Baby Girl - Part Two By Wanderer Coming of age. This is adult material. Please do not read if your are under age 18 or laws in your country forbid you to do so. Copyright 2008 By Wanderer. And so prom night found Janelle approaching the home address that Jack had given her. Since Nerd Boy didn't drive she had offered to pick him up. Not a big deal, she concluded. So prom night found her driving her 1975 Chevelle, looking for the address that Jack had given her. Pretty ritzy neighborhood, she mused. Not exactly my barrio. Hell, I can put on a big show tonight, pretending I'm the upper crust. My people are going to die. I'll be a big snob. Yes, my date lives in a gated community. They'll all crap. Janelle drove up to what she thought was the address. But the house was absolutely enormous. Not a house really, more like a mansion. So she kept going, but the home address numbers kept going up, past the one that Jack had given her. Damn, doesn't this nerd know his own home address? Better turn around, she thought, I must have passed it. So back Janelle went, retracing her steps. No, same thing. The address at the roadside was the same Jack had given her. Dumb boy doesn't know his own home address, she mused. How can you be a genius and not know your home address? Well, maybe that's not so unusual. Geniuses don't always pay attention to small details, like home addresses. But now Janelle was desperate. A new prom dress, a new hairdo, her single mother had invested a lot of money to make sure her only daughter had a perfect night that she would always remember, and here she wouldn't even have an escort, and without an escort she wouldn't go, it was just too embarrassing to her to have to show up alone. Her black brothers would laugh their fool heads off. Janelle stopped again and checked the address Jack had given her. Nope, it was the same as the address curbside of that huge gated and high walled estate. She could kick herself. Why hadn't she gotten Jack's home phone number so she could call in case she got lost? Well, too late. Janelle now thought maybe Jack had given her the wrong address on purpose. After all, why would a white boy want to be seen escorting a black girl to her Senior Prom? In desperation Janelle drove up to the front of the massive gate blocking entrance to the huge estate that had the address Jack had given her. Maybe they would know where the Jeffers family lived. As she got closer she could see it wasn't really a mansion, it was more like a castle. Luckily there was a call box located to the driver's side of the gate, so she rang the call bell. A very authoritative voice responded after a few seconds delay. "May I ask who is calling, please?" Janelle was taken aback by the firm tone of the voice. It was something like being interrogated by the cops. "Oh, I'm nobody," she answered, demurely. "I'm sorry to bother you. I just wanted to know if you've heard of a Jack Jeffers who's supposed to live around here. Please." "Yes, I am acquainted with that person. May I inquire as to your business with said personage?" "Oh, he was supposed to take my to my Senior Prom," she said, a weepy tone now creeping into her voice. "I guess that's it for me," and now she began to cry openly. The imperious voice at the end of the call box line softened in response. "Yes, Miss, this is the guard service. Master Jack informed us that we should expect you. Please enter. The front gate will swing open in exactly three seconds. You are required to pass within in fifteen seconds, after which the front gate will close with possible damage to your motor vehicle." "You mean Jack Jeffers lives HERE?" Janelle asked, incredulously. "Why of course, Miss," the guard responded. "Master Jack is awaiting your arrival." As promised, the front gate swung open in three seconds and Janelle drove up the quarter-mile long driveway to stop in front of the mansion, just behind a shiney Rolls Royce already parked there. An attendant opened her car door and helped her out of her dilapidated old car. Janelle looked around in awe. This was like a dream world. She felt like Cinderella, arriving at the castle to pick up her Prince Charming. Well, maybe the order was a little reversed from the fable, but hell, it was a new world now, why shouldn't Cinderella pick up Prince Charming, especially if Prince Charming doesn't drive? Janelle picked up the bottom hem of her ball gown and climbed the long flight of stairs to the massive front door. No need to ring a doorbell, a sensor sensed her presence and rang a chime within the building. Just a few seconds wait and the butler opens the front door. The butler says, "I'm sorry, madam, you must have the wrong address." "Oh," a crestfallen Janelle said. "The voice at the gate said Jack Jeffers lives here. I guess he snookered me." "Ma'am," the butler said, "Master Jack does live here, but he is engaged this evening. He is awaiting the arrival of his companion for the evening's festivities, a Ms. Stevens, so regrettably he has no time for a sales call." "I'm not here to sell anything," a more upbeat Janelle said. "I'm Ms. Stevens," a big smile now replacing the frown on her beautiful face. "Oh, I'm sorry Ms. Stevens, please enter. I'm very pleased to meet you. Master Jack doesn't receive many female visitors so you are very welcome here. