"Cow."
Adam glanced to the roadside where his daughter Nicole had raised a finger as they glided past yet another dairy farm, and a saw small herd of Hershey cows standing at a fence, as if watching the car traffic along Highway 55.
"Yes," Adam nodded. "Those are cows."
"Good girl!"
He playfully patted her leg, which flinched slightly outwards. Neither of them actually ever noticed this, but whenever he patted his daughter on the leg, her leg reflexively shot out an inch, an imperceptible parting of the thighs, as though her leg was moving instinctively towards his touch.
"Now, can you spell it?" he said, playfully.
"V.A.C.H.E"
"Vake?" he frowned.
"Vash," she said, correcting his pronunciation. ""Le vache."
Ah," he said. "Look at you, smartypants. Spelling in French."
"How are the French classes going, by the way?"
"I should have taken Spanish. That's how they're going."
"Tough, huh?"
"Qui."
"Well, can't help you there, I'm afraid. Math? Sure. Science. Yes. But I can barely spell in English let alone French."
Adam was an engineer who worked for the city of Chicago's waterworks department. A real left-hemisphere kind of guy.
"Maybe your mom can help you with that. She speaks a little French."
"Oh yeah," Nicole said in a mock tone, and then turned dramatically in her seat and spoke into the back seat of the car.
"Hey mom, can you help me with my French?"
She then looked at her father in mock surprise.
"Hey! Where's mom?"
"Ha-ha," he said dryly.
She turned back and slumped into her seat and began twirling a lock of her hair.
"What a cunt."
"Hey!" Adam said. "Watch the language."
"Well?" she looked at him pointedly. "Seriously. Her own brother's funeral. Her own fucking brother and she's not coming."
It had been a last minute decision. They had been assured that Kate's estranged sister, Monica, would not be at the funeral. She had never forgiven her sister for marrying her high school boyfriend, Bryce. And when Kate's father had died a few years ago, Monica had swooped in and claimed many of the antiques and paintings that he had amassed over the years. She had never forgiven her sister, and when she found out that, after all, Monica and Bryce would be coming to the funeral, she found an excuse at the last minute not to come.
"You know how much she suffers when she gets her migraines," Adam said.
"Dad, mom doesn't GET migraine headaches, she IS a migraine headache."
She wondered how often her father had heard "not tonight, dear - I have a headache" from her mother.
"That's not fair," he said.
"Even if it's true," Nicole said. "Her own brother? Take a fucking pill and suck it up. You know how bad this looks?"
"Well, at least you are coming, "he said. "Thank you, by the way."
"Why would I not come? I loved Uncle Dave. He was a sweetheart."
In fact, she had had a crush on her uncle all through childhood. Then again, she had a crush on a lot of older men, including her father. She had always had "a thing" for older men. Guys her age, even the really sweet ones, just did nothing for her.
And to be honest, guys her age didn't seem all that interested in her, either. She was pretty enough - blonde, with a beautiful smile and bright hazel eyes. She was a wholesome looking girl - not beautiful, but by no means hard to look at. She had a good body, shapely, with a nice round bum, but her breasts were, in her own mind, a little too small. Her mother, on the other hand, was a stunning blonde, lithe and lean, with perfect breasts. Even at 47, she could still turn the heads of teenaged boys. In fact, the boys she had brought home sometimes ended up more enamoured of her mother than her.
Kate's parents were wealthy - Adam had definitely married above his pay grade. She was beautiful but shallow and acquisitive. His platinum card trophy wife - a trophy he hadn't really earned. He had always felt that he had been a disappointment to her. He made a decent living as an engineer, but the fact he worked in a wastewater treatment plant was something of an embarrassment.
"Well," Adam said. "I'm glad you came. It will be nice to spend some time with my favourite girl, even if it's a sad occasion."
"Yeah," Nicole agreed. "To be honest, I'm glad she didn't come. I don't think I could stand to be in the car with her this long."
It was a three and a half hour drive from Chicago to Springfield to Kate's parents' house. Which would be full of relatives this weekend. Normally they would have stayed at Kate's parents house, but he had booked a hotel room this time, since the house would be full of out-of-town relatives.
"I think you're being a little unfair. She's not that bad," Adam said.
"Yes she is," Nicole said. "She's a cunt."
"Nicole! Stop using that word. You want a spanking?"
She perked up in her seat and clapped her hands together and spun her head towards him.
"Yes please!"
He laughed. "Keep it up and I just might."
"Is that an empty threat?" she said, mischievously. "Cunt!"
"Stop."
"CUUUUUNT!"
"You are a naughty girl."
"I think you like it when I'm naughty," she said, playfully.
She leaned toward him, in an exaggerated seductive gesture and began to trace letters on his thigh with her her index finger, starting uncomfortably high up.
"C," she said, as she slowly drew a half circle on his upper thigh. "U...N...T."
She then punctuated the imaginary word on his thigh with a straight line, slowly licked her finger and placed an imaginary period at the bottom of an exclamation point.
"Cunt," she purred.
Adam's cock stiffened in his pants.
"Ok, enough of that. You're going to make me have an accident."
"In your pants?"
He looked at her, and they both burst out laughing.
"You are so naughty."
"Only with you, daddy," she purred.