Hi. I'm Jed Stevenson. I'm 42. I'm pretty good shape, having worked construction for the bulk of my life, but since I moved to management I'm starting to develop something of a dad bod. I've been married twice. Also divorced twice...evidently I spent too much time working when I should have been home taking care of my wife. Both of them left me for other men.
I have three children: Janice, Melony, and Grace. Janice, the oldest at 19, was the result of my first marriage with Caroline, the other two from my marriage with Renee. The kids, the ex-wives, and me all live within an hour's drive of each other.
I love all my kids. They're simply incredible. The two younger ones take after me in both looks and personality and I was lucky in that Renee's new husband was a pretty decent guy and set the same standards for them that I would have. Good grades in school, not getting in trouble, level heads, polite to people...I couldn't be more proud of them.
Janice...now Janice was a problem. I loved her, of course, but she was a wild child at heart like her mother. Always getting in trouble, hanging out with the wrong people, getting arrested at 16 for possession of pot. I'm ashamed to admit that I was shocked when she graduated high school. I honestly didn't think she'd make it that far, but I was happy that she did.
Another thing I'm ashamed to admit: she makes my dick hard as a rock.
Caroline kept her from me for the most part after we split. I saw Janice only very rarely, maybe once a year or once every other year, but when she turned 17 she started seeing me of her own accord. At that age, I was struck at how much she looked like her mother. She was almost a carbon-copy of Caroline, or rather a carbon-copy of Carline when she was that age. She was, for lack of a better term, thick...solid, not fat, and despite my attempts to not notice, her D-cup breasts and thick tanned thighs showed some polynesian heritage in her bloodline somewhere. She also had her mother's same pouty mouth, sultry eyes, and jet-black hair that had attracted me to her mother in the first place.
I was embarrassed and ashamed of my reaction, but didn't let it show. We met up more often over the next two years for an occasional lunch or dinner, and she'd started coming over to my house periodically to just hang out.
I was sitting at my desk in the trailer at the jobsite when my cell phone dinged. I checked the messages, it was from Janice.
"You home?"
"No, at work. What's up?" I typed in response.
"Have to talk to you. Need a favor, Daddy."
I frowned. She rarely called me "Daddy". In fact, after she turned 16 she seemed to go out of her way to avoid calling me "Daddy" or "Dad". She'd called me "Jed" a couple of times that brought a frown to my face, but I didn't say anything about it.
"Call me." I typed.
"Don't wanna talk over the phone about it."
"Ok. Come by the house after work."
"I'm already at your house. How soon can you get here?"
I looked at the clock: 2:30 PM. What the hell, there was nothing pressing at the jobsite and I could take off early one day. I let the leads know I was leaving, called the head office to tell them I had something to take care of at home, and left.
She was sitting in her car in my driveway when I arrived. She was texting furiously on her phone and must not have heard me pull up behind her. She actually jumped when I tapped on her window.
I smiled, pointed to the house, then walked up to the front door and unlocked it. Stepping inside, I left it open for Janice. She followed me in a minute later.
"So, what's up?" I asked, settling into my recliner as she flopped down on the couch.
"I need a favor," she said.
"You said that in your text. What favor do you need?" I asked. I hoped it wasn't money, because honestly I didn't trust her to not spend it on drugs or something equally stupid.
"I need a place to stay," she said.
"Something wrong at your mom's house?"
"Yeah, kinda," she replied.
There was a pregnant pause while I waited for her to explain, but she didn't.
"Ooookay," I said. If she wasn't going to explain, I wasn't going to force her to. "For how long?"
"I dunno," she said.
She was being really vague. She was my daughter and I loved her, but I didn't want to get dragged into some kind of drama between her and her mother. Plus, I was wary of having a 19 year old wild child having the run of my house.
"If there's problems at home, why don't you move out?" I asked.
She gave me an exasperated look. "What do you think I'm trying to do?"
Oh, yeah. "I mean, get your own place. You're 19, after all," I said, covering my embarrassment.
"I don't have any money or a job. I need to get out of that house NOW, but I don't have the means to," she said.
I sat there, considering, while she looked at me apprehensively. I felt I had an obligation to her as my daughter, but there was still the trust factor to consider. Eventually, I came to a decision.
"Ok," I said. A huge smile bloomed on her face.
"But there's conditions," I said, pointing my finger at her.
"Of course," she said quickly, her smile slipping a bit.
"First, no drugs in my house. Ever. And I mean that," I said. "No second chances if you break that rule."
What was left of her smile faded. "Jeez, I get busted for pot ONCE and I'm still paying the price for it. But that's not a problem. I'm SO done with that."
"Second, no strange guys over," I continued.
"I'm not dating anyone," she said quickly. "Hell, I haven't even fu...er, had sex in months."
At the mention of sex, I involuntarily flicked my eyes to her lush body then my face reddened as I realized what I was doing and quickly shifted my gaze back to her face, praying she didn't see where my eyes had gone.
"Third, you have to get a job. This is temporary until you're on your own feet."
"Yeah, I want to anyway," she said. "Get a job, that is. I have an interview on Thursday."