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Date of first compiled publication on ASSTR.org:
Saturday, February 03, 2018

Original publication dates at Reddit.com /r/ageplaystories:
Chapter 1: Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Chapter 2: Friday, April 21, 2017
Chapter 3: Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Chapter 4: Saturday, April 29, 2017
Chapter 5: Saturday, May 6, 2017
Chapter 6: Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Chapter 7: Sunday, June 11, 2017
Chapter 8: Monday, July 31, 2017
Chapter 9: Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Chapter 10: Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Chapter 11: Thursday, August 24, 2017
Chapter 12: Sunday, September 16, 2017
Chapter 13: Tuesday, December 5, 2017


Author: Hardguy
Title: A Memorable Vacation
Part: Chapters 1-13
Summary: A man takes a vacation that changes his life.
Keywords: Mg, MF, ped, exhib, mast, oral, voy, inc

The following story is a work of fiction, meant to entertain the 
reader.  It may contain offensive language of a graphic sexual 
and/or violent nature and details many activities which are highly 
illegal in much of the modern world.  I do not condone or encourage 
any activity that may be harmful to the wellbeing of a minor, no 
matter the circumstances.  Please realize that there is a line 
between being a pedophile and being a child molester.  Any time 
that line is crossed, an innocent life is destroyed and a monster 
is created.  Please do your part to ensure that all children are 
kept safe from those who cannot see that line.

Thank you.


      A Memorable Vacation, chapters 1-13

      Written by Hardguy


      Chapter 1

      Around about 10 years ago I took a vacation to the beach. 
Nice little seaside town, not too touristy, but kind of 
folksy. I got a room at one of the motels for a few days to 
just do nothing but kick back, read, walk in the sand, and 
climb around on the rocks to peek into the tide pools at the 
variety of sea life there.

      The 2nd day I was there, walking the beach after lunch, I 
strolled past a girl who was burying her brother in the sand. 
She wore a white trimmed blue tankini top that looked like a 
glorified strap across her chest, and a little pair of bright 
pink shorts that just barely avoided being classified as 
underwear. Judging by the little sprouts poking out from her 
chest, I'd say she was maybe 10 or 11, maybe even a 
small-bodied 12. She was damn cute, and nothing about her 
that I didn't like. Curly brown hair just past her shoulders, 
a little button nose, and big bright eyes and smile.  The 
bare skin she was showing was either nicely evenly tanned or 
she was of mixed heritage. I only looked at her as I 
approached and didn't turn my head as I passed by. Yeah, I'm 
a perv, but I'm not a creeper.

      I had a nice session of "me-time" when I got back to my room, 
thinking about the little flair to her hips and the cute 
little butt she stuck up in the air as she would bend over to 
pat the sand down on her hopelessly trapped little brother. 
Lucky kid he was, getting to be so close to her day in and 
day out.  How I would have loved to yank those shorts down 
and bury my...well, I'm pretty sure you know how the rest 
goes. ;)

      That evening after dinner I went for a soak in the hot tub 
and a lap or two in the motel pool. There were a few other 
people there when I arrived: an older couple from the 
midwest, and some rowdy teenage boys splashing at each other 
and making a lot of noise. I picked wisdom over youth, and 
joined the couple for a friendly chat in the hot tub. They 
had come out to visit their son and daughter-in-law and their 
kids for a week, and decided to spend a few days here as 
well. About 15 minutes later, I got to meet their 
granddaughter, or actually I should say I finally met her. 
We'd already crossed paths once as it happened.

      Same white outlined blue tankini top as before, now with 
matching white outlined blue bikini bottom cradling a little 
mound between her hips instead of being hidden behind 
slightly baggier pink shorts. Pleasantries were exchanged as 
she slipped into the hot tub beside her grandmother across 
from me. I felt some little feet brush against my leg, and 
she blushed offering apologizes for the contact, "Sorry, 
mister." Her grandpa'd had enough of the hot tub, and excused 
himself to go back to the room. A saggy old man's body was 
exactly the counter I needed to be able to stand up without 
embarrassment after seeing the little hottie in full bikini 
mode, and I exited the hot tub for the pool, which also 
chilled away the growth I'd been experiencing.

      I swam for a bit, not really doing laps as it was an 
irregularly shaped pool, but just went back and forth and 
around in circles in the corner as the teens keep up their 
hollering and horseplay. After about 10 minutes they 
departed, and I realize I can hear myself think again. I'm 
alone in the pool, and my mind wanders back to that swimsuit 
clad body. I'd acclimated to the water temperature by this 
time, and that shrinkage began to reverse itself. A glance 
over at the hot tub and I didn't see anybody there. I was 
completely alone.

      I decide to do it while the memory is fresh and put my hand 
into my swimtrunks. I know you're thinking, "whoa whoa, wait 
a minute, you're in a public pool!" and you're right, but you 
know, little kids probably piss in it all day, so some 
chlorine murdered tadpoles really weren't all that different. 
I looked around once more to check that I was alone and then 
started to stroke. Barely 30 seconds in, I heard a little 
squeal.

      Looking over to the hot tub, and just poking out above the 
water was a head with brown hair just past the shoulders. She 
was still there! I'm not sure how I missed her, maybe she had 
been submerged briefly under the surface or maybe she had 
taken a bathroom break and slipped back when I didn't notice, 
but she is in the hot tub, and I'm a little concerned. I 
wasn't sure what to make of that noise and worried that she 
might be in some sort of trouble.

      I swam over to the side of the pool closest to her, and in 
doing so alerted her to my presence as well. She looked up at 
me and there was this look of mortified terror on her face. 
She was bent over, her cute rear end positioned just right 
for one of the underwater jaccuzi air jets to work its magic 
where she wanted it to get worked. I'm standing there, 
looking at her, and she just kind of meekly says, "Hi," with 
a little wave, because what else are you going to do when 
you've been caught by a stranger having your baby biscuit 
blasted by bubbles?

      Playing my role of the concerned adult, I asked if she was 
ok. "Yeah," she answered with a nod and embarrassed eyes. She 
sat down on the seat in the tub like a good girl, and tried 
not to look at me. I kind of wondered if she was waiting for 
me to leave so she can do it again, but she looked up and 
said, "You can get in if you want." I wasn't about to refuse 
her lovely company, and this time it's my foot that touches 
her leg underwater, making me apologize, and prompting a big 
smile on her cute face.

      We had a few moments of awkward silence together before she 
abruptly rose and exited the hot tub to dive into the pool, 
bikini bottoms molded so nicely to her little butt that a 
mind-reading cop would have arrested any man who saw it. That 
got me raring and ready to go once more, so I quietly vowed 
to myself that I would do it quick and get out of there 
before she saw anything. Hand went in my trunks, stroking 
like mad, focused on cumming, and I heard wet feet on the 
cement. She was now the one standing opposite me, with a 
massive grin on her face. She dropped to a crouch, feet 
apart, put her finger to her lips, goes, "Shhh," and then 
pulled her bikini bottoms to the side, revealing to me 
exactly what color her skin really is when it hasn't been 
exposed to the sun for a few days.

      Drops of water ran down along the curves of her hairless 
childish lips.  Nestled at the top of them is...well, I've 
been overusing this word to describe her, but I'll be damned 
if her clitoris also wasn't cute as hell peeking out at me.  
"Let me see too," she asked, so I stood up.  Her big green 
eyes got a degree or two bigger when she saw the slightly 
over-average sized cock I was stroking in tribute to her.  
The naughty little minx's smile grew as well, and like she 
was reading my mind on what I wanted to see next, spread her 
plump lipped slit open, letting me see all the pink inside.  
"Right here," she said simply, and I faithfully obeyed.

      Now I've never measured how far I could shoot, but my little 
swimmers did their best to hit that most enticing of targets 
crouched at the opposite side of the hot tub from where I 
stood.  If she had been seated in the tub with me, no doubt 
my DNA would have been cascading down her budding chest, but 
instead squirt after squirt splashed down into the bubbling 
water just short of the offered goal.

      The little jizz muse ooohed and giggled watching me shoot air 
balls out of my balls.  She stopped holding her peach open in 
favor of rubbing herself in front of me when a voice called 
out, "Emmie?"  In an instant, a white outlined blue strip of 
fabric was tugged back into place between her legs, and my 
ass was sitting down like a guilty kid waiting outside the 
principal's office.

      "Coming, Mom!" she called out, scampering away from me 
without so much as a glance back in my direction.  The way 
her tiny ass moved as she vanished from sight was like it was 
taunting me for not getting to watch her cum in return.  I 
heaved a sigh, literally stewing in my own juices, but did so 
with a smile.  What a memorable vacation this turned out to 
have been.

      What a memorable vacation there was still yet to be.
















      Chapter 2

      I slept really well that night, waking up at seven feeling 
refreshed.  Since I was on vacation I could have slept in, 
but there was no need.  Even with waking up early, I felt 
great, and yes, I did attribute that in part to my encounter 
with Emmie at the pool the evening before.

      I reminisced briefly about her bold actions...well, my bold 
actions as well, and got hard while laying there.  Having a 
morning fap wouldn't be out of the ordinary for me, but it 
kind of seemed premature to go ahead with.  Sure, the chances 
of having a second illicit encounter with her were remote, 
but at the very least I might see her again, and if something 
else offered itself up for a spot in my spank-bank, why not 
wait and see.

      I got dressed and headed out for a quick jaunt across the 
street to the local doughnut shop.  As I descended the wide 
spiral staircase located at the center of the motel building, 
I encountered a woman carrying a box of doughnuts coming up 
the opposite direction, with her curly brown haired, tan 
skinned, green eyed daughter following right behind her.  

      "Good morning," I greeted them each.  The woman politely 
responded in kind, as did Emmie, although Emmie was a little 
more shy about it despite the huge grin she had plastered on 
her face.  She was wearing a slightly oversized light pink 
t-shirt that hung just a little off one bare shoulder, and 
the bottom edge of those bright pink shorts peeked out from 
under the bottom of the shirt, denying me the not so pure 
fantasy that she was going commando.

      Passing by, she and I maintained eye contact right up until 
either of us would have to turn around entirely to keep it 
up.  Once I got to the parking lot, I turned and looked back 
up at the motel, where I saw Emmie and her mother entering a 
room on the third floor, the floor above mine.  A saw her 
look down at me, and waved to her before heading across the 
street for my morning pastries and cup of joe.  I did not see 
her upon my return, nor during my walk down the beach later 
that morning as I had the day before.

      After returning to my room, I became engrossed in the novel I 
had brought with me, and only realized I had completely 
missed lunch time when my stomach's growls grew too great to 
be ignored.  One of the brochures in the motel room was 
advertising a local spot for lunch, so I decided to check it 
out.  Stepping out of my room, I heard some noise in the 
parking lot below and saw my favorite young vacationer.

      The whole lot of them, Emmie, mom and dad, little brother, 
and grandparents, were piling out of an SUV.  The little boy 
wore a baseball cap bearing the name of a local sea lion 
refuge, and Emmie had a plush sea lion toy under one arm, 
which told me why she hadn't been around earlier.  She looked 
up and saw me, as did a few of her family members.  I would 
have waved to her, but thought that might seem a little weird 
to the adults for a strange man to be singling out a tween 
girl in greeting, so I maintained my cool and just smiled 
politely.

      We passed on the wide spiral stairs of course, exchanging 
pleasantries all along.  Emmie had changed her clothes to a 
much tighter fitting red and white baseball style t-shirt 
that bared her tan tummy and a multi-colored striped pair of 
shorts that likewise clung to her lower half.  Under her 
shirt I spotted the shape of a training bra which pretty much 
completely muted her small breasts into gentle sloping 
mounds.  "Hello," I addressed her personally between her 
parents and grandparents.  If she weren't so tan, I bet I 
would have spotted a blush on her cheeks.  For being such a 
little exhibitionist the night before, she sure got flustered 
easily.  Damn she was cute.

      Unlike that morning I glanced back at her only once after 
passing, again so as to hide my interest from her 
accompanying adults, but her head was turned my way just the 
same.  If only I could have whispered in her ear that she had 
me stiff, I bet her face would have turned from bronzed to 
bright red.  Alas, I just carried on my way to my car instead 
in search of lunch.

      The prices were a bit high, but the cafe was a nice place 
with a location over looking the beach.  I saw many other 
girls there, but few were as enticing as Emmie was.  Too old, 
too young, too developed, not developed enough.  Just none of 
them could compare to her.  It struck me then that I had 
developed a little crush on her, and I had to chuckle at 
myself.  I was probably 4 times her age, likely to never see 
her again after today or possibly tomorrow depending on when 
she would be heading home, and even if by some miracle we did 
find each other, it's not like we could be together.  Emmie 
was destined to be little more than a passing ship in my 
life, just as I was to be in hers.  It was a sad, sobering 
thought, but one that I needed to have given the circumstances.

      After I got home from lunch, I was torn between returning to 
my novel, going for a walk on the beach, or taking a nap.  
Ultimately I decided to keep reading, but my head and my 
stomach decided it was nap time.  I started to doze off, when 
there was a knock at the door.  Groggily, I got up and peeked 
through the peephole.  Curly brown hair.  Green eyes.  Holy 
shit.

      I gasped in surprise.  What was Emmie doing here?  I 
seriously debated if I should open the door or not, because 
there could be only one reason she was here.  I'm not saying 
I regretted anything we had done the night before, but that 
had been spontaneous and could only have gone so far.  I 
peeked at her again, holding my breath, and saw her fidgeting 
nervously.  I recalled my thought at lunch, how we would 
probably never see each other again, and would have only the 
memory of that naughty moment together to remember each other 
by, but the creeping look of worry on her face made me wonder 
if her memory of me would be tainted by being ignored, 
rejected if I did not open the door.  If I had grown a little 
crush on her in the span of not even 24 hours, then how did 
she feel about me if she was here now?  I saw her take half a 
step back and felt my hand move towards the doorknob.  "Fuck 
it," I said, and opened the door.

      She was wearing the blue and white tankini top and pink 
shorts again, which must have been her go-to beach outfit.  
"H-hey," I said, looking nervously to either side of my 
opened motel room door.

      "H-hey," she said back, sounding just as nervy as I did in 
this situation.  Aside from when we had passed each other on 
the stairs twice, this was the closest to each other we'd 
ever been for longer than 10 seconds.

      "What's going on?" I asked her, trying to sound as normal as 
possible.

      "I lied to my mom and told her I had to pee.  Do you want to 
do it again?"  The words just came tumbling out of her mouth, 
almost in a blur so that it took me half a moment longer than 
typical to understand and process human speech.  I opened my 
mouth to answer, when the sound of a car door closing from 
the parking lot below startled me.  From where I stood, I 
couldn't see the car in question, but I had no way of knowing 
what that random person could see, other than perhaps a 
scantily clad young girl standing awkwardly at an open door.

      "Get in here," I told her, stepping aside, almost instantly 
regretting that choice of words for sounding so rude, but I 
really did want her inside the room where nobody could see 
us.  She seemed equally self-conscious of being seen, and 
hurried in past me and my pounding heart.  I closed and 
locked the door, even securing it with the chain before 
turning to my guest.

      She wasn't standing where I expected her though, and instead 
when I next laid eyes on her, she was standing beside my bed, 
pulling off her tankini top, her pointy nipple tipped little 
girl breasts wobbling as she dropped the top on the floor  
before pushing down her shorts and the matching blue and 
white bikini bottoms worn underneath in a single motion.  My 
cock went from zero to hard in an instant.

      After she had slipped her feet from her scant clothing, she 
turned and looked at me.  Her sense of modesty kicked in, and 
she raised an arm to cover across her chest and placed her 
other hand over her bald pussy.  "W-what?" she asked, shyly.

      "Y-you're just so sexy," I told her, realizing she wasn't 
here just for me to stare at her, and unbuttoned my pants.

      "T-thanks," she said, with a smile, and relaxed her arms from 
where they were covering her untanned places.

      "How old are you?" I asked.

      "Twelve."

      "Have you done this before?  Other than last night at the 
pool with me?"

      "Yeah.  With a boy up my street."

      "Like, all the way?  Fucking?"

      "N-no!" she emphatically denied, her eyes focusing on my 
erection when I pulled it free of my undone pants.  "He's 
older than me, a-and his thing is too big."  I wanted to ask 
if it was bigger than mine, not that I was packing a 
spectacularly sized manhood at just 6 inches, but something 
in the way she was staring told me that this boy still had 
some growing to do.

      "So what would you like me to do?  We gotta be quick, right?"

      "Y-yeah, right," she said, a little startled that she had 
forgotten about the hurried nature of this encounter.  She 
sat down on the edge of my bed and scooted back a little, 
spreading her legs wide.  Just as she had done the evening 
before, she spread her lips open for me.  "Squirt your stuff 
on me here," she requested.  "I like to rub my pussy with it 
all slimey."

      I came closer to her, looking down into her spread cunny.  I 
swear I felt my heart skip a beat when I saw her little pink 
opening.  "It's safe for me to do that, right?" I asked her.  
"You're not...I mean, your period isn't...started?"

      "It's fine!" she insisted, a slight tremble in her voice, 
shaking her head from side to side.  "H-hurry, so I can feel 
good too."  I needed no further encouragement, and stepped up 
close, my legs against the side of the bed, and started to 
jerk off above her naked little body.  "P-point it down," she 
directed.  "Y-you can rub it in there, j-just don't, y-you 
know, push inside."  If she hadn't been in a hurry to get 
back to her family in a timely manner from 'peeing,' I might 
have tried to persuade her that her pussy could probably 
stretch just enough to accommodate me inside for her first 
time.  As it was, just getting to cum on this horny little 
girl was good enough.

      I pressed the head of my cock into her spread lips, and 
started to rub the tip up and down from her clit to her 
vagina.  "You can move your hand," I told her, and she did 
so, letting her vulva close gently on either side of the 
head.  "You're so soft," I told her.  "Rubbing your pussy 
like this is like a dream."

      Mnnn," she sighed, lifting a hand up to her chest to rub at 
her little tit.

      "I saw you earlier yesterday," I revealed, "out on the beach, 
when you were burying your brother in the sand.  I jerked off 
later thinking about pulling your shorts down and fucking 
your tight pussy good and deep."

      "O-oh my gosh!" she giggled, raising her other arm to cover 
her eyes.  "You're so embarrassing!"  Her pussy felt slick on 
my tip, although I didn't know if that was wetness she was 
making, or if it was because of the precum I was leaking all 
over her down there. That thought alone, that my cock juices 
were smeared all over her childlike privates, marking her, at 
least for this moment, as my young lover, was catalyzing for 
me.  My cock started to hum and throb, and I nuzzled the hole 
in the tip against her cute but firm clit.

      "I mean it, Emmie," I groaned, feeling the moment building 
rapidly just behind my balls.  "I wish I could do this inside 
you.  I want to cum in your tight pussy!"  I had barely 
finished that first sentence when I felt the first shot surge 
through me.  I quickly pushed my shaft downward and pressed 
it up against the mouth of her vagina, pumping a bolt of 
fresh hot semen into her forbidden depths.

      I felt Emmie's body jolt a split second later, probably a 
little afraid that I was actually trying to penetrate against 
her wishes.  I pulled my cock upward, gushing sperm between 
her soft hairless lips, pausing to drown her clit with 
another deluge, and then finally jerking off my pulsing shaft 
to deliver final cum shots onto her mound, tummy, and just 
under her small tits.  Emmie wasted no time in getting her 
hand into the mess, rubbing furiously at her sperm soaked 
clit as my orgasm subsided, the last drips and drabs drooling 
out of me onto her fingers and the back of her hand.

      "Nnnngh, so good!" she groaned, rubbing her creampie wildly.  
I took a step back, watching her masturbate with my cum like 
she was possessed by a lust demon.  Her little nipples were 
stiff and straining like little rockets trying to take off 
from her chest, and while she had placed an embargo against 
my cock entering her, her fingers had no such restriction and 
she pumped her index finger in and out, making the most lewd 
sound I'd ever heard from between a 12-year old's legs.

      "Nnnnnn, y-y-yes," she hummed through her tightly closed 
lips, the sign of a young girl who routinely suppressed the 
sound of her orgasms when having them in her bedroom at 
home.  Her knees bent and raised up as her thighs closed on 
her busy hands, her small hips bucking as she rode the wave.  
I have to admit, it was mesmerizing to watch her cum.  Until 
this point, the youngest girl I'd ever personally witnessed 
orgasming had been in her early 20s.

      She kept moaning and groaning, hips jolting as she made her 
pussy squish audibly, until she slowed the motion of her 
hands and just lay panting with a glazed over look on her 
face.  I saw her eyes refocus and look up at me, a grin on 
her face like the one I'd seen the night before.  She let her 
legs drift apart, exposing to me the indecent gooey mess we'd 
made of her plump little lips and the insides of her thighs.  
She summed it up by sighing two words: "Super awesome."

      I don't think either of us had made a note of the time when 
she got here, so neither of us really knew how long it had 
been, but if I was her mother, I might start getting worried 
about my tardy daughter.  I grabbed the box of tissues from 
the nightstand and started to wipe up the cum smeared on her 
tanned belly.  She regarded my aftercare in a dreamy manner 
for a moment before sitting up, her thoughts aligning with my 
own about how she had to hurry back.  "You squirted so much," 
she commented, taking some tissues to wipe between her legs.  
"Way more than Josh does when we do this." I paused for a 
moment when I heard her name the boy who had the privilege of 
being her friend-with-benefits, and got a little jealous that 
he would get to spend more time with her than I ever would.

      "Well, I suppose that's just part of me being older than 
him," I said, trying not to sound like his existence bothered 
me, because it kind of actually did.  I watched Emmie wipe at 
the goop on her pussy lips and found myself wondering if she 
cleaned herself off like this after he had cum on her too.  
"Shit," I muttered, which drew her attention, looking up at 
me curiously.  "Nothing," I said with a sigh.  "Nothing.  Do 
you want me to get you a towel?  It'll be faster."

      "Yes, please," she answered politely.  

      I beat a hasty retreat to the bathroom, where I took a moment 
to look at myself in the mirror.  I had to snap out of it and 
let go.  Emmie had to live her life.  She had to love her 
loves and cry her cries, and I had to accept that I would not 
be a part of any of them.  I smacked myself on the cheek, 
grabbed a towel, and went back to deliver it to her.

      "Here you go," I said, handing it over.  Emmie rose to her 
feet, and wiped broadly at herself, doing a more efficient 
job than the flimsy tissues could.  At least the towel wasn't 
disintegrating into little pieces and sticking to her all 
over down there like the tissues did, which in itself was 
kind of amusing to see.  When she was done, she put her hands 
on her hips in a triumphant pose.

      "How do I look?" she asked with a grin.

      "Like a sexy little girl who takes way too long to pee," I 
answered, making her giggle.  "Hurry and get dressed before 
they come looking for you."  She nodded and set about doing 
so while I watched her.  I felt some small pangs of regret 
with each piece of clothing she put back in place over her 
pale patches of skin, wishing I could have had more time to 
touch and commit to memory each intimate part of her 
developing body.  The pussy I never got to finger.  The ass I 
never got to squeeze.  The tits I never got to fondle.  By 
the time she started to head for the door, I was determined 
to do at least one thing though.

      "Hey, Emmie," I said, stopping her in her tracks.  She looked 
at me quizzically as I approached.

      "What?" she asked, regarding me warily since I must have 
looked like I was crazy at that moment, which I kind of was.  
I stepped forward, toe to toe with her, put my hands on her 
shoulders, and bent down to kiss her.

      I wish I could tell you that changed everything going 
forward.  I wish I could say she melted into my arms, jumped 
up, wrapped her legs around me, and gave me her virginity 
moments later.  I wish I could tell you that she stayed with 
me all night, snuggled nude by my side, waking every few 
hours for another passionate session of love making until she 
could not walk the next morning.  I wish I could tell you 
that she ran away with me, sparking a nationwide search for 
the darling little girl with the curly brown hair and green 
eyes that vanished from a small beach town after needing to 
go potty.  I wish I could tell you that we lived happily ever 
after, raising a family and growing old together.  I really 
wish I could, but I couldn't.

      I felt her shoulders tense, and her lips remain motionless 
against mine as I selfishly stole a kiss off her young lips.  
It probably wasn't her first kiss either, damn that Josh.  I 
let go of her and straightened up, taking a step back.  
"S-sorry," I said sheepishly as she gazed at me with a 
shocked look on her face.  "You should go.  Your mom is 
probably getting worried."  I probably sounded far more 
dismissive than I should have, because an almost sad 
expression crossed her face before she turned and walked 
alone to the door, like she had done something wrong but just 
could not figure out what it was.

      I could not bear to watch her leave, and only when the door 
clapped shut did I allow myself to cry.  An hour later I 
turned in my key, and drove home, cutting my vacation short 
by a day.

      It was better this way.  I kept telling myself that.  It was 
better this way.
















      Chapter 3

      The next day was the hardest day.

      I barely slept at all that night in my own bed.  When 
daylight did finally dawn, I had to repeatedly talk myself 
out of driving all the way back there again just to see her.  
I actually got as far as unlocking the car door before my 
sanity returned.  I'd never been addicted to anything in my 
life before, but I could tell that I was going through 
withdrawals.

      Before had I left the motel the prior evening, I realized 
through my jealously of Josh, no, not even Josh the person, 
but of Josh the 'concept,' which was just the idea of there 
possibly being somebody else who had seen Emmie's nude body, 
had touched, it had cum on it, and had gotten to watch her 
cum, that I was developing something fundamentally unhealthy 
for myself and potentially for Emmie.  Seriously, it was shit 
like that which often led down a dark path and a bad ending, 
and so I did what I felt was the smart thing and just ran 
away from it.  It had to be this way.  I had to let Emmie go.

