Several authors are coming out with stories based on the various versions of "Maggie May" or "Maggie Mae." The story titles will be: "Maggie May - author's pseudonym" e.g. "Maggie Mae -- DGH"
This is my third semi-annual "invitational." The initial one was based on the Statler Brother's song, "This Bed of Rose's." The second used the Marty Robbins El Paso trilogy: "El Paso" "El Paso City " and "Faleena." Regards, Jake Rivers
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I chose the Rod Stewart / Martin Quittenton) version of the song. The Italics in the story will be taken from the song itself. As always a big 'Thank you' to my editors LadyCibelle and Techsan for making my story a much better read, and of course to my good friend, Jake Rivers for the invitation to join in on the post.
Chapter 1
"Wake up, Maggie, I think I got something to say to you
It's late September and I really should be back at school
I know I keep you amused but I feel I'm being used
Oh, Maggie, I couldn't have tried any more
You lured me away from home just to save you from being alone
You stole my heart and that's what really hurt."
I guess I should go back to when I was a kid, and let you know how I knew Maggie Mae. Way back when I was pre-teen we - our family - moved into a new gated neighborhood. There was a guard on duty during the day and we got in at night by the use of a key card.
My family was wealthy but not to the rich point. We lived in a huge Victorian house that looked almost like a castle. Everyone in our sub-division lived in similar houses. I had an older brother and sister who were already teenagers. I was the kid in the family.
Dad was the manufacturing vice-president at the auto body plant in Toledo, Ohio. My mom was a stay-at-home mom but attended just about every school or neighborhood function there was. In the house behind us, and separated by a very tall privacy fence, was the Roberts family. There was Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, (she was also known to the adults as Maggie Mae) and their daughter Darla.
Darla was eighteen, the same as my brother. She was an only child and was the daughter of Bob Roberts. Her mother passed away when Darla was only four years old; two years later, Mr. Roberts married Maggie who adopted Darla as her own. More about their family later.
On our right side was the Bates family. Mr. Bates also was a vice-president at the same plant as my dad. He was in Marketing. He and dad were really good friends. His wife worked as a secretary in a lawyer's office. That left their only daughter Samantha home alone quite a bit of the time. Sam, as I called her was a tomboy. She was my age, which at the time was eleven, and my best friend.
Since we all went to private school and got off the same bus, Sam would come stay at our house till one of her parents arrived home. We'd do our homework together and play catch or something. We would even wrestle; she sure was strong for a girl. At eleven she was taller than me but in the next few years I caught up and passed her in height. She was the best friend anyone could have.
We all had our own rooms. My bedroom was on the second floor, along with my sister Susan's. Mom and Dad's room was also on the second floor but at the other end of the house. Our house had a third floor and even an attic above it. The third floor was one big room and Mark had it to himself. I knew that when he left for college I was going to ask for his room.
With an older brother I learned a lot about sex by just being nosy. I would watch Mark with his girlfriends. Sometimes he would tell me to get lost but at other times he knew I was watching and put on a show for me.
"You like watching me with the ladies, don't ya, Squirt?" He always called me that. I didn't like it but not much I could do about it.
"Yeah," I said. "You sure have a lot of girlfriends."
"Ya know it makes you a pervert always trying to watch," he laughed.
"Just trying to learn, Mark. How am I supposed to learn anything? You're my older brother and should be teaching me."
He laughed. "Don't worry; when you get older you'll know what to do. Right now just enjoy being a kid."
He was right and besides I really wasn't into girls yet anyway. Sam and I just enjoyed hanging out together. She had always had her hair cut like a boy and wore boys' clothes. She told me she felt more comfortable in them.
A few of the kids at school laughed at her but she beat up one boy and after that they left her alone. So what if she chose to act like a boy. I was glad, because I didn't want a girlfriend but I did want a best friend and it was Sam.
Whenever our parents went somewhere, like the Zoo, Aquarium, ball games or anywhere, we always asked if she or I could go too. Our parents said we were more like twins than neighbors. We even went to Greenfield Village and The Henry Ford Museum together. They were up in Michigan.
When we were younger we always had sleepovers but after we turned eleven, we could still have sleepovers but we had to stay in different bedrooms or we camped out in the living room. I guess so our parents could keep an eye on us. We didn't care as long as we could be together.
Over the next few years Sam went through a kind of growing stage. She kept her hair short but she had to wear braces and then glasses. I guess she started to grow breasts and her parents made her start wearing a bra. She didn't much care for it. She started always wearing black. I guess it was the stage she was going through.
I started to grow also and had a face full of pimples. I was taller but kind of skinny. My brother was staying at the University but my parents wouldn't let me have his room. They told me he might need it when he came home for visits from college.
When I turned sixteen, my life took a drastic change. Mr. Bates, Sam's father, got transferred to an auto plant up in Michigan. He was going to be the plant manager. It meant that Sam would be moving. I was nearly devastated to lose my best friend but as kids we didn't have much say so in the matter.
I was talking to Sam in my room and really feeling down. I was losing my best friend. Sam had tears in her eyes and asked me if I would do her a favor.