All characters in this story are adults. This story includes consensual sex, and light drug use. All characters are 19 or older. Feel free to comment, and offer tips to improve my writing. Enjoy!
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Dean heard the girls talking and giggling in the kitchen. They were chatting about some guy that had tried and failed to get either of their attention under the auspice of needing a date for Valentine's Day. Dean sighed and tried to shut them out of his brain. The movie's opening sequence had started and all he wanted was a quiet night watching this new movie.
After a few more minutes, their voices invaded his relaxation again as he overheard Erica offer Kelly a marijuana edible before they headed upstairs to Kelly's room, to braid their hair, or paint their toe nails, or whatever. He just wanted them to head on up.
Kelly walked into the living room with her friend Erica in tow. Dean paused his movie and looked at them and smiled. He was semi-reclined in his favorite chair, a beer in the cupholder.
"What cha watchin'?" asked Kelly.
"That movie you told me everyone is watching," he replied.
"Oh, cool" said Kelly. "Let me know what you think."
"I will. Headed to bed?"
"Maybe, we just ate an edible, so we'll see how it goes," said Kelly.
"You want one?" offered Erica. "They will help you mellow out."
Dean shifted his gaze to Erica, and tilted his head as he considered her offer.
"Erica, do I look like I need to be more mellow tonight?" he asked.
"No, you look fine," said Erica, with a wink.
Dean's eyebrows furrowed. Did she just... nah.
"Later gator," exclaimed Kelly. She bent over and kissed him on the cheek.
"Nite honey," he said reaching up to give a hug in return.
Next Erica stepped up and said, "good-night Dad."
Erica also leaned in to give him a kiss on the cheek. She placed her hand on his thigh for balance. Dean also gave her a quick hug, but unlike with Kelly, Erica's subtle perfume activated something deep inside him. Before he could say or do anything, though, the girls were gone.
After a brief consideration of the interaction with Erica, he dismissed his suspicions. He unpaused his movie and settled in for the duration.
Dean was living his best single-Dad life. Kelly was a wonderful daughter who doted on him. He loved her more than anyone else. Her friend Erica had been a fixture in his house since the girls' sophomore year in high school. Because she had become so comfortable being around him, and because Dean had treated her with love and respect for so many years, she called him "Dad," too. It was a little bit of an inside joke, but Dean did nothing to discourage it.
In middle school and into high school, Erica had been fairly plain looking, in spite of her athletic prowess as a cheerleader. She didn't dress flashy, and didn't date. Things changed after she went on a family trip to visit relatives in Europe the summer of her junior year. When she came back, Erica had blossomed.
The once plain girl had gone from being a perky A-cup to a generous B-cup. Gone was the acne. Gone were the conservative clothes. She now wore, low-cut tops and miniskirts. She started wearing nylon stockings, sometimes showing off an inch of suspenders if her skirt was on the shorter size.
Recently, in the past few months, Dean had gotten an unusually sexy vibe from Erica. He wasn't sure how to interpret it, often second-guessing what had happened. There were a few encounters where Dean walked into a room only to have Erica bend of over to pick something up, or retrieve an object from a lower drawer in the kitchen.
These encounters usually resulted in Erica exposing her panties under a short skirt, or the deep cleavage of her breasts. One time, Erica didn't even have a bra on and her loose-fitting t-shirt hung low, exposing her nipple to Dean. The glimpses were always brief, and Erica never reacted like she knew they had happened. For his part, Dean always felt a little guilty for the indiscretion.
The movie was nearing the two hour mark and Dean was nursing his fourth beer on an empty stomach. The IPA was 8% abv, so he had a decent buzz started. He took a long drink, then let a short burp go.
"That was well brought up. Were you?"
Dean's head snapped to the right. Erica was standing in the door looking a little mischievous. She was wearing an over-sized t-shirt: his t-shirt! It wasn't obvious what she had on under it.
"I thought you'd be in bed by now," said Dean, trying hard to look impassive at her appearance.
"I can't sleep, so I thought I would come down and hang with you."
"So, Kelly is asleep?"
"Yeah, she's dead to the world. You know how deeply she sleeps, plus the edible I gave her is for sleep."
"But you had one, too," said Dean. "Don't they help you sleep?"
"I didn't take the sleep-kind."
Steve's internal alarm system was starting to sound off. There was danger here: sexy danger. Erica was playing at something.
"You're welcome to watch the rest of the movie with me. It's coming to the climax, but it's pretty scary. Lot's of supernatural stuff, jump scares, gory scenes. You know," said Dean.
"Oh. I don't want nightmares."
"Right, because you were terrified when you and Kelly binged all of the Scream series in one day."
"That's different. It's just a slasher franchise. This stuff you are watching really does scare me."
"There's a blanket on the sofa you can hide under," suggested Dean.
"I'd rather rather sit with you," said Erica.