The Christmas Surprise

I get home about 11:00 or so and expect everyone to be in bed when I get inside but to my surprise, Bec is sitting up waiting for me watching another one of her reality show crap. “I wasn’t expecting a welcome home party,” I say laughing as Bec just rolls her eyes at me and shakes her head.

“Don’t flatter yourself, Blake, I might be interested in knowing what happened tonight but not so much that I want to stay up for you” I nod as if to say that I believe her but then knowing my sister as well as I do, I know that I don’t believe her. “Ava’s been awake all night and I just can’t get her settled properly,” Bec says explaining the situation of why she is still awake and then I realise that I’m wrong about why.

I start heading towards the bedroom when Bec stops me “Well are you going to tell me what happened or not?” she asks as I shrug not sure what to tell her exactly and what details she needs to know without judging me.

“There’s not a lot to talk about, we met at the apartment which is where I’m having everybody for New Year’s Eve, we had dinner and that’s about it,” I say as Bec shakes her head at me disapproving of my explanation.

“Uh uh uh Blake, there is a hell of a lot more than that which you are not telling me and I want the details” I sigh as she calls me back and I sit down on the couch next to her reluctantly.

I take a deep breath before I start to talk “Just don’t judge me on anything ok?” I look at her as she rolls her eyes knowing that I’ve probably done something stupid but in the end, she tells me that she won’t judge me even though I know she will.

“So I got there and went up to the apartment, Corey was out standing on the balcony looking at the amazing view and he just looked amazing and I straight away noticed that he had gone back to rocking the shaved head which was his hottest look and his fiancée always hated and seeing that I knew something had changed” I explain as Bec sits there nodding knowing something was up but not knowing all the details.

“I went out to the balcony and got closer to him and realise how hot he was because he’s finally grown into his frame,” Bec’s face tells me that she has a bad feeling about what is going to happen especially with what I said to her before about not letting myself get too emotionally involved this time round. “So yeah, I worked out that he wasn’t engaged anymore and that they had broken up just after they had gotten back from America” Bec looks at me surprised that it happened that long ago and not just recently like she had thought something had happened.

Bec sits nodding her head as if for me to keep telling the story but she jumps in before I can “Well what happened over there? I know you caught up with them and that it was awkward but you didn’t necessarily let on that anything happened that could’ve jeopardised it” she says to me as I just nod and shrug.

“Yep it was pretty awkward but all he told me was that he had seen a different side to her that he didn’t really like because from his perspective she had become all bitchy and demanding which was something that he’d never seen from her or act in that way when they were together here,” I say as Bec nods and I can’t tell whether she suspects there is more than what Corey said to me/

“Something must’ve happened in particular because a Leopard doesn’t change its spots overnight,” she says as again she manages to confuse her phrasings and I just nod along because like usual she is right about somebody doesn’t just change how they act overnight.

“Well, he did give me a big hint about things when he said that it was seeing me that made him realise it was seeing me that made him realise about the relationship because seeing me made him realise how good that it was between us and just chilled and that probably made him question what he wanted in the relationship,” I say as Bec just looks at me and pointedly makes her point.

“So basically, he is in love with you even after all this time” I shake my head as she says that “I don’t

think that’s the case at all, I think that it’s just more of the case that our relationship was casual that’s what he wants” I say ignoring the basic fact that we had sex tonight.

“Suppose that could be it, what happened then?” Bec keeps pushing me for more information and wanting to know what happened despite me not really wanting to get too much more into it before I know she’s going to get annoyed at me.

“There is nothing major, we just had dinner, he spilt on himself like normal so he ate dinner shirtless for a while, we just watched the sunset over the harbour together and then we had dessert and that was it.”

There’s a silence in the room for a minute before Bec shakes her head at me “Thought you weren’t going to let yourself get into this position again and it’s not because I don’t trust or like Corey, the opposite really but it’s down to you because what happened hurt you so much and you shut so many people off” she says as even though I don’t want to admit it I know that she is right.

“I know that and that’s why I kept telling you that I wasn’t sure about all this because it hurt me and that seeing Corey again would just bring back everything that I felt about him that I used to feel before we had our falling out rather than thinking of him as an ex,” I say as Bec puts her arm around me and rubs my hair which is still slightly wet from the shower that Corey and I had after we fucked.

“I get that, but you know having sex with Corey isn’t the way to go about it,” she says grinning at me as I don’t know how she figures it out.  “We didn’t…. wait how the fuck did you know?” I ask as Bec just smirks as she gets up off the lounge and heads to turn the TV off.

“A sister can tell these things about her big brother” she winks at me “Plus I could see that your hair was wet which meant that you had to have a shower there and why would you shower? You certainly didn’t go to the gym and it’s certainly not raining out there so you had to have gotten messy which is the only thing.”

I laugh because there is no arguing with Bec’s logic as she keeps going with her explanation “Yeah I know, but I got there telling myself this was nothing but two close mates catching up like you and me had talked about but once the tension dropped, it was just like old times and that all I saw was the guy who was my best friend and the guy that I had fallen in love with” I say as Bec gets worried.

