I had been going into the gift store for the past three years, and the owner of the shop knew me well. She was a lovely Igbo lady who kept the business going after the sudden death of her husband a few years before. I had a great relationship with her and knew enough about her to know that her two daughters and her son helped her out with the shop when she desired.
I had never seen the son and had caught only a glimpse of one of the two daughters, one of whom was a very attractive; her smile could wake the dead.
She looked a lot like her mother, and I had always thought that if the elder woman looked like this when she was young, she was really something. Having seen only one of the daughters, I often wondered what the other one looked like. All I knew of her was that she was a university student in the eastern part of the country, which explains why I had never seen her in the shop.
One fateful day, I had to go into the shop to buy some gifts for my sister’s birthday, and I knew that the owner of the shop would know what I was there for as soon as she saw me. To my surprise, though, the elder woman wasn’t there. Behind the counter instead was a young lady. As I got closer I could see that she had the most seductive eyes I had ever seen, and was wearing an above-the-knee skirt beneath a blue apron.
The apron covered her shirt so I couldn’t see what her sleeveless shirt looked like, but I could see that the lady was so well-endowed, the slopes of her big breasts tenting out the front of her apron. I tried not to stare as I walked towards the counter. She smiled at me as I approached.  

“Hi, I’m Ada, can I help you?” she said, her eyes sparkling.
“Yes, I would like to buy a gift for…” I began.
“Your sister’s birthday,” she finished for me.
“Yes, that’s right!” I said, surprised. “How did you know that?”
“My mother told me you would be in here today, and why,” she said, looking at me with those sparkling eyes and smiling at me. “She also told me to take special care of you, that you’re one of our best customers.”
“Well, that was very nice of her!” I said, smiling back at her. “You must be the daughter who’s in the university,” he said.