      The next week at work was hell.  My nights alternated between 
sleepless and being so tired that I would pass out the moment 
my head hit the pillow.  I poured my attention into work to 
keep it busy, so that it wouldn't have a moment to spare a 
thought for her.  'Her.'  I had to stop even thinking her 
name, and reduce her to being just a pronoun.  Three days 
into this, a co-worker took a phone call from a person named 
Emily, and I had to retreat into the bathroom because it was 
so similar.  I was a mess, and yes, I absolutely knew how 
stupid this all must sound.

      Little by little though, it started to get better.  I started 
sleeping regularly again, and things that had become memory 
triggers for me, like seeing a wad of tissues or even just 
the juxtaposition of the colors blue and white together, 
ceased to make me think instantly of her.  I started 
masturbating again too, which had been something I just had 
no desire for immediately afterwards.  Six months post-'her,' 
life felt normal again for me.

      Two years went by before I took another vacation.  Yes, it 
was to the beach.  No, it was not to that beach.  I'd thought 
of it, believe me.  I even allowed myself to drive through 
that town and slowed down as I passed that motel, just to 
look at it.  By that time I was able to think of Emmie by 
name again, and the memories became less bitter and more 
sweet.  I found myself not eyeing young girls so much this 
time around, though whether that was because Emmie had helped 
me to scratch that particular itch or because my tastes had 
changed, I couldn't really tell.

      Now that wasn't to say that I didn't look at them at all.  
Just like any man, my eyes were invariably drawn to exposed 
flesh that curved and protruded from the right places...or 
even didn't do either of those things at all.  I just 
couldn't help comparing them to Emmie.  Hair color, length, 
style.  Eye color, shape, size.  Did they smile like her.  
Were their breasts more or less developed than hers had 
been.  How well did their swimsuits conform to their pubic 
mounds, or their shorts accentuate their butts.  Would they 
look at me and smile, or would they just pass by without even 
noticing the attention I was paying to them.  However all the 
variables came together, they never matched my memory of her, 
and so none of them enticed me quite like she had.

      I drove back through that same beach town on my way home, but 
did not slow down to pay my respects to the past again.  I 
had made peace with it and let the past be the past.  Just 
like I had to let Emmie go and live her life, I had to go and 
live mine.

      I was just a few months shy of 50 when I fell in love.  No, 
not foolishly with another preteen, but this young woman was 
in her early 20's, like Emmie now would have been entering, 
just the same.  I don't know if men have that same kind of 
biological clock that seem to drive women to procreate, but 
ever since I had visited a friend who had just become a 
father, there had been this urge growing inside of me to do 
so as well.  Things happened fast, marrying after only a few 
months and became positively frantic trying to conceive right 
away.  If you're reading this, saying, "whoa, slow down 
there, you fell hard for one girl really quickly already and 
that didn't turn out well," I really wish you'd been around 
to say the same thing to my face.

      Just as having a child had become important to me, it was 
important to her as well.  Months went by, but she was never 
late.  We did all that stuff: taking her temperature, 
measuring mucus levels, scheduling sex for specific times of 
the month, loose fitting underwear for me, and legs up in the 
air for half an hour after sex for her.  All we had to show 
for any of it was a bunch of urine soaked white sticks with 
no blue lines.  A trip to the doctor confirmed our growing 
fears.  We talked about surrogacy and adoption, but the 
emotional strain this process had put on our whirlwind 
marriage was starting to produce cracks.  The fighting began 
and we tried couples counseling, but when it came out that 
she resented me for being the fertile one while she was not, 
it became all too clear that this was just not meant to be.

      The summer after the divorce I just wanted to get away 
again.  Ten years had passed now since those 20 hours with 
Emmie, and that arbitrarily chosen anniversary had me 
nostalgic.  "What the hell," I said aloud, and picked up the 
phone, calling that motel in that folksy but not too touristy 
seaside town to book a room.  Not just any room either, but a 
specific room.  You can imagine my disappointment when I was 
told that particular room was already occupied for that 
weekend, but I wasn't going to let a little thing like that 
ruin my trip.  The guy on the other end of the phone must 
have heard my disappointment in not getting that room, 
because he gave me a bit of a price break.

      I did what I could to recreate the past, bringing with me the 
same book I had been reading, any clothes that I was 
reasonably sure I brought then, and even vowed to turn off my 
smartphone while I was there.  Oh how I wish I had a 
smartphone 10 years ago.  The pictures I would have taken for 
my private enjoyment...ahem, where was I?  I intentionally 
even picked the same day as it had been, so as to really 
match everything up.  I'd sort of subconsciously started 
counting time from that day anyways, always taking note of it 
when it came around again on the calendar.  What better way 
to take things full circle, right?

      It was bright and sunny the day I drove in, just like I 
remembered it.  Emmie had been nicely tanned back then, so I 
guess the weather decided to recreate conditions for me as 
well.  Upon getting out of the car, I looked up at that door 
on the second floor, next to last on the left side, number 
202.  Emmie had been either very brave or very dumb to knock 
there that day, not knowing what kind of person I was.  After 
checking in, and hauling my bags up the stairs (when you get 
older, book a room on the ground floor, trust me on this, 
oof), I went for a walk on the beach.

      I wasn't exactly sure where it was that I had first spotted 
her burying her little brother in the sand, wagging that cute 
hot pink covered butt in the air, but I was pretty sure it 
was north along the shore, and not south.  In any case, I 
ended up walking quite a ways before turning around to come 
back.  Approaching my motel upon return, I noted a young girl 
building a sand castle alone.  She was clearly still 
pre-pubescent, thus not really the type I normally was 
interested in, but my mind did the usual comparison to Emmie 
that it had done to every girl since.

      Her hair was the right color, but was done up in a long braid 
down her back.  Her eyes were not the same shape as Emmie's, 
and without leering closely at her I couldn't tell you what 
color they were.  Her nose was a good match to how I remember 
Emmie's being, but when I looked at her mouth I had a thought 
that made me laugh.  The shape of her mouth reminded me of my 
late mother, and if I had a long lost sibling somewhere, I 
might have thought this girl would be a good candidate for 
being my niece.  

      I judged her to be about 8 or 9 years old just from the 
general size of her and how she had practically no figure 
under that rainbow tie-dyed one-piece swimsuit she was 
wearing.  If anything, she was a little on the plump side.  
Hormones were already doing their dirty work though, as she 
had a pair of grape-sized bumps high on her otherwise flat 
chest.  Remaining deposits of baby fat rendered her bottom 
unremarkable, and around the front side her swimsuit was well 
lined to keep the anatomical details of her private places 
private, but otherwise I was 100% certain she was indeed a 
little girl and not a little boy.

      Another glance around told me that she was alone out here, 
with no parent hovering either nearby nor watching her from a 
safe distance.  I wondered if I should keep walking, but I 
did feel a little concerned for this girl's safety.  There 
were strange men on this beach who gave little girls the eye, 
after all!  "Excuse me, miss?" I said to her, startling her.  
I saw her draw back uncertainly as she looked at me.  "I'm 
sorry, I didn't mean to scare you.  I just noticed you were 
alone.  Are your parents around here somewhere?"

      "My mom's there," she said tentatively, pointing to the back 
side of my motel.  "She said she'd watch me from the window 
while she worked out."  I looked up at the building and did 
see people sitting on the verandas of a few of the rooms.  I 
supposed her mother would reasonably be able to see her from 
there, although it did seem a little irresponsible.

      "Alright then.  I just wanted to make sure you were being 
watched after.  It's not always safe to be out here alone."

      "I know.  My mom and grandma both told me not to talk to 
strangers," she responded a little defensively as though I 
had been implying she wasn't being cautious enough.

      "Strangers like me?" I teased her.

      "Yeah, like you, mister!" she giggled.  I found the sound of 
that giggle far more attractive than I probably should have.

      "Okay," I said, holding my hands up in defeat and taking a 
step backward.  "Well I'm staying at that motel as well, so 
maybe I'll bump into you again later at the pool."

      "Maybe," she agreed with a shrug.

      "Have a nice day," I told her, giving a little wave, which 
she returned in kind, before turning on my heel to stroll 
southward for a bit.  I hadn't gone more than 20 paces before 
a high-pitched squeal of anguish erupted from behind me.  
Turning to look, I saw that same young girl down on the 
ground near the waterline, clutching at her foot and wailing.

      I rushed over to her side, and the translucent goopy blob 
laying on the dark wet sand by her foot, which was developing 
a red welt on the sole, told me the whole story.  The same 
thing had happened to me before and I knew just how painful 
it could be.  "It's okay, I gotcha," I told her reassuringly, 
putting my hands under her arms and pulling her away from the 
likely already dead invertebrate, which I then kicked sand 
over, burying it so it could do no more harm.

      Returning to her side, I knelt down, cradling the heel in my 
hand and lifting her foot to inspect the sting.  I had read a 
fair bit about jellyfish stings after my own encounter, and 
wanted to make sure a tentacle wasn't still stuck to her 
foot.  It looked clear, but I knew the things really causing 
the pain were very small stingers that still might be stuck 
in there.  I also knew what you are probably thinking, and 
NO, peeing on a jellyfish sting does not actually work, and 
could even make things worse.  Besides, the days of showing 
my dong to a cute little girl in a swimsuit were long over.  
"Let's get you back to your mom, okay?" I said to her, to 
which she tearfully nodded in agreement.  I gave her another 
looking over, and, despite the protests of my lower back, 
gathered her up into my arms.

      "T-thanks," she said, wrapping her arms around my neck.  This 
girl who had shown a decent amount of spirit while talking to 
me just moments ago, was now clinging to me like I was a 
favorite teddy bear.  Her body was soft and warm, and I once 
more wondered how it would have felt to hold Emmie in my 
arms.  It wasn't unlike when I had held my friend's infant 
child, except of course this girl was much bigger than an 
infant.  "You're really nice, mister," she said.  "Grandma 
told me to watch out for weird bad guys.  I'm glad you're not 
one."

      I smiled.  "Yeah.  I'm not one," I agreed.  "My name is Ben.  
What's yours?"

      "Ruby."  That was an interesting name I thought.  Unusual, 
but pretty.

      "It's real nice to meet you, Miss Ruby.  You have a neat name."

      "Thanks.  It's like my mom's name."

      "Oh?  Her name is Ruby too?"

      "No," she shook her head.  "Her name is Emerald," she told 
me, as we passed through our motel's beach access corridor.  
The strangeness of her mother's name also took me a bit by 
surprise.

      "Well, you're a real couple of gems then, I guess," I said, 
trying to relax her with a little joke, although in the back 
of my mind something was starting to chew at me.  I couldn't 
stop and process that now though.  Nobody had rushed out to 
meet us, so I was reasonably sure that Ruby's mom hadn't been 
one of the women out on a veranda.  "Which room is yours?"

      "Um, I don't know the number, but I know which door," she 
said.  "It's the one just before the end on the second 
floor."  The double take I did on that just about gave me 
whiplash.

      "Are you sure?" I asked her, my brain now really working over 
all this information that was being fed to me.  "Which end?"  
She nodded towards one end of the motel's building, and it 
wasn't towards the end where the room numbers were on the 
larger side.  As I looked at this girl in my arms, I saw now 
that her eyes were green, and it dawned on me why, color 
aside, her eyes weren't the same as the ones I had been 
looking into 10 years ago.  There was a question I suddenly 
wanted to ask Ruby, only I knew she would not be able to 
answer it...but her mother probably could.

      Feeling my age, I carried her up the wide spiral staircase 
and down the walkway towards the southern end of the motel, 
passing the doors.  210...209...208...

      There was just no way.  207...206...205...

      I mean, what were the chances.  204...203...

      I knocked.  My heart was in my throat as a voice like a ghost 
from the past called from inside the room, "Coming!"  I felt 
Ruby's arms tighten as she too felt my body tighten with 
anticipation.  Now it was I who was holding her like a 
comforting stuffed animal.  The doorknob rattled as the lock 
turned and then it opened.

      Brown hair, curly, just past her shoulders.  Big eyes, 
green.  A cute nose, that no doubt would have been cuter in 
her youth.  She wasn't smiling, but I knew that confused look 
of surprise and worry on her face just the same.  Dressed in 
a sporty gray crop top and black sweatpants, she was now 
taller, hips wider, and her breasts, though small, had 
developed to those of a young adult, now 22-years old.

      "Emmie?" I gasped.
















      Chapter 4

      All of her attention had been on Ruby when she opened the 
door, as it should well have been, so it was no surprise that 
the 22-year old woman standing there in sweatpants and a crop 
top didn't immediately recognize me.  Those already big green 
eyes grew a little bigger once she looked at my face, but my 
identity wasn't particularly important right now.  "R-Ruby? 
W-what's going on?" she asked.

      "She stepped on a jellyfish," I said, turning to the side so 
that Emmie could see the bottom of her daughter's foot.  "I 
was just passing by when it happened."  I looked down to the 
girl in my arms.  "I'm going to put you down now.  Don't put 
any weight on your hurt foot, okay?"

      "Okay," she whimpered, and I lowered her down to standing on 
one foot, with my hands supporting her under her arms she 
hopped forward.  I transferred her like that to her mother, 
who's hands met mine under Ruby's arms.  It dawned on me that 
we'd never held hands either 10 years ago.

      "I'll go to the store and get some vinegar," I told Emmie, 
who looked understandably bewildered by my being there, but 
was able to compose herself for Ruby's sake.

      "N-no!  G-go to the motel's office instead.  I saw a sign 
there that they had supplies for jellyfish stings on hand," 
she informed me.

      "Alright, I'll be right back!" I said, and rushed off.  I 
couldn't believe this was happening.  Emmie was here, with a 
child.  My child?  She had to be, right?  Her eyes, they were 
just like mine, and her mouth was like my own mother's.  Yes, 
I had a child.  A daughter named Ruby.  I'd been a father for 
the last...10 years, no, it would have taken 9 months first, 
so 9 years, and I never knew it.  That meant Emmie had been a 
mother since she was 13.  It was all so much to process, so 
much so that I almost tripped going down the stairs, and once 
I got into the office it took me a moment to compose myself 
and ask the clerk behind the counter for the jellyfish aid 
kit.  He handed it over readily, and told me that he would 
call the urgent care center down the road to send somebody 
just to be safe.

      The kit was simple: a bottle of seawater to neutralize any 
remaining stingers, a dull butter knife to scrape away any 
stingers that might have remained in the skin, and then a 
bottle of vinegar to sooth the irritation.  I rushed back up 
to the room, where Emmie had left the door open, but I did 
not see them in the immediate area.  "Emmie?!" I called out.

      "In here!" came the response from the bathroom just to the 
left.  I turned and looked into the bathroom, where Emmie had 
gotten Ruby into the bathtub.  I joined them, and knelt by 
the bathtub to address the wound.

      "Hold her foot up for me," I told Emmie, who lifted up Ruby's 
leg.  "This might sting a little, okay?" I told my brave 
little girl, who nodded, though was visibly frightened.  I 
poured some of the seawater over the affected area, and Ruby 
flinched, whimpering.

      "It's okay, baby.  It's okay," Emmie encouraged her.  "Your 
fath- f-friend here is going to take good care of you."  I 
wasn't sure if Ruby caught her mother's slip of the tongue, 
but I did, glancing her way.  Our eyes met for a moment and I 
felt that despite all that she may have gone through because 
of what we had done in this same room 10 years earlier, she 
fully trusted me right now.  I turned back to Ruby's foot and 
picked up the knife.

      "Aa-a-are you going to cut it off?" Ruby asked, her eyes big 
as she looked at the harmless blade in my hand.

      "No, sweetheart.  It's dull and won't cut you at all," I 
said, holding it out to her so she could see it up close.  
"I'm just going to scrape at the sting and remove any more 
little stingers that might be stuck there, okay?"

      "Alright," she said with a quaver in her voice.  A tear 
threatened to roll down her face, and I had to turn my 
attention away from that so I wouldn't get needlessly 
emotional in the moment also.  The site of the sting looked 
free of anything else stuck in there, but I had read the 
stingers were very small so I probably couldn't have seen 
them anyways.  I placed the flat edge of the knife against 
the foot, and dragged the edge across it, as if I were 
shaving the area.

      "Owwwww!," Ruby whined, jerking her leg reflexively.

      "It's alright honey.  Just a little more, okay?" Emmie told 
her.  I could hear the anxiety in her voice as well.  I 
scraped the foot with the knife twice more, each time 
inspecting the knife afterwards to see if there was anything 
on it.  Honestly, I have no idea if what I saw on there were 
stingers or just dead skin, but there was a thin layer of 
some gunk that came off with each pass of the blade.

      Setting the knife down, I picked up the bottle of vinegar at 
last and poured some on the red angry looking sting.  I 
couldn't tell if it hurt of not, but Ruby didn't struggle or 
whine like she had before.  "Does it feel better?" I asked her.

      "Yeah," she answered.  I heard a siren arrive outside and 
knew that was their ride to the care center.

      "Go tell them I'll be right down with her," I told Emmie, who 
got up and left Ruby and me there.  "Can you stand up, just 
on one foot?" I asked the little one.

      "Yeah."  I helped her stand up, inadvertently, but 
unavoidably, palming first her chest and then grabbing her 
backside in the process.  "You touched my boobs," she said 
neutrally.

      "Sorry," I said, grunting as I picked her up, my already sore 
back threatening to revolt outright.

      "It's okay.  You're my hero right now," Ruby told me, putting 
her arms around my neck, and leaning in close to kiss my 
cheek.  I don't know how much I deserved the label of 'hero,' 
but if I had been made of ice, that kiss would have 
transformed me into a boiling puddle on the floor.

      "I-I uh...t-thank you," I sputtered, blushing.  A warmth 
welled up inside me as I looked at the preteen in my arms.  
This was my daughter.  The dreamy way she was looking up at 
me was not unlike the way her mother had looked at me 
immediately following her orgasm in this very same motel room 
where we had unknowingly conceived all those years ago.  I 
felt a temptation to kiss her, and probably would have 
planted one right on her forehead had Emmie not stuck her 
head into the room just then.

      "C'mon, they're waiting for her," she said.

      "R-right, okay," I assented, clearly flustered.  As she 
stepped aside for me to carry Ruby out of the bathroom, I did 
notice a smile on Emmie's face.  I couldn't wait for an 
opportunity to talk with her.

      That opportunity would have to wait, however.  While they had 
sent a full blown ambulance to take Ruby to the urgent care 
center, an unnecessary extravagance in my opinion, there was 
only room for one person to make the trip along with her.  I 
handed the little darling over to the EMT and watched as 
Emmie got in the back with her.  Just before they closed the 
doors, I heard Ruby ask her mother, "How does Ben know to 
call you 'Emmie' like everybody else does?"  However Emmie 
answered that question was not for me to hear, and I watched 
it drive off.

      I now felt incredibly alone and lost as to what I should do 
with myself.  Well, maybe not completely lost.  In our haste 
to get Ruby to the medics, Emmie had left her motel room door 
wide open, so I did the courteous thing and went back up to 
lock and close it.  More than a few other motel guests had 
stuck their heads out when they heard the ambulance sirens, 
so it fell to me to assure a number of them that it was 
nothing serious and that Ruby would be okay.

      I paused a moment there in the entry of room 202, just 
looking and remembering.  The general layout of the room 
remained the same, but nearly everything was different.  New 
sheets on the bed, a lighter color of carpet on the floor, a 
flat-screen TV on the bureau, even the picture on the wall 
over the bed was different.  When I closed my eyes I heard 
the ghost of 12-year old Emmie masturbating with my semen, 
her life being changed forever, but when I opened them again, 
it was an empty room with me standing alone in it.  That too 
evoked a memory, more sour than the prior one.

      I didn't linger there for long, not wanting to snoop among 
their belongings, and went into the bathroom to get the 
jellyfish kit so it could be returned to the office.  I 
caught sight of myself in the mirror there.  The feeling of 
the slap I had given myself in the past returned for a brief 
moment.  I wondered if I should slap myself again for even 
considering that Emmie and I might have a future now.  For 
all I knew she had a boyfriend back home, a father figure for 
Ruby.  I couldn't get ahead of myself here.  I had started to 
do just that before, but I knew how that stayed with me for 
so long.  Any plans would have to wait until Emmie and Ruby 
got back, and we could talk about what, if anything, would 
happen next.

      I tried to go about my day normally after that, which was a 
really hard thing to do.  Twice, I stopped by their room to 
knock and see if they had returned, but they hadn't.  I tried 
reading my book, but my mind would just wander away to Emmie 
and Ruby and I would have to read the same page again and 
again.  Only my trip to the grocery store felt close to 
normal.  Everything was done with a tinge of anxiety and 
anticipation for seeing them again.  I got like that for any 
future event that was looming, from dentist appointments to 
work deadlines, so it was no wonder I was on edge wanting to 
see my former lover and our child again.

      The doughnut shop across the street had transformed into a 
Chinese food buffet, so that was where I dined with an eye 
out the window to watch for their return.  I realized while 
spooning up another helping of fried rice that I didn't know 
how they would get back, but it probably would not be in 
another ambulance.  Hopefully the care center had some sort 
of a courtesy car or there was a ride-sharing service that 
even operated out here away from the more heavily populated 
coastal towns.  I even entertained the idea of driving over 
there myself, but realized it might be awkward to impose upon 
Emmie there for a very personal chat.  I didn't even know her 
last name to ask after them at reception.

      A greasy little box of leftovers (and a greasy little bout of 
heartburn) came home with me, and I took a long evening walk 
on the beach.  Ruby's sandcastle was in pretty poor shape and 
the shapeless predator that sent my vacation into one hell of 
a detour was nowhere to be found.  I happened upon a family 
that was also out for a walk, parents and two girls, each 
about 6 or 7.  The sound of them laughing and giggling, 
calling for their mother and father's attention made me want 
to make up for lost time with Ruby.  I just had to hope that 
Emmie would let me.

      Arriving back at the motel, I spotted a figure with brown 
hair standing at the door of my room.  "Emmie," I called out, 
and she turned to see me.  She closed the distance between 
us, and met me.  "How's Ruby?" I asked her.

      "She's fine, doing great.  The doctors said that aside from 
the swelling and redness on her foot, it would heal up in a 
few days and she'd be just fine," Emmie told me.

      "Good.  Good, I'm glad," I said, sighing with relief.  An 
awkward moment passed between us before we both started to 
laugh.  "Can you believe this?" I asked her.

      "No, not in a million years, or even ten," she answered, 
making me laugh even harder.  So hard in fact that the 
occupant of the room we were standing in front actually came 
to the door to see what the noise was all about.  We each 
apologized, and walked down to my door.  "The office gave me 
your room number, so I came looking for you," Emmie explained 
on the way.  "Ruby fell asleep in our room, so I thought I'd 
come look you up."

      "You found me.  What are you guys doing here, anyways?" I 
asked her.

      "Today is ten years to the day we, you know," she pointed out 
what I already knew.

      "Yeah, I know.  I just...I didn't think you'd be here too."

      "I had a little time off from work, so I thought I'd take 
Ruby and relive the past a little."

      "I did the same thing," I chuckled, as we came to a stop 
outside my room.  "Do you want to come inside?" I asked her, 
no ulterior motives in mind...well okay, maybe I had one 
little one, but I wasn't counting on that happening.

      "Yeah.  I'm so tired," she sighed.  "I just want to lay down."

      "That sounds familiar," I quipped, earning a slap on my 
shoulder from an embarrassed but grinning young woman while I 
unlocked the door.

      "You're bad," she giggled.

      "No so much anymore," I retorted, opening the door for my 
guest.  Inside, Emmie made herself at home, laying down on my 
bed with a groan as she stretched out.  God she looked good.  
If knocking up girls at 12 made all women look like her a 
decade later, the beauty industry would start lobbying for 
changes to the laws.  I sat down on the bed beside her and 
asked what was already obvious, but I still needed to.

      "She's mine, isn't she?"

      "Of course.  Couldn't be anybody else's," was the answer.

      "What about Josh?" I asked, saying that name for the first 
time in a long time.

      Emmie laughed.  "God, you remember that?  No.  Josh and I 
hadn't fooled around for a few months before that day, and by 
the time we would have gotten the chance to again, I was 
already showing.  Ruby is one-hundred percent yours, you old 
pervert."

      "Hey now.  Watch who you're calling a pervert.  I seem to 
recall a very eager little girl showing up at my door wanting 
to 'do it again,' and stripping off all her clothes the 
moment she got inside."

      "Haha, yeah, fine, but you should have known better, mister 
adult."  She sighed.  "I just wanted to cum so badly since I 
saw you do it the night before and I didn't get to.  It would 
have been impossible to do it in my room with my parents and 
grandparents around.  I was just going to go and finger 
myself alone, but then I thought maybe the nice man with the 
big dick who could shoot nice big globs from the pool might 
want to join me."

      "And look how all that worked out for you."

      "No kidding," she sighed.  You married?"

      "I'm not now.  I was a year ago."

      "Oh.  I'm sorry."  She was quiet a moment.  "What about back 
then?"

      "Nah.  It was purely a spur of the moment mid-life crisis 
type of thing.  Just a big misguided mistake."  The irony of 
why my marriage failed and today's revelations suddenly 
struck me, and I began to laugh.  "She and I were so focused 
on having a baby, and when that didn't happen it all went to 
shit.  Now it turns out I have a kid I never knew."  I 
stretched out and laid down beside Emmie, groaning as my back 
reminded me of the day's work.  "I'm sorry about all that.  
If I had known there was even a chance you might get 
pregnant, I would have done something differently...probably."

