'I'm her agent,' I said, standing back -- which was a lie, I wasn't an agent at all, I was her Mum's friend. We'd gone to school together, her mum and I. Messed around a bit in our early days. But the only way her Mum was going to let Kate be here at all, was if someone -- an 'adult' -- was along to look out for her. Kate was not about to bring either of her parents, so I was the nominated choice.
I was Kate's 'Uncle Bob'. No relation of course, but 'uncle' as in family friend. Kate, just turned nineteen, has always wanted to act, and here was her chance (she said). 'Auditions for next season's blockbuster presentation by R. W. Arnold.' -- the ad in the newspaper said. Which is why we were here.
'Turn around,' said R.W. Arnold. A rather moth-eaten looking guy of some fifty years with an assistant that might have been his son. Kate turned around. 'Lose the jacket,' snapped Arnold, then, 'Jimmy, take the girlie's jacket off.'
I thought to object to this, on the grounds that he hadn't explained why he needed her jacket off, but remembered what Kate had begged in the car: 'You need to be my agent. Just my agent. Not my uncle. Not my parent's friends. Not someone looking out for my interests. Just my agent, so your only interest is me getting the part. Can you do that for me, please?'
'Got that, Hon,' I'd replied.
Kate and I are pretty good mates.
Truth be told I have lusted after her foxy young body since it started getting foxy -- around fifteen, or so. Now she was shapely as hell. (But I had never let my lust come between us!)
'I can do it,' said Kate, quietly, to Jimmy (behind her).
'Let him do it,' snapped Arnold.
Okay ...
Kate let him take off her jacket. A grey box jacket to go with her neat grey skirt and loose white blouse ... and charcoal stockings. Jimmy made a show of unbuttoning the buttons one at a time, (and getting his groin against the youngster's pretty ass; and brushing her breasts with his knuckles). Then it was off.
'Jimmy' retreated.
Kate stood straight, shoulders square, legs long, (the mounds of her breasts looking good). Me -- her 'agent' -- sat back, kinda enjoying Kate's embarrassment at being treated like a slab of beef.
Beef-ette.
I crossed my legs.
'Lose the blouse,' said Arnold.
I uncrossed my legs, sat up, about to object ...
Kate's fingers flicked in my direction: 'Sit back. I can handle this,' her fingers hollered at me. I swallowed my concern ... and sat back: after all, this was her show. I was here to promote her, not frighten them away. And if R.W. Arnold needed to see his aspiring actresses without their shirt on ... who was I to argue? I tossed in an agent-like quip: 'Built like an angel,' I said, sounding like she was a statue.
Or a painting.
Something.
(Got a dirty look from Kate.)
'Let Jimmy do that,' said Arnold when Kate raised her fingers to the buttons of her blouse. Kate dropped her hands. Jimmy -- back behind her -- slipped his fat hands slowly round her side. She lifted her arms out from her body so he could reach the front her blouse. Jimmy glanced at me and winked. As his fingers sought a button his fat palms found her breasts. I played the detached agent -- I smiled, and winked back. 'Go for your life!' my expression encouraged, as I felt an agent might. Kate's eyes stayed on the boss, R. W. Arnold. She even managed a confident smile ... as Jimmy now and then cupped a feel of her breasts and loosed the buttons of her blouse ... and thrust his groin in her behind.
And I watched.
'There's some heavy petting involved,' said Arnold, his eyes on the opening blouse and Jimmy's hands, and what was beneath, and I thought to myself: 'Time to take my young charge and get the hell out of here!'
'Ahem,' I started, by way of exiting explanation ... But Kate cut me short. 'I have experience of acting in erotic parts,' said Kate, quickly, cutting across my burgeoning objection. And I stopped, and thought: What experience of acting in erotic parts? She's just out of school, for Chrissake! I narrowed my eyes, but shut up. I knew she was making it up, about 'erotic parts', but as I watched Jimmy (now tightly pressed against her rear) I noted his hands were making the most of the erotic parts in the middle of young Kate's pretty chest, pretty well. His fingers might have been on the buttons of her blouse but his hands were all over her tits. And Kate has excellent tits. I raised an eyebrow to myself. And folded my arms. And the blouse came off. As soon as Kate let Jimmy draw it down her arms it came as no surprise at all to me to hear Arnold say, 'Let's lose the skirt as well.'
