Author's Note:
The Girl-Guides (Girl-Scouts in the United States) is a great organization, concerned with the welfare and behavioral development of young ladies, preparing them for future social inter-action. Moving through the Girl Guide ranks, from as young as eight years old to twenty plus, some girls come better equipped than others.
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Jacynta? pretty name, reminds me of a fairy for some reason. Not that I have been privy to that many fairies over the years, least not those with shimmery wings and a bra-full of fairy dust.
Jacynta Thomas was no fairy but probably the next best thing -- a Girl Scout. Now I know one is not supposed to automatically think of an eighteen-year old girl in any sexual sense, but hey, when you open your front door and find yourself face to face with maybe five foot two inches of cute blonde innocence standing on your porch shuffling about nervously, hands behind her in close proximity to rearward curves that you would give both your Rolex and BMW drop-top to have seated on your lap for the duration of "So you think you can dance?" What the hell are you supposed to be thinking about? Only reason I knew she was eighteen (I would have thought way younger, in that uniform) was because she flashed her ID.
"Hi, I'm Jacynta," she enunciated breathlessly. "Are there any household jobs I could do for you?"
"Aren't you a little old to be doing this sweetheart?" I asked.
She then explained that she was actually a senior and head of the neighborhood troop but because several girls were sidelined with various illnesses currently, she was filling in for a couple of girls and handling door-knock appeals.
The cute brown uniform with gold edging highlighted her youthful appeal. She had a small name badge pinned at the precise spot on her chest, where the most attractive of swellings suggested that Mother Nature was on her case full-time.
Casting my mind into hyper-drive, I stood there thinking desperately what I could find that might take the girl at least a month to finish.
"Who's at the door?' My wife called from the recesses of the kitchen.
"Just a fairy... I mean a Girl Scout hun," I called out to her. When I looked back at Jacynta, she was giggling quietly.
"Sorry sweetheart," I apologized, "I'm for ever getting fairies and scouts confused." My words of explanation did little to restrict her mirth.
I was still racking my brain in desperation, when my wife put in an appearance.
"Well she could start by hanging out the washing I guess," Cathy volunteered, glancing across at the doorway.
"Sure," said the girl, "I'd be happy too."
Cathy took her out the back and through to the laundry. Moments later she was beside me again.
"Pretty little thing isn't she?" she muttered, looking out the window.
"Hadn't really noticed," I replied, managing to keep a straight face somehow.
"Yeah right," she grinned, "That's why your eyes are glued to her backside, watching her peg stuff out? God, you men are all the same! She returned to her kitchen duties.
My wife's observation of course had been spot-on! Watching that shapely little bottom jiggling about, the material of her dress riding up her hips slightly as she reached up on tip-toes with another peg, was exquisite torture. Fate obviously wanted me dead I decided, when a moment later she bent over to retrieve the next item from the wash-basket. Presented momentarily was the mother of all rear up-skirt vistas, topped off by a witheringly hot flash of the girl's light-blue undies, I felt a sudden 'solidarity' shall we say, in a fully inappropriate area.
Jacynta finished her outdoor task in a few minutes and stood before me once more.
"Anything more I can do?" she asked in wide-eyed innocence. How close I came to suggesting she go clean my car in just her panties.... full wax and polish!
"Do we have something else for her to do hun?" I called out to Cathy.
"I guess she could clean up the spare room -- it's a mess," came the reply.
"Cool," I thought, at least that's a good excuse to get her upstairs in a more "accommodating" part of the house as it were!
Leading her up the flight of stairs, after all there was no way I could get her to walk ahead of me, I entered the guest room. Cathy was right -- it really was a mess. Clothes, suitcases and all manner of junk lay on the un-made bed. Several half-open boxes were strewn across the floor and the mantel looked to be thick with dust.
"You've got yourself a challenge there kid," I told her. "Hang whatever clothes you come across in the walk-in robe over there." I indicated the far wall. "The boxes can all go in there too.... smaller stuff just shove under the twin. Then make the bed, give the room a dust and I'd say you're done sweetie."
Nothing fazed this girl. "Ok," she beamed, "I can do that!"
Feeling vaguely 'dismissed,' I could hardly demand to stay and watch her performance, hoping naturally for some gratuitous up-skirt replays. Regretfully, I made my way downstairs.
Barely five minutes later, Cathy announced she was going to her a friend's place.
"Can I trust you to be alone with her?" she teased, picking her keys off the rack.
"C'mon hun," I handed her a pained expression. "She's eighteen years old!"
"Yeah, that's what worries me," she laughed, heading to the front door.
Remembering suddenly I had no cash on me, I called out to her. "Oh, Cathy, do you have a few bucks I can give the girl when she's finished?"
My wife fussed around in her clutch-bag for a few moments. "Just give her this twenty -- she'll have earned it by the time she's finished upstairs." So saying, she pulled a bill from her wallet and placed it in the bowl of loose change we keep on the small bookcase in the hallway.
Walking to the den that I used as an office, I sat down at the computer. My mind was set to roam...not anywhere it had any rights to be, admittedly. Hitting the 'sleep' button I headed back upstairs.
Still in the process of stowing all those boxes, she emerged from the walk-in. "Ohh you startled me," she giggled. Her hand strayed to her chest as she spoke. If only mine could have followed its lead, I was thinking.
"Would you like a drink sweetie?" I asked. "Doing all that hard work and all."
"Umm, do you have any Coke or Sprite?" she said, those blue eyes of hers all but freeing-up the Neanderthal urges I was striving to control.