Disclaimer: All sexual activity described herein is between fictional characters over the age of 18.
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Chapter 1: The O'Haras
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Julie O'Hara was driving her 2001 VW Beetle back home to Sacramento from the UCLA campus at the end of her Freshman year. It was originally her step-dad Steve's car, a gift from his parents when he had graduated from UCLA himself. Steve had passed it on to her after she got her provisional license, barely a week after turning 16, three years ago.
She loved the car immediately, despite its age, because it smelled of him, of his sweat and the cologne he wore on special occasions. She even called the car "Stevie" in her inner thoughts. Three years of her driving it had still not completely banished the scent of Steve from the car. Nor had it diminished the delicious tingle she got in her pussy whenever she sat in the same seat he had for so many years. It made her feel closer to him, even when she was hundreds of miles away. Not as close as she wanted to be, but second-hand contact was better than none. She had to resist rubbing herself during the boring drive up I-5, thinking of Steve.
Julie had a plan. She finally felt she was old enough, experienced enough, to get her step-dad into bed with her. She had seen the covert way he gazed at her slender body when he thought she wasn't aware of him looking, especially over the past summer when she was 18 and wearing her newest skimpy bikinis around their pool. She had seen more than enough erections in his swim trunks to know he was responding to her.
Her mom Michele had reacted to being an empty nester by throwing herself deeper into her career, frequently traveling out of town, leaving Steve home alone. Before that had been night classes and remote courses during the years Julie was in high school, as her mom pursued a business degree, to increase their family's income before Julie needed the tuition money. Michele had gotten pregnant the summer after graduating high school and plans to go to college after a year off were postponed, to get married and raise Julie.
She already sensed tensions between her parents when she had been home over Christmas break and she had gone to Cabo San Lucas with several girlfriends over Spring Break in part to avoid being in that atmosphere, in part because she wasn't ready to make her move on Steve. She wanted to reach her 19th birthday first, which had just passed. If things had not improved between her parents since January or gotten worse, Steve ought to be easy to seduce.
Steve was the only dad Julie remembered. Whatever recollections she might have had of her "real" dad were overwhelmed by stories about him she had heard over and over, until she couldn't tell what was real memory and what was imagination based on those stories.
Her biological father, Curt Simons, had grown up next door to Steve and his identical twin brother Peter. By their senior year in high school, Curt was dating Michele Davis, Michele's identical twin sister Connie was dating Peter and Steve was dating a girl named Ana Maria Gomez. The six of them group-dated frequently through the summer of 1997 following graduation.
Curt and Peter enlisted in the Marines together. Michele discovered she was pregnant after they left for Basic Training in San Diego. Both sisters married their Marines after they completed Basic and moved into on-base housing at Camp Pendleton. Connie was pregnant with twin boys, Tom and Dave, by the time Julie was born.
Both men were sent to Afghanistan early in the war, and died in the same battle early in 2002. Julie wasn't yet 4 and barely remembered their funeral.
Steve had taken the college route instead. He had broken up with Ana Maria soon after he headed to UCLA, while she went to Oregon State, and Steve graduated with honors in 2001, months before 9/11 changed his family's future. Julie was glad Steve hadn't shared her father's and uncle's fate.
Connie and Michele returned to Sacramento, widowed moms, and for a while they lived together in one small apartment, doing their best to support their kids with just high school diplomas and some help from the grandparents. They had both seen Steve again at their husbands' funerals, but it took going to the impromptu five-year reunion of their high school class before Steve asked Michele out on a date. They married within six months, making Connie his sister-in-law over again. Julie was their flower girl. She was 5.
Steve asked Julie if he could adopt her when she was eight and she changed her name. It was one of the happiest days of her life to become Julie Simons O'Hara, in honor of both dads.
Connie also remarried a year later to an older guy named Walter Ashford. He adopted Tom and Dave and they took his name. He died of a stroke in 2009, leaving Connie with enough money between inheritance and life insurance to supplement her own income from a flower shop, to support herself and her boys.
Julie shook off her recollections and focused on her driving. It wouldn't do to get into an accident, when she was this close to fulfilling her fantasies.
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In their home in Sacramento, Steve and Michelle O'Hara awaited the return of their daughter. Based on her last status text when she'd stopped for gas and a potty break at the Los Banos exit, she was only another hour away. "I can't wait to give her the news," Michele said.
"Really? I don't understand why you waited at all, then," Steve said. "It's not like you getting promoted into a job with no travel involved really affects her now that she's in college, as much as it has helped the two of us."
"She could tell that the travel was straining our relationship, honey," Michele responded. "I want our reconnecting after the promotion to be the real news for her and there's no way to demonstrate that by phone."
She did not say that she had suspicions of Julie and Steve's attractions to each other. Preventing Julie and Steve getting even closer this summer was her priority. Even if it meant revealing the only secret she had ever kept from the two of them. From everyone.