Daniel’s girlfriend was blonde, like Amanda was blonde, skinnier, and not quite as pretty. That April, Amanda found a used condom when emptying the garbage can from his bedroom. That seemed to indicate Daniel was no longer a virgin, but even of that much, Amanda couldn’t be sure. She liked to think they were close, but there are some things most teenage boys don’t really want to discuss with their mothers, or stepmothers, as the case may be.
Finding that condom was kind of a shock. It jolted Amanda into recalling what her sex life had been like with Daniel’s father, David, and also how pretty much nonexistent it had been in the years since he died. Daniel’s father: Ohmygod that man could fuck! She was young and didn’t have much of a basis for comparison at the time, but she could never forget how fantastic their sex life had been. More than once he’d made her cum so hard she passed out. He was great looking too, 6’2″, with thick, wavy hair, an incredible smile, and a beautiful, perfect cock.
When Amanda thought back, it was sad in a way, but so much of what she remembered about David was the sex. She remembered a lot of little things, sure, but how he made her feel was the strongest memory. They’d only been married three years before he died, not even long enough for them to get past the honeymoon phase. In fact, only weeks before he died they had started trying for more kids. But that was never to be.
There were lonely nights when she still missed David, and plenty of times when trying to take care of two kids and a house by herself had been hard. She had kept a couple of his shirts in her closet. They smell like him. But a couple of years ago she gave them to Daniel for Christmas. It seemed the logical and sensible thing to do, especially as Daniel started to grow into a man, and started to look more and more like his father. Wearing his father’s shirts seemed to mean a lot to Daniel, too.
The way Amanda and David first got together had been a bit of a scandal, even if that was now all in the past. Amanda was the next door neighbor and part-time babysitter for Daniel and his sister. Amanda’s dad got transferred out of state halfway through her senior year and Beth, Daniel’s mother, had been kind enough to offer to keep an eye on and help out Amanda while she stayed in the house alone until graduation. Amanda was only 18 then. Daniel was 6. Tessa was 9. Then Beth was killed and Amanda found herself spending a lot of time in David’s house helping with the two kids.
Amanda already had a little bit of a crush on David before, but it grew rapidly after Beth’s death. Nothing happened at first. But David relied on her to help, and then gradually things just happened. David was only 30. There was only a 12 year age difference between them. Not so much, really, at least that’s what she told herself. Her parents did not approve, and they’d become estranged.
Daniel had been only 6 then. Now he was 18, and she was 30. Funny how things worked out. It was kind of a full circle. And now she was a grandmother! Daniel’s sister Tessa just recently had a baby and was engaged to be married. Life sure had dealt her some funny cards.