“I know what you are going to say Rebecca and I’m not going to get ahead of myself with everything that is going to happen over the next few weeks,” I say to her as she just nods her head and tells me that she trusts me to know what I’m doing.

Turning off in the living room, I head to bed and lay down and have a look at Corey’s Instagram page and just smile at how amazing he is as well as everything that I missed when had blocked him because I was that hurt. I always have to give him credit because he never tried to argue with me about being petulant but he just understood how that I felt and was never offended by what I did

I put my phone on the bedside table and turn the light off but as I do my phone lights up and I see a text from Corey.

“I enjoyed seeing you tonight Blakey, I don’t want you to think that I was planning on everything we did or that I was expecting it,” he says as I smile reading his text message because I know that neither of us was necessarily expecting to get back to having sex.

Thinking about how I reply, I type my message out before hitting send instantly so that I’m not spending hours thinking about it “I had an amazing night like the old times and I know that it wasn’t planned or expected, that’s what made it hotter”.

My head is in a weird place right now because I told myself not to get sucked in by any of the old feelings or the mixed feelings that I had but I did exactly that and whilst I’m not necessarily upset that it happened, I just didn’t want it to happen because no I’m back to the old feelings about Corey.

Getting to sleep, all I can do is think about Corey and everything that we did together not just in bed but as boyfriends and friends. My mind goes back to when we went away up to the Gold Coast for a week and our hotel “messed up” our booking and instead of two beds in the one room, we had just the one big one and had to share which was fine because we had done more than that before.

The trip to the Gold Coast was amazing and rather than focusing on the clubs and nightlife, we played the tourist game where we spent our time just going to the Theme parks like Movie World, Sea World and the like.

My favourite part was watching him in the most amazing budgy smugglers that were predominantly pink with a pattern on them that I can’t remember but I remember him in the water looking so damn hot and yet so different to the Corey of 2022.

My mind is such a weird place because I’m almost instantly back in love with him again and having sex was so fucking amazing but then I know at the same time it was a mistake as I close my eyes.

Laying there, I think about the rest of that day as Corey went out to dinner and it might have been because we were on the Gold Coast and in no danger of being caught that he actually wanted to hold my hands with me which showed how much he was into me.

We went to a fancy, overpriced restaurant and the food was only mediocre but the rest of the night was far from it because after strolling on the beach, shirts opened and the surprisingly cool air on our chests, and under the stars Blake and I sat on the beach as we kissed emphatically, making out showing how much we were into each other.

Making out on the beach, my shirt came off and for a few moments, it was just me and Corey there as my back was on the sand as he was on top of me and we were making out and I could feel his hard cock in his pants grinding up against me. The kiss was amazing but we very quickly had to go back to the hotel because if we kept going then we probably would have been caught in a very precarious spot.

Ending up in the hotel room, it was only a matter of time before we were naked and on the bed with Corey dominating over the top of me as we made out, rolling each other over trying to fight who was going to be the alpha boss. It wasn’t long before I quickly submitted to Corey’s slight size advantage in height but probably not in muscle size.

I don’t really remember all the details of the night but I remember the fact that Corey just controlled every part of the night and his cock has always been one of the things that I loved most about him and despite having sex semi-regularly, my hole was always so tight because I really only ever bottomed for him.

Pushing his cock into my tight hole, I remember moaning loudly and the walls were paper thin so that the people next door could hear everything that we were doing and probably didn’t really appreciate me begging extra loudly for Corey’s cock.

I try to put that out of my memory for now and just go to sleep for the night and try to not let it all dominate my thinking and just hope that I can keep a straight head about everything. The next morning, I wake up and Bec is laying on the couch asleep, Ava still isn’t that great but she has slept for a little while. Trying to stay quiet, I try to get breakfast from the kitchen and pour myself some coffee but she is a light sleeper so hears me.

“Morning Blake, how are you feeling this morning?” she asks as I just shrug not sure what to feel about the events of the night before. “Hungry and needing coffee” I’m not in the mood for the conversation and Bec’s psychoanalysis of the situation because the more I analyse the less about this trip is an enjoyable holiday.

Bec comes over and looks at me “Blake, come on surely you’ve been thinking about it all night and surely that you would want to talk about it” she says to me as I shake my head even though ultimately I know that I need to talk about it.

Pouring my coffee and getting the breakfast, I turn around to Bec “Yes I thought about it all night, but no I don’t want to be talking about it because if I’m thinking about this all the time then I’m not enjoying the holiday and with Corey heading to Brisbane for a few days, I don’t need to.”

Bec reluctantly relents up and then decides if there is anything that I want to do in particular today or over the next few days whilst I’m staying with her. “Nothing that desperately you know, I mean it’s a lot about spending time with you for the first few days but then I’m going to head up the mountains, go to the beach a few times but ultimately I just want to take a break” Bec nods as I know that she would want to do plenty of things with me while I’m here.

Ultimately, I decide that today is just about staying here with Bec and spending some time at home which is one of the weirdest feelings because even back in the States, I’m never just spending time at home even on my days off. The usual thing for me is to go shopping, hang out with Sophie and Katie or just do the tourist things in the city especially now that everything has reopened after the Covid lockdowns.

