To say that I was absolutely amazed would be a tremendous understatement.
The girl I had known for nineteen years had indeed become a woman. And not just any woman, for she was stripping on my laptop.
It suddenly made sense. During the summer, she and some friends had traveled to Europe for a week. She had said that a wealthy friend from college had invited her along.
Such an interesting lie. Laurie and I had discussed her travel plans, which had included flying to and from Budapest and then taking a train to see the surrounding area.
Interestingly, the company which made the
Computer Stripper 2008
software I had installed was also headquartered in Budapest, and apparently not
by coincidence, Laurie was stripping for me on my laptop.
...but she was not known in the program or on the Web site as Laurie. Instead, she was Plume, a French name likely chosen as a nod to our French ancestry.
The clip ended, and I immediately set another clip to play at random. This time, she was wearing a basic black bikini with matching heels and plenty of silver jewelry. The tattoo of an old-style writing quill upon her lower right arm was proof that it was indeed my sister and not just someone who looked very uncannily like her. Her hair was tied back in a ponytail, and as she sauntered toward the pole at the center of the screen, she reached up to immediately free her hair and toss the scrunchy off-screen before prancing around the pole.
I could not remember a time when Laurie was shy about displaying her body. I had never seen her naked as we grew up together, but she would often wear revealing clothes which hid just the bare minimum to be deemed acceptable. Her athleticism and her general exercise ethic had truly favored her over the years, which was particularly evident as I watched my bikini-clad sister brushing her breasts against the pole.
I knew what I would do.
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