Pulling into the driveway, I put my arm around Lindsay and pulled her close. I give her a kiss on the top of the head and tell her everything will be just fine. When she looks up at me, she smiles and my heart skips a beat. She looks so much like her mother when she was the same age. Almost like a clone. She smiles at me and says she has the best daddy in the whole wide world. I break down. I have to tell her. I'm going to tell her...
"I know this is..." I search for the right word. It's probably way too late to do anything about it but, I can't just do nothing. My cum is inside her vagina. Unless she's close to her period, the longer I wait, the more of a chance there is, that she'll become pregnant. At the same time, I can't let her know what I know. I just can't. It'll destroy her. It'll end our family, our home, our lives. Not just mine, but her's too. I just can't.
"Hurry," I say.
"Hurry?" she asks, her face scrunching up with confusion.
"I, uh... quick... inside. You need to go inside... right now."
"I was gonna," Lindsay says, opening her door and climbing out of the truck.
"No, I mean..." I'm still searching for a way to say it. How to articulate the urgency I'm feeling, without giving away the truth. The horrible, unforgivable, truth. And I can't. Emotion is building inside of me like a hot hard balloon, ready to burst.
"We need to get... you clean," I say as I hurry over to the door.
Lindsay gives me a strange look and opens the door. I follow, tossing my jacket onto the back of a nearby chair.
"I'm sorry," Lindsay says, and I can tell she thinks she's in trouble. That's not my intention. I try a disarming chuckle, but it doesn't work. I shake my head a bit. She's her own person now. She's responsible for her own actions. I'm no longer her keeper... or am I?
I struggle to come to terms, again. She's eighteen. Whatever she did, is on her. But this time, this time, I had something to do with it, directly. That means, no matter what, it's on me as well. She's not on her own. And I feel like, I'm okay with that. I wouldn't want to be on my own either. Being on my own... if it weren't for Lindsay... would have sucked.
"Forget that," I say quickly, letting her know I'm not mad at her in the slightest. "What you need to do, right now, is go into the bathroom and wash it out. Use something... Anything. I don't know what."
Lindsay's jaw falls open. Clearly, she hasn't been on the same page as me. She looks shocked.
"What?" I asked.
"I... oh Jesus," she says and she turns around and runs for the bathroom. She's stripping her clothes off faster than I can keep up. I grab her pants off the floor as she turns the corner. Her sock. Why would she take off her sock?
I split from Lindsay and run to my computer, sitting sideways in the seat. I hit the power button and thank myself for splurging on the solid-state hard drive months ago. I click the search engine and type in "best anti-sperm douche home remedy". The results appear and I peruse them quickly, pulling up the top seven and weed out the crazy advertisements and bullshit websites.
I pick the top three. Diluted vinegar, baking soda in water, and of all things unholy, soda. It's a common brand and one we drink on occasion. I bolt for the kitchen, grab all three, and hurry back to the bathroom. I grab the handle, but the door is locked.
"Lindsay?" I call out.
"It's open," Lindsay says.
"It's not," I say, giving the handle another try and the door comes right open. "Okay, I guess it is," I say, pushing the door open and hurrying inside.
Lindsay is sitting on the back side of the tub, her legs wide, the shower head pressed against her vagina.
"No! Stop. That's just... that's like a slip-and-slide to getting pregnant," I say, shaking my head.
Lindsay jerks the shower head away and water pours out of her vagina. I look away, but then realize this is not the time for the standard rules of impropriety. I turn back and hand her the bottle of vinegar.
"They say diluted vinegar will help. And baking soda, and soda," I hold up the last one, showing her the condensation-covered bottle, dripping in the now extremely humid air. "Turn the water off. We need to do this. Water will just make it... wetter."
Lindsay shuts the faucet off and stands up. "It can't get any wetter," she says and my stomach lurches weirdly at the comment. She swallows nervously and I can't help but notice her nipples are standing out against the fabric of her shirt, like hard little points. "How am I going to douche with the vinegar?" She asks, holding up the bottle.
I look around as if there's something just sitting out on the bathroom countertop. "Don't you have a douche bottle?" I ask.
"No. You know I don't use those things," she says. "You said they're bad."
"They are bad," I say, shaking my head. They might be bad, they might be the worst thing a woman can shove in their vagina, but I would have paid money to have one, right now.
"What if I do a handstand?" Lindsay asks.
"A handstand?"
"Yeah," Lindsay says, handing the bottle of vinegar back. "What if I do a handstand, and... you just... pour it in." I watch her face as it turns red, but mine is doing the same thing. It's as good an idea as any, and I have none.
"Let me go get a glass to mix it. We need to dilute it."
Lindsay grabs a towel and steps out of the shower as I hurry away. I run to the sink, grab a huge plastic cup, pour it half full of vinegar and half with water, and hurry back, trying not to spill.
I open the bathroom door to find Lindsay on her hands and knees facing away from me. She peers back and asks, "Ready?"
"Yes," I say, hurrying forward.
She tilts her head down, lifts her bottom into the air, and pushes off. One foot goes up high, the other sideways. Her shirt falls down, revealing her breasts, and she immediately abandons the effort, almost kicking me in the face on the way down.
"Lindsay," I say quickly. "I've seen 'em before. We need to get this done, sooner than later."
"Sorry," she says, giving me an embarrassed look.
"Handstand. Hurry up," I say, motioning with my hands.
Lindsay smiles and tries the handstand again. I helped her out by grabbing one of her ankles as it comes up, to hold it steady.
"I got it," she says, kicking her foot a little and I let go.