All characters are over 18. This is a work of fiction, and all characters, locations, and events are imaginary. It's mostly focused on teasing and looking between a stepfather and a stepdaughter, but there's a happy ending. So to speak.
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Hayley always loved my lap. I suppose that's how it all began.
I married her mother, Janet, almost 13 years ago. It was a whirlwind of love and lust and happiness, and I'd never been more content with my life. Janet drew me out of my introvert shell, and dragged me to parties and museums and even dance classes, and I loved every minute of it. And the sex was absolutely incredible. Janet was adventurous and we tried anything and everything that sounded fun and hot.
Hayley was 8 when I married Janet, and we got along from the start. Hayley's father left when she was young, and Janet resented him with an abiding passion. Janet used to use his name to describe particularly bad messes and stains: "That's a real Dennis there, let me get the bleach." Hayley and I were always comfortable with each other, and unlike most children from similar circumstances she somehow didn't carry the weight of her loss around like baggage.
Almost two years ago we lost Janet to lung cancer. She wasn't even a smoker, though Dennis had been. It all happened suddenly, and Janet went from this vital, energetic person who filled the room with vibrance and warmth to being a memory in the space of months.
Predictably, I lost my will to socialize and went back to my introversion with a vengeance. Only my family and my small circle of close friends were even tolerable to me in that state, and they all tried without real success to get me to engage in activities. It took a year for me to even feel all right going to a movie theater. It was a long, slow, painful crawl back to liking being around most other people, and honestly I'm not entirely there yet.
Hayley was the exception. Her smile lit up my life, and I did everything I could to give her reasons to smile.
When she was little, she'd climb in my lap on movie nights and I'd wrap one arm around her and the other around Janet, who'd lean in and make it a big shared hug. When Hayley became a teen and got bigger, she'd often lie down across Janet and me in the evenings, with her head in one lap and her feet curled up in the other. On rough days when she needed some comfort, one of us would often rub her scalp gently and the other would rub her feet.
Then when Hayley had been put to bed and Janet and I had the couch to ourselves, Janet would often lie stretched out with her head in my lap as we'd talk or watch TV.
Janet absolutely loved playing with my cock. More than anything, she loved edging me with her mouth and hands until I was painfully hard, precum leaking liberally as she kissed and sucked and licked and stroked me. Every kind of sex we had was fantastic, and I'd fill one or more of her hungry holes at least once a day, but coming in her mouth was a religious experience.
One night nearly three years ago when Hayley was 18, and in the throes of her first real relationship with a boy named Mark whom I never trusted, she came back downstairs for a drink of water about an hour after she'd gone to bed. She'd always been able to move silently when she wanted to, and her bare feet made no sound at all, so it wasn't until her soft gasp that I knew she was there.
Janet was lying with her head in my lap, and was busy running her tongue around the ridge of my cockhead, making little wet noises, as I was leaning back with my eyes closed enjoying every second of it. My eyes opened and met Hayley's and I had a moment of utter confusion and terror as she stood there in the kitchen doorway with her eyes wide then darted off. For once, her footfalls were audible.
Janet thought it was funny, but I was mortified. We had a long talk about it the next day, the three of us, and Hayley assured us that it was ok and she was happy we loved each other. As it happens she'd recently been getting some pressure from Mark to progress their relationship to a more physical level, as I expected and feared. They'd been fooling around and she'd touched his penis and kissed the tip. He wanted more but she was uncertain how to proceed, and this led to a discussion about boundaries and healthy relationships and enthusiastic consent and how No Means No. From there it progressed to matters of technique, and I quickly bowed out, leaving Janet to talk about what boys like. I couldn't help being uncomfortable with my wife telling my stepdaughter about sucking dicks, especially given the night before. Janet and Hayley both grinned at me as I fled.
Happily nothing changed between Hayley and me, though I worried she'd understandably feel weird and uncomfortable putting her head in my lap again. She didn't, and she carried on as before, each night putting her feet or head where she'd seen her mother giving me pleasure. I got over it and life returned to normal. There was nothing sexual about it after all.
When Janet died, Hayley had just started college. Her campus was just a short drive away, and we'd all agreed it made sense for Hayley to keep living at home. I'm glad we did, because after losing Janet I was an absolute wreck, and Hayley's company kept me from falling apart entirely. I had someone to care for, and someone who cared for me, and just having someone hug me reminded me how to be human. I suppose I was as touch-starved as I was heartbroken, and Hayley helped on both levels.
