My sister, Karen, is happily married and has a daughter. Just the one, but they are hoping for more. Little Natalie has just turned four and is a very determined young miss. She knows what she wants and goes for it. How my sister keeps on top of her all the time is beyond me.
Like all young marrieds, Karen and Bob, her husband, have their share of problems. The perennial one is money. Bob has a good career ahead of him but has to start at the bottom and work his way up. He's highly intelligent, with the right amount of get up and go, and I have no doubt whatsoever that he'll make it to the top of the pile. The trouble is money earned in the future won't buy you new shoes right now.
Karen had a simple solution. They have a large house, four bedrooms, of which they only use two as bedrooms. The third is an office and the fourth is currently a spare room. Karen decided to take in a boarder.
The boarder they finally took on was a Japanese student by the name of Su-Li. She was a nice young woman, either eighteen or nineteen and doing a double degree course at the Uni, and doing very well from what I've heard. She proved to be an ideal boarder. She paid the rent on time, tended to keep to herself, and studied hard. She did have the occasional guest, but never invited men home, and rarely went out. She was here to study and that's what she intended doing.
I am sometimes called on to do baby-sitting duties with Natalie. I don't mind. I get on well with the kid and she knows she has to mind me. Now one Saturday I was called on to front up and watch the kid. Karen and Bob were going out and wouldn't be home until late.
I came around, Karen and Bob left, Natalie put on a nice little scene, weeping and wailing about being left behind. This scene lasted right up to the time they got in the car and drove off. Then the little imp switched off the tears, gave me a big smile and said, "Park?"
What the hell. It was a nice day so why not take her to the park. I could turn her loose and relax, letting her burn off all her energy. She'd go to sleep that much faster this evening. So we went to the park and Natalie ran riot and had a ball. It's harder than you might think keeping track of one running, yelling, child amongst the pack, but I managed.
When we got back to the house I could hear the shower running. Unfortunately, so did Natalie.
"Mummy's home," she shrieked and bolted for the bathroom before I could grab her.
I'm like, "No, Nat. That will be Su-Li. Mummy is still out," but was the kid listening? Fat chance.
She reached the bathroom and had the door open before I was even close to her. I was polite. I didn't go in, just calling to Nat to get out of there. Yeah, like she was going to do that.
"See, Mummy," announced Nat, whipping the shower curtain back, revealing a slightly startled Su-Li.
I was a gentleman. I didn't turn to stare at Su-Li. I barely noticed her long shapely legs, her flat tummy, her pert little bottom, those breasts that proved that not all Japanese women were small-breasted. I assure you, I didn't notice any of that.
"You're not Mummy," Nat was accusing the poor girl.
"Nat, Mummy is out. She'll be back later. Come out of there at once."
Nat turned and came away, grumbling. I could see out of the corner of my eye that Su-Li was reaching to pull the shower curtain back across. My evil genie got the better of me at that point. I reached over to the sink and picked up a razor that was there. I held it up and gave an enquiring look towards Su-Li then let my eyes drift down to her pubic hair. She had quite a fine bush there.
She said something in Japanese and I ducked hurriedly as a shampoo bottle came flying at my head. I hastily tossed the razor back on the sink and departed, closing the door behind me.
The rest of the afternoon passed quite peacefully. Nat watched TV, had her dinner, and went to bed with a minimum of fuss. As intended, the fresh air and exercise at the park had worn her out. I sat with her and read her a story until she faded and slept. Su-Li had gone out shortly after her shower, not deigning to notice me. I heard her come back home while I was tucking Nat in.
After Nat was asleep I wandered down to Su-Li's room and knocked. I didn't try to enter when she answered. After all, it was her room and she was entitled to have people stay out of it until she invited them in. She really was quite a lovely girl. I'm not sure what you would call the outfit she was wearing. It looked like a set of loose silk pyjamas, and may actually have been pyjamas for all I knew. They certainly looked good on her, the silk moulding to her figure in all the right places.
I smiled politely, doing my best not to give her a blatant once over, and apologised for the earlier contretemps in the bathroom. She politely waved away the apology and offered her own apology for not locking the door. It had been most careless of her.
It had, but I wasn't complaining. I now knew what a nice figure there was under those pyjamas. (I'm calling the outfit pyjamas as I don't know what else to call them. I'm not an expert on women's clothing.)
I politely waved away her apology and was getting ready to back off when my little devil goosed me again.
"Oh, by the way, did you follow my suggestion?" I asked her, trying for a look of innocent enquiry.
She looked puzzled for a moment, and then I saw her remember the razor being offered and the look at her pubes. She flushed and gave me a killing look and was set to slam the door in my face when the doorbell rang.
I departed to answer the door, finding another young Japanese woman standing there, dressed as your typical westerner, t-shirt and short skirt.
"Good evening," she said, smiling. "I am Hoshi, a friend of Su-Li's. Is she home?"
"I'm Paul, the brother of Su-Li's landlady. Su-Li is in and I'm sure she will be pleased to see you. Please come this way."
Weren't we polite? I'm sure it was the Japanese culture rubbing off on me. My normal way of answering a question if someone is in would be a grunt and a jerk of the thumb in the required direction.
I led Hoshi down to Su-Li's room. The door was still open and Su-Li was waiting, apparently having expected her friend. They did the normal female kiss-kiss hullo and Su-Li was moving to shut me out when I spoke up.
"Hoshi, perhaps you can help me," I said politely. "I made a suggestion to Su-Li earlier and I have expressed an interest as to whether she followed my advice but she seemed reluctant to tell me. Could you ask her about this as I would really like to know?"
The girls exploded into rapid fire Japanese, words flying all over the place. There was also a lot of giggling from Hoshi, some blushing and giggling from Su-Li. I also noticed that Hoshi waved her hand at herself in the general direction of her groin while saying something and Su-Li was giggling about whatever had been said.
Then the pair of them seemed to reach some sort of accord and they shut-up, turning to face me.
"Su-Li thanks you for your earlier suggestion and admits that yes, she did follow your advice," said Hoshi.
Interesting. I wondered how far I could push this.
"Thank you for informing me. It seems to me that, as it was my suggestion, I should be entitled to see the results."
Hoshi exploded with laughter while Su-Li turned very red. Inscrutable Orientals my eye.
Su-Li said something very definite to Hoshi, chopping her hands viciously as she did so. I may not know Japanese but I knew what no-way-known meant.
Still giggling Hoshi replied and then the machine-gun words started up again. Why do people talking in other languages seem to be talking so fast? It's an unusual illusion.
This time the back and forth went on quite a bit longer with Hoshi doing most of the talking. Su-Li was blushing and giggling as she chatted. Actually, both girls were doing a lot of giggling. Su-Li was the only one blushing.
When they finished and turned back to face me Su-Li's face had a nice rosy flush.
"We've decided you can have a quick look," said Hoshi, trying to muffle her giggles.
To my surprise Su-Li pulled down the front of the pants she was wearing, taking her panties down as well. My, my. She had indeed shaved her mons and she looked so dreadfully cute flashing me while blushing.
"Very nice," I assured her. "Can I touch it to see if it feels as smooth as it looks?"
