All characters are over eighteen years old.
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I came home from the gym to find my teenaged daughter, Cassie, sitting on the couch, reading a magazine. She looked up when I came in and I could immediately tell I was in for some drama. If Cassie didn't have a smile on her lovely face, something was wrong. Since it was just the two of us living in my house, I was the only one she could vent on.
"Hi Daddy," she said.
"Hi yourself."
I tried to act normal while I waited for the storm to hit. I went and grabbed some lemonade from the fridge.
"I'm so bored!" Cassie said, throwing down her magazine.
"Well... it's Friday night. Aren't you doing something with Kayla?"
"No."
"Tasha?"
"No."
"Um... Dawn?"
"No! I hate all of them! God, why are you asking so many questions?"
With that, Cassie stormed up to her room while I sighed and finished my juice. After a few minutes, I followed her upstairs.
"Cassie?" I called through her door. "Can I come in?"
"No!"
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"No!"
"Alright."
I got in the shower and let the hot water wash the sweat off me. I was just finishing up with the body wash when I heard Cassie come in to the bathroom. This wasn't an unusual thing to have happen, as Cassie often came in to talk while I was in the shower. I'm not sure why that was, though I suspect that it had something to do with having a captive audience. My shower stall had a frosted glass wall, so she couldn't really see me naked, and she usually left around the time that I turned the water off.
"I'm sorry I yelled at you, Daddy. I just get so irritated."
"With me?"
"No, with the kids at school. You know what Dawn called me today? Right in front of everyone? Cassie Colt-Legs. You should have heard them laughing. Hiiiii-larious, I'll tell you."
"Why did she call you that?"
"Why do you think? Cause I have the body of a freakin' twelve year old."
I opened the door a crack so I could look my daughter in the eye. She was very thin, it was true, and hadn't developed as much as her friends. She wore an A-cup bra, and had narrow hips and yes, coltish legs. On the other hand she had lovely, light brown eyes and some of the best bone structure I'd ever seen. She had the prettiest angelic face, with full lips and a gorgeous smile.
"Cassie, you're a beautiful girl. I don't want to hear any different out of you do you understand?"
"Thanks, Daddy. I just... wish I was more of a woman."
I closed the door again and started finishing up my shower.
"It's not just big tits that make a girl a woman, angel. Besides, you're not even out of high school; who knows how you'll turn out."
"Tasha says I won't hit puberty till college."
"Yeah, well Tasha's getting fat."
Cassie giggled at this as I turned off the water. I opened the shower door enough to reach for my towel, and Cassie was leaving as I thought she would be. I opened the door the rest of the way as she was exiting the room, but unexpectedly she turned and looked back at me.
I was standing there, naked and dripping, in front of my own daughter. Her mouth opened a bit in surprise when she saw me, and her eyes drifted down to my cock. I covered up with the towel, but I wasn't in a hurry about it. In truth, I spend a lot of time in the weight room, and I take a typical gym rat's pride in how I look naked.
"I..." Cassie seemed to forget the rest of what she wanted to say, and just turned and exited, closing the bathroom door behind her. I immediately regretted not covering up faster, but then I just shrugged and dismissed the thought altogether. She was the one who liked to talk while I was in the shower, and besides she'd really only seen me for a second.
Cassie's mom had left when she was about seven, and was now living on the east coast with a succession of different men. Over the years, her contact with our daughter had grown less and less frequent, and now she wasn't really a part of our lives at all. Cassie held a lot of resentment towards her, but she had also done her best to fill in for her at home. This was ironic because her mom had been lazy around the house and terrible in the kitchen, and Cassie wasn't either of these things. She kept the condo we shared spotless, and she put a lot of love into the dinners she'd make for us. Maybe she was trying to be the woman her mother should have been, I can't say for sure. She was the best little "wife" I could have asked for, though. I know some teenagers give their parents a really hard time, but Cassie was my angel. She took care of me as much as I took care of her.
Tonight, though, my little girl was very pensive as she ate her spinach salad. She hadn't said a word the whole meal.
"Want some wine?" I asked. Cassie looked up and smiled. I didn't often let her drink, but this seemed like a decent night for it. I went and opened us up a bottle of a crisp pinot grigio and brought it back to the table.
Cassie finished her first serving of wine pretty quickly, and held out her glass to me. I shook my head as I filled it for her.
"Okay, but this is all, and only because it's not a school night."
"Yes, Daddy. Mmm... it's so good. Just what I wanted."
"Are you still upset about that thing Dawn said?"
"No. Maybe. I don't know."
"Kids are cruel, baby girl. You know that."
"I know, but we're not really kids anymore. I don't know why she always wants to tear me down so much."
"Because you're a beautiful girl and it threatens her."
Cassie laughed and took another drink. "I doubt it. She's got a great ass and big boobs and the guys are always falling all over her."
"Spend a lot of time looking at her ass, do you?"
"Daddy..."
"Sorry, angel. You are beautiful, though, and you'll grow into yourself."
"Not every girl does."