DAY 1, IN THE LIVING ROOM
"Dad, can I ask you a question?" I asked.
I'd been working up the nerve for days now, and, finally, the time was right. If I didn't do it now, I'd never do it. It was do or die. We were relaxed on the living room couch, he was in a good mood, there was no TV or computer blasting, and our phones were in the other room. No better time than the present. Go for it! Just do it.
He nodded. "Sure," he shrugged.
"It's kind of personal," I said. "You don't have to answer if you don't want to."
He returned the slice of pizza that he was eating to his plate and put the plate onto the coffee table. He looked at me. "Well, that caught my attention," he said, his eyes meeting mine. "There are no secrets between us, Baby Girl. Ask what you want."
A long moment went by, with him waiting for me to speak. I swallowed my last hesitation away and came out with it. "Well, I was wondering-- how often do you masturbate?"
You know how, in the movies, when somebody is shocked, their jaw drops and their eyes open wide and their eyebrows fly up? He did that. Just like in the movies. He does that sometimes. It's really cute. Sometimes I say appalling things just to see that expression, but that wasn't my goal this time. I had other goals.
I waited for him to recover, for his face to go back to something resembling normal, then he laughed. "What brings that topic up?"
I was ready for the question. I'd rehearsed my response. "Well, one of the other nurses at work said that her husband masturbates every day. In the morning, when he's in the bathroom. You know--brush your teeth, use the toilet, take a shower. And he masturbates. He says it part of getting ready for the day."
"And she tells you this?" Dad asked. "I'm glad she's not my wife, discussing that with other people."
"No, she says he doesn't care. He says it's just normal stuff, not a big deal."
It took Dad a bit of time to digest that. Then he had more questions. He was trying not to answer, wasn't he? "What does she think of that? Isn't he supposed to be having sex with her?"
"I asked her that too," I said, trying to be as reassuring as possible. "She doesn't mind. She says they have sex at bedtime the normal amount. She's ok with it."
Dad was quiet now. He hadn't answered, so I prodded him a bit. "So I was wondering," I said, "whether all men do that, or if he's doing something different. Do you do that?"
He was thinking. I could see the wheels turning in his head as he figured out what to do. On the one hand, this was his daughter he was talking to. On the other hand, he'd always told me that sex is nothing to be embarrassed about and I should feel free to ask whatever I wanted to know. Sometimes I feel sorry for him, a single man trying to raise a daughter, ever since Mom decided to leave us and go to France to "find her true self."
He found a way to avoid the question. "That reminds me," he said. "Do you remember the time you asked me how it was possible for two men to have sex?"
I didn't remember, but it was pretty funny. I could imagine myself doing that. "What did you say?" I asked.
"What could I say? I told you the truth. You thought I was kidding. That was a long time ago."
"I hope so," I said, laughing. "I don't remember it though."
He was buying time to figure out what to say, wasn't he? But I wasn't going to let him change the subject. So I just calmly waited for him to answer my question. "She says he just does it into the toilet. Like point-and-shoot. She thinks most men do that."
Eventually, he decided to be a good father. "I don't do it like that," he said. "Not like that."
He still hadn't answered the question. I wasn't going to let him off the hook. "So how often do you do it?" I asked.
Again, he hesitated, and eventually he decided that he'd tell me. He probably figured that the sooner he answered the question, the sooner I'd drop the topic. "I don't know. Maybe four or five times a week. Most days."
I wasn't done tormenting him. "In the morning, like he does it? In the bathroom?"
Now, here's a little secret, just between you, Dear Reader, and me. I already knew that he masturbated at bedtime and how often he did it. I'd been checking his wastebasket for soggy tissues and keeping track. Also, I know where he keeps his bottle of lube, in the nightstand. Every so often, I find an excuse to go into his bedroom in the morning, to see what tissues are littered around the bed. And sometimes he leaves his browser open on his laptop, so I can go into his history and see what kind of porn he watches. But he didn't know that.
He answered. "No, normally at bedtime." Then he looked at me with a puzzled face. "So, what's this about?"
I didn't want to answer that question, so I ignored it. "How come I don't hear you?" I asked. "Don't you make noise when you do it?" That wasn't exactly true, that I didn't hear, but it seemed like the best thing to say.
"I try to be quiet," he said.
I could tell he was really hoping I'd shut up. But I had one more thing to say. That was the whole purpose of the conversation. "You don't have to be quiet," I said. "It won't bother me if I hear you." I needed to clarify a bit. "I mean, you don't have a girlfriend. It's no secret that you have to do it."
