Summary
Bethan's back from her first term away at uni; freshly-pierced, freshly-tattooed and now, it seems... freshly-bisexual. And what better way to shock everyone back home than showing off her sassy, rebellious, dreadlocked new girlfriend Emily? But when they visit her old school friend Jadie, it's Bethan and Emily who'll get a shock. And Jim might just have something to do with that...
Jim's had his ups and downs in life; a parent at sixteen, an orphan at eighteen and a widower at twenty-four. Now, at thirty-five, he's a proud father, a successful businessman and a trusted neighbour. That last one might not be for much longer, mind. Something to do with his, ahem, unusual relationship with the girl next door.
That would be Jadie. She's heartbreakingly cute, disarmingly funny and fearsomely intelligent. Having grown up with internet access and all that entails, she's also preternaturally knowledgeable β not to mention utterly uninhibited β about sex. In short, she's the nineteen-year-old that every modern man secretly fantasises about. And Jim's been head-over-heels in love with her since that rainy afternoon eight months ago when she 'lost' her house keys and ended up in his bed.
Since they've been together, Jim's come to expect the unexpected. Even so, he didn't expect to find her quite so insatiable when he went round to see her earlier on. He definitely didn't expect Bethan and Emily to turn up and catch them, ah, in flagrante on the kitchen table. And, well, he would never in a million years have expected Jadie to invite the two girls to stay and... watch.
Is Jadie just not thinking straight because she's horny? It wouldn't be the first time. Or is she, once again, two steps ahead of Jim; that ferocious intellect of hers combining with her fierce love for him to take their relationship to places he could never have imagined?
Contents
Introduction: January 17th 2014
Part 1: A Serious Case of Middle-Class-Rebel-Girl
Part 2: Good Girl's Back
Part 3: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Kitchen
Part 4: Coitus Interrupted
Part 5: Watching the Watchers
Part 6: I Want One Like That, Now
Part 7: That Awkward Moment
Part 8: Is That Even a Thing?
Epilogue
Introduction: January 17th 2014
My name's Jim Baines. But hey, you knew that already, right? What else you already know about me probably depends on whether you've read any of my previous story:
Indecent Descent
. In four episodes, that told the tale of my decline into moral turpitude: my journey from responsible, decent father to morally-bankrupt, teen-deflowering reprobate... with my teenage daughter's best friend playing the starring role.
She still
is
playing a starring role; in the story you're about to read and, well, in my life. I'm not going to go through all the details again of how that ridiculous state of affairs came to be. If you're really that interested, you can track down Episode One online; that pretty much covers how it all started. So, for the purposes of this story, I'll cut it right down to just the key facts. Sure, there'll be things which don't seem to make a lot of sense; probably times when you'll go "Huh?" and other times when you'll just stare at the page incredulously and think, "Oh, for God's sake... you expect me to believe that?"
That won't necessarily be because you're missing any vital information from not having read the previous episodes, though. That'll be more to do with the frankly unbelievable nature of what you'll be reading.
I
don't
expect you to believe it, though. Not any more. God knows I wrote enough of that I-know-you-won't-believe-me-but-I-swear-it's-true monologue stuff in Indecent Descent. Now that I'm back and writing again, a few months later... I'm kind of past all that. I know this stuff happened. The others involved; they know it happened. But well, I think it's better for
you
just to treat this whole story as the fantasy you'll undoubtedly believe it to be. We'll all be happy, then.
But hey, even a fantasy needs some factual details though, right? So, here we go again. Let's do a few of those right now.
You know my name. Well, actually, that's not quite true. Jim Baines? That's not my
real
surname, of course. Some of the other names have been altered, too. I don't want you stalking me, or anyone else involved for that matter. But most of the other factual details? Yeah, they're true. Some minor geographical and biographical adjustments just to keep the more-determined of you off our scent, for sure. But in the main, everything else is fact.
So. I'm now thirty-five years old. I live in Chelmsford with my daughter. I own and run a bespoke engineering business which has done remarkably well in recent times, so I'm actually pretty well-off these days. I'm English. White. Nearly, but not quite, six feet tall. Eleven and a half stone. Blue eyes. Brown hair, and plenty of it; not even a hint of MPB yet.
I'm blessed with a pretty-decent masculine body; I eat well, keep myself fit and stay in trim. This time last year I wouldn't have said that I was a particularly good-looking guy but recent events have persuaded me that I must be, really. So, yeah, maybe I'm cuter than I thought. And I don't
look
like I'm thirty-five, apparently. Whatever thirty-five is, you know,
supposed
to look like to nineteen-year-old girls.
Yeah, nineteen-year-old girls. My daughter, for starters: Kiera. I know, I know; you're doing the maths right now, aren't you? Yes, I really was a father at sixteen. That... well, that doesn't matter now. Like I said, if you really want the details of all this stuff, you can find them elsewhere.
For now, all you need to know is that she's grown up to be a stunning, intelligent, elegant young woman who's currently taking a year out to work and save up some money before she goes off to university later this year. Like any father, I'm fiercely proud of her. She's had some shit to deal with in her life. Recently, that's been mostly of my making.
I said girls, plural, though didn't I? And yes, there have been a few others who've featured in my life in recent times β Kiera's friends, mainly. Some have featured more, ah, heavily than others. Jess, Becky, Madison; they've all had stories which have intertwined with mine. Especially Maddy's little, um, unexpected suggestion last summer; that was a story all of its own. And Bethan, of course; she's going to pop up in the little tale you're about to read, along with her... companion.
But there's one of Kiera's friends in particular who... well, if I said she was now my
fiancΓ©e
then that just cuts straight to the chase, doesn't it? Her name's Jadie. She was β still is, incredibly, however hard that might be to believe β Kiera's best friend. She's lived next-door to us since she and Kiera were eight. And, since the rainy April afternoon a few months ago when she unexpectedly ended up in my bed, she and I have maintained a crazily-intense, secretive relationship that's turned my world completely upside-down.
I should perhaps point out that the ending-up-in-bed thing was unexpected to
me
. For her... not so much. You don't need to know about all that, now, though. Like I said, you can read about that elsewhere.
I guess you do need to know that I am still insanely, madly in love with her. So much so, that I proposed to her in November. Yeah. Love. Marriage. Not the sorts of words you expect to read in
this
sort of story are they? But, there they are anyway. For ten years I'd never imagined that I'd ever be married again; never thought that anyone could fill the gaping chasm carved in my heart when Katie β my beautiful wife and mother to Kiera β was taken from me.
But, somehow, Jadie has filled that chasm. She's more than filled it, to be honest. She's...
healed
it. But still... marriage? That does feel kinda weird, given that even now the only other person who even