Darren, Male, 54

	- Narrator, retired, father of Gwen and Victoria (Vic)

	- 5'11, beige skin, 195lbs, cropped greying brown hair

Audrey, Female, 16

	- High school senior, daughter of Duncan and Theresa

	- 5'9, pale skin, 140lbs, light-green eyes, straight auburn hair over her shoulders

Gwen, Female, 16

	- High school sophomore, daughter of Darren, sister of Victoria

	- 5'6, beige skin, 135lbs, shoulder-length wavy black hair

Victoria (Vic), Female, 14

	- High school freshman, daughter of Darren, sister of Gwen

	- 5'4, beige skin, 120lbs, wavy neck-length light-brown hair

Joyce, Female, early-80s

	- Wife of Herman, grandmother of Audrey, mother of Theresa

	- 5'6, beige skin, 115lbs, bobbed salt-and-pepper hair

Herman, Male, early-80s

	- Husband of Joyce, grandfather of Audrey, father of Theresa

	- 6'0, beige-olive skin, 180lbs, thin short gray hair

I'd like to say that the guilt I felt about Rainey was difficult to flush away, but the honest truth was that my love for Audrey made it selfishly easy to let go. The selfishness wasn't lost on me, but I couldn't change how I felt. I was free to see Audrey again, more or less. It would be risky, a situation we would have to manage very carefully. With her only sixteen years old, it was illegal for us to have a physical relationship. It meant there would be a lot of things we'd want to do together, in public, which absolutely could not be seen by anyone.

And it was more than that, as if those risks weren't enough. My daughters gave me their blessings, but I knew there would be trying times as I attempted to keep my reborn relationship with Audrey from changing the way my girls and I had come to grow closer the previous months. I didn't want anything to risk that, but I knew there might be situations where I couldn't be both Dad and lover, at least not in a way fair to everyone. I hoped I never had to make choices like those I'd confronted the previous year, but I acknowledged that, despite Gwen and Victoria supporting me, such events were bound to happen. I could only hope that we were all mature enough to deal with them without another massive blowup.

The conversation with Rainey had been difficult but could have gone much worse. A small part of me felt terrible that she was, in that moment, suffering heartbreak and rejection, but as I pulled into the visitor parking lot at Audrey's school, my young lover was dominating my thoughts.

An attendant approached me as soon as I parked. "Hello, sir. This lot is for parents, guardians, and pre-approved visitors only."

"Ah, apologies. I'm trying to help a... friend... get her car started. She left it in the student lot over night."

"The student?"

"Audrey Andrews."

The attendant pulled out a walkie-talkie and said, "Got a visitor here to assist Audrey Andrews with her car..."

He listened and I heard a crackling voice say, "We were notified earlier. Name?"

The man looked at me and I said, "Darren Oxley."

He repeated my name and then the person on the other end said, "Cleared for lot access only."

The attendant put the device away and reached into his pocket, pulling out a rectangular badge and then writing my name across the solid blue line. He hung it around my neck. "You can access the student lot through that gate. The badge will let you through. If you need anything, my cell is on the badge."

I thanked him and got back in my car, moving it into the student lot. It took a moment to find Audrey's car, a decent dark-green compact with four doors and a short trunk. I parked nearby and tried to start her vehicle. The engine turned over slowly but had too little juice to fire up. Assuming the battery was mostly drained, I repositioned my car so that I could stretch jumper cables between them.

After I grabbed the cables from my trunk, I saw Audrey walking towards me from the big red brick building on the main campus. "Hey," she said as she joined me.

"Hey... just about to get you going."

"Thanks... I appreciate it..."

"Always," I smiled at her. Her returned expression warmed me all over.

"Show me how this works?" she said, pointing to the cables.

"Sure."

I demonstrated how to connect the jumpers and then had Audrey sit in her car. I cranked mine and revved the engine, and then signaled her to turn the key. Her sedan came to life and I stepped out, telling her to give it a few minutes to give the battery some time to charge.

"I, uh... I called Rainey this morning..."

Audrey looked at me closely.

"I ended it... as nicely as I could..."

"So it's over, then? For good?"

"It's over..."

She nodded and said, "I'm sorry..."

"No, please don't be sorry," I assured her. "It was going to happen eventually no matter what happened between you and me..."

She looked back at the school, then around the lot, before whispering, "I love you so much, Darren."

"I know... I love you, too."

Her smile was warm sunshine for my soul. Nothing in the world made me feel better than Audrey's smile.

"I got a call before I came out," Audrey told me, "Grandma Joyce is coming home soon. I've got permission to take the day off and go see her."

"Great to hear!" I replied.

"I have to come back for practice, though, so it's only for a few hours."

"I'm sure she'll be happy to see you."

She nodded, "Yeah... and... maybe... if you want... we could... talk?"

I tilted my head, "Always... umm... about us?"

She smiled again and replied quietly, "'Talk' is a euphemism, Darren..."

I felt myself stirring. "I'd like that..."