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffers have asked that I invite you in so that they may have the pleasure of making your acquaintance. Let me inform the upstairs butler that you have arrived. Master Jack and the family are waiting to receive you in the library." Janelle was astounded. "You have a library here?" she questioned. "Of course," the ground floor butler said. "Do you have a lot of library members?" Janelle asked. "Oh, no, ma'am, just the family. This is a private library, for family use only." "A family has their own library? You're pulling my leg," she giggled. "Well, ma'am, you can decide for yourself. The upstairs butler has arrived to escort you. It was so nice meeting you. I hope I will have the pleasure again sometime in the future." "You can count on it, I could get used to this," she smiled. "I shall eagerly await your return," the downstairs butler responded. "Right this way," James, the upstairs butler said, as he led the way up the bifurcated stairway. "Please be careful. These marble steps can be very slippery." Janelle lifted her long formal skirt so as to not catch her high heels in the hem. "Lead on, James," she said. "This is only a formality," James said, "but do you have a calling card so that I may present you to the family, Ms. Stevens?" "No, I don't use a calling card, I use a cell phone, James. Do you need to call before you get to the library?" The upper floor butler gave Janelle a quizzical look, then his face brightened. "Oh, Ms. Stevens, you have a delightful sense of humor. I hope we will have the pleasure of your company again soon. And here we are now." James opened the door to a massive room containing shelves and shelves of books reaching up to the ceiling. Indeed, so high that there were ladders along the left and right walls so that tomes higher up were accessible. In the center of the room was a large beautiful antique walnut table with a massive array of flowers on it, surrounded by three leather covered chairs, undoubtedly one for each member of the family. As the butler and Janelle entered the room the butler announced, "Mr. and Mrs. Jeffers, I have the honor of presenting to you Miss Stevens." When seeing Janelle enter the room Jack rose from his chair and rushed to Janelle's side. "Hi," he said, "did you have any trouble finding the place?" "Well, you could have given me better clues," Janelle said. "Like maybe a castle sitting on top of a hill," she giggled. In response Jack gives her a playful punch in the ribs, amazed at the solid feel he encounters, and giggles along with her. Jack takes Janelle's hand and he says "Come meet my parents." Hand in hand they advance towards the center of the room and a distinguished looking gentleman arises from one of the chairs, and turns toward the young couple. "My, what a lovely looking young lady you are. You remind me of Lena Horne, my dear, someone before your time. Maybe a cross betweeen Lena Horne and Beyonce, to bring the reference up to date." "Why thank you kind sir," Janelle said. "That is a very nice complement." Jack beamed at his father's approval of his date, and said to Janelle, "And now I'd like to introduce you to my mother." Jack and his father moved aside so that Mrs. Jeffers and Janelle could see each other. As Mrs. Jeffers got her first good look at Janelle the distinguished looking lady dropped her champagne glass. It shatters on the marble floor. "Oh, my goodness," she gasped, "you're black!" "Mother!" Jack exclaimed. "Mother!" Mr. Jeffers exclaimed. "Son!" mother exclaimed. "Mrs Jeffers!" the butler exclaimed. "I shall summon the maid immediately to remove the pieces of glass." Jack tried to save the moment. "Mother, this is my friend and companion for this evening, Ms. Janelle Stevens. Isn't she beautiful?" Mrs. Jeffers composed herself and responded, "Yes, she is beautiful. A little on the sturdy side" (making reference to Janelle's 46DD and broad shoulders), but then she lost it again "...but she's black!" "All over!" Janelle giggled. It wasn't the first time she had encountered racial discrimination. "But I do have red blood, Mrs. Jeffers." She walked over to the lady and grasped her hand. "Very nice to meet you, ma'am. Your son has been very nice to me. Very helpful to me with my school work when something confuses me. And I'm very appreciative that he has agreed to escort me to our Senior Prom." Mrs. Jeffers stared open-mouthed at the tall African-American girl. "Oh dear, oh dear," seemed to be her only comment. Suddenly Janelle realized something. Jack hadn't told his family that his date for the evening was African-American. It didn't seem to bother Mr. Jeffers, but Mrs. Jeffers was experiencing culture shock. For Mr. Jeffers Janelle's pulchritude seemed to sway any bias he might have, but evidently Mrs. Jeffers was not ready for such a turn of events. Mr. Jeffers, on the other hand, had begun having serious doubts about his son's sexual preferences. Here the boy was graduating from high school and he had never been with a girl, never been to a dance, never had a date. Jack was heir to the Jeffers business interests and the Jeffers fortune, and