copyright Β©2009 by A_Satori. All rights reserved.
[Author's note: This story is Part 3, the conclusion of
A Prison Break
I recommend both previous "chapters" be read prior to reading the story below.]
[Acknowledgments: My thanks to
Andrea4328
for her editorial input. Her work on this story is greatly appreciated. Any mistakes remaining in the text are mine alone.]
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A PRISON BREAK, PART 3 - FINALLY FREE
CHAPTER 10
Lana and I continued to take one day at a time. I tried my best to ignore that 'one day at a time' was a delusion. It was already out of control, emotions were involved, some good, some not so good for me. Maybe I was just hoping there was some good in it. I wasn't sure, but I think Lana was
only
seeing the good, or what she perceived to be good.
After the sober night with her, the next visiting day at the prison was very difficult for me, filled with anxiety that Barb would somehow be able to see the truth about all of it in my eyes. She didn't. I think Lana helped with that. She wasn't as surly and obnoxious as she had been, in fact she probably talked more than she ever had, yet there were still remnants of the 'bitchy Lana' towards Barb, towards me too I guess, at least during the time in the cafeteria.
The next visitation was easier for me, and Lana was even less bitchy. That was the pattern over the next few weekly visits. I finally realized that Lana was easing into her new, or maybe it was her previous to my entering the picture, personality. I could visibly see the change in Barb due to Lana's warmer attitude. One visitation, they both had fun ganging up on me, making little jokes, talking about me wearing "holy" jeans to work, how I worried about keeping the interior of my truck clean but never washed the exterior, stuff like that.
Even though the anxiety and guilt never left me for a moment, I found it easier to hide it, easier to lie by omission to my wife. I brought a deck of cards one Sunday as a way to fill in the conversational gaps and not have to meet Barb's eyes. We played rummy. Barb seemed to enjoy it, so did Lana, even though near the end of the game and visit, Barb teared up before she asked, "Remember you and I playing cards when you were little, Lana?"
Lana's eyes got a touch sparkly too. She nodded. "Yeah, those times were fun."
I asked Lana about it later. She didn't want to talk about it, but I pushed her a little and she told me. She said they'd play cards or some board games sometimes, but only when Barb was in a sober period and there wasn't any guy in her life. Lana said the games were fun, but the main thing for her was having her mother's attention, no boyfriend, and the sobriety. The bad thing was that it always made her really hopeful that Barb would just stay like that. Nice, fun, no stupid boyfriends around, just them together, have things nice and calm, and not have anymore crazy days and nights.
Lana said when she got older, around twelve or so, she stopped believing Barb about getting sober, stopped thinking there was hope, and stopped playing cards or any games with Barb during her mother's sober periods because she didn't want to be tempted to be hopeful. Lana said playing cards at the prison had made her feel sad and anxious, because it reminded her of how many times Barb had disappointed her in the past.
Lana and I usually didn't sleep together on Sunday nights. That was due to me. I told her that I couldn't handle it on the same day I saw Barb, that the guilt grew too much. The Sunday of that first card game, Lana asked if she could sleep with me, saying she just wanted to be next to me. I turned off the lamp and we spooned. A few minutes later, Lana started crying softly. I gave her head a few kisses. She talked every now and then over the next half hour, in essence telling me how much she had hoped Barb would stop drinking, how much she had hoped Barb would be like a regular mom, how much she had hoped they'd be happy and have fun together, how much she had always hoped she'd never be afraid to have a friend come over to the house.
The last thing she said was, "I didn't want to start hating her, b-but I did... I... hated her
so much
sometimes. I didn't want to hate her... I... I was so mad though... I'd get so mad sometimes, and other times I'd get so... s-scared about her, about... something bad happening to her... or-or something bad happening to me and... and she wouldn't be there for me."
I just held her a little closer after that. I had no idea what to say to her. She was right to feel all that. But I knew that Barb had probably tried with all her strength to give Lana what she wanted and needed, not only for Lana, but for herself too. She just couldn't manage it. I knew I was at least as bad if not worse at handling life than Barb. Thank god a kid never had to count on me.
We only played cards a couple times after that. Even though it appeared we were all enjoying the game, I think Barb somehow picked up on Lana's hidden feelings about it. Barb could be very perceptive and intelligent when she was sober. She was the one who lost interest in playing. When I pulled out the cards that day, Barb said, "Mmm... not today, okay?" I only brought it up one other time and that Sunday Barb said, "Let's just talk, all right?" I never came with cards again.
In between the visitations, Lana and I did other things together--
* * *
I felt my cock coming back to life. I slid my arm from around Lana, turned on my side and moved lower. I put my hand on her far side, leaned towards her more, then stroked my face over her small, feminine mounds. I gave her breasts a dozen slow, moist kisses, then started caressing her taut nipples with my lips and tongue. I felt her hands move onto my head, her fingers slowly combing through my hair.
She spoke softly, "I... I want to tell you something but... you have to promise not to get mad."
My gut tensed. I pulled my face up. "What is it?"
"Promise you won't get mad first."
"Okay, I promise. What?" I hated it when chicks did that 'promise me first' routine.
Lana took a slow deep breath. She stared at her hands in my hair. "You know, sometimes when you and... and
Barb
would do it, you'd... you'd sometimes forget to close the bedroom door.
I blinked. "We... we
did
?" I couldn't recall ever forgetting the door, but it was more than likely we had at least a few times.
"Yeah. Sometimes... sometimes I could hear you down in my room. When you left the door open, I could hear everything bett... I mean,
louder
. A... a couple times I... I sneaked down the hall and..." She took a breath. "...and watched you guys."
"You... you
watched
?"
"Uh-huh. Not like for a
long
time, you know, like a minute... a-a few minutes maybe."
I didn't know what to think or say. "Yeah?"
"Yeah." She took another breath. "One time was... was her giving you a beejay. That's... I mean... um... I saw her running her hand on... your chest and... and you seemed to like that. That's... that's why I've done that sometimes."
Again I didn't know what to say. I almost told her I had been wondering about her doing the same thing as Barb. "I... I guess I do like that."
"Another time..." Once more she took a deep breath. "Another time I... I'm not sure, but I think I saw you guys... um... doing... um... doing anal."
My gut knotted tighter. I didn't say anything.
"You were... I mean, she was moaning a lot and you were... going slow and like, you know, in a doggy style position, but her head and shoulders were on the bed, and... and you were stroking her back up and down, and..." She bit her lower lip.
"And what?" I held my breath.
"I don't know... like... like on one hand I thought it... it was... I don't know, kind of gross, I mean if it was anal, and then... then it seemed kind of really hot to me, but... but mostly... um..." She took a slow breath.
"What?"
"I-I guess I watched a couple other times too, just... not very long. You two just doing it, you know,
regular
sex, and... I mean, the anal time, at least what I thought was anal, um... I... I thought it seemed... um...." She took another slow deep breath.
"
What
, Lana?"
"That time, it seemed like... I mean even if it
was
anal, it... it seemed you guys were... were
making love
, not... not just
fucking
."
My mind was racing trying to come up with something to say. "It... it can be making love, just... just like regular sex can be... ahh... you know, fucking or making love." I waited for her to say something else. She had yet to look directly at my eyes, just kept watching her hands in my hair.
"I just thought I... I should tell you I had been a
little sneak