"Dad, we've got to talk," my lovely adopted daughter Ping said, as she shuffled through the scrawled sheets of paper left behind by my just-departed wife.
"Well, that ended a deteriorating marriage," I thought. I'm Sam Collingswood, age 41. Tall, averagely muscular, and self-employed. Susan, my wife of 16 years—bottle blonde, white, and chubby—was just 38 years old, but, over the last several years, had been acting like a 50-year-old hyper-conservative, man-hating, feminist witch-bitch.
Nothing men did—particularly me—was good or right enough.
Ping, in case you haven't figured it out yet, was our—well, as of now, just my—adopted daughter. Of Chinese-American parentage, Connie and I had adopted her formally. As of today, she was just 3 days past her 18th birthday and had just graduated from high school. Ping had grown into about 4' 10" and about 90 lbs. of mixed-race (mostly Asian) wonderment, earning a straight-A average in Pre-STEM classes, particularly math and science.
She had the usual glossy black hair, worn in a sensible, easy-to-care-for straight banged bob. She was, as was the norm for mixed-race Asian women, about a B-cup, with slender, narrow hips and thin but muscular legs. Her American heritage had blessed her with a golden-brown skin, which tanned easily.
Ping's attitude toward affection, trust, clothing, food, boys/men and lust was, compared to Susan's, about like night was to day. Ping even told her adopted mother about giving blow-jobs, loosing her cherry to a boy in school and buying a roll of condoms. Susan 'took to her bed,' screaming that 'she'd brought shame upon the family,' especially as the topics of sex and dress involved a male.
They fought about how Ping dressed and spoke. It was argument hell near continuously, with me in the middle, trying—usually failing—to make peace, so there was a lot of ice-cold silences at home. This always resulted in a Susan acting out the 'frigid wife' role, for my failure to take her side of any argument. Sigh!
Both my wife and I had attended her high school graduation ceremony. In fact, it appeared that my now-absent wife had left the graduation ceremonies early, before the ceremony started, supposedly to use the restrooms, but hadn't returned as I sat there in the bleachers, waiting for the ceremony to begin.
The ceremony, complete with Pomp-And-Circumstance music from the school's band (awful) had been on Friday afternoon, in June of 2007. After the ceremony, diploma in hand, Ping and I had waited around until we were the last to leave the area, with no wife to be found.
No car of ours was to be found, either, so we had to call a cab to get a ride home. When we got there, all we found was her cleaned-out closet and chest-of-drawers, several pages of scrawled handwriting, and an opened family home safe, cleaned out of all emergency monies.
Ping volunteered to 'translate' the pages into a readable summary, so I let her, while I went out to my garage-workshop to bang on the concrete floor with a sledge hammer. After an hour or so, Ping called out to me and I returned to the kitchen table, sweating but with a smile on my face.
"Ping," I said, "what did you figure out from those papers, 'cause I couldn't make sense out of them, beyond the fact that Connie had suddenly gone, to 'find herself'."
She said, "OK, Dad, here goes. The 1st pages was where she said that she realized she was a lesbian. She called you lots of filthy names, like 'male-chauvinist pig' and 'dirty fucking rapist'. She wrote that you were always 'man-spreading' around her. Your proper place was kneeling on the floor, worshiping and supporting her as a goddess, with one of her stiletto-heeled pumps on your neck. Lots of justifications and excuses for her nasty words, blah, blah, blah."
"Then Mom wrote that I was a 'hopeless breeder' and probably a 'slut-whore' for nasty-raping men, including you. She wrote lots of rationalizations, justifications and excuses for treating us like shit over the last several years, especially in bed with you, but that you deserved it, because you were part of the 'patriarchy' that was holding womyn down, yada, yada, yada"
"The 2nd set of pages were an explanation of what she did to you, in loving detail. She took all the money out of the checking and savings account, and used the overdraft protections to the maximum. She transferred all her debt to your credit card, then borrowed against all the other credit cards, maxing them out. You know she took all our emergency money from the safe. Lots more rationalizations, justifications and excuses, with more blah, blah, blah.
"For the rest of the pages, she went on to say she took the car, and lit out for somewhere near Espanola in New Mexico, at a Woman's Colony. She added lots more rationalizations, justifications, and excuses, pretty much lying about the lies she lied about, yada, yada, yada."
"Finally, she defended her actions by saying that everything was rationalized, excused and justified because of 8,000 years of male patriarchy, and all that money was hers now, as a token pre-payment to so-superior womyn-hood, with all the rest of the justifications, rationalizations, excuses and anything else she could think of to blame others—especially you and me—instead of herself. Final set of self-serving blah, blah, blah."
