"Your apartment is smaller than my house!" Mason declared from his car seat as I carefully navigated his mom's 4Runner out of the parking lot. After I straightened the car into the lane of traffic, I glanced at the rearview as I replied to my friend's five-year-old.
"That's true, Mason. I don't need a lot of space for just me; it's not like I have a crazy Mase-Monster running around!" He laughed at the teasing use of his nickname and looked out the window.
Babysitting isn't so hard, I thought to myself as we turned off the main road into the quiet neighborhood. The playdate at Mason's friends' house held diverse benefits for me as a parenting novice. Sharing childcare duties with Mark, the girls' dad, a more seasoned parent, was obviously a huge plus. But, after making Mark's, um, 'acquaintance' at the pool yesterday, the afternoon promised an array of more colorful perks. As I turned onto their street, a warm jolt kicked through my loins at the thought of what awaited me at our destination.
Luckily, Mason was sufficiently preoccupied by his playdate with Theresa and Michelle that he hadn't asked why we stopped at my apartment on the way to his friends' house. I didn't want to invent an excuse for a five-year-old why the clothes in my babysitting overnight weren't suitable for spending the afternoon with his friends' dad. He had contentedly watched cartoons for twenty minutes while I shut myself in the bedroom to assemble an outfit.
When I'd emerged, he had observed "Oh! Those are tall shoes!" Rather than interrogate me as to why I had changed into towering patent black high heels -- as well as a fitted, grey square-neck tee, and a short red and blue plaid skirt over black stockings -- Mason instead insisted that he also wanted to make his appearance more formal. Thinking fast, I'd outfitted him with a red bowtie off an old stuffed bear, which Mason proudly straightened as we pulled into the driveway of his friends' house.
As I unbuckled the latch on Mason's car seat, I heard the front door of the house open. With an eruption of laughter, the twin girls rushed down the walk to meet us. In chorus, they greeted me "Hiiii Aunt Sarah!" then snatched Mason away from me by his outstretched arms. The girls were decked out in princess dresses, so it seemed fortuitous that Mason was wearing his tie.
Mark ambled casually down the walk, wearing standard weekend dad-fare: polo shirt, khaki shorts, and boat shoes. He dodged the rushing knot of children as they brushed past him on their way to the backyard, then stopped in his tracks before me. His eyes bulged as he gawped at my outfit, letting out a low whistle. I fretted if my outfit was "too much"; if my skirt was too short, or if my gauzy, clingy top betrayed too much of the black lace bra underneath.
"What will my neighbors think I'm up to, seeing me bring a fine-ass white girl dressed like this into my house?" He asked in mock concern, his massive smile dominating the bottom half of his face. My bright crimson lips bent into my own sultry smile.
"What your neighbors don't know..." I replied mischievously. Another moistening lurch bolted inside me as he took my hand and led me up the walk into the house.
Mark ushered me inside and shut the front door. I scanned the adjacent rooms for peeping children's eyes, then lifted the pleated back of my skirt, exposing the lacy elastic tops of my stockings and the frilly lace of my black thong splitting my buttocks. With my sexy secrets revealed, I reached up and pulled Mark's mouth to mine. Our mouths embraced as we stood in the foyer, dancing and tugging at each other's lips in thrilling anticipation. My carefully shaved slit dripped with excited moisture, longing for the inevitable but distant.
He broke away after a long moment, clearing his throat and eagerly pulling me by my arm into the kitchen at the back of the house. Beyond the back windows, the three kids ran in circles around a plastic castle in the yard. Glass French doors hung ajar and led out to a large wooden deck. On the marble kitchen counter, two wide-rimmed margarita glasses were arranged beside a blender full of green mixture, as promised.
"How do you take your margs?" Mark asked as he lifted the pitcher off the blender.
"Full of alcohol!" I replied, beaming. He laughed at my lame joke; the man was willing to make some sacrifices to get laid.
Mark poured two drinks then led me out the doors to a patio table and chairs. He graciously pulled out a seat for me, then took his seat opposite, facing the yard and the playing kids.
We watched their game (seemingly a peaceful oligarchic state whose primary agricultural good was dinosaurs) for a while, chatting pleasantly, not unlike a normal date. College, work, sports, we conversed smoothly through each other's lives. As the children's game reached its first crisis (dinosaurs had escaped!), Mark rose from his chair and tipped the last of his drink into his mouth.
"Well, I don't know about you, but all this parenting has made me thirsty! How about another round?" He grinned as he extended a hand to help me up from my seat. Waving to the three dino-lords in the yard, he ushered me back through the doors and into the empty house.
Mark unscrewed the cap of the Jose and poured an alarming amount of tequila into the blender as he gestured to a row of stools on the opposite side of the counter. He filled the pitcher the rest of the way with green margarita mix then started pulsing the concoction together.
"Can you get more ice?" He shouted over the whirring blades. I stared at him a moment and he repeated, louder, "Ice!?" and nodded his head at the refrigerator. I nodded, grabbing the bowl from the counter and walking around the end of the marble island to the middle of the kitchen.
I reached the fridge and pulled out the bottom freezer drawer, then bent over to grab fistfuls of ice into the bowl. Behind me, the droning of the blender stopped. In an instant, I felt the pleated hem of my skirt rise, exposing the pale globes of my bum, split by the black lace ribbon of my thong.
"What kind of babysitter wears this to a playdate?" Mark commented as his hand brushed leisurely over my snowy buttocks.