"Rob, you can't go to Gatestown! What about Sophie?" Beth, his wife, exclaimed down the phone.
"It's ok, babe. I asked Sue and Peter for the name of their babysitter and she's agreed to look after Sophie." Rob Cannavane told his wife.
"I don't know. I don't feel good about having a stranger in our house, looking after our daughter for a whole weekend!" Beth complained.
"I know this is bad timing, with you away at your reunion but I've got to go to Gatestown prison and interview this witness. After the way the sheriff bungled the search and Mason's newspaper is defending him, this might be the only way to get Jameson convicted!" Rob explained.
"Honey, I know this is important to you but what do we know about this girl?" Beth said sympathetically.
The County Attorney sensed victory now.
"Beth, Cassie Small is 18 and one of Peter's former students from the convent school. She couldn't be more perfectly trustworthy!"
"Well...all right, but make sure you give her all the phone numbers and the alarm code." Beth Cannavane said, relenting.
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Beth Small phoned her boyfriend Jesse Stevenson as soon as she got off the phone to Mr Cannavane.
"Hello, Jesse. Guess what?"
"What?" Jesse said, smiling at the sound of his girlfriend's voice.
"I'm babysitting this weekend. This family, the Cannavane's are away and want me to stay at their house."
"Cannavane?"
Jesse stood in his room, open-mouthed and was about to say more, when Cassie carried on,
"A house for a whole weekend...." Cassie emphasized.
Jesse was about to protest about the location when he realized just what it was that Cassie was offering.
"You're sure you want to do this? I only want to know that you're ready." He said softly.
"Jesse, we've been together for a year. I love you and you love me and I really think it's time we..." The teenage girl trailed off, laughing embarrassedly.
"What time should I come round?" Jesse said, a little fearfully, even as the blood rushed to his cock and he slipped his hand down to his waistband.
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"Hello Cassie, come on in." Rob said, as he answered the door.
"Hi, Mr Cannavane." Said the shy teen as she entered the minimalist, but well-appointed house and looked about for her young charge.
"She's fast asleep. You won't have any problems with Sophie, but just in case, both my wife's and my cell numbers are on the fridge. We'll both be back Monday morning in time for one of us to take Sophie to the fair."
"Just the one child Mr Cannavane?" Cassie asked the handsome 46-year-old Latino to make conversation.
"What? Oh no, there's my eldest from my first marriage. Denise, my ex, got custody... Well I really must shoot off if I'm going to find a room in Gatestown."
"Don't worry about us Mr Cannavane, we'll be fine." Said the petite blonde as he grabbed his bag and exited.
Cassie walked around the house and helped herself to some chips in the huge kitchen then took her bag up to the guest bedroom where she was to sleep. She changed out of her demure black sweater and long skirt and into her brand new dress. It was pink with a delicate black floral pattern. She like the way that it flattered her smallish chest but accentuated her thin waist and slender legs without looking slutty in the slightest.
She checked on Sophie, who was fast asleep as promised, and began to place candles around the living room. She was biting her lip due to nerves.
She heard footsteps on the porch and bounded towards the door. She flung it open and stopped dead.
"Er...who are you?" The tall beautiful 22-year-old who stood there asked.
"Oh I'm Cassie, the babysitter..." She croaked at the older woman, horrified that this might mean the end of her plan.
"Hello..." The stranger said thoughtfully, "I'm Maria, the Cannavane's daughter...other daughter....", as Cassie stood aside to let her in. "Pleased to meet you Cassie!" Maria beamed in a friendly way.
"I'm sorry Miss Cannavane, I wasn't expecting you...your dad didn't..." Cassie stammered.
"It's okay. This is a surprise visit so no one was expecting me..." the sultry raven-haired beauty said as she entered the living room. "Were you expecting someone else...?" She continued, conspiratorially as she glanced about her.
"Oh...sugar...I ....I'm sorry...please don't tell your dad..." The pretty girl babbled.
The older woman gave her a face of understanding and put an arm around her shoulders.
"You're waiting for your boyfriend? It's okay, you can tell me. I used to 'baby-sit' when I was younger."
"You aren't angry?" Cassie asked, shocked.
"No, of course not. I think it's sweet. Is it the first time?" Maria asked, taking Cassie into a loose hug before offering to help get the room ready.
"Yeah...for both of us..." Cassie felt relieved that she had found someone to confide in. Her parent's would have killed her if they'd found out she was planning sex before marriage. Her friends were not much better.
"And he's not...you know...pressuring you?" Maria asked sisterly.
"What? No! Jesse...he's not like that at all...his mom raised him alone so he, he respects women...I mean, I know he wants to but he never talks about it or asks me to...you know..." The younger female whispered, a little proudly.