Ping ended her translation of her Mom's handwriting, stating, "It looks like Mom's gone for good. Bye, baby!"
"But," Ping commented, "unless you've got some other money stashed away, right now, we're flat broke, except for what's in my purse or in your wallet, plus being deep in debt."
Grinning broadly and saying nothing, I just showed her the two old, battered 50-caliber ammunition boxes that had come out of the concrete floor of our garage. I opened one and let Ping see the stacks of $50's and $100's, plus the several rolls of Canadian Maple Leaf gold coins, currently worth about $2,000 each. I also let my daughter see the 8 platinum no-limit credit/debit cards in my name, as well.
Ping, to her credit, didn't collapse, or even scream. Instead, she just let me see a big, 100-watt smile. She jumped up on me, slender legs around my hips and gave me a big, body-squeezing hug.
"So, Dad," she said, giggling, "it looks like Mom's gone 'to find herself,' while being a radical-feminist lesbian, leaving the two of us to be a family. She's not coming back. Thanks to your hidden box, we've got enough money to pay off all the debt and keep us going for a long time."
"So, Daddy, I'm gonna take Mom's place for you, only do I'm gonna do it a lot better and sexier. We're both gonna have lots of good times over the next years. Yeah, and that means you having sex with me. Lots of slippery, gooey, pounding, screaming, squirting, naked sex. It's gonna happen, 'cause I'm gonna do it! You don't get a vote. End of discussion!"
Then she ran for her room, tossing a comment over her skinny shoulder, saying, "OK, Daddy, I'm gonna go swim. There's a 'new sheriff' in town—that's you—so I get to wear my new bikini, the one you and Mom didn't know about. You get to look at me wearing it, in about half an hour, and you'd better look real hard, 'cause I'm gonna like showing off ... and so will you, after I take it off and start sex with you."
Looking, I saw her old, one-piece, full cover-up suit in the trash.
About 3 minutes later, I heard a splash. The specified half-hour later, I ambled over toward the pool. Ping was using the diving board. My lovely daughter was alternative jumping off the diving board and swimming laps.
She was so beautiful ... and so young. I sighed, being an older middle-aged man. Wearing a set of boxer-type swim shorts, I settled down on one of the loungers and just watched the show.
Which show took quite a while, as my 18-year-old Ping deliberately posed for me, on the diving board ... while pulling herself up the pool's ladder ... at the side of the pool ... right in front of my lounger, too.
OK, now, there are bikini swimsuits, but then, there are skimpier outfits. Finally, at least here in the States, there are the Wicked Weasel suits, which are very skimpy. But finally, there are the Imports from Brazil, which translate into the term 'dental floss'.
Ping wore a black swimsuit that was somewhere between the Weasel and the Floss. Her figure and boobs were distinctly Asian, which included slim hips, a flat belly, slender, muscular legs and small B-cup boobs.
Nevertheless, her black swimsuit barely covered her womanly slitted opening in front and was a bare thread in back. Her boobs were still about two-thirds exposed, on top, sides, bottom and inside, and what was (barely) enclosed was covered with black mesh. There was a simple clasp in front for her top and two similar clasps on either side of her micro-triangle of mesh in front.
She looked like a white-man's 'yellow-fever' wet-dream. Particularly so, since I could see her completely-erected nipples. OK, the water was cool and the water evaporated from her skin when she emerged from the pool. Or, it might have been all-out lust. I didn't care, because—being male—I was looking and trying hard not to drool.
Ping looked at me, giggled, flipped her nipples through the mesh materials and said, "Go ahead, Daddy, drool. I like it. Do you wanna see my nips bare?"
Dumb question. Dry mouthed, I nodded.
My Ping laughed out loud and flipped open the clip at the front of her top, the material, under tension, flipped open. Unasked, she reached down and flipped loose the 2 clasps that held her suit's bottom closed. It sprang open and it slithered over her hips and down her legs, to puddle at her feet.
I saw only golden-light-brown skin, with a bare-bald pussy and small-but-erected nipples, plus a 100-watt grin on her pretty face. I gasped, uselessly, and said, "You shaved!"
Still giggling, Ping said, "Well, sure, Daddy, my pussy's bare. But I don't shave, any more. I took my birthday money a year ago and had a laser treatment, at the same time I got my implant, when I went off to Canada, that summer, with the 'student group'. I'll never grow a single hair down there again."
"I know you like it, I can see that," she added, looking down.
Oh, God, I was naked and I had a big boner. When had I ...?