It's All Right Daddy, Mommy Knows!
A Teenage Seductress Captures Her Daddy's Heart
Approximately 5,150 Words
by
Donald Mallord
Copyright by dmallord, 2022, USA. All rights reserved.
INTRODUCTION
Life goes awry sometimes. Occasionally, that happens in the dead of night while in deep REM sleep. When it does, the aftermath can create damage to your mental well-being. Ray Schumacher had that happen to him, as he awoke with his body aflame with lust and plundering his wife ... or, in his dreams, he thought so. He had to place a call for help.
How It Began
It felt like 'a walk of shame' situation! Paranoid, I walked from the parking lot into a small office complex and checked the computerized index by the elevator. I half expected bystanders to avert their eyes, while surreptitiously pointing me out to their friends. That tingling feeling, a sixth-sense emotion, that they were reading my mind, made me jittery. I stared straight ahead and did my best to look innocuous. A cursory scan of the directory for Dr. Alex Zimmerman's name. Found just that: his name, the floor, and suite number 405. There wasn't even a label to identify him as a psychiatrist. I'd expected the identification to have a cringing-crimson light, something like: 'nutcases only' or 'child-molester treatments.'
Something, that screamed out to anyone watching me--there is something wrong with this guy! I pressed the fourth floor button; standing next to two occupants. We rode the elevator in silence. The other passengers didn't even take notice, when I stepped onto the fourth floor lobby area. So much for my theatric-anxiety mode being real.
My experiences with doctors' offices had always been finding the waiting areas full of people, old magazines, and those with time on their hands, sharing their illnesses with one another. Visits with Katrina's pediatrician were like that; just mothers with infants mainly though. Opening the hallway door and stepping inside Dr. Zimmerman's office was different. I found matronly Mrs. Caldicot seated at a pristine desk, with an innocuous black and grey telephone, and augmented by a MacBook Pro. No seating area. No waiting patients to be found. She seemed to be transcribing notes; she looked up as my entry created a disturbance in her force.
Smiling, she greeted me, "Good afternoon, Mr. Schumacher!" Her agreeable voice flowed out just above the soft background music coming from some invisible wall speakers. Her voice was warm, cordial, and sincerely meant to put me at ease. I didn't have to give her my name; she knew it had to be me. After all, I was expected! Her hands were motioning to a closed, unmarked door across the room. "Please, come, Dr. Zimmerman is awaiting you!"
Dr. Zimmerman had put the world on hold for everyone else. It was just the two of us connecting. Nothing, and no one else in the world mattered at this juncture in my life.
Just that quickly, I was face-to-face with my anxieties, my guilt, and the tenuous thread holding my daughter and I in our precarious lifestyle. Dr. Alex Zimmerman met me halfway across the spacious office. It wasn't that confining exam-room scenario. No certificates, no diplomas, no 'how-to' posters; nothing of that sort. Plants, strategically placed, rounded out the square corners. Lighting was certainly not those nondescript, commercial fixture-types. The atmosphere was carefully crafted to feel homey--serene, placid, and worry free. It was a pleasant room, with a spacious view out over the horizon of the tree-lined park. It had a sense of feng shui design about it. The orientation of all things within it, felt in order and balanced with the natural world.
"Looking for something in particular?" He chuckled, noticing my head on a swivel movement. My gaze turned to the fatherly voice. I expected to see a stereotype shrink in a white coat with two strong-armed assistances at his side. Instead, I beheld a fiftyish, grandfatherly type dressed in a plain sweater and wearing loafers. He could have been in the elevator for all I knew, and I wouldn't have recognized him, by his countenance.
"The, um, the crazy person's couch," jumped out of my mouth before I could stop it. It wasn't any of the practiced lines I had rehearsed for this meeting. Yet, it made its appearance. The drive over was a rehearsal of every kind of conversation I could create that would make me appear normal in his eyes. This impromptu remark clearly wasn't helping me achieve that image. An image of normalcy.
He smiled in response. "That notion of reclining to reflect on one's problems is a bit overplayed in the movies. That came about because Freud had a 'crazy person's couch' as you called it, in his reflection room. Freud wasn't fond of being eye-to-eye with his cases. Felt a bit tense when he tried to make notes and such. So, he put them on a couch facing away from him; made Freud more comfortable in his note taking. The issue of 'a couch' or 'not to couch' has been a subject of much debate among doctors. For me? Not so much. My patients don't seem to miss it," he remarked, pointing to two comfortable-looking chairs by the window. He sat in one and I took the other, as he motioned for me to have a seat.
