HIS PRECIOUS LITTLE PRINCESS
Chapter 1 - Liz
I take the exit that will take me to my destination.
Home.
This semester has been the longest thing I've ever had to endure. Being in school, assignments, classes, exams, and everything else. I thought I was prepared; I honestly wasn't.
And amongst the most difficult of realities I had to face was being away from him.
The only person in this whole forsaken world I care for more than my own life: Daddy.
After being raised by him alone since my mother left when I was 10, it's been me and him pretty much. Everyday. And he is my best friend. After going from spending every day and every minute I wasn't at school with him, going from that to seeing him once in 5 months has been a brutal change. For me and him.
Although I was 400 miles away, I was so busy we couldn't even have enough time to talk like we used to. And after the incident that happened before I left, I think he has been avoiding me a little.
When I went for Christmas, we had a great time, but we practically had his second cousin and her husband over the whole time. It felt distant and I can't fault him for wanting some distance between us.
And although we talked about it briefly and I apologized and he accepted the apology, he just hasn't been as open and it crushed me.
But now is spring and I am going to see him. And it's going to be a surprise too. I told him I was going with a few friends to Miami but I will do no such thing. I am finally going to make the situation right because I want our relationship right again.
The song on the radio gets disturbed when a call comes through. I smile to myself when I see it's my roommate. The second person I've ever called friend. And it turned out we had more in common than I thought, and what a relief it was.
I press on the steering wheel to answer.
"Bitch." I say affectionately.
"Your mama." She giggles on the other side.
"Rude," I answer and she snorts on the line.
"So where are you? Home yet?" She asks with a tone that gives away her curiosity. I don't blame her. After the last conversation we had before her flight yesterday, I'm sure she wants to know.
"I am an hour away. Not there yet." I say.
"Ooh, and are you nervous?"
"A little. For one, what if he isn't there and he is away for the weekend." I hadn't really considered that. Although my father does have some friends, he isn't that close to anyone. I am his everything, he would say as much himself.
"Oh, come on. He's home. Probably watching Seinfeld."
I let out a little chuckle. "I swear you are starting to know him more than I know him now."
"You talk about him 24/7. How could I not." I hear her eye roll even on this end.
"Like you don't spend every waking second telling me about dear old uncle." I tease.
"You will shut your mouth."
I chuckle. "Why? Shy suddenly. Is he there?"
She pauses and it seems a door opens and closes. "No. Still at the old hell house." she pauses. "But he's coming tonight. His jet landed a few minutes ago." I hear the excitement.
"Someone's excited."
"Oh, Liz, you don't understand what that big fat dick does."
I laugh. "You dirty little cock-hungry hoe."
She laughs. "You would be too if you were me. And I don't doubt once you get what you want too you will be insatiable."
"I still think you should have just gone to the mountains like he wanted," I say.
There is a pause on the line before I hear her exhale. "You know Joe and Marie would have killed me if I didn't come to see Sarah's latest miracle."
I laugh. Clarissa's sister is 28 but she just had her fourth child with her third baby's father. And she swears this one will tie her down and marry her. Which will be her second marriage.
Not that I'm judging or anything, but what irks me about the whole thing is their parents always take Sarah's side when she berates Clarissa for living a life of fun, but see nothing wrong with her popping out babies constantly that she couldn't afford to feed without her parent's money.
And she has the worst taste in men. Her type seems to be broke potheads who live in their parent's basement and have podcasts that talk about masculine men while they don't maintain their own kids. Just jokes all around.
"Just smile politely. It's just 2 weeks there and then..."
"Then I will wake up and sleep dripping come." She makes a happy noise.
"You are depraved," I say in fake disgust.
"That's why we are friends."
An idea springs on me suddenly. "Hey, maybe if everything goes well, we can take our depraved asses to Hawaii sometime."
"Just us or with the men?"
"The men? We don't have any men, Clarissa Michaels."
She laughs. "Maybe you aren't going to make your claim but I am. I want to see you this summer and it would be sick if we had them there." I sense more deviousness she isn't saying.
"Only if you aren't thinking about sharing because I'll shank you if you touch what's mine," I warn.
"Look at you. Already possessive."
I realize what she is saying. Did I just really do that?
"Don't do that," she says quickly.
"Do what?" I furrow my brows like she can see me.
"Don't you start overthinking, berating yourself for what you feel. What you feel is valid."
I take a moment, her words not sinking in as the old feelings of guilt and being wrong rear their ugly head. "What if it goes wrong?"
There is silence for a few seconds. "At least you would have put your feelings out there. And besides, he can't hate you."
I snort. "He could."
"The man would never survive without you. Give yourself a little more credit." She emphasizes.
"Look, I have to go. I'm almost there." I say.
"I'll text you later. Maybe I'll even record it for you." She says naughtily.
"You belong in an institution," I say.
"Bye, hoe." She says and we end the call.
The time flew by. I think I needed this.
I clutch the steering a little tighter when I take the exit from the main road to our suburb. My heart beats a little faster. Many things passing through it. What if this is a really really bad idea?
What if I find him with a woman?
The thought makes even more jealousy rise inside me. It makes me remember the last time he dated. Or at least attempted it. She lasted a total of 3 dates. Although I didn't think it was anything at the time, I know now that maybe I was a little jealous. I was incensed she would take him away from me. I mean, what if he married her and they had other kids?
But he broke up with her and said she wasn't what he wanted. His life being my father was all he needed. Everything went back to normal. School during the day, father and daughter cooking evenings, movie night Fridays, errand Saturdays, and relaxation Sundays. Perfection.
I lost much of that because of college, but even before that, I fucked things up when I made an immature move that made him give me a look he's never given me before. It was a week before college and the subsequent days were torture, I spent days locked up in my room and he'd just bring me food and leave it outside my door.
I berated myself for weeks until Clarissa made me crack open and tell her all my secrets. I was sure she'd tell me I was the devil incarnate. What I told her was the extreme taboo.
My budding feelings for my father. But in response, she told me about her own salacious thing with her uncle. A man I've met a few times when he picks us up. Me as a cover, of course, while they go at it like rabbits.
He'd book hotels for them and I was just happy for the room service and break from the dorms. Plus, the stories she came back with were epic.
Clarissa became the blessing in my life I didn't even know I needed. It's a shame the things we desire are so frowned upon. She and her uncle can't even come out to their family.
It makes me a little happy that I don't have any large family. Father was an only child of only children. All cousins are 2nd and further.
I pass the security gate and pass the first suburban houses. The houses get larger and more isolated as I go until I get to my house. I drive the long driveway beyond the long treeline to my house.
I exhale when I finally see it.
Home.
My heart almost comes out of my throat the closer I get. The garage door opens and I park. I take my backpack, jumping out of the car, and finding it odd that he hasn't come to welcome me. Maybe he really isn't home.
But maybe that'll work to my advantage. I walk upstairs after making sure he isn't in his office. Before I go to my room, I pass by his room and I push the door open and I don't find him.
A sting of disappointment makes me regret not announcing my return. But I fish my phone out deciding to just text him. I fire up the chat as I push my door open.
The large lump of a naked man is snoring lightly, splayed in my bed. The sight makes me feel all warm. I wonder if he sleeps here every day. I take a moment before he wakes up and everything must come to the fore and I potentially get rejected again to admire his amazing build. Wetness pools in my lower regions but I feel no shame this time.
It's only a shame that he is on his stomach and I can't see all of him. I salivate at his firm ass, the cords of his muscles. How his back is rippled with muscles, making my hand itch to touch him. I get closer, albeit carefully.
The conviction of what I must confront settles in me when I realize that the worse he can say is no.