Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:15:47 -0400
From: miranda stapleton <blackheart415@earthlink.net>
Subject: Weekend with Brother Richard part12/bisexual/incest

                          Weekend with Brother Richard

                                     part12

                               by M.J. Blackheart


    Under the florecent lights of the waiting room Richard, Ben, my
mother and I waited for word from the doctor.  The rest of the family had
been notified, but for the moment were waiting at home for word from us.
    I sat nervously waiting in a hard, stiff backed grey hospital chair,
glancing from the continual coverage of news on CNN playing on a TV
screan sprouting from the wall, and at my brother who paced endlessly
around and around the room.  His body was tight and tense and Ben over
and over tried to get him to sit down, and just wait, but he refused.
Ben sat on a matching sofa to my chair with mom, who had at least stopped
crying, but continued to wring her hands and look at the clock, and
sigh.  All the waiting with no word was driving us mad, but finally a
nurse came out.
    "Mrs. Mathews."
    "Yes," mom said as she lept up.
    "The doctor will allow visitors back, but only one at a time."  the
nurse said in a sweet tone.
    "Did the doctor say how bad it is?"  I asked as I too stood and
stepped up beside mom.  Richard and Ben where on my heals
    "Minor, but the whole thing has caused a lot of stress so Dr. Brown
wishes to keep Mr. Mathews over night for observation, and in the mean
time keep his stress down.  He will be able to go home in the morning."
The nurse said.  "If you will follow me I will take you to his room, Mrs.
Mathews."  With that the nurse and mom went through a double door and we
were left alone in the waiting room.
    There was not a soul in there at that hour, as it had grown late in
the waiting,  a receptionist sat reading at her booth, and the occational
orderly or janitor would stroll by to the vending machines, but no one
with in ear shot, and so Richard started talking as soon as we were
alone.
    "I think this is a warning, I think someone wants us to stop doing
what we are doing."  He looked from me to Ben and back.  "first this
thing with Mel's baby, you know not knowing the truth, and now this.  I
hate to say it, but we have to stop, this has been one hell of a lot of
fun, but I think we might have gone too far.  I think we need to stop
doing it.  I think we need to go back to the way it was before."
    "Oh Rich."  It was all I could say.  Deep down I had been thinking
the same thing, but couldn't voice it, couldn't get my tongue around the
words.
    "And maybe since this happened I shouldn't go to Hamilton, maybe I
should turn down Mr. Wheelings offer and stay here, go to local college,
and well, settle down."  Rich said, a tear slipped down his cheek.
    "Really?"  Ben asked, of all of us this last seemed for a second to
raise his spirits.
    "NO!"  I burst.  "You have a great oppurtunity and both mom and dad
would want you to take it.  Hamilton is a great school, the offer aside,
but you have to go to Hamilton.  If the only reason you would not go was
because I am going to be there, I will stay here."  I looked at both of
them and both looked crest fallen.
    "But you can't stay, you have a big oppurtunity too, a house, a great
job, a big raise, you have a baby on the way, and then there is Jamie, no
you have a family to support and I messed with it enough.  YOu have to
go, Rob, you have too."  Rich was struggling to hold back a sob.
    "We will both go.  We will both take the jobs and you will go to
school, and come back here on holidays.  We leave in a few days, and that
is that.  If you think our thing is over then it is over and well I can't
say I am happy, but I can't say I don't feel the same way.  Mel can at
least be happy about that."  I said.
    "Then I guess I will be alone again after all."  Ben sniffed.
    "We'll visit, your'll still see me, you have Kathy's boys, and you
can have Trish if you want.  And if you find someone while I am gone, and
something happens I wont be mad, Ben, I love you, and I know this is
going to be hard, but Robs right, although we have to stop our thing, we
have to move on, take the few good things out of the bad and move on with
life, and after college who knows where we will be and what will happen,
and if it is ment to be it is ment to be, but I know that one thing is
not ment to be after all this."  Richard looked at me and  more tears
leaked from his eyes.  With that he turned, went down the hall and
disappeared in the restroom.
    "I am sorry all this happened, Rob, but I think I should go.  Have
Rich call me and we can hang out before you and he have to go to Spring
Haven."  Ben gave be a quck hug and was out the doors to his jeep in a
flash.
    "And so it is the way it should be, but man if this is the way it is
to be it is going to hurt like hell."  I murmured to myself, and sat down
again to watch the news.
                                      ***

    The next morning Dad was back home, Richard and I had started to
pack, And for two days we only waited for Mr. Wheeling to say we had a
place to live.  On Wensday the call came and on Friday the movers came to
the apartment to pack and remove all of Mel and my things.  OUr old life
was ending.  Spring Haven, PA  here we come.


    Sorry it took so long to get this out, but I have had a bit of
Writers block, also sorry there is no sex in it.  I myself was a bit
depressed with it, but it is as it should be.  A set up for more
adventures.  At this point look for a new story"Adventures at Hamilton"
which will continue this.  any comments or ideas send me a line.
Blackheart415@earthlink.net