- - -

I followed Audrey out of the lot and back to our street. She pulled into her driveway as I parked in my garage. Herman's car was already in place next door, so I went over and knocked on the door. Audrey let me in. "She's doing okay," the teen told me.

Leading me inside, Audrey nodded towards the living room and asked, "Need a drink?"

"Water would be great, thanks."

She turned into the kitchen, and I found Joyce sitting alone in the living room. "Oh, Darren! So lovely to see you!"

I leaned in for a hug then sat beside her.

She said, "My husband just went to lay down. Poor thing barely slept, I think. Worrying about little old me!"

"You are a lucky woman, Joyce, to have such a loving man in your life."

"Don't I know it! I think he'd do anything for me."

"I have no doubt."

She eyed me a minute, then spoke in a quieter voice, "Have you settled things with Rainey?"

"This morning..."

"Ah," Joyce replied, "I'm sorry for her. She must be hurting."

I nodded but said nothing.

"Apologies, Darren. I know you understand this."

"I do..."

"She's a wonderful friend and companion... I suppose... I suppose she isn't the one you wanted after all..."

"She is wonderful," I agreed, "but... she isn't Audrey..."

"No one is," Joyce replied. "And so, you two... back together?"

I nodded.

"Well... I'm sure I don't need to tell you about the risks... She's sixteen... and while my husband and I have come around... you can't let others know..."

"I know... Believe me... I know..."

"And your daughters?"

"They know and they support us... support me..."

Joyce nodded.

Audrey brought a tray with drinks and sat it on the coffee table, handing her grandmother a glass of what looked like lemonade and then passed me water, taking one of the latter for herself.

We sat in silence a moment, my eyes often meeting Audrey's and my stomach fluttering each time.

"So," Joyce said into the quiet room, "you've finagled a day off of school and you're spending it dotting on an old woman. Seems like a lousy trade," she chuckled.

"I don't think so," Audrey said, "I'm just happy you're home."

"Well, like my husband, I didn't sleep so well last night. I'm going to go join him in a long nap."

I helped Joyce as she tried to stand, taking her lemonade with her. "Do you need anything, Joyce?"

"Not a thing, thanks for asking. I'll ring you if that changes..." She looked at her granddaughter for a few seconds and then grinned, "Besides, I expect you two have some... talking... to do..."

I nearly laughed at her choice of words.

Joyce disappeared down the hall and I heard the door close. Audrey looked at me with an expression mixed with longing and love. She leapt into my arms and I closed around her. Lips pressed to mine, Audrey's moan into my mouth was the sweetest sound in the world, "Mmmm..."

"Oh, God... Audrey... I've missed this..."

"Me too..."

"Want to go to my place?"

She nodded and I took her hand, giddy like a schoolboy. We all-but-ran next door and I swept us inside, kissing her every step once the door was closed. Her breathing was quick and warm as I led us to my bedroom. We slid onto the bed as her arms closed around my back, my fingers tracing Audrey's jawline, her earlobe, the edge of her shoulder.

Her kiss made me float within my body, enveloped by Audrey's warmth, her wet kiss on my lips and cheeks and chin drawing goosebumps on my flesh. I wrapped myself around her and nuzzled her neck, "Ohhh... Darren... Ohhh..." I smelled her then, that unique scent that was Audrey. A mix of arousal and warm, young flesh and hints of her rose perfume. I sucked it in deeply and shuddered. I'd missed that scent.

It felt like letting out a long-held breath, like hearing a symphony after weeks of deafness, or feeling the gentle purr of a favorite feline after so long apart. Audrey's love for me glowed on her flushed skin, her body arching into mine, my fingers dancing down to her waist to pull off her shirt while she did the same with mine. We giggled as we locked arms in a lovely battle to shed the other's clothing, then rejoined our kiss as I fumbled with the clasp on her bra, soon sending it away, my fingers pressed onto her firm, tender breasts. "Mmmmm..." she moaned as I slid one hand down between her legs, the rough denim warm where her thighs met.

Audrey's hand cupped my groin where I had grown erect and with deft fingers, she slid down my zipper and snaked inside, soon grasping my shaft and stroking it through the hole in my boxers. "Uhnn..." I groaned against her neck, "God, I've missed your touch..."

I leaned down and kissed her left nipple, then her right, the tight, cotton-candy pink tips of her breasts soon wet and hard. She caressed my head and my cock as I worked lower, running my lips down her trembling stomach. I slipped onto my knees beside the bed, unfastening Audrey's jeans and sliding them down her legs then off, tossing them aside, her white cotton panties soon gone as well.

Unlike the times I'd seen it before, Audrey's dark-red pubic hair was trimmed to almost nothing, just a short, thin patch of half-inch fur above her slit. The teen's pussy was otherwise bald and smooth, her pink flesh glistening with arousal, her labia parted slightly, slick with sticky, nearly-transparent cream. "Oh my God..." I groaned as I leaned forward.

