I'm 45, a good husband and a loving father to a son and a daughter. I run my own business and I run it pretty well -- we've never really wanted for money.
I play golf once a week when I can, I put my pants on one leg at a time and I belong to a couple of local service clubs. In short, I've always seen myself as normal.
Until today, that is, when I walked into the bathroom and everything changed.
My daughter's name is Jenny. She's 19 and home from college for the weekend. My wife's out of town visiting her parents, and Jenny's brother will be back next weekend.
Until this afternoon, I thought of my daughter as beautiful in the way every doting father sees his daughter as beautiful. Jenny's also a good girl -- studious, hard-working, a scholarship student -- but she's also a little introverted. Not many friends in high school and only a couple of boyfriends, neither of whom made it past two months of dating.
To Jenny's benefit, she got most of my wife's looks. Jenny's got a heart-shaped face and shoulder-length brunette hair. She's wide-hipped and big-breasted, but she's fairly athletic and she's tall. At least I contributed height to the package. At 5'11", her 34D breasts simply make her look statuesque. Sometimes, she slumps so as not to accentuate them.
Jenny had been quiet all weekend. She'd talked a bit and laughed at all my unfunny jokes, but her eyes were distant. It was mid-afternoon on Saturday as I finished up washing dishes and cleaning the kitchen that I realized my daughter had been showering for what must have been an hour. We'd had lunch together. She'd gone to shower after lunch. Now, an hour later, the water was still running.
Dish towel over my shoulder, I debated what to do. Sighing, I finally went to knock on the bathroom door.
"Go away," Jenny said.
"Honey, you're using all the world's hot water reserves. What's wrong?"
"Nothing."
I tried the doorknob. Locked from inside.
"Honey, what's wrong?"
I heard the doorknob click as she unlocked it and pulled the door slightly open. Steam billowed out.
Without thinking anything through, I walked in.
Jenny sat naked in the tub while the shower streamed down on her. The curtain was partially open, but the floor wasn't too wet.
She turned and looked at me. "Leave me alone."