Sarah sat back on the living room couch holding her cup of tea and enjoying the peace. This was one of the increasingly rare evenings when her daughter and her friends had not taken over the television with a stream of Kardashians and celebrity gossip shows, when the girl was not pawing through her refrigerator demanding to know whether there was anything good to eat—not that anyone would ever dream of helping her fix a meal or even warm perfectly good leftovers, when she was not begging her for a ride somewhere when an eighteen-year-old girl—woman, if you think about it!—with her own driver's license should be perfectly capable of borrowing the family car and returning it in one piece with a tank full of gas. Oh, and of course begging for money to go out with her bubble-headed friends. Her head was already throbbing just trying to understand how one girl could go through that many minimum wage jobs in less than a year. How much effort and skill does it take to ask whether one would like fries with that.
Sarah sipped her tea and looked up at the wall clock. Seven o'clock, and Becky was out of the house for the night. She left an hour ago with Reilly and Summer, two former schoolmates who seemed to be on the same path, god help their parents. At least this meant she would have a quiet evening, just her and her husband Alan. Well, not likely to be quiet for long. With the house usually full of 18 and 19-year-old girls, they got almost no time alone. This was a rare night she didn't have a church council meeting, Homeowner's Association meeting, or organizing committee meeting. And with Becky finally out of high school—by the skin of her teeth, to be honest—her days of soccer league fundraisers, bake sales, and PTA meetings are finally over. Tonight, she just wanted to take Alan to the bedroom, draw the curtains, lock the door, and make a little noise.
No sooner had she taken another sip and let a wry smile cross her lips than Alan walked in with the mail. She was about to grab his ass, an ass he has kept tight and muscular all these years and for which she was thankful when she thought of how her friends and neighbors had let themselves go after forty, but she saw he looked a bit concerned.
"What's wrong, darling?" she asked.
"Oh, probably nothing. There was just an envelope in the mailbox with no stamp or return address."
"Another solicitation for driveway sealing or landscapers, most likely. You know, they are not supposed to put those in the mailbox itself. It's tampering with the post, I believe."
"Maybe, but it has our names handwritten on the front so it's not a bulk flyer." He opened the envelop and unfolded single sheet of paper. "What?" he muttered. "Listen to this:
Dear Sarah and Alan,
I write this to you as a concerned friend. There is something you both deserve to know, and I do not know the words to tell you or how I would ever make you believe me if I said it out loud. Instead, I ask that you both sit down, brace yourselves, and open this link. ... Okay, it's a link but through a bit.ly proxy so I don't know what it is... You may not want to see this, but you do need to see it. Make your own decisions from there and know we will be with you in spirit.
Sincerely,
A Deeply Concerned Friend."
"Alan," said Sarah, shaking her head, "we either have serious problem or that must be the most elaborate, convoluted spam mail I have ever received without a Nigerian prince on the other end. Do you even want to open the link? What if it's something horrible? What if we get Rick Rolled?"
"Very funny, Sarah. Someone went to the of trouble of typing this and slipping it into our box, and I kind of want to know what it's about."
"Maybe. But what if one of the partners in the firm sent one of those awful gross-out links as a joke. I wouldn't put it past Steve. He understands neither humor nor boundaries."
"No, he wouldn't make it look ominous like this if he wanted you to open it. He would just make it look like a link to a gardening Pintrest or something."
"Alan, I have other interests you know. But, you're right. That lot isn't going to think three steps ahead just for a stupid gag. Well, let's get it over with."
They both pulled up chairs in front of the family computer, opened a browser, and typed in the link. As his finger hovered over the Enter button, Alan paused and effected a stern and far-away look. "Are we suitably prepared for whatever horrors or wonders might—"
"Alan, just get on with it. My tea is getting cold."
He clicked and when he did the link redirected to a page filled with ads for Hot Singles Near You, All-natural Male Enhancement Pills, and cam girl ads.
Spam,
he thought to himself and was about to click the close button when he saw it. The sharp intake of breath from his wife told him she saw it too. The face in the center top below the rows of porn ads was... Becky? No, it couldn't be. This was an elaborate prank. It had to be...
"Alan... What is this about? I just..."
The page was filled with rows of tiny pictures of Becky. It was laid out like a Pornstar page on PornHub. It certainly looked like a Pornstar page on PornHub, and those certainly looked like links to porn videos staring their daughter. But it couldn't be. Becky was barely out of high school. She was bouncing from minimum wage job to minimum wage job unwilling to buckle down and take responsibility because she just wanted to party. She just kept hoping being pretty and pouting would let her get whatever she wanted in life. Oh my god, he just described every teenager who goes into porn.
While they sat there confused, looking for "Gotcha" to pop up or some evidence that this was an elaborate Photoshop fake, the first video opened started playing. A young woman who certainly looked like Becky and had brown hair with frosted tips like Becky and a green Hollister t-shirt like Becky appeared on screen. A gravelly voice offscreen told me, "Show me them titties!"
Oh, no. Not one of those
, Alan and Sarah both thought to themselves. The girl, who absolutely could not be their daughter, took off her top and waved her breasts at the camera. Alan would never admit it, but those did look like Becky's tits. Not that he would ever look of his own volition, but damn it she walked around the house half naked, and when he told her to put some clothes on she just laughed and called him old. The camera pulled back as she spread her legs and started fingering herself.
"There!" Alan shouted definitively. "That's not Becky. That girl has a tattoo. Our Becky doesn't have a tattoo." He pointed at a small tattoo on the girl's mons.
"Becky has a tattoo," said Sarah, flatly.
"No. Really? No. Since when?"
"She told me. She has a tattoo. A purple butterfly. She said, 'Don't tell Daddy, but...' Of the things that girl gets up to, I didn't think a tattoo would be worth a second thought. And before you ask, I didn't know where it was."
"Did you know about this?" he asked, shocked.
"No, dear. I most certainly did not know about this."
"Are you sure that's her tattoo? Maybe it could be purple. Is that a butterfly. It's too small to tell."
The both leaned close to the monitor trying to see the tattoo, completely not cognizant of the fact they were almost certainly squinting at their daughter pleasuring herself."
The camera suddenly zoomed in on her pussy. "Whoa! Yes. Yes, that is definitely a purple butterfly. That is our Becky."
They both sat there in silence. Looking at each other and at the screen and back at each other. "Alan," said Sarah quietly. "We could have saved ourselves some trouble. Over here in the the stats." She pointed to the side of the screen. "Tattoos: 1 - pussy - purple butterfly."
"That would have been good to have noticed a minute ago. And this, too. Her name is... Starlee Night. No, Becks. No."
"Do you think she picked it herself?" Sarah wondered. "I guess she must have. There isn't some National Board of Pornstar Names doling them out. But, really? Starlee Knight?"
The video continued while they were discussing her choice of name. A male performer had appeared on screen, held her ankles apart, and thrust his cock into her. This was the point where they should have just turned off the computer and wondered at the hand fate dealt them. They had seen what they needed to see, what some anonymous friend thought they needed to see. They now knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that their little girl had grown up to be a porn star. But instead, they were transfixed. They wouldn't admit it, but there they were looking at some random man fucking their 19 year old daughter for all the world to see. She was moaning and writhing and begging him to destroy her little pussy with his big hard cock, and not entirely convincingly. The dialog certainly did not help. They were still trying to find the words. While Sarah clicked her tongue and struggled to express what she was feeling right then, the man pulled out his cock and came in thick ropes all over their daughter's belly.