Nowhere, for now.

The very first kiss of his sad, lonely life, and it was with his sister. From the outside looking in, maybe someone would find that pathetic. The forbidden taste of her lips didn’t taste pathetic to him at all, though. It just tasted like Jessie.

There was no confusing this for a peck on the lips. Leon gripped her shoulders, and started kissing her urgently. Every feeling, every desire of the night started to spill out of him...

...And then she pushed him away, considerate of him but firm in her intention to stop. They stared at each other, trying to catch their breath.

For once, he was the first break the silence. “That was... unexpected. Incredible, but unexpected.”

Jessie didn’t react to his voice, and he was pretty she didn’t even hear him. He opened his mouth to speak again when-

“...What am I doing!?” Jessie suddenly wailed. “This is all your fault! 100% without a doubt! Well, maybe more like 75% or maybe even it’s actually just completely my fault. Either way, one of us is going to hell. Maybe both of us, and we can have evil little hell babies and-“

“Jessie?”

“What!? What do you want, you big dumb emotional EMP bomb in human disguise!?”

“Emotional EMP bomb?” Leon grinned.

“Yes!! Why did you have to come in here and be all charming and say ‘uhbuhbuh this is how I see you all the time Jessie duh duh stupid duh’ and confuse me, when all I’m trying to do is appreciate this stupid amazing picture that you took of me, so that you can go to bed and get away from messy Jessie before she becomes a needy emotional soul sucking leech woman dead set on ruining your life and-“ Somewhere in the middle of her rant she’d started squeezing her eyes shut, and was now kicking her feet in distress. Leon tried to talk again.

“Can I talk? I’d let you finish but I fear there’s no end in sight.”

“Nope nope nope. You can’t talk. Ever again, and definitely not to me because I’m going to spend my life as a nun and all of my nun sisters will kill you if you swagger in and try to confuse me again.”

“Uhhhh... please?”

“Fine! Say that you think I’m gross and you want me to die so I can go scrub my mouth out with bleach. Actually, I take that back. We’ll just never ever ever talk about this, and instead of washing my mouth out with bleach I’ll drink the whole bottle! Problem solved!”

He stood up and she flinched before going off again. “Aaaaand there goes the only person who wanted anything to do with me. And why is he leaving, you might ask? Because his sister just...” Another round of color filled her cheeks when she thought of the kiss, and she finally stopped ranting, settling for muttering “what was I thinking what was I thinking what was I thinking” under her breath instead.

Good god she’s going to have a panic attack. He stood behind her chair and rubbed her shoulders in what he hoped was a soothing way. She certainly is a handful.

“Calm waaaay down. Our lives aren’t over, you’re not a leech, and no one’s becoming a nun. Also don’t drink bleach, it tastes terrible.”

“Someone has to become a nun,” she said glumly.

He couldn’t help but chuckle at how bummed out she sounded.

“I didn’t hate it, Jessie.”

“But that’s not good! It doesn’t make me feel any betterto hear you say that. Well maybe a little better, but exactly how much would you rate it on a scale of 1 to royally fucked up and-“ she took a deep breath to suppress her impending spaz attack, “But you can’t like it. I can’t like it! That’s too... we’re siblings, Leon!”

“Felt like we both liked it a second ago.” He was teasing her, but he’d certainly liked it a whole hell of a lot.

“Seriously? I’m about to literally explode. Don’t mess with me right now you jerk!!” she slapped at one of his hands on her shoulder a few times before her hits weakened and she rested her hand over his.

She idly caressed it with her thumb, clearly thinking about something. He waited for her to keep going, refraining from harassing her anymore.

They stayed like that for a long while, until Jessie stood up. He let his hands fall off her shoulders and back to his sides.

“I need to go to bed,” she said calmly.

“Hol-hold on a second! We need to talk about this!” Now he was the one about to panic. If they didn’t talk about it, she was going to lay awake and freak herself out until she ended up running away from home or something.

Or at the very least she’ll talk herself out of... out of what? ****? Shouldn’t you be doing the same thing? This isn’t an “uwu what are you doing step bro” porn video. There are going to be some serious ramifications if you don’t stop. You need to really think about this.

“Maybe you’re right,” Leon started. “We could both use some sleep,” he said, and offered her a hug. Thankfully, she accepted it.

He hugged her as tight as he could manage (his boner had long gone) and said, “Don’t do anything drastic like running away to join the circus or drinking rat poison.” It was a relief to hear a small giggle escape her. “We’re going to talk about all this, tomorrow. Okay?”

“Okay,” she murmured into his shoulder. “I won’t spaz out and go running with the wolves.”

“Thatagirl,” he said affectionately. For a second as he was pulling away, he though about kissing her again. It wouldn’t be fair, to either of us. No throwing anymore wrenches into the works until we know what’s what.

Instead, he brushed her lovely golden bangs aside and planted his lips adoringly on her forehead.

“Goodnight Jessie.”

“Goodnight, Leon.”

He picked up his camera off her desk and started walking away. When he reached the doorway, she called out, “Leon?”

He turned and offered her a warm smile.

“Yeah?”

She wavered, but then said, “Thank you, for tonight.”

“You’re welcome. Thank you, too.”

A relieved sigh escaped her lips. Apparently he’d put her mind at ease about something or other.

Then he walked into the hall, closed her door behind him, and returned to his room.