4:10 PM...long before Piper Cherry's fun filled afternoon...
"Thanks for the ride Darcy."
Dakota and Sable McKellen hopped from the back seat of their friend Andrea's family car, a four door red Honda Accord, Andrea's mother Darcy waving brightly upon their departure. Darcy Beckett was quite the looker wearing blue yoga pants and a white tank top expressing expensive breasts that her husband had purchased her for their anniversary six months ago. Just before taking off the alluring brunette with a deep side part in her silky hair which flowed past her shoulders told the twins, "Tell your parents we should do dinner sometime."
"TELL ME YOURSELF!" Darcy found herself startled by their father Henry who had snuck up from her blind side from an afternoon run to get his creative juices flowing, that and to stretch from working too diligently on his video game creation Frisque. "How you been beautiful?"
"Don't scare me like that." She held a single palm to the center of her chest on purpose. While not truly spooked she took every opportunity she could to get men to look at her perfect 38C's, a proud owner indeed. Henry now leaning on her car window smirked and gave her what she required by staring down her cleavage. Nipples although compacted by a sports bra beneath her tank top could not be hidden. Her daughter Andrea rolled her eyes at their shameless flirtations. Although never getting too close the banter was there.
"How's Randy doing? Still off fly fishing every weekend?"
"God yes! I swear his hillbilly roots are getting out of hand. He spends every other weekend up at our cabin in the mountains."
"Why aren't you up there with him?"
"You know I'm not Ellie May Clampett." He was shocked she even knew of the Beverly Hillbillies to know a name. "Fishing is not my thing. Well...if the rod and reel are..." She blushes laughing as Andrea swats her mom's arm preventing Darcy from further embarrassing herself. "Quit that this instant. I'm not cheating on your father." She brushes her daughter's own arm in retaliation then turns to Henry chuckling and mouths' the word, "Yet." Henry just shook his head.
"Tell you what have Randy bring home some trout and we'll get together for a fish fry. Wait! Better yet, the girls birthday is next weekend we're throwing a party at our neighbor's pool. Josie has an invitation in the mail I think. If not it's next Saturday at 1:00, Piper's house right there." He points at the Cherry residence, Mace Belmont outside checking the air in his truck tires to defeat boredom while waiting on his Aunt to get home from school. It would be a long wait...the bombshell blond was busy. At that very moment Piper was dealing with Detention...AND HOW!
"We'll make the effort to be there." Darcy shared her pearly whites vividly. Even behind her dark sunglasses Henry knew she was admiring his own physique. "Should we bring anything? I'm sure fish is not the ideal birthday gift."
"Bikini's and a birthday card. Piper has a huge pool out back."
"Piper? Isn't that your new school Counsellor, Andi?"
"Yep! That's her cute nephew." Andi looks in her side door mirror pointing him out.
"Oh my! I bet your daughter's are fighting over him aren't they?" Darcy laughs.
"Probably more than I know. Although I have Travis Herbert hanging around with Sable. Dakota's..." He pauses thinking of his eldest daughter's request to be shown how to be with a boy, having zero experience, so she says. Shaking off the unexpected thought he looked over at his front porch and noted both girls looking out the window at them. "...Dakota's been talking about a boy named Angus."
Andrea fans herself, "Quarterback. Soooo hot!"
"That hot, huh?" Henry chuckles. "Fill me in. Do I need to worry about Dakota and the baller?"
"Probably." Andrea giggles but zips her lip.
"Well now." Darcy scowls, "Why are you not mentioning any boys? Surely, there's someone you must have a crush on." A sly glance back at Henry, Darcy lowers her shades to wink at Henry almost within reach to kiss him.
"I'll let you know." There was a special glint in her eye for someone, but she chose to keep it too herself, "Can we go shopping? Birthday gifts and stuff?"
"Sounds fun. Now that my yoga class is over I need to blow Randy's...money." Another sly wink at Henry led him to wink back and pat her door before easing back.
"1:00 Saturday...be there and bikini up, I'm sure the wife will. Piper, too. Lots of fun in the sun."
"On our shopping list then. I could use a new bikini now that I have...these." Shameless she was, pointing at her melons.
"Will you stop trying to get Mr. McKellen to go bowling?" Andrea grumbled. Darcy merely sighed and looked one last time at Henry.