      "No, no!  It's fine, really," she assured me.  "I was just as 
surprised as you are.  I seriously hadn't had my first period 
yet, and wasn't even thinking about it, even when you asked.  
I was just a kid."

      "Was it tough?"

      "Kinda.  My parents freaked out, of course."

      "What did you tell them?" I asked, now suddenly worried for 
my own sake legally.

      "Well, before I could really say anything, they got so 
insistent that I was raped and abused," she paused and turned 
her head to look at me, "which you absolutely did not do to 
me, I don't blame you one bit."  I nodded in agreement and 
she looked back at the ceiling.  "Anyways, they kinda already 
made up in their heads what had happened, so I just went 
along with it.  When I went to pee, some random stranger 
grabbed me, forced himself on me, and Ruby was born 9 months 
later.  That's been the story I've told them all along."

      "You asked me if I was married, what about you?  Boyfriend?"

      "No, no.  When everything went down, my parents pulled me out 
of school and home-schooled me until Ruby was born.  Then it 
was off to a private girls' boarding school where the only 
penises were pictures in Renaissance art books.  College and 
then work have pretty much torpedoed my social life."

      "A boarding school?  Huh.  So your parents raised Ruby then?"

      "Yeah.  They were doing the whole, 'Emmie is your big sis,' 
lie to her, but then my brother spilled the beans to her to 
get back at my mother for some reason.  I've only been 'out' 
as Ruby's mom for 3 years now really."

      "That must have been confusing for her," I commented, not 
even able to imagine what that sort of revelation would be 
like for a 6-year old.

      "She took it in stride.  It's not like I was a total stranger 
or anything, and she already looked up to and adored me as 
her big sister.  I think it was harder on my mom though, 
since she was all worried that Ruby would resent her for the 
lie, but Ruby would never do that."

      "She's a really sweet kid," I agreed.

      "Mmhmm.  She's our girl."  I felt Emmie's hand on mine, and I 
took it.  I looked over at her, and she was looking back at 
me.  After what I'd gone through with Emmie before and the 
disaster of my marriage, I was hesitant to say something new 
was happening between us.  I was scared of even thinking of 
it and going too fast again.

      "S-so," I said, turning my gaze back to the ceiling.  "What 
comes next?"

      "What do you mean?"

      "Well, eventually you and Ruby are going to go back to your 
lives, and I'm going to go back to mine.  I don't want to not 
have a relationship with her now that I know she exists."

      "Oh, of course not!  I wouldn't think of keeping her away 
from you."

      "I know you wouldn't and it's not you I'm worried about, 
but...she's proof that we, well, that I broke the law.  I 
can't exactly go acknowledging her as my daughter, at least 
not right away if your parents hate my guts."

      "Oh...I could try talking to them, get them to accept you," 
Emmie offered.  I just shook my head.

      "Picture Ruby in your place 10 years ago.  Would you not go 
after the guy if she did the same thing?"  Emmie was 
strangely silent.  "Emmie?"

      "I'm thinking about it," she said, but still did not give an 
answer right away.

      "Really?" I asked her incredulously.  "You would be okay with 
that?"

      "Well I did it!" Emmie reminded me, sounding a little 
annoyed.  "And so did you, I'll remind you.  Don't tell me 
you didn't also check out your own daughter's body earlier 
today."

      "I..." She had me there.  "Okay, I may have for just a 
minute," I admitted, which had Emmie turning to look at me 
with her mouth open and her green eyes nice and big.

      "You horny pedo!" she called me, although she did so in a 
gleeful manner instead of being angry.

      "Whoa now, I'm not the one taking a long time to decide if 
her daughter getting creampie'd by a stranger is a good thing 
or not!" I lobbed right back at her.  We both realized what a 
preposterous argument this was that we were having, and 
started to laugh together.  "We're both kind of fucked up 
people, aren't we?" I asked her.

      "Yeah, I guess so!" she agreed before sitting up and 
stretching her arms out.  "I should really get back.  I don't 
want Ruby to wake up alone if she's in pain or needs 
something."

      "Alright," I said, groaning in an attempt to sit up as well.  
"Forgive me if I don't see you to the door.  I had to carry 
my 9-year old daughter around today."  Emmie swung her legs 
to get off the bed, but stopped, and turned back to me.

      "You know, I heard what Ruby said to you just before you 
carried her down to the ambulance."  She leaned down and 
kissed me softly on the cheek.  "Today you were my hero too."

      "Are you sure you can't stay a little longer?" I asked her.  
"I'm not fully convinced of how grateful you are."  Emmie did 
pause a moment, coyly biting her lower lip in consideration.

      "I wouldn't want to hurt your back," she said in a not so 
subtle way before getting up from the bed and exiting my 
room.  She still had a knack for leaving me wanting more.
















      Chapter 5

      When I opened my eyes it was morning.  Despite all the stuff 
I had on my mind, I was able to sleep well enough.  As usual, 
I spent my first few waking moments looking at my phone.  
Normally I would browse the latest news, but this time I had 
something more important and personally concerning on my 
mind.  I looked up which law I had broken with Emmie in the 
past.  

      Sexual abuse in the third degree appeared to fit the 
circumstances, and to my surprise the statute of limitations 
had conveniently expired when Emmie turned 22.  Despite the 
good news that I would probably not face any legal 
consequences now if I were to openly declare myself to be 
Ruby's father, it was still sobering to read an actual law 
that I had broken.  I know Emmie said the night before that 
she didn't blame me and that in her mind I had done nothing 
wrong, I still felt bad knowing that blind justice thought 
otherwise.

      A knock at my door spurred me out of bed, and when I peered 
through the peephole a pair of lovely brunettes, one big one 
little, were seen on the other side, holding a box.

      "Good morning, Ben!" exclaimed Ruby joyfully when I opened 
the door, thrusting a box of fresh doughnuts at me.  She wore 
a gray sweatshirt with a logo for some elementary school I'd 
never head of and a pair of blue sweatpants with white 
stripes running up the legs.  Flip-flops were on her feet, 
and I saw that her jellyfish stung right foot was wrapped in 
a tan colored bandage wrap.  Her long brown hair was loose 
and flowing freely down her back.

      "Good morning, Ruby cutie!" I replied, now feeling quite the 
opposite from just a few moments ago.  "Are those for me?"

      "No!  They're for all of us!" Ruby insisted.  I stepped 
aside, and in she marched with her coveted offerings as 
though she were delivering something of great importance.  
Right behind her came Emmie, who was dressed in sweats like 
her daughter.

      "Good morning, Emmie," I said, awkwardly wondering if I 
should hug her or something.  She didn't quite have the same 
hesitation and readily pecked me on the cheek.

      "Good morning, Ben," she replied.  "How's your back?" she 
asked with her characteristic grin and light in her eyes.

      "Better, thanks.  I see you found where the doughnut shop 
disappeared to."

      "Yeah.  Spotted it last night on the way back from the 
hospital.  I remembered how doughnuts turned your head before."

      "You don't remember that well, because it wasn't the 
doughnuts I was looking at on the stairs," I flirted right 
back.

      "What are you guys talking about?" asked the youngest person 
in the room, her words mumbled through a mouthful of 
doughnut.  Emmie took a conspicuous step away from me, which 
I judged to be only because Ruby was watching us now.

      "Nothing, Ru, and didn't we agree in the car that Ben would 
get to pick first from the box?" Emmie answered, deflecting 
another astute question from her daughter, who was in the 
middle of taking another bite from a chocolate frosted 
doughnut with sprinkles all over it.

      "Oops, sorry," she apologized sheepishly.

      "That's alright, Ruby cutie," I said coming over to her 
side.  There was a smear of chocolate frosting at the corner 
of her mouth, and I stooped down to kiss/lick it from her.  
No sooner did I lift my face away, than Ruby was rubbing at 
her mouth.

      "Ewww," she giggled.  "You licked me!"

      "I was just getting my share of the first doughnut," I told 
her.  I glanced back at Emmie, who had her face covered with 
her palm, shaking her head.

      "You two really are a pair," she put in.

      "Yes, well, the--" I began, only to stop myself before 
quoting an idiom that might tell Ruby just who I was to her.  
I wasn't sure how Emmie wanted to tell her, and I didn't want 
to force the issue.  "The, uh, frosting looked too good to 
ignore," I said instead, although I could see that Ruby 
caught my hesitation.

      "Ruby, do you have something you want to ask Ben?" Emmie 
spoke up, sensing that I needed a bail out.

      "Oh, yeah!" Ruby piped up, adequately distracted.  "Do you 
want to come with us to the sea lion refuge?  My mom said it 
was really cool when she came here as a little girl."  I 
looked back at Emmie just to ensure this was a legit invite 
and not just the whim of an over-friendly child.  She nodded 
in agreement.

      "I would love to," I answered my little one.

      "I was thinking that we would leave in about an hour or so," 
Emmie added.  "I gotta scrub the little doughnut muncher down 
since she didn't get her bath last night, plus we need to 
keep her foot dry."

      "Yeah," Ruby spoke up.  "I guess I can't go in the pool with 
you like you said," she said to me, referring to my 
off-handed comment the day before that we might cross paths 
at the motel pool.

      "The pool?" Emmie asked.  "When did you want to take my 
daughter to the pool, Ben?" she asked me, a smirk on her 
face, clearly thinking what I thought she was thinking.

      "Oh, uh, just, yesterday, before she hurt her foot," I 
explained, sounding, despite my best efforts, like I was 
trying to cover something up, "we talked a little bit, and 
she told me you two were staying at the same motel as me, and 
I said maybe we'd see each other at the pool."

      "Uh huh," Emmie hummed, running her tongue over her teeth 
behind closed lips, nodding her head.  I had little doubt 
that she was just teasing me, but Ruby piped up, not noticing 
the sarcastic tone from her mother.

      "He's right, Mommy!  Ben was just making sure that I wasn't 
alone on the beach.  He's really nice."  As if to prove her 
point, Ruby threw her arms around me and hugged tightly.  I 
just turned my head and looked up at Emmie with a smug smile 
on my face, while trying to keep it together emotionally from 
being suddenly hugged by my daughter.

      "I feel like I'm never going to win against you two," Emmie 
sighed.  "C'mon, Ru.  Let's go get washed up and dressed."

      "Okay," Ruby answered, smooching me on the cheek again before 
releasing her arms around me, and going to join her mom, but 
not before she pilfered two more doughnuts from the box.

      "We'll meet you in the parking lot at 9," Emmie told me as I 
came over to escort the pair to the door.

      "I'll be there with bells on," I replied before seeing them 
out.

      An hour later I stood somewhat awkwardly in the motel parking 
lot.  I didn't know what kind of car Emmie drove, so I 
couldn't wait beside it, so instead I just waited with my 
gaze on the door numbered 202.  At last they emerged, both 
waving to me from the balcony above before making their way 
down.  Ruby, by virtue of her youthful exuberance was first 
to join me, having changed her clothes into a multi-colored 
t-shirt featuring some cartoon princess I'd never heard of 
and a skirt with a yellow and blue flower pattern on it.  As 
for Emmie, this was the first time I'd seen her adult form 
wearing anything other than baggy formless sweats.  She wore 
a light green tank-top, which exposed portions of a cream 
colored bra underneath, and a pair of stretch denim shorts 
that she must have used pliers to pull on.  I might have 
drooled just a little bit as I stared at her.

      At Ruby's insistence, I sat in the back seat with her, while 
Emmie did the driving.  It surprised me just how open and 
friendly Ruby was with me, considering we'd only known each 
other less than a day by this point.  I found out that she 
and Emmie had only recently moved out of Emmie's parents' 
house and into a small studio apartment.  I got the 
impression that Emmie's mother was one of those controlling 
types who needed to keep her nose in her adult daughter's 
business, but was otherwise beginning to let her be more 
independent.  I had to wonder if the assault she believed 
Emmie had suffered made her more clingy and over-protective.  

      I also learned in which city they lived, which was a roughly 
5 hour drive from where I did.  It was still way too early to 
be thinking like this, but if Emmie and I were to ever move 
in together, one of us would have to find a new job.  Her job 
was precisely why Emmie had such a slim figure.  While in 
high school she had been a member of the swim team and the 
track team.  Movement and exercise was just something she 
took to, and so once out of college she'd gotten a job as a 
swimming and fitness trainer at a local health club.  She 
hoped to eventually become a health and physical education 
teacher at a school.  She'd be the first wet dream for many a 
school boy, I thought.

      A 20 minute drive led us to the sea lion refuge.  I'd been 
there many years ago, before Emmie was even born, so I had a 
rather vague familiarity with it, but it clearly had 
undergone some modernizing upgrades to make it more tourist 
friendly while also protecting the wildlife.  At several 
points Ruby had inserted herself between Emmie and I, holding 
each of our hands.  I wondered if we looked like a family, 
but was our appearance like the two parents of a little girl, 
or did I look like the father of two daughters that were 9 
years apart in age.  However we looked to other people, more 
than once it became obvious that Ruby was trying to force the 
former instead of the latter.  She'd picked up on the signals 
between Emmie and I, and was trying to play Cupid.  More than 
once she tricked Emmie and I into holding hands.  It was 
cute, really, and while I was willing to go for it, I 
sometimes felt like Emmie was hesitant.

      Ruby and I were practically joined at the hip, the only 
exception being when she excused herself to use the restroom 
after having lunch, giving me an opportunity to talk to Emmie 
about some pressing sensitive matters.

      "You're really good with her," Emmie observed while we sat on 
a bench waiting for our girl.

      "I like kids," I replied, adding after I saw the knowing look 
she gave me, "I didn't mean it that way."  A took a breath, 
afraid of sounding like I was forcing the issue, but I needed 
to know.  "Have you thought about telling her about me?  Who 
I am to her."

      "A little," Emmie answered.  "I'd already been thinking about 
it actually.  Sooner or later she's going to do the math 
between my age and her age and realize just how young I was 
when she was born.  It would be the kind of thing you tell 
her when the time was right, you know?"

      "I guess so," I nodded.

      "How she feels about that fact, might also affect how she 
feels about knowing it was you.  I don't want her to hate you 
for it, like my parents would.  I don't think I could swear 
her to secrecy either, because she blabs to my mom about 
everything, and if she said that we found her father, I think 
my mom would go ballistic."

      "Mm, makes sense.  I looked up the law on my phone this 
morning," I told her.  "The statute of limitations ran out 
when you turned 22, so I'm in the clear legally at least."

      "You got away with it then," Emmie teased with a smirk.  "Um, 
there's something I kind of need to ask you about though, and 
it's kind of awkward actually."  She really did look 
uncomfortable for the first time that I'd known her.

      "What is it?"

      "Well, since moving out of my parents' house with Ruby, 
money's been kind of tight."  Oh, it was that.

      "Say no more.  I'll do what I can for my girl," I said 
without hesitation.

      "Really?!"  I felt a little hurt by how surprised she sounded 
that I was willing to pay unforced child support to her.

      "Yes, really.  I don't know how much I can spare month to 
month, but I want to help you guys as much as I can.  I 
should at least do that, if nothing else for what I'm 
responsible for."  It was an offer I was going to make even 
if she hadn't brought it up, and it looked like I had just 
set her mind at ease.  That didn't change how surprised I was 
that she suddenly hugged me.

      "Are you guys hugging?!" asked a little girl making her 
return known, who I'm sure thought her efforts at matchmaking 
were paying off.

      "Just a little," I told Ruby, as Emmie sheepishly withdrew 
her arms from my neck in front of our daughter.

      "Are you gonna get married now!?!" Ruby followed up excitedly.

      "Ruby, we talked about this, remember?" Emmie said sternly.  
I got the feeling Ruby had been lobbying on my behalf when I 
wasn't around.

      "But you like each other, right?" she persisted.  "You said 
that you and Ben were friends a long time ago too."  It 
appeared that Emmie had said something to her about our past 
after all.

      "You're right," I spoke up.  "We are friends, and we do get 
along really well," I said, trying to keep things as factual 
as possible without oversharing, "but getting married is a 
really big deal.  I got married once and it didn't work out 
so well, and that was because it was for the wrong reasons, 
okay?"  I reached out and took Ruby's hands.  "If your mom 
and I," I paused, looking to Emmie for a moment, hoping that 
I wasn't speaking out of turn, "if we ever do get married, I 
want it to be for the right reasons so that nobody is ever 
sad later, understand?"

      "I guess," my little love said, plainly disappointed.  Emmie 
reached her hand out and put it on top of mine that was 
holding Ruby's.

      "Even if we don't get married, Ben is going to be our friend 
for a long time.  I promise," she added.

      "Forever?" Ruby asked, hopeful, but still a bit deflated.

      "Forever," I answered, giving her hands a tug in my 
direction.  Never had a group hug felt so good to me.

      We headed back to the motel not long after that, Ruby 
allowing me to sit up front next to Emmie on the drive back, 
subsequently falling asleep in the back, giving me and Emmie 
a chance to chat a little more.  "I'm sorry about that whole 
marriage thing," she offered.  "This isn't the first time 
that Ruby has asked if I was going to marry a man I so much 
as smiled at."

      "It's okay.  I suppose it was only a matter of time before it 
came up anyways."

      "Do you want to?" she asked after a moment.  "M-marry me, I 
mean."  There was something in the way she said it that 
reminded me of that 12-year old girl at my door years ago.

      "I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about it since I 
laid eyes on you yesterday," I admitted.  "I wasn't kidding 
when I told Ruby that it would need to be for the right 
reasons though.  You and I, we hardly know each other, you 
know?  My ex and I got married after only 6 months.  We have, 
what, barely 48 hours over the last 10 years?"

      "That, and 3 orgasms between the two of us," she added, 
making me smile.  "Tons more if you count all the times I 
touched myself thinking about it afterwards," she noted 
further.  She glanced up into the rear view mirror at the 
sleeping girl in the back.  "Do you, uh, do you want to spend 
the night?" she asked me.

      "What the what?" I asked, thinking I might have misheard her.

      "Spend the night.  Like a sleepover.  You know, wear pajamas, 
have pillow fights, give each other make-overs, talk about 
boys we like," she explained.  "Maybe some other stuff too."

      "Are you serious?" I asked her.  "What about," I pointed with 
my thumb over my shoulder at the back seat.

      "Oh, she'll be there too.  She'll be asleep before 10pm 
though, and when she's out, it's like a switch is flipped," 
Emmie assured me confidently.  "So?" she glanced my way with 
a raised eyebrow.

      "I would think you of all people should know how I respond to 
suggestions from hot young things."  The smile my answer put 
on Emmie's face would have given the Mona Lisa a run for her 
money.

      Sure enough, when we got back to the motel, waking Ruby and 
getting her out of the car was a Sisyphean task.  She perked 
up a bit when told that I would be over later that evening, 
but I felt like I needed a bit of a nap myself after a busy 
first half of the day.  We went our separate ways at the 
stairs and I soon was laying on my bed with my novel, 
starting to doze off, when a knock at my door gave me a 
peculiar sense of déjà vu.

      If I was wearing a watch, I might have looked at it to make 
sure this was the right decade.  Aside from the lack of curls 
in her hair and untanned skin, Emmie was at my door wearing a 
white-outlined blue tankini top and a little pair of pink 
shorts.  She was also a young adult now, but I wasn't going 
to complain.  "Wha?" was just about the only intelligent word 
I could form at that moment.

      "Little miss sleepyhead decided to continue her car nap in 
the room.  Do you want to do it again?" she quoted to me from 
the past, a bright sparkle in her green eyes.

      "A-am I dreaming?" I asked her before remembering what I 
should have said.  "G-get in here!"  I stepped aside, gawking 
as she walked in.  "Where did you get that outfit?" I asked 
her, still not believing it myself.

      "I found it while shopping for this trip.  Well, the shorts 
anyways," she said, turning in a circle for me to get a good 
long look.  "You wouldn't believe how hard it was to find the 
swimsuit online though.  I just figured if I was going to 
relive the past, I might as well do so in style, right?"  She 
walked over to the bed, and bent over, waggling her rear end 
at me.  "I seem to recall a dirty old man telling me what he 
wanted to do to me in shorts like these when I was younger.  
The pervert knew I was only 12, too."  She looked back at me, 
but not at my face, and smiled.

      My cock had throbbed its way to an almost painfully hard 
state before she stepped foot in my room, and where she was 
looking told me that the tent in my pants hadn't gone 
unnoticed.  "Really?" I asked her, playing along, as I 
unbuttoned the cargo shorts I had worn.  "I seem to recall 
catching a young girl about that same age in the hot tub here 
one time who was so desperate to get herself off that she 
showed me her cute little pussy so I could jerk off on it."  
I pulled down the zipper, and pushed down my shorts and the 
boxers I wore underneath.  Emmie groaned at the sight of the 
shaft, and wagged her ass at me again.

      "God, Ben, get over here and touch me.  I'm dripping."

      Coming up behind her, I placed my hands on her hips, and 
pulled down those pink shorts.  Much to my surprise, there 
was not a matching pair of bikini bottoms under them, just a 
lovely bare ass and a pair of pussy lips between her thighs.  
"I'm not disappointed or anything, but I think you forgot to 
wear something," I joked with her, placing my hand between 
her legs to rub her sex.  She wasn't kidding about the 
dripping either.

      "Put it in already," she moaned, pushing back against my 
hand, as if she were trying to take it inside of her.  "I've 
been thinking about this for ten years already, stop making 
me wait."  As much as I wanted to tease her for being so 
needy, I also had been thinking about this moment for a 
decade, and rubbed the head of my cock down the crack of her 
ass to press it between those soft lips once more.  Where 
12-year old Emmie would have pulled away timidly, 22-year old 
Emmie pushed down, and we groaned together as our bodies 
became one at last.

      "Fucking hell, you're tight," I gasped, plunging my 6 inches 
deep within.  There was nothing but sweet hot wet pressure 
all over my dick.  Aside from our first encounter, the 
closest I'd gotten to screwing a preteen was my high school 
girl friend that I lost my virginity to.  Even that 
singularly memorable experience did not feel this amazing.

      "Pound me.  Fuck my tight pussy like you wanted.  Give me 
what I was too scared to let you do," Emmie insisted, 
thrusting herself backwards at me to take me as deep as could 
be.  I placed my hands on her hips, held her firmly in place, 
and did just what she asked.

      All that lust I had felt for her so long ago came roaring 
back, and though I had noticed during my brief marriage that 
I didn't have the same stamina for love making as when I was 
younger, just being with Emmie made me feel young again.  I 
thrust into her at a rapid pace, making her moan and yelp 
every time my hips slammed against her buttocks.  The 
slapping of our flesh together mixed with the wet squelching 
of my pistoning in and out of her wet hole.  She twisted 
back, looking at me, mouth agape and I felt her go first.

      I don't think I've ever had a lover orgasm before I did.  
Maybe that's not something I should admit to, considering 
what it probably says about my own sexual performance, but 
Emmie was also the most sexually eager of the half-dozen 
women I'd been with in my life, both now and when she was 
only 12; she had come to cum.  "Ohhhhhh Ben, ohhhhhhh!" she 
moaned loudly, putting her head down on the bed while her 
body shook without and contracted and flexed within.  It was 
a wholly different experience than when I had witnessed her 
stifle any noise while she fingered Ruby into existence on 
the same bed where Ruby now slept at the other end of the 
building.

      I kept fucking her right through that climax, and knew I 
couldn't keep this pace for long.  Not only was I panting as 
I pushed my physical limits, I just found everything about 
her so insanely hot at the moment.  It contrasted sharply 
with my last sexual experience over a year earlier, which had 
amounted to little more than a passionless sperm injection 
into an infertile woman that just laid there.  I knew that if 
Emmie came again, I would too, so I was strangely grateful 
that she told me to, "S-stop.  I-I want to turn over.  F-fuck 
me on my back."

      Pulling out, I took a step back and tried to catch my 
breath.  Emmie wasted no time in turning over and scooting 
back onto the bed, where she then pulled off the tankini top 
to bare her pert little breasts.  She spread her legs and 
with her fingers spread her lips.  "Get back in here.  I miss 
you already."  I noted that she was shaved bare and that 
there was also a scar just above her mound.  Taking a deep 
breath, I likewise pulled off my shirt, and moved in on top 
of her on the bed.  Her hand gripped the shaft, and placed me 
right back inside of her.

      We kissed, then gasped and moaned together, my mouth to hers, 
our hips rolling together as one.  "You feel so much better 
than my fingers and my vibrator," she told me, wrapping her 
arms across my back.

      "You're a definite upgrade from a hand, yourself," I panted, 
still trying to catch my breath as I moved in and out of her 
at a steady, but slower pace than before.

      "Mmm," she giggled.  "My pussy really feels good for you?" 
she asked, in a way that made me think she was doubting it.

      "The best," I told her, which wasn't an exaggeration in my 
experience.  "You're like a dream come true."

      "This is how we should have done it," she said, moaning as my 
motions gradually increased.  "We should have made Ruby like 
this, during my first time."

      "I wasn't going to force you," I huffed.  "I understood back 
then why you didn't want to."

      "No," she shook her head.  "I wanted to...God, I wanted 
to...I was just so scared.  Even Josh never went as far with 
me as you did that day."

      "Don't talk about Josh," I jokingly scolded her, kissing her 
again to prevent any smart response.  She tensed up all over 
when I kissed her, but not in a bad way.  Her tight walls 
seemed to press around me even harder as I thrust in and out 
of their embrace.  The arms around my back pulled me closer, 
and her spread legs rose up on either side of me like human 
guardrails as her knees bent.

      "I think you're jealous," she gasped in a teasing tone once 
my lips released.  "Don't be.  I never thought of or wanted 
Josh again after that day.  It's just been you.  Every time I 
came for the last 10 years, I've been thinking of you and 
what if you'd pushed inside."  Emmie knew how to boost an old 
man's ego, that was for sure.

