“You remember?” Laurie giggled excitedly. “Tell me!”
As if in a trance, he replied, “I… I actually bought it for your mom for Valentine’s Day, but… but we had a fight that night, and I forgot all about it.”
Laurie furrowed her brow. “Why were you fighting?”
He sighed. “Her roommate at the time told her that I hit on her at this party we were all at, and your Mom hit the roof.”
“Did you?”
“God, no, she was a miserable, manipulative bitch. She didn’t have a date for the party, so she got drunk, and started hitting on all the other guys there, and when your Mom tried to stop her, she claimed I was feeling her up, and… well, that started the fight.”
Laurie placed a hand on his knee. “Oh, no. So what happened?”
Paul was staring off into space now, recalling the dark time. “We… we broke up. I was miserable, I… I spent the next few days getting drunk all the time, I got into a lot of fights…” Paul looked over at Laurie now, as she had begun rubbing his thigh.
“Go on,” she said softly.
“Then, after a week or so of this, the morning after one particularly wild bender, I was stumbling home in the morning, looking like complete sh… garbage, when I literally bumped into Sandy... your mom, turning the corner.”
"I know her name, Dad."
Paul smiled as he recalled the moment. “She looked like an angel. Now, she would tell you that her eyes were red and puffy ‘cause she had been crying so much, but she was SO wrong. She looked amazing.”
Laurie snuggled back up to him, and now began rubbing her dad’s tummy. “What then?”
“We got coffee, and she told me that after I left the party the shit really hit the fan. Everyone came to my defense, your mom confronted this roommate for her lies, and the bitch moved out the next day. Your mom apologized to me for believing her over me, and we made plans for her to cook dinner for me that night to make up for it.”
“That sounds romantic.”
“Well, it was. She had the place dolled up, fancy placemats, candles lit, and, well, she was so caught up in getting the place and herself ready that she burned the dinner.”
“You’re kidding.”
“Nope. Just as I knocked on her door, the smoke alarm went off in her place. I heard her scrambling around, muttering, ‘Oh, shit, Oh shit,’ and I thought she was hurt, so fortunately, the door wasn’t locked, ‘cause I just burst in, saw what was happening, covered up the burning pan on the stove, and helped her clear the air by opening all the windows and fanning the place out.”
“What then?”
“Well, Sandy was wearing this white angora sweater that I really liked on her, with this nice pleated skirt, and I commented that she looked nice, and she thanked me, as we’re waving these dish towels around like madmen, and suddenly we started laughing at the situation. And… then she started crying.”
“No.”
“She wanted everything to be perfect, and she ruined everything, and just as I took her in my arms, a gust of wind came in the open window and blew out the candles. Suddenly, we’re kissing in the dark like we hadn’t seen each other in years… It was… quite romantic.”
Laurie had been rubbing his tummy in gentle circles as he spoke, ever widening, tantalizingly closer to his now rampant erection, straining his boxer shorts. He could feel he teenage breasts pressed to his side, and noticed her breathing was coming quicker. She was caught up in the story as well.
“Go on,” she whispered.
“I… I don’t know if I should. The rest is… well, it’s kind of private.”
“Please, Daddy?” She turned his face to stare into his eyes. “You didn’t even get to the part with the nightgown.” She then kissed him lightly on the lips, then leaned over to shut off the light on the side table. Now the only light was from the TV. He got a good look at her perfect butt cheeks, encased in the wispiest of fabrics, as she did so. She settled back down into the crook of his arm. “Besides, I don’t think Mom would mind so much.”
The kiss shocked and charged Paul. He remembered what Laurie was wearing, and as he was also enjoying reliving the moment in his memory, he continued. “Okay. We fell on her couch, making out in the dark, with the only light in the room from the streetlight outside, when the smoke alarm finally stopped beeping. Then, the kissing turned… I don’t know… more serious, I guess. Suddenly she stood up, and said, ‘I have a surprise for you.’”
“Ooooh… I bet I know what the surprise is!”
“Are you telling the story now? As I recall, you weren’t even there. Well,… yet.”
“‘YET’?” Laurie’s eyebrows raised.
Paul smiled. “You heard me. Anyway, she peeled off the sweater and guess what she was wearing underneath? THAT nightgown. She unzipped the skirt, and it dropped to the floor.” He paused, staring into space, and Laurie knew he was reliving the moment.
Laurie snuggled closer, placing her hand lightly on his tummy, and noticed the lump in his shorts had grown noticeably larger. She leaned up to his ear, and whispered, “Are you imagining it now?”
Heavy sigh. “I am, baby.”
“Go on, Dad,” Laurie whispered into his ear. Her breath there ran shivers down his spine. “It’s such a great story.”
“I… I don’t know if I can…”
“Just close your eyes. Picture it in your mind.”
“I… I really shouldn’t…”
“Please?” Laurie said softly, now rubbing his stomach lightly. “I’m DYING to know what happened next.”
“You’re too young to know what happened next.”
“I know lots of things already, Daddy.”
Paul opened his eyes at that. “Really? From who?”
Laurie giggled. He almost sounded jealous at the mere thought of her fooling around with a boy. She looked him in the eye. “No one, Dad. I promise.” He suddenly looked relieved, which was so adorable she had to lean up to quickly kiss him on the cheek. She settled back down to lean her head on his chest.
“Then how…”
“I read things, silly. It’s called the Internet. Perhaps you’ve heard of it?” The hand on his tummy was now rubbing him in ever widening circles. “Close your eyes and finish the story, please.”
Heavy sigh. Part of him wanted to stop this madness right now, but the part that wanted to relive the moment won out. The memory of that wonderful night was too strong. He gave in to the fantasy, and went on. “Well, she’s standing before me, in just that wispy nightgown, and my eyes must have bugged out of my head, because she was grinning from ear to ear. ‘What do you think?’ She asked me. I… I was totally speechless. In that moment, she was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, but I just sat there, mouth agape, unable to say a word. She smiled at my discomfort, then really laid it on. She put her arms over her head, and slowly pirouetted in front of me. ‘Don’t you like it?’, she asked. ‘My God, Sandy. You’re achingly beautiful.’ I finally replied.”