Mike was frustrated. He hadn't gotten laid in close to a year and hearing his 18 year old son, Ben, fucking all the hot young girls he brings home isn't helping.
Mike remembered what it was like to be Ben's age, though he had already knocked up 2 chicks before he turned 19. Ben's mom, Carrie, and his daughter Ruby's mom, Heather had been the only 2 girls Mike had dated before giving up on finding a woman that wasn't going to rip his heart out.
Mike had been screwing Heather for a few months after graduation and thought he was in love and that she was 'the one'. She was sexy as hell with long dirty blonde hair, big tits and a tight, round ass. But, she was wild and he foolishly thought he could tame her. He caught her fucking one of her coworkers when he picked her up after a closing shift at the pizza shop she was working at. Heather had begged him to forgive her then gave him the best blow job of his life, so he let it slide.
For a couple weeks, she acted like a loving, devoted girlfriend, fucking his brains out wherever and whenever. Mike fell for it, already planning their wedding in the back of his mind. Then, at a house party with their friends, he opened the bathroom door to find her on her knees with some random guy's cock in her mouth. Mike even let that go, chalking it up to being young and drunk. After all, she was fucking hot and she said she wanted to spend her life with him.
The third time she cheated, he'd had enough. She begged for him to come back to her but instead, he started fucking Carrie. Carrie and Heather had been best friends while Mike was dating Heather, but something happened between the two of them and they grew to hate each other. Carrie probably thought that fucking Mike would piss off Heather, so she gladly hopped on his cock the moment he offered. And it was true; Heather was furious. Her rage drove him deeper into Carrie's arms (and thighs). Mike started to think that Carrie would stay with him forever, but once again, he was absolutely fucking wrong.
After a few hot and heavy months with Carrie, Heather found out she was pregnant. Mike of course didn't think it was his since she was fucking around the whole time, but they got a paternity test once Ruby was born and it that Heather was right. Just before Ruby was born, Mike learned that Carrie was also pregnant. Carrie told him she wasn't sure who the father was because she had been banging her boss through their entire relationship. Mike was livid. He didn't even suspect that she had been fucking around. Mike demanded a paternity test and sure enough, he was Ben's father.
Mike was a good father to both of his kids despite his hatred of their lying, two-timing mothers. He kept his job in construction and applied for every promotion that came his way so he could send the child support checks every week. He took both Ben and Ruby every other weekend. He bit his tongue when Carrie and Heather brought man after man into his kids' lives.
Carrie had dumped Ben with Mike when Ben was 5, taking off to follow some religious creep around the country and eventually ending up in jail. Mike eventually got full custody and Carrie was out of their life for good.
Despite the shit with Carrie, Mike still hated Heather the most. She pushed Mike out of Ruby's life as much as the courts would allow, making being Ruby's father almost unbearable. Eventually, Heather moved out of state when Ruby was 8. In the past 10 years, he and Ben had only seen her a few times though they always sent her a gift and called on holidays and her birthday.
The last time he saw Ruby in person, she was 14 and getting into trouble in school. Apparently, she had been caught smoking pot with a group of losers she called her friends, then she got arrested for shoplifting and spent a weekend in juvie. Mike never knew how much of what Heather said was true since she loved drama, but he knew something was going on with his daughter. Ruby's grades were dropping, which Mike confirmed was true when he got a copy of her report card. She had been suspended twice for getting into fights and ended up getting expelled after assaulting a male teacher. Without asking Mike, Heather enrolled Ruby in some fancy military training school, which Mike of course had to pay half of. Thankfully he was making pretty good money now as a foreman of the construction company he had been working for since he was 16.
Mike was so grateful that Ben had turned into a pretty cool son and that Carrie was out of the picture. Recently they had been fighting about what Ben was going to do now since he had graduated high school with an impressive GPA. Ben was a high school sports superstar, and Mike had expected him to apply for sports scholarships but Ben had dragged his feet until it was too late to enroll in the fall semester. Mike had gotten him a job at the construction company and Ben helped out with the bills and mortgage while he figured his shit out.
By the time Ruby graduated her disciplinary school, Heather had moved in with a new man and didn't want Ruby coming back. Since Ruby was 18, Heather told her to find a job and get her own place. Mike wanted both of his kids to go to college, so he told Ruby she could come stay with him as long as she enrolled in the community college nearby.
Mike didn't really want a teenage girl living in his and Ben's bachelor pad, but he didn't want Ruby out there getting mixed up in drugs or knocked up at 18 or 19 like Heather and Carrie. Ben was also pissed, worried that he would have to share his bathroom with a sister he barely knew or that Ruby would hamper his sex life. Mike told him he could move out if he didn't want to share, so Ben shut up and begrudgingly accepted the situation.
On the Saturday that Ruby arrived, Mike picked her up at the train station around 5pm. It was cold and rainy, one of the last storms before summer would come blazing in. Since he hadn't seen his daughter in 4 years, he wasn't sure he would recognize her easily. Once he parked his truck, he called her cell to see if she was waiting inside.
"Hey, dad," she said in an exasperated tone. Mike could hear the rain hitting something plastic, likely an umbrella.
"Hey, Ruby Cube, where are ya?" he asked. She hated the pet name but he thought it was funny when she rolled her eyes at him.
"Standing outside. I have the red umbrella."
Mike spotted a pair of pink Converse sneakers and soaked jeans clinging to skinny legs peeking out from under a red umbrella. Shitty choice of attire, he thought.
"Ok, I see ya. I'll pull the truck up. It's the silver Colorado."
He pulled up to the curb and grabbed her heavy roller suitcase and hot pink backpack and tossed them into the covered bed of the truck. Ruby ran for the passenger side door and hopped up into the cab, shaking off her umbrella then tossing it into the back seat.
Mike got in the truck and looked at his daughter, drenched from the rain with a look of total annoyance on her face. Her long, wet hair was tied back into a ponytail and she had a black baseball cap with the logo of her school pulled down low on her forehead. Her black oversized hoodie hung off her narrow shoulders.
"Couldn't find your raincoat? Or rain boots?" he teased, eyeing her water-laden sneakers as he put the truck in drive and headed home.
"Har har, you're so funny," she said and rolled her eyes, pulling the seatbelt across her.
Mike pulled out and tried his best to make small talk, asking about school and if she made friends. She gave short, one word answers as she stared straight ahead. He caught her glancing over at him a few times, but Mike figured she was just nervous since they hadn't had much of a relationship lately.
Twenty minutes later, they were home and Mike lugged her bags into the garage to let them drip onto the concrete instead of his carpeted floors.
"You hungry, Rubes? I got some steaks or burgers I can cook up."
