"Okay. Wine it is, I wouldn't want to waste it." Taryn released Trevor, since she assumed he would be the one getting the wine for the both of them. Just what she needed. More alcohol to make things warmer than they should be, and her head hazier than it already was. "I don't want you getting too serious, or brazen. Promise me you'll try to be a happy drunk!"
"I promise. And in that case, I'll just have one more glass," Trevor said as he waded to the shallow end and climbed out of the pool via the stairs. "I wouldn't want to break a promise to you and go hurtling off my pedestal." He poured them both a conservative amount of wine, trying to take it easy on the stuff despite the fact that the bottle was now three quarters of the way gone. He headed back into the pool the same way he'd exited and held out one of the glasses for Taryn.
Taryn swam over to the more shallow end of the pool where she could actually touch the bottom, and then she sat on the very last step of the stairs where the water still covered some of her body, but not enough that she would be afraid of spilling the wine into the water. She shook her wet hair back and took the glass from Trevor. "I think if we keep drinking, we'll both tumble off the pedestal together," Taryn mused and then took a drink of her wine. And since she was in the right state of mind, and feeling quite warm and adventurous herself, Taryn licked her lips of the taste and arched an eyebrow at her brother. "When's the last time you had sex, anyway?"
Trevor nearly choked on the wine he was swallowing, but managed to recover with minimal coughing. He pounded his fist on his chest and took another sip, which seemed to help. "I don't see why that's relevant to ...anything," he said as he stared at her. Especially not while she was looking at him like that. He sat down on the step next to her and held his wine glass in both hands.
"It's not relevant to anything," Taryn said with a smile. She had done well in not laughing at his reaction. It was about what she expected when the question slipped past her lips. Torin would come right out and tell her. Trevor would cough and avoid the question altogether. "Although that's a lie. It's relevant to... my curiosity. I want to know. Has it really been that long that you don't want to tell me?"
"It was some time before we left for Italy," Trevor said with a dismissive little wave of one hand. He took a long sip from his glass, feeling he suddenly needed the liquid courage if she was going to interrogate him about his sex life. Or lack thereof. If she was looking for juicy gossip she was going to be sorely disappointed.
Taryn shrugged one shoulder and sipped more of her wine. That answer didn't really surprise her all that much. But who was she to talk, when she was still a Virgin with a capital V? "I would have thought you would say like, a year ago or longer," Taryn admitted, using her foot under the water to rub it against his. "Who was it with?"
"A water elemental I went to high school with," Trevor said with a slight frown. She wasn't someone he was ashamed of having slept with, but she was unimportant. A mere booty call who shared his opinions about elemental superiority. And it didn't hurt that she had a build similar to Taryn's even if she was a dark blond.
She was busy watching him while he spoke, taking in the way his lips slipped into a frown, the way he spoke and she had a hard time figuring out what was going on behind his eyes. Trevor was definitely a mystery to her sometimes. Taryn looked down at the water where she wiggled her toes to cause soft ripples. "You really don't like talking about sex, do you?"