He laughed again. "I'll keep that in mind," he said. "Any other incredibly personal questions you'd like to ask? You want to know about my bowel movements too? I'll be happy to keep you posted."
"That's disgusting," I said, giggling.
I wasn't done yet. I had hoped he would ask me about my habits, but he didn't. I guess part of the Daddy Code of Ethics is that you don't ask your daughter about her masturbation. So I tried a different approach.
"Can you hear me when I do it?" I asked.
He laughed again. "Am I supposed to? I wouldn't think you'd want me to."
He hadn't answered the question. I assumed that meant he had heard, which was good. "It doesn't matter," I said. "I don't care. I guess I try to be quiet too."
"Whatever floats your boat," he said. (That's an old-person way of saying that I can do whatever I want.)
I was hoping he'd ask me how often I masturbate, when I do it, even how I did it, and whether he could watch. I was hoping he'd tell me that I could be as noisy as I wanted, so he could hear. But, of course, he did none of those things.
He just looked at me, waiting to see if there was anything else I wanted to say. I didn't, so he picked up his plate and resumed working on his slice. He turned on the TV and found the Golf Channel, which is probably the most boring thing that exists on TV, right up there with the Paint Drying Channel.
I should have left then, but I didn't. I like being with Dad. When we were finished eating, I stretched out on the couch and put my feet in his lap, and he massaged my toes. Someday I'll get him to give me a pedicure, but that wasn't the time.
Dear Reader, I bet you've deduced by now that there is more to this story than you've been told. What was I doing, asking my father a ridiculously inappropriate question like that?
The answer is that it was part of a plan, a plan I'd been hatching for months. The goal? The goal is for Dad to make love to me. Yep, that's right, I want to have sex with my dad. I know I'm evil, immoral, and sinful to want such a thing, but I can assure you, I won't be the first girl to want it. I've been thinking about it forever, but when I moved back home after school, it seemed like it might be possible.
Dear Reader, I can assure you. It's more than just possible. It's certain. I'm going to make it happen. The key is patience. Little by little, step by step, I'm going to inch him toward it until he can't resist. Patience is essential so that he doesn't figure out what's going on until he's in my trap -- or, rather, in my bed.
The first step of the plan was to find reasons to talk to my dad about sex. The more intimate, the better. He needs to start seeing me as a grown-up, sexual woman, not a little girl. That's what I was doing this night. This was just the beginning.
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DAY 2, IN MY ROOM
The conversation with Dad the previous evening started me thinking. I had told him that I don't hear him masturbating, which is kind of true, but not really. At bedtime, I hear him open his nightstand to get his lube, I hear his computer open, I hear him get into bed. If I listen carefully, I can hear the bed rocking just a bit. In about fifteen minutes, I hear him get out of bed, put the lube away, then go to the bathroom. He does it almost every night.
And you know what I'm doing while he's busy with himself? I'm doing the same thing he is. Except instead of looking at porn on a computer, I'm using a little tiny vibrator, while I listen to him and try to make out the sounds of his bed rocking.
Sometimes, if I'm feeling especially naughty, I wait for him to finish, then I go to the bathroom just before him. The goal is to run into him as I come out and he goes in. He's usually in his undies and a t-shirt, not his pajamas, and he acts all nonchalant, like nothing has been going on. Sometimes, I think I can smell his lube or maybe it's his cum, or maybe it's his sweat. Or maybe it's my imagination. It's probably my imagination.
This morning, I'd had an idea. After he went to work, I found his computer. Sure enough, he hadn't cleared his browser history and I could see what he'd been watching, from 10:22 to 10:32 last night, after our conversation. This wasn't the first time I'd snooped, but this time, I had a purpose.
I'd been hoping to see daddy-daughter porn, or, as they call it, step-daughter porn. I was disappointed. I'd been looking at his porn every once in a while for months now, and there was daddy-daughter stuff only rarely. This time, there wasn't any of that. It was mostly young girls, mostly with small boobs like me, sometimes with men and sometimes with other women, but usually alone. And they were masturbating. Bingo!
The porn he liked best was watching young girls with small boobs getting themselves off. Was it possible, just possible, that while he was jacking off, he was thinking about me? Was he aware of what I was doing, on the other side of the bedroom wall? Was he trying to hear me while I was trying to hear him?