Thrift Store Finds

It was a Saturday afternoon, Francesca and her friend Hope were on their way home after a day out shopping. They had both been invited to a themed dress up party that was a few weeks away and had been out looking for clothes that fit with the costume ideas they had. Hope was aiming for an outfit that suggested a 1960's glamour movie star while Frankie was thinking about going as a flapper from the 1920's. While they'd had a good day out, their shopping trip hadn't been all that successful.

They were chatting when Hope suddenly let out a small excited yelp. "Frankie, let's check out the thrift store over there."

Frankie looked over to where Hope was looking and saw that they were coming up to a strip mall with a fairly large charity thrift shop. She was a little tired from the day and feeling discouraged from not being able to find any clothes that were suitable for the outfit idea she had. "Do you think the thrift store would even have anything worthwhile?"

"It can't hurt to check it out."

Before Frankie could say anything further, Hope turned off the street into the almost empty car park of the thrift store. Other than them, there was only one other car in the car park.

Frankie was a little dubious. "Do you think the store is even open?"

"It should be, it's too early for it to be closed."

After Hope parked the car, she and Frankie walked to the entrance of the thrift shop. The shop was still open but was due to close in just under half an hour. Hope didn't appear to pay any attention to the sign on the door and walked straight in with Frankie following behind her.

As indicated by the carpark, the store was empty except for the guy that was sitting behind one of the registers close to the entrance. He had been looking down at his phone but looked up as Hope walked by. Frankie recognised him as Adam, a guy who had gone to the same high school as her and had graduated in the same year. She had talked with Adam a few times in classes they had shared but that was the limit of their interaction.

Adam's gaze moved from Hope to Frankie and an expression of recognition appeared on his face. "Oh! Hey Francesca. How are you?"

"Hey Adam, I'm good thanks." Frankie didn't slow down to respond, she followed quickly after Hope who was making a beeline toward the clothing section.

The store was quite large with a few sections for different kinds of goods. The biggest section, taking up most of the store, was for clothing. The clothing section was helpfully divided into mens, womens and children's areas.

Hope immediately started looking through a rack that looked vaguely promising. As Frankie moved beside her, Hope paused her browsing. "So you know the guy at the register?"

"Yeah, his name is Adam. We were in a few classes in high school together, that's all."

"Oh. That's a little disappointing. You don't talk much about your time at high school."

Frankie shrugged. "There's not much to talk about. It was pretty uneventful." She shot Hope a teasing smile. "I wasn't the high school queen bee like you were apparently."

Hope laughed. "Fair enough. I guess I can't expect everyone else's past to have as much drama and excitement as mine."

Frankie looked over the registers and found that Adam was looking at them. He saw that Frankie was looking his way and he quickly shifted his gaze to his phone.

Frankie wasn't bothered by Adam looking at her and Hope. She thought that given how quiet the store was he must have welcomed some visual stimulation. Frankie assumed that he was mostly looking at Hope though. While Frankie knew she was at least pretty, between her and Hope her blonde friend was the more beautiful one between them.

Frankie was a bit taller than Hope and most of her height was attributable to her legs. Hope had more curves, both a bigger bust and a nice round ass. Even in the t-shirt and casual jeans she was wearing today, there was no hiding Hope's physical charms. Combined with her strikingly pretty face and bright blonde hair, Hope attracted attention as easily as she breathed.

Frankie's build was more toward slender, though she had nice mid sized breasts and an ass that gave her body some curves. With her brown hair and brown eyes, Frankie felt plain in comparison to Hope.

While Hope was aware of how attractive she was, she liked to downplay her looks and was complimentary to others. Besides her good looks, Hope was friendly and fun with a somewhat mischievous spark. With all that Hope had going for her appearance wise, it would have been easy for people to dislike or judge her but anyone who talked with her for a decent amount of time was usually charmed. A number of times, Frankie had witnessed Hope go through a party and end up talking with pretty much everyone. Frankie was used to everyone paying more attention to Hope and it really didn't bother her.

