The Pictures_(1)

This year started out very bad for me and it ended up getting worst before it got better. My wife of 10 years was diagnosed with cancer in spring and by October she passed away, leaving me and my daughter Shelly. My relationship with Shelly was and has always been great. In fact Shell use to come to me all the time with her questions and problems when she needed to. She even came to me with her questions about sex and the changes that were happening to her body when she started puberty instead of going to her mother. I always answered her questions very honestly and factually as possible. I never tried to lie or bullshit her as some parents do. I bought a book about sex that gave very factual information without being dry or boring and made it available to her at any time. Shell was also a bit of an exhibitionist and at the age of ten started to run around the house naked. The reason for this is because my wife hated nudity. She would not let me watch any movies that might have any naked girls in it and she herself would not let me see her fully naked. I was allow to see the occasionally bare backside or she would flash her tits every once in a while, but she was never fully naked in my presence. So Shell would run round the house naked or flash her mother in order to get a rise out of her. Never the modest person myself I had no problems with what Shell was doing and would get a chuckle out of it myself. In order to let her get it out of her system and to somewhat appease her mother I set down some guidelines for Shell to follow if she wanted to run around naked. So for three years she did this. Every night at six o’clock Shell would climb into the shower and then when she was done she would run around for two hours before getting dressed. This was referred to as “naked time”. Finally at age thirteen my wife pulled Shell aside and told her that her nudity was beginning to make me feel uncomfortable. Shell told her mother that I had no problem with her being naked and to just get over it. My wife told Shell that I would not say anything as I feel that Shell expressing her feelings and her freedom are more important then my feeling a little discomfort by watching a little thirteen year old girl running around naked. So the “nudie” show phase of her life ended. But even with this change Shell and I were still every close. About that same time Shell started telling me the sexual exploits of all of her friends. As time went on I was told who was doing what with whom, in very graphic detail. I was told when one of her friends would lose the virginity and with whom and every detail possible. Like the time her friend Tina lost her virginity to her boyfriend in the cemetery that was located very close to our house with her best friend Becky watching. Shell even told me what she herself had been doing as far as sex went. Shell had “played” a little bit with some of her boyfriends but still even at age sixteen had not “gone all the way”.

The only situation that should be noted is back when Shell was about thirteen she had some friends living in the same apartment complex as us, Tina and Suzy. Shell and Suzy were the best of friends. They both liked to draw and would create stories around each others drawings, exchange clothes, all those things that teenage girls liked to do with each other. One weekend Suzy asked Shell to spend the night and from what I understand Tina was not invited. So on Monday a rumor started going around that Shell and Suzy were lesbians. Personally I thought it was very funny since it was Tina that was spreading the rumor and she herself went both ways. Any way I asked Shell about it and she told me that it was not true but it she were to “jump the fence” it would be for Suzy. We also had the talk about having sex with members of the same gender. I informed her that most people, both men and woman, at one point in there young life’s “experimented” by having sex with members of the same gender and that it was alright with me if she wanted to do so. My mistake, if you will, was to end this conversation with a smart ass comment. That comment was, “Should you ever have sex with any of your girl friends make sure I get pictures.” This became a running joke in the house and even my wife told me that if she were to have sex with her best friend that I would get pictures. Not that that would ever happen. Unfortunately Suzy moved away about a year and a half ago because her mother could not get a job in our area.

It was a brisk day in October; Shell and I had finished with dinner and we were cleaning up the kitchen. When we were done I headed for my computer to do some work. I looked to Shell and asked “What are your plans for this evening?”

Her reply back was she was headed to her room to do some homework. I told her to let me know if she needed any help.

“Ok no problem”, she replied as she started to turn away. Then at the last moment she turned back around to face me. “Oh dad almost forgot give this to you.” And in her hand was a flash drive.

“What is this?” I asked

“You know the slumber party that I attended over at Tina’s last Friday?”

“Yea”, I responded.

“Well those are the pictures.” Shelly saw the confused look on my face.