Extra Duties As The Maid Of Honor

Don't judge.

My older sister, then 19, got married to a man she met at work. As the date got closer she got cold feet. I was the Maid of Honor, and her younger sister. She was married on a Valium given to her by my mother. After the reception, where many people thought she was drunk, I took her upstairs to her honeymoon suite. She was trembling, hysterical at the thought of having sex. Petrified.

We were brought up to be proper, sex in our house was reserved for marriage. But no one ever spoke of sex being anything other than a burden and a terrible one at that. My new brother in law is a very dominant man. When he walked in and found her crying, frozen in fear he went ballistic. He wasn't going to be denied and he took me instead.

They went on their cruise honeymoon and my sister wasn't able to avoid the inevitable. Nine months later my sister and I gave birth five days apart, me first her second. We had to adapt to our realities, my sister to this day has a difficult time with sex, my BIL has looked to me to fill in for my sister. It's an all in the family sort of thing.