Nothing on the rack that Hope was looking through appeared to be suitable for what Frankie was thinking of for her outfit. She went over to another rack and started looking through those clothes. Some hot pink material caught Frankie's eye and on looking closer she saw that it was a blazer. Pushing aside the neighbouring items on the rack Frankie found that it wasn't just a blazer but was a full suit with matching pink trousers. She pulled the hanger from the rack and held it up for Hope to see. "Hope! Check out this suit."

Hope turned around and when she saw the hot pink suit her face lit up with excitement. "Wow, now that's a good find! What size is it?"

"I didn't check."

Hope left the clothes rack she was looking through to come over to Frankie. While Frankie held the hanger Hope checked the size tags on the suit. Soft excited laughs told Frankie that Hope had found that the sizes were a match for her. She took the hanger from Frankie and looked around the store. "Did you see if they had changing rooms here? Ah, there they are."

Hope quickly walked off in the direction of the changing rooms and after a moment Frankie followed after her. Frankie didn't go into the fitting room with Hope, instead waiting outside and browsing her phone.

It wasn't long before Hope came out of the changing room in the hot pink suit. She was topless underneath the suit blazer but with it fully buttoned the neckline was high enough that there was only a small amount of her cleavage on display. One of Frankie's eyebrows rose a little at the sight of Hope's bare chest. "Why did you take your bra off?"

"Whenever you see this kind of suit being worn by models or celebrities this is how they wear it. How does it look?"

Frankie had to admit that visible cleavage under the blazer created an eye-catching look. Even without the bared cleavage the hot pink suit really worked with Hope's body. The blazer was slightly tapered to Hope's waist and the trousers showed off her ass and legs without being too tight.

"It looks great on you."

Hope grinned. "It does, right? I really want to get it."

"I didn't look at the price tag. How much does it cost?"

The grin on Hope's face slipped. "It's more than I can afford at the moment."

Frankie frowned slightly. "It can't be that expensive, I can lend you some money."

Hope shook her head. "No I can't do that to you. I'll be getting paid on Thursday so I could get the suit next weekend. Maybe I can get Adam to put the suit on hold for me."

Frankie didn't think that it would be necessary for the suit to be held for Hope. Something expensive and that unique looking wasn't likely to be in demand in a thrift store. "I doubt you need to do that. Is anyone else with your sizes likely to buy something like that from here?"

An uncertain pained expression appeared on Hope's face. "What if there is someone who wants it? I don't want to risk it. I'll ask Adam to put it aside for me."

As Hope and Frankie headed up to the registers, Frankie saw Hope undo the top couple of buttons on the suit blazer. The front of the blazer didn't open up completely but the motion of Hope walking did cause more of her cleavage to become visible. Adam watched as they approached and Frankie could see that his gaze was particularly drawn to Hope. That was to be expected as Hope was wearing a bright pink suit and clearly didn't have a bra on. He tried to not stare too obviously but he wasn't doing very well. His efforts were made even more useless when Hope undid the remaining buttons on the suit jacket. The front of the blazer fell open, uncovering a thin strip of Hope's skin from her breasts all the way down to the waistband of the suit trousers which was sitting around her hips. Adam's eyes noticeably widened and he seemed unable to look away.

Frankie could see how much Adam was entranced with the show of skin Hope was giving and nearly shook her head in amusement. When she and Hope reached the registers, Frankie stayed back a few steps to watch Hope do her thing. Hope moved in close and stood in front of Adam with a coy stance. "Hi Adam, can you help me with this suit?"

It took a moment for Adam to respond. He gave his head a small shake and there was a hint of a flush building on his face. "Uhh.. Sure what do you need help with?"

Hope gave Adam a big hopeful smile and opened up the front of the blazer a bit more so that a good amount of the inner curves of her breasts were visible. "I really want to get this suit but I can't afford it right now. I'll be getting paid at the end of next week. Would you be able to put it aside for me to buy next Saturday?"

After taking a quick downward glance, Adam took a moment before frowning lightly. "We don't really put stuff on hold here." His tone sounded reluctant, like he didn't want to say what he had and disappoint Hope.