This summer was a hot one, hotter than any I remembered. Hayley was working in the day in a customer service role where she talked people through technical issues over the phone, and spending her evenings as a caregiver for the elderly, something she'd done for years. She enjoyed both jobs, but I missed her and looked forward to the weekends, when we'd lounge around our backyard pool and sit under the huge umbrellas we set up, reading and talking and relaxing.
Hayley started dressing more provocatively recently, though as far as I knew she only did so at home. She said she shouldn't be uncomfortable about her body, which was a fair point. I couldn't help noticing how beautiful she'd become though, and I couldn't help looking. And despite my every intention, I couldn't help finding her body appealing and attractive.
Hayley had grown to look so much like Janet that it hurt sometimes, because she'd turn and flash that smile and I'd forget for a moment who was in front of me, despite the passage of 2 years. She was a bit curvier than Janet had been, despite her flat tummy, and when she occasionally wore her mom's old clothes I couldn't help noticing how the fabric stretched. I'd gone shopping with her for years and knew full well that she had C-cup breasts, and at 5'5" she barely came up to my chest. That's still taller than her mother had been, who'd stunned with a 5'1" frame and perky B-cups.
We'd had some heart-to-heart talks about loneliness and grief and moving on earlier in the summer. Hayley was rightly concerned about me, and though she never wanted anyone to replace Janet, she wanted me to be happy, which I appreciated. When Hayley'd gone away to college I'd promised to always treat her like an adult, even if the conversations were difficult or uncomfortable. When she'd asked me if I missed sex, that was one of those difficult and uncomfortable moments, but I answered her honestly and as candidly as I could: yes, of course I missed sex, but I wasn't ready to form new relationships yet, and I wasn't interested in sex without love. When she asked if I masturbated I almost shut the conversation down, but that would be cowardly of me and unfair to her, so I took a moment to compose myself before admitting that yes, I did, often. I hadn't lost interest in sex at all.
I love Hayley, and I owe her my honesty. Anyhow, without a mother to talk to about this stuff, she only had me, and I was determined not to fail her.
Things changed forever on a midsummer Saturday in the late afternoon, and though I don't normally condone day-drinking I'd broken out a cold beer and was sipping it in the shade as I read. We'd had BLTs for lunch and I was full and happy. Now it was time to relax and catch a little sun, and a lot of shade. I was bare-chested and enjoying a faint breeze that picked up from time to time.
Hayley was reading as she walked over, holding my old battered paperback copy of "A Game of Thrones" as she effortlessly navigated between the chairs and came to sit on the lounger next to me. She was wearing Janet's skimpiest bikini, and what had barely covered her mother failed to do the same for her. As she sat down, I saw the tiny triangles struggle to cover even a quarter of her breasts. A generous amount of sideboob and underboob hung out, and her gently bronzed skin showed the tan lines from the much larger bikini she normally wore.
"That again? Don't you want to read something new, nerd?" We'd always teased each other gently, never cruelly, and she grinned back happily over the top of the book. Calling her a nerd for reading my well-used book was the kind of self-deprecating humor we'd long employed.
"Look who's talking. You've reread that pearl necklace book of Mom's twice now." That was a standing joke because she knew full well I'd have to correct her.
"Pearl earring, not necklace. Get your mind out of the gutter, young lady." It was one of Janet's; she'd turned me on to historical romances and I'd found myself captivated by the fictionalized account of how the masterpiece painting by Vermeer had come about.
"But I like it in the gutter. Among other places," she replied, laughing. For the last year or so Hayley had been expressing her adult individuality through raunchier speech, like Janet used to. I'd grown accustomed; it was just another part of her, and I loved every part. Sometimes I was a little uncomfortable having my little girl direct my thoughts to sex, but that was my problem and I was determined not to make it hers.
"Well, you're your mother's daughter, so that's no surprise." She grinned but didn't reply, and we both read for a bit. It was muggy out and even in the shade we were both sweating. I got up to get myself another beer and Hayley looked up with those big brown eyes and asked sweetly, "Daddy, can I have some? I'm almost 21 and I'm not going anywhere and nobody needs to know. And it's so hot!" She'd called me Daddy since she was 12, and whenever she wanted anything from me she'd use a little-girl voice that just made me melt. She knew it, and took advantage, but sparingly enough that I let it slide.