Every Boy Needs a Dad
And every dad needs a boy
All characters in this story who engage in sexual activity are over eighteen when they do so. This is fiction. Any resemblance to real places is arbitrary and literary. This is kind of a reverse of the typical Literotica Daddy story. Arguably there is incest. If that bothers you, skip the story. I've tried a little different format this time--a longer story, cut into chapters, but submitted for publishing all at once. Β©Copyright, 2025, Brunosden. All rights reserved.
1
I was almost fourteen when Dad died; eighth grade had just begun. Since I am an only child, he was my best friend, playmate and confidante. From the time I can even remember, he was always very physical with his affection. When I was a toddler, he carried me everywhere. Later, when we walked together, his arm was always over my shoulder. And we didn't "shake"; we hugged. He coached T-ball and Little League, soccer, and was the one to get up early to take me to swim practice--even on those cold winter mornings in Quincy. Maybe he was compensating for Mom's coolness, but I didn't realize it at the time. I loved him like no one else in my life. We were best friends.
He and Mom had married young--she was only 18 when she had me. He was several years older. It was probably a forced marriage. They married when she graduated high school and I was born the following August. He was a master plumber, like his Dad, my grandfather. Mom went to nursing school and is now an OR nurse--typically working three 12-hours shifts a week, plus being on call for emergencies. So we were okay financially. His life insurance paid off the house mortgage--so we had a place to stay--even though it's small with only two bedrooms--the third is the TV room. At least I've got my own bath. And Mom got some sort of monthly government payment for me--until my last birthday.
I was devastated when he died. It was a quick illness. He went to the doctor complaining of stomach pains, and he was dead six weeks later from an aggressive cancer that had gone undiagnosed for too long. Mom blamed herself and went into a long period of depression. She got help and medicines. I did not. I was lonelier than I had ever been in my life.
Various dads (and moms) in the neighborhood tried to pick up the slack--so I continued in all of the youth athletics. School had always been easy for me. So, even if I slacked off, it didn't make much difference. At first some of my closest friends at school backed off--maybe afraid that my bad luck would rub off on them. But a few stuck around, particularly two swim team buds.
I'm a senior now. It's been five years and I just celebrated my eighteenth birthday--August 2nd. Dad is now just a long-ago memory who haunts my dreams every now and then. I've given up baseball and soccer--except as part of gym class, but I've kept up the swimming and added diving. I'm All-State in breast and butterfly, but just mediocre on the spring board and the platform. In fact, at my last meet in the spring, I set a new junior record for breast and came close to doing so in the butterfly. I keep up the diving because I relish the challenge and sheer and unadulterated terror of leaping from such high platforms and boards, headlong into nothingness. It's the highest I ever get--and it keeps me alive.
I'm probably headed to Williams next year. Their swim team coach has promised--although nothing is final yet. Until I get the acceptance letter, it's just a promise. For safety, I'm applying to a few other Boston area schools.
Coaches have repeatedly told me that I've got a swimmer's body--not a diving body. My arms are long. I've got great delts and pecs. And my thighs are well-developed. And I've got the deeply concaved gut of a breast stroke and the wide shoulders of the butterfly. So I'm not one of those ultra-slim Chinese needles who can slip into the pool without a splash. I'm six-three, deeply tanned from July to December with the typical Speedo white anti-shadow--and white, white from January to June when we practice indoors. I'm a tow head, but my crew cut means that the hair is mostly blonde at the roots. Based on laptop porn and the pool locker rooms and showers, I would say that I'm bigger than average, cut and a shower. I've never been embarrassed in front of teammates by my size--and I know that I get glances from time to time, from women and men, when I appear in competition.
After Dad died, Mom's brother, Jim came by often. He attended some of my meets, and often took us all to dinner. I really liked Jim, and I even occasionally fantasized about having him around more. He was terrific guy, apparently happy and free, making good money and so much more upbeat that Mom. He looked nothing like Dad, but I admired him nonetheless.
About two years after Dad died, Mom began to date a guy that Jim had brought around from his office on one of our dinner dates. He and Mom hit it off, and they went out a few times. After a few months, he moved in. And, Jim faded away. I was sorry to see him go. He was fun and easy to talk to.
But, I guess Mom and Jeff didn't work out--and he left in December before I could really get to know him at all. After he was gone, I decided he was sort of creepy anyway. He had showed up for a few of my meets and had appeared in the locker room afterwards when we were changing. He seemed unusually interested in the young boy flesh on display. At home, I would occasionally catch him staring at my basket or my ass. In fact, there were times when he seemed more interested in me than Mom. He seemed to touch me often, and not only when he greeted. He stayed over a few nights, and left after breakfast, even when she left early. On those days he'd appear for breakfast bare-chested and wearing only tight bikini briefs. He had slept in her bed, but something seemed off. As I said, he creeped me out.