Content Disclosure:
This chapter has elements that falls under Erotic Couplings too. Since it consists of erotic foreplay.
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Chapter 6
Michael! Just think about the extent I put out there as your pretty-little-date. Pay up!
That's what I wrote after hitting send. There it is... I let out an exhilarated sigh.
I'd told him what I thought. He didn't fuck me that day. After another round of a finger fuck, he zipped and buttoned my pants back up. Bastard, he edged me.
Soon, I threw my phone onto my bed and left my room, heading downstairs. I found Mom and Dad. Mom was helping him walk. Dad was lucid, mostly, but when his eyes landed on me, I saw oblivion.
"U-uh?..." His speech faded as he turned to Mom. She gave him a reassuring nod and told him I was his daughter, then led him back to the living room sofa.
I reached out and helped steady his shaky steps. His condition was advancing, affecting his speech. When he sat down, Mom left us and went to the kitchen. I wanted Daddy to notice me, not this. Like some fucked-up Electra complex where I'm competing with my mom for Dad's attention. It was what it was. She cheated behind his back. I chose to stay with him.
My enthusiasm flickered to life when I was near him again, so I kept calling him "Daddy" in a way I knew he could understand, as if chanting to somehow pull him back from whatever distant place he was in. He turned to me. I stretched my lips into a bright smile--the kind of bright smile someone puts on when they're looking forward to seeing someone, an amateur attempt like that. Then his eyes flickered, a glimpse of recognition. When I caught it, I threw myself at him in a hug.
He chuckled and called me by my childhood nickname once more. Wrapped in his once bulky arms, which are now just skin and bones. He swung me side to side in his embrace like the good old days of bear-hugging Daddy. The best comfort of my life is knowing I'll never be scared of ghosts when Dad is there.
I giggled, closed my eyes, and savored the moment, knowing it would only last a few minutes before he stiffened back into that state.
I pulled away right as the moment passed, collecting my composure, telling myself I'm no longer Daddy's little girl. I had to stand up, separate myself from the man who raised me, to call myself an adult woman. I had to give him a resolved, serene smile, or else I'd break apart.
I did. Soon after, his attention was absorbed by the television. Old films, The Godfather or Jackie Chan's Police Story, played brightly on the screen. I headed to the kitchen for a snack to take upstairs, when I saw my mother sitting there, watching Dad's back.
I ignored her.
"If you're still mad about Rob, let me tell you, he and I are over," she blurted out into the spacious room.
My eyes scanned the snacks first. Then I went to the water dispenser for some water. "Why on earth are you telling me that now?"
"To ease some of that spite you carry around," came her reply.
I put the glass under the dispenser while the water flowed. "If you're asking for forgiveness, don't ask me. Ask your husband. You're the one who has to look him in the eye every day. My opinion doesn't matter; you're still my mother."
I took a long drink during the heavy silence. "You're still the mother who raised us, raised this family. But you have lost my respect as a woman." I turned my back to her, got more water, and walked back toward my room.
"You're a woman now? Yet you still live under my ro--"
"Shut up," I hissed, tilting my head sideways before walking away. I left her there.
After laying out my snacks, I checked my phone. Mike's reply popped up. And it really didn't help my mood:
Come over to my house, rlly. There's nthn much goin' on here, we could Netflix and chill.
I replied: Damn it! Alright. Pick me up, show yourself to mom and dad. Your turn to do some acting.
He's really ingratiating sometimes. Just when I thought he'd hold up his end of the bargain, he keeps taking these detours that avoid what we actually agreed on.
I chewed my snacks--fried corn, a freaking biscuit cracker, along with a Fanta and the water I'd tediously fetched from that living purgatory, with St. Peter probably watching the deed. I sat Indian style, chewing mindlessly until I decided to watch something on YouTube.
I was watching AI and the Nvidia stock crash issue when I heard my father's voice, suddenly lively. Then he was laughing, followed by a continuous buzz of chatter, as if he was catching up on stories with someone. Intrigued, I stood up from my bed, mouth full, and peeked out the door.
Michael was there, leaning forward in his seat, elbows planted on his knees, listening and vibing with my Dad. He'd arrived? I got back into bed and checked my phone. Just a single typed letter: "K." Lazy ass.