      "Is that what you were thinking about, when I watched you 
finger yourself?" I asked, our conversation pushing me 
towards the edge, which I was pretty sure was the intent 
behind it.

      "Mmhmm," she hummed at me.  "That's when I knew...I knew I 
wanted to feel your...your cock inside...pushing in 
me...filling me...fucking my pussy...I wanted to get 
fu-unnhn...fucked in my kid pussy by your gr-nnnhn...grown up 
co-aaahhh-ock..."  She was having to break up her words now 
to groan.  I was pumping my shaft into her at nearly the same 
speed as I had been from behind.  "Shoooooting it all 
deeeeeeeeeep insiiiiide!"  She cried out, and her pussy 
started to clench from all angles.  I wasn't far behind her, 
but there was something I needed to know at that very moment, 
given our history together.

      "Inside you?  Is it safe?" I sputtered out, knowing that I 
would probably shoot at least once inside her before I would 
be able to pull out entirely.  Her emphatic reply couldn't 
have been more perfect.

      "Ruby wants a brother!"  

      I pushed in deep, and did my best.
















      Chapter 6

      Emmie's legs wrapped around my waist as my semen pumped into 
her.  I could feel a firm structure pressing back against the 
tip of my cock, and seeing as how I was literally balls deep 
inside of her, I was pretty sure it was the mouth of her womb 
that I was coating with millions of sperm.

      "I can feel it!" Emmie moaned, tightening her arms, legs, and 
vagina around me.  "I feel you cumming in me...holy shit, 
it's happening..."  There was such reverence in her voice, as 
if she were in awe of my orgasm.  She may have been 22, but 
there was a distinctly adolescent aspect to her at this 
intimate moment.

      I thrust a few more times, though it was difficult to do so 
with how she was clinging to me, and felt my orgasm subside.  
We lay together like that for a moment, two naked bodies 
(except for my socks) pressed together, breathing and basking 
in the afterglow.  Her arms and legs relaxed their grip, and 
I rolled off of her to the side, laying beside her on the bed 
just as we had done the night before under less intimate 
circumstances.

      "I should tell you," she said after a moment of reflective 
silence, "that was my first time."

      "It was?" I asked, shocked by that confession.

      "Yeah.  Boarding school where nobody had a dick, remember?" 
she reminded me.  "I mean, I messed around with some of the 
other girls there, but you're the first guy to actually fuck 
me."  She reached over with her hand and placed it on my 
slick withering organ, almost possessively.  "I...I did 
everything right, right?" she asked me, sounding once again 
like a vulnerable child.

      "Yeah," I assured her, still thinking about the funny reality 
that I had just now taken her virginity 10 years after she 
gave birth to my child.  "You did great, I mean...it's hard 
to do it wrong."  I reached my hand over to her body, 
mirroring her, and placed it on her bald mound.  Not even any 
stubble, I noticed, suggesting she had probably shaved it 
this morning, perhaps in anticipation of sex with me.  I 
found and traced the line of the scar there with my finger.

      "You noticed it," she said.

      "Yeah.  Sorry.  It's because of me."

      "No.  It was both of us, remember.  Both of us and Ruby.  
It's the best kind of scar to have."  She turned onto her 
side towards me and cuddled up close.  "Don't blame yourself 
for any of it, not ever," she insisted, sighing.

      "What are you thinking about?" I asked her.

      "If we should get married," she answered.

      "Do you want to?"

      "I don't know...I like you and all, and so does Ruby, but..." 
she paused and turned her eyes to my face, as if she were 
afraid to keep talking.

      "It's okay, you won't hurt me," I assured her, thinking I 
knew what she was thinking.

      "I don't...'love' you, you know?  At least not yet, but...I 
get so turned on thinking about you."  I was wrong, it hurt a 
little bit to hear that, but I understood.  "You told Ruby 
that you didn't want to marry somebody for the wrong reasons, 
and...I think I feel the same way, only I don't know what the 
'right reasons' would be for us to do it."

      "Makes sense," I said, now being the one to sigh.  "We could 
try dating and see where it goes," I offered.

      "We live so far apart though," Emmie pointed out.  "One of us 
would have to move to really make it work.  I just got my job 
a few months ago, and Ruby would have to leave her school and 
friends, so...would you move?" she put to me.

      "I don't know, at least I don't right now.  I'd have to give 
up my seniority at work and the salary that comes with it."  
As if on cue, both Emmie and I sighed at the same time.  We 
looked at each other and smiled, albeit a little sadly.  "We 
could just be fuck buddies then," I suggested.

      "A 5 hour booty call?" Emmie laughed.

      "Ten hours actually.  One of us would need to drive back."

      "Ugh, sounds even worse.  I'm already not looking forward to 
the three hours it'll take me to drive home tomorrow," Emmie 
said.

      "You're leaving tomorrow?!" I asked, caught completely by 
surprise with the information she just volunteered.

      "Oh...yeah.  Sorry, I should have said something," Emmie 
apologized.  "I only got just these couple of days off since 
it's in the middle of the week."  She was right.  Even though 
we had met on the weekend 10 years ago, this time around it 
was Wednesday.  "Me and Ruby will be out of here around 9 in 
the morning so I can be back at the gym in time for the 
afternoon sessions.  I didn't mean to hide it from you."

      "No, it's okay.  I should have asked how long you were here.  
We could have fit in some more times to to this," I said, 
giving her pussy a rub.  Emmie growled playfully at that.  
"Hey," I added, "what you said about Ruby wanting a 
brother...did we, uh, just repeat history here?"

      "I dunno.  Maybe," she answered, sounding entirely 
unconcerned by the prospect.  "I think this is one of my 
'safe days,' so I wouldn't worry too much about it."

      "Oh."  The way I said that must have sounded disappointed, 
because Emmie hugged herself closer to me.

      "I'm sure if we keep doing this, it'll happen again 
eventually.  You do want it to happen again, don't you?" she 
asked me.

      "I'm already trying to wrap my head around having one kid, so 
I'd appreciate it if we could hold off on a second for a few 
years at least.  I think your parents would lose their minds 
if you came home from the beach knocked up again."  Emmie 
laughed at that.

      "They don't even know we came here.  My mom would probably 
totally lose her shit if she knew I came back to this place.  
She actually wanted to sue the entire town over me getting 
pregnant."

      "Please don't ever introduce me to your mother," I deadpanned.

      "She'd probably cut this off," Emmie responded just as 
expressionless, grabbing my penis, and then giving it a few 
yanks.  "This thing going to get hard again soon?  I wanna do 
it again."

      "Probably not for a few hours," I answered.  Age had taken 
it's toll on my ability to rebound from an orgasm, and while 
I might have been able to do it all over again quickly 10 
years ago, I knew from all those months trying to conceive 
that I needed more time.

      "Bleh, fine.  Old people are no fun," Emmie said getting up 
from the bed...and then squeaking in surprise as semen 
dribbled from her pussy lips.

      "It'll do that when you stand up," I educated the 
recently-deflowered.

      "It didn't last time," she said, annoyed, holding her hand 
between her legs to catch the drips.

      "I only gave you a little squirt last time, and then we 
toweled you off, remember?  Speaking of, want one?"

      "Just like old times," she sighed, sitting back down on the 
edge of the bed, as I got up to head for the bathroom.  In 
there I caught a look at myself in the mirror again.  Because 
it was my own reflection, I didn't really notice how much I'd 
aged since the last time I had done this, but I was in a far 
better place emotionally and more realistic and optimistic 
about the future than last time, so I didn't feel the urge to 
slap myself and sober up.

      I returned and she gratefully took the towel from me.  "So 
are we still on for the sleepover?" I asked, wondering if our 
sex had negated the need for it.

      "Of course," she answered, wiping between her legs.  "Ruby 
and I already kinda talked about it last night, as sort of a 
what if, and she really wanted to do it, so you'd better not 
disappoint her.  Or me.  I want to say good bye to you 
properly this time."  Emmie was looking at a particular part 
of me when she said that, and then got up from the bed to 
gather her clothes.

      "Do you guys want to meet up for dinner?" I asked her.

      "Nah.  That's okay, you can rest up if you want.  Just come 
by around 9.  We're not going to stay up real late since I 
have that long drive to make tomorrow," she said, pulling up 
her shorts.  "I'm gonna run to the store, get some snacks and 
stuff."

      "Oh, okay."  I wasn't disappointed by her declining to have 
dinner together, but it did feel a little like a blow off.  
It did feel like we had spent every moment here together, 
though.  Emmie pulled on her top, concealing her tits, 
although her nipples still managed to make their presence 
known through the fabric.  She turned to me, threw her arms 
around my neck and stood up on her toes to press her lips 
against mine, in a not so subtle reminder of the kiss I stole 
from her so long ago.  Her breasts pressed into my bare 
chest, and my naked penis rubbed against her firm but soft 
tummy.  I wrapped my arms around her, thinking that maybe, 
just maybe, I might get hard again and keep her there a 
little longer, but she released her lips before that could 
occur.  "Back then," I just had to ask, "that wasn't your 
first kiss, was it?"  She lowered her heels to the floor and 
thought for a moment.

      "No, but it was way better."  She slipped her arms from 
around my neck, and I let go of her.  "Nine," she said, 
reminding me.

      "I'll be there," I confirmed, and once again, watched her 
leave my motel room after an encounter full of sexual firsts 
for the two of us.

      My delayed nap took charge of the rest of my afternoon, 
followed by a light dinner of my Chinese food leftovers from 
the night before.  A stroll on the beach followed before I 
returned to my room to change into what I felt would be 
sleepover suitable attire.  I hadn't planned on spending the 
night in any beds other than my own, but I did pack a pair of 
sweatpants, so that at least would be better than just 
showing up at their door in a t-shirt and boxers.

      Dressed for the occasion, I, accompanied by the box of 
remaining doughnuts, made my way to the other end of the 
motel and knocked on the door shortly after 9pm.  I heard an 
exclamation of delight from within, and the sound of two 
feet, one lightly bandaged, rushing to the door.  "Hi Ben!" 
exclaimed my new favorite little girl.  Looking at her for 
the first time in several hours, I realized I could have 
showed up in just a t-shirt and boxers, as she herself was 
wearing just a t-shirt and panties.

      "H-hello Ruby," I greeted her in return, my attention drawn 
to her attire as she grabbed my hand and pulled me into the 
room.  Therein I saw Emmie, who was dressed similarly to our 
daughter, though her t-shirt exposed her midriff, and her 
panties contoured closer to her body, whereas Ruby's were 
obviously of a less sexy style meant only to cover her tender 
parts.  "Would you like me to step outside for a moment, so 
you two can get dressed?" I joked, appreciating the view.

      "No, this is how we sleep," Ruby responded, missing the 
joke.  "Well, but sometimes me and Mommy don't even wear our 
underwear," she giggled.  I looked at Emmie, who just 
shrugged and nodded.

      "Well, that's...interesting," I told Ruby, who just giggled 
harder while I set down the doughnut box on the table already 
containing a bag of chips and a box of cookies.  I turned 
back and saw Ruby sitting on the bed in more or less the same 
spot her mother had been laying when we unknowingly made 
her.  "I suppose I should join the party then, right?" I 
asked, tugging at the waistband of my sweatpants.  Ruby's jaw 
dropped and her hands flew to cover her eyes, making Emmie 
and I both laugh at her reaction.

      "He's just kidding, Ru," Emmie told her bashful daughter, 
before turning to me to confirm.  "You were just kidding, 
right?" she asked with a grin that told me she hoped I 
wasn't.  I looked to Ruby, who's hands had tentatively lowered.

      "When in Rome," I said with a shrug, and down went my 
sweatpants.  Although I had boxers on, Ruby still squeaked in 
surprise and covered her eyes after a moment of staring, 
though she clearly continued to look from between her 
fingers.  I wasn't erect, although I felt like I could have 
become so at any moment, so I really was taking a risk at 
pushing whatever limits Emmie felt might be appropriate in 
front of Ruby, but Emmie appeared to be rather approving of 
this.

      "It's okay, Ru.  He's got underwear on," Emmie teased.  "Ben 
wasn't really going to show you his ding-dong."  I raised an 
eyebrow at her frank language.  Although it wasn't 
particularly crude, I was still a little surprised to hear a 
mother say something like that to her daughter (about her 
secret father).  Ruby certainly looked embarrassed though as 
she lowered her hands again.

      "So," I spoke up, "what, uh, what should we do now that I'm 
here?"

      "I was thinking we should play a game to get to know more 
about you, Ben," Emmie said with that glint in her eye that I 
had come to know meant some mischief was afoot.  "Truth or 
Dare."

      "How do we play that?" Ruby asked, clearly the most innocent 
participant.

      "We take turns, and the person who is 'it' has to choose to 
either tell the truth about something, or do something that 
we dare them to do," Emmie explained.  "You'll catch on once 
we start playing."

      "Are you sure?" I asked, feeling just a bit uncomfortable 
about involving somebody as young as Ruby in this.

      "Of course.  The game is only what we make it," Emmie pointed 
out, and she had a good point.  "Ruby, you are 'it' first, so 
you need to pick, 'truth' or 'dare.'"

      "Um...t-truth!" she chose, sounding not at all confident in 
that choice.

      We all sat together on the bed, and those first early rounds 
passed quite innocently.  We learned that Ruby had a crush on 
a boy at school, I had to make a silly face, Emmie had to 
tell us about her first kiss (which to my surprise was not 
with Josh), and then it came around again to Ruby.

      "Dare!" she chose more eagerly this time.  I knew that grin 
that appeared on her mother's face.

      "I dare you to show Ben why I named you 'Ruby,'" Emmie said.  
Ruby's enthusiasm for the dare drained from her face.

      "Mooooooom!  I can't do that!"

      "You took the dare, Ru.  I'll tell Ben the story, but you'll 
need to do your part, or else you lose the game," she warned.

      "Nnnngh, fine!" Ruby pouted.

      "When Ruby was born," Emmie started, "I didn't have a name 
picked out for her ahead of time because...well, we weren't 
really sure that we were going to keep her."  Just hearing 
Emmie say such a thing in Ruby's presence was shocking to me, 
but Ruby didn't appear to be affected at all by it.  It was 
possible that she was familiar with some of the circumstances 
surrounding her coming into the world.  "So because I had a 
C-section birth--"

      "That means I didn't come out of her...um, her place down 
there," Ruby interjected.

      "Say 'vagina,' Ru.  It's not a bad word, and Ben knows what 
it is," Emmie corrected her.

      "V-vagina," Ruby said softly, glancing at me shyly.

      "As I was saying, because I had a C-section, I had to stay in 
the hospital a little longer than usual to heal up.  One of 
the nurses was there to help me change little Ruby's diaper," 
a statement that caused Ruby to cover her face with her 
hands, "and while we were doing that, she pointed something 
out to me.  Ruby, it's your time to shine," Emmie prompted 
her.  Ruby gave her mother a miserable look, but dutifully 
got on all fours on the bed and turned to point her rear end 
at me.  She pushed her panties back off her hips, carefully 
lowering them to show me only the upper portion of her naked 
bottom and nothing more.  I saw there what Emmie was getting 
at as she went on.  "'Well would you look at that,' the nurse 
told me.  'She has a birthmark there.'"  That she did.  On 
the upper side of Ruby's right butt cheek, there was an 
elongated red mark.  "I said to the little poop machine, 
'You've got a ruby on your butt, little girl,' and it just 
sort of stuck."  Emmie reached over and gave Ruby a light 
smack on her behind.  "You can pull them up now, Ru, thank 
you."  Ruby did so quickly, and sat back down, red-faced and 
glaring at her mom.

      "My turn," Ruby said, turning her gaze to me.  "Show me your 
butt!" she insisted, not even giving me the opportunity to 
pick either 'truth' or 'dare.'  I thought about arguing, but 
felt that she was kind of owed a win after being rather 
unfairly humiliated by her mother.

      "If you say so," I said.  I slid off the bed, turned my back 
to Ruby and, with the same delicacy as she undertook to limit 
what was exposed, lowered my boxers to moon her.  Ruby's 
laughter was a delight to hear, and I waggled it from side to 
side, mimicking Emmie's private display for me earlier.  I 
felt a smack on my rear from Emmie's direction, and then 
shortly thereafter a smack from Ruby's direction, followed by 
more laughing from both of them.  I pulled my shorts up, and 
looked at Emmie.  "Your turn," I told her.

      "I don't get a choice?" she asked me.

      "I didn't," I said, looking over at Ruby, who was all 
giggles.  Emmie shrugged and got up from the bed.

      "Well, like you said earlier, Ben, 'when in Rome.'"  Before 
either Ruby or I could react, she pushed her panties down to 
her knees, giving both of us a full-frontal view of her bare 
pussy, before turning around and bending over.

      "Momohmygosh!" Ruby exclaimed at the sight.  The little girl 
lunged at me, her hand extended to cover my eyes from seeing 
what I had already become familiar with.  She was successful 
in obscuring my vision, but in doing so, she needed to put 
her other hand down to support herself.  She unwittingly 
ended up with a handful.  "Mom, he can see your vagina lips!" 
Ruby warned, before she realized her own position and what 
the object under her palm was.  Both Ruby and I looked down 
at her hand, then up at each other, all while Emmie, who had 
her back turned to both of us, was unaware of what was 
happening.  Ruby made the reverse motion of her lunge and was 
quickly back in her spot on the bed as Emmie pulled up her 
panties to end her over-the-top display.

      "Too much?" Emmie asked, sheepishly once she had turned 
around and saw the uneasy grin on my face and Ruby's timid 
expression.

      The game took on a more subdued tone from that point, with 
Ruby only choosing 'truth' from then on to avoid any 
embarrassing actions and the dares lacking any sort of risque 
elements.  While Ruby was trying to think of a question to 
ask me, she yawned.  "That's one," Emmie said, pointing at 
the little girl, who just nodded and slipped off the bed.

      "Huh?" I asked, unaware of what exactly she meant.

      "The first yawn I see close to bedtime means she has to get 
ready for bedtime," Emmie explained as Ruby wandered off to 
the bathroom, shutting the door behind her.  Emmie didn't 
hesitate to reach over and place her hand on my crotch.  "It 
also means we're one step closer to this," she informed me, 
giving it a squeeze and feeling it swell in response.

      "Are you sure about this?" I asked her, not for the first 
time tonight wondering silently to myself if Emmie was 
thinking clearly when it came to putting her sexuality on 
display around Ruby.  I mean I was no saint myself, but I 
sort of expected better from Emmie.

      "Of course.  You remember how she was in the car.  She'll be 
asleep and won't be aware of anything.  Don't tell me you're 
not turned on thinking about fucking right next to her in the 
same bed we made her on."  I wasn't actually, but Emmie sure 
was into the idea.

      "Alright, but if she wakes up, you get to explain it to her," 
I relented.

      "Already had that chat with her," Emmie informed me, as Ruby 
opened the bathroom door and rejoined us, rubbing at her eyes 
and yawning.  "There's two, everybody in bed!" Emmie announced.

      Ruby was on my right and Emmie on my left, once we settled 
down together in the bed.  It was a little cramped, since it 
wasn't particularly big enough for all 3 of us, but the two 
lovely young ladies made a sandwich out of me just the same.  
In what seemed like no time at all, Ruby was snoozing, and 
Emmie's hand had snaked its way into my boxers.  I wasn't 
about to do anything that might jostle or disturb Ruby, so I 
directed Emmie to lay on her side, facing away from me.  She 
looked a little puzzled by the instruction, but did as told.

      I spooned with her from behind, sliding my hand into her 
panties to touch her.  It wasn't long before she started to 
beg for something more than just my fingers, and in a 
coordinated effort our respective underwears went down to our 
knees and I entered her from behind.  With her hand on mine, 
together we masturbated her with my cock buried inside.  I 
didn't move so much, as the aim was really just to make her 
cum, and thanks to Emmie's high sex drive that was not 
difficult.  Once I felt her orgasm begin, I started to 
thrust.  Emmie cried out, louder than I'm sure she intended 
to be given who we were sharing the bed with, and I came 
inside of her with a repressed groan.

      Almost immediately afterward I felt sleep start to creep into 
my brain.  I suspect Emmie did as well, as she made no move 
to extract herself from my embrace so that she could clean up 
in the bathroom.  If anything, it felt like she snuggled 
backward against me with the intent to spend the night in my 
arms, and maybe even with the naive thought that we would 
remain mated the entire time as well.  I don't know when I 
did finally slip out of her, but when I awoke the next 
morning, it clearly had happened.  Speaking of the next 
morning...

      The first sensation I felt upon waking up was that of a hand 
upon the shaft, gently squeezing and pulling on it in its 
usual stiff morning state.  As more of my consciousness 
returned, I became aware of some important facts.  I was 
still laying on my left side, just the same as I had been 
when I fell asleep with my prick soaking within Emmie's sperm 
flooded sex.  That said, when my eyes opened, it was to a 
view of an empty pillow where Emmie's head should have been.  
I also realized that the hand that was currently manipulating 
my genitals was attached to a wrist and arm that was reaching 
over my body from behind me.  It was also quite a bit smaller 
than the hand of a young woman in her 20's would be.  There 
was only one thing to be said in that moment.

      "Good morning, Ruby."















      Chapter 7

      "Good morning, Ruby," I said, holding my breath, trying not 
to get too excited by the 9-year old's hand.  In response to 
my words, I felt the hand instantly release me, and swiftly 
withdraw over my body to behind my back.

      "G-good morning," answered the meek voice of my daughter from 
that same direction.  She sounded scared and guilty.

      "Where, uh, where's your mom?" I asked, wondering why the two 
of us were alone in such a situation.

      "I-I think she went for a run.  She usually does that early 
in the morning."  There was a pause.  "Are you going to tell 
her?"  I honestly did not know.  From what I knew of Emmie's 
inclination towards involving Ruby in tame sexual situations, 
she might be a little bothered by the news that her daughter 
was groping a grown man's dick instead of just seeing one.  
Then again, she may have left us here in the hopes that 
something would happen.  Still, discretion seemed to be the 
better choice, and this could remain a secret between me and 
Ruby.

      "Do you think I should?" I put the question back to her.  She 
did know Emmie better than I did, and might be able to 
predict her reaction better.

      "I don't know."  Well that didn't help me.  "Are you mad?" 
she asked.

      "No," I answered easily.  "I'm not mad at you.  I'm 
surprised, but not mad."

      "Oh.  Did you put it in my mom?"  Once again, I was 
surprised, and conflicted about how to answer.  Ruby clearly 
knew what intimate relations were, but...

      "Why do you ask?" I asked her, wondering if it was just 
instinct or if she had--

      "You guys were, um, like, moving and making noises last night 
and woke me up."  My back was still towards her, so Ruby 
couldn't see the smile that spread across my face.  So much 
for Emmie's insistence that Ruby would sleep through it.  
"A-also, your, um, p-penis is sticky l-like my mom gets in 
her vagina when she, um..."  Now this piqued my curiosity.  
Ruby had some familiarity with Emmie's pussy getting wet?  
What in the hell went on in their apartment?

      "Like what, Ruby?" I pressed.

      "Uh, I-I don't think I'm supposed to tell.  She said it was 
private stuff."  This little girl was killing me.

      "Did she tell you about that stuff?" I asked, trying a 
different track.

      "Yeah.  She said that's how babies are made inside a mommy's 
tummy...w-well, not like the tummy where food goes, but in 
the, um, the uterus.  A-A boy's penis s-squirts sperm juice 
in a girl's vagina and the little sperms swim around and find 
the eggs that come out during a girl's period and make a 
baby," Ruby explained.  It wasn't perfectly correct, but she 
knew the deal.  "S-so did you do that with my mom before you 
went to sleep?"

      "Yes."  I saw no point in lying to her about it.

      "Is my mom gonna have a baby?!" Ruby asked with great 
enthusiasm, all but jumping atop my sideways body.

      "I really don't know yet, Ruby."

      "But your sperm juice went inside her vagina, right?  That 
will start growing a baby when it finds the egg in her 
uterus, right?"  Again, she had the right idea, just not an 
understanding of the odds of conception, or the intention 
behind the sex act.  I realized that I was going to have to 
explain recreational sex to Ruby and turned onto my back.  
Ruby, already half on top of me at a near perpendicular 
angle, was pushed away just a bit as I turned in her 
direction, but otherwise remained propped up on top of me 
just above my waist.  In this position, my erection, though 
under the blanket, was now just in front of Ruby's right 
arm.  Her attention was not on it though, as she looked 
intently at my face for an answer to her hopes for a little 
sibling.

      "When two people have sex, like your mother and I did, they 
don't always do it so that they can make a baby," I explained.

      "Then why do they do it?" she asked, as expected.

      "Because it feels good.  Your mom and I are just 
friends...really good friends, so when we decide to be 
intimate with each other's body, it's only because we want to 
feel really good together."  I wondered if that was an answer 
that would satisfy Ruby's curiosity.

      "Oh," she responded, processing and incorporating that into 
her understanding of the whole thing.  "So...so your sperm 
juice won't make a baby inside her?" she asked, still hooked 
on that point.

      "There is no guarantee of that.  Sperm inside a woman's body 
doesn't always find an egg to fertilize.  Everything has to 
be just right for that to happen."

      "But it might happen, right?" she clung to that small hope.

      "Yes, it might.  You might be a big sister in 9 months," I 
conceded.

      "Coooool!  I want a little brother, just like my mom has.  
One of my friends has a baby brother, and he is soooooo 
cute!  I hope my mom has a lot of sex and gets a lot of sperm 
juice squirted inside her puss-- uh, um, her vagina, I 
mean."  Ruby blushed, catching her natural use of the word 
'pussy.'  She glanced from my face to the object under the 
sheet near her arm for the first time.  I saw her eyes widen 
just a bit and she moved her arm away from it.  "Did...did 
all of it really go inside?" she asked.

