Pops in to say thanks for dinner

Tanya sees the light on in Mr. Mendelssohn's workshop garage, so she decides to pop in and say 'good night.' She opens the door and the bell above the door chimes. She hears Mr. Mendelssohn whisper "shit" and there's some scrambling before she turns the corner into the work area. The 57 Chevy sits in the middle of the garage portion of the workshop like it has for the last few years. Mr. Mendelssohn is behind a desk and slams his laptop shut as Tanya turns the corner. "Oh, Teela, it's you. Um, sorry," he says looking like he's out of breath and was caught in the act of doing something illicit, "thought Maggie might have an emergency. She, um, she doesn't usually come into my workshop so late. I," he takes a moment to stop his rambling, "um, can I help you?"

"I'm so sorry for interrupting. I just wanted to thank you for dinner and the pie. It was nice seeing the two of you again." She sincerely meant it. He wasn't in a great place back when she ended her friendship with Maggie.

"It was great to see that you're getting along with Maggie again," he pauses and wipes his forehead with a rag, "a bit of a surprise if I'm honest." He pauses for a moment. His eyes roamed up and down Tanya's body. He clears his throat. "Can I ask you a serious question?"

"Yes," Tanya says because she doesn't have a choice.

"You didn't stop hanging out with Maggie because of anything I did, right? I wasn't always in a good place back then. Always half or all the way in a bottle. I just...I've worried that it's my fault for how Maggie ended up. I mean, she's a grown-up to be a great woman, but I know she doesn't have many friends."

"Oh no, Mr. Mendhelssohn, um, I mean, Tom," she corrects herself remembering his invitation to use his first name. "It was me. I started hanging out with cool kids and, well, Maggie didn't fit my high school plans."

Tom nods. "Man, high school drama sucks. So glad you girls put that behind yourselves now that you're both 18. All grown up." His voice is breathy. He nods to the bag in Tanya's hand. "Is that your costume?"

"Yes."

"Maggie's being unusually secretive about this cosplay costume. Usually, she comes to me for advice, but this time I guess she's just talking to you. But I'd still love to see what you're going to the convention as. Is that hard to put on?"

Tanya shakes her head. She was usually excited about Hentai and talking about it, but she felt weird about the direction this conversation was going. She also knew Maggie wanted to keep it a secret, but she was compelled to answer. "Oh no, not at all. It's probably the simplest of the group."

He smiles. "I thought as much. That's a pretty small bag. Maggie's costumes are usually bulky. If you aren't in too much of a hurry maybe you could put it on for me?"

Tanya looks at her phone. It was getting late, but she still had more than an hour before curfew, so she wasn't in "too much of a hurry." She doesn't want to put on the costume for Maggie's Dad, but she finds herself agreeing. "Yeah, sure, I can do that. Do you have a place for me to change?"

"Oh right, top of the stairs."

Tanya felt bad that she was doing this. Maggie made it clear that she didn't want her father to see the costumes, but Tanya felt compelled. She climbed up the stairs to the recreation room featuring a pool table, a bar in the back, a giant, old big screen television, and some sofas. It was dusty. Tanya wondered if it didn't see much use since Tom gave up ****.

Stripping down in this space felt weird. Maggie, her friend, was across the driveway probably sobbing or raging over what happened. She likely assumed Tanya was well on her way home not squeezing into a one-size-too-small black bikini for her father. It was a betrayal. The bikini bottom wasn't so bad. It had two panels in the front and back hiding any naughty bits. It was the top that was the problem. They'd chosen the smaller size on purpose so Tanya's breasts would look more like Rei's in the anime. And they did. It pulled tight and the tiny triangles cover her nipples tight. Tanya blushed looking into the mirror behind the bar. She could see the edge of the dark pink of her areolae. It was cartoon accurate and that's what the commands told her she wanted, but it also felt humiliating deep down inside. Thanks to Kyle's words she loved hentai so much, but was Tom's Dad really going to be as accepting as her friends?

She slips into the purple wig. This was her first time going in full costume. Taking out her phone she compares herself to the screen-capped image from Makitsu Happening. She was impressed. Thanks to Maggie's command, when she looked dint the mirror she believed her breasts were as big and voluptuous as Rei's. In her mind, it was almost like Rei had stepped out of the cartoon and become human. She felt pride. And then she remembered she had to show Maggie's Dad and her bare feet moved her toward the stairs.

"Are you ready for me, Mr. Mend...um...Tom?"

He calls up that he is.