Lunch meeting

After buying a sandwich from the canteen, Nathan made his way up to the roof. After ascending the last set of stairs, he looked around for a few moments before spotting his sister and walking over to her with a giddy spring in his step.

"Hey sis guess what!"

Phoebe rubbed her temples before responding with an exasperated sigh "I dunno Nathan, what?" Phoebe loved him as a brother, but god damn if he wasn't irritating sometimes.

"Well..." Nathan began with an exaggerated wiggle of his eyebrows, "It looks like I can read minds as well as send messages!"

Nathan thought that his sisters reaction was strange, as she suddenly went very pale, and her body language became quite nervous. He hadn't seen her like this in years, she was always his popular, confidant older sister, so to see her like this was slightly more than concerning. "Are you ok sis?" she asked with genuine worry in his voice.

Inside, phoebe was in panic. All morning she had been battling with how she felt about her stepbrother seeing her stark naked. While intellectually she knew it was wrong, she could not deny that once she had closed the door on him, she felt flushed, as goosebumps rose up all across her skin. She knew that she was aroused but was disgusted by the thought of it. If Nathan could look into her mind and know this, it could change their relationship forever. Either things would be incredibly awkward around each other, or they would get more... intimate...

Internally, she shook her head to banish the thoughts. God, she was his sister! It was wrong. But so right. She had watched him grow from an annoying little sprout, to a now slightly less annoying handsome man. She often wondered about when he would get a girlfriend, sometimes marvelling at the fact that he still didn't have one. She never thought about her little brother THAT way before, but their little incident that morning in the bathroom had awoken something in her.

After a few more moments of Nathan pestering her, she eventually spoke up. "Nathan, I want you to promise me that you will never read my mind without my consent" she demanded with a deadly serious tone of voice.

Nathan clearly did not pick up on this social queue however, as he replied in a jovial manner "What, you have something to hide?"

"NATHAN THIS ISN'T A JOKE!" Phoebe snapped back, jolting Nathan out of his playful mood. "This is serious. I want you to promise me" she continued, straightening up herself after her outburst.

"Sorry sis, I didn't understand how serious you were..." Nathan apologised. "I promise not to read your mind if I can't help it. It's not like I have figured it out how to control it yet" he muttered.

"Well you had best figure it out quickly then" she huffed. She knew that it was irrational, and that it wasn't Nathan's fault if he couldn't control it, but she would not be able to handle it if her incestuous feelings for her brother were to be revealed to him.

"Anyway," Phoebe continued "let's get down to why we are even meeting here in the first place"

"Oh yeah!" Nathan interrupted her, earning an irritated scowl from his sister "I thought of a way we could start looking!"

"Well if you have a plan, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to hear you out" she admitted

"Ok so I was doing some thinking, about how we could find our mystery girl, and I was thinking about what we already know about her" he presented. "So obviously we can rule out around half of the college, so let's work from there. I would say they were around five foot five-ish, and I remember her having shoulder length hair"

Phoebe stopped him in his tracks. "Nate, what you have described is the average girl that attends this college. How does this help us at all?"

"Um- well- you see I- well you know" he flustered. Now that Phoebe mentioned it, it seemed like a pretty far stretched plan. The intel they had on this girl was exceedingly sparse.

"Look, let's just give it some time. They are bound to show up again at one point, and when they do, we can get a closer look at them. Hell, they might just be willing to talk to us" she argued.

"So just sit around twiddling her thumbs waiting for her to come and find us?! They could be out doing all sorts of nefarious things!"

Phoebe's patience was running thin at this point. "Oh really? Do you have any other ideas then?" she watched nathan squirm for a while as he tried to find a solution that clearly did not exist.

"Exactly" she concluded.