shattering. I've never seen that serious of a look on Eric's face before. Was he...? Was he going to...confess something to me? Could it be...?"

Zerrafina's mind raced at the thought as she watched her brother exit the living room to answer the door. He almost looked...shaky? Her heart soared as, for the first time, she fervently considered something she'd never thought possible.

"All those uncomfortable looks he'd get over the years when I'd touch him just a little too close or say something a bit off the wall and kinky. Was it because...because he feels the same way I do but is afraid to say it? After all, he never has told me to stop being so touchy-feely. And I swear there were a few times when I caught him checking me out. And the way he was just now. He's faced down everything life's thrown at him without flinching. What else could frighten him like that?"

The bell rang again, and Eric said loudly, "Coming! Just a moment!"

Zerra couldn't see the entryway from the living room, but she could hear the front door open and hear Todd greet Eric.

"Hey, bro!"

Eric quickly sized up Zerrafina's date. He estimated the boy was about 6 feet tall, judging him to be about 2 inches shorter than his own height. Todd seemed athletic, though it was hard to tell through the black tuxedo he wore. It was more about how he carried himself and his self-assured expression. It was the arrogance of a youth who was strong and fast and knew it, a kid who thought he was invincible.

"Didn't Zerra say he was on the football team?" Eric recalled.

Todd's hair was short, curly, and blonde, and medium blue eyes were set above a nose that was just a touch too long. He had boyish good looks that would probably begin to leave him in a decade or so as the pressures and weights of life slowly eroded his will.

"Hello Todd. I'm Zerra's brother, Eric," he greeted the boy as formally as possible, trying to keep his disdain from tainting his voice. "I see the limousine found your house just fine."

"Sure thing," Todd nodded. "Thanks for that. The other guys are gonna be so jelly. That Jeeves is a funny guy by the way. He knows some good jokes."

"The chauffeur's name is James," Eric corrected. "Anyway, nice to meet you."

Zerra's brother extended a hand to his sister's prom date.

"Yeah. You too, man," Todd reciprocated and took Eric's offer of a handshake. "Zerra talks about you a lot."

Eric squeezed as he shook, though not so hard as to hurt the kid. Just hard enough to give Todd an idea of the strength of the man whose sister he was taking to the Senior Prom.

"Hurt one hair on her head and I'll snap you in half like a twig," Eric thought as he smiled innocently.

"Come on in," Eric offered as he relinquished the shake and stepped to one side. "Zerrafina's in the living room to the left through that archway."

"Thanks," Todd said, relieved to be free of Eric's iron grip. "This is a nice place you have here."

Todd rubbernecked on his way to the living room. Eric couldn't help but feel an acute jealousy as he followed.

"Oh wow!" Todd exclaimed when he saw his date. "You are one smokin' hot girl. Here...I got this for you."

The teenage boy held out a red rose corsage and said, "It goes on your wrist."

Zerrafina was unresponsive as she stared almost absentmindedly at the floor and the plush, white carpeting of the living room with wild thoughts galloping through her mind. She had half her lower lip between her teeth and worried it gently.

"She only ever does that when she has something really heavy on her mind," Eric noted, knowing his sister's mannerisms very well.

"Zerra?" Eric queried. "Everything alright?"

The young woman looked up as she realized she'd just heard her own name uttered twice.

"Oh...thank you, Todd!" she said as she saw the corsage and held out her left arm. "Sorry. I was trying to remember where I left my purse."

Zerra's date, Todd, slipped the floral accessory onto her wrist and commented, "You are such a blonde. It's right there on the coffee table."

She looked over already knowing exactly where her purse had been sitting, and said, "Oh. Sure enough. If it had been a snake it would've bit me."

Zerrafina snatched up her black leather handbag and lengthened the strap so she could sling it over one shoulder.

"Sooooo," Todd asked, dragging out the first word, "are you ready to get this show on the road?"

"I am. Let me say goodnight to Eric then we can go," Zerra requested, but she didn't wait for an answer before turning to Eric.

"Be safe and have fun," Eric told his baby sister with as much sincerity as possible despite wishing he were in Todd's place.

"I will," she promised on both counts as she gave her brother a tender hug goodbye.

"Oh how I wish it were you taking me to the prom tonight, Eric."

"Later, bro," Todd said as he took Zerra's hand, and the pair left for the limo.

As the door clicked shut the sound reminded Eric of that time from two years ago, and he wondered if this was the beginning of Zerrafina being taken away from him again. His mind was swimming with conflicted thoughts and feelings. There was no way he'd be able to relax or sleep later tonight considering the state his head was in. There was only one thing to do.

Eric headed to his room and quickly stripped off his work clothes and laid them on his bed before throwing on a pair of running shorts. He walked purposefully to the basement stairs and descended to where his weight lifting equipment was set up.

He felt both mentally and physically shaky, and he wanted some hard music to help calm his spirit and divert his attention. Stepping over to the nearby shelf stereo, Eric began to rifle through the small collection of discs he had nearby for just such a purpose.

Most of the music was very heavy and aggresive with angry lyrics and powerful, crunching electric guitars with lots of distortion. It was, in short, the perfect music to listen to while pumping iron. He finally settled on a disc, popped it into the small but robust shelf stereo, cranked up the volume, and pressed play.

Eric was so worked up he forgot about his normal stretching and warm up routine, and instead simply hit the weights with a ferocious fervor.

