"Yeah, Will I'm pulling into the garage at LAX right now."
"Alright, Jake. Take care of my little girl." Will replied.
"As if she was one of my own." I assured him.
"Oh, and one thing Jake.." Will added, "Abby is.. A little 'loose.' So keep an eye on her."
"Loose?" I thought to myself. That's a bit odd coming from a father whose oldest daughter just graduated high school.
I parked the car and headed into the baggage claim at LAX to greet my cousin's daughter, Abby.
"Uncle Jake!!" Abby exclaimed from across the airport as she sprinted towards me.
She hit me like an NFL linebacker and hugged me as tightly as she could; my arms were trapped at my side and my hands flared out sideways. I was a little caught off guard.
"Oh my God, Abby. I hardly recognized you!" I told her.
"I'm so happy to see you!" She said, without loosening her grip at all.
"Your dad let you outta the house dressed like that?!" I asked.
"God, no." She laughed. "Why? Don't you like it?"
"It's great. You look great. Like a little country girl in the big city."
My "niece" Abby is an eighteen year old girl from a small town in Tennessee; I attended her graduation a month prior to her coming to visit me in LA. It's safe to say that the small town girl I saw a month before in her cap and gown did not resemble the same girl that had her arms wrapped around me in the middle of the airport.
To paint the picture: her light brown hair was wild and wavy; meticulously curled and flowing down over her shoulders. She was wearing a short sleeve light green striped top with floral print; the neckline of her top was "V" shaped and it had three buttons near the top running down her chest - none of which were buttoned. She tied the bottom of the shirt into a bow which strapped her 32DD sized breasts tightly against her chest and she did not appear to be wearing a bra.
Her ice cold baby blue eyes were hidden behind a pair of rose gold tinted aviator sunglasses. Down below she had on the shortest pair of high waisted cut off daisy duke jean shorts which had frayed edges that wrapped tightly around her thick thighs and hugged her butt. Her boots were knee high and a brown suede material; she looked like she'd just walked from Downtown Nashville right into LAX airport.
"I'm glad you like my outfit." She smiled, "I was hoping to bring you a little taste of home."
A "little" girl she certainly was no more.
I've been living in Los Angeles for fourteen years; I left as soon as I turned 21 to pursue a career in the movie business. Bright eyed and hopeful, I thought I'd one day see my face on the big silver screen - however I quickly learned that acting was not for me. I realized I was a bit of a control freak and did not like being told what to do so I soon began writing my own scripts.
It took nearly 15 years for me to become an overnight success but success I had found. With several heavy hitting writing credits under my belt I was in the process of convincing a studio to let me direct my first feature length film but more on that later!
Abby is only 18 years old so she and I haven't spent a lot of time together; I moved away when she was four and I'd get so busy with work that there were years where I didn't return home for a visit even once - we were practically strangers and the age gap was so significant that she (and everyone else in the family) has always referred to me as "Uncle" Jake.
"I still can't believe I'm here, Uncle Jake!!" She exclaimed as I packed her luggage into the trunk of my red Porsche Cayenne. "Thank you for convincing dad to let me come visit for the summer."
I grew up an only child but my mother had two sisters of her own and they had four kids amongst themselves. So I grew up with four cousins - all of whom were older than me; my cousin Will being the oldest at 42. All four of my cousins had kids of their own bringing the grand total to ten little cousins with Abby being the oldest.
Like I said, we were from a small town in Tennessee so my entire family is close knit and heavily involved in each other's lives. Being the youngest of the family I never really felt like I fit in besides the fact that three out of four of my cousins were grass fed farm boys who were older, meaner and bigger than me (Abby's father being the biggest dickhead of the bunch) they're also extremely conservative and religious. Naturally as the black sheep of the family I fled for greener pastures.
But because we all grew up so close together in age my cousins were the closest thing I had to having brothers and a sister. Thus, "Uncle" Jake was born.
"So, how did you get past your dad wearing that outfit?" I asked.
"Last he saw of me, I was wearing a baggy hoodie and a pair of sweats." She laughed, "I slipped into the bathroom and changed before boarding the plane."
Sneaky girl...
"Speaking of, how was the flight?" I asked.
"It wasn't too bad. I slept for most of the time and watched some Netflix on my phone."
"Well, you picked a great time to fly into Los Angeles." I told her, "We probably won't get to do much of anything today. It's a bit of a drive back to my house."
LAX was only about 35 minutes from my house deep in the Hollywood Hills but it was 6 PM which is prime time for stop and go rush hour traffic up the 405 freeway. The GPS estimated it would take us about an hour and 20 minutes to get back.
"Are you hungry?" I asked.
"I am starving!!" Abby replied with an exaggerated eagerness that only an 18 year old girl could conjure.
We stopped off outside LAX and grabbed a burger at In 'n' Out before finally hitting the road.
When we arrived at my house it was nearly 8 PM and Abby had dozed "In 'n' Out" of consciousness. The animal style fries and burger put her into a food coma along with the monotonous daze of Los Angeles traffic. I couldn't believe it but I caught myself checking out her voluptuous rack and hour glass figure out of the corner of my eye a time or two. She was all but spilling out of the top she was wearing.
"Hey, we're here." I told her as I brushed a lock of her wavy hair from her face over and behind her ear.
"No way!!" Abby jumped out of her seat with her eyes wide. "This is where you live?!"
Granted my house wasn't considered a "mansion" by any means but it was perched about as far up as you can get in the hills of Hollywood and when compared to the single floor ranch style homes Abby and I grew up in it might as well have been a resort.
"Let me grab your bags and I'll give you a tour." I told her.
There's a two car garage below the dining room; I parked the Porsche SUV next to my brand new 2023 Chevy Corvette Stingray.
"Wow! Why didn't you bring this to the airport?!" She asked.
"We'd have to have left your bags at the baggage claim." I laughed.
We headed inside and up the stairs to the living room which has a pool table, a 98 inch flat screen TV, a fire place, and 10 foot tall retractable glass walls. One press of a button and the walls retract and you can walk right outside to the patio and pool area.
"Check this out." I told her as I pressed the button to open the walls.
"Oh my God." She gasped.
She ran through the living room and onto the terracotta tile that paves the backyard and leads right into the shallow end of the natural infinity swimming pool complete with rock structures and gives a nice panoramic view of the entire city.
"Look at all the lights!" She shouted.