After the incident with the fishermen, Katie was beginning to get a bit more willing as well as more daring in her exposure. The extent of this presented itself once when Katie and I had gone shopping at a mall further outside of the area we live in. The shopping trip did not start out with any activities planned, but I was quite pleased with how things turned out.
One of the items that Katie was shopping for that afternoon was a few new bras. Now, as I have explained, I do not fully understand why she wears them. She is small and firm enough up top that she really has no physical need for one. She even admits this herself. In fact, the day that we were shopping she was braless under her baggy knit shirt. Still, she insists that there are times when she has to dress "properly" and wear one.
The mall was not crowded and the department store we were in seemed to have even fewer people than the rest of the mall. The women's section was pretty much deserted except for us and two saleswomen. The one was a matronly older woman who was keeping pretty much to the checkout counter. The other one was a younger girl, maybe early twenties, who was stocking the shelves and straightening things up. As we were looking around, she came over and asked if Katie needed any help, giving her a warm smile when she did so. Katie said that she was just looking and the girl went back to her duties. I did notice that she kept looking over at Katie, though.
I asked Katie if she happened to know the girl. She said no and wondered why I had asked. I said I did not know, but it just seemed that the girl was being a bit more than just friendly. Katie simply said to me that she thought the girl was coming on to her. I raised my eyebrows at her and she gave a little laugh. "You did not see her necklace?" she asked me. When I said that I hadn't noticed it, Katie told me it was a rainbow striped heart and she figured that the girl was gay. Not that she was into such things, she added, but she did think the girl was sort of cute.
I had begun to realize the extent to which Katie was definitely changing and this moment drove the point home. Less than a year ago she would not have considered herself to be cute and now she was checking out other women and making offhand remarks about them coming on to her! Intentionally daring her, I said that I thought she was being a bit full of herself about it all. She asked if I doubted her and when I said I thought the girl was just being friendly, she told me that she would just have to prove it.
She caught the girl's eye and motioned for her to come over to us. The girl finished folding up a sweater before coming over. Again, she asked if she could help, introducing herself as Amy. Katie said that she wanted to buy some new bras, but she could never find one that really fit well and wondered if Amy could help her out. Amy sort of looked Katie over and then asked what size she was. Katie tried to explain that she was not sure if there was some way to be fitted for a bra, like you would do to find your shoe size. She was playing this totally straight and Amy was going along with it, trying to help out the customer and all that. Personally, Katie's comment about shoe size had me envisioning a measuring device to stick her boob in, but my mind tends to wander like that at times. Amy said that she was not aware of anything like that but that she could go ask the other saleswoman. Katie said that was okay, she did not want to waste her time, she was just wondering if Amy knew some way of judging things. Even if Amy had been coming onto Katie earlier, I think that was the furthest thing from her mind when she looked Katie over again and said that she could not really judge much of anything what with her baggy shirt. She was just being honest and trying to help, not trying to get Katie out of her clothes.
So I think that what happened next took her totally by surprise. Katie looked around to see if anyone else was paying any attention. The racks of clothing pretty much hid us from the other saleswoman and the only other customer towards the front of the store. Katie reached down and pulled her shirt up over her breasts and asked Amy if she could judge any better now. She was still playing this totally straight and I still do not think that Amy even realized that Katie was exposing herself to her, just that she was trying to find a bra that fit. Sort of like not seeing the forest for the trees. Amy just sort of looked at her and said that she was not sure what she could do to help. Katie cupped her one breast with her other hand and said that she knew she was small but that her breasts were fairly full. She asked Amy if she could see that and offered for her to feel the fullness of her breast.