It had been eagerly awaited, but now the big event was happening. May the 12th and we were down in Somerset to attend the 40th birthday party of my wife's friend Nancy. Along with another thirty-five friends and colleagues was another couple and their two daughters, Alice, now aged nineteen, and her younger sister, Emily. We had first met them five years earlier when Nancy and her partner Gail had their civil partnership.
Five years earlier, at the party after the Ceremony, Alice had been up dancing all the time. Now, five years later at Nancy's 40th party it was her younger sister Emily who was behaving like this, whereas Alice, who we had heard was now at university, was sitting very quietly.
However, much to her humiliation, her mother and sister had managed to drag her up on to the floor for a couple of dances.
At this party Alice was dressed much more conservatively than her sister but was wearing a tight cashmere top over a white short-sleeved blouse and tight black shiny lycra trousers, through which evidence of a skimpy thong could just be detected.
After dancing for a couple of songs with her mother and sister, Alice removed her cashmere top revealing a tight lacy white blouse, which started to fluoresce quite brightly in the UV lights that the DJ was using. Almost immediately, Alice appeared to become very self-conscious and left her mother and sister to go back and sit down.
A couple of dances later I needed to take a break and went back to our table which was adjacent to Alice's to have a drink. Taking a seat as close as possible to Alice, I started up a conversation with her reminding her how it had been her who had been dancing non-stop 5 years earlier.
"I remember 5 years ago when you were the one dancing all night. Why not now?" I quizzed.
But to my surprise Alice admitted to being a bit embarrassed that her blouse was glowing so much.
"I didn't realise the DJ would have fluorescent lighting and it would glow so much!" she confessed.
"But surely the night clubs still use UV lighting? And you will all be glowing like mad!" I replied, a bit surprised.
"Yes, but it's not the same here, you wouldn't understand!" she retorted back.
Having been a little bit disappointed with Alice's response, I tried to lighten the mood a little.
"More than you think, just as well you're not wearing a bra or that would be more embarrassing for you!"
This seemed to hit the mark, as Alice got very embarrassed.
"How do you know that I am not?" she stuttered out.
"Well, your lovely white top is quite thin so a coloured bra would show through, and if you had a white bra on, it would be glowing even brighter!" I carefully replied, knowing that this would either get me slapped in the face or raise a little bit of curiosity.
I could see quite a shocked and puzzled look come over Alice's face, so I continued to explain.
"I'm a scientist and I know why clothes glow in UV light, I could bore you to death with the science."
Taking a deep breath, I then took another leap of faith.
"However, with breasts like yours why hide them away? Your nipples certainly want to say hello!"
She looked down to see her nipples showing quite obviously through her thin blouse and blushed profusely, but then seemed to lose her embarrassment.
"Next you'll be telling me that I have no knickers on?" she quizzed.
I smiled back.
"Knickers, no, but a thong, yes!" I replied quietly.
She gasped.
"Sorry, there's a faint line of them through your trousers on your hips, you have to look closely to see them." I continued, trying to appear a bit ashamed.
"So, you have been looking really closely at my body?" she slowly questioned.
"You bet! What male, and in present company, female, would not want to cast a glance or more at your body!" I exclaimed, almost in triumph as I was sure I had her caught now.
"You must have this happening all the time at University?" I added, questioningly.
"Yes, but they are my age!" she gasped out, almost at the cheek of my suggestion.
"So old foagies like me are not allowed to have sexual erotic thoughts, etc?" I countered.
"No, I didn't mean that," she said, almost apologetically.
Then, I decided to test the water.
"Do you not think that I could sexually satisfy you? How many of your younger boyfriends have made you orgasm?" Then the coup de grace.