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It was a bit past 11 pm when the limousine pulled up to the Monroe residence. The night had long ago spread it's cloak of darkness over the world, but the front porch light shone like a beacon in the wilderness to Zerra's eye. Zerrafina's heart was beating rapidly. She had made up her mind during the prom. She finally felt ready to take her relationship with Eric to another level, a place she was certain he wanted to go as well.

Zerra had had several hours to come to this decision, each minute an eternity as she counted down the time until she could gracefully bow out of the night's activities without seeming ungracious. Todd had been disappointed that Zerrafina was done for the evening, but she knew he'd get over it. It's not like they were dating or anything. The Senior Prom was to be their first and last date.

The chauffer, James, wished Zerra a good night as she exited the rear of the long, black vehicle. The nervous young woman made what seemed like the longest walk of her life as she strode the steps to the front door of her house. A terrible doubt crept into her thoughts like a burglar breaking into a house - uninvited and unwelcome.

"What if I'm wrong? What if he's disgusted with me for being a perv and leaves or kicks me out? What if what I'm about to do ruins everything good between us? Oh, what am I doing?"

The teenager paused with her hand poised above the doorknob. She was shaking like a leaf and had trouble aiming the key at the lock. She reminded herself that this was no time for half-measures. Zerrafina gritted her teeth in determination and promised herself that one way or another she was going to see this through.

"But...I'm not wrong. I can't be. I already figured this out."

It had been like a putting together a puzzle when you didn't have the box it came in, when you couldn't see what it was supposed to look like. Zerra had spent her mental energies all through the prom pushing and fitting all those pieces of she and Eric's shared lives together, and she was certain she was right. She forced down all the doubt, all her second guessing.

"I have to have faith. Be confident. Be sexy. I know I'm right."

"Eric...?" the eager young woman called out expectantly as she entered her home and locked the front door behind herself.

A quick survey showed the living room was empty, as was the kitchen. Eric's bedroom door was open, and the light was on.

"Eric?" she called again.

"Maybe he's in his room," Zerra guessed.

She climbed the steps to the second floor landing and headed down the hallway. Peering into her brother's room Zerrafina saw that Eric wasn't within. His work clothes were folded and laid neatly upon his bed, though.

"That's not like him to leave them just laying there," she commented quietly to herself. "Huh. Maybe he actually went out tonight."

Zerra felt a bitter disappointment beginning to gnaw at her core, though she couldn't figure why her brother would've left the house. It wasn't like Eric to go anywhere this late, even on a weekend. Her brother didn't drink, and she knew he found bars to be too noisy and crowded for his liking.

"I suppose I'll just change and go to bed," Zerra sighed to herself in a downtrodden tone.

"So much for my plan to seduce Eric," she thought with sadness.

The young woman travelled one door further down to her own room. She was just about to begin undressing herself when she heard the soft burbling of the hot tub through her opened bedroom window. She had to stifle an excited shout as she realized her brother was home.

Zerra ran to her bedroom window and pushed aside the curtains. Sure enough, there he was soaking in the heated, bubbling water in the hot tub. It was positioned in a far corner of their house's expansive rear deck. He was relaxing on the far side of the tub with his eyes closed and his body facing toward Zerra and the rear of the house.

"Hi Eric!" she called down. "I'm glad you're still awake."

Eric opened his eyes and took a moment to realize his sister was upstair speaking from her bedroom window.

"Oh, hey Zerra!" he said with a smile. "How was your night?"

"It was good. I'll be down in a minute so we can talk," she answered. "Just hang tight a sec, okay?"

"Alright," Eric nodded.

The excited Zerra pulled the curtains closed before heading to her dresser. She rifled briefly through one of the drawers until she found what she was looking for. It was still on it's hanger with the store tags dangling from the thin, silky fabric.

"This is perfect," she said with a broad grin.

Down below, soaking in the hot tub after his vigorous workout session, Eric waited patiently. He was glad his sister had made it home safely and wondered how her night went. He honestly hadn't expected her home so soon, but he wasn't disappointed to hear her voice when she'd called his name. Zerrafina had sounded excited to see he hadn't gone to sleep yet, and Eric couldn't help but wonder what was on her mind.

A few minutes passed and then a few more. Eric began to be puzzled at what was taking his sister so long when the sliding glass door opened and Zerrafina emerged from within. Eric's eyes widened slightly as a look of bewilderment overtook his features.

His sister stepped from the house wearing a dark green and very skimpy two-piece swim suit. The top consisted of two small triangles positioned over her firm, young breasts and only half covered them. Strings the width of a shoelace held together the meager coverings and travelled around her back and over her shoulders. Eric could clearly see the Zerra's gorgeous cleavage as well as the sides of her luscious bust. The bottoms were much the same, barely covering her pussy and clearly outlining the shape of her pubic area.

Zerrafina saw his eyes locked upon her body, and the utter amazement at her beauty was etched across his face. She gave her brother a slight, enigmatic smile.

"I saw this at the mall last weekend and just had to have it. Do you like it?" she asked her star-struck brother as she twirled around slowly to show off her nearly naked figure for him.

Eric finally realized he was staring more intensely than a brother should and looked away. His face flushed red with a mixture of sexual arousal and embarrassment.

"Yeah, it's really nice," he said in a small, quiet voice as he tried to keep his desire hidden by pretending to look at the hot tub controls.

Eric felt the blood building within his manhood as he fiddled with a knob on the panel, but he didn't fight the erection back down this time. The multitude of bubbles inside the swirling water would cover his bulging swim trunks. His hard-on grew rapidly and pulsed in time with his throbbing heartbeat. The flustered young man looked back up to see Zerrafina walk slowly toward the hot tub and lower herself with a sultry slowness into the vortex of water.