How the hell do I get myself into these messes? If I ever figure that out, my life will be dull and boring, believe me. Right now it's sure not dull nor boring. The fact is that, if a couple of people find out what I did, I'll probably be dead. The fact that they are my best friends won't help a bit. Yeah, I should have known better but what can I say, other than that I let my little head do my thinking for me in this matter, I have no excuse and make none. I wouldn't have missed this for all the money and fame in the world.
What am I talking about? Every lecherous, dirty old mans biggest dream and favorite fantasy. What is that you ask? Only teaching a young virgin the ins and outs of sex, that's all. Be very careful what you dream about, it might come true and then where would you be? In a hell of a mess, like me, probably.
*****
My best friend, the guy I think of as the brother I never had, and I finished up a thirty-day job and I followed him home. He lives half the distance from the job as I do and we were both filthy from rigging our equipment down. I hate oil base mud with a passion. Oil companies love it because it makes drilling wells easier, faster, and cheaper. The fact that only Dawn dish soap or diesel will take it out of your cloths or get it off your skin isn't their problem.
When we got to his house, he hit one shower, while I hit the other one. His wife had handed each of us a bottle of Dawn and a dark green towel, a big grin on her face. "I'm not kissing or hugging either of you until you get that crap off." She had told us as we came through the back door.
It took a while and a lot of hot water to get clean. I got out of the shower and dried off as best I could in the steamy little bathroom. Finally, I wrapped the towel around my waist and opened the door to let it cool off in there.
I was using a smaller towel to dry the mirror when something caught my attention and I glanced toward the open door. Across the hall was the door to Rita's room, and she was sitting cross legged on her bed, hugging a pillow, a big grin on her face. Rita is my best friend's eighteen-year-old daughter, whom I have known, most of her life. She had always called me Uncle but we weren't related in any way.
"What are you grinning at, rug rat?" I asked as I picked up the can of shaving lather and squirted some on my fingertips. She didn't say anything for a minute or so, as I started to shave.
"I'm just sitting here daydreaming," she said and sighed deeply.
I glanced her way and asked, "I thought you were at your friend's house for the week? Something about studying for some tests. At least that's what your mom said."
"She's too flighty to study seriously, anyway she has a date for Friday night, and I didn't want to be a third wheel," she replied and sighed again.
"Why don't you have a date?" I knew she had been seeing the son of one of the local farmers. A nice young man, I had met him a couple of times.
She made a snorting noise and I looked at her. "That bad, huh."
"Worse. He's been helping with the early planting for the last three weeks and by the time he gets home and cleaned up; it's too late to go anywhere. The one Saturday night we did get to go somewhere, he fell asleep on me by nine o'clock."
"Hey, at least he works, that's more than you can say about a lot of them," I said.
"He's a little boy, most of the time. Fun, but not a real man." She told me and sighed again.
I laughed and said, "Give him a chance; it takes time and experience to grow up. Believe me, I know, I'm still working on it."
She laughed. "Uncle Rick, you're crazy."
"And your point is?" I asked with a chuckle. She laughed again.
I finished shaving and rinsed my face. After I dried it off, I looked at Rita and asked, "Don't you have something better to do, than to sit there and watch an old man shave?"
She shook her head and grinned. "No, not really. Anyway, I like watching you."
"Boy, do you need to get a life or what? Go do something before your mom puts you to work; you know how she hates to see you just sitting. She hasn't figured out that it's a part of being young. You need the time to work on your mental state which is mostly confusion."
"Uncle Rick, why do you understand things like that and my mom don't?"
I turned and grinned at her as I answered, "I've already raised my two kids, and I'm still a kid myself. Seriously though, I still remember what it was like when I was your age. Yeah, I know, that was a long time ago and we had dinosaur for breakfast, but some things never change, even if we want them to."
Rita grinned at that and laid the pillow aside. "Am I pretty?" She asked out of the blue, with a serious expression on her face.
I stared at her for a second in surprise at the question and at the changes in her since I had last seen her, some five months ago. She had filled out dramatically. I took a deep breath to stifle a grin and then replied, "Yes darlin', you are beautiful."
"Come on Uncle Rick, I'm serious. Am I as pretty as mama?"
I wondered just how serious I should treat this. I looked her over for a second and then grinned as I replied, "A cute face, a great body; yeah, I'd date you and try to get into your pants, if I was a hundred years younger."
She stared at me with the same serious expression for a moment and then a grin slowly spread over her face. "I bet you could to, if you set your mind to it."
I laughed and shook my head. "Not on a bet darlin', If you didn't kill me, your mom would. Seriously though, you are beautiful and any man worth his salt would be honored by your company. You were lucky and inherited your mom's good points and added to them on your own."
"Added to? What do you mean, Uncle Rick?" She asked.
I grinned and said, "You have the boobs that your mom always dreamed about and you have her great ass and long, strong legs. You also have her good nature and great sense of humor. I think you also have her curiosity and probably her wild side also."
Rita sat there looking at me as she thought over what I said. I had my hair brushed and halfway dry by the time she crawled off the bed and walked across the hall and paused at the bathroom door.
"Thanks, Uncle Rick," she said with a grin before she turned and went down the hall.
I leaned out the bathroom door and watched the sway of her ass, which was getting to be so much like her mom's, that it was scary. "Yeah, she's going to be a wild child, just like her mom." I thought to myself. I just wished I was young enough to be the lucky young man who was on the receiving end of that deal. If he lived, he'd have a memory for life. I know, I had one of my own but that was a lifetime ago.
*****
I ended up staying there for a couple of days before I got ready to head for my house. I started to mention the conversation I'd had with Rita to her mom, but for some reason, I hadn't ever gotten around to it. The timing never seemed right and there was always someone around.