This is a work of fiction, and all people named in the story are purely fictional.
CHAPTER 1
1
Around 5:30 PM, Claire left the bookstore where she had worked for the past five years and made her way home to prepare for the evening. She was a small, pretty, and slightly plumpish blond girl with a pleasant, round, friendly face. A bonny girl, as they say in North England. A little overweight perhaps, but it was something she easily compensated for with her chatty, energetic, pleasant and outgoing nature. According to all her mates, she truly was a real firecracker of a girl, bubbly and full of fun and spirit. Young at heart, they always said, but most of all, a heart of gold.
Claire's only problem was that she was a little insecure with her relationships. Of course, at the age of 35, she had been in a few, but the men had always finished by leaving her brokenhearted. She was just too naive, her friends always told her, and men were swines-well the usual sort of clichΓ©s. But it was in Claire's nature to be an optimist, and she wasn't desperate yet, she just wanted to see what life had planned for her and make the most of it. And above all, she loved talking and being around people. So in any case, if something didn't work out, it was no problem, and there was absolutely no hurry. She had plenty of friends, of course, and liked her job selling books.
Ironically, in spite of her involuntary single status, Claire had only decided to try dating sites a couple of months ago. Despite her relatively young age, she was a bit of an old-fashioned girl in truth, preferring real-life encounters. But, after turning down a few creeps, her first proper hit on the application she had been using had actually seemed quite promising, and the subsequent internet call had gone really well, as they had ended up chatting to one another for more than an hour. His name was Chris; he was quite a bit younger than her, perhaps 28 or 30, and was a rather handsome young man, dark haired with a slightly jaded air about him, which was rather charming in her opinion. As for his occupation, it involved something in finance she couldn't properly understand. But even if they seemed to come from two separate worlds, she felt they really got it off well.
And their first proper date was set for tonight. Chris was coming round to her place at 7:30 PM, so she had enough time to prepare something nice.
2
It had really been a great evening, thought Claire as both she and Chris sat around the dinner table inside her tiny two-room London flat. Over the meal they had talked about their lives, and got to know each other a bit better. Chris had been all over the planet in various business ventures. He seemed really worldly and smooth at the same time. She even found it hard to believe that a man like him could possibly be interested in a ordinary girl like her, but there was no denying they hit it off well. In fact, they had not stopped talking all evening.
It was a casual kind of date, and both of them were wearing their everyday clothes. Posh restaurants and candlelight dinners were not really Claire's scene. She would have felt way too much out of place. She liked her home, and, in truth, it made her kind of feel safe to be in it, for a first date.
They had come towards the end of the meal and were sipping the wine. The conversation had gone really well, they had laughed a lot and even developed a real complicity, Claire felt. The evening was now edging towards the kind of moment when, on a normal date, Chris would have tried to kiss her, or in any case, to get more intimate with her. Or at least she thought so. It had been two years since her last date, so maybe things had changed a little, but she doubted it. The dating ritual goes back for centuries, she thought. At this point Chris cleared his throat and looked at her like he was going to bring up a point of importance.
"You're a great cook, Claire, a real
cordon bleu
. And quite an enchanting person as well," he said. "Now I am going to ask you something."
Claire's heart was bumping hard inside her chest. She really had to calm down, at her age it was ridiculous. She was such a romantic mushball, but Chris really did seem like Prince Charming to her at the moment.
"Show me your knickers, Claire," Chris said in a perfectly calm and pleasant voice.
The surprise was, of course, very real, for that was obviously not the kind of thing she was expecting to hear from him. The last time she had playfully shown her knickers to a boy, she must have been about 10, in primary school. She was a grown-up responsible lady now, not exactly a kid anymore, but there was something firm and, most of all, very powerful in his tone that somehow got across to her on an extremely deep and subconscious level. She couldn't properly explain it, but she clearly sensed that she was on the verge of some mysterious new adventure. If only she knew.
There was maybe a second of hesitation. But, even if Claire's rational mind was telling her how incongruous this demand really was, it had still got straight through to the little girl inside her, passing effortlessly through all of her defenses.
She stood up, trying to look at him defiantly in the eye, but in truth her legs were wobbling. Quite mechanically, her mind still half numbed by his unusual demand, she then proceeded to unfasten her belt. Not being completely sure what was expected of her, she pulled down her jeans at one side to expose the side of her underwear in a childish and rather coy way.
But he simply and calmly instructed her to lower her jeans completely down to her knees and lift her top slightly so he could have a clear view. She complied, and he then made a gesture with his finger, indicating he wanted her to execute a twirl.
As Chris had expected, Claire wore ordinary white cotton granny panties. It seemed so cheesy in this day and age and yet rather enchanting at the same time. The previous girl he dated, Kiera, went commando, just like most of the girls he knew aged between 18 and 40, while those under 18 tended to wear thongs. But then again, Kiera was a far cooler and more streetwise girl than Claire would ever be. Nevertheless, she made a refreshing change to his usual high-powered world.
So here she was, a 35 year-old woman, on her first date with a much younger man, showing him her knickers straight after dinner. But the truth was that for the moment she loved it. It was great fun, and it felt just like being an excited little girl all over again, all those discoveries ahead of her. A slight dampness had even begun to emerge in the crotch of her undies.
Chris applauded softly but enthusiastically at her innocent little show, and she felt that they were even more intimate in a sense now.
"Come and sit on my lap for a second," he said.
Claire automatically complied, not having totally recovered her senses from her little knickers flashing session, and after having completely removed her jeans to be comfortable, she sat herself sideways across his knees.
She was pretty sure he was finally going to tenderly embrace her now. He had played his little game, and he was, at last, getting down to business.
But instead, he just made sure she was seated comfortably in his lap, his hands firmly securing her around her waist. She could feel the hardness of his cock beneath her bottom and was pretty sure he could tell how damp her knickers were.
And indeed, as if that was exactly the thing on his mind, he simply asked her: