I was forty years old when I had my mid-life crisis. My wife and I got divorced. I was a mess. I felt like a failure, like I had wasted my life and that no-one could want me. I was depressed so my thinking wasn't clear. I just felt. And my feelings were that I had somehow become irrelevant
My wife and I had married young, she got pregnant with our first daughter and we tried our best to make it work. It did work for years, but the cracks really began to show after girl number two.
He cracks became chasms then oceans of silence and regret.
When my eldest daughter went to college I guess it was a breaking point. We didn't last a month before Marina wanted to divorce.
I floundered for a while and we had a horrible Christmas when Charlotte came home from school. I heard myself whining and feeling sorry for myself, but I couldn't seem to stop.
Then when Charlotte left I began to get mad. After months of feeling sorry for myself I grew angry and determined not to waste my life mourning. I reinvested my energy into improving my life rather than thinking it was over. I went to the gym and through myself into work and spent a lot of time with my old friends, many of whom knew exactly what I was going through.
I felt better than I had in years.
During Spring Break when my daughter came home from University she brought a friend with her.
The first time I saw Kris I essentially dismissed her. She was really cute, but she was a surly looking emo kid. I was coming to pick up Charlotte to go for dinner. We hadn't seen each other since that awful Christmas as a broken family and I was eager to make up for my shitty mood and whining behavior.
Kris was on my old front lawn. For a second I though she was Char and I panicked. She had dark black hair a ski hat, leather jacket and tight skinny jeans. Her skin was pale and she looked ill.
She was the picture of a rebellious teen. Charlotte was blond and more of a cheerleader type like her mother, but my first thought was that Char was rebelling because of the divorce.
As I walked up this surly vision of teen angst looked up at me and I saw that it wasn't my daughter. The relief turned to curiosity.
Char had spoken of her friend, Kris, who had no place to go for the break from school. She had asked if Marina and I would let Kris stay with us during the break. Charlotte was going to join in on the shared living that Marina and I were doing with Keela our younger child, splitting the week between our homes.
It would be tight with four in my new place, but there were enough beds and a couch so the girls could have their own rooms and I would couch it. I didn't care, I just wanted to make it up to Char for the divorce and the depression I'd had before so I agreed.
I had assumed that this Kris would be like Char and her friends from high school. Fun, kind, lighthearted girls.
I had not expected anyone like Kris.
The person who most came to mind when I saw her was that girl from those Twilight movies. Like that girl in her posters, Kris showed little expression as I walked toward her. She watched me blandly, her face a porcelain mask.
I thought she was really pretty, her eyes were a pale blue that I found arresting, and they were lined heavily with black mascara. Her skin was pale in a peaches and cream way. Her hair poker straight, to the shoulder and dyed black.
In the two seconds I had to observe her as I moved up the walk to the house I felt the first real stirring of sexual desire I had felt in months. Something about the level open stare she gave me, the near blankness to her gaze made me want to see her feel passion.
Kris was petite, maybe five three, and thin. Her legs were long and lean, her waist small, her hips showed above her belt and her stomach was flat and smooth. I couldn't see her breasts under a loose t-shirt and open jacket, but there were no prominent bumps so I assumed her tits were small.
Her size brought the word "Elfin" to mind.
"Hi. You must be Kris. I'm Charlotte's Dad, Cody Baxter." I reached out and offered my hand. She took it took and we shook, her tiny hand warm and soft in my own. She was clearly a little shy, but not cripplingly so.
I felt like a creep staring at this girl but something about her was really intriguing me. She was so unlike my wife, who was blond, tall and bubbly. At least she was with other people. Not me.
Just as it was beginning to feel awkward, the two of us holding hands too long and not talking, Charlotte and Keela came out of the house with their weekend bags.
"Daddy!" Charlotte cried and threw herself into my suddenly free hands. It was so gratifying having my daughter so happy to see me. In that moment I forgot about those early stirrings of lust for Kris and basked in the glow of first one then the other of my daughters squeezing me and loving me.
We all piled into the car and went to my apartment. We goofed around and I could tell the girls were pleased that I had fully decorated and cleaned the place up. We laughed as we ate supper and it felt like Christmas had never happened; that the divorce hadn't ripped our lives apart.
Over the course of the night my lust for Kris grew larger. She was shy, and slow to join into our well established jokes and banter, but when she did pipe up she had a sharp acerbic wit that once the bomb landed made us all howl with laughter.
We all got into pajamas to watch a movie the girls had brought and Kris put on tight yoga pants and a tank top. Her breasts were small, but tight and her nipples poked through the thin material of her tank top. Her legs were shapely and her ass looked fantastic in her pants. I really had to focus on not staring at her.
My girls were snuggled on the couch, I sat in my lounger and Kris stretched out on the floor in front of the T.V. I watched her in the glow of my big screen and memorized the curves of her body, quite enjoying the first flush of lust I had felt in months.
When the film was over Kris was fast asleep. Charlotte was reluctant to wake her so we gave her my blankets and let her lay where she was. As we brushed out teeth getting ready for bed, the girls giggling, getting that late-night-trying-to-be-quiet sort of giddiness that was so infectious. We agreed that I would stay on the couch in case Kris woke up and wanted to go to her bed.
I took another blanket and stretched out on the couch as quietly as I could and settled in for a sleep that proved elusive.
I was happy that the night had gone so well with Charlotte, and I was grateful for her love and understanding as I pulled myself out of my marriage, but much of my wakeful energy came from the sleeping girl laying on the floor three feet from me.
Confession time.
I had only ever been with three women in my life. A blowjob in high-school, one lover in college before Marina and then Marina herself. None of those women had been anything like Kris, but she had gotten under my skin. Her low voice, her pale skin, her pale eyes and dark hair, the way she curled in on herself and seemed so shy, yet with a real inner strength, it all compelled me to reach out and touch her soft skin.
As she lay so close, her breathing soft, yet loud in the silent room I wished she would come to me on the couch and lie with me. It was crazy, but I started to imagine her sucking my cock in the dark of my living room with my daughters down the hall and it got me fully hard in seconds.