Rock Valley

Morgaine was a happy toddler, a clever girl and a good student both in high school and in college. She grew up in a happy home with a mother that loved her and a father that adored her. To him, as much as he loved his sons, she was his “real” child, the one he helped to raise, the one he changed diapers for, tought to talk, to read and to do her homework.
Morgaine loved her parents as much as they loved her, but still, she found it quite confusing that the other child growing up in their home was not the child of her parents.

Gaheris never had a happy childhood. He had everything a little boy needed and Faith took good care of her fosterson, but he never felt the love like Morgaine did. To Faith, the boy reminded her too much of her late husband, to Luc, he was the symbol of the man who took his Faith away from him. The only one who truely cared about him, seemed to be his baby-stepsister Morgaine, who was years his junior.

Morgaine followed him around the house since the first moment she could talk and as the girl grew up, they became best friends, telling each other everything. Gaheris was 11 years older than Morgaine, but that didn’t seem to be a problem, they got along just fine.

One day, a few weeks after Morgaine had returned from college, they were both soaking in the hot tub together when Gaheris complained about a stiff neck.

As she touched his bare skin, Gahris fellt a shiver running down his spine, an uncomfortable feeling. He quickly moved away from her, knowing this was no feeling he aught to be having for his stepsister.
Morgaine to had felt something she had never felt before. Why now, why him?? She quickly went out of the hot tub and into her bedroom, but she couldn’t get Gaheris out of her mind.
Hadn’t she always know that she loved him? But he was supposed to be her brother, even tough her parents had always made clear to her that he was not her real family.

Days went by and they tried to avoid each other as much as possible when two people have to share a bathroom. But love can’t be stopped, so with every touch, every time they saw each other, their feelings grew stronger, untill one day, Morgaine couldn’t take it any more. In the middle of making lunch for both of them, as he passed by to get a drink, she threw her arms around him and kissed him, right there, in the kitchen, in what turned out to be the very first kiss for both of them.

Gaheris held her in his arms, in the most intimate embrace the world had ever seen, and whispered into her ear.

“Oh Morgain, my Morgaine, what have we done?? Your parents will never approve, but I can’t help it. I love you Morgaine. I’ve loved you for so long I don’t even know when it started”

Teers appeared in the young woman’s eyes, happy tears, from finaly knowing her love was being returned.

“I don’t care Gaheris, as long as I have you, I will be happy. I love you, I’ve always loved you and knowing you love me to is enough for me. Mom and Dad will have to understand” Morgaine told her other half and kissed him tenderly.

The weeks that followed both Morgaine and Gaheris lived on cloud number nine. She was constantly smiling and he couldn’t stop humming a song he had heard on the radio. Faith and Luc kept asking their daughter what was wrong, but the young woman kept her secret to herself. She had to wait for the right time to tell them, to make suer they accepted this.

But passion can not be tamed and while her parents were at work, Morgaine and Gaheris had the house to themselves. They played a dangereous game and one day, they crossed the line and ended up in Morgaines bed.

That afternoon was the beginning of a lot of stolen moments, kisses and huggs when they tought nobody could see them, afternoons in bed while Faith and Luc were of to work.
Faith knew her daughter was in love and kept pushing her to reveil the identity of the one who had stolen her heart but Morgaine kept denying there was a man in her life.

Days became weeks, weeks became months and still neither of them had any idea as to how to make Faith and Luc accept their relationship.
Gaheris was often found crying by his father’s remains, asking him for help.

But he got no answer there. But then, some news came that forced Gaheris to act and change the situation.