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What no one wants to Admit
It was the middle of the night when I woke up to someone grazing their face near mine, kissing me. At first I thought it was my toddler brother. I don’t know, I was still in a hazy state. It was when the hand slipped under my clothes to touch my private part that it hit me, “It’s not him.”
It was my 13 year old brother. I felt this intense disgust and fear. It took everything to keep my eyes shut to look like I’m sleeping, but I needed this to stop already. I quickly took a turn to my side which caused him to frantically move away and lay back on the sofa to pretend to be sleeping.
Then I sat up on my bed and stared at him, apparently sleeping, trying to figure out if he just did all this in his sleep. I was so disturbed and scared. My younger brother touching me like that. Did that mean… God, no, please, no. I wanted to find out what the hell had just happened. And that I am not alone in this.
So I went to the TV lounge where the laptop was. I searched about younger brothers touching or fondling older siblings at night during sleep and found stories about it on Quora. Reading some of them made me so scared because younger siblings or cousins did the same things to the person and things ended badly. Relationships destroyed, things not the same anymore.
But thankfully, I found a news article from several years ago about a man who was about to get charged for molesting his older sisters when they were children. But the sisters said that this was when they were children. The description was similar to what I had been through. When the parents came to know, they sent........