I was eighteen that spring when my father’s twin brother from Pennsylvania came to visit us in St. Louis. I was still in High School attending St. Elizabeth’s Girls Academy, and graduation was only about a month and a half away. I had not seen my Uncle Alex since I was five, when he moved away. He intrigued me, on the outside he looked a lot like my father. His personality was different however, where he was fun and outgoing my dad was stern in introverted. So one Monday morning I decided to spend the day alone with him while my parents were at work.
This was easy enough, I was a good girl and did not hang out with the “bad crowd”, or drink or smoke and made good grades. My parents trusted me to get to school on time since they had to leave for work before I got up. I merely slept in, planning on telling Uncle Alex that I did not have school for teacher training day or something.
I surprised Alex at the kitchen table when I finally got out of bed around 9:30. He did not expect to see his niece, dressed in an over sized sleep shirt walk into the room. As I got my breakfast of cereal and orange juice I could sense his eyes on me when my back was turned. However, once I turned around his nose was in his paper. I chalked it up to my imagination, even though I had had my 36C breasts since last summer I could not get over men looking at me in that way. I sat down across from him.
“I thought you were supposed to be in school, Missy.” He said, not looking up from his paper. He was ready the everyday section.
“Well you know, teacher training day and stuff.” I said looking into my cereal bowl, tense from lying.
“Teacher…” The phone cut him off thankfully. He got up to answer it laying the paper down, and he went into the other room to answer the phone. He was looking at movie times and I noticed and advertisement for a movie I wanted to see.
I was still looking at show times when he came back in. “Who was it?” I asked.
“Wrong number.” He answered. “See something you like?”
“Yeah, this one here.” It was some cheesy romantic comedy that I had wanted to see for some time, but had yet to get around to it. I did not figure it would be in theaters much longer.
He looked at the advertisement, and smirked. “I was hoping to see the new Eastwood, but how often do I get to spend an afternoon with my niece?” I smiled at his invitation. “Now go get dressed. The movie starts at 11:45.”
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We left the house about 11:00. I had dressed myself in a black skirt, and a cute white blouse. I put on a red bra & panty set, and the only stockings I had were black thigh highs. I topped off the set with my new pair of boots. When I met Uncle Alex at the door he too had dressed up in khakis and a button up shirt with a black t-shirt underneath instead of the jeans he seemed to always wear.
“You know, Kalli,” he said as he drove us to the theater, “your mother was dating me when your dad met her?”
“Really? They never talk about it.”
“Yes, we were about your age.” He drifted off for a moment. “You look a lot like her.” He said before coming back down to Earth. I felt something odd in that conversation, but let it go. I was having fun.
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When we got to the theater and got settled in with our popcorn, large sodas and candy (it was a big enough splurge just to get dad to the movies) we noticed we had the theater all to ourselves. “Great, now we can talk as loud as we want through the movie!” Uncle Alex said as the previews started.
“People do that?” I asked, dad was always so anal about things like that.
“They do that and a lot of other things dear one.” He said with a smile.
After about fifteen minutes of the movie I could tell he was bored. I playfully nudged him awake. We shared a laugh and went back to the movie. I noticed I was closer to him than before. Then I noticed he had put his hand on my knee. I had not even noticed, and now that I did notice it I was shocked. He was my Uncle! Why then was I getting excited instead of uncomfortable?