This is a story that I dreamed up to get myself back into writing erotica. It was supposed to be a short, single installment but the length seems more appropriately broken into a few chapters. Enjoy!
Daniel Sunner looked up from his magazine as his daughter, Tasha, entered the kitchen, opened the pantry, surveyed the contents, closed the pantry, and left the room for the third time in as many hours. He called after her, "Tash, you OK hun?"
After a few moments, she slipped back into the room and tried to reassure him, "Yeah, I'm OK. I just feel... I dunno. I keep thinking I'm hungry and it's making it hard to focus."
'
Her eyes are definitely darker than normal
,' Daniel observed with a little thrill of excitement. Aloud he said, "Well, maybe it's time to take a break? It's only 6:30, we could watch a movie or play a game."
"Uh, a movie maybe?" she replied, "I really want to finish this paper so I can hang out with Abbie tomorrow. As you know, we have a well documented history of losing track of time once the board games come out." He'd been the one left unprepared after their last unplanned, marathon game night.
"Sure, you want to start a bowl of popcorn and I'll see what we've got on the ol' tube? Anything you want to watch?" Daniel pushed back from the kitchen counter while talking and dog-eared the page he'd been reading.
Tasha was already pulling out the popcorn, "Action? Thriller? Something intense to grab my brain, and not too long."
Daniel clicked his tongue to indicate he'd heard her and strode to the living room. He turned on the TV and quickly scrolled through his phone for the list of movies he'd prepared and quickly pared it down to Tash's genre selection while opening the first streaming app on the menu. The popcorn started popping in the microwave while he checked which movies were available where. Once the cacophony had stopped, he called out, "
Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Atomic Blonde, Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction, Deep Water, Fear
,..."
"Mmm, any shorter than the others?" came Tasha's response.
"Not really," Daniel noted, "Maybe