Normally I do baby-sitting in the evenings, but occasionally I get a job for a weekend afternoon. The one I had today was pretty standard. The father had a big match he was playing in and the mother was going along to cheer him on. The children, being superfluous to requirements, were staying at home under my devoted care. Not a problem.
The potential problem didn't appear until the parents were leaving. Then with one throw-away line they left me in the shit.
"Oh, by the way, Becky, my brother will probably be dropping around later. He's borrowing some tools. He knows where they are. You do know my brother, Mick, don't you?"
God, yes, I knew Mick. He was the terror of babysitters, world-wide. He considers himself a handyman. Handy, is right. He's all hands whenever he gets with reach of a woman. When he's around you have to watch him and never get closer than three or four feet. A groper par excellence, was dear old Mike. And he was coming around and I'd have to be polite.
For the first half of the afternoon there were no problems. It was a nice day and the kids were playing quietly in the back yard. I was seated on the back veranda, keeping a casual eye on them.
At about three, Mike turned up. He wandered straight round to the back yard, heading for the garage. He spotted me and waved and pointed to the garage, then ducked inside it. He came out a few moments later carry a small toolbox, held it up for me to see and wandered back out.
I couldn't believe my luck. Here and gone again. A good thing I didn't belief it. He'd just dumped the tool box in his car and came wandering back to flirt. And grope if he could.
As soon as I saw he was aiming to join me on the veranda I stood up and moved over to the railing surrounding it. I had no intention of being a sitting duck. I was giving myself plenty of room to move.
I was a little surprised that he didn't try to pounce straight away. He actually started chatting about things in general. Eventually he got around to my baby-sitting duties.
"How do you keep them quietly playing?" he asked. "They run riot when I have them."
"Experience," I said. "And I have a couple of rules."
"Yes? You seem a bit young to have much experience. And what are these wonderful rules. Maybe I can use them."
"I've been sitting for six years," I pointed out. "Started when I was thirteen. And the rules are pretty basic."
I grinned at him.
"Basically it's a case of watch the little bastards like a hawk and don't let them get excited. If you're watching you can see when they're getting hyped up and can step in to calm things down. If you let them go hyper all hell breaks loose."
"So, no matter what, you stay calm, cool and collected, and project that image to the kids?"
"That about sums it up," I admitted. "Keep up that faΓ§ade and the rest of your duties are a cinch."
With all that friendly chatting I'd let my guard down. I hadn't noticed that Mike was now standing right next to me. I had my hand resting on the rail while I stood there watching the kids. I was taken by surprise when Mike put his hand over mine, holding it against the rail
That was only the starter. His free hand calmly slipped under my dress and started stroking my bottom.
I gave a small yip and tried to draw away. That's when I found out why he was holding my hand against the rail - he was effectively pinning me in place. I started wriggling and tugging, slapping at the hand under my dress.
"Calm down, Becky," he said, sounding amused. "You don't want to upset the kids. Just relax a little. A bit of harmless patting on the bottom won't kill you."