*Disclaimer: Any persons engaging in sexual activity are at least eighteen years of age.
Chapter 1
"Oh won't this be a grand adventure!" Natasha Kowenski laughed and chattered with several of the men and women that waited for the bus.
Several of the others smiled and chatted with the very pretty nineteen year old and she walked around the pavilion, talking with nearly all of them. She did not discriminate; she talked with the youths and with the older people, all hopeful of getting on with the new factory opening in Porasch, Poland.
The coal mine in the town of Trimblin was shutting down and many were finding work very scarce. When Jacobs Industries put the advertisement in the local paper, nearly eighteen thousand people applied for the three hundred positions. Five hundred people had received invitations to come to Porasch, to try out for the jobs. Of those five hundred lucky recipients, one hundred and fifty were standing, waiting at the pavilion in Trimblin.
Jacobs Industries was sending the busses, Jacobs Industries was providing meals, and Jacobs Industries was providing lodging while they applied.
The requirements were ridiculously simple; must be able to read and must be able to pass a doctor's physical.
Magda rolled her eyes as her classmate and neighbor prattled and chattered incessantly. It was just like when they were in school; Natasha was always laughing and smiling and chattering with anyone who cared to listen, and even when no one cared to listen. She sneered at the pretty blonde and put her nose back in her book.
"What you reading?" Natasha interrupted.
"Shut up, it's about this girl that doesn't shut up and finally someone kills her," Magda said.
"Oh, so it's like a mystery?" Natasha asked and looked down the road again to see if she could see the bus.
"No, no mystery to it," Magda said and went back to reading 'Flowers In The Attic' by V.C. Andrews.
"Oh, isn't this exciting?" Natasha giggled happily and jostled Magda by hugging her tightly. "I hope we get hired on! Oh! Maybe we can even be on the same shift together! What you think?"
"I think I'd be on the next train back to Trimblin," Magda sneered.
"Oh, here it comes!" Natasha whooped and picked up her cheap suitcase.
Magda put the book inside of her own suitcase and checked her clothing for any imperfections.
Despite her surly answer to Natasha, Magda was sincerely hoping to get hired on; her widowed mother had four younger siblings to look after and having another mouth to feed had been stretching the Korenski budget beyond the breaking point. She hoped the small tear at the lapel was not noticeable; she did not want any imperfections to hamper this application and interview process.
The large vehicle ground to a halt and a smiling man got off the bus and held up a hand to stop the push of the crowd.
"Good morning," he said pleasantly. "I am Peter Slanisova, employee of Jacobs Industry and I am here to assist you, who also hope to be employees of Jacobs Industries."
Magda groaned inwardly as the man insisted that they get on the bus in alphabetical order. Chances were very good that she would either be seated with Natasha, or right across the aisle from the chatterbox, just like in school. Every class, she was seated directly in front of Natasha and Natasha assumed that she and the pretty brunette were the best of friends, just because they were always paired together.
"I am so sorry," Peter was telling a tearful Sophia Arnak. "There just is not room on the bus for you AND the three children."
"Oh, how sad!" Natasha said and went and hugged the woman and then hugged each of the crying children.
"I will pray for you, that there will be room on the next bus for you," Natasha promised the woman.
"Good luck, dear girl," Sophia said and gripped Natasha's hand tightly.
Finally, Peter called her name and Magda entered the large bus. The interior was plush, almost luxurious and was pleasantly cool. She had not realized how hot she'd been, standing in her Church best in the August heat, until she stepped into the coolness of the interior.
"Here, you sit by the window so you'll have enough light to read your book, Okay?" Natasha cheerfully offered.
"Thank you," Magda said.
"Oh, you're welcome," Natasha said and immediately began a conversation with the person across the aisle from her.
It took nearly an hour, but the bus was finally loaded and the happily chattering people began the seven hour trip to Porasch.
Magda wanted to scream; she was tired, the slow rocking of the bus was lulling her to sleep, but Natasha's mouth never stopped long enough for her to drift off. She wanted to sleep, she wanted to dream.
She'd been dreaming of that actor, the one that had played Lord Byron in that movie. With his broad chest and flat belly. The movie had been an awful one, more about flesh and sexual escapades than actual historical content, but when Lord Byron had eased his breeches down and displayed his taut buttocks, Magda had actually squealed. So had nearly all of the girls in the darkened theater.
She'd been dreaming of him forcing her to the ground, forcing her to pleasure his manhood with her mouth and her hands, then laughing cruelly as he forced her legs apart. Savagely taking her virginity, just as he had done in the movie to that girl.
"I will write beautiful poems of you," he whispered in the gasping girl's ear.
"Oh, yes!" Magda thought.
"Oh, look, there is even the cookie," Natasha showed Magda as she opened the Styrofoam container that held their dinners.
"I can see that; I've got the same thing," Magda said coldly.
"Wasn't that nice of them? I love cookies. We don't get them often; Momma's doing everything she can, but you know with Poppa being sick..." Natasha prattled as she began eating.
"Natasha, please, be still," Magda finally snapped and Natasha looked at her for a long moment, and then shrugged her shoulders.
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"Tonight, you will be paired, two to a room, men with men, women with women, unless, of course, you are married, then you will be paired with your spouse," Peter told them as they pulled up to the large hotel.
Right across the street from the hotel was the large building of Jacobs Industries. Even the haughty Magda was impressed by the gleaming structure, painted in the colors of Jacobs Industries, bright white and chocolate brown. The building was immense and Magda wondered what was behind the large brown doors. Surely a building of this magnitude could hire more than just three hundred of them?
"We're going to room together," Natasha giggled and grabbed Magda's hand, just like they'd had to do in school.
Magda was still looking over her shoulder at the large structure as Natasha dragged her to the glass doors of the hotel.
"Breakfast will be served at seven tomorrow morning," Peter was smiling and telling them as they received the keys to their rooms. "Here on the ground floor, breakfast at seven. If you get here at five minutes past, I can promise you, I will have eaten your breakfast.
