Julie couldn't believe her eyes.
But there it was, right in front of them.
At first, those soft, brown and green tinted doe eyes couldn't even blink. Her mouth was slightly open and crooked ajar. She was frozen. She couldn't breathe. And finally, she swallowed the lump in her throat and lightly inhaled.
Was she really looking at a naked selfie of herself on her father's laptop?
Her FATHER'S laptop.
The first question that hammered her with confusion was how the hell it even got on there. It was on her phone, and her phone only. She didn't even have her own laptop or computer. That was why she had gone into her father's office to use his, so she could work on a report for her history course.
But she never expected to find something like THIS on it.
It was the only self-taken naked photo of herself she currently had, as she wasn't in the habit of taking those regularly, or at all, for that matter. She wasn't like any of those other early-20s bimbos passing by her in the halls at her local community college who probably took seven a day and made themselves unwitting nameless internet stars on some cheap selfie porn site due to the moronic guys who got off by nefariously uploading them without their permission or knowledge.
It was a spontaneous act of feeling and promoting her sexiness that she had done for a guy she was barely seeing months back and no longer even talked to. It wasn't even that memorable of a photo, sure to be disregarded in the quality ranks of a Playboy or Hustler pose. She simply snapped a full frontal, full body shot of herself standing at the full length mirror hinged on her bedroom closet door.
She didn't even remember she still had the damn thing on her phone until that moment, as it became buried within months of other more practical and interesting shots she snapped through the eyes of her daily life.
She thought she deleted it, but after pulling her phone from her pocket and scrolling through folders, there it still was, in all of its naked glorification verification.
She knew the "who" and "what". It was the "how", "when", and more prominent "WHY" that sparked her confused Nancy Drew driven brain presently being bombarded with mass hysteria.
He had to transfer it directly from her phone. There was no other way. She wasn't tech-savvy, so she didn't understand all that "cloud" uploading and hacking stuff, but for all she knew, every photo she took, every thing she did on that phone got automatically saved in some kind of backup he could have easily accessed through her network, since he was the primary account holder of both their phones.
The thought of him taking her phone at some point while she was indisposed in the bathroom, or outside, or doing something for an extended period caused her to be washed over with a wave of violated paranoia.
Again, unlike her mindless female peers, her phone was never attached to the hip. She used her fair share of it, even for stupid videos and the like whenever she was bored, but she could breathe perfectly fine without it for five minutes, leaving it in plain site on the kitchen counter.
So he could have swiped it at anytime, for any AMOUNT of time that it took to discover the photo and copy it onto his laptop.
She was a blender of emotions. Confusion. Anger. Surprise. What probably upset her most was that they had such a great, trusting relationship together, even stronger since her mother had left them seven years earlier. So she wondered what caused him to even take her phone in the first place.
Julie considered herself a headstrong, rational person, always trying to put herself in other people's shoes to better understand their motives. He was, after all, her father, and fathers tend to worry for their daughters.
She was a mature twenty-years-old. More mature than most, due to having to harden her bones when her neglectful mother bailed.
But that was something he should have done when she was a teenager, and he never came off as overprotective or investigative. She never caught him in her room, snooping for a diary of confessions or hidden drugs which she never partook in. He always respected her boundaries and gave her considerate personal space.
So WHAT THE HELL was her bare naked ass doing on his laptop in a folder titled "SPANK BANK"?
She knew what that term meant. She wasn't stupid. But the silly naivety she felt she was always cursed with as her personality downfall caused her to open the folder anyway.
Maybe it was a strange or funny code for something work-related. But that notion was kicked out the window upon grazing her eyes across the two dozen or so nude photos of women, some probably adult film stars and some selfies like hers he had probably found on the 'net.
She tried to stay calm. Maybe he copied it and was readying to present it as some kind of lecture for safety. A "don't tempt the wolves out in the woods" kind of warning to keep his former princess in line, going the whole nine yards to transfer it onto his laptop in a more profoundly effective tactic to show and scare her into not doing promiscuous things like that.
Maybe he accidentally tossed it in the wrong folder. Simple but embarrassing mistake.
Julie ran a hand through her soft, straight dirty blonde hair and then brought it to her mouth.
She wished her curiosity never opened the folder.
Because all she could muster up in thought was that her father was masturbating to a naked picture of her. He was jacking off to her... thinking about her... sexually.
She had made the illustrious spank bank hall of fame folder.
The pompous and prissy Disney princess angel of herself popping up on her right shoulder tried to sing that maybe he hadn't done anything with it yet; that maybe it was a harmless mistake or worst case scenario some weird but harmless perverted curiosity of interest and nothing more.
Yet the scantily-clad Victoria's Secret lingerie devil version of herself on her left shoulder was shouting that it was his new favorite picture to beat off with and he was shooting endless ropes of cum from his dick while moaning out her name to himself.
Julie closed the photo file and subsequent folder before turning the laptop off and firmly shutting it. She sat there for a full three minutes in blank thought and silence. She was glad he wasn't presently home. It would be awkward passing by him in the kitchen or some place with this newfound knowledge of discovery.
Of course, this didn't make the elephant in the room vanish for her. What the hell was she going to do? How could she even be around him from now on knowing this?
Any simple meal at the table, or movie viewing in the living room, or car ride would be plagued thick with awkwardness from then on, and solely on her side only, considering he would be clueless on her unearthly uncovering.
Should she confront him? Should it be in outraged anger? She couldn't even remember the last time she had been mad at him for anything. They were practically best friends, considering she always distanced herself from having any serious ones her own age.