I grab my laptop out of the bedroom and just sit there and just decide to play around on the internet for a little while, trying to keep track of what is happening at work despite everybody telling me to leave it when I try to message them for information and just to enjoy my holiday.

Getting up, I help Bec clean up for a little bit as we talk “What do you think is going on with Jack?” I ask as I am trying to get a picture of my little brother who has changed so much from the quiet nerdy kid to the kind with a ripped body with his pecs covered in tattoos as well as both his arms.

“Honestly, it’s like he’s had a mid-life crisis but at 20,” she says as I nod thinking about how he went off the other night when once Bec went to talk about him taking time off from uni and wanting to get into modelling. “He just seems to be a different person lately and it came suddenly out of nowhere and is just bizarre,” she says as I get the sense of her judging him.

I stand there nodding but as I think about it but then just end up thinking that maybe he has always been like this and we but mostly my parents had pigeonholed him into an expectant personality that they wanted him to be and what he was trying to achieve to be as well.

“Maybe this has always just been Jack,” I say as Bec looks at me weirdly and understandably doesn’t get what I mean before I explain it. “What I mean is that I was always dominating with my marks at school and uni and then getting the exciting job that I had and you were always the princess of the family being the only girl in the family, Adam had aspirations of being in the Army well before he finished school, but Jack was the baby of the family, Mum and Dad always put pressure on him to be more like me and maybe he just wanted to prove himself

Bec just nods at my explanation but I don’t know if she is fully on board with what I’m saying “I guess so, we never really focused on him all that much” she says as I just nod at her as we both are thinking about things.

“Just tell me what he tells you tonight ok?” I know he comes around a lot to watch with Jase but he doesn’t necessarily tell me everything going on despite always seeing each other and talking a lot” I note her point but know that sometimes you don’t want to tell everybody everything and then sometimes siblings don’t have the relationship that other do like Bec and I have.

I stand there for a minute, trying to not offend Bec with what I’m about to say “I’m not going to betray his trust because if Jack has stuff to tell us then it’s his place to do it because it’s like you not telling anyone about Corey and me being a couple except for Jack.”

Bec looks at me offended almost like I’ve accused her of something major “I’ve never ever told anyone about what I saw that night or you and Corey, I’ve kept your secret tightly because I know how much it means to you and Jase is the only other person that knows your gay but never about me walking in on you.”

I feel bad for saying it and I was never trying to accuse her of anything especially not betraying my trust because we’ve both shared some very personal things with each other “Ok sorry, I was never trying to accuse you of anything but when Jack said about you walking in on me with Corey and all that”

Bec is shaking her head as I tell her what Jack had told me “Unless he overheard us then it certainly had not come from me” she says as I’m intrigued to work out how he knew about what happened although part of it was him just trying to bait me for information.

“Just don’t make it an issue,” Bec says to me as I have no intention of doing that at all. “I’m not going to, Jack clearly wants to talk to me about stuff just bro to bro because you know Adam and him aren’t necessarily super close like we are,” I say as she nods.

Our family dynamic is definitely good and there isn’t any hate from one person to the other and we all have each other backs but we all have our own individual relationship levels between each other beyond our sibling connections and rivalries.

For me personally, Bec and I have always been super close probably because there isn’t too much of an age gap between us and that there are very few things that we don’t share with each other and are just like best friends when we hang out.

Adam and I on the other hand probably have the more typical brotherly relationship where don’t necessarily talk every day or that frequently but are regularly checking in with each other, though with his army stuff, it’s a lot tougher to contact him and probably has a lot to do with it.

My relationship with Jack is a close one though in recent times we probably haven’t been as close as we should be with all the distance and the proof of our relationship dwindling is that I had no idea about his tattoos or his wanting to quit Uni. When our relationship was closer we spend so much time together going to the footy or cricket together and just hanging out together and when I first moved out he would come and stay over just so that we could go out together even if we had to forge his age a bit and let my parents have a weekend away as they got into their 50’s.

Jack’s relationship with Bec is good but they probably don’t have as an open relationship because sometimes I feel that Jack resents that Bec quite often parrots mum and when he wants to support that she probably doesn’t give. Despite this, I know that they are close and Jack appreciates having Bec as his escape from Mum and Dad because they are always so tough on him with everything he does which I don’t quite get because they were never as harsh on any of the other 3 of us.

Adam is probably the typical middle child that got lost in the shuffle and although he never showed it, I think that’s why he was always so desperate to join the army because he wanted to prove to everyone how good he was despite us all knowing otherwise. He wasn’t what you’d call the black sheep of the family but he wasn’t as into the family relationship as the other three of us were.

Thinking about our family, it’s amazing how much has changed between us all as we grew up together and then branched out to live our own lives although everybody is pretty close to home although Adam does spend plenty of time overseas posted in various places and then me living probably as far away as possible in America.

The afternoon flies by as I get ready and I take a shower just putting on a pair of shorts and a T-Shirt because Jack and I are just going to go down to Peachtree which is one of the many pubs in the area and where we would always go when I was still living here.