Watching movies with sister

 Movie nights with my sister were a tradition between us, going back well over a decade. The unspoken rule was that they were only for us. Even at times when we hardly spent any other time together, it maintained some kind of special bond between us.

The kind of funny thing was that Naomi used to always fall asleep later in the evening. She was apparently so cozy and safe next to me that she just couldn't help herself.

It had become a point of pride for Naomi at some point that she stayed up all the way through. Perhaps she was tired of the teasing about she couldn't last until the end.

She'd regressed since then, pride failing against the stresses of adult life. I had to admit it felt nice knowing I was her refuge from it all, and that snuggling with me had returned to being a near-foolproof way of putting my sister to sleep.

A little more confusingly, Naomi had also started sucking her thumb in her sleep. I couldn't remember how long ago it had been since she'd done anything like that. But like clockwork every week now she fell asleep and sucked her thumb while cuddled up warmly against me.

I tried one week, just to see what would happen, pulling her hand gently away from her mouth. Naomi's cute face took on a slight frown in her sleep and her lips kept looking for something. If I released her hand, it would slowly return and she'd comfortably return to sucking her thumb.

Because apparently I just couldn't let something like this go, I moved Naomi's hand again and this time left my hand next to her lips. It was an even slower thing, but my sister found one of my fingers and happily sucked it into her mouth.

It was an odd feeling having my little sister sucking on my finger. Intimate in a way I wasn't sure I was comfortable with. Not with her. But she did seem happy after all, and it wasn't unpleasant, just weird.

It became something of a game for me the rest of the night. Swapping out my fingers, or putting two in at once, or withholding them a while. Just to see what Naomi would do, or if she'd wake up.

I did feel kind of bad for messing with Naomi while she was sleeping like that, but that went away when she woke up.

"Welcome back," I said.

"What?" she asked blearily.

"You fell asleep again," I teased.

"Max! I did not!" Naomi said.

I frowned slightly. "You most certainly did."

"I think I'd know," she insisted, even as she wiped drool off her cheek.

"Oh yeah?" I said. "So what happened at the end of the movie then?"

"They kissed and lived happily ever after," Naomi said promptly.

I narrowed my eyes. "Lucky guess. More detail?"

"Nuh uh," she said. "I think you were asleep. You tell me more detail."

I most definitely hadn't been asleep. The annoying thing was I'd been so busy playing with my sister that I'd been ignoring most of what had been going on in the movie.

"Um... an argument," I mumbled. "And, like, a legal thing, and a misunderstanding...."

"Wow, so convincing," Naomi said, rolling her eyes hard. "Try and stay awake next time Sleeping Beauty."