I'm not crazy.
Parenting is tough; ask any mother or father, they'll tell you the same. There's the financial side of things, and the time allotment; worrying if you'll have enough money to stay afloat with a kid to take care of, worrying if you'll have enough time to raise them right before they grow up. There's the responsibility, knowing that you have the next generation of your species under your care; no pressure. Of course, there's the worrying, knowing how dangerous the world can be and how totally unprotected your child really is; take your eyes off your kid for a second, fucking anything can happen.
Being a single parent carries its own set of challenges, obviously. It's ALL on you. No partner to shoulder the load with, no secondary income, no second set of eyes to look out for danger or hands to help out. It's you or nobody.
I am not crazy.
My name is...well, irrelevant. This story isn't really about me, y'see. It's about my daughter; her name is Cassandra, or Cassie for short. Her mother and I never married, we just had a lot of great sex that paused momentarily when we found out she was pregnant, and paused again during the birth. After a few weeks of further sex, I woke up to find her gone, her stuff gone, half my damn bank account gone, and a note saying that she had left. She left Cassie with me, I'm assuming because it would have been hard for her to find a new super-dick with a baby on her arm; as big as her breasts filled up after the pregnancy, I'm guessing that she was already getting laid by the time I found the note. Tramp.
Took me a while to get my shit together after that. Wasn't easy; took me five years to get my money back in order, and about as long to learn how to go two days without some grade-A pussy getting stretched to my balls. For a few months, I really lost sight of things; all I really remember is that we had to move after a night of my blackout drinking, and that my neighbor's nude garden statues looked like someone had dumped a couple truckloads of vanilla pudding over them. C'est la vi.
I'm really not crazy.
I shaped up, though. Wildly gratuitous sex has always been my only real vice, and I hid it pretty damn well in the new town we moved to. Found a nice open-species area with half-beasts like me, anthros like Cassie's mother, even a few full-flesh humans. Still, being what I am, I picked up on the usual rumors flying around as I moved in. 'Have you seen the guy moving in down the street? Bigass satyr with a little cow girl! Wonder how that happened?'
Did I mention that already? Sorry. I am a satyr; a supposedly-mythological blend of man and goat. I'm a particularly big specimen, seven feet tall, 220 pounds, and if I say so myself, hard as a coffin nail. Thick, shaggy black goat legs and hooves, olive-skinned human upper body, swept back horns, a short tail, a generous amount of chest fur, a goatee (naturally)...suffice to say that it's never been hard to get noticed if I wanted.
Cassie has half of all that; her other half came from her mother, who was an anthropomorphic cow I met on a dairy farm. To summarize, she's one half goat-stud, one half cow-scamp. Can you SEE the sleepless nights I had when she was a baby, wondering just what the hell I was going to do when boys started taking notice of her? And trust me, THAT shit started practically the day we moved. At five years old, my little girl was already so goddamn pretty and so quickly-bloomed that I could see the whites of boys' eyes staring at her two blocks away.
I am NOT crazy.
School; shopping; sports; dentists; doctors; friends; parties; vacations; crying; laughing; fighting; playing; teaching...thirteen years passed by in a blur, and Cassie seemed to grow non-stop through the whole decade. By the time she turned eighteen, I had grown somewhat used to the difficulties of raising a future bombshell; yearly doctor's check-ups informed me that she was still a virgin, but that wouldn't last. Satyrs, you see, have something of a genetic block in them; our young have different body chemistries than mature satyrs, which keeps them from feeling the wild urges that we grown-ups have to deal with. Around 18 or 19, the body chemistry changes, and within a month, they're feeling the full weight of their sexual needs. Fortunately, another block keeps them sterile until around 24-25, when most satyrs have themselves under better control; otherwise, we'd probably populate the whole damn planet.
Cassie is only half satyr, though; her other half comes from a bovine harlot who informed me that she had lost her virginity at an age that shocked even me. I had suspected that Cassie had been feeling at least some of her urges for years. The signs were there; the permafrost of boyfriends' phone numbers on her bedroom floor, the whispering, giggling, late-night video chats, the occasional snooping glance at her internet history...all signs that my daughter was going to do her parents proud in the very near future, by maturing into a tremendously popular harlot.
You may be thinking to yourself, 'Proud? Your daughter is setting up to be a cock-sock and you're proud? Horrible father! Disgraceful man!' Well, kinda. Bear in mind, to my people, sex isn't just natural and productive; it's damn near an olympic event, and as my Greek ancestors started the olympics, I think I know what I'm talking about. I spent a decade and a half more or less chaste to better concentrate my time and energy on Cassie...but in the privacy of my own home, I absolutely wrecked myself any chance I got. I set world records in almost every aspect of masturbation, denied myself proposals from gorgeous women because I wanted to make my daughter the only meaningful person in my life. I taught her everything I could while she was young, but when she turned eighteen, the simple fact was that I had to address the lingerie-clad elephant in the room.
I needed to give Cassie the Talk.
Not the 'use a condom every time' talk, because frankly, I have never be able to say that sentence without falling over laughing. We satyrs have an immune system that could shrug off HIV-infused herpes like water off a duck's back, and since Cassie's a hybrid, I'm not sure she can even get pregnant; not easily, anyway. No, the Talk I'm talking about is one we satyrs reserve for our own kind; something to help our young come to grips with the instincts bubbling up in them. Satyrs, by default, have sexual urges that put rabbits to shame; we love sex, more than damn near anything or anyone. The fact that I love my daughter enough to abstain for almost eighteen years is the kind of stuff that other satyrs talk about with a lot of shocked gasping involved. To a race of sex-mad deviants, abstinence is tantamount to psychosis.
It occurred to me as I walked in my front door that my abstinence might also make the Talk a bit hypocritical; kind of a 'Do as I say, not as I do' situation. I was prepared, though...had my little gym bag full of visual aids, my speech ready, I'd made sure to schedule an open Friday afternoon...I turned the corner into the living room ready as ready could be, and then...