I Tried To Be A Good Mom Part One.
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Author's note, this is a story that one of my readers pushed to me and thanks Rick from Renton. It seems real enough. Hope you like it.
My name is Leslie Erickson. I own a salon in Magnolia Village, six chairs and two stations where ladies do manicures, pedicures and waxes. My mama liked to die when we started that about ten years ago, the waxes.
But it's been profitable. My mom Callie had owned the shop since before I was born. We lived, when I was growing up, with my brother Tim, on the first hill of Magnolia on Twentieth West just east of Dravus. We were five blocks up from the railroad yards in Interbay, which were noisy trying to sleep, but I kind found it comforting as I drift off to sleep.
I've always lived in the house. I was eighteen, my Senior year and I went to Holy Names over on Capital Hill, our home parish was Our Lady of Fatima in Magnolia. I was a pretty good cross country runner and won at the first meet of the season. We went to a party that night where there were some older boys that went to Seattle University, which is a Jesuit school and I had too much to drink, just some beer, but I was raped, they used some drugs Ecstasy.
I didn't think the boy I was with, gave them to me, I thought he was cute and was hoping I'd get my first kiss from him, but I was all over him and then I passed out, while we were together. He actually took me to Harborview Hospital, thinking I'd been drugged. They did a rape kit which included blood tests. There was some minor tearing, he was a big boy, but they found traces of Molly which is a version of Ecstasy.
I was pregnant, which meant cross country was over and going to school was awkward as the baby grew, but they told everyone, whenever somebody said something ugly that it was not my fault. But still it hurt the shame in everyone's eyes.
I had finished all my school work in March as I in my seventh month and Ellen was born May 24th. His biological father had gone home to Piscataway, New Jersey dropping out of Seattle University at Christmas and his forwarding address was wrong and there was no social media, beyond AOL.
I enjoyed being a mother, she was so sweet, not a lot of hair at first, most of which fell out but later she had red hair, she nursed whenever she wanted Daddy built me a rocking chair that was perfect to nurse and sleep for both of us. When Ellen was fifteen I started working in mom's salon, kind of the backup person, or overflow as mom said, but I got better. She gave me her books when she went to a tech school at Seattle Central Community college.
Daddy was a commercial fisherman, troll fishing for salmon mostly off the Washington Coach. Off season his boat was at fisherman's terminal on Salmon Bay. There was not much of a commercial fishery left in Puget Sound, largely due to the Bolt decision, so they motored out through the straits of Juan de Fuca and down the coast and would put into Ilwaco, which was just north of the mouth of the Columbia River, which killed a lot of fishermen.
Mom and Ellen and I would got to Mass, regularly at our parish, except if Ellen was sick, or Dad got hurt, which happened enough and then she'd drive like a maniac to get down to Ilwaco to take care of him. But I helped with Sunday school, as an assistant. Mom had forever been on the refreshment committee.
I helped some of the nuns and older ladies stage a children's play for Christmas which we put on the Sunday before Christmas. Ellen played Mary and Joseph was a foot taller and he had red hair and his name was Erik. The play was well received and they were so cute.
Afterwards, they ran up to me and Ellen introduced Erik to me and then and I'd been down on one knee as I was hugging Ellen and Erik said, "Dad, Dad this is Ellen's mom, I told you she was pretty!"
I stood up and he towered over me. I'm five foot eight and weigh one hundred and ten pounds and I was slim but I filled out in the right places and people said I looked like the old movie star Aubrey Hepburn, with a long neck.
He reached out to shake my hand saying, "Hi Kurt Johnson here, " and my hand was engulfed in this massive hand with rough skin.
He said, "Erik said Ellen was pretty and you are too."
Then his mother was there and I knew her as she was Mom's best friend, Cynthia Johnson. Kurt's wife had passed delivering Erik.
The courtship was torrid and short, for all intents and purposes, I was a virgin. Kurt was six foot six and had no body fat and worked for Puget Sound Energy.
On our first date, I said, "I was date raped and it's the only time I've had sex. Please treat me like a virgin and teach me how you want me to love you. But Kurt, please know I want you so bad. He took me to a restaurant called Palisades facing Elliot Bay. We split two cracked crabs and a porterhouse steak. He had two beers and I asked him if I could have a small glass and shared some of his beer. I was not much of a drinker, only once before.
I stared at him and forgot to eat, just watching him eat, the muscles in his jaw and his neck. He was so beautiful if a man could be beautiful, his arms and those hands for God's sake.
He looked up at me and said, "Don't like the food?"
I said, "The food is wonderful baby, " I couldn't finish the sentence and bit my lip and stared into his blue eyes.
He raised his hand and said, "Check please!"
They boxed up the food and on the way out he put his around my shoulder and I melted into his side. I was wearing a silk, backless black dress and classic black open toed pumps with four inch heels and a thong, crimson nails and very matching lipstick on my very plump lips.
My face had some of the lipstick smeared on my high cheek bones. As I got dressed with mom helping me my hair, before Kurt picked me up, she said, "You literally are one of the most beautiful women alive and with your ass and legs could make serious money as a stripper in Vegas."
I exclaimed, "Mama!"
"Daddy and I go to Vegas three times a year and after playing the slots we go to off strip sex shows and enjoy strippers for a week."
I said, "You like girls?"
She said, "I was always curious and your dad is totally turned on and plays too."
I looked at her like my mom was a unicorn and I was clueless up to that point. I said,
"I wish my tits were bigger like yours."