"My vagina really hurts, Daddy."
Steven Cole stood beside Macy's bed. The baby he had met over a decade ago had flowered into a beautiful eighteen-year-old girl. Like the nineteen-year-old Ruth, she was slim.
Macy's vagina hurt.
Steven had seen it before, but that had been a long time ago. Before they had grown breasts and started their periods.
Macy and Ruth weren't little girls anymore.
A comforter covered Macy's legs. Had she removed her blue jeans and panties? If Steven moved the comforter aside, what would he see?
"I should take you to a doctor," Steven said, as Macy's blonde hair rested against the pillow. Her blue-eyed gaze roamed his body.
Her mother had been blonde-haired and blue-eyed, too.
Meanwhile, Ruth had brown hair and brown eyes. Like her father, a man who acted like a threat to his daughters was a threat to him.
"No!" Macy said. She sat up. "No. No doctors. I want you to help me deal with this. I need my daddy."
The blinds. They were shut, just like Ruth's bedroom door.
Was she asleep? Had Macy told her about the vaginal pain issue?
"Did you talk to Ruth about this?" Steven said.
"No," Macy replied. "Ruth is sleeping. And I don't want her to know about it. There's only one person who can get rid of this problem."
Steven worked an office job. He wasn't a renowned vagina doctor, yet there was always one thing people could blame vagina pain on.
"Are you on your period?" Steven asked.
"No, thank God," Macy said.
Steven ran a hand through his brown hair. Macy couldn't blame her vaginal pain on her menstrual cycle.
"I think--"
"Check it out for me," Macy said. Her breath shivered, as if she planned on showing her dad something that might make him flee the room. "Check my... vagina. You saw it before."
"That was different, Macy. You're older now. No dad needs to see his teenager's private area."
"No dad should let his daughter suffer like this."
Steven's sigh was heavy.
"You're right," he said.
"I'm in pain, too," Macy responded, as her hands pressed against the comforter. Past it was her problem's source: an aching vagina. "But my daddy is going to help me out. Right?"
"I'll..." Steven said. "I'll help you. Yeah."
Macy lay on the bed again.
"You're a good daddy," she said.
She grabbed the comforter, and moved it aside.
Steven's pulse quickened. But blue jeans covered Macy's crotch. Her sore area, that remained unseen.
She was barefoot, but not bottomless. That needed to change.
"My pants are still on," Macy said. She fiddled with her white hoodie's zipper. "Sorry about that."
Steven waited for Macy to get bottomless.
"You have to take off your pants," he said. "And your underwear. Are your hands hurting, too?"
"You take them off," Macy said.
"Why?"
If Steven's hands removed Macy's pants and panties, that would make him seem like a man who was too eager to see his daughter's vagina. She needed to get her pants and panties off by herself.
Steven wasn't an incest-craving pervert.
"Just do it," Macy said. She patted her crotch. "It hurts. I really need you right now. Please, Daddy."
The last sentence made Steven's reluctance melt like ice cream in a vat of acid. Macy had put her words to good use, and Steven needed to do the same with his hands.
"Okay, baby," Steven said. "Daddy is going to help you."
He moved onto the bed.
A long time ago, he had stood beside his bed and removed Macy's diaper. That girl was eighteen and Steven prepared to take off her pants. Her panties would come off soon after that.
Steven unbuttoned Macy's blue jeans.
"Come on," she said. She propped herself onto her elbows. "Are your hands hurting? Unzip my pants."
Steven unzipped her pants.
And white panties came into view, but Macy's jeans weren't off.
Panties. No big deal.
Steven hooked his thumbs into his daughter's panties.
"Okay," Steven said. "Now you have to lift your butt off the bed, then I'll get your pants and underwear out of the way."
"Wait, wait, wait," Macy said, as her dad clung to her jeans and panties. The skin on her hips warmed his thumbs. "Just wait for a little bit."
"I thought this is what you wanted."
"I do want it. But I'm not like Ruth. She wouldn't be so..."
"Hesitant," Steven said. "Nervous. It's okay. And it's not too late for me to take you to a doctor."
Macy shook her head.
"No doctors," she said. "I need my daddy."
She tapped her fingers against her stomach.
"Okay, I'm ready," Macy said.
She lifted her butt off the bed. With shaking hands, Steven slid Macy's jeans and panties past her ass.
When her butt was on the bed again, Macy said, "Look at it."
She tossed her pants and panties onto the floor. How many times had Steven glimpsed Ruth's thongs? Was she still asleep?
Macy spread her legs.
Kneeling, Steven inspected his daughter's vagina. Was he like a gynecologist? Or was he more like a pervert who smiled after checking out teenagers' vaginas?
"It looks fine," Steven said.
Macy lacked pubic hair. Had she shaved her hair down there earlier?
Steven had gone into her room after hearing her call for him. That had led to him standing beside her bed, and now he checked her private area.
He hadn't seen her grimace today.
"Are you really in pain, Macy?" Steven said.
"Are you calling me a liar, Daddy?" Macy replied. "Do you think I would lie about something as embarrassing as this?"
"Ruth is the one who hates showing her pain. You, though..." Steven said. "Well, you let your pain be known. I haven't heard you groan or anything. You're not wincing. I don't see a grimace on your face, either. It's like you're not in any pain at all."
"You're calling me a liar."
Whether or not Macy had lied, the truth was that Steven kneeled not far from her private area. Her exposed vagina.
"I'm not calling you a liar, I just..." Steven said.
"My vagina hurts and you think I'm lying about it," Macy said. "You're my father. You're supposed to help me."
Steven grimaced, as if Macy had kicked him in the balls. Her words had stung. They might as well have been a strike to the nuts.
"I know," Steven said. "I know."
He squeezed his hair. How had he gotten into this situation, clutching his brown hair while his daughter spread her naked legs?