By jasperspenΒ©
All persons engaged in sexual activity in this story, are over 18 years of age.
This story took place in the 1970s in the United Kingdom when the 'World Wide Web' or Internet as it is known today, was barely an infant and not available to private individuals. As for mobile phones, they were only at an experimental stage. This meant that knowledge of sex was gleaned mostly by chats with 'experienced' friends or looking at adult magazines aka Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler and so on.
Boys and girls were nowhere near as mature or knowledgeable about sex at age 18 compared to many of today's 14 or 15 year olds, thanks mainly to the multitude of internet 'information' that can now be accessed by anyone that can type 'sex' into a search engine.
All of this is to set the scene for you, to make you aware that in the 1970s, unlike the present, many boys and girls at age 18 were considerably naΓ―ve when it came to real sexual encounters.
Obviously, if you have read the previous chapters you will be more in tune with the characters.
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Mom had been pleased to see that Sue had made a good job of cutting my hair, and had not said anything that led us to think she might have had any suspicions about what else we had done in the hairdressing salon. In fact, she had been very complimentary about how well we were now getting along, with few arguments or disagreements.
Our routine of clearing up after dinner each evening, washing the dishes and utensils while our parents went into the sitting room to watch the TV News, had become a regular pattern, so we were able to chat and sometimes mess with each other a bit, without arousing any suspicion. We had had some sexy banter and not too risky feeling of each other while doing that, but we hadn't had any opportunities to do anything more.
My half-term break from college was approaching next week, and I was looking forward to being able to spend some time in my shed during the day, when no one was around. I had slowly increased my library of 'Men's' magazines and was looking forward to studying them in detail without interruption.
Unfortunately, that wasn't how it was going to be.
"You can, but we can't afford for someone to come in and do it," I heard Mom saying to Sue one day, as I came down to breakfast.
"What's that then?" I asked, not having heard any of the previous conversation.
"Your sister wants to decorate her room," Mom replied, "she says it's too old fashioned and she wants to change it all."
"Ohh ok," I said, more interested in filling my cereal bowl.
"Dad could help me," Sue said.
"No, he works too hard already," Mom said, "neither of us are as young as we used to be."
"Oh well," Sue sighed, "guess I'll have to leave it as it is."
There was a pause while we continued eating our breakfast.
"But..." Mom suddenly said, as though a light bulb had gone off in her head, "Ben is going to be on holiday soon, he could help you if we buy the materials."
"What," I spluttered, seeing where this was going, "I know nothing about decorating."
"Well it's a good time to learn then isn't it?" Mom said, triumphantly, "what do you think Mike?" she asked our dad, who had his head stuck in a newspaper as usual.
"Yes, good idea," he replied absently, not looking up from his reading.
"See, your dad is in agreement Ben," she added, a self-satisfied smile on her face.
"Aww Mom, I have plans for my week off."
"I'm sure you can give your sister a bit of your time Ben, it's not too much to ask."
I knew I was onto a looser, so I resigned myself to having to give up a couple of days to help Sue.
I was just about to carry on eating my breakfast, when Sue got up, passing behind Mom and Dad, she gave me one of her 'raised eyebrow' looks and said, "I want to paint the walls rather than have wallpaper, so we are going to have to strip everything off."
I groaned at the thought of all that work, but then I caught the cheeky grin that followed and wondered if she meant something else or was just playing me up.
"I am going to take a few days holiday next week," Sue said, "is Monday ok to start?" she asked me.
"Yea, I guess so," I mumbled through my mouthful of cereal.
"Good. You can take Sue in the car on Sunday and buy the paint and things you need from the big DIY store in the new shopping complex. The shops there are all open on Sundays," Mom generously offered.
Oh great, not only days during the week, but I had to lose Sunday too, and I hate shopping. As Sue hadn't passed her driving test yet, I knew I would have to drive her, so once again I accepted luck wasn't with me today and got on finishing my breakfast, so I could get to college.
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The week finally came to an end, and on Saturday I spent most of the day with my mate helping him with repairs to his old motorbike. I swear he spends more time repairing it than riding it, but it's interesting and we can chat about life and the world in general as we work, so I do enjoy it, even if it does take a while to get the grease from my hands afterwards.
When I went down to breakfast on Sunday, Sue was busy writing a list of things we needed to buy. I looked over her shoulder and it looked like she had been doing some measurements and calculations so that she would know how much paint and stuff we might need.
"That looks organised," I said, "maybe it won't take too long if you know what you want."
"Yeah, I thought that. Dad helped me to measure up last night and has given me the money to cover it, so I think we should be ok. I'm quite excited about it. I've already had breakfast, so I'm going to get ready. Give me a call in my room as soon as you are ready to go," she instructed, as she rose and left me to eat mine.
I called her about a half hour later and she came downstairs looking as if she was going out on a date rather than to a DIY store. She had put on a light-green miniskirt, that ended mid-thigh, a tight-fitting white top and sandals. Her legs were bare, which they usually were unless it was much colder, and she had obviously put on a little make-up and looked very sexy indeed.
"I didn't realise we had to dress up," I said, a bit sarcastically, as I was wearing my regular shorts and tee-shirt.
"Some of us like to look nice when we go out," she countered, but with a knowing sort of smile that I didn't understand.
"Shall I escort madam to the car," I said, hamming up the chauffeur role.
"Yes please driver," she retorted, taking up the act.