Prologue:
I had graduated from a Famous University over a year ago and still didn't have a steady job in fact I didn't have a steady anything. Gary my ex and I suddenly saw life from different angles so we parted or shall I say he told me to hit the pike. Some of it I know was our sex life, to be honest I guess I really sucked at sucking on him, honestly down deep I guess he somehow just never really lit my fire. All that aside one day my Mom asked me if I'd like $400.00 in cold hard cash. Having no job all I was wondering who I would have to assassinate for a cash prize like that.
"I sure would mom but what do you want me to do for that much?"
When mom got done laughing she said, "John, next door is going to have his kids all next week and he was wondering if you'd watch them Monday thru Friday during the day while he's at work. His ex is going away with that home-wrecker boyfriend she's moved in with and he has the kids." Obviously John was well liked and her cheating didn't fly well with my mom or many other neighbors.
Well this as they say was a no brainer so it was settled in no time at all. All I had to do each morning was sneak through the back gate that separated our back yards and tried to avoid Nitro their lab and a bundle of energy that always wanted to play. Nitro loved for some reason to chase me around the yard whenever he could and first thing was not my best time of day. But John, he was a real peach, a handsome stud of a guy in his mid to late thirties and his ex-wife a few years younger was a real looker as well. But I think John being a freelance photographer for magazines and always around and shooting beautiful sexy women and I think Alice, his ex, was so jealous so she took up with one of her old boyfriends.
The kids were Johnnie, eight and Mark at almost six and so well behaved that everything went super without a hitch Monday through Wednesday. Each morning after he left I took care of the kids and even prepared a little dinner for them before he got home leaving after dinner. It was Thursday when he asked me a favor before he left even offering me a few extra dollars if I would vacuum the first floor and do the kids laundry, I of course agreed. So after breakfast I ushered Nitro out to his back yard paradise before getting the kids settled down in front of their favorite TV shows then onto vacuuming the first floor eventually venturing into his office room.
As I vacuumed my eyes wandered the shelves of nick-knacks then were drawn to the sheets of photo proofs that lay spread across his desk. I couldn't help but look and there before my eye were proofs of a photo shoot with an extremely beautiful and sexy young girl in any array of poses. What really caught my eyes were the gorgeous designer clothes then onto her in various stages of undress.
In the first series she was photographed in four different dresses that had me drooling with envy, I could only imagine how much they cost and the shoes she wore, without guilt I'd easily killed for. Then she was in a couple of bathing suits that obviously designer quality as well but one so tiny I don't think, in fact I know I'd never go out in public with that on, In fact I actually sad aloud, "holy shit you'd never see me on a beach in that tiny thing."
As the words left my lips I almost fainted when surprisingly and frighteningly shocked as I heard John say, "Why not Angel?"
I dropped the proof sheet onto the floor and stood frozen in fear and guilt as John laughed aloud as he bent to pick up the sheets I dropped and continued as he said. "Don't be ashamed that you were looking at the proofs, hell that's my work and I'm proud of it, she's beautiful isn't she?"
John walked over to me put his arm around my shoulder and said "she is beautiful and has a perfect body you'll see later when you go through the rest of the series but you have an innocent charm and beauty that she'll never have or put on film. Maybe someday you'll let me capture all that on film."
While still hugging me to him he opened his draw took out a clear plastic box filled with flash disc's and almost fatherly kissed the top of my head before running out the door yelling he was late and then passed through the den saying his good-byes to the kids again. As he left I sort of collapsed into his overstuffed desk chair to keep from collapsing to the floor while off in the distance as he left I heard him yell "let me know what you think of my pictures." Then bolted to his car and was gone. As I heard the car back out of the driveway I slid myself and his chair and under the desk and now with his permission I decided to really look without guilt as I began again to study his photos again.
In her first series with the dresses there were a couple of photos of her in one dress that seemed to make her even sexier than the mini-bikini. She stood atop a large group of boulders in an obviously thin summer dress that seemed to flow freely in the breeze. As john continued the shoot the breeze appeared to increase in intensity and he continued t move closer and closer showing more and more of her beautiful legs right up to the lacy fringe of her tiny panties.
I couldn't help but once again to melt into envy as I went from sheet after sheet of this girl, she seemed to have it all, her breath taking shape and on top of it all this girl had a beautiful face. Ah then there is me; a mongrel, half Japanese half Italian-American, my Dad was a serviceman stationed in Japan who met my mom and produced me. The girl in the photos had long straight blonde hair and mine although silky, my black hair had Italian waves that made me crazy by with a mind of their own waving wherever they wanted to go on any particular day. Another feature was that alabaster skin that just stood out over each and every picture of her it looked so smooth and me I had a mix of Asian yellow and Italian olive oil. Oh and then there were her breasts, easily a C with cleavage of her awesome skin. Being Asian my frame was small, petite is the nice way to say it with breasts that barely filled a B-cup but it just went on with that the jewel in the photos she had it all including an awesome shaped ass that was so pronounced in the bikini photos.
Under the proofs was an envelope that maybe I shouldn't have peaked in but was inside were the finished photos of that same photo shoot, but with paperwork preparing it to be sent to a prominent men's magazine, so I put it down storing my jealousy in my envious heart and completed my chores.
Chapter I:
It was about three-thirty that afternoon as I relaxed on the sofa and the kids napped I heard banging on the back yard slider so when I went to investigate there stood my mom with a big bag and Nitro's investigating what mom had might have had in the bag.
"You know," she said as I opened the door, "when Alice and John would come over for supper you know how much he loved my beef teriyaki with my stir-fried carrots, broccoli, and onions and you know how to do it so I brought you everything you need, it will be a great surprise for him."
Then as she left the bag and slid back out the back door she added, "maybe then he'll ask you to marry him and I might get some grandchildren before my hundredth birthday."
My mother like a lot of mothers constantly badgered me about being single, I guess she thought that being twenty-three and having no husband meant I was going to die a spinster and she was going to die without grandchildren. Mom always found little ways to remind me she hated my previous boyfriends I think she really didn't mean for me to think about John but for the whole week she kept telling me this was basic training for me to find the right guy. Then she would add that way I could be babysitting my own kids in my own home and she would only have to go next door to visit her grandchildren and she wouldn't wonder where I was when I went out at night.
Well I don't know about her but I sure enjoyed the accolades that were bestowed on me by John the second he came through the front door. I had timed it perfectly, I had called his cell and asked what time to expect him home and after faking the answer when he asked why I need to know, he finally said five. At five he didn't make if five feet past the front door hugged me and kissed my head again as he recognized the smells and literally pushed me toward the kitchen where there before him on the table lay a large bed of rice covered with Teriyaki Beef, Stir Fried Veggies and a side of extra sauce.