Chapter 1

David

David Willis was my name. I suppose you could say I left the plane of existence after my second year of college. I was studying to one day take over one of the family businesses. Yeah, we had two. My Dad had his own and my Mom had hers. Even my little sister had her own. Although because she was so young it was still a small business, and yes my parents both had a hand in helping her start it. We had a great family life. That is until my family met my girlfriend Danielle West. When my family saw Danielle they saw a poor dirty working girl who was beneath them. Danielle worked on her family’s farm. They were struggling to keep the farm going. My parents, or should I say my Dad felt that if someone were truly successful they wouldn’t have to struggle to keep their business afloat. I was desperate to make my family see the good that I saw in my girlfriend. I had planned on proposing to her soon. I even had the ring.

On the morning of my final attempt to change my family’s minds, I woke up on my side and felt a hand stroking my chest from behind me.

I gently grabbed that hand, kissed it and said, “Thank you for waking me. We need to get ready to go to my place. My family is expecting us soon.”

She pulled me onto my back, straddled me, placed my morning wood inside the tight folds found between her legs and said, “Maybe I should have let you sleep a bit longer. Your family hates me.”

I started to protest when she clenched my member. So I said, “They’ll change their minds. If not today then eventually. We both did, remember. We didn’t get along when we first met either.”

She smiled and laid down on top of me and moaned, “I see your point. But I’m still nervous. I wish I could get all this dirt cleaned from my hands. I see how they judge that.”

I chuckled, “I love how your hands look. It shows you’ve done some honest and hard work in your life. We could use more people with hands like these.”

Danielle massaged David’s body with hers and replied with a purr, “Okay, I feel a bit better. But I’m still not excited about meeting up with your parents. But I’ll do this for you.”

At David’s home, his father looked at him sternly, “You were late. You were never late before you met this girl. What was so important that caused your lapse in judgment of time?”

David half-heartedly smiled as he thought of the reason. But he wasn’t about to tell his father that he was late because he was having sex with Danielle. Instead, he went with, “I had gone for the scenic route but forgot there was construction there.”

I had remembered it was there.

“I guess I can understand your tardiness,” my Mother was saying.

“Eve!” My Dad growled. Then he took a few deep breaths then to me he said, “I guess your mother is correct. But we still need to talk.”

Talk about what?” My younger sister said as she walked into the living room.

Everyone was silent then my Dad asked, “Where is the guest?”

“Guest? Oh, Danielle. She’s cleaning up in the bathroom. Things got messy when the blender kind of exploded,” my sister Cass mimed an explosion.

“Good, she’ll be busy for a bit. Now sit down. We’re going to talk to your brother about his fling with this girl,” Dad said in his commanding tone. Things were serious now. He doesn’t normally talk that way around Cass.

“Do we really need to talk about this while the guest is still here in our house?” My Mom asked.

“You heard Cass, our guest is cleaning up. That’ll take a while.” Dad took a few breaths and then calmly said to me, “You need to break up with that girl. If you don’t you’ll be written out of my will.”

“Are you writing him out of Mom’s will?” Cass asked.

Dad quickly responded, “I wouldn’t go that far. Your Mom can do with her money what she wants. And besides,” to me, “Even if you don’t break up with her and I do write you out of my will I’m 99% sure you’ll change my mind and you’ll be back in eventually. Listen, I’m not saying to break all ties with her. Just slow things down until you can be absolutely sure she’s not interested in you for just your money. You may feel it’s the real thing but I need to feel that too.”

I stood up, “I’m sorry but I think it’s time for Danielle and I to leave.”

“Didn’t you and Danielle come in two separate cars? Why do you both have to leave?” Cass asked. “I mean if you really want to help change our minds what better way than to leave her here with us to let us get to really know her? A girl, sorry, a woman tends to act differently when apart from her significant other.”

“I’m not sure that’d be a really good idea. It might send the wrong message to her.” I said.

“That’s perfectly fine David. But we would like to get to know her, to spend some time with her alone at one point. I have an idea, why don’t you take Danielle to our property in New York City for a little vacation?” Dad suggested.

“But that place was recently renovated. It may still need some cleaning up before it’s ready for visitors,” I told my Dad.

“That’s where us having some alone time with your girlfriend comes in. You can go up there today and get things all ready. And then the three of us can drive her up there. It’ll give us time to get to know her better.” Dad looked concerned, “Please I feel as if we need to make things up to the both of you.”

My Dad surprised me with his sincerity, he hardly ever said please. I took a deep breath and said, “If it means that much to you. I just need to go tell Danielle.”

I looked everywhere in the house but couldn’t find Danielle. I got a ping on my phone and checked my text. It was from Danielle. She said that something came up and she needed to go and that she’d see me later today. After reading her text I looked out the window and saw Danielle driving off like crazy.

I ran downstairs and was about to ask my family if they talked to Danielle when my Mom saw me and said, “I hope you don’t mind but we already told Danielle about our plans. We told her what our property was like up there. She was so eager that she left to go pack for the trip.”

“She seemed eager alright, but it seemed more like she was eager to get out of here than anything,” Cass said.

I tried to call Danielle but I was just sent to voicemail. I wrote a note, folded it up, and handed it to Cass, “If you see her before I do can you make sure that Danielle gets this?”

I tried a few more times to reach Danielle before I had to contact my friend to let him know I wouldn’t be able to meet up with him tomorrow. I then packed and headed up to my family property in New York City. I greeted the doorman and wished him and his family a happy summer vacation. A few months ago my family had started the process of transforming the top floor of this building into our vacation home. It had been a bunch of separate condos before. It was a good thing that I had come early because it was a little messy. The workers had done a fantastic job and were in the middle of finishing things up. I volunteered to help out. Since my Dad was their boss they agreed. I asked if there was anything else I could do to help them. When they said no I let them know that I might have another job for them in the future. I had been planning on building a home in case Danielle was to say yes when I was going to propose to her this weekend.