My Girlfriend’s Dad: Part 13

Chase looked down at his watch almost out of breath. He looked down at his phone following his GPS. He then looked up at the sign "Golden Hilltop Barr". "7:10pm", he muttered.

He doubted Lior would be there. He took a deep breath and walked in. He looked around watching various men play pool, a few gave him a lustful look.

The bar tender greeted him "What's your poison?"

"Water", Chase spoke.

The bar tender snickered a bit "Right… here you go."

"Chase?", someone spoke.

He looked over his shoulder at the opposite end of the counter .

Chase grabbed his water and sat next to Lior.

"Didn't know if you'd be here", Chase spoke .

"Mm", Lior took a shot.

"In a gay bar no less", Chase snickered.

"Ironically it's the place I feel the most comfort", Lior sounded dry.

Chase grabbed the crumpled note from his pocket and placed it on the counter.

Lior glanced over at it fidgeting with his drink "You're about three months too late… "

Chase almost angry glared at him "Then… what am I here for?"

Lior scoffed " It's so complicated Chase."

"We can start when you went back to your life and abandoned the man you said you would marry in rehab", Chase said assertively

Lior scoffed "You wouldn't understand.. Penelope was going to find any and every way to take everything from me including Jackie. She told me if I agreed to Conversion Thearpy and it didn't work she would let me go…"

"And did she let you go… or are you hear to tell me you're staying with her?", Chase's voice broke briefly as he tried to keep it together.

Lior teared up "Chase… I love you but you won't forgive me. At Conversion Thearpy he convinced me at the very core of my being that my love for you was because of my past traumas with the death of Caden. He made me sleep with Penelope over and over again. He watched us through this glass window. He refused to let me stop until he felt it was genuine. Then he'd say "Yes! Yes! That right there!" And he would clap elated. After those 15 days of making me sleep with her, she finally left back home… he made sure I rekindled everything I had with Penelope … making us talk and spend late nights together… fancy fucking dinners. After she left he tried to justify why I felt the way I felt about you again… using Caden. When he told me "Sometimes the people we love or the paths we choose aren't about who we are, but about who we're trying to become. Chase may represent a part of you that seeks validation or a sense of youth lost, rather than a genuine connection. It's about finding peace within yourself, not through someone else." I was convinced, he told me the connection I forged with Penelope before everything was a genuine one so we fixed everything she was the same woman I knew before and I was almost fixed. We returned home after a day we spent in the hotel after 45 days.

Every day, we slept together… laughed together… cried together until she, uh, smiled and said, 'Lior! I have something to show you!' I, in a good mood, smiled and asked her, 'What is it?'

She hid something behind her back and then showed me the pregnancy test. She giggled and reached around to hug me, and I pushed her away and told her, 'Get an abortion.' Her happy expression dropped, but she regained her smile and said, 'We're not too old! Jackie and the baby will have an age gap, but it'll be okay!' she smiled.

Tears started to stream down my face. 'For the love of God, Penelope, get an abortion.'

She looked at me, shocked and sad. 'For what?!'

I yelled back at her, 'Because I got a vasectomy 10 years ago!'

Chase's eyes widened.

Lior continued, 'Her face became stone cold… and she stuttered in denial. She said, 'No… no… no, we had sex every day for 15 days and recently when you got out every day… there's no way… there's just no way!'

She continued to panic, 'Vasectomies fail sometimes… and…' She trailed off, tears swelling in her eyes.

Penelope pressed, her voice trembling, 'When was it… the vasectomy?'

'When you were drunk out of your mind, and Jackie found you passed out when she was a little girl… you asked me to when you sobered up… you begged and cried and told me you didn't want to be a terrible mother anymore and asked me to do that one thing for you.'

'I didn't think you actually did it?!' Penelope cried.

'Who's baby is it, Penelope?' Lior asked.

She looked down at her fingers, her face red. 'I, uh—'

'Spit it out!' Lior yelled.

'Rick!' she cried.

'But it can't be because I…we used a condom, and it was like way before you went into therapy… I just started getting pregnancy symptoms… there's no way!'

'Why Rick?' Lior asked, his voice trembling.

'It was the only way he'd get you into therapy! He was completely booked, and I tried offering more and more money… but he wanted sex, and that's what I did,' her voice broke, and she started to sob.

'I tried to make sense of it all but couldn't… I broke down, and I screamed obscenities while combing through my hair. She kept calling my name, but all I saw was red. She kept pleading, and I, after tuning her out with both my hands on the counter, finally looked at her and yelled, 'Abortion! That's the only way I'll ever look at you again.'

She shook her head no and pleaded with me, 'I'll give the baby up for adoption,' she cried as I headed up towards the door.

I laughed, sniffling, 'Penelope, we both know you won't do that… just call Rick and beg him to take care of the two of you.'

Chase interrupted him, 'So you would have stayed if she had gotten an abortion?'

Lior teared up. 'Yeah… Chase. I would have stayed.'

Chase wiped his nose and stood up, trying to head toward the exit. Lior grabbed his shirt near his wrist.

'I love you,' Lior spoke.

'I went through all of that to realize that I love you, but he fucked with my mind so bad, Chase, I can't feel attraction clearly towards you anymore, but I still care for you… don't leave, please.'

Chase yanked his arm. 'What else did you say after that?' he scoffed.

'I… uh… yelled at her, asking her how could she do this to me. Before I left, I told her I loved her and to serve me the divorce papers… the divorce went through about two days ago, with all my assets intact and parental rights to Jackie.'

