Daniel heard keys in the door and the lock turn. He turned towards the front door and heard a voice call out, "Hello, anyone home?"
"In here Tatty!" He called out.
She dragged a suitcase into the entryway of the living room.
"Oh my god, you're still going to call me that?"
"What?" Daniel asked with a smile, "what am I supposed to call you?"
"I don't know," she sighed and rolled her eyes with a smile, "maybe by name. Or Tat. People at college have been calling me Tat and I kind of like it."
Daniel laughed, "nobody in this house has called you Tatiana since as long as I've known you or your mom and I don't think I could call you Tat with a straight face long enough to finish the syllable."
Tatty sighed harder, "Tatty it is I guess. Where's Mom?"
It was Daniel's turn to roll his eyes, "Away. Again."
"What?! How long?!"
"Until Sunday night. I know. She never could take time off. But she assured me she would be back for Sunday night and we'd all go out to dinner together. She was stressed out trying to balance you being home for the weekend and our anniversary dinner so I've decided to tell her you could join us. It's not like we don't have so many other days to do dinner alone."
"Oh my god, right, your anniversary! I'm sorry, I'm awful with dates. God, how many years is this?"
Daniel looked up as if studying the air to try and remember how many years since Tatty's mom and he had gotten married.
"Ten? Eleven?"
Tatty laughed, "don't give Mom that answer if she asks."
"Eleven," Daniel nodded, "yeah, absolutely eleven."
Tatty shook her head slightly in disbelief, "it's hard to believe its been that long. I have vague memories of getting dressed up as the flower girl. I remember being so nervous with all of those people staring at me. Dad was so good and sat at the front and told me to pretend I was talking to him."
"Yeah," Daniel said smiling, "I always tell Steve how much I appreciate him being so cool with everything. Most men wouldn't come to the wedding of his ex-wife but he knew how much it would mean to your Mom and you."
Tatty nodded and smiled reflectively, "anyways. So she won't be back until Sunday?"
"At the earliest."
"Well, I better get this suitcase upstairs and I think I'm going to take a shower. I've been driving all day. What are you making me for dinner anyway?"
"I'm making you dinner?" Daniel laughed.
"I was just going to grab something through a drive-thru and find some movie to put on that your Mom wouldn't like."
"That works for me. Tell me where you're going and I'll let you know what I want."
"Sounds good, Tatty."
She sighed and shook her head before carrying her suitcase upstairs.
*****
Daniel was already home with the food when Tatty had come downstairs from putting her things away and showering. He was sitting on the couch finishing the last few bites of his burger. Her hair was damp and she was wearing a pajama cami and shorts. He stared at her for a minute, forgetting how grown up she looks when she was in her comfortable clothes, as she called them.
"Uh, hey. Wow. Um, your food is on the counter in the kitchen."
"Thanks," she said and bounded out of the room.
Daniel stared at her for a second before he realized that he had been looking way too long. Tatty had been out of the house for a few months and he had not remembered her wearing anything so skimpy before. Of course she had walked around the house with a tank top and no bra before, but her shorts were usually longer and most times she wore pajama pants even in the summer. He was taken back by how he couldn't get the image of her in those clothes out of his mind.
"Hey, what are we watching?"
Tatty had come back in the room and stood in front of the TV with her back to him. It was something she had been doing for years, playfully annoying him as he would also do to her.
"Apparently your back," he slouched backwards, grabbed a pillow and whapped her hip with it.
"Oh, sorry, am I in the way?" She said slowly in a mock apologetic tone.
"Kinda."
"Oh, okay," she moved back and sat on his knees still staring at the TV.
Daniel was taken back by this as well. It wasn't completely uncommon for Tatty to sit on him, but it always took him a bit by surprise when she did it because it was so infrequent and often spur of the moment. It often made him feel uncomfortable, as if someone would see it and think it was wrong. And now with her wearing clothing that showed a whole lot of skin he felt even more awkward and there was nobody else around to even judge him. He felt that it wasn't okay and if anyone else was in the room they would stare at him with disgust.
Rather than say anything he decided to just sit there silently. He found he had even began to hold is breath for some reason and only stopped doing so when he realized it and couldn't think of why he had held it to begin with. He had an impulse to set his hands on her hips and he quickly shook it away.
No, he thought, that wasn't right. He was only thinking of Marie, her mother. That was the only reason it came to mind.
Tatty took a big bite of her burger, turned her shoulders around to look at him and said with a mouthful of food while pointing at the TV, "what is this anyway?"
"Don't talk with your mouthful," Daniel said, the only thing he could think of to say as she looked at him and he tried to avoid darting his eyes down to her breasts.
She swallowed, "oh, right. Sorry Dad-iel," and laughed.
"Now, don't you start calling me that!" He groaned.
"If you're going to call me a cute little nickname from when I was a kid then I'm going to call you what I used to call you when I was a kid, Dad-iel."
The next words he let slip out without thinking and turned bright red the second they slipped from his mouth.
"If you do then I guess you're going to get a spanking like you did when you were a little girl."
She raised an eyebrow at him and stared for a couple of seconds. It felt like an eternity.
"You never spanked me," she looked another moment, took another bite and rolled her eyes and turned back to the TV.
"Maybe you should have. I was such a brat."
She sunk back into his lap. Daniel gulped with his entire body. His hands froze as her back laid against his chest. She turned to the side and rested her head on his shoulder and continued watching what was on TV.
Daniel slowed his breathing. Almost too slow for him to get enough air. He didn't want to move but also wanted to stand up and walk away from her, but felt it would be too strange a reaction. All she was doing was sitting in his lap. It was his step-daughter. There was nothing lecherous about this.
SHE sat in MY lap. I didn't tell her to!
She shifted her thighs and scooted her butt towards him more. He gritted his teeth and tried not to let out a groan. There was stirring in his crotch. His dick was getting hard and he didn't know how to make it stop before she noticed. He felt like he was sweating and the sound of pressure of her body against his was arousing him more by the minute.
Get OFF of me, please god, he begged desperately with his eyes but made no sound.
Daniel couldn't stop it, he was getting harder as her butt was pressed into his lap and the sweet smell of her shampoo was drifting up his nose. He reached out his right hand and placed it on her thigh, on her bare skin, and cupped it and pulled her in tighter trying to pull the fleshy part of her behind off of his crotch so she wouldn't feel his hardening cock. He let out a grunt as he did and she shifted her weight back to his hip in unison with his movement of her.
"Sorry," he muttered.
"Hm?" She mumbled.
"Nothing," he quickly answered.
She put her right hand under her cheek on his shoulder and she slipped her left hand between her thigh, brushing over Daniel's crotch and leaving it deeply penetrating her clasped together legs.
Tatty made soft cooing noises. They were comfortable sounds. The type of sounds someone makes when they're safe and secure and nestled into somewhere they can completely let their guard down. Daniel was nearly the opposite. He was tense and stressed and wondered how he could get out of this situation without making it seem awkward or have Tatty question him why he was acting so weird.
Why was he acting weird? She is the one who put herself in the position. If she wanted to be here then there's nothing wrong with it, right?
His fingers dug in a little tighter and pulled her in.
Oh my god, what are you doing? He thought.
Did he know what he was doing? His breathing started to grow, but he didn't realize it. He was hard in his pants and he was afraid she was going to feel it. Right now his erection was snug and pinned against his thigh between his legs but even the slightest shift could send it rising and poking out of the top of his pants into her thigh. His inner demon mocked him and squeezed his hand on her thigh and then gave it a pat.
There. A little spank. Nothing too obvious but for her snuggling in like a bad girl. She said I never spanked her, how's that for a start?