I smelled Audrey's essence then, the aroma of her sex, of her desire. It was clean and florally, less like her rose-scented perfume and more like a mix of fresh berries and a warm fire, white wine and the smell of wildflowers in a spring meadow. I sniffed against her flesh a moment, capturing every nuance of Audrey's scent, then I drew my tongue along her thin, slightly-puffy labia.

My mind was consumed by Audrey. Her taste was elegant and simple, tangy and salty and slightly-sweet. The aroma of her body, the warmth of her skin, the way she moaned when I licked her, "Mmmm... Ohhh...," drew me into a sanctuary, a place only Audrey could take me.

I kissed her pussy and slid my tongue between her light pink folds, tickling her labia and tasting her excitement. One lip was slightly larger than the other, just a slight difference between them, and I found that asymmetry to be simply adorable, a visual perfection that was uniquely her. As I teased her opening before probing deeper, I heard her breathing become more urgent and deep. "Ohh... Ohh... Ohh..."

Her breathing quickened further and I rolled my head between her thighs, circling her hard clit before dabbing at the juices threatening to leak from Audrey's vagina. She ran her hands through my hair, moaning, her hips rising and falling with my motions. All of a sudden, her tone grew higher in pitch, her voice strained, "Oh... Oh... Oh... Oh... Darren... Eat me... Oh... Oh... Ohhhhhhhh... Ohhhhhhh... Nnnnnnn... Nnnnnn... Nnnnnnnnnnnn... Ohhhhhh..."

Audrey's orgasm was my everything. My only thing. The one thing I longed for and would live my entire life to experience. She writhed and moaned and I licked her clitoris just enough to keep her on edge as she came, her climax peaking but not falling away. Her moans continued unabated, "Nnnn... Oh... Ohh... Ohhhh... Ohhhhhhh... Oh... Oh..."

I lapped her faster as her body responded to the cunnilingus, her thighs clenching around my head, then spreading wide as her ass rose up to press against my face. I heard her panting, "I want you inside me, Darren... Please..."

I slid off my pants and boxers, crawling between Audrey's thighs as I kissed my way up her body, stopping briefly to suck on my teen lover's tight, light-pink nipples. She grabbed my penis and tried to pull me inside her, the distance too great and she mewled, needful, pleading with me to mate with her.

My hips shifted forward and I felt tight, hot flesh envelop my cock. "Ohhhhhh..." I moaned before kissing Audrey. Her pussy stretched around me, clenching and silky. I throbbed and I knew I spurted a thin jet of precum into Audrey's vagina.

I pressed myself down to kiss her passionately, holding myself up on my elbows and knees, grinding against my lover. "Oh, Audrey... Oh... Oh..."

"I love you, Darren," she said, eyes-half open and watching mine, "I love you so much..."

I felt myself swelling quickly inside Audrey's pussy. I was overexcited, straining for release within seconds of sliding into her, and when she saw the look on my face and told me, "Cum in me... God... Darren... Uhnn... Cum in me...," I tensed and trembled and burned with pleasure as I pushed forward, my swollen penis buried deep inside Audrey.

Lost in the love I saw on Audrey's face, I spewed my seed inside her pussy, "Ohhhhhhhhh... Ohhhhhhh... Oh-oh-uhn-uhn-uhn-ohhhhhhh..."

My mind was blank, only my sensory organs relaying reality in that moment. Only Audrey's warm skin, her grasping hands digging into my upper arms, her scents, her sounds, her tight, clenching vagina stretching around my ejaculating cock, only Audrey was in my awareness.

Her moans were a melody I wished to hear for the rest of my life. "Mmmm... Mmmmm... Oh... Yes... Oh... Yes... Ohhhhh... Uhnnn... Nnnnngg..."

I fought for breath, my penis swollen inside Audrey's opening, cum slowly leaking into the pool already deep inside her pussy. I felt her lips on my neck and shoulder, then on my cheek, soon joining mine. Audrey's moans vibrated in my mouth, and my own sounds of pleasure joined to create a duet of pleasure. I could smell the heat from her body, her sweat, her arousal. She wrapped her arms tight around my back and pulled me fully onto her, wrapping her legs high and around my waist, holding on with all her strength.

We stayed like that for what might have been hours but passed as too-few seconds, my penis half-hard and my cum trapped inside, soaking in Audrey's vagina. I opened my eyes after a long time and saw the most beautiful woman in the world just an inch away. Audrey's light-green eyes were brilliant and dazzling, their depth offering flecks of copper and gold. Her smile was amused and happy, and her giggle made my heart flutter and float independent of my body. "God, I love you, Audrey... I love you... I love you..."

She purred and kissed me again. "Never leave me again, Darren... Promise me..."

"Never again. I'm yours forever. I promise..."

"That's all I ever need... Just you... Forever..."

"Forever."

Our kiss could have lasted a year or ten seconds, but it was the only thing in the world which mattered when the two of us connected, our love shining like the most brilliant star in any sky any creature has ever seen.