Kate, with commendable calm, asked Arnold: 'Shall I take it off, or would you like Jimmy to do that too.' Which made Arnold smile, and with an unhealthy glint in his eye he replied,
'No, sweetie pie. I'll do that.' And with a beckoning finger he indicated that she should come over to the large stuffed chair in which he sat. I shall give Kate her due, the way she moved from the middle of the carpet to between Arnolds legs was pretty damn impressive. 'Closer,' Arnold urged, so Kate moved into the angle of his legs until her knees were clearly touching his crotch (not that he seemed to mind). I stayed where I was, looking agent-like.
Arnold reached up to Kate's skirt and using the flat of his hands felt around her until he'd located such things as the catch of her skirt, and the zip, and her hips, and her buttocks, and the flat of her stomach, bulge of her pubis, cleft between her buttocks (and other little things that resided in that area of Kate too numerous to mention). I thought I should look away, but at that moment Arnold turned to me, with one hand cupping the kid's left buttock, and the other on the inside of her stocking-clad leg, and said, 'You would recommend your client for this part?'
What could I say -- I didn't even know what the part was! -- so I tried to ignore the hand on Kate's leg -- the fingertips of which (as I tried not to notice) were hidden up her skirt -- and replied, as I felt she would wish me to, 'I believe she has all the attributes the part requires,' and left it at that.
His hand disappeared, in its entirety, up her skirt. 'And what do you think, Sweetie?' he said to Kate, his hand in pussy zone, fingertips clearly engaged. Kate's hands were clenched, her face was clearly at war with itself (but these were the only signs that she was uncomfortable with this stranger's hand up her skirt, and maybe only I noticed this -- an 'uncle' would, I suppose). But she mastered the moment well:
'I believe I have all the attributes anyone could require for this part.' She kept her chin high (and her legs conveniently apart) throughout her little speech, which I thought was rather well said.
'We'll see,' said Arnold, giving (presumable) her between-leg area a parting caress, then running down the zip. The short skirt dropped in a mound around her ankles. She left it there. Her legs remained apart. Awaiting further ...
Instructions? I wondered, watching.
But instead of any instructions, I watched -- open-mouthed, I suspect -- as this past-the-sell-by-date sort-of- guy reached out and began to run his hands over her now lightly pantie-clad thighs. Her stockings began some inches below the satin-covered pubis I watched him gently finger. Feeling the neatly tended hair within, I felt, as his other hand stroked her behind, behind. I wondered how erotic this part Kate wanted was. I had thought it was a Jane Austin adaptation. How much adapting could you do to get as intimate as this?
'What do you think, Jimmy?' asked Arnold.
I looked from Arnold, my friend's daughter between his legs, his hands between her legs; to Jimmy, who was already on his way to her half-naked rear; to Kate, who's face was void of expression -- in fact it looked kinda vacant. Then Jimmy was there, and my young charge was the filling in the sandwich. Jimmy got Kate to raise her arms out to the side again so that he could stretch his hands around her ... and cup her breasts.
I bit my lip. I kept my legs and arms tight crossed. I searched Kate's eyes for submission signs. But she let them touch what they wanted, and stared straight ahead. The price of stardom, I guessed, uncomfortably rearranging myself on the settee, flicking my eyes to the carpet then back up to the 'auditioning' three. Kate had her vacant little smile back on. And her legs apart, with Arnold's fingers tracing little foray's in between. And her breasts in the fondling hands of Jimmy ... 'Have you kissed her?' Asked Arnold, surprising me.
'No,' I said, before thinking it through. And got another dirty look, from Kate.
What was I expected to say, for chrissake?
"Duh," she said, head turned to me. "Bob, baby," (Bob -- Baby!!!) "What about the rehearsal for Candy, how many hours did you spend with me?"
What was she talking about?