***This story has fantasy elements and includes mind control, mild reluctance, and body transformation. Pass this one up if it's not your thing. Hope you enjoy. It starts a little slow, but I hope you find once it heats up, it goes fast. Thanks for reading!
You don't necessarily need to read the first two chapters to enjoy this one.
-Penny***
"I'm gonna talk to her," Ian told Samantha over dinner. Forrest was out god knew where, and Lily was at that neighbor boy's house. Again.
"I'm worried about her, Ian. She's over there, like, a lot. And, what about poor Adam? I really liked him."
Ian frowned. "I told you there was something weird about them, but you had to send her over with 'a welcome to town' gift and now she's over there at least once a day. If not more. You know she didn't come home until like three last night?"
"She's an adult, Ian," Samantha reminded. "She's not a child just cause she still lives here. She can go where she will."
"It's still our house, Sammie. She can't just come and go as she pleases. There're rules." Ian shoved a bite of bread into his mouth at the look his wife shot him.
"Ian. She's an adult. I'm just worried, not because of the hours, I guess. She's changed so much in the last week. I mean, she's gone from a regular diet to a kinda off the deep end vegan diet. She loves cheese, Ian, and now she won't eat cheese."
"Loved," Ian reminded. "She's changed a lot and it's only been a week. I barely recognize her. It's like she's hazy, like, she's still her, but a spaced out version. Do you think she's doing drugs over there? I wouldn't put it past those weirdos."
Samantha bit her lower lip in thought, concern written on her face. "Don't be mean to her, okay? She'll close you out. I should talk to her, I'm her mother. I should talk to her, right?"
Ian fixed her with a flat stare. "Last time you tried to heart to heart our daughter neither of you talked for over a week..."
Samantha sighed. "I can't, she just frustrates me, like she knows exactly what buttons to press to piss me off. I think she does it on purpose."
"Yes, you both have tempers. It's like you're related or something."
Samantha frowned at him. "You know what I mean."
Ian chuckled. "I do. Just another reason why I love you, but Sammie, let me try first?"
She sighed again, then nodded. "You're right. You always are."
"Oh, let me hear that again, that last part. I love it when you say it..."
She smacked him. "What about Forrest? Should we be worried about him?"
He shrugged. "I dunno. He's in the 'wild oats sowing' stage, right?"
Samantha frowned at him. "So, it's bad if our daughter's found a new guy, but if our son is out 'sowing wild oats' it's perfectly fine?"
"I mean, no, of course not," he answered, too late to see the trap he'd fallen into to save himself. "I just meant-"
"Oh, I know what you meant," she snapped. "You're a hypocrite."
"Sammie, I didn't mean-"
"Whatever, Ian. Leave Lily alone for now, I'm sure she's just 'sowing her wild oats' or something with that green-haired boy." She pushed herself up from the table, then slammed her chair in and turned her back on him.
"Forrest can't get pregnant!" he exclaimed. "If she gets pregnant before she starts college-"
"You knocked me up in college," Samantha said, steel in her voice.
"Sammie!"
"And, Forrest is perfectly capable of doing the same to someone else's daughter," she continued, ignoring his protests.
"Sammie, I didn't-"
She left the room, ignoring him. She didn't even look back. He waited until he heard the top step creak before he mocked her, upset at the world his children lived in that he didn't understand. "Dammit, Sammie. 'Sowing her wild oats' my ass. She's gonna end up pregnant, and we're gonna have to take care of her, not that green-haired punk." He huffed, cleaning up both of their plates and dwelling on the fight.
There was no way he was backing down, Forrest knocking a girl up was at least a hundred times better than if Lily got pregnant with that punk's miscreant progeny. The kitchen door banged open behind him.
"Hey, dad," Forrest called, oblivious to his mood.
"Forrest, where the hell have you been?" It was stupid of him to ask, he could tell he'd just gotten off of work.
Forrest looked down at his grease-stained carharts then back to his father. "Working. Stayed late to finish up an emergency repair for the boss's stepdaughter. What's eating you? Is there dinner?"
Forrest headed to the fridge, not waiting for an answer.
"On your own for dinner," he grumbled as Forrest reached into the chilled depths. His son dug around inside for a moment, then pulled out the leftover kielbasa from the night before and shut the door. He didn't even heat them up, just took one out and began munching on it. "At least the new neighbor's haven't corrupted you yet."
"Ah, it's about Lily, then? You get in a fight with mom?" He flinched and Forrest nodded in understanding.
"Yeah," he said with a deep sigh. "I don't get it. She's not worried about Lily being over there all the time at all."
Forrest sat down at the table, still munching on the sausage. "She is, but she's not like you, and she likes to pick fights."
"She doesn't." Forrest fixed him with a flat stare. "Fine, she does, but I'm not wrong!"
"What does she think you're wrong about?"
He watched his son, head tilted to the side. "Since when have you been so... I dunno... Mature?"