Take care of the chores his wife used to do

Seeing the dish piled up at the table after breakfast, Jack realized that he was in for quite a few changes around the house, now that his wife seemed to be gone for good. First of all he'd need to do a lot of the daily chores by himself, but figured that his daughters would sooner or later have to pull their weights as well.

The first task was easy at least, since they'd recently invested in a brand new dishwasher, and Jack had been the first one to read the whole manual that came with it. The laundry was just a bit worse, as it was quite a while since the last time he did it by himself, thought it didn't take him too long to figure out how the washing machine worked, and what kind of detergent was supposed to go with each type of clothes.

In fact he'd barely even set his foot in the laundry room for years, and it came as a bit of surprise to him how well it was organized, with empty shelves and a couple of baskets to store any dirty clothes. Most of the laundry even seemed to belong to himself, which made him believe that his daughters just might have been taking care of their own stuff lately.

That was obviously too much to wish for however, as Jack came to realize after starting the washer with some of his own clothes, and he looked at the other baskets with growing suspicion on his mind. He thought he remembered quite well what his daughters had been wearing the last couple of days, but none of those things were currently present in any of their tidy piles, nor on the empty clotheslines, and by taking a quick stroll through the house he confirmed that each of his girls had just left all their junk in their rooms instead. Just like he'd done himself actually, but that wasn't all that relevant as far as he was concerned.

Jennie's room was fairly empty of such attire though, with nothing but the clothes she'd been wearing in the weekend hanging over the back of an unused chair, while Kim had a basket stuffed with various workout clothes, and of course the ubiquitous pairs of shorts and multiple sporty jerseys. Those two sisters couldn't possibly get much more different than this, and even their choice of colors were as far apart as they could be, with the younger one wearing sharp and vivid contrasts, while the other preferred more natural colors that went well with her green eyes or reddish brown hair.

The stuff he found in Catherine's room was definitively the most varied in itself however, and Jack couldn't help from staring at the wide range of garments spread out across the floor or hanging from the furniture. He was already well aware of the short skirts and other provoking attires she liked to wear, but even more conspicuous to him now was the amount of underwear that were clearly visible among the rest of her clothes. One little detail in particular drew his attention though, and upon closer inspection he found it was actually a piece of underwear, rather than a simple strap like he'd first been led to believe.

"Why would anyone even bother to wear something like that, if they could just as well walk around without them anyways...?" Jack grumbled to himself, as he picked up the flimsy black thong in his hands, but could hardly deny that it would look great on a girl with curves like Kate's. The laced waistband in particular marked it as something she'd wear for a lover, rather than taking to the beach, and it was all too easy to imagine how the small piece of clothing would suit her well in the bedroom.

Thinking like that about his own daughter was a different matter however, and his eyes narrowed as he looked around at the other kind of clothes she liked to wear, especially the much too short kind of skirts and dresses she'd always preferred. The resulting picture was something he'd definitively need to discuss with her at some point, and should probably have done so a long time ago, even before she started dressing like that.

Such a discussion had to wait for later though, as the girl in question wasn't even at home yet, which was something Jack was quite relieved about. There was a whole lot of other things going on in his mind after all, and there was no point in putting his daughter's choice of underwear as a top priority at the moment...