"How far have you gone?" Maria asked, softly.
Cassie blushed and looked away.
"We kiss all the time and last week...I..." She trailed off, embarrassed.
"It's okay, take your time..." Maria said, giving a little reassuring squeeze.
"Well I...you know...used my mouth...but my dad came home and nearly caught us... he'd have killed him..."
Maria nodded her head in sympathy.
"Catholic?" She pondered and when Cassie confirmed it, Maria continued, "How much sex education have you and Jesse had?"
"Oh, I suppose we know the basics. We figured that we'd work out the rest...." Cassie couldn't believe how open she was being with this virtual stranger.
"How did you two meet?" Maria questioned.
"Promise not to laugh?" Cassie asked, only continuing when Maria nodded. " We met at choir practice a year ago. I knew I loved him straight away and we've been seeing each other since then at college. He's so sweet. I know it's a bit uncool but...but... he writes me poems and letters and things."
"That's very romantic, Cassie. Tell me more about him."
Cassie looked up and was uncertain that she wanted to confess everything to someone she had only just met.
"Cassie, I'm not trying to pry but if I say okay and this liaison goes on tonight, in this house, I'm going to feel a lot responsible for you, you understand?"
Cassie could see the sincerity in her eyes and could see her point.
"He is really gorgeous and smart. I mean he's on the swim team... and plays soccer and...everything, but he still gets good grades. I've got a picture of him ...if you're interested."
Maria nodded and took the well-creased photo and looked at the boy standing comfortably in Speedos. It showed his cute dimpled face beneath long scruffy black hair that reached his eyebrows and his soulful brown eyes. Maria's eyes flashed as she took in his broad shoulders, his lean, lightly muscled body and Maria suspected his well-endowed package.
"I'm very interested." Cassie's new friend said under her breath.
"Sorry?" Asked Cassie, as she hadn't caught the utterance.
"I think I should meet him.... just to reassure myself that you two are going to be all right." Maria said thoughtfully.
"I ...um ok?" Cassie said, choking at the relief she was feeling that she'd still be able to lose her virginity tonight.
"You want to hear about my first time?" Maria asked.
"Please." The inexperienced girl replied gratefully.
"Well it was this guy, Ricky, we're both 16 and he was sweet. We thought it was love so we decided to have sex. It was the worst night of my life. I was so naïve. I cried at the sight of the blood and was so freaked out that when he came I ran away. We hadn't used any protection and I was so scared I was going to have a baby..." Maria said as she shook her head wistfully.
"What happened with Ricky?" Cassie asked, concerned.
"He never wanted to see me again. I really wish that someone had been there to tell me what to do..."
"Someone there?" Cassie asked, shocked.
"Well, I don't know...a friend who understood, who could tell me how to do 'it' and make it perfect..." Maria said carefully.
"It was really that bad?!" Cassie squealed, petrified. "I don't want to break up with Jesse!"
"Listen, he'll be here soon, won't he?"
Cassie looked at the clock and nodded.
"Why don't you go upstairs and freshen up, put some make-up on and make yourself beautiful for Jesse and I'll be here to meet him and have a little chat with him...." Maria suggested.
"I don't have any make-up...my mom doesn't approve..." Cassie complained.
After lending the girl some of hers and packing her off upstairs Maria heard footsteps on the gravel path and went and opened the door.
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"Er hello? I..." Jesse said, puzzled as he looked at the strange woman in the doorway.
"Hello, you must be Jesse!"
"Yeah..." He replied cautiously.
"I'm Maria, Cassie's cousin." She lied as she lent over to kiss him on both cheeks. Jesse stood frozen. He could feel Maria's body pressed close to his and he could smell her spicy perfume.
"Is Cassie here?" He asked, suspiciously.
"Right upstairs. Come in, come in." Maria said as she led him in by the shoulders, kicking the door shut with her foot.
"I didn't know Cassie had a cousin?" Jesse said timidly.
"Well, we're not really related but we're very good friends. Really, I'd have thought a good boyfriend would have known that!" Maria scolded. "In fact, despite the age difference, we're really close. That's why she told me about tonight and your plans."
"She told you!?" Groaned Jesse, thinking he was going to die.
"She wants me here to help make it perfect for you."
"I think we can manage..." He said quietly. The hot older woman was still too close to him and it was making him uneasy.
"Manage? You don't care if Cassie has a special night?"
"Oh. No. I'll do whatever she wants..."Jesse said uncertainly.
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"Cassie, you look beautiful" Jesse exclaimed, standing up as his girlfriend entered the room. Cassie flushed at the compliment and shut her eyes as Jesse took her hands. She thought he was going to kiss her and tilted her head up.
The kiss never came.
