Part One
In high school, most girls went on dates, made out with boys, and capped off senior year with a fun and fabulous prom night. But not Lexi Weston. From the first day of freshman year until graduation, her strict father enforced a rigid study schedule and a no dating rule.
The only dance the shy and petite eighteen-year-old ever attended was a purity ball—on her dad’s arm. At her father’s insistence, Lexi had pledged to save her virginity until she was married. “Sex is something for marriage,” he’d said. “It’s for your husband, alone. Your first time should be special. And as a good Christian father it’s my duty to guard and protect your purity.”
Of course, that was before Lexi came home early one day to find her father in the pool fucking the very married neighbor…
As Lexi’s father drove so hard into her from behind that he sent pool water sloshing up over the edge onto the deck, Mrs. Lanham cried, “Oh, oh, oh, it hurts so good!” The two lovers were naked—their bathing suits in a wet, discarded pile. And while they went at it, Mrs. Lanham’s salon-blond hair whipped back and forth in wet ringlets.
Red-faced and grunting, Lexi’s father squeezed at the woman’s bouncing breasts. “That’s it, baby. Take it up the ass. Take it up the ass like a homo.”
So much for her good Christian father.
The sight was too much for Lexi to handle. Stifling a gasp with one fist, she scrambled for the sliding door from whence she came, hoping to disappear into the house and bleach her brain. But she was so unsteady, in such a state of shock, that she tripped over a pool chair and landed hard on the deck.
“Oh god!” Mrs. Lanham cried. “It’s your daughter.”
Horrified, Lexi pushed up from her skinned knees and ran, even as her dad called after her. “Lexi! Lexi, wait.”
She didn’t wait. She didn’t want to hear anything he had to say. All she wanted was to hide in her room and find some bandaids for her knees. But Lexi had scarcely thrown herself onto the bed and pulled a pillow over her face than did her father come barging in.
Having pulled on his swim trunks, he stood in her doorway dripping pool water onto her pink bedroom carpet.
“ What? ” she finally said, her voice dripping with attitude.
Some part of her had expected her father to be mortified. To be apologetic to be caught having an affair. Instead, he tried to brazen it out. “Lexi, you didn’t see what you thought you saw.”
“I wish that was true.” At the very least, she wished she could make herself un-see it. “What happened to sex being only for marriage?”
Her father’s jaw tensed. “Don’t you dare tell your mother; it’ll kill her.”
And right there and then, the fiction of her life came crashing down around her. She’d been a daddy’s girl. Done everything he told her to do. Lived by his rules. She’d never even thought it was possible that her father could engage in perversions. Now she couldn’t shake off the image of him thrusting up inside the anus of some fleshy neighbor lady while telling her to ‘ take it like a homo. ’
For four years in high school, Lexi had felt like a freak and an outsider because of her father’s rules. She’d never even kissed a boy—and she’d wanted to, but didn’t want her father to think she was a bad girl. Well, Lexi’s dad was a flaming hypocrite, and now the anger bubbled up inside her until she felt herself come to a boil.
She didn’t tell her mother that night at dinner; she couldn’t bring herself to be the one who caused a divorce. But her angst over her father’s infidelity continued to fester all summer until she couldn’t wait to start college at the state university and leave home for good. And her first mission?
Breaking her purity pledge at the very first opportunity…
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The problem with having lived such a sheltered life is that Lexi exuded purity; or at least she thought she must