I could tell he must have done this a hundred times, perhaps hundreds of times. He was in no hurry, letting me wiggle into that deep, space-foam chair until it conformed to my body. I got the feeling that if I'd sat there long enough, it would have enveloped me completely, forming a womb around me. When my eyes met his, that was his clue, I gathered.
"Mr. Schumacher," he began, "I am a doctor, bound by medical, ethical, and legal laws. As such, there are rights you have as a patient, and obligations I have as a doctor..."
That's how I began to unburden myself and share the weight of my transgressions with Dr. Zimmerman. In the hopes of salving my hurt at the loss of my wife and the impact her passing had on my daughter. Katelyn had formed a pact with Katrina, our daughter. Therein lay the conundrum.
"Tell me, about that," Dr. Zimmerman inquired, "No need to try and sugarcoat your thoughts, Ray; just speak out and let the thoughts flow. I'm non-judgmental. Everything you say, stays here. Start wherever you feel the most comfortable, and let's see where that goes."
"That would be with sleep, Doc. Peaceful sleep has become difficult to find, just as elusive as a solitary predator's movements while gliding through the dark shadows cast by a full moon. But, somewhere in the early hours of the morning, my eyes become leaden and my tormented mind falls into a quasi-state of rest."
"How many hours are you sleeping?"
"Four...sometimes, I guess, maybe. I haven't really kept track of that. I know I see the alarm, sometimes at two or four in the morning. It is in that REM state of sleep, that Katelyn turns to me. I feel her hand flowing over me, circling my nipples, and gliding downward seeking to coax life into my cock. My eyes flutter open as the blood begins to flow into my stiffening member. Her face lights up as her eyes meet mine."
I saw the doc's eyes sparkle and a slight grin come to his lips. "Too detailed?" I asked, thinking maybe I needed to tone it down a bit.
"No, no that's not the case. I can see that you and Katelyn were...actively engaged," he answered.
"Yeah, Well she had a high sex drive, Doc," I smiled as I confirmed his comment.
"I guess I get a little rest before she creeps into those few minutes of sleep. She purrs out sassy innuendos, whispering her temptations just out of the range of our daughter's room. Doc, Katelyn is adept at pumping up my lust for her always-willing body. In the heat of passion, she would drive us into near cardiac arrest seeking to best our last orgasm. While she has a staid outer image of a brilliant high school teacher, no one ever suspected that she was really a vixen relishing sex without any sense of shyness or shame. Like the old saying goes, 'She likes to fuck at the drop of a hat.' And we did that abundantly!"
"So, trouble sleeping, normal sex life, and smart wife! What's not to like?" he noted, as he wrote a few words in his journal.
"That sounds about right. But the sex life might be...not so normal, perhaps," I added.
"Doctor, just over a year-and-a-half ago, our lives began to fall apart. This all changed when weakness and fatigue crawled upon her shoulders; enveloped her, bit into her slender body, and sucked the joy of living from the marrow of her bones. Helpless, we could only watch as cancer turned Katelyn into a frail figure of her former, vibrant self. Her school colleagues continued to support her and our daughter, Katrina, in this life-and-death struggle."
"Take your time, no rush to get through this, we can take a break anytime you want." Zimmerman's soft voice seemed to bring some comfort to the misty eyed glaze I wiped from my eyes.
I managed to continue, "Mercifully, she slipped away from her unbearable pain just two weeks before Katrina's high school graduation.
"Katrina didn't bear up well under her mom's passing; even though we steeled ourselves for the inevitable moment. Kitten, that's what we nicknamed Katrina. She loves cats! Anyway, Kitten didn't go back to school, even for her graduation ceremony. Because of her straight 'A' average and the waiving of her exams by the staff, she received her diploma. It was personally delivered at home by the school district's superintendent. One of the benefits of living in a very small town; where everyone knows their neighbors. That, and the fact that Katelyn taught at the high school, was also a factor, I guess.
"Kitten, fell into a remorseful state, not even speaking of her impending eighteenth birthday. Her party would have been just one week after the Katelyn's funeral. We moved through the next week hardly able to speak without the flow of tears bursting forth. Even the sight of a picture or seeing an article of Katelyn's clothing in a closet, would set Kitten off into another tearful crying spell. We made no plans to mark her momentous birthday, I couldn't bear to try to raise her spirits in such a short time."
With mounting fear, I approached that moment in my conversation with Doctor Zimmerman, that moment which had its arms around my throat. I felt the fear.
The doc said, "Just let it out, don't be judgmental. It's extremely difficult to try and maintain what you think should be normal, in the midst of grief."
So, I persevered.