I was in my second year of teaching, living in a second-floor flat of a row house. It was a nice enough neighborhood, but anything but a prosperous one. It was a cold and blustery Sunday evening and I was preparing a Christmas exam for my grade ten science class on my typewriter, a fresh pot of coffee on the brew. It was going to be a long night. The outline was complete, it just needed it to be typed. Carefully. Dittos were unforgiving of mistakes.
The apartment was warm despite the cold temperatures outside. It was an old house and the thermostat was in the first-floor flat -- I was subject to the whims of my housemate as far as the ambient temperature was concerned. Usually in the high 70's, I used a fan to blow the hot air around and often wore a light housecoat or rugby shorts for comfort.
I had just sat down with a fresh mug, ready to start when the doorbell rang, catching me by surprise. I certainly wasn't expecting anyone to be calling and it was dark out already, well after dinner time. I cinched up my housecoat and ambled down the stairs to answer the front door, mug in hand, turning on the hall light as I did so.
I wasn't sure who I was expecting, but the poor, bedraggled young lady who greeted me was an eye opener. She looked miserable and she was not dressed appropriately for the cold fall night. She was shivering, her small denim jacket and matching miniskirt totally inadequate for the freezing temperatures. I immediately invited her inside to get us both out of the blustering breeze that was blowing through the open door, curious as to what had brought this attractive young lady to my doorstep.
She appreciated being in from the cold and she was blowing into and rubbing her hands together to warm them as she stamped her feet. She looked enviously at my steaming mug of coffee as she introduced herself as Beth. It all came tumbling out : she was a nursing mother and she had just left her husband. She and her son lived close by with her mother and they needed money desperately. She was going door-to-door looking for work. Any kind of work.
I told her that I didn't think that I could help, but that if she would like a cup of coffee, I would be glad to invite her in and let her warm up, which she gratefully accepted. She was about to slip out of her heels at the bottom of the stairs when I encouraged her to keep them on. She was pleased as I let her proceed me up the stairs into my apartment, her denim-clad cheeks sashaying before my eyes. It was, no doubt, deliberate.
I had let her get several steps up ahead of me for precisely this reason. An upskirt! The skirt was shorter than it should be (had she hiked it up?) and flared out, revealing flashes of bare thigh with each step she took. She must have been freezing wearing stockings. Her perfume was both pleasant and arousing, something that I wasn't used to working in a scent-free environment at school. She paused at the top of the stairs to let me catch up. I had no doubt that she was aware that her short, flared skirt had given me an eyeful. I had a hardon already from the show she had put on climbing those stairs. Did she notice?
I showed her into the kitchen and poured her a coffee while topping up my own. I let her prepare it to her liking before I led her to the living room. She was soft-spoken and the noisy fan was going to make conversation difficult, so I immediately turned it off. We stood there awkwardly for a moment before she noticed a few medals and trophies I had on display in my bookcase and wandered over to have a gander. As she bent at the waist to have a closer look, the hem of her skirt rose, the panels of her stockings clearly visible.
As she straightened back up again up, her curiosity was obviously piqued. She asked me about them and I told her that I had been a swimmer in high school and had been a breaststroke champion. Her eyebrows rose at that and she sported an amused grin, quipping that perhaps I should give her husband some lessons. I wasn't sure how to respond to that, so I just let it go. She also noticed a couple of photo albums on the shelf that caught her eye and asked me if I had any shots wearing a Speedo. I ignored that question as well, her insight spot on. She might have been soft-spoken but she was sharp - both forward and bold - I liked her already.
I invited her to sit down on the futon, the only item of furniture I had that offered a padded seat. It was a cheap piece, built too close to the floor. It was awkward to both get into and out of and Beth had to put her coffee down in order to try and sit down gracefully. Her short skirt complicating her attempts at modesty and I saw far more bare thigh than she would have intended. Or so I imagined.
Sitting now, her cheeks were lower than her knees and it was not easy to keep them together on the low-slung couch. As she reached to pick up her coffee, I was treated to another immodest flash of bare thigh. She asked again about the two albums - she had noted my elusiveness. I told her I was hesitant in letting her peruse one of them, but that just hardened her resolve, she became insistent. It contained some rather risquΓ© poses from a photoshoot just after my 18th birthday close to ten years ago. I was normally not in the habit of sharing it with anyone.
However, her disarming boldness and uncompromising attitude brokered no denial. I gave her my first album which was a more mundane collection of photos over the years but she was having none of that, insisting on starting with the second album first. She had seen right through my ruse. I placed them both in front of her on the coffee table as I sat opposite her in my office chair, behind the typewriter. I was reminded that I still had an exam to prepare.
She was making a production out of this. As she opened the album dramatically, she was playing this out for all it was worth. Blowing on her fingertips as though the album was hot. Although I was playing up my reluctance to let her see it's contents, I was thrilled that she had insisted. I was a closet exhibitionist and this collection of photos did me proud. I was now at full mast knowing that she was going to see pics of me in all my glory moments from now. I was having difficulty hiding my hardon and was struggling with whether to even try.
It was a collection of twenty-four 8 by 10 glossies from an afternoon photoshoot arranged for by my girlfriend for my 18th birthday. Her aunt was a budding professional photographer who was now quite well known. This had been her first real attempt at boudoir photography with a male subject and she had done a great job of getting me to relax and loosen up. She had a number of props and skimpy outfits for me to model, including a loincloth.