BABY DADDY
The summer after my daughter Molly and I started having sex, she met a man, Will, through one of the other associates at her law firm, and they started dating. I love my daughter and want her to be happy, and we both knew that what we were doing wasn't meant to be permanent. I wouldn't have said anything to her if I didn't like him, but I did. He liked watching classic sporting events as much as I did, and he liked Japanese movies as much as Molly did.
Molly got very sick for a time in the fall, and for a time she was at risk of dehydration. Will was there for her the whole time, which was good because things were particularly busy at my job, and it would have been difficult for anyone else to cover for me if I'd tried to take care of her. All though it makes sense to me now, I had never known that when you regurgitate your stomach's contents, sometimes that includes medicine, and you may as well not have taken it. Molly insists that's how Will was able to get her pregnant even though she hadn't missed a pill in the entire time she'd known him. I guess Will wasn't ready to be a father, because he stopped coming over. I was almost as heartbroken as Molly was.
My company had a slow spot when Molly was six months along. I started converting what used to be Megan's sewing room into the nursery even though we wouldn't need it for a while, because I didn't know when I'd have that much free time in the next three months. I had set up the monitor and went to put the speaker in Molly's room next door. She was sitting on her bed in a bathrobe and crying. "What's wrong, Honey?" I asked.
"This," she said, and she pointed to her belly button, which was sticking out.
"What's wrong with that? I think it's cute," I told her.
"It's only pointing out like that because I'm fat," she said through her tears. "I'm fat, and I'm gonna look like a sow for at least another year." Her chest heaved, pushing the robe open, and I realized that she had already developed pregnancy boobs. Had this happened just recently, or had I missed it because maternity tops tended to conceal that aspect rather than accentuate it?
"No, no," I tried to console her. "You're beautiful!"
"You're just saying that because you're my dad," she said. "No one's gonna wanna touch me until Veronica comes, and even then I'll end up in Mom jeans." (Molly changed the baby's name about once a week.)
"You're wrong. You were sexy before, and you'll get back to being sexy again. You'll be wearing tight jeans and sheer blouses in no time."
Molly stood up and pointed to a place just below her waist that had seen some growth lately. "Look at this. It's never going back, and guys won't want to see that."
I don't know what came over me, but my sympathy gave way to something more negative. "Now see here, Molly! I did see that, once a week or more on average, for the first fifteen years of your life!" Molly gave me a disturbed look. "Not on you, on your mother. What kind of sick fuck do you take me for?" Yes, I reminded myself, even in highly intelligent women, pregnancy brain is a real phenomenon.
Molly stopped and laughed. "You didn't slow down until Mom went to the hospital for the last time. But how's that help me? Will's gone. He's not coming back, and I'm not sure I'd take him if he did. Who's that leave? And what do you mean, I'll get BACK to being sexy?"
I traced the mark with my finger. In my mind, I was with Megan again. "My mistake. You're still sexy." I took her hand and put it on my dick. "See for yourself."