Mr. Jeffers wanted to perpetuate the Jeffers lineage, and Jack wasn't doing much to reassure him, so Mr. Jeffers was exceedingly pleased to see his son with a female. He had no qualms over her color - she could be any color for all he cared, just as long as she was a genuine female and able to bear children. And there was little doubt that Janelle was a genuine female. She was wearing a beautiful evening gown that her single mother had spent most of two months pay on, and had altered to fit Janelle's buxom figure. Mr. Jeffers looked Janelle over very closely - not that he was a lecher, he just wanted to be sure his son was going with the genuine article to this dance. And there was no doubt Janelle was the real thing. The low cut neckline of the gown amply displayed Janelle's breasts. At five feet seven inches she sported 46 double D, a lot of the inches coming from her wide lats and the breasts, even if super size, looking perky because of her power pec muscles holding them up and out. Mr. Jeffers was suitably impressed. He'd always felt he wanted a substantial woman for his son because Jack, who, even though he was tall at six feet, was slightly built at one hundred fifty pounds. Let's face it, he thought, if I'm going to have the kind of grandchildren I want, then Jack will have to be the brains and his wife will have to be the brawn. Not that Mr. Jeffers figured this first date for his eighteen year old son would be the "it" girl, but from the looks of Janelle it seemed that Jack was off to a good start. Not only are you a very attractive young lady, Janelle," Mr. Jeffers said, "but you have a very pleasing figure. You must be very active in sports, or you work out a lot in a gym - which is it?" "Both, Mr. Jeffers," Janelle politely replied. "I have two older brothers who are active in every sport imaginable, and since my single mom had to work they would drag me along to their practices and then they would go to the gym to muscle up and I went with them and did what they did, so I'm really very good at all sports and I'm also quite strong - for a girl, that is," she added hastily. "Bet you'd be quite strong for a guy also," Mr. Jeffers said, gazing at the sold looking trapezius running up the side of her neck and the way the deltoids seemed to cap off her broad shoulders and how her upper arms filled out the long sleeves of her formal gown. But how did he know she wasn't wearing long sleeves to cover up a lot of arm fat, not unusual for girls in this day and age. Let me test her a little, he thought. "Tell you what I'll do, Janelle. I'm a sporting man. Want to make a bet?" "Well...OK...," Janelle slowly responded, not wanting to be negative to anything her date's father might be proposing. "I understand you drive quite an old car. I don't want your car breaking down and giving you trouble tonight so I'll let you drive my car to the Senior Prom tonight if...if...you beat me in arm wrestling." "Aw, dad..."Jack began. Janelle thought she'd play along. "OK, Mr. Jeffers, what kind of car is it?" she giggled. "Oh, it's just one of those little Italian jobs, but it's all gassed up, and I just had it serviced this morning so you won't have to worry about a breakdown on the way to the dance," Mr. Jeffers said. Coincidence. Janelle had been worried about her 1975 Chevelle, so she figured this might be a good deal. "I'll take you up on it, Mr. Jeffers," she said. "I had a pretty good workout this morning to sweat off an extra pound or two so I could get into this dress," she laughed. "So maybe I can take you." "Arm on the table right here, young lady," Mr. Jeffers said, as he sat down in his chair and planted his elbow on the walnut table and Jack brought up a foot stool for Janelle to sit on. "You sit right there and we'll have a go." Mr. Jeffers was pleased. Janelle had a very firm grip. You don't usually marry the first girl you date, but Jack being such a wuss in the dating game Jack's dad wasn't counting anybody out. "OK, son," Mr. Jeffers said to Jack, "you say 'go!'" "Aw, dad..." Jack began. "C'mon, son," Mr. Jeffers said, "we're having fun here. I like your date. Give us the 'go.'" "Well, OK dad, just don't break her arm, all right? We want to go to the prom, not the hospital. OK. Go!" Both sides applied pressure. Janelle giggled and Mr. Jeffers laughed. Janelle was thinking Jack's father wasn't such a bad guy. He seemed to have more personality than Jack did. Janelle's arm kept Mr. Jeffer's arm in an upright position regardless of how much pressure he applied. Mr. Jeffers kept grunting with the effort and pretty soon there was a layer of perspiration on his forehead, but try as he might he couldn't budge Janelle's arm an inch. Then he began to get suspicious. "How come you don't put my arm down Janelle, are you playing with me?" he growled. "Gee, no, Mr. Jeffers, I can't try too hard because my bicep, if it swells up too much it might bust through my sleeve, and then I couldn't go to the prom with your son, I'd be so disappointed. This sleeve was designed for a normal girl's arm. I'm afraid mine just gets too big if I stress it any." As it was, Mr. Jeffers had been watching fascinated as the roundness of Janelle's upper right arm kept increasing as he pushed