This oneâs for the ever delectable Nikki M., who has her own reasons for liking this kind of storyâŠâŠâŠâŠâŠ
Iâm a realtor, a job I never imagined myself having when I was young but which has turned into something that I really enjoy. I get to meet lots of different people and set my own hours. I make plenty of money, which seems to mostly get spent on my wife Judy and my daughter Andrea. Not that I mind, because I love them both dearly.
One of my responsibilities as a realtor is to take videos of my clientsâ homes. We post them on our website so that potential customers can take a virtual tour of the house they are considering buying. I also keep stills from the videos on my laptop so that I can show those off, too.
I own a fancy digital video camera, one with all of the bells and whistles. It was pretty expensive, but if it helps me sell houses Iâm all for it. It uses several different batteries, and I was on the way out the door to meet a new client when I discovered that one of them was bad.
At this point, I figured that I had two choices. I could stop by the store on the way to my appointment and pick up a new battery. But Iâd be a few minutes late to meet my client, and that wasnât exactly the first impression I liked to give.
My other choice was to run upstairs and see if I could find the spare battery in Andreaâs room. My daughter has an MP3 player that uses the same battery, and I knew that she had one because Iâd bought it for her just last week. I thought I was doing her a favor, but when I gave it to her she said, âHey, I donât need this but thanks anyway.â I said, âKeep it. Youâll need it someday.â I didnât know that I was going to need it before she did.
If I could find the battery in her room quickly enough than I wouldnât be late for my appointment. I decided that Iâd gamble on looking in her room rather than the certain delay of running to the store.
I looked in the obvious place first â her desk. I was kind of uncomfortable going through it. Sheâs almost grown, and I felt that at her age she deserved her privacy. On the other hand, I was her father. I compromised by making as quick a search as I could. But I didnât find the battery.
I moved my search over to her shelves. I looked under her colorful Beanie Babies and by her stereo. Behind her collection of pictures of herself and her friends through the years. I went through her assortment of costume jewelry. After a minute or two I concluded that the battery was not on her shelves.
The only place left was her dresser. I figured that it was unlikely that the battery was in with her clothes and I was jout going to skip it and run to the store. But then I remembered that I kept a drawer full of junk in my dresser. Maybe my daughter did too.
I went through her dresser quickly, just giving the clothes in each drawer a quick toss to look underneath. Of course the battery was in the last drawer I looked in. It was in a pile of assorted junk in the bottom left drawer, along with her underwear. I couldnât help myself as I glanced at her panty collection. She had panties with bunnies, panties in silk and cotton, thong panties and satin panties. Panties in pinks and blues and lavenders. I drew my eyes away and grabbed the battery. I was about to close the drawer when I noticed it.
Almost hidden under a pair of silky cream colored panties was a garterbelt. It was black and lacy, and when I moved the panties to see it better I also saw a pair of shiny nylon stockings in a dark smoke color. Even though my eyes were drawn to it in a kind of âisnât that sexyâ way I really didnât give it much thought. I mean, Andrea had always been a jeans and t-shirt kind of girl.
My daughter had never been one to dress up at all. She didnât wear makeup and it seemed like she hardly ever even combed her short dark hair. Last Christmas it was like pulling teeth to get her to wear a dress to our family party. When sheâd reluctantly put it on, Judy and I had complimented her on how pretty she looked, but our opinion must not have counted for much because she wouldnât wear one again. But I guess that since she was an almost grown woman I assumed that sheâd come to own some of that kind of stuff, even if she never wore it.
I took the battery and got to my appointment on time. We made a walkthrough video and I was on my way to another sale. Afterwards I stopped by the camera store and picked up another battery. By the time I got back it was almost time for Andrea to be home from school. My wife had rush hour to contend with and wouldnât be home for a little bit yet. I sat down at my desk to work on editing my video into the perfect sales pitch.
Andrea came in a little later. She had on her usual pair of faded jeans, torn sneakers and a t-shirt. Her book laden backpack was slung over her shoulder. âHey Dad.â That was her usual greeting as she bounced up the stairs to her room. I was working on my presentation and I figured that I could tell her about borrowing her battery and give her the new one when she came back down.
I was trying to make my clientsâ hopeless backyard look a little greener when Andrea waltzed through the living room again, obviously on her way out. She was still dressed in her jeans and t-shirt and her ever present backpack was still on her shoulder.
âGotta split,â she said, bending over to give me a kiss on the cheek.
âWhereâre you going?â
âKeithâs taking me to see the new Mandy Moore movie. Itâs a sequel to that other one. Itâs called âNight to Remember.â Itâs supposed to be really good, and I told you and Mom I was going last week.â
I vaguely remembered that conversation. I punched a key on my computer, saving my newly created video. By the time I looked up, Andrea was walking out the door, tossing a âBye Dad,â over her shoulder.
She was already gone, and I hadnât had the chance to give her her battery back. Oh well, I thought. If I put it back now sheâd never know Iâd been in there at all. I fetched the battery and went upstairs and tossed it into her dresser drawer. I had it almost closed when something struck me amiss. I still donât know exactly why, but I pulled the drawer back open to take a look.
It took me a moment to realize what Iâd seen. The garterbelt and nylons were gone. I took a quick shuffle through the panties in the drawer, but the sexy black underthings were definitely not there.
Now that was interesting. I mean, Andrea still had on her jeans and t-shirt when she left. She looked just like she always did. And she certainly hadnât had time to put them on under her other clothes. My curiosity got the better of me and I took a quick look through the rest of her room like I had earlier, but this time looking for the missing underthings. They were nowhere to be found.
The nagging little question of what she might have done with the garterbelt tickled my curiosity as I went back downstairs to watch the news. The best explanation I could come up with was that maybe one of her girlfriends had left it here after a sleepover and Andrea was going to take it back. But that didnât exactly make sense. Andrea had said that she was going to a movie with Keith. I may not know everything about my daughter, but I do know one thing â she never lies to me. Oh, she may stretch the truth here and there. And sheâs not above leaving something out of an explanation if she thinks I shouldnât know about it. But sheâs never actually told me a lie.
I was contemplating my possible choices of action, and had settled on casually sharing my discovery with my wife. But I didnât get the chance. I met her at the door when she got home, and I took her in my arms and gave her an appreciative hug and a warm kiss. Thoughts of Andreaâs garterbelt flew from my head as I held Judy. She looked delicious in her work clothes, and I didnât get to take her out of them too often. As we kissed I was starting to think that maybe I was going to get my chance tonight. Andrea wasnât home and we had the place to ourselves, at least for a couple of hours.
I leaned back as I held her and started to unbutton her blouse.
âOh no you donât,â she murmured.
âWhy not?â
âTonightâs girlâs night out.â She said this with that long suffering patient voice that all women seem to develop towards their husbands. She went out with a bunch of her friends once a month or so, and apparently it was tonight. âI told you about it last week.â