Belle didn't peak as the girl undressed herself. Maybe if Taz had been a few years older, she had been a few years younger, and wasn't still hobbling around on a broken leg, and the two of them had met under more romantic circumstances, she might have been interested. As it was, sex was probably the furthest thing from her mind. She was instead trying to decided what to have the girl do once she was clean. The lawns needed cutting, that was for definite. The teenager's reaction to being clean more than made up for her earlier hostility, and the apology was actually unexpected. The second one, that is. The first one sounded grudging and not quite sincere.<br/><br/>"That's quite alright, dear. To be frank with you, if you had refused the offer, I would have stood you outside and hosed you!" She smiled to soften the words, waving a hand in front of her face as though fanning away a noxious smell. "Now, can you drive?" She held up a hand to forestall any protest. "I'm not asking if you have a licence, I'm asking if you can sit at the controls of a motorised vehicle and make it go where you want it to." She smirked, adding "I drove my first car when I was twelve. It belonged to a teacher at the school, and he'd stupidly left it unlocked. Me and Tina hot-wired it and drove it around the school yard one afternoon. The principal was furious, and they suspended the two of us, but the teacher got fired."<br/><br/>Belle led the way outside, then glanced at Taz. "Hmm. Well, it's not like the place is overlooked and the last time there was a camera drone in the vicinity it was actually filming some fuckin' real celeb who just happened to be in the area. Hold on, let me get you something to put on your feet." She dived back inside and returned a few moments later with a pair of flip-flops. "Here. these are more a one-size-fits-all thing hmm? Now, you see the grass, and how long it's getting? Needs to be cut, but I can't do it. So, in here..." She led the way across the pateo and a small area of unkempt lawn to a small wooden shed that she unlocked and opened revealing what had to be the<a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fjohnlewis.scene7.com%2Fis%2Fimage%2FJohnLewis%2F236953460%3F%24rsp-pdp-main-1440%24&amp;hash=9dfccbd8ba25790cc774e16f9105f700" href="https://johnlewis.scene7.com/is/image/JohnLewis/236953460?$rsp-pdp-main-1440$" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">ultimate grown-up kid's play-toy</a>. She showed Taz the controls and said "Okay, that's the blade setting to use, that light will let you know if the collector is full. It's probably easiest if you start by going around the outside, and then spiral your way inwards. that way if you miss a bit you can catch it next time around. Okay, off you go..."<br/><br/>Bell hobbled back to the patio and eased herself onto one of the sun chairs, to watch.