I spent some time in the dull heart of America a few years ago, working as a surveyor in Tarwood, Kansas. Back then, I had a mistaken impression that I'd climb up the ladder by paying my dues; yeah, that fucking happened. Anyway, the company needed men to go out and verify the borders of all the land it kept buying up were surveyed and marked correctly.
The locals fucking hated me since I kept marking fence posts that would have to be re-positioned. There was one bar in town, and no way was I welcome there, so I had a lot of time to think, thinking about how fucking flat everything was, including most of the women in town.
Anyways, who fucking cares. The only reason I bring it up is that there was one girl there who definitely wasn't flat, and there is a story to tell about her.
I rented a little house near the town's border when told I would be in the region for a while. To my West, a patched-up asphalt road disappeared into the grain fields. To the East lay Tarwood proper, for what it was worth. A mix of agricultural tool shops and feed stores intermingled with run-down housing that probably looked great in the 1950s but was now disintegrating slowly into the soil, the remaining residents seemingly helpless to stop it.
I kept odd hours, trying to avoid interactions whenever possible. I began to learn the rhythm of the town's days, using them to my advantage.
I was home the day new tenants moved into the shack next door. A beaten-down dusty gray minivan pulled up into the driveway that led into a collapsing garage that ran parallel to the east side of my house. The vehicle stopped short of the garage, and then a large, stern-looking woman exited from the driver's side, proceeding toward the front door, fishing for a key from an enormous black handbag she dragged by her side.
A moment later, the passenger side door slowly opened, and a young woman stepped down from the van, turning to close the door. I surmised she was the daughter of the driver.
After closing the door, she turned slowly, taking in the new surroundings. She glanced toward my house but didn't see me observing through the side window facing her.
She was a doe-eyed cow of a girl, no older than nineteen. A particular type of woman has magnificent, lustful curves entering adulthood, but within a couple of years, a couple of kids lose that youthful tightness. She was that, a literal girl-next-door type, her ass rounded and just a bit pear-shaped, filling out her blue jeans nicely. She wore an oversized pullover, her rack indistinct with the billowing fleece, but based on her body type, I estimated she was well-endowed. Even with her pronounced curves, she still had the thigh gap signifying her youth, a small opening beneath her clothed pussy and her inner thighs meeting together below. She looked around a bit more, a bewildered look in her eyes that I sensed was her usual state of being, then followed her mother into the house.
A few days later, I arrived home early in the afternoon, parking my pickup on the street in front of my place - my rental didn't come with a driveway. It was at least 90 degrees in the sun, but the girl was outside, knelt down by the mailbox post that was staked into the ground near the driveway entrance. Three plastic pots containing small marigolds lay near her as she struggled to dig a small hole with a battered old hand shovel. She faced away from me, hunched over in a faded pink t-shirt and tight torn jeans that accentuated her upper thighs, the curve of her young ass tightly bound by denim. I sat in the truck for a minute, not wanting to startle her with the vehicle door.
She turned toward me, still on her knees and intent on widening the hole to place the flowers in. As I had suspected, she was well-endowed. The faded shirt struggled to hold her tits together, barely keeping her heavy melons from scraping the ground below her as she dug. I watched her udders swing in time to her digging the shovel into the earth, jiggling from her exertions. A clear bra line was shown through the flimsy fabric, though it looked as if it wasn't helping much.
I took in the sight of her cleavage a bit longer, then quietly exited the truck, closing the door gently but loud enough to alert her that she wasn't alone. She looked up to see me climb the curb as I headed toward my front door, then sat back onto her ankles, her rack bouncing a bit as she leaned back.
"Hi, Mister?" She brightly smiled at me, briefly raising her left hand to wipe her brow before setting it back behind her to support herself.
"You can call me Tom."
"Hi, Mister Tom! Nice to meet you. My name is Dawn."
"Good to meet you, Dawn. Planting flowers?"
"My mom wants me to make the yard look better. We had flowers around the mailbox at our last house, so she wants them here now."
"Where did you live before?"
"Just across town. Mom got fed up with the neighbors, and the rent went up, so she found this place instead. She says that she likes that it is at the edge of town, away from everyone."
"Yeah, that's what I like about it here too."
Her wide eyes stared blankly at me momentarily, trying to process my joke. She gave up, then spoke again.
"Do you like marigolds? I like the color, but they don't smell very good. Mom likes them because they don't die very fast."
"Yeah, I like them. It's good to see you care about making the neighborhood look nice. Are you in school?"
She shook her head. "No, I did my best but didn't have enough credits to graduate with my class, so I stopped going." She thought for a minute. "And Devon says it was just a waste of time for me anyways."
"Who's Devon?"
"My boyfriend. He says we're gonna move out of here one day and get a place together somewhere far away, so I'm trying to save up some money."
Shit, Devon clearly was born in Red Flag City. "Sounds like a plan. Well, I better let you get back to beautifying the neighborhood."
"OK, it was nice to meet you, Mister neighbor Tom."
Dawn may have liked me, but her mother did not. She knew who I was and why I was there, even though I knew nothing of her. The few times we crossed paths, she would pretend I wasn't there, treating me much like the rest of the town did.
But her mom's dislike of me was nothing compared to her boyfriend's. A couple of weeks after Dawn moved in, I heard the coughing roar of a crappy motorbike drive into her driveway, sputtering to a stop. I stood up to look through my front window, watching a pudgy thug climb off the bike he dwarfed. He turned toward my house with a sneer, then lobbed a large string of spit onto my yard before lumbering into the house.
I wondered what the fuck his problem was until I realized he was the son of Walt McArthy, one of the largest landowners in town. The company had warned me about him, and I could see why. Big men in little ponds can be dangerous when challenged.
The little cretin showed up a couple of times a week, usually when I was trying to get in a nap. I didn't see Dawn much. She had gotten a job running the register at a deli a few blocks away. Sometimes I got a glimpse of her as she listlessly walked herself to work, her black shirt emblazoned with the restaurant's name and logo bouncing up and down with her slow steps.
A few months passed, and I noticed that Devon wasn't coming over any longer.