Hope definitely wasn't going to take his response as a no though. She turned on the charm even more. Moving in even closer to Adam, Hope took one of his hands in hers and pulled it toward her chest. She stopped way before there was any contact with her body but the possibility had already been put into Adam's head. Hope practically fluttered her eyelashes at him. "Can you do it for me though? I'd be very thankful." Her voice took on a quite suggestive tone for the words 'very thankful'.

Frankie almost laughed out loud. Hope was really going far with her manipulation of Adam. His face was starting to flush red from the attention Hope was giving him. If she didn't know that Hope wasn't going to be cruel Frankie would've almost felt sorry for Adam.

Adam swallowed and weakly nodded. "Uh I guess I can keep it hidden in a safe spot out back for you."

Hope kept up the charm assault, biting her lip and smiling at him. "That's great, I appreciate you doing this for me." She leaned forward and gave Adam a small kiss on his cheek.

When Hope took a step back, Adam was looking a little overwhelmed but pleased. Frankie thought that this would be the end of Hope teasing Adam. However, to her surprise Hope fully opened up the front of the blazer, completely revealing her bare breasts to Adam. His expression showed shocked rapture with his eyes locked onto Hope's tits. Frankie wasn't about to judge him for staring, Hope's breasts were perfect and even Frankie was having a difficult time keeping her gaze away from those large round mounds with their light brown nipples.

After a good few seconds Hope let out a small laugh of delight and closed the front of the blazer before turning and walking off to the changing rooms. Hope turned her head to speak over her shoulder. "I hope that proves that I mean it when I say I'll be thankful."

As Adam watched Hope walk away he managed to return his expression to something neutral. He then turned toward Frankie and saw her looking at him. Adam gave her a quick shrug and his expression seemed to be asking 'what the hell was that?'. Frankie shrugged back in response and then she hurried after Hope.

Back at the changing room Frankie walked in on Hope who was already topless and undoing the suit pants. Hope looked up and saw Frankie who raised an eyebrow, they held their gaze for a moment before both burst into laughter.

Frankie fully entered the room and closed the curtain behind her. "Giving Adam a good look at your tits was probably a bit much. I think he was ready to do anything for you after the peck on the cheek."

Hope shrugged as she undid the zipper on the trousers and let them drop to the floor. "It can't hurt to give him a bit more incentive. Anyway, he's cute and seems like a nice guy. I'm happy to give him a bit of a thrill by showing him the girls."

Hope was now wearing only a small white thong. She showed no signs of self-consciousness at being almost naked in front of Frankie. She stepped out of the suit trousers and picked them up before returning them to the hanger. As Hope started to get dressed, Frankie checked her phone and saw that there wasn't that much time before the store was due to close. "Once you're dressed we should hand the suit to Adam and head out."

Hope looked up. "Why? We've barely taken a look at what's here."

"The store is close to closing, we won't have enough time to really look around."

Hope frowned a little. "I doubt that Adam will make us leave."

"He's not going to be rude about it, but he'll still want us to leave."

A determined look appeared in Hope's eyes before she smiled. "It'll be fine, I'm sure that we can work something out."

Once Hope was dressed she led the way back to the front of the store. Hope passed the hanger with the pink suit to Adam who carefully hung it up on a space behind him. "Is there anything else I can help you two with today?"

Hope smiled widely. "Actually there is. Frankie and I were hoping to do some more looking around and well, that will take longer than the store will be open. Is it okay if we stay after closing time?"

There was a clear reluctance in Adam's expression, indicating that he didn't want to say no to Hope and Frankie but he also wanted to go home. "I'm supposed to close the store right on the dot and clock out straight after."

"Would we be keeping you from something else?"

Adam shook his head. "Not really."

Hope gave him a bright smile. "Then would it be alright for us to keep looking around for a while longer. If you'd be interested, we could try on a couple of items and get your opinion on how they look."

Adam's resistance almost immediately crumbled in the face of Hope's charm. "I guess that should be okay as long as we don't stay too late."

Hope nodded. "Is someone going to review the security footage and get you in trouble?"

Frankie hadn't noticed the security cameras before but at Hope mentioning them, spotted a couple at the front and the back of the store.

Adam shook his head. "Those cameras are pretty much just for show, they haven't worked since I've been working here."

