Starting a new story line while working on the next installment of A Teacher's Story. Hope that you all like it. Please comment, I really want to know how you feel about my stories.
Hell is paved with good intentions (Samuel Johnson 1709 -- 1784)
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I had just graduated from Grant High School in Baltimore and was getting ready to go to the local university. It was a great school, but I had really wanted to go away. However, real life stepped in, we couldn't afford it. In fact the only reason I could attend this school was the academic scholarship I had received.
My name is John Coleridge and I turned 18 two days before graduation. I'm 5'11" and 180 pounds. I am in good shape from playing baseball and football in high school. Never a star, but a good solid player. The grocery store I worked at also helped keep me in shape. Moving a hundred boxes of canned goods is a real work out.
My dad had died about a year after my little sister, Becky was born, about 12 years ago. Although he did leave some insurance money, it wasn't all that much and Mom put it away for our education. Mom was working full time as a cook so things weren't too bad. At times money would get tight, but things would always seem to work out.
I was working at a small local supermarket. I had been working here since I was about three years old...well not really, but since the time I could get working papers. I had every job from floor sweeper, bagger, shelf stocker, delivery boy, cashier, and lately even night manager (only when the night manager was sick...or too drunk to show up)
The money I was paid for working at the supermarket went to Mom. She would give me some but there were times when that money was really needed. Mom would tell me that she felt bad about using the money I made for the house. I told her that I was glad that I could help and that she didn't have to give as much as she did. She wouldn't hear of that, "You work hard for that and you should enjoy some of it."
Peter was my boss. He was also the owner. A great boss, if there ever was one. Sure he would take advantage of me; often he would have me make deliveries on my way home, not on the clock.
But, and it is a big BUT, every three months, after the quarterly taxes were paid, he would give me an envelope, and depending on how well we did would be reflected by what was in the envelope.
Once on April 20th he gave me an envelope with $250.00 cash in it. I felt like a millionaire. $250.00 cash in my pocket, I was in heaven...until I got home and gave it to my mom. She was ecstatic, this was a godsend, things had been a bit tight. Now, she could pay a bunch of bills and she even gave me something for myself.
Now that school was out, I had graduated with honors, in the top 1% of my class, I was working full time. One Monday evening in the middle of June, my boss, Peter came to me, as I was getting ready to leave.
"Johnny, do you think you could make a delivery on the way home?"
He knew what the answer would be and of course I said, "Sure Peter, where is it?"
"We got a delivery to YOUR GIRLFRIEND." He yelled.
Everyone began to snicker.
I moaned, "Oh god, Peter did you have to do that?"
"Well she called and asked for a delivery; who else could I send. I don't want to disappoint her. Wouldn't want to lose that good of a customer." He laughed
My "girlfriend" was Phyllis Dumont; she was an older woman, in her late twenties. Very pretty, and really nice. I had been delivering her groceries for years. Many times when I would make a delivery, we would sit and talk. She would make tea and we would talk, she would give advice but most importantly, just listen to a teenage boy. I could tell her anything, as she would never judge or criticize. And I found that I could trust her.
She had an apartment in a building that was sort of on my way home. We would sit in her living room and have our tea and talk. We were friends, nothing more. There was never anything sexual between us. Not that I didn't think and dream about it, but I never acted on my feelings.
Believe me there was a lot to dream about. Phyllis stood about 5' 8" with shoulder length red hair and light blue eyes. She was rather well endowed, probably 36C, a slim waist with hips and an ass that were well rounded. Her legs were to die for, shapely and athletic. She would workout at the corporate gym a couple times a week.
I had made the mistake of telling Peter about the tea and talking, thus whenever she called, Peter would have me make the delivery to MY GIRLFRIEND. One benefit of the teasing was that he never had anyone else deliver her groceries.
I would go to Phyllis' and sit and drink tea (yea, I really got to like it). And talk about anything, usually it was about girls.
Phyllis would never tell me what to do; rather she would ask questions, the answers to which would answer my questions.
I was so shy and timid around girls, that I had real problem asking them out. The few times I did, I would follow Phyllis' guidance and would have a wonderful time.
I never asked a girl out a second time. Years later, I found out that I had broken a number of hearts. I never knew, I never even suspected. I was really clueless.
When I first started to have tea with Phyllis, Mom didn't approve. But, after meeting Phyllis and talking with her, Mom was fine with it.
But, this day I was once again making a delivery to Phyllis'. When I got there, I knocked and before she could have answered I said, "Sure, I know that you don't want to answer, but if you want to eat for the next week you better open up."
This was my normal opening and I expected Phyllis to answer the door laughingly saying, "Well then, I guess I better let you in, if I want to eat."