      "Yes.  I guess that's maybe a scary idea for you," I said, 
trying to relate her mom's thoughts from 10 years ago to 
Ruby's own developing understanding of intercourse.  "All of 
my penis really did go inside your mom's vagina."

      "Wow," Ruby said simply.  "Will all of it go inside my vagina 
too?"  Although her cheeks were red, and her voice got softer 
as it always did when she said 'vagina,' her question was 
asked with nothing but innocent curiosity driving it.  That 
didn't make it any less surprising a thing to hear from her.

      "Uh, well, m-maybe not now it won't, but maybe when you get 
older," I answered hesitantly.

      "Neat.  I want to have sex with you too!" she declared with 
clear-eyed enthusiasm.  I opened my mouth, entirely unsure of 
how to respond to that, when the doorknob of the motel room 
started to rattle.

      "Don't tell your mom.  Our secret, okay?" I said quickly.  I 
hated to ask that of her, since it might give Ruby the 
impression that we were talking about bad things and needed 
to hide it, but I just didn't know how Emmie would feel about 
some of what took place.

      "Okay," Ruby agreed with me at the same moment the door 
opened.  Emmie emerged from the short entry hall wearing a 
tight running top that clung to her small breasts and a pair 
of yoga pants.  She smiled looking at us as she removed the 
earbuds from her ears.

      "Good morning you two."

      "Good morning, Mom."

      "Good morning," we all exchanged greetings.

      "Ru, go and get the shower started, baby.  We gotta clean up 
and pack so we can go.  I'll be in to join you in a bit," she 
said to our little one.  Ruby nodded, backed off of me to 
slip off her side of the bed, and hustled off to the 
bathroom.  Once the door had closed, Emmie came over to the 
bed and sat down on it next to me.  She leaned down to kiss 
me, and as our lips met, her hand slipped under the covers 
and grabbed my stiff morning wood.  "I come back to the room 
and what do I find, but a naked man with a hard cock in bed 
with my 9-year old daughter.  I oughta call the cops," she 
jokingly threatened as she stroked me.  I thought about 
pointing out just who had awoken to having a hand on their 
junk, but the idea that I knew something about Ruby that she 
didn't was too much fun.

      "If you keep that up, you're going to have a mess on your 
hands," I warned her.  Emmie just raised an eyebrow at me and 
jerked harder.  Our eyes locked as I started breathing 
harder.  I saw Emmie's nipples were stiff through her top.  
Her thumb rubbed over the tip, spreading my pre-cum across 
it, making the already sensitive skin slick.  "Emmie," I 
gasped in warning.  The bathroom door opened, and Emmie 
withdrew her hand swiftly, leaving me just short of the 
tipping point when Ruby appeared again.  She looked at the 
two of us with a perplexed expression, and I could feel my 
face warm and flushed from the near orgasm.  I saw her eyes 
shift from my face to her mother's and then back again.  
"What is it, Ru?" Emmie asked, as innocently as she could.

      "I...I, uh...the-the water is ready," Ruby said and made a 
hurried retreat into the bathroom, closing the door.  Emmie 
turned to look at me, her eyes wide, bringing her hand to her 
mouth to cover the laughter that followed.

      "I think she's on to us," I commented smugly.

      "Gee, you think so?" Emmie chuckled, still seemingly reeling 
from the first crack that she'd seen in her daughter's purity 
bubble.  She pulled the covers back, exposing me, and leaned 
over.  "Do it fast, so we can get you out of here," she said, 
and put her mouth around the head, sucking gently as she 
started to stroke again.  I groaned and quickly hit my 
peak...while somebody else peeked at the same time.  My cum 
burst into Emmie's mouth while I made eye contact with Ruby, 
who was watching from just outside the bathroom door.  It 
wasn't just her eyes I was looking at though.  Her budding 
breasts seemed to stand out just a little more from within 
her t-shirt, and her panties, though they were as formless 
and unsexy a style as you would expect a child to wear, 
showed just the subtlest edges of the mound and lips 
beneath.  I don't actually think she could see much, as Emmie 
was sitting so that her body was blocking Ruby's view of 
anything below my chest.

      Emmie coughed, no doubt a little overwhelmed from what I 
suspected was her first blow job, if not ever, then at least 
the first since she might have given one to Josh a decade 
ago.  Semen sputtered from her lips back onto my lower body, 
which while being awfully unsexy, was also awfully funny.  I 
laughed as she coughed again, raising her hand to her mouth 
to limit the spillage.  The glare she gave me was withering, 
but not unexpected.  "Sorry," I chuckled, noticing Ruby 
watching us still from across the room, more concerned now 
for her mom than awed at witnessing a sex act.  I offered up 
the bedsheets and Emmie took them, spitting out and wiping my 
jizz from her mouth on them.

      "I forgot how bad that stuff tastes," she said.

      "Josh?" I asked simply, and she nodded.

      "First time I ever made him cum was in my mouth.  I told him 
if he ever did it there again, I wasn't going to fool around 
with him anymore," she confirmed for me, still coughing as 
she got up from the bed, which Ruby took as her cue to slink 
back into the bathroom undetected by her mother.  

      "Sorry.  I should have warned you how close I was," I 
apologized to her, pulling my boxers up, so I could get out 
of bed to put on my discarded sweatpants.

      "It's okay.  You'll warn me next time, or else I'm done with 
you too," she winked at me.  I spotted Ruby peering out at us 
again, listening in.

      "I think you love having sex with me a little too much to 
follow through on that," I countered, choosing my words to be 
simpler so that Ruby would understand what I meant.

      "Mmm, I hate when you're right," Emmie agreed with me.  "My 
pussy is aching for it right now," she growled back.  I had 
to suppress a laugh at how Ruby's eyes got bigger hearing her 
mother say that.

      "Next time," I said.

      "Yeah, next time," she sighed.  "We'll come by before we 
leave."  She turned to escort me to the door, and Ruby deftly 
slipped away from view, though she did so with a bit of a 
grin tugging at the corners of her mouth.

      "Alright," I agreed, walking with Emmie to the door.  We 
paused there as she put her arms around my neck, but stopped 
just short from kissing my lips due to sperm breath, kissing 
my cheek instead.  I placed my hands on her ass, and wasn't 
nearly as shy about our lips touching as she was.  The taste 
wasn't my favorite thing to be honest, but this was probably 
my last chance at a mouth-to-mouth kiss with her since she 
wouldn't want to do so openly in front of Ruby later.  She 
pressed her body into me, and we were in real danger of 
making out right there like a couple of horny teenagers if 
the sound of Ruby opening the bathroom door to have another 
look didn't make Emmie jump.  I caught just the slightest 
glimpse of Ruby's bare shoulder, implying that she had 
undressed behind the door, before she closed it again quickly.

      "I might have some explaining to do," Emmie said, letting go 
of me and taking a step back.

      "Yeah, you might," I agreed again, thinking of all that Ruby 
had seen and heard this morning.  I moved in for one last 
peck, which set Emmie giggling before she gently pushed me 
out the door.

      I returned to my room, showered, dressed, and polished off a 
travel sized box of cereal.  Then I waited.  Thirty minutes 
never felt so long as it did when you knew it was counting 
down to the last time you'd see the two most important people 
in your life for some time, particularly after only knowing 
one of them existed for a little over 2 days.  At last the 
knock came at my door, and when I opened it, there were my 
girls, again holding the same box of doughnuts from the prior 
morning, but looking considerably less cheery.

      "Ben!" Ruby sniffled, rushing at me for a hug.  "I don't want 
to leave you," she whimpered into my chest as I caught her.  
I looked up at Emmie, who was smiling sadly at us, keeping 
her own tears at bay.

      "I know, Ruby cutie," I said, rubbing her back.  "I only just 
got to know you, and I don't want to let you go either."  I 
lowered my arms, and Ruby stepped back, an unattractive trail 
of snot bridging the gap between her and the wet spot on my 
shirt where she had pressed her face.  "We'll see each other 
again, though.  I promise."

      "Really?" she sniffed.  "When?"  I looked up at Emmie.  We 
hadn't really discussed when or how or anything, only the 
promise that I would stay in contact and perhaps some kind of 
role in Ruby's life.

      "Uh, well, I don't know when exactly," I admitted, turning my 
eyes back to Ruby, "but I'll come visit and stuff, and you 
guys can visit me too any time."

      "Like a sleepover?" she asked, not meaning to imply what a 
'sleepover' would implicate for the two adults involved.

      "Yeah.  Like a sleepover," I confirmed alone, again looking 
to Emmie, who just nodded and shrugged.

      We took pictures after that.  Me and Ruby, Ruby and Emmie, me 
and Emmie, and at last a selfie with all 3 of us together 
that I later had printed and framed at home.  Emmie and I 
exchanged phone numbers, e-mails, and mailing addresses, and 
then it was time for them to go.  I walked them to their car, 
where we shared our final hugs and Ruby peppered my face with 
her kisses before telling me, "I love you a lot, Ben."  
Hearing that broke my heart in so many good ways.  

      It was only when they finally were in the car with the engine 
running did I allow a tear to slip out.  Ruby frantically 
waved goodbye with both her arms as they pulled out of the 
motel parking lot that gray Thursday morning.  The clouds had 
come in as if they were filling the void left by the two rays 
of sunshine that had warmed my life for the last two days.  
I'm sure you are rolling your eyes at the cliche, but once 
their car disappeared from sight, the first raindrops fell on 
me alone.

      Upon returning to my hotel room, I sat down on the bed and 
allowed myself to cry.  It wasn't a pathetic 
heap-on-the-floor type of cry, but it was just an outlet for 
all the emotions built up in the last 15 minutes.  It felt 
good actually.  The last time I could recall crying was when 
my mom died 5 years earlier, which was a little strange 
considering that all my marriage problems had happened 
between then and now, and I hadn't shed a tear throughout 
that turmoil, or at least not one that felt at all honest or 
cathartic to let out.

      To say that I was restless during my remaining vacation days 
would be an understatement.  I had initially planned to just 
relax and remember my past, and yet my past had caught up 
with me in the most unexpected way.  Now with Emmie and Ruby 
no longer there, all I wanted was to be with them again.  In 
a way, they never left though.  I got my first text message 
from them when they had stopped for lunch, along with a 
picture of Ruby chowing down on a hamburger with ketchup 
smeared around her mouth.  More pictures and texts followed 
once they got home that evening, with Ruby giving me a tour 
of their apartment one picture at a time.  If not for our 
differing smart phone platforms, it would have been a video 
tour, but I wasn't complaining since I'm sure it would have 
cost me a pile on my data plan, which I got the feeling I was 
going to need to upgrade soon.

      After Ruby relinquished the phone at bedtime, it was Emmie's 
turn to send pictures.  Believe me, it was tempting, but no, 
I did not set the picture of her wet pussy as my phone 
wallpaper.  We sexted our genitals back and forth, with me 
discovering just how annoying it was to type with only one 
thumb.  I did surprise myself though by managing to 
photograph my cumshot in mid-air.  Yeah it was kinda blurry, 
but Emmie still thought it was hot, and replied that she came 
imagining it was blasting out deep inside of her.  She bid me 
a good night with a photo of her sucking her juices off her 
fingers, and so I tucked in for the night.

      There was about the same number of texts sent back and forth 
the next day, my last day there, but the weather did improve 
and I spent much of it outdoors.  I noticed with some 
surprise that I was checking out girls again, almost like my 
reunion with Emmie had brought back that part of my past.  
Because it was now Friday, the weekend vacationers were 
starting to flood into the town, and with the rain clouds 
gone after their brief stay, people were out on the beach 
again in their skimpiest summer attire.  The highlight of my 
renewed "sightseeing" was a group of a half dozen girls 
ranging from probably 11 to 13.  They really ran the gamut 
from the little blonde who had a child's body like Ruby's, to 
the brunette that could have easily convinced you that she 
was in high school.  I mean, shit, maybe those two really 
were 9 and 16 respectively, but the group taken as a whole 
looked like middle schoolers.  Whatever their ages really 
were, I jerked off later thinking about them, the little 
blonde in particular.

      I finished my last day off with a visit to the hot tub that 
started it all.  I just sat back and closed my eyes, 
picturing the tanned little preteen in the bikini with the 
mischievous streak that would end up changing both my life 
and hers with a single daring act.  I thought about going 
ahead and jerking off there again in honor of that fateful 
encounter, but the sound of other people entering the pool 
building stayed my hand.  A family of 5, mom, dad, two sons 
and a daughter, livened up the place, and ensured that there 
would be no encore from the past.

      Similarly, there would be no repeat sexting between Emmie and 
I that evening.  Emmie apologized, informing me that her 
period had come, which not only ended the possibility of her 
being pregnant by me a second time, but also put a lid on our 
dirty talking.  I still told her about the girls that I saw, 
which led to her encouraging me to cum thinking of them, so I 
did again, only this time with her blessing and her own 
perverted thoughts about girls that age.  I really got the 
feeling she wasn't just a naturally horny person herself, but 
like me had a thing for the young ones.

      I settled off to sleep with that thought in my head, and a 
very new future in store for me.















      Chapter 8

      As you might recall, I likened those first few days without 
Emmie so long ago to withdrawing from an addictive drug.  Now 
there were two intoxicating ladies out there in the world who 
I longed to see.

      So I did.

      We arranged my first visit for the next weekend.  That Friday 
I got off work an hour earlier than usual, and went straight 
from there to Emmie's city.  Five hours of driving, which put 
me on her doorstep just past 9 at night.  She and Ruby were 
overjoyed to see me, but all three of us were just dead 
tired, going to bed almost right away.

      Ruby, of course, insisted upon all three of us sleeping 
together, just as we had at the beach, but this time Emmie 
felt otherwise for reasons I'm sure I don't need to explain 
if you've read this far...but I will, since there was more to 
it than just that.

      When Emmie had described to me her apartment as 'small,' it 
turned out she was not kidding.  Their place was positively 
tiny for having two people living there, and I even suspected 
it may have been illegal to have two occupants living there.  
I'm not sure which was bigger, Ruby's 'bedroom,' or the 
bathroom, which at least was an actual room.  Ruby's 
'bedroom' consisted of a cot with a makeshift curtain 
partitioning it apart from the rest of the space where 
Emmie's bed/couch was located.  When Emmie unfolded her bed, 
it became clear that all three of us most definitely would 
not comfortably fit on it.  That motel room bed must have 
felt like an absolute luxury to the two of them.

      Once we got Ruby settled down on her side of the curtain, off 
went the lights and our clothes.  Naked horny cuddles ensued 
with both Emmie and I trying not to make much noise, as she 
really wanted Ruby to fall asleep before we did anything 
more.  The long drive took its toll though, and I fell asleep 
before Emmie gave me any sort of signal that sexy time was 
go.  If I'd been psychic, I probably would have heard her 
thinking 'old people are no fun.'

      Morning revealed to me a familiar scenario.  I was naked, in 
a bed, with Ruby's hand on my dick under the sheets.  The 
little hornball-in-training had taken her mother's place in 
the bed beside me.  "Good morning, Ruby," I greeted her with 
a yawn.  Upon being caught, her natural instinct to withdraw 
her hand kicked in, but the look on her face wasn't nearly as 
guilty or as scared as her voice had sounded a week ago.

      "Good morning," she repeated back to me.  "Sorry, I was 
touching it again," she fessed up unprompted.

      "That's okay," I told her, and a moment later her little 
fingers were upon it once more.  "It is polite to ask first 
though," I pointed out to her, and she once more took her 
hand away.

      "Sorry.  Can I touch it?" she apologized and asked within the 
same breath.

      "Yes, you may."  Without any reservation, she grabbed it with 
a giggle.  "Is mine the first one you've ever touched?" I 
asked her, noting that she was rather gentle with it.

      "Um..." she hesitated, telling me that no, she had touched 
another penis before.

      "It's okay.  I won't get you in trouble," I assured her, just 
a little concerned that she might have been abused and 
threatened not to tell.

      "A boy at school showed his to me and some other girls.  We 
all took turns touching it.  It was really small though, and 
didn't feel like yours does.  His was kinda floppy and 
wiggly."  I felt her hand move down towards the base and her 
fingertips poked at my balls.  "This is where your sperm 
juice is made, right?"

      "That's right.  Did your mom teach you about boy parts too?" 
I asked, again impressed by her knowledge.

      "Mmhmm.  We looked at some pictures.  She said not to tell 
anybody I saw them, but...I think it's okay to tell you."  
She looked embarrassed for the first time this morning 
admitting that.

      "Pictures of real people, or drawings?" I inquired, wondering 
if Emmie had been showing Ruby porn.

      "Just drawings.  They looked weird though."  She paused, 
looking at me briefly, then turning her eyes away shyly.  
"Um...can I see yours?"  I was thrown into conflict as to how 
I should answer.  On one hand, it would be completely 
inappropriate for me, her secret father or not, to show her 
my penis, but on the other hand...was her hand.  It had moved 
back up to the shaft and was gently flexing on it.  "Please?" 
she persisted with a whisper.

      "Okay," I whispered back.  I surprised myself with that 
answer, because I really didn't even think about it.  The 
word just fell out of my mouth as something other than my 
brain commandeered my voice for a moment.  "B-but, as soon as 
it sounds like your mom is back--"

      "I know!" she agreed with me.  Ruby had no more desire to be 
caught than I did.

      I sat up a bit, and Ruby did as well.  Something about the 
way she was anticipating what came next reminded me of her 
mother sitting naked on my bed waiting for my cock to come 
out many years earlier.  I pushed the blankets down to my 
waist, pausing there to look at Ruby.  If Ruby was ever to 
know that I was her father, this moment would be an 
instrumental one in how our relationship would eventually 
develop.  Child-Ruby just wanted to see a man's dick, but 
future adult-Ruby...what would she think of her father's 
actions?  I psychically beamed an apology into the future in 
the hopes she might hear it some day if necessary, and pushed 
the blankets further.

      "Whoa..." breathed the little girl, her big eyes transfixed 
on the erect 6-inch shaft.  "It's big," she observed, having 
only one other penis in her memory to compare it to, although 
she should have already known the size having twice laid her 
hands on it, though it had gone unseen.  "There's a lot of 
hair too," she continued, reaching her hand out to run her 
fingers through my pubes.  "My mom shaves hers off."

      "I know," I said, which made Ruby blush, reminding her that I 
was a whole degree more familiar with her mother's body than 
she was.  I thought about asking Ruby if she had any hair 
there, which I of course knew she probably did not, but this 
bit of show and tell was for her benefit, not mine.  She ran 
the tips of her fingers along the front side, from the base 
up to the tip.  "T-the sperm juice comes out of the same hole 
as your pee, r-right?" she asked.

      "That's right.  That little one there," I confirmed for her, 
nodding at it.

      "G-girls are different," she informed me.  "W-we have 
different h-holes for peeing a-and for w-where the...where 
the sperm goes."

      "O-oh," I responded to that.  Did she maybe think I didn't 
know much about a girl's anatomy?  I supposed that from her 
childish perspective that there were things each gender 
didn't know about the opposite, no matter their age.  Then 
she leaned in towards it.  I thought maybe she was just 
taking a really close look at the head, but she seemed to be 
aiming her mouth towards it.  I stuck my hand out to stop 
her.  "Ruby, what are you doing?"  It wasn't that I didn't 
want her to, I just wanted to make sure she knew what she was 
doing.

      "I...I just want to smell it.  Is that okay?"  Smell it?  Why 
would she want to smell it?

      "Uh, y-yeah.  That's fine, I guess," I allowed her strange 
request and withdrew my hand.  I could feel her breath on the 
head as she positioned her nostrils above it and sniffed.  
She didn't particularly react, as I don't think there was 
much to smell there at the moment.  I had showered yesterday, 
and then of course Emmie and I didn't get anywhere in bed 
other than wrapping her hand around it briefly before we fell 
asleep.  After a second sniff, she sat back up with a sort of 
perplexed look.

      "What is it?" I asked her, rather amused.

      "I dunno.  I guess I thought it would smell like pee," she 
said.  A moment passed, then, "How do you make sure the sperm 
juice comes out instead of pee?"

      "It's not really a choice I make.  It just happ--"  There was 
a noise at the door, and before I could tell Ruby to get back 
to the other side of the sheet, she was already there.  I 
grabbed the blankets and pulled them over my nakedness and 
slouched down into a more natural sleeping position just as 
the door opened.  I hadn't felt this way since I was a 
teenager trying to not get caught jerking off by my mom.  In 
came Emmie, dressed for her run in much the same way as she 
had at the beach.  I gave her a little wave of my hand from 
the bed as she looked from me to the sheet that Ruby was 
behind.

      "Hey," she whispered at me, removing her earbuds.  "Is she 
still asleep?" she asked quietly, pointing at the sheet and 
pantomiming sleeping with her hands together beside her face.

      "I guess so...?" I whispered back, shrugging my shoulders.  A 
grin broke out on her face, and she lifted one foot, and then 
the other to untie her shoes.  As she stepped on each heel to 
remove them, her hands pulled off the sports top to show her 
taut little tits, that wobbled as they were released by the 
restrictive top.

      "Now?" I whispered at her, not that I didn't like what was in 
the process of happening, but I did nod in Ruby's general 
direction.

      "You worry too much," Emmie replied, pushing down the tight 
pants, followed by the black sports thong she wore 
underneath.  Now gloriously nude, which she seemed to revel 
being, she sauntered over to the bed and pulled the covers 
off of me.  "Mmm," she practically growled at the sight of my 
hard cock, then swung her leg over me, and got on top.  "I 
missed this so much all week," she said, reaching down to 
point me in the right direction.  We shared a gasp as we 
snugly fit together.

      "Jesus, you're wet," I moaned.  She was.  My cock felt like 
it was hydroplaning down a highway to heaven.

      "I always get horny after a run," she told me.  "Really gets 
my juices flowing."  She placed her hands on my chest and 
raised her hips up and then down. "It helps knowing this was 
waiting for me, though." I hadn't heard a satisfying 
squishing sound like that since the first time I came 
unprotected inside my high school girlfriend and we just kept 
going.  "Oh fuck, you feel so big inside me," she sighed.  I 
placed my hands on her hips, and guided her to sway in small 
circles as she rode me.

      Even as I looked up at Emmie's bare tits, jiggling their 
little firm jiggles, I couldn't stop thinking about the fact 
that Ruby was listening to us fuck at that very moment.  I 
wanted to look over at the sheet hiding her and see if she 
was peering around it to witness her first live sex act, but 
doing that might tip Emmie off that I knew we had an 
audience.  So I focused instead on the hot 22-year old woman 
impaled on my prick instead of the curious 9-year old girl 
who had openly hoped she could be impaled on it some day.  
What I saw in that focusing though, was a look of 
consternation on Emmie's face.  "What is it?" I asked her.  
She paused in her humping, and grinned a little sheepishly.

      "Doesn't feel right," she admitted with a sigh.  "Was it that 
obvious?"

      "Kinda, yeah.  You just look...like you don't like it."

      "No, no, I like I.  I wish your dick could live inside me, 
but," she took a moment to consider the situation.  "I think 
it's because I'm on top.  I wanna get fucked, you know?  Like 
we did the first time...or like we should have done way back 
then."  She lifted up, sliding me out, and then laid down 
next to me where our daughter had been just moments before 
and opened her legs.  "Fuck my little girl pussy, mister.  
Put that big cock in my tight kiddy hole," she commanded, and 
not at all quietly.  I glanced over at Ruby's sheet barrier, 
and Emmie put her hand to her mouth, realizing what I was 
thinking.  "Oops!" she whispered.  "Oh my god, can you 
imagine if she heard me say that?" she asked me, the naughty 
grin of a irresponsible young woman realizing she was 
crossing boundaries on her face.

      "I imagine," I said, as I sat up, getting between her legs 
and staring down at her wet pink pussy lips, "that you might 
have a lot of explaining to do," taking hold of my shaft, and 
lining it up, "to a very inquisitive and curious young 
mind."  I leaned forward, laying atop her, and pushed my cock 
right back in where it belonged.  Emmie gasped with much 
greater satisfaction than before, and I felt her legs wrap 
around me.

      "Fuck my 12-year old pussy, Ben," she whimpered in my ear.

      If Ruby had been asleep, I'm sure we would have woken her 
up.  The sex was fast, like really desperately fast, with 
copious amounts of grunting and gasping.  Emmie had a way of 
saying things and acting in just the right way to stoke my 
fire.  In addition to Emmie verbally playing the part of her 
younger self, the bed squeaked and creaked like crazy as our 
bodies slapped together, accompanied by the wet squishing of 
my plunging within.  What really set me off though, was a 
noise I perceived as coming from behind Ruby's curtain.  I 
don't know what the noise was, and it very well could have 
been from something Emmie and I were doing, but in my 
imagination it was Ruby touching herself while she listened 
in.  "I'm gonna cum," I gasped.

      "Shoot it in me!" Emmie, moaned in response, tightening her 
arms around my neck and her legs around my waist.  "Make my 
little girl pussy pregnant again!"  I blew my load so hard 
that my cock felt too small to adequately handle the amount 
of cum that exited.  I felt her pussy walls convulse and 
squeeze in response as her hips bucked and thrust back 
against mine.  I hadn't jerked off since Monday, the day 
before deciding to come visit her, so my release inside of 
her had added intensity.  It was probably the longest I'd 
gone without orgasming since those last emotionally draining 
weeks of attempting pregnancy with my former wife.

      "You are amazing," I moaned into her ear while my cock 
pulsed.  "I'm so glad I met you again."

