I distracted myself the rest of that night and into the evening. Ate. Stared at the TV. Ate some more. Drank... I was working through a bottle of scotch to avoid having to think about what had happened. I didn't see Claire all evening. I guessed she must have been avoiding me. She had some food delivered... I heard her pick it up, but all the times I came out of my room I couldn't hear anything but her shower running
I slept like shit. It felt like when Sarah was first diagnosed, and I had so much fizzing about in my head and no one to speak to about it. I thought about reaching out to my therapist but... Well, I didn't fancy trying to explain that the reason my brain was fried was because my daughter sucked my cock and I liked it. So instead, I lay in bed for hours trying to shut down my thoughts. Eventually the futility of it dawned on me. I was in the room where it had happened, which made it difficult to get away from.
In lieu of actually speaking to my therapist I thought I'd try a technique he taught me. I grabbed a pen and on the back of some unimportant piece of mail began just writing what I was feeling.
β’ Guilty
β’ Sad
β’ Ashamed
β’ Perverted
The key part of it was being honest with yourself. Identifying those negative words were easy, but I knew there were other feelings mixed up with them.
I felt... used? Used... Did I feel like Claire had taken advantage of me? Not really. I'm her dad, if I wanted to stop her, I would have and could have, putting aside the should have. But I kept coming back to the word used. How did I feel used...I felt...oh...I felt like I was spent...because I had cum. That's where I was getting the word used from.
I had cum. That led me to another uncomfortable feeling I was resistant to putting a name to. I felt... Like I had enjoyed it. I'd felt like I should have stopped but I didn't do that. Why didn't I do that... because I enjoyed that. I thought back to the last 12 hours I'd spent avoiding the topic and realized how obvious it was that that shock horror I'd enjoyed having my dick sucked.
So, I'd enjoyed the blowjob. So, what!... So what was that my daughter had given me that blowjob. That tied in those negative words. I looked back at the word perverted and back at the join the dots reasoning I had scrawled on the paper. In hindsight It was obvious I enjoyed it given I'd used that word. Perverts aren't known for doing things they hate
On another piece of paper, I wrote Claires name. What did I feel about her? I started off easy. I loved her. She was my daughter, I was proud of her, she was a great support to me. She was beautiful...Then I hit something uncomfortable. She was sexy. I thought she was sexy. My dick began to feel very much less used as I explored that thought. I closed my eyes and saw her masturbating, with my dick in her mouth and my cum on her face. Definitely a sexy image.
I got lost In that thought and finally drifted off to sleep, managing keep myself from getting carried away while touching myself. I awoke at 5.30 am to the sound of movement outside my room and threw on some sweats to investigate. I saw Claire's large suitcase by the door alongside some hastily packed boxes. I didn't see Claire until she entered from the garage obviously in the middle of packing her car dressed in jeans and a sports bra.
"Dad!" she said surprised "...sorry did I wake you?"
"No...Yeah...it's fine... What's all this?"
"Nothing" she instantly denied before realizing that it was of course something... "I was hoping to sneak out before you got up and stay with a friend for a while."