Most men who walked in on what I walked in on would likely have not reacted in the manner in which I did.
I entered my home and found two lovely young women having sex on my new leather couch. I recognized them on sight -- my oldest daughter, Alexa and her younger sister, Kara.
Alexa is a lovely, slender blonde and Kara, a young and petite, half-Latina beauty. They are both exceptionally lovely and high-spirited young ladies. Alexa just turned 20 and her sister is 19. I am in the loop on the lives of all of my daughters and am completely aware that they are both sexually active. I also knew that this was not their first time being intimate with one another. More on this in a little while. I cleared my throat to alert my girls to my presence.
Alexa moved so that she could look up and see me. "Oh, hi daddy," she chirped merrily. "When did you get home?" Allow me to add that she made absolutely no attempt to cover herself.
"A few minutes ago, now ..."
Kara sat up and she too, remained defiantly naked. "Uh-oh, daddy's got
that look
again," she cautioned her older sibling. "I think we're in trouble."
Indeed they were, but not for the reason most of you are expecting. I tapped my foot and stared at my daughters with no small amount of anger and frustration. "Have I not told you, time and again, that I don't want the two of you having sex on the furniture?" I stated firmly. "That couch was incredibly expensive and it's only a few months old."
Relieved that she wasn't in deep trouble, I saw Kara's face relax and I noticed Alexa's winning little grin. "Sorry daddy, but sometimes, you just have to go when the mood strikes you," Alexa answered me.
"You both have huge bedrooms," I said, intent on not letting either of my girls off the hook. "Why couldn't you use one of those?"
"Mom," Kara commented. "She's in spring cleaning mode and you know what that means," she said and shook her head.
I nodded and decided to grant them temporary amnesty. I did indeed know what that meant. I love my wife, but when she gets in her cleaning frenzies, nothing and no one is safe. Even our pets run for the hills. I assumed that when I checked later on, our bedroom furniture would be spotless and not in the same place it had been earlier that morning. I had to let the girls off the hook and I informed them of that with a smile.
"Whee, we got away with it!" Kara chortled. "Okay daddy, now that you've decided that you're not gonna punish us, why not join us? We've been at it for a while and a nice, fat daddy-dick might just hit the spot. Get out of your clothes and let your favorite daughter give you one her patented, perfect blow jobs!"
Kara glared at her older sister and stuck out her tongue. "Hey, no fair leaving me out in the cold, big sister! Besides, what makes you think that
you're
his favorite daughter? There are four of us, you know!"
Kara and her sister love teasing each other, so I knew by now that this was only the playful banter of two loving sisters. "Okay, okay, so I was the first daughter!" Alexa sighed as she playfully threw up her hands in defeat. "Happy now?"
"Yep!"
By this point, I was down to my skivvies. Of course I was going to join them. I know a good idea when I hear one.
I'm sure that some of you are wondering by now why I wasn't freaked out by catching my daughters having sex. It wasn't the first time and it won't be the last. I have a very unique -- but happy -- relationship with my girls and with their mom. To help you understand the extent of it, I need to go back about 15 years.
I was not a lucky man in a lot of ways. Ever since high school, I've had issues with women. Unlucky in love, that was me. Most of the relationships I had fizzled out or went down in spectacular flames.
I also had not achieved much success in life. I had worked a series of dead-end jobs that helped pay the bills, but only just. I lived in a cramped apartment that I could barely afford. All of this hardly made me a chick magnet, as I am sure you can understand. I had only a few things working in my favor. One was my physical appearance. I decided when I past 30 that I was going to lose weight and take care of myself. It took 18 months, but the end result was a 6'2" guy who tipped the scales at 225 pounds, most of it muscle. My other and my
strongest
asset was my mind -- I had always possessed a good imagination and I'd always wanted to write. As my social life was nothing to write about, I decided to spend a goodly portion of the time I wasn't scraping out a living to write. I managed to get a few short stories published and even got a few encouraging pieces of fan mail.
If you think you know where I'm going with all of this, stop right now. You are likely mistaken. What happened next was not something I could have foreseen.
I often spent a portion of the extra dollars I earned from writing on lottery tickets. Now you might know where I'm going. Yes, I won the lottery -- and I hit it
big
. Not as much as a huge Hollywood star might have, but a lot of money -- and here, lottery winnings aren't taxable.
Here's the second curve ball. Not even one week after I was picking up my lottery winnings, my third -- fourth -- fifth? -- attempt at selling a novel -- sold. A new publisher had read the manuscript, liked it and had decided to make my meagre effort their first published novel. In less than one year, I had sold a few million copies. The apartment gave way to a sprawling home with a pool and a servant or two to tidy up, while I began working on another book -- or two. I didn't want to rest on my laurels and even though I had enough money to live large for the rest of my life, I had discovered that I loved writing. I also felt I owed my readers some more material, because even if I had not won the money, I'd still have achieved my dream.
As they tell you when you win money, people are going to come out of the woodwork. I didn't expect my luck to be any different -- and it wasn't. However, in my case, it proved to be a nice little piece of serendipity.
You see, the very first person who came a-callin' was someone I wanted to hear from. She was
the one that got away
. I hoped that this might prove to be a golden opportunity. It wasn't, at least not at first. Stay with me, all right?
My parting with Sarah Shannon had been --
less
than amicable. I didn't know it at the time, but she had serious issues and I caught all of the flak. Because I was blindly in love with this woman, I was oblivious to all of her flaws until it was almost too late.
In my collegiate years, as some young men and women are wont to do, I partied. I drank a bit too much and I partook of substances I should not have. I wanted the full college experience, although I always erred on the side of caution. I never once drove under the influence -- of
anything
.
Blinded by a bit too much alcohol and too little sleep, I didn't see that the same could not be said of my girlfriend. Sarah overdid it and it became her lifestyle. She didn't graduate college and when I finally saw how fucked up she was, I had my own problems to deal with. I had to either let her go or be dragged into the mess myself. I am sure the smarter of you can understand what I did and why I did it.
Cutting Sarah loose was the hardest decision I ever made. She was the love of my life, I had been contemplating asking her to marry me, or, at the very least, move in to a shared apartment. I had been totally oblivious to the train wreck she had become. When I did cut her loose, I did something Sarah herself might have understood. I got blind, stinking drunk and remained so for the better part of a week. Then I started my new life, eliminating most foreign substances and working hard to achieve whatever kind of life I could eke out,
When Sarah's call reached me, I felt my heart pounding a mile a minute. Whatever she needed, I now had the money to help her and I would. If that was what she was calling about, because it had been several years since I had last seen her. She could have been better or she could have emerged from that train wreck a mangled, damaged human being.