Hope grinned. "Well in that case, we might try on a few special things on for you."

Adam's eyebrows rose with interest. Frankie however was alarmed. "What?"

"Come on, it will be fun."

Before Frankie could protest, Hope grabbed her hand and led her away. Looking back over her shoulder, Hope called out to Adam. "We won't be too long."

Frankie and Hope purposefully looked through the racks of clothes for items that might be fun to try on but not necessarily buy. As Frankie pulled a long sleeve shirt from a rack to examine it further, Hope called out to her. "Make sure to pick out something fun and sexy too."

Frankie turned to face Hope and frowned. "Is that what you meant by 'special things'? So we're not just modelling some items we want to try on, we're showing off for Adam?" She wasn't annoyed exactly but Frankie didn't appreciate being expected to follow some idea Hope had without first being told about the plan.

Hope wasn't phased by the slight edge to Frankie's tone. "Yeah, he's been pretty patient with us and I think it would be fun to give him a thrill to end his work day. Even though I flashed him my tits, we don't have to show him any skin. If you don't want to show off much, you can be modestly sexy. "

The opposition in Frankie eased and she smiled. "Okay. I can do that. Even though I'll probably be more of a quick distraction to Adam looking at you."

Hope's expression showed that she didn't agree with what Frankie had said. "Don't sell yourself short. You're utterly gorgeous." Her tone was completely sincere and Frankie felt a boost of self confidence and gratitude toward Hope.

"Thanks, I guess we should hurry up so Adam isn't waiting for too long."

When Frankie went back to searching through the clothes, she kept in mind what Hope wanted. Frankie wasn't really in the mood to be all flirty and teasing so she was planning to be a little more restrained in how sexy she dressed. Based on the clothes that she was seeing on the racks it wouldn't be difficult to be less sexy. Frankie wondered how much luck Hope was having in finding clothes that were fun and sexy.

After some searching, Frankie found a few items that she liked and thought were probably suitable for what Hope had in mind. From what Frankie could see, there weren't many other clothes that she thought that she would want to try on. Frankie went back to some of the clothing that she had previously dismissed and pulled out the more suitable pieces.

Thinking that she had found enough clothes, Frankie went to where Hope was still looking through the racks. When Frankie was close, Hope turned around. "I found some great items. How did you go?" Hope took a look at the clothes that Frankie was holding and her hand struck like a snake, taking a couple of the items away. "No, those won't look good at all." She stuffed the snatched clothes onto the nearby rack and then took a few items she had over her arm and passed them to Frankie. "I found these clothes which would suit you better than me. You should try those on."

Frankie was a little irked by how Hope had just quickly dismissed some of her choices but there was no chance to respond as Hope quickly turned and headed toward the changing rooms. Accepting that she would just be following Hope's lead, Frankie started heading toward the changing rooms too.

As she walked toward the changing rooms Frankie looked at the clothes that Hope had passed her. The first item was a small navy polo shirt that Hope had paired with a short white tennis skirt. Frankie smiled at Hope's efforts to try to get her to look sexy. Frankie lifted the polo shirt and skirt up to get a better look at the other item Hope had given her. Underneath was a dark green dress that looked like it would go down to just above her knees and had a small fringe at its hem. As her eyes took in the style of the dress, they widened. The dress looked just like the kind of dress that she had been hoping to find for her flapper outfit during their shopping earlier that day. Checking the price tag, the dress was well within her budget. Frankie looked up toward Hope but found that she had already entered her changing room. Not wanting to barge in on Hope changing just to talk about the dress, Frankie entered another changing room and set down the clothes she was carrying.

For Frankie the first choice of the clothes to try on had to be the flapper dress that Hope found for her. After stripping down to her underwear Frankie slipped the dress on and zipped up the back before looking at herself in the mirror. The dress was close fitting but not restrictive. The silhouette of the dress over Frankie's slim curves gave the subtle impression that she was taller than she was. The dress was perfect for the flapper outfit that Frankie had in mind for the costume party. While the dress already looked quite good by itself, Frankie knew that she would look even better once she had the full flapper look. She could picture the other clothes, accessories, hair and make-up she would need to complete the costume.