One summer night, I was lounging on my bed watching muted porn when there was a knock at my bedroom door.
"Can I come in?" I heard my dad's deep voice quietly ask from the hallway.
For some reason, ever since the divorce, I noticed that he'd become somewhat timid with me. I figured it was because he was worried if he made a wrong move, I'd go live with my mom the way my brother did.
Instinctively, I shut my laptop as quick as I could then tucked my erection up into the waistband of my shorts. "Yeah, sure."
The door creaked open and he came in, his heavy footsteps accompanying a bulky build. It was apparent he just came home from work. He hadn't taken off his caulk-covered tee and Levis. He sat on the corner of my bed. "What are you up to tonight?" he asked.
Something about the way he talked seemed off. His stare wasn't angry, but it was firm. His eyes met mine directly as if he knew I'd just been watching two college guys sucking each other off. My heart pumped harder in my chest.
I shrugged. All my friends were busy, I told him. For once, I planned on spending a Friday night in.
By the time I answered his question, enough of his breath had come out to reveal he'd gone drinking with his work buddies before coming home.
"What about you, Dad?" I asked.
"Just hangin' out," he said.
Then his eyes traveled down to my legs. I realized I was commando under my basketball shorts. Although my dick had been fastened up into my waistband, I could tell he'd caught a glimpse of my balls.
He quickly moved his eyes away from my crotch, and I shifted to sit up, but it was too late. "I was thinking we could have a talk tonight, you and me" he added.
"A talk about what?"
"Just a talk. Man to man. That okay with you?"
Man to man? What did that even mean? Suddenly I felt uneasy. I looked down at my laptop and realized it was probably about the porn. Last I knew, my dad barely knew how to turn on a computer -- how did he know what I'd been watching?
"Is everything okay?" I asked.
Dad unfolded his arms and put his hand down onto my leg. He moved it down my shin, feeling my leg hair under his palm. By this point, I could identify the scents of both whisky and beer coming from his mouth. "I'm gonna take a shower," he said. "Then we need to have a talk, Boy. Sound good?"
Dad only called me Boy when I was in trouble. When I hit a baseball through the neighbor's window: "You got somethin' to tell me, Boy?" When he noticed I stole sixty bucks out of his wallet last year: "Where's my money, Boy?"
"Yes, sir." I said back.
And when he got up and left my room, I caught my breath, opening my laptop as I heard water spanking the shower floor. I quickly closed every open tab. I cleared every history, cookie, and trace of what I'd been looking at. Ever since I'd gotten my own laptop, Dad's one rule was not to use it to look up anything nasty. Once everything was cleared, I shut down the computer and set it on my desk.
I was still antsy. Maybe a glass of water would help?
I opened my bedroom door to see Dad's clothes were left in the hall, and the bathroom door was wide open. I froze in my doorway. If I walked to the kitchen, I'd have to pass the bathroom. If I passed the bathroom, I knew I'd look in.
This was so unlike Dad. My whole life, he'd been so strict about keeping our privates private. When I was a little kid, I remember asking if I could see his big boy penis, and he told me to never ask that again because it was inappropriate.
I'd never seen Dad naked. He didn't believe in walking around the house in the nude, and was even hesitant to change in front of us in the locker room. That was probably why I was shy, too, and why curiosity plagued my mind. As I listened to the water hitting the tub, I felt myself harden in my shorts again.
I decided to go for it. Just a quick glimpse. After all, he'd gotten a peak at me.
I walked by the bathroom as nonchalantly as possible, turning my head as if only to notice the door was open. There, behind the see-through plastic curtain, Dad's husky body stood under a hot stream of water, one arm lifted and the other scrubbing his pit with a bar of soap. Suds washed down his scruffy tum and slid off his thick cock underneath.