I guess it started when my wife died. That left me alone with my daughter, Misty. I tried my best to be strong for my daughter, but I was deeply, deeply depressed in reality.
That lasted for about a year. Then Misty moved out. She had turned eighteen and I think she needed to get away from my dark moods. I really fell apart then. Misty would come and visit me and she could see I had taken a huge turn for the worse. I think she must have felt guilty about moving out even though I didn't want her to feel that way.
Sometimes she would do my dishes or laundry and clean up around me. She would always try to cheer me up. She would play happy music on the radio and tell me funny things that had happened to her, trying to get me to laugh. But, I couldn't be helped. My heart wouldn't budge. It wasn't her fault. Sometimes she would get fed up and spend weeks away, but eventually, she always came back to check on me. She loved me even though I couldn't seem to love her back at that point in my life.
One day she came over and she let herself in when I failed to get up and open the door for her. It was about four in the afternoon, but I was in bed, drifting in and out of sleep. I was in the blackest of moods. My depression was so severe I couldn't move. I was paralyzed. I heard my daughter knocking, but I couldn't respond mentally, emotionally or physically.
I was half asleep, dreaming of my dead wife again, but heard Misty walk down the hall. I was half in my dream and half in my waking reality. Somehow I knew I was dreaming and was aware of what I was hearing at the same time, but I couldn't move. Misty's steps were tentative, almost fearful. Maybe she was afraid she would find me dead, I don't know. "Daddy?" came her soft girlish voice, trembling.
My back was to the open door, but I heard her steps reach the door and stop. She must have must have been watching me breathing. She didn't say anything at first, and then she repeated, "Dad? Victor?" but softer this time as if she wasn't expecting a reply.
I felt dead. I didn't reply. I didn't turn to look. I just lay there, unmoving. The dream of my wife was slipping away with the realization that it was just a dream and with that came the stark realization that she was dead, like I was experiencing her death all over again. There were no more thoughts of grief or anger or loss; there was only my black dead heart. I should have felt something for my daughter, but instead it was as if she wasn't there at all.
It so happened, in that moment, my dick was hard. It was just one of those hard-ons you get on awakening even though you don't remember any erotic dreams and you're not really thinking about sex, but you're hard anyway for no apparent reason. I should have been alarmed, but I wasn't even thinking about it. In that moment, I had no thoughts for my daughter or what she might feel.
I still didn't move when she climbed onto the bed behind me. She lay down on top of the blanket that was over me. I felt her slide up to my back, her abdomen, her soft little breasts, against my back, her knees against my thighs, spooning with me. She wrapped her arm around me with her hand against my stomach near my hard-on. "I love you Daddy," she whispered in my ear. "I want you to be happy again."
A decent man would have done something, but I didn't. I wasn't a decent man anymore. I was completely possessed by my self pity and self loathing. I ignored my daughter.
We lay there for I don't know how long, the warmth of her lithe body against mine, a blanket in between us, feeling each others' breathing.
"I would do anything to make you happy again," she whispered after a time.
Still I did not move or respond. I knew there was nothing she could do to bring my wife back. Nothing else mattered to me at that point in my life.
Then, she shifted her hand and her fingers brushed against the protrusion in the blanket caused by my erection. She brushed her fingers against it a second time as if she wasn't sure what she was feeling, then she felt it's shape through the blanket by running her fingers along its length. She drew her hand back instantly. "Oh, Dad!" she exclaimed, startled.
I felt her body move back from mine, but she was still on the bed. "Dad? Is that . . . is that your . . . penis?" she inquired, the word "penis" came out of her mouth awkwardly like she was trying to pronounce a strange word from a foreign language. "What's going on?" she asked with a hint of alarm, her voice stronger now, but still trembling with emotion.
"Dad?" she asked simply when I didn't respond. I felt her sit up to get a better view of my front side. Maybe she wasn't convinced it was really my penis because she reached around me again and flicked my hard dick with her finger. But still there must have been doubt against the obvious fact of it, because she wrapped her fingers around the blanket covering my penis feeling the shape of it. I felt my daughter's hand squeeze around me then, feeling my hardness. My penis twitched involuntarily in her grasp. "Ew!" she jerked back like she'd touched a poison viper, "you're hard!"
Finally, I was shocked out of my stupor. My dream was forgotten, replaced by shame and anger at myself for not stopping my daughter before she touched me. There was also fear, fear of what she would think of me. But undeniably, there was another feeling, maybe even stronger than my other feelingsβthe sexual shock of her touch. It had been such a long time since I had felt it, pleasure and excitement; no matter that it was my daughter's hand on me.
After a pause, she tried, "Dad, are you awake?" She shook me gently at my shoulder. I rolled on my back and looked at my daughter through half open eyes. Now on my back, my erection stood straight up, obscenely tenting the blanket over me.
"Dad, are you okay? I was worried about you." She was speaking to me, but I saw that her attention was on the tall tent pole under the blanket.
"I'm sorry Misty, I've just been so sad. I miss her so much."
She looked up at me then. "Oh Dad!" sadness was in her eyes. She lay down next to me, her head on my shoulder and her arm across my chest, "I miss her too."
"I'm so sorry I haven't been there for you Misty."
"Don't be sorry Dad. I love you. I just want you to be happy again. I wish I could make you happy."
"I wish I knew how to be happy again. I'm so sorry you had to see me like this." I felt useless and helpless in that moment. There I was with the most obscene erection, but feeling too paralyzed with depression to do anything about it while my 18 year old daughter hugged me pityingly.
"It's okay Dad, it's not your fault. I shouldn't have lay in bed with you. I should have known better, but I just wanted to hug you and make you feel good again. I didn't think. I guess it's been a long time since you've had a woman in bed with you. No wonder you're hard as a rock. It's my fault."
I shook my head at her, but I couldn't speak. I wanted to tell her it had nothing to do with her, that sometimes I just have an erection when I'm sleeping, but I didn't know how to say it to my daughter. The sadness in her eyes, in her voice, moved me and I began to tear up.