DING DING DONG.
"Oh damn," Lauren sits up in bed, pushing her hair out of her eyes, suddenly remembering the air conditioning man is supposed to arrive at 8:00 o'clock. She stayed up late, chatting online with some college classmates while watching an old movie and forgot to set her alarm. Grabbing her red silk robe from the foot of the bed, she pulls it over her dad's old undershirt and little boy boxer shorts. Barely getting both arms inside the sleeves of her robe, she opens the front door, while trying to hold her hair out of her eyes.
"Good morning darlin', I'm Fletcher Tedson" the big man says, smiling at the tiny young woman in the doorway. "Is your daddy home?"
"I'm sorry, ah, Mister, ah, Mister Tedson?"
"That's alright darlin'," he chuckles at her blushing embarrassment. "Is your Daddy home?"
"No. No, Mom and Dad went to ah, ah, reunion. No, they went to a funeral. They, they will be back sometime tomorrow. Sorry, I'm not quite awake yet. I stayed up too late last night."
Lauren holds the door open wider and steps back, still trying to push her hair out of her eyes. She looks up at the man, seeing a sewn on label above one pocket, showing he works for Tedson Air Conditioning. Her father said a man was going to come by to calibrate the air conditioning vents. The whole family is tired of going from one cold room to a hot one. Lauren shivers every morning, after going to sleep in a comfortable room and waking up, feeling like ice has formed on the inside of the windows.
Lauren's father said the man's name is Bear. Lauren doesn't know if it's because of his size, or because of his closely cropped beard and body hair, obvious on his arms below the folded back cuffs of his long sleeve shirt. Not only does he have dense hair on his arms, she can see more dark curls inside the top two undone buttons on his shirt. He has a full head of dark brown hair, lightly threaded with a few strands of gray or white, making his hair look like it glistens. There are also some lighter hairs in his whiskers, giving him a distinguished look.
Fletcher steps inside, looking at a paper he takes from his shirt pocket. "I'm supposed to calibrate the vents to even out the temperature throughout the house." He laughs and tells her, "Your daddy said you use an electric blanket in the summer."
Trying to hold her robe closed with one hand and attempting to collect her wayward hair with the other, she finally lets go of the robe and pulls her hair on top of her head. She searches for the hair band, which is probably somewhere under the covers of her bed. Allowing the robe to fall open she does not see Fletcher take an appreciate glance at Lauren's obvious physical charms. He loves the riot of her hair. The long thick curls are probably twice the size it usually appears after a good brushing. Oh wow, how he would love to have his hands in all that mass of glorious hair. He sees her breasts pushing against the thin material of the loose man's undershirt. The darkness of her areolas show, as do the prominent nipples centered on each breast. He also catches a glimpse of her dark pubic hair in the slightly spread gap at the front of the low slung boy's boxer shorts, which many young girls have adopted as casual pajama bottoms.
"Yes, Dad said you could do something about the hot and cold rooms."
"That's right, baby girl. Show me where the thermostat is, then you can go do whatever you need to do and I'll do my work. Alright?"
"Yes, okay. It's ah, one thermostat is upstairs and the other is in the den. Do you, can you, will both units work together? I'm sorry I don't understand some things like this."
"That's what I'm here to find out, darlin'."
"Oh, okay. Ah, you want to come with me? I mean to find the upstairs one."
"Lead the way", Fletcher says, watching the young woman walking to the stairs, enjoying the rear view as much as he did the one from the front. Feeling his erection bump against the front of his jeans, he mentally tells himself to slow down. This is his friend's daughter. She's probably not even 20 years old yet.
Fletcher climbs the stairs at a slower rate than Lauren, as her light silk robe floats in the wake of her steps. He catches one glimpse of the back of her thighs and wonders how such a tiny thing can have such long slender legs. Feeling another bump against the front fly of his jeans, he mentally says, "Down boy."
Back in her bedroom, Lauren mutters to herself about her irresponsibility for not being up and dressed to take care of something her father asked her to do. The movie wasn't that good and one of her online conversations was an argument with a fellow student who has been pursuing her. She knows the main reason he wants her to go out with him is so he can get in her pants. He told her that last night and she told him she wasn't interested. He claimed to know one other student who sampled her charms and he claims he can give her more satisfaction. Lauren told him to get in line, like at the back of the line, and expect people to cut in line ahead of him.
"Get a grip girl", she mumbles to herself, using an expression her father often says. Instead she just sits thinking about the man who followed her upstairs. "Oh wow, now that's a man." A chill goes across her shoulders, thinking about the hard muscles she saw flexing under his shirt. "Why doesn't a man like that chase me, instead of the wimps I meet at school?"
She throws the bed covers to the foot of the bed, running her hand down to the bottom, searching for the elastic band to tie her hair up so she can take a quick shower. Not finding the elastic band, she pulls her shirt off, and pushes her shorts down and steps out of them. She picks up both pieces of clothing and takes them to the hamper in her bathroom. She rummages through a basket on the counter top until she finds another elastic band. Naked, she walks back into her bedroom to get clean underwear as she raises both hands to her head, trying to capture all of her hair on top of her head so it won't get wet in the shower.
As she stands in the center of her bedroom, the door opens. Fletcher stands in the open door looking at Lauren. She is frozen in place, watching the changing expressions on the man's face.