Marie heard the door to the garage open and close and low heated voices.
Same old thing.
She rolled her eyes. It was too bad. They never seemed to come home happy from a night out. Well, they never left for it happy either. Marie turned off the TV and gathered up her stuff before walking out to the kitchen to meet them.
As she stepped into the kitchen, the bickering stopped like a light switch had been flipped. They both turned to face her with a smile on their faces. Nicole was a tall willowy sophisticated blond. The term high maintenance popped into Marie's head. Jack was more of the intellectual type, with dark hair and a goatee. Marie was sure she remembered him wearing glasses a few years back. She suspected he'd gotten his eyes corrected with the laser surgery. Marie thought he looked cute either way.
"Hi Marie," Nicole said. "We're so glad you could baby-sit tonight. The kids just adore you and we feel so safe leaving them with you. Did everything go okay?"
"Yep, everything went just fine. Nick and Sage are all tucked up in bed."
Though an hour later than instructed and only after a pillow fight.
"I'm just glad I happened to be home from college for the weekend."
Desperate for money too, to pay next semester's tuition.
Marie hadn't been able to find a regular job yet.
"Let's get you home," Jack said with a smile as he handed her some folded up bills for the night.
Marie slipped them into her purse and followed him out the door into the garage to the brand new burgundy BMW. Jack did very well with the franchises he owned.
Nicole poked her head out the door after them. "Don't feel like you have to hurry home dear," she said with a hint of frost in her voice. "I mean, I wouldn't want you to hit a deer or anything."
Jack turned back to his wife, then glanced over at Marie and just smiled and waved to Nicole. Marie suppressed a smile. She suspected he wanted to do something else. They got into the car and Jack started it up. Jack and Nicole lived way out in the country so he usually picked Marie up and dropped her off again.
"So, how's school going?" he asked as he backed the car out of the garage and got it turned around. "You just started your second year right?"
"Yep, school's good. Just wish I could find a steady job. Call me anytime to baby-sit. I mean that seriously. I really need the money to pay my tuition for the spring semester."
"Financial aid not cutting it?" Jack glanced over at her.
"No, my parents make too much but they think I should pay for college on my own."
Jack was quiet for a minute. He opened his mouth to offer her the money. She was a great girl who had always made him feel safe leaving his kids in her care and he certainly had the money to burn. Something made him close his mouth. He looked over at Marie and she felt his gaze slide over her body.
"Getting a little desperate?" he asked softly.
"A little," she admitted.
Jack pulled the car over on to the side of the road and turned to look at Marie.
"What if I could offer you a way to make a lot of money in just one night?" His eyes held hers steadily.
"How?" Marie asked. She definitely needed the money but his intense manner was making her a little nervous.
Jack smiled reassuringly as Marie started to fidget a little. "Let's find somewhere better to pull over and discuss it." Jack put the car in gear and pulled back out on the road then turned down the next road on the right. It was an old dirt road that was marked seasonal. There was nothing on it but cornfields and woods. Jack pulled into a field opening and stopped the car. He put the windows down and then shut the car off. It was a warm summer night and the crickets were chirping steadily. A bullfrog croaked in the distance.
Jack unbuckled his seatbelt, pulled out his wallet and turned to Marie.
"Marie, I'm going to be very blunt. I've been married for ten years and the sex stopped two years ago, after Sage was born. I had a vasectomy then at Nicole's insistence and she still hasn't been interested in sex at all. I'm a little frustrated. I would be willing to pay you ten dollars for every request I make tonight that you agree to. We could take it a step at a time and you could say stop at any point."
Jack opened his wallet and took out a hundred dollar bill and laid it on the seat between them. "We can stop at the ATM on your way home if we need more money. As a sign of good faith, you can take that if you agree, without any requirements."
Marie stared at the money. The last time she'd seen a hundred dollar bill was at her graduation party, a gift from an aunt and uncle. That was a good start already to paying her tuition at the community college for next semester. But, she was still a virgin. Did she really want to lose her virginity this way? To a married guy in his car? Admittedly, one she found incredibly hot and had thought about while masturbating several times.
"I... I'm still a virgin." Marie looked up at Jack, biting her lip.
"We don't have to do anything you don't want to do, Marie, but I would be very gentle with you. I promise your first time would be good with me."
Marie thought for a minute. She didn't want to be a virgin forever. She reached out and took the hundred dollar bill, folded it and placed it in her purse. Jack exhaled and she looked back up at him as she undid her seatbelt and turned to face him.
Jack smiled and let his eyes rove over Marie's body. She had such delicious curves. He hoped he'd get a chance to squeeze them and more.
"Would you, please, take off your t-shirt and toss it in the back seat?"
