A short story about a lonely old geezer and the young lady who solicited at his door on evening.
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"No need to be afraid," the man said as he watched the girl follow him into his garage, and after he closed the door behind them he put his hand on her shoulder.
Debbie Blair jumped when she felt the older man's hand touch her, even though his hand had landed mostly on her blouse and not on the bare skin of her rounded shoulder. The man, who was well over three times the age of the student he had managed to talk into coming into his garage with him, tried to give her a grandfatherly smile in an effort to get her to relax.
"Are you sure you're eighteen?" Henry Wilcox asked her, and after she nodded briskly he added, "You don't act it or look it. Are you sure you wouldn't be more comfortable inside my house?"
"No," Debbie said as she inched a bit away from the man who had only been in the neighborhood a week.
"Okay. Like I said, you came in here on your own and you can leave any time," he reminded her, his eyes measuring the contours of the teen's still growing body, and given that she was a little pear-shaped and not too busty he figured the cutey to be around 33-26-38.
"I know," she said in a voice that betrayed her nerves. "Can we just do it and get it over with?"
"Gee, you make it sound like you don't want to do this. I know you're only doing it for the money so your school can buy new playground equipment or whatever you said it was for, but you should think of it as being fun too," the old-timers suggested
"I don't have to take anything off - that's what you said," Debbie repeated for at least the third time.
"That's right. All you have to do her pull your panties down to the top of your knee socks and then lift that cute plaid skirt of yours up to your waist," Henry Wilcox agreed.
"And you'll buy that stuff in the catalog you checked off?" Debbie asked hopefully.
"Anything to further the cause of education," he said of the fundraising effort of the religious school that had brought his young neighbor to his door in the first place.
Henry Wilcox didn't care about the popcorn or the greeting cards or anything else he had said he would buy. All he wanted to do was get a better look at the girl who had caught his eye as he was moving in. Look and maybe and touch a little.
"Nobody can see us in here," Henry said as he watched the cherubic blonde fidgeting while craning her neck to look out through the dusty glass windows near the top of the garage door, and as her blue eyes darted back towards him he added, "Just you and me here."