Note: As always I like to let my dear readers know that it is best to read this series from the very beginning to get to know all of our friends and loved ones in the pages to follow. So my advice is to start at part one. Enjoy!
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Conrad Hill and his daughter Clarissa where halfway to Clarissa's friend Lindsey's house when he glanced at his fuel gauge and decided to stop for gas.
At the station he stood and began to fill up his car at the self service style pump, while watching his daughter sitting in the passenger seat. Her hands were folded neatly and quietly in her lap. Clarissa looked back at her dad and smiled at him; her lips sweetly forming in a happy expression, as she looked at her father.
Conrad Hill almost could not believe that he had been having sex with this beautiful creature that he and his wife had created, for the last several weeks. He also could not believe that his own wife and the mother of his children not only approved, but had joined in as soon as she found out about her husband and daughter. Conrad's sex life had been unreal since that day, with two incredible and sexy and sexually insatiable women to satisfy -- or at least try to satisfy. He saw his pretty daughter suddenly open the door and lean out to say something.
"Daddy, I'm going to call Lindsey and tell her we are coming."
"Okay hon.' we should be another fifteen minutes 'til we get there," said Conrad. He continued to gas up the car as his daughter closed the car door and took out her cell phone, and keyed in a number, and began an animated conversation within the quiet of the car. Conrad finished his re-fueling, and walked into the mini-mart attached to the station to pick up a bottle of water.
The father returned to his car to find his daughter just closing her cell phone.
Clarissa turned to her father with a happy and giddy expression.
"Daddy, Lindsey says she will be ready by the time we get there." Clarissa bit her lip. Conrad looked over at his daughter as he started the engine, and began to pull out of the station. 'I thought I was dropping you off? Ready for what?" said Conrad.
Clarissa gritted her teeth between her lips, and winced as her father used his, what are you up to princess, tone.
"Well ... "Clarissa drawled.
"Well what?" said the young girls father.
"Well ... I kind of said you would take us out to dinner at Yin's."
Clarissa sat with her eyes squeezed shut as she finished her sentence.
"Oh honey, I was really looking forward to a quiet night at home. It's been a long day, and I also thought that with your brother home I would get a rest in the bedroom tonight." Conrad really wasn't in the mood to be around to hyper-active girlfriends and their chit-chat.
"But-but Daddy, it's just that ... well ... it's been so long since, you took me and Lindsey there."
Conrad glanced from the road at his daughter and saw her pouting expression, and thought about what she meant. He knew immediately that he wasn't totally in tune with just how much his little girl missed her best friend this past three years. Clarissa and Lindsey, once inseparable had spent less and less time together, and with Lindsey a year older, and already in college they now got together even less.
Conrad drove on and thought back to his special "dates" as the girls always referred to them, in which he took his daughter and her bestest friend in the whole wide world, as his daughter used to say all those years she and her friend grew up together.
He would often, back then pick the girls up after work on a Friday and tell his wife -- who always got a massive kick out of this, as well as a break from two hyper young girls -- that he was going to take his two Princesses out for dinner. It got to the point that the girls both expected and looked forward to this every Friday. Of course as the years went on and the girls began to hang more and more with each other, these nights at Yin's became less and less, with the girls conversations taking a more, "grown-up" feel, meaning, of course, that they didn't want grown-ups to be listening in on them. So they kind of stopped all together after a while. Conrad was, even now, soft when it came to his daughter. He found this odd, especially since he had been having completely dominant sex with her for almost a month now. But regardless of this when out of the bedroom, she still could melt his fatherly heart with a glance or a pout of her pretty lips.
As Conrad turned into Lindsey's block he looked over at his unhappy daughter and said, "Okay, honey, I'll take you and Lindsey out. Mom and Paul will make out fine by themselves, I am sure."
The young girl seemed to almost jump in her seat.
"Oh Daddy!! That's great!" said the teenager excitedly. Clarissa leaned over quickly and planted a very sweet kiss on his cheek, making Conrad almost forget he ever had said no to his beloved little girl.
"You're welcome honey, really," said Conrad with a chuckle.
"Look Daddy, Lindsey is on her porch." Clarissa waved at her friend.
Conrad watched Lindsey walk to the car and watched her wave at him first then, as soon as Clarissa stepped out of the car, the other girl grabbed his daughter in a bear hug and almost lifted her off her feet. Both girls got in the back seat and after a few pleasantries Conrad took off for the restaurant, and the girls settled into their own chatter.
It seemed just like when the girls were kids and he used to do this kind of thing taking them out after ballet or soccer practice, his shy daughter and the slightly older more out going fire ball with long arms and legs sitting besides her talking her ear off. He could remember the first time he ever laid eyes on Lindsey.
Her dad and she had moved into the house next door to his, and he remembered seeing the long limbed skinny blond girl running back and forth in front of the little run down house, her arms outstretched to the side. Conrad remembered looking down at his daughter and seeing her gaze with curiosity at the tall girl, and he reached down and patted her shoulder and said to her, how would she like it if we go say hi to the new neighbors. His little girl looked up at him at the time and nodded vigorously.
What he found was that Lindsey's dad, Henry was a single dad (a creature nearly unknown in the world of Conrad's block) and that his wife, was dead, and had passed away when Lindsey was one year old. The families had become fast friends, with the lonely dad and his daughter having many ... many dinners at Conrad and Jenny's house. Jenny felt it was her duty to fix the young father's life up, and so at first she tried to fix him up with a whole slew of her single friends. It never worked out really, as Henry really seemed to not want another lady in his life. He eventually explained that he had not yet gotten over his wife; she was the great true love in his life, and truthfully he told Jenny and Conrad one long tearful night over cocktails, he wasn't sure he would ever be ready for another lover.
Jenny dropped the matter then but always had her own privately held belief that Henry was depriving his little girl of a mom to love her, and a wife to make him a home. Because of this she decided she would at least give the girl a surrogate mother, and from that day forward she thought of Lindsey as her and Conrad's other daughter.
Life had gone on much like this. And Conrad was also very much aware of his sons never ending unrequited love for his pretend sister. Paul had found himself asking shyly whether his father thought he could ever get his sisters best friend to look at him as anything other than a brother figure. Paul had been 16 at the time, and had still never even gone out on a date to an ice cream parlor with a girl. Conrad realized that his son was, apparently saving himself for his great lifelong crush. But Conrad used a level of brutal honesty he hated to use when he told his son, that in fact, she probably never would see him that way. Conrad knew she might one day change toward him, but he felt that if the boy lived his life waiting, he might wait forever. He couldn't let his son do that. It had worked of course, because Paul trusted his dad and knew he must think it true if he said it, no matter how awful the news he might never wind up kissing those sweet lips he dreamt of at night in his bedroom.
Paul moved on and began to date, though he never completely gave up hoping.
The most crushing blow had come two years ago when Lindsey's dad had no choice but to move his little family of himself and Lindsey, out of town, precipitating a very sad and tearful separation of the girls, which was made even worse as the older girl started college.
Conrad found it hard to believe the two girls saw each other no more than three times a month at most now; certainly not the way they chatted and laughed and pressed their head together to whisper their girlish confidences.
"Okay hope you girls feel like eating, because I do, and I am getting out now."
Clarissa and Lindsey looked out the window and giggled uncontrollably as they realized they hadn't even known that they had arrived already.
"Okay, Daddy!!" Clarissa said still laughing.
"Okay, Mr. Hill!" laughed Lindsey along with her friend.