Then my mother came into view and gave the two men some sort of hospitable offering--coffee or beer? No fucking idea. Only her hostess persona would know. I deemed it perfect timing to give them notice before I left. So I packed my snacks tightly into my drawer, drank some water to wash down what I was chewing, and walked down to the living room.
"Oh! Here's Katarina," my father turned to me. Okay, which timeline was he lucid in now? "Child, you're on holiday or are you s-still working on your th-thesis?"
Oh.
"Holiday, Dad," was my terse reply.
"Now, you l-let my nurse drive you to p-places you might n-need to visit, just in case," he said, giving Mike's shoulder a tap.
I gave a hollow smile. "Sure."
"Oh, that's the catch, Mr. Nievez," Mike responded, with a quick snap of his fingers, "I was about to ask if I could take her out."
My mouth snorted. "The fuck is this? High school?"
Mike's beautiful, relaxed features wiped into deadpan dismay. He slowly turned to look at me. "Should I kidnap your daughter instead, Mr. Nievez?"
"You may," Dad said.
Huh?! What the fuck?! "Dad, how could you? You're selling me out?" I cried.
"Go on already, Katarina." My mother's footsteps drew closer. "Alfred, let's get you to sleep. It's already late," she said, wrapping her arms around my father's back as she started to guide him to walk.
"Late? Luisa we s-should see th-them off," Dad replied, and laughed, lively again. "Or s-shouldn't I br-brush first?"
"Oh, right." Mom slapped her forehead playfully. "How could I forget?"
"S-seems like you're the one w-who forgets," Dad said, laboring his breath slightly as he continued, "and not me," before laughing again.
Uhm. Awkward? Or just plain Dad jokes?
Old people and their humor.
Mike, however, chuckled. My head whipped upwards, looking at him in disbelief. "Quite a boost, Mr. Nievez," he played along.
My mother, however, tutted and dissuaded them both until they stopped.
Mike and I finally got out of the house. He started the engine when I blurted out, "How 'bout we go to Mamita's and buy some of those disposable underwear?"
Mike stifled a cough, straining his throat. He left the engine running while he massaged his throat. I watched that masculine bobbing Adam's apple, girls. "Shit, Kat," he winced before coughing again. "It's not like you came commando, right?"
I shrugged nonchalantly. "What if it's soiled, like the last time you did?" I told him.
He paused to look at me, adjusted his posture, and started accelerating. "You want Rosana to see it?"
"Sure," I shot back. "Lay out the condoms, lubes, and pills--oh fuck, pills. Shit." My mind spiraled. I looked up and saw his focus was back on the road. "We can't have sex. Damn... I want it raw."
Mike closed his eyes and tilted his head up as if praying. "Heaven help me, Katarina. Is there any way to soften the blows that come out of your mouth?"
"But I don't want a plastic wrapped cock," I murmured. "I might as well go for a dildo."
He made an exasperated sigh. His eyes stayed fixed ahead as he swerved the steering wheel slightly. "So you're not really that desperate for sex, are you? Chill. We could still have a good time."
"No. I'm thinking of an IUD."
Mike turned to me. "That far?"
I nodded. "Yeah. As long as you get tested." My head rose, and I gave him a conniving smile. "Who knows if you're really Mr. Goody Two-Shoes after all," I taunted. "I heard it from your Mama."
"Fuck that. How 'bout you? You never keep your activities a secret."
I made a terse nod. "Game. I'll give you my shit, get that fuckin' IUD, and if I find your results bad, I'll fucking leave you."
He smirked and scoffed. "Nasty bitch, aren't we? You stick to your game, alright? Consistent with your views on a man's dick."
"I never lie," I informed him.
"Wait then," he countered back. "You get a wrapped dick if you want it now, or nothing."
"If I want to blow you now, does it need to be wrapped?"
A smirk crawled onto Mike's lips, his eyes darkening slightly but staying fixed on the road. "Nice," he murmured. "Later, though. Don't want reckless driving to be my first crime."
I made an exasperated sound and dropped it. We got out at Mamita's store, and no, Mike stopped me from buying those panties or condoms or lube. Damn it. He said he had them packed.
See? The man clearly has FWBs.
But ugh. Guess I'm getting a wrapped dick then. Well, so much for asking. I should get that IUD if I want to get what I want out of Mike. Heh...
That should stay on my list.