Author's note: This tale has been published by me before, under a different pseudonym. It is a slightly revised and, I hope, improved version of a father's secret love for his daughter.
It was inspired by a chance meeting online, a few years ago, with a delightful girl called Alika. Where are you now sweet Alika?
(Feedback is always welcome.)
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My diary is 'Secret' because here I relate, in total candour, random events of my life as a widowed father, and details of my very special relationship with you, Alika, my only daughter.
'Secret' means that no-one else must know, and no-one else will read the contents of this extremely intimate journal. Society would never understand. But you, my darling Alika will surely stumble upon it one day after I'm gone.
You're the only one I want to know what has been in my heart and in my mind and in my body since your mother, my wife Carol, was wrenched away from us in that awful accident, which even now is almost unbearable to recall. So you will know just how much you have meant to me since then, and how I have come to love you as I loved her.
Perhaps a little more. You are the only one who will understand.
01 October 2006
Dearest Alika, I start to write this journal just fifteen years after her death. She was the only woman I ever loved, until our own close relationship took on a new dimension almost two years ago, when you were seventeen. Of course I loved you from the day of your birth, as a baby, as a child, as an adolescent. But now I love you as a woman.
Our love is certain. I say "I love you Babygirl". You say "I love you too, Daddy". But there are things that we don't say to each other – even in the most intimate of moments we have enjoyed so many times now, there are feelings we don't express, fears about this taboo love we share but don't dare enunciate and can't share with those around us. If we can't talk about it, then it's important to me that you know things from my side. Even if you will only begin properly to understand much later, when I am no longer part of your life.
You were so young when your mother left us. It was gut-wrenching to hear you cry for her ceaselessly in the beginning. You needed her as much as I did, perhaps more; a baby girl needs her mother. I made every effort to distract you from her disappearance. Eventually, you stopped asking where she was, and later, as you became old enough to grasp the concept of death, you finally, finally were able to comprehend.
We were both destined to live without her elegant presence, her odours, her touch, her pure beauty, her wisdom, her smile, her gentleness. Her love.
I was destined to survive without having her warm, soft body next to mine at night, her complicity, her understanding, her sexuality, her great passion.
I tried to be a good father to you. I made sure you were looked after when I was working, because I had to work to pay the bills, Babygirl – you understood didn't you? And I was always there to share quality time with you when I was not working. It was unthinkable that I should consider the idea of another woman sharing our lives – though more than once, in your child-like way, you asked me to find you another mummy. And our vacations together were very special; that's when we were closest.
And now, you are an adult. And I live in Heaven and Hell at the same time. For no-one in the 'normal' world outside could ever begin to understand my intense, forbidden, deep love for you, nor any of what has happened in recent times. You are so much like your mother, Alika.
For me, you have become your mother, my wife. Your long slender body, your green eyes, your soft blond hair, your pale skin and flawless complexion. Your sparkling personality, your outrageous vivacity and all those qualities she had, are now evident in you.
When I look at you, I see her. When I touch you I touch her. When I make love with you, I am with her and inside her and you both at the same time. And I love you as much as I loved her – and in the same ways. You have finally and totally fused with the greatest love of my life, and become the same object of my enormous passion.
I know I have to avoid suffocating you. I have to give you your breathing space, never interfere when you leave the house, though my solitude then is almost unbearable. I know you see young men, and surely have sex with them. But I stay detached as far as I can from the half-imagined terror of your young vibrant body being invaded by another, to try not to let that terrible green-eyed monster of jealousy rise up to engulf me. What I want can never be achieved, I know that.
My Paradise is also my Eternal Fire. I live with it every day.
03 October 2006
You were out all night again, Alika. I missed you so much. Fathers fret, you know, be their kids young or grown up. I worried and worried incessantly, but restrained my urge to start telephoning all over to find out where you were.
Then I heard you arrive home, silently climb the stairs and enter your bedroom around seven. I heard your toilet flush, imagined you sitting there, legs akimbo, peeing, wiping your sweet pussy with quilted paper, then standing naked before the bathroom mirror to brush your long hair, your pretty tummy pressed against the wash basin, your bum cheeks firm and round and loveable. Just like I used to watch you and admire you before, before things changed.
Maybe you just fell into bed, hair deranged, makeup still on, worn out but beautiful. I could sleep now that you were safely home
How I wanted you to come to me, slide willingly, naked into my warm bed and press your cool, smooth body against me like you have done before, feel your full, firm breasts and pointy nipples against my back, your foot, thigh and pussy rubbing suggestively over my leg. And telling me that you loved me again and again. In desperate anticipation, my penis was hard as ever, lying there, waiting and ready for you if you wanted it. I'm sure you guessed that I would be there, waiting on tenterhooks, in case you felt the need to join me.
It would have been enough to just have you there with me, and during the night, to caress you, to calm my anxiety, to know that you were alright and that you wanted to be with me. But I know the rules. We agreed them.
I slept a little, but not enough. Before leaving for business this morning, I dared to look into your room, without disturbing you. I stayed by the entrance to your forbidden zone, not braving to approach your bed, nor touch you. Only your head was visible above the sheet, and you slept like an angel, like you were ten years old again, breathing shallowly. Looking at your face, I loved you in my mind and heart and body, I loved you to bursting.
07 October 2006
We had dinner together today, for the first time in a week. It was so good to have you back with me, even for a short time. You were sloppily dressed for staying in, no makeup. Jeans and an old sweater of mine. You like to wear my sweaters, and that is a joy to me; afterwards, when you take it off I can hold it, I can smell your perfume, your soap, your skin odour, and it's as though I'm inside you once again, part of your body, though I have a dreaded fear that a fully satisfying coupling between us may not happen again. You will decide.
When you're away from me I can handle and smell your clothing too, your delicate underwear. It's my way of being with you even if you're absent.
And yes, dear Alika, I masturbate into your slips, your bras, your night T-shirt. Whatever you choose to give me each day, always knowing, understanding and accepting my needs, without questioning. You know not to give me a slip with someone else's semen stains. Lonely masturbation is not what I want for the best, but I can imagine you're here with me. Covering my face with your slip, I smell your odours, urine, sex juices.
Erection in hand, I extract all the odorous pleasure that I can before wrapping the chosen gift of clothing around my swollen penis and rubbing it, rigid and bursting with desire, tingling with lust and passion, hopeless with love for you my Babygirl.
I always ejaculate powerfully, my semen dedicated to you and I call your name out loud. I wait and I wait for the next time you will be ready for me. I ask nothing else but your love, and that you tell me sometimes that you love me too. I am patient because I worship you.