Like any Father seeing his only Daughter off to college, I was full of a mix of overwhelming pride for how well she had done to get accepted to the University of Florida with a partial band scholarship. At the same time, there was also a real sadness for me because I knew how empty the house was going to feel while she was away. It made that feeling doubly worse since the relationship I had with my wife, Diane, had grown colder and colder with each passing year.
With our only son, Brett, already finished with college and moved to St. Pete to start a career and a family with his wife, my daughter Bethany, and I had developed a close relationship during her teenage years.
Diane and I had encouraged Bethany to play music during her adolescence and with her talent with the piano, flute and clarinet , she had garnered the attention from the right people and had earned the partial ride to the U of F.
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The short drive up on the 441 from our home in Orlando to Gainesville to drop Bethany off at her Freshman dorm was a very difficult one on many levels. There was barely a peep out of my wife Diane's mouth and even though Bethany and I tried to make small talk, the realization was clear to all of us that a chapter in each of our lives was ending.
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The searing late August heat made the two hour chore of helping Bethany unpack her stuff from the car and lugging it up the elevator to the 6th floor made my 43 year old body cringe from the overexertion.
Right as we were finishing getting Bethany settled inside her pitifully small dorm room, her roommate for the semester finally arrived. I was stunned from the moment I saw her.
Her name was Dannielle and as it turned out she was on a partial scholarship as well. She was a dancer and was going to try out for the Gator's dance team that performed during timeouts of the men's basketball games.
Dannielle was absolutely beautiful, almost 6 feet tall with a very cut, athletic body. It turned out she was half Italian, half Portuguese and had a strikingly dark olive skin tone. Combining that with the graceful way she seemed to glide across the room, it made it very difficult to take my eyes off of her.
As Dannielle and Bethany introduced themselves to each other, Diane and I gravitated to the other side of the room to give the girls some space. I could quickly tell Diane was acutely aware of where most of my attention had drifted from her even chillier disposition towards me.
After saying our 'goodbyes' and giving our last hugs and kisses, Diane and I made our way back out to the parking lot to head back to our 'empty nest' in Orlando. Hardly a word was spoken between us during the entire trip home.
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As the initial days of Bethany being away at school turned into weeks, my relationship with my wife deteriorated even more without the mutual interest and shared buffer that our daughter provided for so many years. On the rare occasion Diane and I had sex, I found myself closing my eyes tight, picturing Bethany's roommate Dannielle, while I was pounding my wife's cunt.
I fantasized about Danni's hard, trim, and toned body underneath me, her muscular dancer's legs wrapped like vices around my back as I tried my best to fuck Diane with all I had. There were a few times I had to stop myself at the last moment from screaming out Dannielle's name as I climaxed inside my wife of 21 years.
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I especially looked forward to the various holiday weekends that we had to drive to Gainesville to pick up Bethany and bring her home for the weekend. Those rare occasions provided for brief opportunites for me to see Dannielle and recharge my fantasy fodder for another couple of weeks.
Over Christmas, Bethany had informed her mother and me that Dannielle and a few other of her friends had decided to go to the Bahamas for Spring Break in mid March. Diane and I discussed it, but when Bethany had offered to pay for the whole thing and the fact that she was now 18 really prevented either of us from offering any serious resistance over her proposal.
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When Bethany went back to Gainesville in early January for the Spring Semester, when we got up to the room, we discovered that Dannielle was already back at school. When we walked up to Bethany's room to help her drop off her stuff, Dannielle was in the process of looking at herself in the full length mirror on her night stand. She was wearing her new, black spandex dance tights with matching blue and orange sequined top. It turned out to be her new dance team uniform she'd wear for all the home basketball games in the coming months. That image of Dannielle, standing in front of the mirror, rubbing her hips, thighs and chest, checking the garment for proper fit was etched in my mind for quite a long time.
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As January gave way to February, and February gave way to March, I made it a point every time I could to either watch or tape Florida's basketball games on TV and each time, sure enough, I got an occasional glance of Dannielle and her 15 or so dance partners as the TV station was coming back from a timeout. Once or twice when Diane wasn't home, I found myself masturbating to the sight of Danni and her nubile female teammates as they sashayed across the hardwood, rewinding the tape over and over, like a rabid nut, until I finally got myself off.
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At some point during that semester, Bethany had informed her Mom and I that she and Dannielle were planning on leasing an off campus townhouse for their Sophomore years of school. Remembering my distant college days, I understood how the initial fun of living on campus in a dorm can very quickly get old and that the desire for space and privacy can become a much needed resource. Diane and I fully endorsed Bethany's plan, and the fact that she was going to live another year with Dannielle didn't bother me in the least.
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