      "Me too.  Me too," she cooed in return before relaxing her 
leg lock around me.  She turned her head to look in our 
daughter's direction.  "I think we got away with it," she 
commented to me.  I pulled out and rolled to the side, where 
her hand immediately reached out and wrapped around my cock.

      "You think so?" I asked, hoping that I sounded innocent 
enough in asking that leading question. "You don't think 
she's actually secretly awake and listening to us right now, 
do you?"  Emmie turned her head in my direction and looked at 
me with a strange smile on her face.  For half a moment I 
thought maybe I'd said too much or sounded way too confident 
in what I'd said.  I was incredibly relieved when she laughed.

      "You're such a perv, Ben," she replied, leaning in closely.  
"Your own daughter listening to you fuck her mother, while 
she pretended to be a little girl herself.  I bet it was 
thoughts like that which built up that huge load you just 
gave me."  She sat up, leaned over and kissed me before 
cupping between her legs and crawling over me to get out of 
bed.  "I'm gonna go take a shower," she told me.  "You'd 
better hide that thing before she really does wake up," she 
instructed with a rather dismissive wave of her hand at my 
shriveling manhood before she turned away and headed for the 
bathroom.

      I waited for a moment after she closed the door before 
whispering to the young voyeur in the room.  "Ruby?"  There 
was a soft rustling noise before she pulled back the sheet.  
Her face was red and she wore a stunned expression on her 
face as she looked at me and my limp post-sex dick.

      "Whoa," she whispered at me.

      "Whoa," I whispered back at her.  Sometimes there was nothing 
more that needed to be said.















      Chapter 9

      "You guys just did it," Ruby said.

      "Yep," I said, feeling very awkward as the sound of running 
water came from the shower on the other side of the wall.  
"We sure did."  Ruby fixed her eyes on my penis, and climbed 
onto the bed in pursuit of that goal.  Her hand went right 
onto the spot that her mother's slit had leaked upon 
following my pulling out, and she stopped, holding up her 
hand to look at it.

      "Eww, what's this stuff?" she asked, wrinkling her nose at 
the goop.

      "My sperm.  It dripped out of your mom when we were done."  I 
watched the look of disgust convert to a look of wonder on 
her face.

      "Whoa," Ruby repeated from before, holding the hand close to 
her face as she inspected the stuff.  "Why is it all gooey?"

      "I...I don't know.  It just is.  Not what you expected?"  I 
had to admit, her innocence was very charming to see in this 
moment.

      "I don't know.  I guess I thought it would be, like, um...pee 
water?  Not like sticky goo," she gave up with a shrug, and 
then shifted topics.  "Why was my mom saying that stuff about 
her, um...her p-pussy," I watched as Ruby turned red saying 
that word in front of me for the first time, "being like a 
little girl?"

      "Oh...you heard that," I said, feeling extra awkward about 
the topic.  "Well, she was kind of pretending to be younger, 
because, um..."  I really didn't know how to explain dirty 
talking and fetishes, particularly ones that came so close to 
exposing the secrets of our little family. 

      "Did you have sex with her when she was a little girl?" Ruby 
just came out and asked it.  She was so blunt, but innocently 
so, that I was stunned for a moment.

      "No," I said at last.  It was the honest answer to that 
specific question, since we hadn't actually had sex.  "But, 
we, uh, we did do some, um...some naked things together," I 
fessed up.

      "Really?!  What kind of things?!" Ruby asked,  suddenly very 
interested.  "Can we do those things too?!  How old do I have 
to be?!"

      "M-maybe," I said, hesitant to promise anything I might later 
regret.  "Your mom and I, we...we met at the beach when she 
was younger, kind of like you and I did.  She wasn't as young 
as you are now, but she wasn't grown up like she is now."

      "And you did naked stuff?  Like showing her your penis like 
we're doing now?"  It was charming really how Ruby reduced 
things to their most innocent form, if such a thing between 
an adult and a pubescent girl was possible to be minimized.

      "Yes, but she got naked too, and, uh, we rubbed our privates 
against each other until my sperm came out all over her 
vagina."  I may have over-shared there.  I mean, she did ask, 
but upon reflection that level of detail was unnecessary for 
a 9-year old to know.  Not that she seemed to mind at all.

      "Neat!  Your sperm juice can come out even when you're not 
inside my mom's vagina?" I think that concept just blew 
Ruby's young mind.  Also it was strange to hear either one of 
us speak about a sex act with Emmie.  It felt like a 'yo 
mama' joke being told, without the usual malicious intent 
behind it.  "Can you make it come out all over my vagina too?"

      "I--uh--" Of course I could, but Ruby now and Emmie back then 
were two drastically different people, particularly when it 
came to their respective understandings of sexual desire and 
messing around with boys.  Emmie at least had lust on her 
mind when she showed up at my door, but for Ruby it must have 
sounded like a game that she just wanted to play for no 
reason other than it was naughty and forbidden.  I so did not 
want to take advantage of that innocence that she was 
displaying, especially considering the way it might affect 
our relationship going forward.  "I don't think I should," I 
said at last, which predictably was not the answer Ruby 
wanted to hear.

      "Awwwww!  Why not?!" she whined.  I knew she thought it was 
tremendously unfair for me to say all that stuff about 
cumming on her mom when she was young, and then to not 
perform the same act upon her own body.

      "Ruby, what I did with your mom when she was younger was not 
something I should have done," I said, trying to let her down 
gently.  "There are laws against doing that with young girls, 
and--"

      "But you're not a bad person at all!" Ruby opined.  "I don't 
think it would be bad if you did it to me."  I admired her 
determination.

      "You might think that now, but when you're older, you might 
think I was a really bad guy if I did it to you."  I wanted 
to add the incest angle to my argument, but...I really needed 
to talk to Emmie alone about when revealing that would be 
okay.  "Trust me about this, okay?  M-maybe in a few years we 
can talk about it again," I offered.  Maybe she'd even forget 
all about it by then.

      "Do I have to be the same age my mom was?  Even if it will 
still be bad then?"

      "Uh, y-yeah.  I know it doesn't make sense or seem fair to 
you now that you need to wait, but maybe it will when the 
time comes, okay?"  She was still frowning, but I felt like 
she was going to accept this postponement.

      "How old do I have to be?" she asked after a moment of 
thought.  I nearly answered her right away, but then I 
remembered my earlier discussion with Emmie about how Ruby 
could unravel the history of her conception just by 
subtracting her age from her mother's.  Giving her the answer 
to that particular math problem now, even if she didn't yet 
know the equation, might hurry along that inevitability, and 
again, I needed to consult with Emmie further about it.

      "Just a few years older," I dodged having to give an exact 
number.  It seemed to work though, as she didn't immediately 
press me for something more specific.  She sat for a moment, 
pouting, then with another look at the slime on her hand, 
looked down to her own waist and lifted her nightshirt, 
exposing her panties.  "What are you doing?" I asked quickly, 
unsure of what was on her mind.

      "I--" she paused, blushing now.  "I just wanted to see what 
it felt like to have sperm down there.  I wasn't going to put 
it inside, j-just rub it on the outside, l-like what you did 
with my mom."  She seemed to catch on that I was troubled by 
this action.  "I-is that okay?"

      "Uh," I was at a loss for words.  She had managed to logic 
her way around my refusal to use her body as a jerk-off tool, 
and instead was going to make use of the spunk immediately 
available to her.  If anything, she was the one taking 
advantage of the situation, not me.  It was okay from a 
biological reproductive point of view (I hoped), but part of 
me worried this was still a step too far, even for me, all 
things considered, including our current situation.  
"May-maybe not," I thought fast, recalling a situation a high 
school friend of mine had gotten himself into.  "I-it will 
get sticky all over your underwear too, and your mom might 
see it when she does the laundry, and then she'll get mad at 
me, so..."

      "Oh," Ruby said simply, regarding her fingers sadly.  Then 
without any hesitation licked them.  "Bleh!" she quickly 
reacted making a face.  I couldn't help myself and burst out 
laughing.  "That didn't taste good at all," Ruby complained.

      "Why did you do that?" I asked her, far more amused than 
anything by my daughter's impulsive decision to taste what 
had to be by now rather cold flow-back, not that I think the 
temperature of the stuff would have made any difference in 
taste.

      "D-didn't my mom taste it before we left the beach?"  I 
hadn't been sure how much Ruby had seen of that, or what she 
really understood had happened, but she had apparently 
connected the dots correctly.

      "Yes, she did," I said, getting out of the bed to get some 
clean clothes from my overnight bag I had brought.  "She 
didn't like the taste of it either.  Is that why you smelled 
my dick earlier?"

      "Yeah," Ruby said, wiping her hands on the blankets, ridding 
her fingers of her little ill-fated and unappetizing tadpole 
siblings.  "You didn't smell bad, so I thought maybe it 
wouldn't taste bad either."

      "It didn't smell, because it was clean when you sniffed it," 
I pointed out to her.  "Cum is something of an acquired taste 
anyways."

      "Come?" she asked, slipping off her side of the bed and 
returning behind her curtain.  "You said you were going to do 
that, but...you're already here...?"  Once again I silently 
scolded myself for further soiling my daughter's mind with my 
loose tongue.

      "It's kind of a sexy way to say that you're going to have an 
orgasm," I explained.  I couldn't tell, but I was pretty sure 
that Ruby was getting dressed at this moment as well.

      "What's an orgasm?"  I should have seen that question coming.

      "The part of sex that feels the best.  When a man orgasms, 
the sperm shoots out of his dick, and when a woman orgasms, 
um..." I suddenly realized I didn't know how to physically 
describe a woman's orgasm, especially to a little girl.  "Her 
pussy feels really good," I concluded generically.  At her 
age, I doubted Ruby would be able to call me on it.

      "O-oh," came her response from the other side of the curtain, 
followed by an awkward silence.  For some reason that lull 
spurred me into adding on to my explanation.

      "'Cum' is also a word that can be used for the sperm juice 
and pussy juice, but it's spelled c-u-m."  There was yet 
another moment of silence, and then came a meek reply.

      "D-don't say that word, please."  I suddenly realized I'd 
said 'pussy' twice to her.  Yes, she had said it earlier, 
except that had been just her repeating what her mom had said 
to me, and she had stopped herself from saying it a week ago 
in my presence.  I supposed she was just shy when it came to 
using that word in front of me.  It certainly wasn't a word I 
wanted any girls to hear me say when I had been her age.  
Funny how that taboo worked among kids.

      "I'm sorry.  I didn't think about it.  It's embarrassing to 
say or hear from a boy, isn't it?"  The rattle of a doorknob 
behind me made me realize I hadn't heard the water shut off 
from the shower.  I turned to look and saw Emmie walk out, 
her nude body wrapped in a towel.

      "Your turn," she told me.  "Don't take long, or you'll run 
out of hot water."  She then looked past me to the curtain.  
"You up, Ru?"

      "Yes, mom."

      "Alright, baby.  Get dressed and we'll all go out for 
breakfast when Ben is done in the shower," Emmie said as I 
passed her heading for the small bathroom.  She took the 
opportunity to flash me, and I nearly reached out to 
playfully tweak her nipple before a mortified 9-year old 
voiced her displeasure at her mother's display.

      "Moooooom!  Don't do that," Ruby whined, having emerged from 
behind her curtain, now properly dressed and properly 
flustered over the adult hormones on display.

      After my shower, which was not long thanks to the apartment's 
tiny hot water heater, we did indeed go out for a pancake 
breakfast (that I paid for) at Ruby's favorite place.  
Following that I was treated to a tour of Emmie's hometown, 
or at least to the places in it that were important to her up 
until she gave birth and was unceremoniously shipped off to 
boarding school by her parents at 13.  Back-to-school 
shopping for Ruby was next on the list, and I graciously 
bought my secret pride and joy the best notebooks, crayons, 
pencils, 3-ring binder, pink pearl erasers, and other 
sundries that my long overdue child support responsibilities 
could buy.  Lunch (which I also paid for) was fast food, and 
once we got back in the car, that was where Emmie dropped a 
bomb.

      "You're going to spend the night at grandma and grandpa's 
house," she told Ruby.  Yeah, that news didn't go over well.

      The protests over that decision were long, loud, and frequent 
on the way there, and I'm sure Ruby was on the verge of 
throwing a full blown tantrum more appropriate for a child 
half her age, but kept it together barely.  As we pulled into 
the driveway, Emmie looked to me with an anxious expression, 
particularly when I reached to disconnect my seatbelt.  
"Y-you can just stay here!" she practically shouted at me.  
"This won't take long."  I got the sneaking suspicion that 
Emmie wasn't eager to introduce me.

      So I stayed in the car.  She didn't say she wanted me to 
hide, at least not out loud, but I slouched down and ducked 
my head to the side just to be safe once I saw the front door 
open.  Moments later Emmie returned, but with a confused look 
on her face that nearly turned into a burst of laughter when 
she saw me bent over like that.  "I thought you ran away," 
she told me, and then reached over to squeeze my crotch.  
"I'm glad you didn't."

      I think you can guess what happened when we got back to the 
apartment.

      I swear she had her shorts off, or at least unbuttoned, 
before we even got in the door.  Moments later she was bent 
over the small patio table that served as the apartment's 
kitchen table and I was all up in that.  From the bed, where 
she had tossed her purse, there was a sound.

      "That's my mom's ringtone," she huffed following my thrust.

      "Do you want to answer it?" I asked after a moment in which 
she made no move to straighten up or signal in any way for me 
to pull out.

      "No.  Probably something dumb.  Keep going."  So I did.  
Moments after the ringing ended, another noise signaled that 
a voicemail message had been left.  And then another sound 
for a text message received.  And another.  And another.  
"Shit," she sighed, pushing herself up.  I withdrew and Emmie 
waddled bareassed with her shorts around her knees over to 
the bed, and fished out her phone.  One look at the 
notifications on screen had her sighing again.  "Damn it, 
Ruby," she said.

      "What is it?" I asked, reaching down to pull my pants up, 
already thinking that something was really wrong.  Emmie 
turned around, and waddled back to me, holding her phone out 
for me to see.

      "You're out of the bag," she informed me.  The three text 
messages, in the order they were received:

      'Who is Ben??? Why didn't you tell me about him?'

      'Are you there?  Call me back'

      'Are you having sex'

      Just then another one came in.  'Emerald wonder Cobb call me 
right now'  Emmie turned the phone back to herself so she 
could read it as well, her eyes .  "Yikes.  Full name.  She's 
pissed."

      "Your middle name is 'Wonder'?" I asked her, wondering myself 
why I was surprised by that.

      "Mom came up with the name when she was a teenager, and my 
dad didn't care," Emmie explained as she waddled back to the 
table and bent over it again.  "Now stick it back in me and 
cum so I can call her back."  I chuckled as I lined my dick 
up to do just that.  Emmie had her priorities straight.

      Twelve more texts came in by the time I came inside.  It 
wasn't particularly hot sex anymore with this looming over 
us, and to be honest I don't think Emmie was feeling it 
either by that point.  It didn't surprise me that she didn't 
cum, or at least I didn't notice it if she did orgasm.  I 
pulled my pants up and had a seat there at the table, while 
Emmie stripped her shorts off all the way and sat bareassed 
and creampied on the bed to call her mother.  I only heard 
one side of the conversation clearly.

      "Hi Mo--Yes. Yes, Mom, I'm okay.  No--no, Mom, Ben is not 
like that." 

      A sigh.  "That's none of your business, Mom.  Mom, I am 22-- 
I am an adult woman, Mother."  Another sigh as she put her 
hand to her forehead.  "Fine, yes.  We're doing it.  Are you 
happy now?  Let me tell you how big his dick is too."  She 
suppressed a laugh looking at my eyes widen after that.  

      "Mom, stop, I am not going to--Jesus, Mom, I know how it 
works, okay?  I think you know I already know--we're using 
condoms, so--" She made a funny expression puckering her lips 
and shaking her head at me when she told that lie.  "Yes, I 
will get on the pill when my health plan kicks in at 
work--yes, the end of this month."  That was something of a 
relief to hear, not that I didn't love the thrill of the risk 
we were taking every time.  

      "Last week, on my little vacation," Emmie said, likely 
answering how she met me.  "No,  Mom, that is not strange.  
In fact he was the one who helped Ruby with her jellyfish 
sting.  Yes.  Yes, ask her yourself.  I don't know, he's like 
50 I guess?" she looked at me for confirmation.  I shrugged 
and nodded.  She wasn't far off, I was 52.  "So what?  Mom, 
your parents weren't close in age either.  No, this is not 
any different from that.  You just don't want to like him."  
Emmie lay back on the bed and started to idly toy with her 
pussy.  "Yes, I do mean that.  Remember what you did to 
Mark?"  

      Mark?  Who was Mark?  

      "He was only giving me a ride that morning, and you 
interrogated him for like 45 minutes.  We were actually late 
because of you."  Emmie then sat up suddenly, her face 
suddenly twisted in anger.  "I was not!  I have only ever had 
sex with one person, and he is sitting here in this room with 
me right now--Y-you know what I mean!  What happened back 
then wasn't actually sex, he never put it in me.  No, I am 
not going to put him on with you--because of how you are 
acting right now!  This is exactly why I moved out--yes, so I 
could be a slut, Mom.  That's the whoooooole reason why!"  I 
watched in amazement as she pulled the phone away from her 
ear, held it down by her crotch, and vigorously fingered 
herself for a few moments.  Then she lifted the phone back 
up.  "You hear that?  That's your easy slut daughter full of 
cum once again!"  There was a pause as she waited to hear her 
mother's response, only she pulled the phone away again and 
looked at it, blowing a puff of air.

      "She hung up on me."

      "I can't imagine why."

      She turned off her phone, and we cuddled together on the bed 
after that.  Emmie didn't want to talk about it, or really 
anything.  "Just hold me," she said, so I did.  She finally 
had that orgasm she had missed earlier too, as I fingered her 
while whispering in her ear a familiar tale of a man on 
vacation and the daring little girl he met.  Needless to say, 
she really enjoyed it.  

      We took a short nap together, only to awaken a few hours 
later to a fresh boner, ready to go.  This was the most 
leisurely we'd been able to do it, and I spent close to an 
hour just getting her off before cumming deep within for the 
third time that day.

      As we lay there, sweaty and cummy and thoroughly satisfied 
with ourselves, she dropped another bomb, this time on me.

      "I think...I think I love you."















      Chapter 10

      "I think...I think I love you."

      I really didn't know how to react to that.  A week ago we had 
the 'love talk' after our (and her) first time, and both 
agreed that we weren't in love then, but now it did feel 
different, I had to admit.  I, of course, was wary of this 
just being post-sex attachment on both our parts.  Weird as 
it might have sounded to anybody other than the two of us, I 
kind of was the man of Emmie's dreams.  It kind of made sense 
for her to be in love with me, but...I was still not ready to 
commit considering my past relationship mistakes.

      "Oh," I said.

      "Oh?" she repeated back to me.

      "Well, you remember last week, right?  When we talked about 
the whole love and marriage thing, right?" I reminded her, 
and she nodded.  "Well, I'm still not completely sure, you 
know?  We did just have sex, so...maybe this isn't quite love 
you're feeling."

      "Oh," she said.  "So, for you this weekend was just about 
having sex, then?"

      "No.  I came because I wanted to see both you and Ruby.  The 
sex was just a bonus.  I mean, I guess I knew we'd probably 
do it, but even if I knew we didn't, I'd still have come 
here," I clarified.

      "How...how is that not love then?" she asked.  I could tell 
she was honestly confused, and really, I kind of was too, as 
she had a point there.

      "I...I suppose it is...in a way, but..." I sighed.  "I don't 
know.  I don't know the words to explain it.  I guess...I 
guess maybe I'm scared?" I put to her.  "I told you about my 
marriage, right?  Something like that crashing and falling 
apart over just one issue...it isn't something you just get 
over.  I'm not sure I want to commit to something so quickly 
again...I'm scared of the same thing happening with you, 
especially when we've only really been in contact with each 
other a week."

      "But...if you're so afraid of losing me or hurting me or 
Ruby, then...isn't that proof you really do love me and 
her?"  I felt bad arguing against her feelings, but I really 
felt like she was moving too quickly to be in love with me.

      "Emmie, I don't think I will ever not love the two of you.  
You guys have literally changed my world.  I mean, shit, I 
need to make up a will and stuff now just for you two's 
benefit.  When my mom died, that was kind of the end of my 
family as I knew it.  I mean, my dad is out there, somewhere 
with a step-mom and kids I've never met, but he was never 
really a part of my world.  Not like you and Ruby are.  I 
probably thought more about you these past 10 years than I 
did of him.  I just want to be sure it's right with you, and 
for you.  Before a week ago, would you have ever imagined 
this moment right now?"

      "N-no, but I didn't seriously expect you to be prowling the 
beach for little girls again either," she joked back at me.  
It was a relief to hear Emmie inject some humor into what was 
otherwise a serious conversation.  It told me that she wasn't 
terribly hurt by my pushing back.  "How long do you think it 
should take before you're sure?" she asked me.

      "I really don't know," I sighed.  "I could come back next 
weekend and put a ring on your finger then, or it could be a 
year or two before I'm able to not flashback to hearing my 
wife sobbing next to me in bed because she was scared of what 
we would learn at the fertility appointment the next day."

      "Oh."  She was silent for a moment.  "I...guess I need to be 
able to say it to you without using the word 'think.'  I...I 
never 'thought' I loved Ruby.  I just did from the moment 
they gave her to me.  I was 13, and scared out of my mind 
because this screaming and pooping little creature had just 
been cut out of me, and Mom and Dad were...well, they were 
mad, maybe not at me, but it kind of felt like it in my head 
since, you know, it really was my decision that made her 
happen in the first place, so I felt guilty that I had made 
them freak out over my being pregnant.  But when I held my 
little girl for the first time, and her little lips drank 
from me..."  I felt Emmie arm move under the sheets to touch 
her breast.  "I really and truly loved her like nothing I had 
ever felt before," her voice wavered.  "Mom wanted me to give 
her up.  Let somebody else raise her.  She wanted to hide the 
shame she felt at having a grandchild by her 13-year old 
daughter.  That was the first time I ever swore at my mom."  
Emmie chuckled through her tears.  "I called her a 'fucking 
cunt.'  Right to her face.  In front of my dad and grandma.  
I didn't even think about it; I just did it.  One of the few 
people I had loved unconditionally for all my life was 
threatening to separate me from my child that I had known for 
less than a week, and I picked Ruby over her in an instant.  
That's when I knew I loved Ruby.  I knew it, and I haven't 
ever stopped knowing it."  She turned her head to look up at 
me.  "So I get it.  For both of us."

      I saw Emmie cock her head, like she just now noticed 
something as she looked at my face.  I felt it then too: a 
bead of wetness on my cheek.  Her description of how she 
fought for our daughter had moved me to tears.  I wiped 
clumsily at my face and told her simply, "Thank you.  For her."

      "No," she said, a grin spreading on her face as I felt her 
hand move and grab my cock.  "Thank you for giving me her."

      We got out of bed at that point and squeezed in together for 
a shower, only to be chased out by the cold water after 
barely 10 minutes.  Dinner and a movie followed, and I 
expected that after all that was done, we would return to the 
apartment for another fuck before bedtime.  Emmie had 
something else in mind.

      We pulled into the driveway at her parents home.  "Stay 
here," she told me.  "My mom can meet you once she's 
apologized to me first."  I watched as this young woman, who 
at times was still so childlike and immature, straighten up, 
and confidently walk to the front door of the home she had 
grown up in.  In less time than it took to exhaust the hot 
water in her apartment, Ruby was in the back of the car and 
we were headed back to the apartment.  That night we slept, 
all 3 of us, in that cramped bed...without the sheets, 
because they were utterly filthy with sweat and jizz and 
grool from that day's activities, and there was no time to 
run out and do laundry that night.  We didn't really need 
them though, as the warmth of our truly loved little girl 
between us kept both Emmie and I cozy all night long.

      Compared to the day before, the next morning was a totally 
wholesome and puritanical affair.  Based purely on the time 
it had taken me to drive there, I knew that I had better 
leave by noon if I wanted to get back to my place without 
ripping out my hair in the returning weekender traffic.  I 
(once again) treated Emmie and Ruby to breakfast and some 
shopping before (again, paying for) lunch.  I wasn't leaving 
them, shopping bags aside, empty handed though.  Earlier that 
week I had looked up child support figures and rates.  The 
amount was calculated monthly, based on the age of the child, 
so given Ruby's current age and my income, in back payments I 
owed...well, more than I actually had in the bank at that 
moment.  After a little budgeting work, I decided I could 
afford to part with half of my savings.  I had been planning 
on buying a new car, but that could wait.  The look on 
Emmie's face when she read the amount of the check was worth 
it though.  I think the screaming scared Ruby though, as she 
very suddenly clung to her mother asking, "What's wrong, 
mommy?  Why are you crying?  Are you smiling?"

      It was hard to leave them again so soon, but I think both 
Emmie and I knew that we needed not just time, but distance 
between us in order to see where our feelings took us.  Emmie 
needed to live her life a little bit more, and on her own 
terms.  It wouldn't have been fair to her, after having her 
life controlled and dictated all throughout her teenage 
years, for me to step in after barely 3 months of living on 
her own and impose on her.  Sure, there was a possibility 
that she might fall for some other guy, but if that made her 
happy, I was willing to sacrifice.

