** a big thank you to my editors Truegent_lady they have been wonderful in helping me get this story ready.
There was a knock at the door. "Be there in a moment!" Janette's voice echoed down the hallway from the kitchen where she was busy preparing dinner for herself and her daughter Paige. As she opened the door, she was greeted by a middle aged woman no older than forty. She was the mother of Adeena, Paige's best friend. "Hello, Rebecca, come on in. The girls are in Paige's room."
Rebecca smiled as she stepped through the doorway, giving Janette a whiff of her intoxicating perfume.
Gosh that smells amazing; it must've cost her a fortune.
"Sorry I'm late Janette, there was a crisis at work and on top of it all, the traffic was appalling."
Janette led Rebecca down the hall and into her rather plain kitchen. "Oh, it's not a problem. It sounds as though you've had a pretty stressful day. Why don't you and Adeena stay for dinner?"
"Oh that would be lovely if you wouldn't mind," Rebecca said with a sigh of relief.
"It would be a pleasure and I am sure the girls would like to spend a little more time together before Adeena goes home."
Adeena was seventeen, almost eighteen - she was a couple of years older than Paige who was sixteen. She had always been such a polite girl. Always referring to Janette as Ms Zuta and never forgetting her manners; Saying please and thank you, she was by far Jeanette's favourite of all of Paige's friends.
Janette called for Paige and Adeena to come into the kitchen for dinner. "Paige honey, Adeena and her Mum are going to stay for dinner tonight so can you please go and set the table?"
Over dinner, Rebecca explained her husband spent a lot of time overseas so she was left at home to her own devices a lot of the time. Janette knew all too well what that was like; her boyfriend had left her when she got pregnant with Paige so she had been left to raise her daughter all on her own.
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"Mum can Adeena stay the night?" Paige asked as they were saying goodbye to their guests.
"Oh I don't know about that, Paige."
"Oh come on, please," Paige pleaded. "It's not a school day tomorrow."
Janette let out an exasperated sigh, "Well, if it's okay with Rebecca then I guess it's okay if she stays," she said looking over at Rebecca.
"It's fine by me," Rebecca said smiling. "It might be nice to have the house all to myself."
Paige and Adeena cheered and ran off back to Paige's room giggling.
"Thank you so much for dinner, Janette honey, it was amazing. Will you walk me to my car?" Rebecca asked.
"Yes of course. Let me get my coat, it's quite chilly tonight," Janette responded as she went to her bedroom, opened her wardrobe, and pulled out a warm cardigan.
The two women headed out to the street where Rebecca's brand new Mercedes was parked. "Oh my, what a lovely car you have, Rebecca. It's much nicer than my piece of junk." Janette was by no means poor, but she felt that way when compared to Rebecca.
"Oh thank you, Frank bought it for me when my old one conked out a few months ago. Oh hey listen, I have an idea. I'm having a few girl friends over for dinner at my place on Saturday night, you should come, I'm sure they'd love to meet you," Rebecca suggested. Janette noticed she was looking her up and down and smiling slyly.
"Oh I don't know. Do you really think I'd fit in?" Janette asked blushing slightly at Rebecca's wandering eyes.
"You will honey, just say you'll come and I know you'll have a wonderful time." Rebecca stepped closer and wrapped her arms around Janette, pulling her in close for a hug. Janette wasn't used to such displays from people she didn't know very well. Immediately, she noticed Rebecca's large breasts pushing against her own causing her nipples to stiffen - much to her surprise. Janette had never really considered herself an overly sexual person. She was by no means a prude but she had never gone beyond what some would call "vanilla" sex.
Her last serious boyfriend – who was Paige's father – had been in college and since then she had just had a string of short flings with various guys.
"Call me," Rebecca said, handing Janette a card with her phone number on it.
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The next evening a package arrived by courier. "Hello Ma'am, I have a package"
"Hi. Are you sure you have the right house? Who's it from?" she enquired as the man handed her a PDA with a stylus to sign for the package.
The courier checked his paperwork and said: "Sorry Ma'am, it doesn't say who it's from. It just says to deliver it to Janette Zuta at 58 Park Terrace."
Janette shrugged her shoulders and signed her name before handing the PDA back and taking the large white cardboard box inside. Upon opening it, she discovered that it contained a dress with a note printed on an embossed floral card that smelled like the same perfume Rebecca had worn the night before. The text on the card read:
I took a guess at your size, hope it fits.
Love Rebecca.
P.S Wear It Saturday night.
Janette took the box to her bedroom, placed it on the bed, and slipped out of the plain red sundress she had been wearing. She lifted the dress from the box and held it up in front of the mirror before trying it on. The dress was a perfect fit for her size twelve figure; it was a black dress with floral patterns printed on it, with a deep v-neckline.
"Wowzers, how'd you score a dress like that, Mum?" Paige called out as she entered the bedroom.
"What...Oh umm, I don't know. It came in a package today," Janette responded blushing a little.
"Well, did you read the note?" Paige made a grab for the card that was now lying on the bed next to the box, but Janette caught her hand and pushed it away.
"Don't..."
"Geez, I was just curious! It's a really beautiful dress that's all." And with that, she left the room.
Janette put the dress back into the box and searched for the phone number Rebecca had given her the night before. She dialled the number and, after a couple of seconds, Rebecca answered.
"Hi, Janette honey. Does the dress fit?"
"How did you know it was me?" Janette asked.