For my age, I still looked pretty good. I played tennis with my partner on the weekends, went to the gym a couple of days a week. I'd say I looked pretty good. But I could see the stress taking its toll. All these years, working hard at the office, just to stay above water. My wife, Jann was stressed too. We rarely had sex anymore. She would get home late, and make dinner, then off to bed, while I washed the dishes. I'd say life was getting harder now that gas prices were going up.
Now this. We'd saved for years to get our girl into the school of her choice. We applied for school grants for her, and took out a couple of loans, even mortgaged that house. Times were tight.
Kate was right.
When I entered the living room, Kate was all packed up. "Where are you going?"
"Stacey's for the weekend, while my car gets fixed." If Mom sees that my car isn't here she'll figure it out." She looked at me expectantly. Waiting.
"So?" she asked.
"So what?" I said looking at her beautiful face. She took after her mother. Round lips, cute button nose, and beautiful blue eyes. Her hair was long, straight and dark black. She looked like some sort of thin super model with curves. I always appreciated her beauty. It made me proud.
The guys in my office would always make comments when she'd visit me at work. "Damn, too bad she's your daughter, look at that rack." And I'd always get pissed but usually wouldn't say anything.
I'd hears guys say, "She's poking out like two torpedo's" Or they'd make comments about her ass, like, "Jesus, that's the best damn ass I'd ever seen. Have you ever seen an ass like that?"
Once I got furious, got in the guys face and yelled, "That's my daughter you're talking about, have some respect."
He stammered, "Sorry man. I ah... didn't know."
Sometimes when she'd visit she wouldn't wear a bra, and that always bugged me cause guys would always stare. And she liked to wear these tight latex shorts that left nothing to the imagination. Her perfect legs curved up into her tight little ass. Every once in a while when I could get away with it, I'd give her a good ass smack. But now that she was out of high school, she was getting to old for that.
But, I couldn't help looking even though she was my daughter. Fuck, what the hell is going on with me? I mean she 'IS' my daughter for Christ sake. What am I thinking? I had to get a handle on that before it got out of hand. But an occasional glance never hurt anybody. I mean she was gorgeous for crying out loud. It was only natural. I'm a man like other men, sure I try to be a good Dad, but I'm still a man.
I stood there silent for a few moments; "I don't think we should keep secrets from your Mother." I said with folded arms.
"Dad, come on, it's no big deal. You've got to help me out here. I promise, if you ever need me to keep my mouth shut about something, I'll do it."
After a few more moments of deliberation, I frowned, "Okay, on one condition." You get a job this week. If you don't have a job by Thursday I'm telling your mother what happened."
"Thank you Daddy. Just give me a couple of days." Kate threw her arms around me, and kissed me on the lips. "I love you Daddy."
I love you too." I said.
And she was out the door.
That weekend, to distract myself, I took a free class on web design at the community center. I'd always been computer savvy. That was my strong point at work. If anyone ever had any computer problems, they'd come to me. So I enjoyed the class. I figured maybe I'd learn a new trade and do some freelance work to make some extra cash, since I knew Kate would only be paid minimum wage. It seemed like a good idea.
The weekend came and went. My wife and I barely spoke. She wondered where Kate was off too. I grunted. She's with Stacey. And that was about it. She'd been doing some project at work and it bleed over into the weekend. I just kept to myself, worked on my computer, and tried setting up a simple web site. It wasn't that difficult. The teacher even offered to give me advice over the phone, since I was the only one in the class who seemed to know what he was doing.
Kate came back Sunday night, and looked awful. She must have gone out all night, every night. I found out from a friend of Stacy's parents, that Stacey's parents were out of town for the weekend. She leaned in to give me a kiss on the lips and went straight to bed.
Monday rolled around, it was a holiday, and I forget which one and didn't really care. I actually wanted to go to work to get away from the house. But I'd be all right. Jann was leaving. She said she was behind schedule. She didn't even say goodbye. I didn't know what I was going to do once Kate moved out. It would be only a matter of months before I'd seriously started to consider divorce.
I got dressed and went to make my morning cup of coffee. As I rounded the corner of the hallway, Kate stepped out of her room in her bra and g-string bottoms. She was bending over to get a towel from the hall closet. Her cute little bottom was exposed as well as her cleavage bulging out of her two sizes to small bra. We definitely needed to go shopping. I hesitated, looking at her beautiful body, but then I kept on walking. She didn't see me until I gave her a quick slap on the ass. Her ass giggled.
"No walking around the house naked young lady, otherwise your mother will kill me."