      We settled on visits every 2 weeks. Sometimes they would come 
to me, sometimes I would go to them, and sometimes we would 
meet up elsewhere.  This worked out pretty good for about 5 
months, and then fate decided to kick me in the balls.  
Remember how I was saving up for a new car, but put it off to 
financially support Ruby?  At 8 in the morning, on the Friday 
before Christmas, my car stopped dead on the highway.  We 
still managed to celebrate together, as Emmie drove out to 
get me, but it really put a chill on the frequency of my 
visits.  I thought about asking for some of the money back, 
temporarily, but Emmie had already dedicated a large portion 
of it towards a bigger apartment for her and Ruby, so there 
wasn't much I could do really.

      The new apartment was absolutely a worthy use of the money 
too.  Not only did they both have their own bedrooms, but the 
kitchen, bathroom, and living areas were all twice the size 
of the previous place, making my visits far more comfortable 
for all of us (longer, warmer showers included), not that 
Emmie or I at all minded our three person snuggles in 
bed...well, to a point, anyways.  Emmie had a chat with Ruby 
about adults needing "adult time," and so when she was asked 
to leave us for her own bed at night, she was expected to do 
so without a fuss.  Ruby was good about it too, although her 
face turned the color of her namesake every time it 
happened.  Emmie told me that they'd had a much further 
discussion about sex after that first visit, with Ruby 
confessing a number of things to her mother about what she 
had seen and heard, although I wasn't sure if she had 
withheld sharing with her mother about our morning 
encounters, or if Emmie just wasn't telling me that she knew 
about them.  The biggest take away from this was that Emmie 
had also given Ruby a brief tutorial on pleasing herself.  
Emmie was coy with me on sharing the details, only saying 
that her tutelage seemed to have been successful.

      The bigger apartment did have some downsides to it though, 
and that was also due to the separate bedrooms.  With me and 
Emmie in one, and Ruby in the other, Ruby was less likely to 
come looking for me in the morning for our own "adult time."  
She, like me, was quite cautious about Emmie finding out 
about her hands-on education about the male body, so she 
would avoid the matter completely.  We were less likely to 
disturb her in the mornings with sex also, so Ruby would just 
snooze right through them.  In all, Ruby and I had fewer 
opportunities to be alone together in this bigger apartment, 
something which the loss of my car only amplified.

      They rung in the new year at my place, and after that, it was 
more than a month before we saw each other again.  When we 
did finally get together again, by which time I had managed 
to scrape together enough money to get my car back in working 
order, things were...well, different.  I thought maybe I was 
just imagining it, but Emmie seemed a little distant to me at 
times.  I asked her about it, but she just claimed she was 
preoccupied from work and it was nothing.  I couldn't shake 
it though.  Even during sex, she just...seemed to be 
somewhere else.  

      Monday, less than 24 hours after leaving their place, she 
called me.  "Hey there," I answered, surprised by the call.

      "H-hey."  There it was again, the distance in her voice.

      "What's going on?  Did I forget something there yesterday?" I 
asked, unsure of why else she might be calling so soon.

      "I, um, well...I need to tell you something."  She was 
unmistakably scared and nervous about what she wanted to tell 
me.  A thousand and one scenarios rushed through my mind, and 
very few of them were good.

      "Emmie, what is it?"  I braced myself.  She was sick, or Ruby 
was sick or...could it be we had managed to make Ruby a 
big-sister?  I knew Emmie was on the pill now as I had seen 
her taking them, but of course nothing was ever 100% effective.

      "Just...just don't be mad, okay?" she asked me.  Mad?  What 
had she done to make me mad?

      "O-okay.  I won't be mad.  You're starting to scare me a 
little," I told her, laughing nervously, hoping she'd be put 
a little more at ease that I was on a similar wavelength with 
her on this call.

      "Alright.  Well, I, uh, I met somebody."

      "You met somebody?" I asked, my brain not gripping what that 
meant immediately.

      "Y-yeah.  A-a guy."  Oh.  OH.  A numb sensation filled me.  
"Ben?  H-hello?"

      "S-sorry.  Y-you met somebody.  I...I see, o-okay."

      "Yeah. I, um...I have a...a date with him.  Tonight."  I 
looked at the clock.  It wasn't even noon yet.  How had she 
met and arranged a date with somebody so quickly when I had 
just been there yesterday?

      "W-when did you meet him?" I asked, suddenly afraid of that 
answer.

      "L-last week."  Suddenly her strange behavior over the 
weekend made a lot of sense.

      "Whe--" I started to ask, but was quickly cut off.

      "Look, Ben, I--I gotta go.  I'll call you back later."  She 
hung up abruptly, leaving me in a daze.















      Chapter 11

      The rest of the work day went past with me in a stupor.  I 
felt a little ill and sprung for my phone any time I heard a 
ring come from any direction, despite none of them being 
Emmie's personal ringtone on my phone.  When was she going to 
call me back?  She hadn't said.  Maybe on her lunch break?  I 
had a very vague idea of how her days went at the health 
club.  She probably had ducked into the bathroom or something 
to call me the first time.  Would she call me again under 
similar circumstances, and would it be just as brief and 
awkwardly frustrating in finding out what was going on?  I 
didn't want to pressure or force her to talk to me either, so 
I held off calling her back, and forced myself to wait.

      She didn't call back for the rest of my work day, and driving 
home I didn't want her to call while I was unable to take the 
call, possibly making her think I wasn't answering out of 
anger or anything, so I sped home, nearly crashing into 
somebody in the process.  It was a quarter after 7 when she 
did finally call.

      "Hey," she said, still sounding scared, but less so now that 
the news had been already broken to me.

      "Hey," I answered her, not sure where to begin, and not 
wanting to sound like I was interrogating her.

      "Sorry.  About earlier.  Hanging up on you, I mean.  I...I 
hope you weren't mad," she offered.

      "N-no.  It's fine," I conceded.  "I understand.  So...I guess 
this means I won't be seeing you this weekend."

      "Well, um, I don't know yet.  I guess if tonight goes well, 
a-and we decide to see each other again...maybe you should 
stay home, yeah.  Sorry."

      "No, Emmie, it's alright, really.  You don't need to keep 
apologizing," I insisted.  It really sounded like she was 
beating herself up over this.  "I've had worse break-ups than 
this.  What's his name?"

      "Price."  I immediately irrationally hated this guy based on 
his name alone.  He sounded like a rich asshole.

      "Price...okay.  How, uh, how old is he?"

      "Um, 30s, I guess?  He's not old."  I know she didn't mean it 
as an insult, but that stung.

      "A-and you just met him last week?"

      "Y-yeah.  On Thursday."

      "So...before we had sex on the weekend then?"

      "Yeah."  She sounded so deflated admitting to that.  "Please 
don't think I'm an awful person."

      "I don't, Emmie.  I'm just...I'm just trying to understand 
what the situation is for us now.  That's all.  I guess I 
really shouldn't pry too much into things."  She gave no 
response to that.  "So, uh, you have a date with him 
tonight?  When is it?"

      "Now."

      "Now?"

      "Y-yeah, well, we're supposed to meet up at 7, s-so..."

      "You're a little late then," I pointed out.

      "I'm in my car outside the restaurant.  I-I'm nervous, Ben.  
I just really needed to talk to a friend before going in 
there."  Oh no.  I was being friend-zoned, wasn't I?

      "Emmie, how could you possibly be nervous?  What happened to 
that brave 12-year old girl that knocked on a stranger's 
motel door 10 years ago?"

      "I was nervous then too," she responded.  "But, this 
is...this is different."

      "That's for sure," I tried joking.  "Promise me you'll keep 
your clothes on in the restaurant."  She laughed.

      "I will, stupid.  Sorry, this is so weird."

      "Yeah, it is," I agreed with her.  "You're gonna be fine, 
Emmie.  You like him, right?"

      "Yeah...maybe...I dunno.  I barely know him."

      "Which is why you go on dates to find out if you really like 
him.  If he turns out to be an asshole, then don't keep 
dating him.  It's simpler than you think."  I felt really 
weird encouraging Emmie like this, but this was something she 
had decided on her own to do.  I just wished she would have 
said something before I drove out there last week, so I 
wouldn't have felt so...cheated on.

      "Alright."  I heard her take a deep breath.  "Okay.  I'm 
gonna go in now.  Thanks, Ben."

      "You're welcome, Em.  Just be confident and be yourself and 
you won't have any problems.  If it all goes bad though, I'll 
be there on Friday to help you rebound and pump you back up."

      "Yeah, you'll pump me up with something alright, mister."

      "Call me later."

      "I will.  Bye."  And just like that she was gone.

      I tried not to think about her date, how it went, if they got 
along, where they might go if they really hit it off, but 
this was too much like a story that you've been following 
part by part, over the course of several months that leaves 
you with a really annoying cliffhanger just when something 
interesting happens.  All of Tuesday passed without a call 
from Emmie, but Wednesday at lunch time she rang me up.

      "Hey there," I said, trying not to sound nervous over 
whatever it was she had to tell me.

      "Hey.  So, um, it, uh, it went well."  Despite the hemming 
and hawing in that statement, she sounded more confident than 
she had on Monday.  "We saw each other again last night, and 
we have another date tonight, so, um...this weekend, could 
you, uh--"

      "I'll stay home.  I understand," I said with a sigh.  I was 
disappointed.  I really was, but I didn't want to sound too 
much like that over the phone and make Emmie feel guilty for 
anything.  This unofficial open relationship we had going was 
bound to have moments like this.

      "W-well, actually, I was going to say, this weekend, could 
you, um, could you take Ruby?" she asked.

      "Take her?"

      "Home with you.  All weekend.  I hope that's not too much to 
ask."  I didn't know what to say.  The idea that I would be 
watching Ruby alone for several days never occurred to me, 
particularly because Emmie had her parents much closer as 
available babysitters.

      "Uh, I, uh, I guess I could," I stammered out.  "T-things 
must have gone really well then," I laughed nervously.  Yes, 
I was thinking that it happened.  I suppose I knew already 
from experience that Emmie didn't hesitate from showing her 
interest in another person...ugh, I didn't mean for it to 
sound like that, even if it was just a thought in my head...

      "Ha-ha...w-well, if we could, um, meet up halfway on Friday, 
I can, uh, pass her off to you, and then Sunday we meet there 
again for her to come home."  She just sidestepped my 
implication.  I really did feel like crying.

      "Sure.  Sure, we-we can do that," I agreed.

      "I'll send you the address where we'll meet then," she said.  
There was a moment of awkward silence, and then, "B-bye."

      "Bye," I responded, and the call ended.  "What the fuck," I 
muttered to myself.  I looked at my half-eaten lunch, but had 
no appetite to finish.

      Later that evening she did send the address of a shopping 
center parking lot located a little over 3 hours away from 
me, and a little under 2 hours away from her.  It was then, 
as I saved the location on my phone that I noticed something 
in the calendar on my phone.  Yesterday, Tuesday, had been 
Emmie's 23rd birthday.[1]  The date had been automatically 
added there from her contact information.  She never brought 
it up the previous weekend, and hadn't made any comment about 
it on the phone on Monday or just now.  No wonder it was that 
she hadn't called me yesterday.  It had been her birthday and 
she was seeing another man, and now she was going to be 
spending the weekend alone with him.  "God damn it," I said, 
wanting to punch something.

      Friday came, and I was not looking forward to this drive, of 
all drives.  It didn't help that my boss was irritated that I 
was leaving an hour and a half early to pick up Ruby, but I 
did have almost 6 and a half hours of driving there and back 
ahead of me. I didn't know what I was going to say to Emmie 
when I saw her.  We hadn't talked since that last phone call 
on Wednesday.  I could only assume that Price (god, I hated 
that name) was not the asshole I had previously opined he 
might be.  He was now the boyfriend of the mother of my 
child.  I didn't want to bring him up, and I certainly did 
not want Emmie to either.  Multiple times during the drive I 
almost just turned around to avoid any uncomfortable 
moments.  It would have been a petulant dick move on my part 
though, and it would have hurt Ruby more for me not to show 
up than it would have passive aggressively punished Emmie 
for...really no crime at all.

      My mind wandered back to that day, now 6 months in the past, 
when Emmie had told me she thought that she loved me.  I was 
so worried to hear those words from her, that I just 
instinctively pushed back on them.  Hell, I ended up 
'man-splaining' love to her, shutting her down, and 
disrespecting her feelings.  Was that a moment upon which our 
futures had hinged?  We did have 6 months (well, 5 thanks to 
my car dying) where we met up almost every weekend and hugged 
and kissed and fucked each other silly, but we never made 
anything "official" during that time.  I still had yet to 
meet Emmie's parents, though that was more due to her wishes 
than my own.  We avoided the 'L-word' for each other, but I 
often got the impression that she wanted to say it, only to 
hold back because I had been so...scared?  Dumb?  Resistant?  
Now look where that got me.

      I arrived just a little before 7, and saw Emmie's car already 
there waiting for me.  Pulling into the parking spot opposite 
them, I could see that Ruby was clearly not in the best of 
moods.  Emmie looked just plain guilty.  When I got out of my 
car, Ruby rushed to me, hugging me tightly around the waist 
with her face pressed into my belly.  "Hey, Ruby cutie," I 
said, patting and rubbing her back.  I looked up and Emmie 
was very hesitantly remaining by her car.  "Hey," I said to 
her, not unkindly, but I don't think I could fully remove the 
bitterness of the moment from my voice.

      "Hey," she responded, forcing a smile.  Fuck this was 
awkward.  "How-how are you?" she asked.

      "I'm fine," I answered, though I couldn't bear to say it to 
her face, instead looking down to the top of Ruby's head.

      "She, um, she has homework, so, make sure she gets it done," 
Emmie said.  I glanced up at her and our eyes met for just a 
moment.  We both looked away.

      "I will," I said again to my daughter's scalp.

      "Ruby, be good for Ben, okay?" Emmie said to the little 
girl.  Ruby just made a dismissive noise and pressed her face 
into my stomach harder.  

      "She's always a good girl for me," I responded.  No double 
meaning was intended, at least not at first, but it felt good 
to get in a subtle jab at Emmie...even if I did also feel 
like a vindictive jerk shortly afterward.

      "A-alright," she said, taking half a step back.  "I'd better 
get going then.  I have plans."

      "Yeah," I responded tersely, not at all wanting to hear 
anything more.

      "Bye, Ru.  I love you," she tried once more, but our girl 
stubbornly refused to give any kind of response.  Emmie 
retreated to her car, and drove away.  I silently hoped she 
drove safely, because she looked like she was about to cry 
leaving the two of us behind.

      "Is she gone?" I heard Ruby speak for the first time.

      "Yeah.  We'd better get going too," I told her.

      Ruby had changed in multiple subtle ways over the past 6 
months.  She'd put on a few inches in height.  Her hair that 
had been in a long braid down her back last summer when I 
first met her on the beach was now much shorter, extending 
only to her upper back.  Her figure was still mostly 
unremarkable for her age, and as far as I could tell her 
breasts hadn't changed much from the puffy lumps I'd first 
noticed in her tight-fitting swimsuit.  Really, if anything 
they were harder to see now, as Emmie had gotten her some 
training bras, which pretty much flattened and hid their 
shape.  Emmie had told me about how she was picked on back in 
grade school when her own chest had started to develop, and 
so she didn't want Ruby to suffer the same unwanted 
attention.  The bone structure in her face had changed almost 
imperceptibly too, and was really only noticeable if you were 
comparing her appearance to a photograph from 6 months ago.  
All standard growing up stuff, I supposed, but it also made 
me want to cherish every moment I spent with her while she 
was still a child.

      She was pretty quiet at first in the car, only responding to 
me with one word answers.  We stopped for a bite to eat, and 
she maintained her sullen disposition throughout.  Only when 
we got back on our way did she speak up at last.

      "Do you hate my mom now?" she asked me.

      "No, I don't hate her."

      "I do," Ruby responded almost instantly.

      "Ru," I said, using her mother's nickname for her.

      "Don't call me that.  I hate that name now.  He called me 
that too."  The acid emphasis on the word 'he' told me 
exactly who.

      "You've met him then?" I asked.

      "He spent the night yesterday."  Ugh. I didn't want to know.

      "Well, he's nice to you, isn't he?" I tried to prompt.

      "I guess.  He said I was a 'surprise.'"  If I hadn't been 
driving, I would have put my head in my hands.  How could 
Emmie not have told him that she had a daughter?  As far as I 
knew, she'd known this guy a whole week prior to that, and 
she never once mentioned Ruby to him?  Not at dinner that 
first night, or even the following two nights when presumably 
they had sex?  I knew Emmie could be a little strange where 
Ruby was concerned, but this was just...I couldn't understand 
what she was thinking.  Maybe she was too embarrassed to 
reveal up front that she had given birth at 13?  "I guess he 
was nice though," Ruby continued.  "He didn't really talk to 
me too much.  He gets really loud when he cums."

      I nearly swerved into the next lane.  "He wha--?"

      "I heard them.  He grunted a lot and said really loudly that 
he was cumming.  Like this: 'I'M CUMMING!!!'" Ruby imitated 
in a deep voice.  It would have been funny if it wasn't so 
shocking and surreal.  "You--" she paused, as if thinking 
over what to say next.  "You aren't loud, so I don't really 
know when you do it."

      "You listen to us when--?"

      "Uh huh," she nodded, eyes fixed on her own feet.  "When Mom 
tells me to leave for bedtime, I just pretend to go, b-but I 
come back and listen by the door."  I could see in my glances 
at her that she looked like there was more to be said, but 
wasn't sure if she should.  "Sorry.  I know it's bad to 
listen to private stuff.  Don't tell Mom, ok?"

      "I-I won't," I agreed without passing judgment on her 
eavesdropping confession.  Silence passed between us for a 
few minutes after that, and then she reached for her 
backpack.  It had become routine for her to do her weekend 
homework in the car when Emmie would drive to my place, and 
that's just what Ruby set herself to do.  She ended up 
falling asleep part way though, and the last 90 minutes of 
driving was done with my little ally against Price slumbering 
with her spelling worksheet on her lap.

      It was a little past 11 when we got home, and though I had 
gotten used to these late drives over the last 6 months, I 
felt more tired than usual that night.  I chalked it up to 
emotional fatigue from everything.  Ruby was no longer as 
heavy a sleeper as she had been (or had pretended to be, I 
suspected), and groggily we shuffled inside together, heading 
straight for the bed.  Well, I headed for the bed, she for 
the bathroom.  I was already asleep when she snuggled in 
beside me, but woke up a few hours later with an urgent need 
that I really should have addressed before going to bed.

      When I returned from the bathroom, much relieved, I stood by 
the bed and just watched her sleeping there in the darkness.  
It was a sight I had never seen before: my child, peacefully 
warm in my bed.  I remembered sometimes waking up when I was 
a kid and seeing my mom watching me.  I'd always thought it 
was a weird thing for parents to do, but now I got it.  It 
also made me miss my mom.  It had been almost 6 years since 
she passed away.  She used to tease me a little about how I 
wasn't doing enough to give her a grandchild, but for 4 years 
she actually had one.  "Sorry, Mom," I said softly and got 
back in bed with the girl who was now the center of my world.

      There's a saying that there are only two things you can be 
sure of: death and taxes.  If I'd learned anything these past 
6 months, there was another thing that could be safely added 
to that list when all conditions had been met.  Of course, it 
had never been possible here, in my own bed.  No, the 
presence of a certain 22-year old woman in my bed had made 
that impossible.  She wasn't here this time though.  What was 
here, was a 9-year old girl, two months away from her 10th 
birthday, who had what some might consider a compulsion...no, 
maybe it was more like an obsession, with putting her hands 
on my cock in the morning while I was asleep.  I felt the 
blood surge into the organ, stiffening it in her grasp from 
the half-chub I'd developed before waking.  I had the 
pleasure of hearing her gasp in amazement at the change, and 
then she looked at me with those big green eyes.

      "Good morning, Ruby cutie," I said to her.  Her fingers 
twitched, almost pulling away, only I think she realized the 
same thing I did.  There was no reason to be careful now.  No 
reason to be ready to act like nothing was happening.  No 
reason that we needed to get out of bed.  No reason for 
either of us to be nervous.  No reason to keep secrets here.  
No reason for me to come up with some excuse on the spot why 
we had to stop.  All those reasons were at best a 6 hour 
drive away, and really, the two of us weren't all that 
interested in or pleased with what that reason had been up to 
during the previous week, so fuck her.  Those small fingers 
tightened around the pulsing shaft, and she smiled bright 
like the sun at me.

      "Good morning, Ben."  There were no apologies for the 
impropriety to follow from her this time, just a request.  
"Can I see it?  It's been so long since got to see it."

      I said nothing in response, except to lean towards her and 
kiss her forehead.  I slid my hand into my boxers, placed it 
on top of hers, and got her started with a few slow strokes.  
Emmie wasn't the only one that would get to have fun that 
weekend with somebody new in their bed.

      ***

      [1]Funny thing about this birthday, I didn't even plan for it 
to be a factor here.  As part of my writing process, I give 
all my characters a birthdate for use in tracking story 
events in a timeline program, as well as me just being a dork 
like that.  This process is done using a random date picker, 
and what came up for Emmie was February 3rd.  It was only 
when I went to add the date with Price on the timeline (you 
can assign characters to events in the timeline program and 
it tells you their age at the time of that event, it's very 
nifty), that I saw it said "22 years, 11 months," but then 
the event for Ruby visiting Ben the following weekend said 
"23 years, 3 days."  I couldn't just ignore this random 
coincidence of events, and so I made Emmie's birthday a part 
of everything.















      Chapter 12

      I watched as an eager look spread across Ruby's face.  It 
wasn't enough for her just to touch it, she wanted to see the 
fleshy shaft she was now stroking. I took my hand away from 
hers, and she kept up the motions at the same pace I had set 
for her, and pushed the blankets away.  Of course as I 
uncovered myself, I uncovered her as well.  

      Typically, Ruby at bedtime was draped in a single large 
t-shirt that covered her down to her knees.  I didn't know if 
it was because either she didn't bring one with her, or if 
she was just too tired to bother putting it on, but her 
bedroom attire for the moment was a t-shirt and panties.  The 
training bra I had surmised she wore on the trip here was no 
longer in place, as her little breast buds and nipples were 
much more evident from within the t-shirt.  The style of her 
panties were no longer the functionally appropriate kiddie 
underwear that I had grown accustomed to seeing glimpses of 
either.  They were a dark red color, and were a sheerer 
bikini cut that held closer to her body, really contouring to 
her mound and giving off just the slightest hint of her lips 
down the middle.  In short, I wasn't just in bed with a 
little girl who wanted to see my dick, but instead was in bed 
with a sexily attired little girl who was quite possibly 
getting horny before my eyes.

      I lifted my butt, and down went my boxers, causing Ruby to 
coo at being reacquainted with her favorite penis...or at 
least I hoped it was still her favorite one.  "Is it just as 
you remember it?" I asked her.

      "Uh huh, but better," she answered cryptically, cuddling up 
to me and laying her head on my upper arm and chest.  I 
wasn't sure what was 'better' about it.  It was still pretty 
average looking to my eyes, but then again it was my dick, so 
perhaps I was just naturally unimpressed by it.

      "Better how?" I asked.

      "Uh, well," she began, though pausing in both her words and 
actions to gather her thoughts.  She glanced at my face 
before looking away bashfully.  "It's, um, s-sexier," she 
said.  I was intrigued. Just what did a young girl, not quite 
a decade old, consider to be 'sexy?'  As I recalled, she'd 
seen only one other penis, and that had belonged to a boy at 
her school.  Was mine sexy by virtue of being mature in 
comparison, or was there something more to it for her?  Then 
again, she was saying it was 'sexiER' now than it had been 
before, so what changed about it from months ago?

      "What makes it sexier, then?"

      "It, uh...s-seeing it gives me, um...feelings."  Ah ha.  It 
wasn't that my dick had changed physically some how, but that 
Ruby's way of thinking had changed.  In the car she had 
admitted to me that she would listen in Emmie and I having 
sex.  Couple that with Emmie having told me some months back 
that she had given Ruby a lesson in touching herself, and now 
here we were probably enacting a rudimentary fantasy scenario 
she had in her head.  In other words, Ruby had 'awakened' 
sexually.

      "Feelings down there?" I asked, eying her panties as she lay 
beside me.  The way she shifted and rubbed her thighs 
together was a dead giveaway.

      "Yeah," she answered very softly, almost squeaking.  I wanted 
to press her a little further, but knew I was probably just 
going to embarrass the heck out of her if I was too invasive 
too quickly, so I let that line of interrogation go for now.

      "That's really normal when you see a naked body," I told 
her.  "Everybody gets like that because it makes them think 
about sex."

      "I-I know.  Mom told me.  I-it's why girls get w-wet i-in 
their p-pussies and boys get b-boners."  I raised my 
eyebrows.  Ruby voluntarily said 'pussy.'  It seemed like 
only yesterday that she was asking me not to say that, to the 
point of sounding angry about it, and here she was using it 
in front of me.  Clearly she had developed a sense of 
eroticism since the last time we had been able to speak about 
these things.  Sure, she was still shy about it all, but 
progress was still progress.  Speaking of progress, I wanted 
to progress with Ruby as well.

      "Do you remember the last time we got to be alone like this?" 
I asked.  Ruby nodded.

      "When we were sitting on the couch together before Christmas 
time?" she asked.  The week before my car broke down, Emmie 
had left the two of us alone in their apartment while she did 
some Christmas shopping that Ruby couldn't go along for.  It 
had started out innocently enough, just the two of us 
watching TV together, side by side, but bit by bit Ruby had 
snuggled up to me and eventually had worked her way into my 
lap.  There she would squirm around and soon had me hard and 
pressing up against her little rear end.  No words passed 
between us at the time, as Ruby kept up the pretense of 
watching TV, but from the way she would glance back up at me, 
I knew she was very aware of the biological reactions taking 
place over those 2 hours.  While that was all exciting and 
sexy on its own, it wasn't what I had in mind.