Chase's eyes narrowed, a bitter smile forming on his lips. 'So you're free now, huh? Free to do what? To come running back to me, expecting everything to be okay?'

Lior's voice broke, desperation seeping through, 'Chase, please, you have to understand. They twisted everything in my head. I thought I was doing the right thing, I thought I was…'

Chase interrupted, his voice rising, 'You thought you were what? Protecting me? Protecting her? Who were you protecting, Lior? Yourself?!'

Lior's eyes were wet with tears, 'I was scared. I was scared of losing everything. And I did. I lost you. I lost my self-respect. I lost everything that mattered.'

Chase shook his head, his voice filled with pain and anger, 'You didn't just lose me, Lior. You threw me away. You chose her, you chose to go to Conversion Therapy… you chose to go with Rick, you chose over me, and you chose over us.'

Lior reached out, grabbing Chase's arm, 'I was wrong. I know that now. But please, Chase, don't walk away. Not like this. I love you.'

Chase yanked his arm free, his voice cold, 'Love? You think this is love? This is a nightmare. You made my life a nightmare.'

Chase paused and then started to laugh at him "Like father, like daughter", Chase pointed the conversation in a different direction.

Lior's eyes widened.

"I fucked Jackie", he laughed almost manically.

"Out of respect for you… I tried to avoid her, I tried to let her go but she pushed and pushed… and finally I gave in. "

Lior in shock held his hand to his mouth "My baby girl?", he asked.

"Yeah.. your baby girl...", Chase smiled with denial and anger .

Lior looked at Chase "I can't hurt her again by getting back together with you."

Chase scoffed once again laughing "When did I ever say I would get back together with you?! I said "Like Father, Like Daughter" because she left me Lior for a chick! She's in her own little Throuple right now."

Lior took another shot "What?"

Lior laughed a bit "She's like her grandparents I suppose, they were a throupple, but I guess Caden, Penelope, and I were sorta like a Throupple."

"Did you use a condom?", Lior asked.

"I'm not stupid like you, of course I did, I even went to a birth control appointment with her", Chase smiled a bit as if this were a silly conversation to have, giving a little break from his argument with Lior. They had a brief pause in conversation letting silence fill the air .

"Chase, I love you… please come back."

"No", Chase spoke.

"No", Lior questioned.

Chase went back to his solemn demeanor "You told me I was a phase to your midlife crisis and how you wanted to go back to your wife so bad… and then like a true hypocrite we're about to leave because I fucked your daughter?"

"No", Chase smiled. "I'm leaving".

Lior stood up this time "Come with me… please?"

Chase once again yanked his arm away. Lior looked at the bartender "I want the back room please."

The bartender nodded and handed him a key.

Lior pleaded with his eyes, Chase sighed and followed him into the back room. Lior closed the door behind him and lay on the bed in the corner. He looked at Chase's stone cold demeanor "Don't leave", his eyes teared up as Lior put his hands on his face in fustration.

Chase turned his back and put his hand on the doorknob, he opened the door slightly then turned slightly looking back Lior seeing how vulnerable he looked he closed the door and approached him swiftly climbing onto the bed. Chase almost angry, took off his shirt and loosened his belt , he climbed on top of Lior and place one hand on his cheek "You're pathetic".

He lightly slapped his cheek and aggressively pulled his pants off and grunted as he inserted himself in Lior. "Chase…", he grunted.

Chase put his hand over Lior's mouth and lay his head over his shoulder taking his hand from Lior's mouth pinning Lior's arms down. Lior let out a loud, deep groans. Chase payed deep attention to his body making sure it responded to him. He looked at Lior flacid and started to stroke him while thrusting. Lior's eyes started to flicker, he let out a rough grunt and desperate filthy noises . Chase covered his mouth once again and thrusted faster and faster. He felt the vibration of Lior's sounds through his hand as they had gotten more intense. As Chase finished, Lior had let out a high pitched sound followed by deep grunts while Chase let out exhausted deep breaths and a low grunt.

Chase looked down and noticed Lior's aftermath all over his leg hand. Chase finallly lifted himself off of Lior panted and wiped his hands on a towel near the bed. Chase then immediately dressed himself and didn't bother to look at Lior. As Chase approached the door, he heard a sound he couldn't quite make out.

He paused and slightly turned his head watching Lior quietly sob and wipe tears as they streamed down his face. Lior made eye contact with Chase "Thank you…", he sobbed "Thank you."

Chase gave him a dead stare and left the room.

Chase took a deep breath after he left the room standing outside the door collecting himself beiefly. Chase felt a slight vibration in his left pant pocket. He pulled out his phone and answered an unknown number "Hello", Chase spoke with caution .

A woman's voice spoke with Authority and remorse "Hello, This is Detective Jones I'm calling from the Orly County Medical Examiner's Office… Is this Chase Dawson?"

"Yeah… uh… yeah it is", Chase responded still confused.

"I'm sorry to inform you that Olive Dawson has passed away."

Chase clenched the phone tightly and without a single passing thought he He let out a sharp, stunned gasp over the phone. He let out a sharp, stunned gasp over the phone followed by a guttural wail that had escaped him, raw with anguish and disbelief.

He threw the phone and started to sob lowering himself down to the wall. Lior came out of the room immediately wearing his white button up and black slacks, holding his jacket in his right hand.

"Chase! What's wrong?", he asked.

He looked up at Lior " My baby sister is dead… she's dead and it's all his fault."

His voice cracked into uncontrollable sobbing, mourning the loss with every breath.