In the other bedroom, a different drama was taking place.
When Daniel showed up at his daughter's bedroom door, and after Jeremy had trotted off to service Shirley, Cheryl stood there in her baby-doll nightgown, arms at her hips.
"Daddy," she chided, "what are you doing in your underwear?"
"Well," he explained, "it's how I sleep! I never wear pajamas."
"Okay, fine," she said, suddenly losing interest. "Come on in."
"Come in?" he said, alarmed. "What—?"
"Daddy," she observed tartly, as if speaking to a dimwitted child, "you've just let my boyfriend take your place in your bedroom, and in your wife. So unless you intend to evict Meryl out of her bed, you'll presumably be sleeping here tonight."
Somehow the thought of where he was going to sleep tonight had never occurred to him. He entered the room with extreme caution, somehow feeling as if he was walking into a women's restroom.
He slipped at once into the bed, pulling up the covers up to his chin. Cheryl gave him a snide smirk, stalked over to the other side of the bed, tugged the sheets out of his hands, and not only got into bed but actually landed on top of her father.
"Jesus, Cheryl!" he cried. "What are you doing?"
"Oh, I thought we'd have a heart-to-heart talk," she said blandly.
"What about?"
"You—and Mom—and your girlfriend."
"She's not my girlfriend anymore! I haven't seen her in ages."
"Well, good for you. What's her name, anyway?"
"Brenda."
"Nice name. What exactly led you to, um, bop her?"
"Oh, God, Cheryl," Daniel cried in despair, "I don't know!"
"Is she pretty?"
"Sure, she's pretty."
"Look like me?" Cheryl said with a twinkle in her eye.
"Christ, no! What do you take me for?"
"Well, I gather she's only a few years older than me."
"She's twenty-six, I'll have you know. That's a
lot
older than you!"
"Yeah, all of eight years. But what—"
"Look, darling, I'm a scumbag for what I did. Let's just leave it at that, okay?"
"Daddy, you have to figure out
why
you did what you did! Otherwise you might do it again."
"I'm not going to do it again." He sighed. "But I'll tell you, your mom isn't the most, um, enthusiastic partner in bed."
"What do you mean by that?"
"You know what I mean. There are certain things she just won't do."
"Yeah, I think I heard. You mean this." She pointed to her own butt.
Daniel colored. "Yes, that's one thing. There are others. But the real problem is that after twenty years, you get to know someone so well that there really aren't a lot of mysteries anymore, in or out of the bedroom. And it didn't help that we tended to make love pretty much the same way every time."
"Oh, Daddy, that's so wrong!" Cheryl cried, almost as if he'd admitted to committing armed robbery. "Jeremy and I
never
make love the same way each time! We always vary the routine."
"That's easier said than done, dear. We were both working, and having to take care of the house, and all the rest of it. So a lot of times it was just easier to fall into a routine. And that result of
that
is that we didn't have sex all that often—maybe once a month, if that, toward the end."
"Once a month!" Cheryl said with a kind of horrified awe. "That's—nothing!"
"Well, it certainly wasn't satisfying. And I'll tell you something. Everyone needs regular sex, especially women. They get really crabby and irritable if they don't get it."
"Oh," Cheryl said angrily, "so you think that's how the nagging wife comes into being, is it?"
"I'm not saying that. And I'm not saying it wasn't my fault that all this happened. But that
is
what happened."
"And so you took your pleasure with someone new and fresh."
"It was just a temporary mistake! And God, have I paid for it."
"Yes, I guess you have. So you say that neither you nor Mom have had sex in, what, eight months?"
"Yes."
"Gee, that's awful. I can't imagine going that long without sex."
During this whole conversation, Daniel had been massaging his daughter's back and shoulders—and unconsciously slipping a hand lower and lower so that it veered on the edge of her bottom. And that had a certain awkward effect on his own anatomy.
Cheryl was quick to pick up on the change. With a chuckle, she flung aside the bedsheet, slipped off of her father, and gazed at the now distorted pair of boxer briefs he was wearing.
"What exactly have we here?" she said pungently.
"Cheryl, please!" Daniel cried, trying to cover his groin with a hand.
But she was not to be denied. Flinging his hand away, she peeled the briefs off of him and slid them down to his knees—and assessed the sight revealed to her eyes. She nodded with moderate approval.
"Gee, Daddy," she said, "I never knew you were so well endowed."
And before he could say or do anything else, she had engulfed at least half of his cock in her mouth. It was strange how his groan of shock and horror turned to a moan of pleasure. His eyes bugged out of his head as he took in the incredible sight of his daughter wrapping her lips around his organ, using her tongue to lick it up and down and using her small hand to stroke and tickle his large sac of testicles.
After a few minutes, Cheryl stopped her antics, and Daniel—with a weird mixture of relief and disappointment—figured she had come to her senses and would now behave herself. But instead, she rose up on her knees, gave her father an impish look, and whipped her short nightgown over her head and tossed it aside. Then, gazing at him with the justifiable pride of young womanhood, she let him drink in her exquisite beauty.
Daniel's jaw dropped as he absorbed the heavenly sight of Cheryl's succulent young breasts, her flat stomach, the thick dark hairs around her delta, and the rest of her gorgeous physique. He felt infused with a certain pride of his own.
My God! I had no idea I'd begotten such a ravishing creature!
But he was fundamentally a timid and weak-willed man; and even as he yearned to seize this quintessence of desirable femininity and "have his way with her," he remained frozen in horror at the thought of what society—to say nothing of the frightening virago who at this moment was being pummeled by this same creature's boyfriend—would say if he so much as touched his naked daughter.
So it was left to her to carry on with her obvious objective. She leaped onto her father's thighs and lifted up his quivering member, rubbing it vigorously against her pubic area. It was definitely thicker than Jeremy's endowment, and she wondered exactly how it would feel when she shoved it into herself.
As she rose up to do exactly that, Daniel made one more bow to conventional morality. "Jesus, Cheryl, you—you mustn't do that!"
She gave him a wry look. "And you're gonna stop me?"