The Talk: About Last Night

The girls get home from their run at around lunch time, so you prepare lunch while the girls take showers. You know the conversation over lunch is going to be a difficult one as the amount of topics the three of you need to discuss have piled up after just one night together.

First order of business, at least for you, is to discuss your night with Tanya so that you can get it out of the way, and it can lead to the more important topic, convincing Stella to make amends with her mother. Lastly, and probably the most difficult topic of conversation, discussing your feelings and Cassie’s feelings for each other.

“So, spill it.” Stella says once the three of you have settled into your lunch. “What happened between you and Ms. Ramirez?” Stella asks.

You try to answer the question as casually as you can, and without going into details. You basically say you bumped into her when you went out to the hallway last night, and she invited you out, so you agreed. You concluded by saying you had a wonderful night together. Stella was having none of your generic retelling of the story though. So before you can transition into convincing her about talking to her mom, she parries it by asking you some questions.

“First of all, was it a date?” she asks you. You really don’t know the answer to that. You said yes to going out with her because you thought it was just going to be two friends hanging out, and also you didn’t want to deal with your feelings for Cassie yet.

“No, I don’t think so. I thought we were just hanging out as friends. In hindsight, it was naive for me to think that though,” you answer Stella.

“Did you flirt with her?”, “Uhh… it was more her flirting with me, but it wasn’t like I wasn’t unresponsive to her advances” you answer again.

“Did you pay for everything?” “Yes.”

“Did you discuss the divorce at all before you slept together?” — you were surprised at how nonchalant she was about that. “No.”

“It was a date.” Stella concludes. You were about to argue but she cuts you off with another question before you do.

“Do you like her?” again, she asked it so nonchalantly, but the loadedness of that question is not lost on you. You glance at Cassie before you can answer, but Stella answers it for you. “You’re not sure yet but you’re thinking about it.”

This girl can read you like a book.

You nod and agree that her assessment is correct.

She stops questioning you for a moment, so you drink a glass of water to prepare yourself for another possible line of questioning.

“How’d you get so good at sex?” Stella suddenly asks, and you **** on your water at the question, making you do a literal spit take, which unfortunately sprays some on Stella and Cassie.

“Ew! Dad!” Stella reacts, immediately standing up to get some paper towels to wipe off some of the spray. Cassie just laughs and waits for Stella to hand her a paper towel before teasing her, “That’s what you get.” Stella just responds by sticking her tongue out.

As you wipe your mouth with a paper towel, and drink some water again to ease the irritation off your throat, you realize that there was a topic of conversation that you didn’t consider having, but really should have with both of them. You need to tell them about the app.

“About that,” you start. “Remember yesterday when you thought I was tripping on ‘shrooms and reading something on my phone?” Stella raises an eyebrow in curiosity but nods her head. “I really was reading something, baby.” You take out your phone and open the Affection Multiplier App. “You won’t be able to see what I see, but right now, I have an app open called the Affection Multiplier”. You turn your phone towards them, showing them your screen.

“That’s just your home screen, Dad.” Stella remarks.

“I know that’s what you see, I tried it out yesterday and it seems only I can see the app.” You tell them.

“Like magic?” Cassie asks. “Exactly.”

“Dad, I just wanted to know if you were actually cheating on mom too and that’s how you got so good at sex.” Stella half-jokes. “If you don’t want to answer, you don’t have to go through this… whatever this is, to distract us. We’re not kids anymore.” Stella adds with some irritation in her voice.

“Don't even joke about that. Do you think I would have ever done that to your mother?” Stella looks at you, pondering why you’re derailing this conversation relating to Tanya, but she nonetheless answers “No.”

“Which leads me to this ‘magic’ app… it’s the thing that helped me get Tanya to… react that way in bed” you say kind of embarrassed. They look at each other, then back at you, and Stella says, “What? It turns your phone into a vibrator or—”, “Stella!” Cassie interjects, “Fine, we’ll humor you...”

“What’s this app?”