It was about two weeks after New Year when Jackie left a strange message on my machine. I got home Monday morning and amazingly, my phone was blinking.
"Hey kid," it said. " Get some good rest Wednesday because we're going shopping right after the mall opens."
What the hell! But I figured I could snooze until then. If I could get a quick nap before I headed to work I'd be in great shape.
Monday night came and went, then Tuesday. I had no idea what was going on, but I ate a turkey & provolone sandwich and crashed.
The phone rang at 9:45. "Wakey, wakey. You've got 45 minutes to shower and get dressed. You might want to shave your legs. And wear a dress, with stockings. NOT pantyhose."
It was 10:32 when the doorbell rang. I was just slipping on my "heels". Not really what most people would call heels. 2 inches with just a little bit of a separation.
I opened the door, and there stood Jackie, like I'd never seen her before. "Jeez Louise, I gave you an extra two minutes," she laughed. "Mall's gonna be packed."
We parked in the fourth spot away from the door, opposite the handicapped spots. We walked in the door and started wandering around the juniors section.
"Niece?" I questioned.
"No. Recon. There's not busy and there's not busy," she said, with that special emphasis you use to change the meaning.
We slowly wandered around, through the juniors and into the women's section. Eventually we hit what I pretty well knew we were headed for, lingerie.
"I have to pick up a few things. You might as well take a look yourself. From what I've seen of your undies, you need a little help."
I groaned to myself. She was kind of right. Yeah, I had some good stuff, but nothing "lightning hot." Not that I'd especially expect to find something like that here. Jackie grabbed a couple of bras and walked off to the fitting rooms. I wandered around a little, looking at bras and panties, not sure what I was looking for or what I was in for.
"So, what do you think?" she asked. Okay, I've come to expect some stuff from her, but this was a little over the top. She stood in front of me wearing a red lace bra and her skirt.
"Um, it's nice, but, uh, aren't you a little afraid of getting caught?"
"Nah," she said confidently. "Clerk is over at the counter, nobody else is near by. And the racks are angled so that you have to walk down one to really see in. So??"
"It's, uh, it's nice, but red really isn't your color." "Okay," she said, walking back to the room.
She came back a couple of minutes later wearing a white version of the red one.
"Can you see me nipples? Clearly. You know, the color of the aureoles and everything."
"Not really," I said knowing that wasn't the answer she wanted, bit the one she hoped for.
She went off once again and came back a few minutes later wearing a black one that had much thinner and less patterned lace.
"Well?" she asked.
"I think it's better, but I'm sure it doesn't meet your criteria."
"Okay," she said, and then surprised me. Not that I should have been surprised.
She slipped off the bra she was wearing and handed it to me, then started sorting through the rack. She picked one out, held it up and said "nah," then went back to looking through the rack. Eventually she found what I think she was looking for. A white lace shelf bra.