My niece Kim was a strange girl. She was hardly model material in the looks department, but all the same she had a certain 'something.' Call it the 'girl-next-door' look, or 'plain but pretty' - but whatever it was, she had a strange hold over me.
Since she'd switched high schools to one in my area, she'd taken to visiting me regular on her way home. It's hard to forget that first day she knocked on my door, all of eighteen and 'all grown up'. My eyes nearly popped out when I answered, the figure on the other side of the door cut quite a picture....
Shoulder-length honey blond hair, parted in the centre. Not styled, but natural. Straight hair with a slight wave through it, enough to be cute at least. Blue eyes sparkled at me, adorned by some light green eye-shadow. Her eyebrows were plucked for a more grown-up look. Rouge lipstick painted on the sweetest little mouth a man could behold. Kim was the kind of girl who made you just want to grab her and kiss her passionately.
"Hi Uncle Will," she said - before I could say anything.
"Well, hi...err...Kim? - you've ch-ch-changed! " I stammered, feeling like a fool for saying it.
"Oh, I know, I'm eighteen now Uncle Will - you haven't seen me in some time, have you?"
"Errr... no, I haven't," was my dumbass reply.
"Well, you better come in seeing as you came all this way..." I said, beckoning her in.
Once seated with a cup of coffee each, Kim explained all about her move to a new school and the reasons behind it.
"Let's get this right Kim, you were expelled for bad behaviour?" I couldn't believe what she'd just told me.