Ben Black and his twenty-one year old daughter Cynthia are having a steamy incestuous love affair. This affair has trouble Ben deeply all along. But now trouble looms on the horizon, something Ben may have never have expected.
Sitting in my office on the second floor I swing my chair around and I begin to day dream out the window. I watch as people come and go in and out of our building. I spot a familiar face walking towards the front door it was my daughter Cynthia.
I watch as she stops to chat to one of my younger colleagues for a moment before heading in. I wondered what had brought her here so early. Looking at my watch it was only 11:40am and I thought something must be amiss.
She knocked at my door and announced. "It's me dad, can I come in?"
"Sure, sure you can." I say. "I saw you talking to Joe Murray on the way in." I say as she entered.
"You mean you were watching me?" she replied in what I took to be a slightly angry tone.
"I didn't mean it that way Cynthia. Is everything ok?"
"I'm sorry I snapped dad. I'm not feeling so good today. And I came over to ask if I could take the car home?"
"That's fine honey, we all have our off days. Look, I don't have a lot on today so why don't I run you home. And I'll look after you for the evening."
"You don't really have to dad. I'm fine driving by myself."
"I don't mind pet, you are a funny colour. What kind of dad would I be if I didn't look after my little girl?" I say, as I kiss her on the head.
She sat down in my swivel chair, and just as she did as a little girl she sat staring out the window soulfully.
I wondered what was wrong? I hoped it was nothing too serious. Perhaps a cold I thought, she was shivering on the couch the other night after we. Well after we finished being intimate.
"Ok babe. Ready to go." I say.
We make our way to the car, and on the ride home she was unusually quite. Cynthia is a very bubbly girl, and most of the time I can hardly get a word in as she chats away to me. That's one of the things I loved about her, I loved listening to the sound of her voice.
We arrive home and I let us both in, I suggested she get into her night clothes and settle into bed for a rest. I told her I would bring some lemon tea as it was a good pick-me-up.
The phone rang as I was fixing her tea, I answered it, and it was a client who needed advice. I spent about twenty minutes talking to him; walking him through his new server and the command lines needed to carry out the newer operations we had built in.
After I had dealt with him I made the tea for my baby. And I headed down to our room and she was no place in sight, she wasn't in the bathroom as the door was open when I passed.
I called out to her and I got no reply. I noticed her room door was slightly opened and I went in.
I got a shock; there she was huddled up in the corner of her room with a childhood teddy bear clutched in her arms, and she was sobbing away to herself.
I had found her like this once before; after what her mother did to her many years ago.
I put the cup down and I knelt in front of her,I started to rub my fingers through her hair and I ask. "What's wrong Cynthia. What has happened?"
She threw her arms around my neck hugging me tightly. "Oh god dad," she sobbed "I think I'm pregnant!"
Well holy shit did my world begin to collapse around me as the shock hit me. Jesus Christ she told me she was on birth control, what the fuck happened I thought.
"Fuck it, I thought you were on the pill." I say, slightly raising my voice.
"I don't know dad, really I don't know."
"Were you taking it, were you really taking it Cynthia?" I probe.
A horrible thought popped into my head. Perhaps she wanted to get pregnant, perhaps in her own mind this was her way of making sure we'd be together.
"Of course I was fucking taking it dad. Do you think I wanted to get pregnant, is that what you think!" she snapped back angrily, as her tears rolled down her face.
Her eyes were now quite red and puffy from crying and I began to regret my last statement.
I made her sit on the bed and I sat down beside her, and placing her head in my lap she continued to cry, she was shaking like a leaf just like all those years ago. And an image filled my mind as I recalled the past events.
I came home that day to find my estranged wife had cut off all of Cynthia's beautiful hair with a scissors. I had found her just as she was today with her mother standing over her shouting "Your not a jezebel now are you?"
I grabbed the scissors from my wife and pushed her out the door. Cynthia was only ten I guess when it happened.