harder and harder, trying to get her arm down. And it wasn't that she was flexing it or anything, it was just his pressure against her arm that was making her bicep expand to the point that it was threatening to burst through the sleeve. Mr. Jeffers was coming to realize that his son had hooked up with a rather unusual girl. "Just how big is your bicep, Janelle?" he asked as he continued to try to wrench her arm down to the table top. "Oh, right now it only gets to about twenty-four inches if I flex it real hard, but you have to realize that I've had to cut back on my weightlifting some because I've had to use the gym time to study for high school finals and take the SAT tests for college, and all that good stuff," she giggled. Mr. Jeffers was impressed. "That is a very big bicep for an eighteen year old girl," he said. "Or for any age girl for that matter. Or for any man. Doesn't that make you conspicuous in a crowd?" "No," was her response. "I've learned to hide it pretty well. Long sleeves, pants to hide my thighs and my calves, although I have caught Jack staring at my thighs a time or two," she giggled. "You may be raising a very horny son," she joshed. "Well, I hope so," was Mr. Jeffers surprising response. "I was beginning to worry about him. After all, Mrs. Jeffers and I would like grandchildren some day. I hope he makes a pass at you tonight, Janelle," he laughed. It was all in good fun, of course, but Jack was blushing now. "Dad!" he exclaimed. Janelle, having held Mr. Jeffers' arm in an upright position for some minutes now had tired him out to the point where she feigned irritation and easily slammed his arm down to the table top without much swelling of her twenty-four inch bicep. But what she said in reply surprised the whole family. "Well, I'll certainly be upset if Jack doesn't make a pass at me. I may just have to make the first move," she giggled. "Janelle!" Jack exclaimed, as his face got all red. "Good girl!" Mr. Jeffers said. "Oh dear, oh dear," Mrs. Jeffers said. "By golly, Janelle, you win our arm wrestle. You're very strong. I'm impressed. You be nice to my son now, I think you can take him with one arm tied behind your back. And you have my approval to do anything and everything you want to do to him tonight. Just bring him back alive tomorrow morning," he laughed. "And oh, by the way I'm going to keep my promise and since you won our arm wrestle and since it's such a warm evening you can have my car for your drive to the prom tonight. It's a convertible, you know." Jack was standing there, taking all this word play in, and now it was his turn to comment. "Gee, Janelle, I didn't know you were that strong. Arm wrestling is dad's favorite sport. He goes to tournaments and stuff like that, and he almost always wins the senior division." But Mr. Jeffers was a good sport, even if he lost. "I'm glad to see my son is going out with a good strong woman, not those namby-pamby anorexics running around high school nowadays. But I won't hold you up any longer with my small talk, even though I've enjoyed it. You should go to your Senior Prom and enjoy every last minute of it. You only get a chance at one high school Senior Prom in a lifetime and you should take advantage of it. I'll call Edward, our garage attendant right now," and Mr. Jeffers got on the internet to the garage. "Edward, would you please bring my personal car to the front portico? I'm lending it to Ms. Stevens for the evening. And please put the top down so the kids don't have to wrestle with it. I don't want them dirtying up their evening clothes." Mr. Jeffers escorted Jack and Janelle to the front door and gave Janelle a surprisingly strong hug as they parted and even a very warm kiss on her cheek as Edward drove Mr. Jeffers' car up to the front steps. "I've enjoyed meeting you, Janelle. You're the type of strong, self-confident, athletic type of woman I always hoped my son would team up with. I hope to see a lot more of you in the future." Mrs. Jeffers was heard to comment, "Oh dear, oh dear," as Jack and Janelle walked off hand in hand down the stairs to the waiting car. Jack gallantly made sure Janelle didn't trip over the hem of her long evening gown as they walked down the stairs, and Jack helped her to the driver's side of his dad's automobile, lent to them by Jack's father for this prime evening in their young lives. Since Jack didn't drive Janelle got to do the honors tonight. "A Ferrari?" she gasped. "A FERRARI! Your dad is going to let me drive his FERRARI? When he said small Italian car I was thinking Fiat! A FERRARI? You've got to be kidding me! Our senior class is going to die when I drive up in a FERRARI! I know what I'll say. 'Oh, it's nothing. My boy friend got it as his high school graduation present.' What's a little white lie among friends? All the sisters will die with envy! They even wondered why I was going to the Senior Prom with you. 'Go with a brother,' they said. Wait until they see this!" Janelle, who knew how to drive a stick shift, slipped the gear shift lever into first gear, revved the engine to 7000 rpm's, and they roared off into the night, headed for the prom hotel, Jack cringing in his seat as Janelle put a FERRARI through its paces. End of Part Two.