      "I actually meant a lot longer ago, in your old smaller 
apartment.  When you asked about doing with me the same thing 
that I did with your mom when she was younger."  Ruby nodded 
again, but the nodding was followed by a jaw drop and 
enlarging of her eyes.

      "Y-you mean it?" she asked me excitedly, sitting up.  Just as 
quickly as she got excited about getting to do that, she got 
bashful.  "B-but that would mean you would have to see my..."

      "Well, yeah," I confirmed for her.  "Why?  Do you not want me 
to see your privates?"  She had sounded rather eager back 
then to do just that, and I'm sure would have stripped down 
for me if given the green light at the time.

      "Uh, I-I kinda do, b-but...I don't know."

      "Then we don't have to go that far," I relented.  I wasn't 
going to force or pressure her, and I supposed that part of 
her developed sense of eroticism not only changed her 
thoughts and views about other people's bodies, but her own 
as well.  "How about we start with just making me cum.  You 
want to see that happen?"

      "Can I?! I'll get to see it squirt out?!" Her enthusiasm 
returned.

      "Yeah.  And you won't have to take off any clothes that you 
don't want to," I reassured her.  Sure, I would have loved to 
cum all over Ruby's naked body on our first weekend alone 
together, but her comfort was the most important thing to 
consider in the deal.  Besides, the way she kept fidgeting 
and shifting her thighs about, I had a feeling she might find 
her way past that reluctance to bare all soon enough.

      "Okay! Let's make you cum!  ...h-how do we do that?"  Was it 
weird how much I loved that my daughter was equally thrilled 
at seeing me blow my load, but was so innocent that she had 
no idea how to make it happen?

      "You've already started doing it," I told her.  "You feel how 
the skin moves in your hand when you stroke my cock?"  I 
don't think I'd ever taught Ruby the word 'cock,' but if she 
had been listening to me and Emmie like she claimed, I'm sure 
she knew what it meant by now, as well as from the context in 
the present moment.  "You just need to keep doing that, and 
eventually I'll cum."

      "Ooh," she said, understanding.  "Is this what a 'hand job' 
is?" she asked.

      "Yeah, it is," I answered, my turn to be surprised.  "Where 
did you hear that from?"

      "An older girl at school," Ruby explained, as she settled 
back down by my side as she had been earlier.  "She...she has 
a boyfriend."  I raised an eyebrow at that.  Ruby was 9, 
nearly 10, and in the 4th grade.  I wasn't sure, but I 
thought her elementary school only went up to 5th grade.  At 
most an 'older girl' at the school would have been 11, and 
was already doing that with a boy...well, then again, I just 
had to recall what Emmie had been up to with Josh at roughly 
the same age.  The thought of such things made Ruby's 
stroking feel all that much better.

      "Tell me more about this girl and her boyfriend," I asked Ruby.

      "Uh, okay," Ruby agreed, not sounding like she really 
understood why I wanted to know such things.  "She, uh, she 
said that they kiss, and hug, a-and touch each other's 
private parts a lot.  S-she even s-shows him her pussy."

      "Does he do anything to her pussy?" I asked, my breathing 
getting quicker.

      "Y-yeah.  She said he, uh, he r-rubs some slippery stuff o-on 
her down there, a-and puts his finger i-inside her...i-in her 
pussy hole."  Ruby's face was red, but from her how voice 
sounded I had a suspicion it wasn't just the embarrassment of 
the conversation that had her body temperature up.

      "He fingers her," I named the act for her.

      "Uh-uh huh," Ruby agreed with me.  I felt her fingers tighten 
on my shaft as she jerked me off.  "D-does it feel good for 
girls t-to have something i-inside there?" she asked, 
implying to me that she was hesitant to try it herself.

      "It can.  Do you know what your clitoris it?" I asked her.  
She nodded shyly, unable to look at me.  "It feels good when 
it's rubbed, doesn't it?"

      "Y-yeah, b-but..."  I watched her press her lips tightly 
together as she mentally struggled with how much to share, 
probably not even aware how much she'd shared with me already 
by agreeing.  "I-I...I don't r-rub r-right on it," she came 
out with at last.  "A-am I doing it wrong?"

      "No...well, I don't think so.  I don't have your parts so I 
can't really be sure," I joked with her, earning a small 
smile.  "As long as it feels good, then you're doing it 
right, I think.  Did your mom show you?"

      "N-no.  S-she just told me about it.  I thought she would 
show me, b-but...she didn't get naked around me as much once 
you guys started...y-you know."

      "Oh."  It suddenly felt very awkward as the specter of my 
freshly ended relationship with Emmie slipped into the 
discussion.  I felt Ruby's hand get a little looser and moved 
slower.  "So, to answer your question," I steered the 
conversation back, "yes, it does feel good for girls to have 
something inside there, but I think in a different way than 
your clitoris feels," I answered, well out of my depth.  "You 
should really ask your mom or other girls about how your body 
feels."

      "Okay," she agreed.  "Are you going to squirt soon?"

      "Soon, I promise, but it will happen quicker if we talk about 
sexy things while you stroke it."

      "Oh...was talking about that girl getting fingered a sexy 
thing?"

      "Yes, it was."

      "What, uh, w-what about when my mom t-told you that h-her, 
um, pussy i-is a little girl p-pussy?"

      "Yeah."  Ruby seemed to think for a moment, as her hand 
picked up the pace, then glanced up at me, then back to my 
member.

      "I-I have a little girl p-pussy too...b-between my 
legs...i-in my panties...i-it's r-really small, a-and I-I...I 
want your s-sperm to s-squirt up inside it..."  Under any 
other circumstances, hearing Ruby experiment with dirty 
talking like that would be just cute as well as erotic, as 
she didn't sound all that sure about the things she was 
saying, but was doing her best to repeat things she'd 
overheard.  Under these particular circumstances though, with 
my cock in her hand, and her eyes fixated on it to watch me 
cum, it was amazing.  I began throbbing in her grasp.  
"T-there's something coming out!" she observed with 
excitement as my pre-cum bubbled forth.  "Why didn't it 
squirt out?" she asked with obvious confusion.

      "That's not the sperm, not yet," I told her.  "Keep going.  
Keep saying sexy things."

      "What other sexy things are there?" she asked me.  I knew 
Ruby had the imagination and enthusiasm, but she was 
massively lacking in the experience and savvy needed to 
really freestyle this kind of thing when prompted.

      "Talk about your boobs," I suggested.  

      "T-they're not really boobs yet," she replied, turning her 
eyes downward to look at her own chest, perhaps in an effort 
to see what might be at all interesting about them to a grown 
man.

      "Keep telling me about your pussy then.  How does it feel 
when you touch it?  What do you imagine when you touch it?"  
I silently cursed my own pre-cum for distracting Ruby from 
what had been a great train of thought in her young head.

      "Uh, w-well, it, m-my pussy i-is--i-it looks really pink 
inside when I look at it in a mirror, a-and t-there's no hair 
on it, s-so...O-oh!  M-my boobs, the nipples on them, t-they 
feel good to rub sometimes, a-and when I t-touch my pussy, 
t-they k-kinda get hard and stick out l-like a dick does! 
T-they're doing that now I think."  It wasn't super obvious, 
but her nipples did look like they were erect at that moment, 
though they lacked the prominence atop those budding breasts 
a more developed girl might have.  Ruby paused again, then 
continued.  "W-when I touch my pussy, w-well, I rub it, I 
mean, i-it gets, like, gooey, l-like your sperm stuff is, I 
think.  M-Mom...s-she let me watch one time when she shaved 
the hair away down there, a-and...s-she, she told me to touch 
it when she was done, a-and she got..."  Ruby paused again, 
and it was clear she was really struggling with telling me 
about this.

      "Are you wet right now?" I asked her, keeping things on track 
and in the moment.  Ruby nodded.  "That's a sexy thing.  Tell 
me that," I prompted.

      "M-my pussy...my pussy is wet," she said shyly.

      "Do you want to rub your pussy right now?"  She just nodded 
again.  "Say it out loud, Ruby.  Say it like you were just 
saying those other sexy things a moment ago."

      "I..." she closed her eyes, and took a deep breath.  "I want 
to r-rub my pussy."  She was quiet, but I could hear her 
clearly.  Still, I wanted her to push her boundaries.

      "Louder, Ruby.  Open your eyes and look at me."  Her hand 
paused, and for a moment I thought maybe I had pushed too far 
and she wanted to stop.  Her grip did not loosen though, and 
slowly her head tilted up and I saw those familiar green eyes 
of hers fix on mine.  I was confused for a moment, as I was 
expecting to see fear or reluctance in them, maybe a hint of 
tears welling up, but those emotions weren't there.  What was 
there was another look that I had seen once in a hotel room a 
decade ago in the eyes of another little girl who wanted 
something similar from me.  

      Her hand began to move again, swifter now, aided by the 
Cowper's fluid that my shifting foreskin had helped coat the 
shaft.  I noticed another motion then too, one that I had 
missed staring into her eyes.  Her other hand had gone 
between her thighs and was now pressing and rubbing at the 
plump pad of her vulva through her maroon colored panties.  
"I-I'm rubbing my pussy," she whispered at me, barely audible 
over the noise of my cock being stroked.  "I-it's wet a-and 
feels good when I t-touch it."  Her voice had gotten a little 
louder, and her eyes did not drop away from mine for a second 
while her breathing quickened.  "I-I think a-about y-your 
dick...c-cumming s-sperm i-inside of it, j-just like I h-hear 
you do to Mom..."  She broke eye contact with me then, only 
so that she could close her eyes for a moment to breathe 
deeply that seemed to make her whole body shudder.  Just that 
little change in her expression nearly tipped me beyond 
return, but I managed to hold on because it felt like she 
wasn't done just yet.  Her eyes reopened and she pressed up 
alongside me, trapping her hand between the outside of my hip 
and her groin, using my body as added weight behind her 
rubbing.

      "D-do you want to feel my cock inside you, Ruby?" I asked 
her, looking into her eyes.  "Do you want me to fuck your 
tight little hole?"  That was the first time I think I ever 
swore openly like that in front of her, though she had no 
doubt heard all kinds of filth out of both Emmie's and my 
mouth in the heat of the moment.  To little Ruby's credit, 
she did not flinch at all to hear that language directed at 
her.  She pressed her lower body against me harder, that one 
hand between us moving like it was in competition with the 
other hand she had jerking on the shaft.

      "F-fuck my p-pussy, B-Ben," she gasped, swearing back at me, 
though she was doing so confidently now.  "C-cum a b-baby in 
my t-tight n-nine year old c-cunny."  'Cunny' was an Emmie 
word, one that she used often when slipping into her little 
girl personal during sex, so I knew once again that Ruby was 
just parroting overheard lines back at me.  Not that it 
mattered that Ruby was plagiarizing her mother, because it 
did the trick for me.

      "Oh God, Ruby," I groaned.  "You did it, I'm cumming!  
Daddy's cumming!"  She tore her attention away from my face 
and now watched with intent awe as the semen pulsed up 
through the tube within her grasp, and leaped out into the 
air as white jets.  "K-keep stroking, cutie!" I reminded her 
in the midst of my orgasm.  "Make me shoot it all out for 
you!"  I came with force, splattering it on my upper chest.  
Ruby balked a little as it landed not far from where she had 
been resting her head, but did not fully retreat from the 
orgasm she'd caused.  She sat up beside me, tilting my cock 
upward in the process, just in time to cause my last full 
shot of jizz to arc upwards and splash down on my lower belly.

      "There's so much of it!" she exclaimed, now in a full volume 
voice for the first time in what felt like hours.  "I don't 
think my pussy is big enough to hold all of it," she remarked 
as well.  There was no hesitation in her voice now either, as 
the event caused her to forget all about how embarrassing it 
was to say dirty words to me.  She kept up the hand job as my 
ejaculation entered the latter stages, now just drooling out 
the tip and making her hand and my cock head a sticky glossy 
glazed mess.  "So warm," she marveled at it.  Since I was no 
longer shooting ropes, she took her hand off and held it 
close to her face to look at what she had wrought.  Then, 
just as surprising to me as it had been the first time she'd 
done it, she licked her hand before making an unpleased face.

      "What did you do that for?" I asked her, now taking over in 
stroking myself to an end.

      "I thought it might taste better warm."

      "Does it?"

      "Not really."

      I laughed at that, and extended my arm to have her cuddle up 
beside me again as she had been before.  She accepted the 
offer, and snuggled up to my side, though she made sure to 
inspect the area first so as not to lay her head in any cum.  
"Did you like that?" I asked her.

      "Yeah," she whispered with a smile on her face...then a look 
of confusion took its place.  "Why...why did you say 'daddy's 
cumming?'" she asked me.

      Oh shit.  I hadn't realized.















      Chapter 13

      I didn't want to lie to Ruby.  I really didn't.  I wanted her 
to know I was her father.  I wanted her to know that I was 
more, or that I would be more, to her than just some random 
guy that she met on the beach who just happened to know her 
mom.  I wanted her to call me 'Dad' or 'Daddy' or 'Papa' or 
whatever she wanted to call me.  I wanted to just ignore 
Emmie's wishes to keep this secret going and reveal my 
identity to my daughter, but...  I felt her hand go again to 
my cock, and slowly tug on it, and I became afraid.

      Sure, it was already taboo as hell what had just happened, 
but I felt I could manage Ruby keeping that secret well 
enough considering the inherently secret nature of doing such 
things.  But if I added to her mind that she had just jerked 
off her own dad, and her hand was wrapped around the male 
organ that made her...  She'd just told me about a girl she 
knew at school who was getting fingered by a boy, so what if 
Ruby became the one to start confiding in her friends about 
her weekend where she made her dad cum?  Too risky.

      "T-that's just something guys say sometimes when they cum," I 
lied...well, it wasn't a total lie, since I'm sure a lot of 
guys did exactly that.  I just didn't explain why it had any 
greater meaning for her and I just now.

      "O-oh."  She was unmistakably disappointed.  Did she really 
want me to be her dad?  She made no secret of how much she 
wanted Emmie and I to get married, but right now that was 
impossible.  Hell, telling her I was her dad, combined with 
the present impossibility of that marriage might disappoint 
her even more.  I knew what it was like to grow up the child 
of a single mother, and maybe it was even harder for me than 
Ruby to go through that given the era in which I grew up, but 
I never even had the prospect of my parents getting married 
presented to me.  For Ruby, it would be like dangling 
something tangible just out of reach.  There was, however, a 
middle ground I could offer her.

      "You know, if you want to, you could call me 'Dad' while 
you're here," I suggested.

      "Like were pretending?" she asked.

      "Yeah.  Like pretend, like we're playing a game."  Ruby 
didn't agree right away, and I could tell she wasn't fully 
into the idea.

      "But...wouldn't that be weird when we do sex stuff?" she put 
forth.  "It would be, like...making my dad cum, o-or touching 
myself thinking about my dad."  Oh no.  That very thing I had 
worried about before, how Ruby might feel if she were some 
day to know the truth about me after we had already done all 
that we had.  At only 9-years old she already had adverse 
feelings towards incest.  I had a sinking feeling that this 
was a secret I would have to keep from her...for at least a 
little while longer.

      "Some girls like to pretend about that kind of thing," I 
pointed out.

      "That's weird," Ruby responded.  Well, it was a start, I 
figured.  "What do we do now?" she asked me, holding up her 
cummy hand.

      "We could, um...I could help you cum if you wanted," I 
offered, reasonably sure she had given up on her own pleasure 
to focus on witnessing me ejaculate.  The wide-eyed startled 
look on Ruby's face told me her answer before she spoke.  
"Not ready to do that with me?" I asked her, and she nodded 
affirmatively.  "You don't want me to see your pussy."

      "Y-yeah...sorry."  I could understand her reticence.  When I 
was 9, I didn't want other people to see my little dick either.

      "That's perfectly alright.  Your body, your rules."  Ruby 
didn't respond to that other than to snuggle a bit closer and 
went back to holding my dick in silent contemplation.  We 
laid together like that for a few minutes before Ruby 
surprised me with a request.

      "Can...can I be alone for a little bit?"  She didn't look up 
at me when she spoke.

      "Why?" I asked, confused.

      "I...I wanna do something private.  In the bed."  If she 
wanted to play with herself, I didn't see why I needed to be 
the one to get up and leave, but at the same time I did want 
to clean my jizz off of me.

      "Alright," I said, leaning over towards Ruby and kissing the 
top of her head before sitting up.  Ruby sat up too, only she 
sat with her back to me, like maybe she was too embarrassed 
to look my way after implying what she wanted.  I turned 
towards the other side of the bed and got on my feet from 
there.  "I'm going to go take a shower.  I promise not to 
come back in here until you come out, okay?"

      "Okay."  Naked, I walked towards the doorway.  As I reached 
for the doorknob to close it behind me, she spoke again.  
"Thanks."  I looked back at the half-dressed 9-year old 
sitting in my bed, her semen covered hand clenched in a small 
fist and held in that same awkward way one does when there is 
something on their hand that they don't want to spread to 
other surfaces but also can't wipe away just yet.  I presumed 
Ruby still had the same intentions as she did months earlier 
when she was first introduced to the substance.  I pulled the 
door shut as I left the room, and left Ruby to her business.

      After showering I heard the sound of the TV on in the living 
room.  I wrapped a towel around my waist and went out to see 
what was up.  There I found Ruby on the couch watching one of 
those hackneyed preteen oriented sitcoms.  She had changed 
clothes, wearing now a different t-shirt than the one she had 
slept in, and a pair of sweatpants on her previously bare 
legs.  She looked up at me and immediately blushed and looked 
away with a crooked grin.  "I'm gonna get dressed and then 
we'll decide on what to do for breakfast," I told her.  There 
was no need to bring up what she'd just done, we both knew.  
I wanted her to feel like it was the most normal thing 
possible, because in a way it was.  I'd had morning 
fool-around sessions with pretty much every woman I'd been 
romantically involved with, so by that standard, Ruby was no 
different...well, maybe a little different.  Anyways, I 
headed off to the bedroom.

      The room smelled like sex, which made me laugh.  Mostly it 
just smelled like my cum, but there was a hint of something 
else in the air.  I had to satisfy my curiosity and had a 
look at the floor on Ruby's side of the bed.  Her clothing 
was not laying there, but instead I saw beside her backpack 
the small white bag that she and Emmie would use for laundry 
on the weekends they would spend here.  I heard then a noise 
from the hallway as the bathroom door shut and was locked, 
and shortly the sound of water falling followed.  I guess I 
wasn't the only one who needed a shower this morning.

      I turned my attention back to the white bag, and picked it 
up, setting it down on the bed.  As I pulled the drawstring 
loose I did feel like a bit of a creep, invading this small 
corner of Ruby's privacy.  I couldn't help it though, I was 
really curious.  Right on top of the bag's contents was all I 
needed to see.  The maroon panties were wadded up, but as I 
plucked them out of the bag, the aroma of a young girl rose 
with them.  Like the pervert that I am, I lifted them to my 
nose and sniffed.  It had been a long time since I got hard 
that quickly after cumming so recently.  The outside of the 
gusset was merely damp, but looking inside I saw a darkened 
patch.  I thought for a moment about jerking off into them, 
but Emmie would definitely find that once Ruby went back 
home, and also Ruby might discover it as well.  My cum had 
better ways to be used this weekend than just being 
unceremoniously spewed into dirty panties anyways, so I 
returned things to how I found them.

      I got dressed and went out to the kitchen for a quick bite to 
eat while Ruby finished up.  Soon the water stopped, and my 
girl came out, wearing the same clothes she had been wearing 
when I found her on the couch.  She was still shy from what 
had happened, and her default mode was to glance at me and 
then look away.  "So, do you want to eat here, or shall we go 
out?" I asked her.

      "O-out."

      "Buddy Cakes?"  Buddy Cakes was this great local pancake 
house down the street that I'd been going to since I'd first 
moved here just after the divorce.  Naturally, I'd been 
taking Emmie and Ruby there as well.  The suggestion got me 
the reaction I wanted, and Ruby looked up with shining eyes.

      "Yeah," she agreed.  So out we went.

      Ruby stayed dressed in that t-shirt and sweatpants, although 
she did put a sweatshirt on as well before we stepped out 
into the nippy February morning air.  It was out of the 
normal to see her dressed down like this, and I wondered if 
Emmie's absence had something to do with it, as typically 
Ruby looked a bit more polished than these sweats.  It didn't 
really matter what she wore, as long as she was happy as far 
as I was concerned.  After breakfast consisting of a 
half-stack topped with whip cream and strawberries, I asked 
where she wanted to go next, and after a moment of 
deliberation, we headed off to the toy store.  An hour later 
we were walking out with a brand new video game system (and a 
sore abused wallet).  Having grown up in the 60's and 70's, 
video games were just not anything that had drawn my 
attention, mostly due to the cost (seriously, due to 
inflation, $200 back then was close to $800 now).  I'd played 
a few games in college, but that was it.  I hadn't expected 
Ruby to be interested in this either, but she looked so happy 
toting the smaller bag containing an extra controller and 2 
games.  Again, I wondered about Emmie not being present being 
a factor here.

      We returned home, and Ruby was practically bouncing off the 
walls as I hooked it up and registered the console for its 
online service.  Then we just played.  For hours.  It was 
only when both our stomachs were rumbling that I looked at 
the clock and saw it was nearly 2 in the afternoon.  I left 
Ruby to play solo as I made us sandwiches.  She barely 
glanced at me when I returned, her attention was so focused 
on the game.  "Eat," I told her.

      "I will," she said.

      "Ruby," I reached out and placed my hand on hers.  "Eat."  
She let out a dramatic sigh, but dutifully paused the game 
and swapped controller for sandwich.

      "Are you gonna play again after we eat?" she asked with a 
mouthful.

      "I was kind of thinking of taking a nap," I answered.  "We've 
had a busy morning."  It was the first time that I'd alluded 
to what we'd done, and Ruby blushed and looked at the carpet 
in response.

      "W-when...when can we do it again?" she asked, nervously 
smiling.  I saw that she had set her sandwich down on the 
plate and leaned in close to respond.

      "How fast can you finish that sandwich?"  Poor girl nearly 
choked 30 seconds later from the wadded mass of sandwich she 
forced into her mouth.

      We walked hand-in-hand into the bedroom.  There was a sexual 
tension among us now that hadn't been there before, since it 
all kind of happened impromptu this morning, and now we came 
to it planned.  Even so, I undressed at a casual pace in 
front of her.  Ruby, however, made no move to do so, but 
watched with big eyes as I exposed my penis, which had 
already grown hard.  "Big," she said with the kind of awed 
whisper only a little girl could have.  "S-should I take off 
my clothes too?" she asked.

      "Your body, your rules.  Remember?" I reminded her.  She 
nodded at that, and following a moment of quiet deliberation, 
pulled off the sweatshirt.  The shirt she was wearing under 
it was white with a smiling yellow sun on it, but what really 
drew my eyes were the two stiff little nipple bumps that the 
slightly sweaty shirt concealed.  She followed that by 
pushing down the sweatpants, and I saw that she was now 
wearing a very light spring-green pair of panties that I'd 
had occasion to see her wearing before.  They weren't nearly 
as form-hugging as the maroon bikini panties she'd slept in, 
but in the context of the moment that didn't really matter as 
much as the fact that she was undressing for me.

      I sat down on the bed, and lay back, but Ruby stood there 
looking nervously.  I thought maybe she was having second 
thoughts for some reason, but before I could ask if something 
was wrong, she scrunched her eyes shut and pulled her t-shirt 
off over her head.  Her chest was more or less exactly as I 
had expected it to look: grape sized swells under each pink 
nipple that were probably due a bit more to the extra of 
weight she carried than from the advent of puberty.  She 
looked up at me for a moment, as if seeking approval for the 
move.  "T-they're really cute," I said, which got her to smile.

      "I've never let a boy see them before, b-but you touched them 
before, remember?"  I didn't actually, which the look on my 
face telegraphed to her.  "A-at the beach, when you were 
helping me after I got hurt.  You picked me up, and put your 
hand here," she said, placing her hand over her right little 
bud.

      "Oh.  Yeah, I guess I did," I said, recalling.  So much of 
that day was a blur to me because of how quickly everything 
happened, and how stunned I was by everything I'd 
discovered.  "You...you weren't mad about it.  I remember.  
You said it was because I was your 'hero.'"

      "Mmhmm," she nodded, before looking to be weighing something 
else in her head to say.  "Do...do you want to be my hero 
again?" she asked at last.

      "How do you mean?" I asked her, getting that this was some 
roundabout way that maybe she wanted me to touch her in the 
same way again.  She sat back on the bed and raised her sock 
covered foot at me, the same one that had been stung many 
months ago.

      "My foot hurts.  W-will you make me feel good?"  A grin 
spread out on Ruby's face.  A grin that reminded me of a 
little girl that crouched at the edge of a hot tub once, with 
something she wanted to show me.
      
      
      
            To be continued...



Author's note: Not much to say other than here is the compiled 
first 13 chapters of this saga.  Chapter 14 is of course available 
on its own already.  I haven't bothered to go through and proofread 
this compiled version at all, so I'm just going to trust that the 
software did everything correctly, so if there are any really weird 
formatting errors, they will just have to wait until the full final 
compilation once the story is completed before they are fixed.  If 
there is anything truly egregious that happened, I hope that one of 
my faithful readers will let me know about it, right guys? ;)

Thanks for reading, and feedback is always welcome.

Hardguy
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This story is a work of fiction.  Names, characters, places, and 
incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are 
used fictitiously.  Any resemblance to actual events or locales or 
persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.