Chapter 5: The Birthday Party

Now, a year after the conversation on male anatomy, David mostly had forgotten about the conversation he’d had with Julianne and her two older girls. Ruth was now almost fourteen, Jenny was pushing hard on thirteen, and Leah, who would be ten in two days, was already as tall as Ruth and her mother, although she was still skinny, with her hips flaring nicely, but with no signs of breasts budding yet. Because she was an avid tennis player, ten-year old Leah had developed shapely legs and an amazing rounded and muscular backside, which often seemed to have half their round shape showing below the bottom of her gym shorts.

Jenny, now 13, at about 5’5” had shot up in height to be taller than her mother, with lovely soft auburn hair and hazel eyes, and freckles all over her nose and cheeks. Slim to the point of being almost skinny, she had breasts that were about the size of half a lemon, with nipples that seemed to poke through every bra she wore, regardless of how much padding it seemed to have.

Ruth hadn’t grown much, if any, in height during the past year, but she had definitely gotten the slim waist, wide hips, and pert breasts of her mother. David sometimes couldn’t help but remember the sight of Ruth in his bathroom that day a year ago.

Because Leah’s birthday was in just two days, and occurred on the Tuesday before Junior high School started, Julianne had arranged with David to use his pool for a pool party for Leah’s birthday. David’s backyard was currently filled with about a dozen 10-12 year-old girls, plus a half-dozen boys of the same age that Leah decided weren’t too yucky to have over. In fact, though, Leah’s very best friend was a boy, but the other girls didn’t seem to mind.

Trying to keep an eye on things while not crashing the party, David worked on a lawnmower one of the neighborhood boys had hauled out of a road-side trash pile, trying to resurrect it so that the boy could use it to earn money over the last bit of summer, which in central Florida seemed to last into November.