A virgin and a pastor. What could those two possibly get up to, right? Well, first of all, Louvina loses her virginity, and then... Oh wait, you're supposed to read it and find out for yourself!
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The Virgin and the Preacher Ch 01
"Louvina, don't you forget that crate of vegetables for ol' man Mervin. Ol' coot. He gets so durn cranky."
"I won't mama," I said, piling the old wooden crates on the wagon until they were over my head. They were paper-thin wood barely held together by wire. The rusty iron wheels caught and wobbled through the hardened red clay gullies threatening to dump its higgledy-piggledy load. Although I was almost a teenager, it took two hands to pull the cumbersome old cart to the first stop where I could unload two crates of fresh vegetables.
"Here ya are, Miz Vernon." I set two crates at her front door and waited until she opened the creaking screen door to pay me. I thanked her, pushed the money deep into my pocket, and ran back to the cart.
I pressed on until I was at the end of my route with one last crate. Cognizant of the sweltering summer heat, Reverend Cope and his wife always invited me in for sweet tea. I got to play with their new baby while we waited for hot out of the oven chocolate chip cookies. Every week a bag of neatly washed and folded clothing waited on my cart. Always enough for me and my four brothers. Mrs. Cope always added one pretty dress for me which I would wear to church the following Sunday. When the Reverend and Mrs. Cope would see me on Sunday, they each would have a wink for me in my new dress.
I emptied my pockets on the dinette table. It had the shiniest chrome legs ever did see. It was a pretty aqua color with tiny white boomerangs, but the years had worn the aqua to a lower layer of off-white at each of the six places for family. The chrome was dull and sad. Mama scooped the bills and change into a soda cracker tin and placed it back on top of the cupboards. She would use it for household money and purchase seeds for the garden. When daddy walked out on us, we had nothing. Once I got old enough, I was able to help with delivering the produce. My brothers all worked the huge garden mama planted. But for mama's green thumb, we got by.
As my brothers got older, they took over the farm and began deliveries in an old rusty pickup truck. Its fenders flapped and barely held on, but it did the job. It may as well have been a limousine to us. Reverend Cope moved away. I learned how to shop at thrift stores to help mama and the boys. Life went on but our feet were still tainted with that red Georgia dirt, never letting us forget our beginnings and likely our future days.
Five years later...
"Lou you absolutely must be in my wedding!"
It was our senior year of high school, and my best friend was marrying her childhood sweetheart the week we graduated. Jolene grew up here, which was little more than crossroads, but her fiancΓ© was from the next town over.
"JoJo I can't afford a dress! I'm sorry," I apologized knowing how disappointed she would be in me.
"I'm already thrifting dresses for all the girls. There are just tons of bridesmaid dresses out there. I just have to find the right ones!" she exclaimed.
"I guess. If you can find one that I can afford. I'm still just workin' part-time at the diner until we graduate. Billy Bob said I could work full time after that."
"Oh poo, that ol' perv will be in your pants as soon as he knows you're eighteen." She rolled her eyes.
"That's why I ain't told him I already turned eighteen!" We both laughed until we wiped tears.
A week later JoJo told me she found the dresses and wanted me to come to see them after school. We ran up the stairs to her bedroom. We were only three weeks from graduation and four weeks from her wedding.
"You're going to look fabulous in this!" She held up the long dress and her face fell at the look on my face. "You don't like it?"
"I like it well enough JoJo. It's a pretty color... lavender. And the lace is pretty."
"Okay so?" she said, obviously annoyed I didn't share the same joy.
"It's a halter dress!"
"So?!" she nearly shouted.
"I can't wear a halter dress! My boobs are too big!"
She laughed. "Oh, that! Don't be silly! All the others will be so jealous of you. Lou, we all wish we had titties as big as yours. We're all in the tiny titty club! For god's sake, look at me, I'm flat as a pancake." She looked down and patted her hands on her, admittedly, flat chest.
I was still unconvinced. "I don't know..."
"Here! Try it on!"
The dress did fit perfectly, but as I thought, my boobs overflowed the lavender lace halter. They hung like two melons in the cups. The deep cleavage consisted of two moons nearly touching.
"Not real flatterin', JoJo," I murmured, looking in the mirror. My nipples, which were perpetually hard, indecently poked through the lace, right at the inner edge. So, half my boob was bared. "And how can I wear this in church?"
She peered over my shoulder into the mirror. "This dress was made for you! We'll just put a couple of pieces of toilet paper, just so your nipples don't show." I rolled my eyes. "It'll work perfectly! Just you wait and see!"
They were being married in the church in the town where her fiancΓ© lived, and I was hoping no one would be there that knew me. I left the dress with JoJo. If mama saw it, she would have a conniption fit.
*****
We all got dressed in JoJo's bedroom because she wanted us all to have identical hairstyles. JoJo took cosmetology our last two years. She was in job training at Salon de Beauty at the crossroads, but she hoped to find a place to work in the city. My long chestnut brown hair was a favorite of hers to work on. I'd miss my weekly wash and styles, I thought. No, it was JoJo that I will miss.
As I thought, I was the only one that overflowed the halter top of the dress. Several of the girls didn't even fill theirs and goggled at me. Showing their insecurity, they whispered between themselves.