*Author's Note: This is erotic fantasy. It involves sexual situations between consenting adults, all of whom are over 18 years of age. Since it is fantasy and it's my fantasy, I presume a world free of STDs. I hope you enjoy the story; if not, such is life. Comments are always appreciated.
THE STEPSON
Glen Suxton finished his shift at Pizza Hut, the time seeming to have crawled along. At 19, he thought ruefully on the fact that he really had no life, didn't know what he wanted to do, or even who he was. His father had left when he was just a young boy and his mother had remarried shortly thereafter. Henry Kucker had been a good father substitute, never showing anything but care and concern for his newly acquired stepson. Glen had reacted by becoming inordinately close to him, probably some response to his biological father having abandoned him, something which had scarred him deeply psychologically, always wondering if it had been something about him that had driven him away.
Glen was a good-looking young man with dirty-blonde hair and blue eyes, 6'2", but on the slender side. He had been an ambivalent student in high school, getting decent grades, but not drawing any notice for his mental prowess, which he either didn't have or kept so suppressed as to amount to the same thing. He hadn't been inclined towards athletics of any sort, either, and had only dated sporadically, uncomfortable and unsure of himself when it came to girls.
Arriving home, he found Henry asleep on the sofa where he had been sleeping for half a dozen years now for some reason unknown to Glen. He no longer worked, having been injured on his job as a construction carpenter and had qualified for early Social Security benefits due to his inability to work. His mother Karen was not yet home from work where she was the secretary to an accountant.
"How was work?" Henry asked, waking up when Glen entered, yawning and stretching, then scratching his hairy beer belly, wearing only his ubiquitous boxer shorts.
"Same shit, different day," Glen replied, flopping into a chair facing the sofa.
"What's got you so down?" Henry asked.
"Life," Glen replied.
"At your age?" Henry asked, then laughed. "What possible problems could you have?"
"I don't know what I'm doing, or why, or what I want to do, or even who I am," Glen replied with a big sigh.
"That bad, huh?" Henry said. "Get us a couple of beers and we'll talk about it."
"Dad, why is life so strange?" Glen asked when he returned from the kitchen with a Budweiser for each of them.
"If I knew the answer to that, I wouldn't be sleeping on this sofa," Henry replied, taking a big slug of the beer.
"Why do you sleep on the sofa?" Glen asked. "You've been doing it for years."
"When I had my accident, well, I have problems and your mother just felt it would be better if we didn't share a bed any longer," Henry replied.
"Just because you got hurt?" Glen asked.
"Not because I got hurt, but because of the effect getting hurt had on me," Henry replied.
"I know that your leg is really messed up and that you can't bend your knee," Glen said.
"That's just what you can see on the outside," Henry said. "There's more to it than that."
"Okay," Glen said, shrugging.
"But what about you?" Henry asked. "Maybe what you need is a girlfriend. That's one thing that always creates a sense of purpose."
"What do you mean?" Glen asked.
"Well, when you go out with a girl, why are you going out with her?" Henry asked.
"To have a good time?" Glen replied.
"And what is a good time exactly?" Henry asked.
"I don't know, enjoying something; a movie, whatever," Glen replied.
"Sex?" Henry asked.
"Well, yeah, that would be a good time," Glen conceded.
"You've had sex with a girl, you're not a virgin?" Henry asked.
"Dad!" Glen gasped, flushing.
"You can tell me that it's none of my business," Henry said. "I know that I never went out with a girl without thinking of sex."
"Even with Mom?" Glen asked.
"Especially with your mother," Henry replied with a laugh. "I'm not sure that you're aware of it, but your mother is an extremely sexy woman."
"I guess so," Glen said.
"That's why my accident has had such an effect on her," Henry explained. "Before, well, let's just say that we had a very active, passionate sex life. That changed after the accident."
"Because of your leg, your knee?" Glen asked.
"No, because of nerve damage that affected my cock," Henry replied.
"Oh," Glen said, flushing. "I-I'm sorry, I guess that's none of my business."
"I just made it your business," Henry said. "I can't do anything about it and it's frustrating, but I refuse to be ashamed of it."
"How...how does it affect you?" Glen asked.
"It's more difficult to..." Henry started to reply when the front door opened and Karen entered.
"Well, this is nice," she said, coming over to the chair where Glen was sitting and hugging him, pressing the side of his head into her prominent breasts. "What are my two favorite men talking about, drinking beers?"
"Glen had a tough day at work," Henry replied, inwardly sighing as he looked at his wife's legs extending out from beneath her mid-thigh skirt.
At 5'6" with curly red hair, Karen had a Rubenesque figure, not fat, but very full, and she always dressed to emphasize every bit of it, everything that she wore seeming to be a size too small, too tight.
"What is a tough day at Pizza Hut?" Karen asked.
"People," Glen replied, wondering what his stepfather had been about to tell him.
"Better get used to it," Karen said. "The world's full of them and unless you plan on living in the middle of nowhere...I'll get dinner ready," she said, heading towards her bedroom to change first.
"We'll continue our conversation later, when your mother's not here," Henry said when she left.
"Okay," Glen agreed, wondering what he wanted to tell him that he couldn't tell him in front of his mother.
Dinner was a typical, mostly silent affair. They seldom talked during meals, which Glen didn't realize was odd, as it had always been that way, at least since Henry's accident. He also didn't mind because he wasn't in the mood to discuss his discomfort about his feelings towards his life. He had never been the type of person who felt that his personal problems were anyone's but his own to deal with, not to be inflicted upon anyone else.
Taking a shower after dinner, he joined his mother and Henry in the living room to watch television until his mother went to bed at 10:00; a typical evening. As he started to get to his feet to also go to bed, Henry stopped him.
"Would you like to talk some more or are you too tired?" Henry asked. "I'm concerned that you're unhappy with your life."
"I'm sure that it's nothing," Glen said, sitting back.