Sally had graduated and needed to find a job. With few opportunities in town, she was happy when her mom told her that Leslie White was looking for a regular babysitter. Leslie was a friend of the family and single mom of a five-month-old. As it turned out, she needed someone to pick up her little one from daycare and stay with her until Leslie got home from work.
It was an easy job and Leslie was happy to pay Sally well for the few hours a day that she spent helping out. After a time, Sally noticed that Leslie was in no hurry for her to leave in the evening and she got paid for the extra time she stayed at Leslie's apartment. Sally felt a bit guilty being paid to sit and chat with Leslie. Leslie was a successful designer and her social life had been severely curtailed now that she was a mom. So, she enjoyed her time unwinding, changing out of her work clothes and having a glass of wine and some girl talk with the younger Sally.
Sometimes they would have dinner and play with the baby. Sally would often get home from "work" pretty late. But it was a nice arrangement that worked for both of them. One evening, with the baby asleep, the two got to talking.
"Do you mind hanging out with an older woman, Sally?" Leslie asked.
"Not at all, Les. I wonder if you get bored chatting with a teenager," Sally said.
"Not at all! Besides, you are pretty mature for eighteen. You don't go on about boyfriends or nonsense. You are really one of my closest friends," Leslie said, gazing at Sally.
Sally was wearing "skinny jeans" and a sheer black top. Her black bra was visible beneath the fabric. Sally had pert, little b-cups to compliment her lithe figure.
"Leslie, I had no idea. I feel close to you, too. So many of my high school friends have moved on and left me behind. You're probably my closest friend too," Sally said as she took in Leslie's reclining figure next to her on the sofa.
Leslie was 28 and had lost most of her "baby weight". At 5'5" she and Sally were similar in height, although Leslie was considerably curvier. Her hips flared to fill her jeans and tapered to a waist that was trim, if not as tight as it had been before childbirth. And Leslie was much bustier than Sally. Her full c-cups had grown to full d-cups or bigger with childbirth. And they seemed to be growing still. She was breastfeeding the baby and her milk production was prodigious. She found she was either feeding or pumping her milk for storage every few hours. She had even donated some of the excess to the La Leche League in town.
The two had finished a meal of take-out and were lounging on the sofa with the TV on. Neither was watching until Sally noticed that the news was showing a live car chase. The two sat up and discussed where the pursuit was taking place in their city. As Leslie sat up, she felt her milk "letting down". Her big breasts began to ache. She knew she would start leaking if she didn't pump soon.
"You're going to have to excuse me," Leslie said as she walked to her bedroom to get the pump. She lifted her baggy sweatshirt and undid the flap of her nursing bra. With a practiced motion, she applied the cup of the pump to her engorged breast and pushed the button. Nothing. Leslie shook the small pump and it buzzed to life. As she put it back over her large nipple, it stopped buzzing. The batteries had given out. Leslie sighed and dropped her sweatshirt and headed to the kitchen to retrieve more batteries from the junk drawer.
Sally was still watching the police chase as Leslie walked through the living room toward the kitchen.
"You're missing it, Les. This guy is weaving all over the road. He's on the other side of town now."
"The batteries in this stupid thing have died," Leslie said waving the pump. "It goes through two every other day!"
Sally knew that Leslie was nursing. She had fed her baby countless bottles of Leslie's milk.
"Damn it! I can't be out of batteries!" Leslie cried out from the kitchen. She came back into the living room carrying the pump and one AA battery. "This is all I have." She put the one new battery in with one old battery. The pump buzzed, then stopped. She shook it and it buzzed again. "Damn it," Leslie muttered.