But, today Phyllis didn't answer. The door opened and the most beautiful girl in the world was standing there.
I gaped...completely tongue tied and stuttering, "AW...AW...AW...IMA...IMA...IMA, here to bring this st, st, stufffff."
This vision of loveliness smiled and opened the door wider, "You must be Johnnie, come in. You can put the STUFFF on the kitchen table," she teased.
I walked into the apartment as if in a trance, completely enraptured by her beauty. I was in love...or at least in lust.
As I walked toward the kitchen, I heard Phyllis' voice come from another part of the apartment. "Maggie, tell the young man, who you are, before he walks into a wall." She said laughing.
Maggie smiled and said, "Oh, Johnnie, I'm sorry. I'm Margaret, Phyllis' sister, her YOUNGER sister."
"It's a pleasure to meet you Margaret," I said as I shook her hand.
I had touched her hand...it was electric. I had touched a goddess, the goddess, the goddess of beauty, Venus de Milo pales in comparison. I was getting a hard on.
"Please call me Maggie, I'm not old enough to be a Margaret, yet." She said.
"Okay, Maggie.'
Phyllis came into the kitchen saying, "Sure, make sure that everyone knows that I am older than you. Yes, Johnnie, this is my BABY sister."
We all laughed.
Now that I saw them together, I could see the resemblance. Not that they looked like each other but you could see that they were related.
Maggie was a smaller than her sister, about my age. She had green eyes, light brown hair was about 5' 7", slender, not as well endowed as Phyllis, about a 28B, slender waist, well-rounded hips and ass and wonderful shapely legs. But, there was something about her face that set her apart from her sister.
She had a quiet beauty, a warm wonderful smile and a twinkle in her eyes that hinted at a wry sense of humor. To me she was absolutely beautiful.
I was there for about an hour, drinking tea and talking. I found it very comfortable to be with these two lovely women.
Phyllis told me to stop by after work the next day and have dinner. So I did and had a wonderful time. For the next two weeks I would look for any excuse to stop by Phyllis' apartment as often as I could.
Maggie had come east to visit her sister, but a week from Saturday; Phyllis would be leaving on a business trip for about two months. Thus, Maggie would be apartment sitting, for Phyllis.
Phyllis was a director of something or other for some large corporation, downtown. Every once in a while, she would have to travel. Most of the time it would be short trips, but there were times that she would be away for a month or so. At these times she would give me a key to her apartment and I would check on it, get her mail and make sure that everything was okay. I always returned the key when she got home.
Phyllis had wanted to give me money for taking care of the place, but I refused. I told her that she was a friend, a good friend. I couldn't take money from a friend. Besides who else would listen to all of my problems. She had hugged me and said, "If that's the way you feel, then thank you."
One Christmas, she gave my family an Apple personal computer. Mom didn't want to keep it but Phyllis insisted, saying that my help was worth far more to her than the cost of the computer. We kept it.
Mom and Becky were the only ones who knew about this.
Phyllis was leaving, but, this time, since Maggie was here, I wouldn't have to do anything.
The day Phyllis left, Maggie and I took her to the airport. She gave the two of us more instructions than my mom would. We just laughed and said that everything would be all right.
As she went to get on the plane she hugged me and whispered, "Watch out for Maggie, will ya?"
"Of course." I quietly answered.
She then gave Maggie a hug and left.
Maggie and I drove back. I dropped her off at the apartment and went to work; I was night manager that evening.
Before she left, Phyllis had told me that the real reason that Maggie was here was that she and her husband were having major problems. It seems that Maggie was a bit older than she looked. Maggie needed time to think and work things out before making a decision about whether she wanted to stay in the marriage. Phyllis though that this was the end for them. I got the impression that Maggie's husband was not one of Phyllis' favorite people. She asked me to watch out for Maggie while she was away.
That night at about 10:45 pm I got a call from Maggie, she sounded upset. She asked me to stop by after we closed. She needed someone to talk to. I told her that I would be there in about a half hour.
We would close the doors at 10:30 pm and would try to lock up at 11:00 pm. Usually, I would meet up with some of my friends and we would go out and party until around 1:00 am. So going over to Phyllis' would be no problem.
When I got there, Maggie opened the door. She looked like hell, she was dressed in a robe and slippers, her eyes were red from crying. Her hair was a mess and she was so pale, like she was washed out.
She looked at me and gave a small smile and said, "Thank you for coming, Johnnie. I really need someone to talk to." Then she started to cry.
I stepped into the apartment and closed the door. I took her in my arms and held her. We stood there in each other's arms and she wept. Crying her heart out.