"You heard me," she said. "Get down on your knees and lick my pussy."
I stared at her. At five foot eight she had several inches on me, but her body still had the rounded slenderness of youth, and I was certain that if she tried to assault me, my years of Pilates and Tae Bo would quickly overpower her. But she didn't step toward me at all, just held my gaze blankly, a little contemptuously.
"How dare you," I finally choked. "I give you a roof over your head, and this is how you act? I know the devil is in you, girl, and I rebuke you in the name of----"
"Shut up!" she snapped, and I did, stiffening suddenly. Just like I had when Craig snapped the same thing earlier that morning, as I was nagging over him while he was trying to get ready to fly out to the men's leadership conference. I glared at her, ashamed of my automatic silence, but unable to formulate a quick retort.
She sat back on the bed, and spread her long brown legs open lasciviously. The darker, creased skin between them glistened.
"Lick me," she said again.
"I am a decent Christian woman," I began, and she slapped her hand with sudden violence against her own thigh. The smack of flesh against flesh rang out so sharply that I flinched.
"You've been drooling over me whenever you thought I wasn't looking for thirty months," she said coolly. "Now I'm eighteen, and we're alone."
I stared at her again, trembling with a combination of rage at her disrespect, shame at being spoken to like this, and the overwhelming heat that was rushing all over my body at the sight of her glistening dark folds. She reached down with her fingers, and the soft squelches as she spread her labia, the faint aroma of her pronounced arousal, and the brilliant pink of her inner depths assaulted my senses. I took a step just to catch myself from falling over, and had trouble breathing.
"I taste good," she said, smiling as her eyes glittered maliciously. "Wanna see?"
And right in front of me, the shameless hussy thrust two fingers into her own pelvic hole, worked them for a moment, and then removed them, spreading them apart slightly so that moisture trailed between them in little pearly strings, and brought them to her mouth.
"Mmmm, delicious," she said, having never broken eye contact with me. "Hot young black pussy, all you can eat." She giggled, and swirled her tongue around her lips. "Or drink."
I took another staggering step toward her. I had no intention of doing anything like what she had told me to do. In fact, what I intended to do was to slap her across the face in punishment for her outrageous behavior and slanderous suggestions. But my hand would not raise for the blow.
"You--you----" I gasped, still shaking, unable to find words bad enough to describe the depths of depravity I was witnessing.
"I'm waiting," she said coolly. "When I tell you to lick my pussy, it's so extremely rude of you to dilly-dally like this. That's a demerit."
I flinched at this, at her throwing back in my face the language we had used in disciplining her when she first arrived from the foster system. Craig believed that the military academy he had graduated from (though he went into his father's business instead of the military) was the ideal adolescent disciplinary system, and although the demerits for rudeness, forgetfulness, or impatience and rewards for peacefulness, helpfulness and diction had somewhat tapered off once she had begun excelling at school, the whiteboard that tracked every demerit she had earned since entering our home at the age of fifteen was still up in the family room.
I felt hot tears coming to my eyes, but I could not weep in front of her. That would be such a shameful display of weakness. Fighting desperately, I chose to vent those emotions by screaming instead.
"You ungrateful brat! We did everything for you! We gave you every opportunity! And now you're acting like some cheap whore, doing these disgusting things, saying those perverted things about me.... I want you out of this house!"
I was standing over her now, shrieking hysterically, my arms waving. All at once her hands gripped my shoulders and pulled me down.
"Oh I'll leave today if you want me to," she said, her face suddenly close to mine, her hot sweet breath in my nostrils, the brown slick of her sweat-pearled upper lip all I could see. "But first, you're going to lick. My. Pussy."
I shook my head, but her grip on my shoulders strengthened, and I felt myself borne inexorably to my knees, my head lowering to her thighs.
"No," I sobbed, "no, you can't make me."
"I'm not making you," she said, in a soft singsong. "I'm helping you."
A hand gripped the back of my head, and pulled, and my open mouth was filled by salty-sweet flesh, slick with many and varied kinds of wet.
The moment I tasted her on my tongue was the same moment that I remembered telling her, years ago, in exactly the same words, that I wasn't
making
her go to school, I was helping her. I wasn't
making
her take off those hoochie shorts and wear a modest skirt, I was helping her. I wasn't
making
her clean the bathroom, I was helping her.
And just after that I heard my own words again, crooned in her singsong voice. "That's a good girl. Doesn't it feel nice to do what you've been asked?"
I struggled to unclamp my lips from her pudenda, and choked out, "I wasn't asked!"
"You never asked me either," she said, and pulled me back into herself. I felt her hips twitch beneath my mouth, and knew I was being used as a masturbation tool. The humiliation flooded my body, making my extremities glow with a rush of blood. My ears, my hands, my feet, my nipples all burned painfully.
How dare she do this to me? How dare she suggest that I had been "drooling" over her? If that was what she thought my sincere and devoted attempts to urge her towards modesty in dress and speech had been.... Of course, being ever vigilant against the permissiveness of her upbringing meant having to watch her closely, meant having to remind her every time I could see too much of her skin showing, meant hovering by the cracked bathroom door whenever she took a shower to be sure she wasn't exhibiting vanity in the mirror or indulging in any covert masturbation.
The obscene moisture of her loins was flooding my mouth now, and if I was not going to drown I had to swallow some of it. Her entire body shuddered at my gulp, and she gasped aloud,