This is my first story, be gentle!
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Rose sat down on her sofa with a fresh cup of tea and switched on the new TV which she had spent the last two hours setting up and sighed to herself, "What a way to spend my Saturday afternoon! Who would have thought these things would be so difficult to set up!"
Rose put her feet up and began flicking through the newly acquired cable channels that she had had installed earlier and she quickly realised 300 channels does not guarantee quality! "What a load of garbage!" Rose thought as she sipped her tea.
"Well at least Becky will be pleased with this."
Becky, Rose's 18 year old daughter, had been hassling her to get a new TV and cable for months.
"There are some really cool channels, not just for me but for you too."
That was Becky's rationale, Rose knew it was nonsense but she wanted to make her daughter happy, Rose had gone out of her way to do things for her daughter after her father left when she was 14, Becky took it hard, harder than Rose herself, Rose was happy to see the back of her husband, things had not been right between the two of them for a few years, their sex life was non-existent, they would argue over the smallest things like dirty dishes, he would work late and most significantly of all the pair were no longer in love. In the four years he had been gone though Rose had never been happier. Now at 46 Rose was happy to take care of her daughter's needs, Rose felt like she needed to do the job of two parents as Becky's father had not been in touch since he left, "No good bastard, won't even talk to his daughter," Rose had often thought to herself, the only decent thing he did was leave Rose the house and paid of the mortgage.
While flicking through the seemingly endless amount of channels Rose was startled by the door-bell ringing.
"Who could this be?" the red head wondered as she dragged herself of the sofa.
Rose opened the door to Tim & Sarah her new neighbours. Rose was fond of her new neighbours they were a lovely couple both in their early forties; Tim was a tall with dark hair, he worked in real estate, which explained the couples nice new Mercedes. Sarah was blonde with a relative small build but she was in great shape for her age she taught an English class at the local college.
They had only moved in next door with their daughter Kim a few weeks ago, Rose had invited them over for coffee on several occasions and everyone had had a pleasant time. Kim and Becky had both got off to a good start as well which pleased Rose, she was happy that her daughter would have a friend so close to her own age in such close proximity, Becky was a reasonably popular girl but the majority of her friends lived far away.
"Oh hi, come in," Rose said.
"No that's ok we're not stopping long," replied Sarah politely
"We've come to ask a favour," Tim added
"Oh ok, what is it?" queried Rose.
"Well we are going on holiday tomorrow for a few weeks and we were wondering if you wouldn't mind keeping an eye on Kim for us?" Sarah offered.
"Oh sure no problem, Kim convinced you to let her stay home did she?" Rose chuckled.
"Yeah, well she's 18 now she thinks it's not cool to go on holiday with Mum & Dad anymore," Sarah retorted.
"Yeah I know what you mean, I'll check in on her," Rose replied
"Super, we've left her money for food and anything she needs so you won't have to feed her! I make it sound like she's a cat!" laughed Tim.
"Well she is more than welcome to pop round for dinner while you're gone," Rose told them.
"Oh thanks Rose we'll let her know before we go," Sarah replied smiling at Rose's generosity.
"Where are you off to then?" Rose enquired.
"Greece, I can't wait," Sarah answered trying to hide her excitement.
"Oh lucky for some, well I hope you have a great time and I'll keep my eye on Kim,"
"Thanks Rose, we'll see you when we get back oh and here's our spare key just in case." smiled Sarah.
Rose waved her neighbours good-bye and returned to her sofa and now slightly cold tea and continued to flick through the wave after wave of crappy channels, "God I miss just having four channels, Becky had better be grateful," Rose sat there for the nearly an hour flicking through the channels when Becky arrived home and immediately spotted the new TV and cable box.
"Oh Mum brilliant, I can't believe you got it!" Becky smiled as she sat down next to her Mum on the sofa grabbing the remote from her and frantically flicked through the channels. Rose couldn't help but smile as her daughter flicked excitedly through the channels, despite her own dislike for the channels Rose was happy Becky was happy. Becky was very similar to her mother physically; like her mother she had shoulder length dark red hair, piercing green eyes, pouty lips and like her mother at that age large pert 32E breasts and a slim figure; Becky had a body to envy for her age just like her mother who was in decent shape for her age, Rose had a little bit of a belly but not enough to say she was un-fit.
"So you're pleased with this then?" Rose grinned poking her daughter affectionately in the ribs.
"Yeah defo, its great Mum. So many music channels," Becky giggled.
"So many crap channels you mean," Rose teased.
"Oh shush, you'll come around eventually Mum,"
"Yeah we'll see, now seeing as I got this for you you can make dinner tonight," Rose told her daughter.
"Yeah ok I suppose that's fair enough." Becky admitted with a sigh as she made her way to the kitchen to prepare dinner for the two of them.
The two shared a bowl of pasta whilst watching one of their new movie channels; they discussed their days and shared a few glasses of wine before retiring to their respective beds.
That night while lying in bed Rose was awoken by the sound of a car pulling up outside, the red head went to her window and looked out onto the street she could see Kim getting out of a car and walking up the garden path to her house, Rose couldn't help but notice Kim was wearing a rather provocative outfit, her skirt was short and even from her bedroom window Rose could see Kim was wearing a very low cut top displaying her rather large breasts, Rose had never seen Kim in an outfit like this before; the 18 year old often wore quite reserved clothing like big jumpers and jeans but Rose had only ever seen Kim when she was with her parents and now that they were away Rose assumed it was an opportunity for Kim to cut loose, Rose understood what 18 year old girls were like after all she used to be one.
Rose returned to her bed and tried to get to sleep but her efforts were cut short when she heard a tapping on the front door, it was faint and she dismissed it at first but it continued. Rose finally budged and wondered downstairs she turned on the light she opened the door to Kim who was a little worse for wear.
"Kim, what's wrong it's two in the morning?" Rose asked rubbing her eyes.
"I'm sorry Misses Alexander but I've lost my key to the front door of my house and my Mum said you had the spare," replied Kim looking through her long blonde hair her speech slightly slurred.