Chapter 2, Aunt Brenda
About four o'clock, the wake changed venue from the Church of Christ to the Bulls and Bears Tavern a few blocks away. The "Christians" would not have approved of the drinking and dancing. Alice had struck up a conversation with an old acquaintance from back when her marriage to Dan had been only a couple of years old.
Brenda went from group to group accepting condolences and sipping more white wine than she realized. About 6pm, she went over to where Alice was engaged in a heated debate over whether Dan really had been a womanizer or not.
Whispering in Alice's ear, "I'm drunk sister, I taking a cab back to the hotel and you keep the car."
She handed Alice the keys to her car, turned and was out the door before Alice could say a word. Brenda settled into the back seat of the cab, "Hyatt Airport", she said.
"Yes, Ma'am"
It wasn't but a couple of miles to the hotel so the ride was short and sweet. "I need a shower and some sleep." Brenda though as the taxi pulled up to the front entrance. The doorman opened the taxi door for her and she stepped out. The heel of her pump caught the molding across the bottom of the doorway and she tumbled out onto the concrete.
"Great! This is just great!" she cried as the doorman took her arm and helped her to her feet. There was a small tear on the knee of her panty hose but the bruise to her ego was the greater injury. Flushed with embarrassment, she managed a, "Thank you." and managed to make it inside and to the elevator.
"Come on, come on," she thought. Finally the doors opened and she stepped inside. She pushed the 15Th floor button and slouched against the wall. When the doors opened, she smoothed her dress, more out of habit than necessity, and walked out into the hallway and to their room.
Easing the card into the slot, she opened the door into a darkened room. Without turning on the light, she walked in.
Lucy had left the drapes open a little so some of the early evening light softly illuminated the room. There was Lucy asleep on the bed closest to the window. The dim light played on Lucy's body exposed by the open robe. She lay on her back but with her knees drawn up slightly and to the side. Her breasts were only slightly covered by her left arm that was across her chest. Brenda watched the slow rise and fall of Lucy's breathing. Brenda had watched her niece grow up and become a beautiful woman. She had long time dreams of someday taking Lucy to that forbidden place. Was this the time, the place? Brenda forced herself to look away, "Shower and sleep," she thought, "shower and sleep."
Brenda slipped out of her shoes, turned and walked into the bathroom, and carefully closed the door as to not make any more noise than possible. She turned on the shower and adjusted the temperature to a comfortable warm mixture. Then she turned to the mirror and watched reflection as she unzipped her dress. Sliding the straps off of her shoulders the dress fell to the floor. She massaged her breasts a little as they breathed the moist air of the room. She had not worn a bra. Hooking her thumbs in the waistband of her torn panty hose, she guided them down to her ankles and stepped out of them. She deposited them rather unceremoniously in the trash receptacle. Then stepping out of her thong she stepped into the stream of the warm shower.
Brenda closed her eyes as she guided the washcloth over her body. She didn't waste a lot of time as she was thinking more of the sleep she need than of the shower. She turned off the water and reached for a towel to wrap her wet hair in. Then she took another, stepping out of the tub and wrapped it around herself as a mini toga. She quietly opened the door and stepping into the room.
Lucy had turned sometime during Brenda's shower. Now lay supine with her legs slightly apart the robe fully open to each side exposing the girl completely. Brenda walked between the beds and sat on the other bed facing her niece. She gazed at the girl's body, unable to turn away, taking in all of it's beauty, the fullness of her breasts, the small dainty nipples, the flat tummy extending down finishing with the tuft of hair above her Mons.