I was at home relaxing when Doris dropped past to see Janelle, my daughter. Having known us since forever, in her words, all she did was bang on the door as she came waltzing in.
"Hi, Mr Evers," she sang as she headed towards Janelle's room. A few moments later she was back.
"Where's Janelle?" she asked.
"If you'd stopped to say hullo I'd have told you already," I said mildly. "There was something she simply had to get and she's down at the shopping centre. She should be back in a few minutes. She might not be back for half an hour. If you go down to the shops to meet her she'll probably be here by the time you reach the shops. Your choice."
Doris gave me a look of feminine superiority and pulled out her phone.
"It's called a phone," she told me. "I can just call her and tell her I'll meet her down there."
She pressed the call button on her phone and a few moments later Janelle's phone started ringing. Doris looked over at it, a betrayed look on her face.
"It's called a flat battery," I told her. "Currently being charged."
"You might have told me that straight away," she grumbled.
"You didn't really give me a chance," I said cheerfully. "Too busy showing your superiority."
She gave me a decidedly unfriendly look and flopped down in a comfortable chair.
After a few moments of watching the TV she turned to me.
"Isn't there something that we can watch other than this dreck?" she wanted to know.
I looked over at her. Eighteen, nubile, and dressed for a hot day, namely shorts and a ragged top. I was prepared to swear that I'd caught a glimpse of under-boob when she'd flopped down onto the chair.
"There is something I'd prefer to look at," I admitted. "Why don't you take your top off?"
"Well for a start I don't have a bra on," she said smugly.
"Yes, I'd already surmised that. That's why I want you to take your top off, so that I can see just how nice your breasts look."
The look on her face said she was feeling shocked and just a little intrigued. Then she shook her head, dismissing the idea.
"I couldn't. I just couldn't," she said quickly sitting deeper into the chair.
"Why not? You know you want to. The very thought of it is teasing you."
"No it's not," she said quickly. I just smiled and raised an eyebrow.
Girls can't stand silence. They have to fill it with noise, words preferably.
"What makes you think I was thinking about it? I wasn't," she grumbled.
"You have a thin top," I pointed out.
She looked puzzled, so I pointed out the obvious.
"Your nipples," I murmured and when she looked down she blushed, realising that her nipples were standing out in a most pronounced way.
"I couldn't anyway," suddenly hitting on a reason why not. "Janelle could be home at any moment and how would I explain running around without my top?"
"Not a problem. You'll hear her car when she arrives home and can put it back on quite quickly."
I gave her an expectant smile, hinting that the time for excuses was over and now it was time for a decision.
She sat there, chewing on her lip a little, indecisive. She'd always been a little vain and showing off her breasts played right into that, but what if she did, she was thinking. Finally her vanity and the fact that she knew me tipped the balance. She blushed very prettily and took her top off, sitting there with her top in her lap and holding her shoulders back. I don't know if she was deliberately trying to flaunt her figure but that was the effect.
"Very nice," I said softly. "Go on."
"What do you mean, go on?" she asked sounding a trifle confused.
"Just that. Don't stop there." I nodded towards her shorts and her eyes opened wide.
"Oh, I couldn't. I really couldn't," she said, nearly mimicking what she said when I mentioned her top. "Don't ask me."
"Too late not to ask, isn't it? Tell you what. You won't have to take your shorts off if you come over here so I can admire you from closer range."
Blushing she got to her feet and moved over to stand in front of me, putting a decided bounce into her step as she came, her breasts obediently bouncing along with her.