She had always been curious. That's what he loved about her.
As a child, she always had a question. Why was the sky blue? Why did kitties meow, but dogs barked? Who got to decide what constituted a family?
Well, okay, that last one was more his question than hers. But it was a question that bothered him more and more every passing day. He had loved her mother. There was nothing he wouldn't have done for her. So when Sherry died last April from complications to her diabetes, he promised he would watch over Missy. She didn't even have to ask. Missy had been his every priority since he met the precocious eight year old.
But she wasn't eight anymore.
Carl watched her cross the yard, walking toward him in her skimpy bikini, her flip-flops in her hand. No, definitely not eight anymore. She looked every inch of her twenty-four years.
But still family.
They hadn't spent much time together in the last five years, not since Missy went off to college in Arizona and then got a job in Los Angeles. He'd somehow missed the sudden development of her high, perky breasts, the gentle curve of her hips. Not until the funeral did he realize just how grown up Missy had become.
It had been a hard year. Missy came home whenever she could, worried about him being all alone in this big house. He always sent her away, assuring her that he was fine. The truth was: he wasn't fine.
He rarely left the house. There just seemed to be no reason. He worked from home and all the parties and other socializing he and Sherry had done seemed to stop with her death. They had all been her friends, her colleagues. Besides, when he did go out, all he could feel was their pity.
He didn't want pity.
He wanted Sherry back.
Instead, he had the constant reminder of her beautiful daughter.
Last night, Carl accidentally walked into the bathroom as Missy was preparing for a shower. He caught himself before he saw anything, but the soft smile on her lips haunted him for hours afterward. And then this morning...her question.
"Have you ever had anal sex?"
She asked it out of the blue, shocking Carl with her audacity. He looked at her over his morning coffee, the newspaper still spread out in front of him. "What kind of question is that?" he asked.
She shrugged. "Just curious."
He shook his head, turning his attention back to the paper. "I'm not discussing my sex life with you."
"It was mom's, too," she said quietly.
Carl looked up again. "Did she talk to you about it?"
"Sometimes." She bit her full bottom lip, her eyes filling with tears. "She was always honest with me about everything, even the uncomfortable things."
Properly chastised, Carl put his coffee cup down. "Why do you want to know? About anal sex?"
She scratched at something stuck to the table top. "I justβI was dating this guy a few months back and he said he wouldn't do it because it wasn't something that turned straight guys on. I was just wondering if that was true."
"It's not," Carl said, a memory of Sherry, her petite little ass bent over this very table, floating slowly through his mind. "Some straight men enjoy it very much."
"Do you?"
Carl shrugged, but he was sure the smile on his lips gave away his unspoken answer.
Now, as he watched Missy come toward him, he found himself wondering how a man could not want to fuck that tight little ass. Missy's ass was higher, fuller than Sherry's had been, but they had an uncanny similarity in the curve of their hips, the fullness of their breasts. Sometimes, like now, Carl would look at Missy's breasts and his palms would itch so badly for Sherry's perfect mounds that he would have to turn away until he could get himself under control.
"You okay?" Missy asked, stepping onto the porch behind Carl and running a hand over his back.
"Fine," he croaked, aware of the pulsing of his cock at her mere touch. He shifted, tugging at his shorts in an attempt to both relieve some pressure and hide his obvious erection.
"You're not," Missy insisted, concern in her voice. "Tell me what's wrong."
"Nothing."
Carl stepped forward, trying to escape her insistent touch, but the grill blocked his path. The meat he had just dropped on the grill billowed with smoke that burned his eyes. He turned sideways to avoid the smoke, accidently pressing himself against Missy where she had also stepped sideways.
"Oh!" she said in surprise as his erection pressed into her bare hip.