Story Code: M/F, Incest, Father/Daughter
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Oh my God, they are at it again, mum and dad in a full blown argument yet again, and what is it all about this time, all my dad did was to ask mum to go with him to his company's annual dinner and dance again, just as she had been doing since...well, forever. For as long as I can remember at least. Thankfully I'd pass through one of the many passages to adulthood in just two weeks time, leaving home to go to University at last but before that. In just two days, I'd pass my nineteenth birthday. Unfortunately, I wouldn't get away from home before that damned dinner and dance. My parents still had five more days of arguing about the diner and dance left.
I had no doubt that the argument would last the course, all the way to the party, probably two days after as well. In the last week they have had a four day row about the conservatory roof, it needed cleaning and my dad was refusing to go up on the ladder at his age. I had a four hour amnesty and then there was a twelve hour long fight over shopping and another day, arguing about oil dripping from my dad's car onto the drive. So in the last seven days I'd had about twelve hours of peace and quiet.
I was just pulling my coat on, I was going to visit my friend Kelly, we were both going to the same college in a few weeks time, the same college but to do different courses, it did mean that we could share a room and cut our costs down a little. My mother threw yet another barrage of abuse at my father when I walked through the room.
"Why don't you take Sarah with you, see how she likes sitting in your draughty works canteen listening to a load of boring old men talking about work, let her see just what I have to put up with."
I held up my hands to act as a shield to deflect the negative energy in the room and to push anyone trying to stop me out of the way.
I stopped with Kelly until she finally complained that she just had to go to sleep and then I went home.
I spotted the light was on in the 'Huffy bedroom', a northern expression for the bed that a husband or wife...usually husband...went to sleep after an argument, I expected to find my father in that bed tonight...again!
I crept through the house so as not to let either of my parents hear me so that I didn't fan the embers of their new found hatred for each other.
I wanted to sleep late, school had finished and I was out until late at Kelly's house, I'd planned on stopping in bed until lunch at the very least but the storm clouds from yesterday rolled in at eight o'clock, slamming doors, kicking up banshees of dust and sounds that were akin to the skirl of bagpipes on steroids. At ten minutes past eight I gave in and slopped down stairs to get my breakfast, I'd eat fast and get out of the house as quickly as possible.
Mother slammed the kitchen door, she had her coat on, she was going out...damned it, if I'd have held my nerve for just a few more minutes the house would have gone back to sleep and so could I.
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My dad was in the kitchen cooking his own breakfast, he added pork products to the pan for me as well and I started to cook coffee for both of us. Dad kept looking at me, I know that I'd been told a hundred times not to walk around the house wearing just my nighty, "It only takes a moment to put your dressing gown on Sarah!" (Spoken in my head in my comic imitation of my mother's voice.)
"Sarah, I would really like to go to my firm's annual dinner dance this year, you don't have anything better to do so I'd really like you to accompany me, if I don't have a woman on my arm I won't be able to go."
"Dad, I don't want to spend one of my last evenings at home in your draughty works canteen listening to a bunch of boring old men talking about sprocket pins and pinion wheels!"
"You think I'm boring?"
"Not you daddy dear, you're the most human person that works at your factory, about the youngest and most alive too!"
"Anyway, this year it isn't being held at the works canteen, well, the blue collar workers do is but since my promotion, I'm invited to the management function, more dressy and being held at the Grand Hotel."
"Grand Hotel? No one told me you were going to a place that's a solid ten on the 'Swank-O-meter'! I wouldn't have anything that I could wear to the Grand Hotel."
"No, I've had to buy a dinner jacket, flowery shirt and bow tie, when I showed your mother what I wanted to buy her she went mad."
"Why?"
"She said that she'd look like a tart, most wives are happy when their husband's get promotion, happy to get dressed up and show off their husband's new position at work."
I shook my head, "Not mum, she's down to earth, she'd be uncomfortable having to dress up too much...so, what did you ask mum to wear?"
"I've taken it back to the shop, I wasn't going to waste four hundred pounds on a dress that she'd never wear."
"Didn't she try it on when you bought it?"
"I took one of her old dresses into the shop and the assistant said that the new dress was exactly the same size as her old dress."
"Well, if this year's do is at the Grand Hotel and I can get a posh frock out of it I'll come with you."
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After breakfast I went with my father to the dress shop, they still had the dress he'd returned and I tried it on in the changing room, the dress fitted me like a glove, I had to take my bra off to fit into the dress the way the dress was designed to be worn. I stepped out into the shop and did a twirl for my father and the top of his head almost fell off because his smile was so broad.
"Erm, dad, did mum try this dress on before she exploded all over you?"
"No, she wouldn't even try it on, she just went mad and threw the dress in my face."
"Where did you get the dress from that you brought here for the size?"