a daughter's need

chapter 1

Brook slipped out through the front door and crept quietly around the side of the house. Her mother was in the hot tub with Tom tonight, and after listening to them play naked under her bedroom window almost nightly for the past two weeks she found herself overcome with curiosity to watch them. She'd peeked at them through the window as well, but the angle from there didn't provide the curious eighteen-year-old a very satisfying view. She wanted to see as much as she could.

The compactly built young brunette wasn't used to living in a house as big as Tom's, and for that matter, she wasn't used to living with a man in the house at all. It had always just been the girl and her mother. She'd never known her father, and since Janice, her mother, had rarely mentioned him over the years the girl never had too much curiosity about him. Those times when she did wonder about him Brook rarely bothered asking questions, assuming her mother didn't like talking about him. Growing up with a single mother was simply Brook's reality. Just a couple of times a year the girl imagined what it would be like to have a father in her life, but she kept that to herself.

Ultimately, their life together had always been comfortable, if not especially flashy, and making any major changes never seemed an important issue. Janice had gone out with plenty of men over the years, but she rarely ever brought one home. Consequently, her sudden marriage to Tom seemed completely out of character for the sexy, attractive thirty-six-year-old.

Brook had liked Tom well enough when he started spending time at the apartment where she and Janice lived before. It was nice having him around. He was always funny and friendly, and sometimes Brook imagined it was what it would be like to have a father in her life. But the couple would always disappear into Janice's bedroom early in the evening and probably had no idea how the sounds of their ecstatic fucking bled through the thin walls.

At first, Brook just laughed it off and either turned up the TV or stuck in a pair of earbuds and listened to music. But it wasn't long before she was retreating to her own bedroom and listening to the distracted pair with her hand between her smooth, young thighs. She probably had even more orgasms than they did.

Then one afternoon Janice called Brook into the kitchen in the apartment they'd been living in, saying she wanted to have a serious talk. The first bomb the girl's mother dropped was that Tom was Brook's father. She explained that they'd had a casual relationship years before, and it was over by the time Janice discovered she was pregnant. The reason she never told Tom was that she never wanted a man sticking around because he felt like he had to. It wasn't what she wanted for herself or Brook.

Brook was okay with that. She knew her mother had devoted herself to giving the two of them a good life, and despite the girl's occasional daydreams of having her father in her life, it wasn't as if she could say life with her mother wasn't a good one. Then Janice told her Tom had asked her to get married, and have both mother and daughter move into Tom's big house. It all came so quickly Brook wasn't sure what to make of it. As much as she liked Tom, it was a lot to take in all at once.

Janice told her daughter that day that she wanted to say yes. She was in love with Tom, but she didn't want to make any decisions without including Brook. As they sat and talked things over, Brook got to like the idea more and more. She wanted her mother to be happy, and she also realized that having her father in her life was probably more important than she ever admitted to herself before.

Tom was older than most of the men Janice went out with, but he was incredibly handsome and in really good physical shape. He always seemed warm, upbeat and friendly. Brook didn't know if she loved him or not. He was still someone new in her life and now that she knew he was her real father she wasn't sure how she was supposed to look at him. But her mother assured her that time would take care of everything and they could be a happy family.