"My alley, my rules." Putting her car in drive Darcy tooted her horn and drove away. Henry scratched his head laughing at the fact that since Piper Cherry had moved in it seemed that women were getting way too friendly. Maybe his open agreement with his wife Josie was the best thing they could have ever considered. Darcy certainly seemed interested. Kelly Herbert, Tessa Harper, her roommate Svetlana, Piper, Dominic Black's sister, his plate was definitely full. Josie who? Oh, yeah the love of his life.
Walking toward his front porch the door flew open and out came Sable wearing her mother's gifted camisole and very short cut off jeans. "Hi Daddy, bye Daddy."
"Where you going?" As if he didn't suspect.
"Over to see Travis." Her eyes did betray her slightly as she glanced toward Mace sitting in his truck listening to music.
"Hold up a sec." Henry halts her in her tracks, "Need to strategize my plans for tomorrow. I still have some work to get done on my tank game." She knew better, "Your dentist appointment is at 10:00 'til who knows when. Are you staying home from school or am I picking you up before hand?"
"I'll stay home until they come out. If I look amazing I want to go back to school for the rest of the day and show off." She giggled, "Travis is going back to school tomorrow, I wanna be there for him if the bullies give him trouble again."
"They ever find out who did that to Trav?"
"Noooo!" She pouted, "That's what worries me."
"Alright! Be back before dark."
"Okay Daddy. Love you!" She bounced down the steps, her butt cheeks hanging out more than he had ever noticed before. Sable's shyness was definitely going away. Maybe Travis was cracking the safe on getting the door open. That or...she was heading toward Mace.
"Yeaaah! More to the story I'm thinking. Hand's off my baby, fellas." That threat was universal. Henry chuckled then shrugged it off and went inside. He needed a shower to ward off his jogger's cologne. It was called Pity Party. His pits were ripe.
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"Hi Mace." Sable snuck up on him like her Father had done to Mrs. Beckett not long ago. The only difference was Mace sat up high in his Dodge Ram's suspension, one leg dangling out the door as he dusted the dash with a thick hand towel. He wearing his usual attire of sweat pants and a concert t-shirt, this one from the band Asking Alexandria Mace enjoyed his stereo, at the moment hearing In Between by Beartooth. Not used to his type of music Sable just absorbed the beat and swayed to the rhythm. His neglecting to notice her Sable just wouldn't have it so she untied his shoelace just to be mean and tugged on it. That was enough to spark his recognition. Turning his stereo down enough to talk he grinned "Hey Dakota." That made Sable frown that he didn't know the difference between she and her sister. Wincing first she showed him her braces.
"Aww hell! Sorry Sable. I guess the way you're dressed made me think you were Dakota."
"You were just hoping for another kiss."
"No I wasn't." He laughed, "Why did she do that?"
"Who knows? I'm guessing it was just to show off for the other students and make them jealous. She likes Angus Furlong."
"He like her?"
"Yeah but he's still trying to break it off with Robin Banks. You remember her she was the head cheerleader over here the other day."
"Oh, yeah! I remember her. Heck I remember all of them." He laughed, some better than others. Of course, Sable didn't know of his visitors skipping school to rape poor willing Mace.
"I'm going to try cheering with them tomorrow night. Not very good yet though so if you go to the game don't laugh at me." She razzed him, "That is if you recognize me. I get my braces out tomorrow morning."
"I heard that somewhere. You and Dakota are going to have to do something different to help people tell you apart."
"You really can't distinguish us from one another unless I show my braces?" She looked shocked, "I'm shyer than she is that should be a sign."
"True! But, if you didn't it would be hard. Identical in every way." His eyes drop to her camisole cleavage, with no bra under it her stunning gently tanned breasts were dancing as she swayed from side to side with the music which was now Underoath's Writing on the Walls. Noting his eyes she flared her own thinking to herself, "Oh my gosh! Mace is checking me out. I bet if I had my braces out and I acted like Dakota I could kiss him." Unlikely, her blush had already ruined that idea. It was certainly something to think about.
"Are you going to bring Rotten to the game?" She notices the dog peering through a window.
"Not sure that's a good idea, he's not used to large amounts of people and kids. He might get cranky, and I don't want to have to bring him back home and miss you doing cartwheels." He chuckles.
"I should practice more I guess."
"I dare you." He points at the open yard next to the driveway.