My God, he thought, she's so beautiful.
The kid was dumbstruck and could barely produce a hello. What luck. His mom had announced there would be a new tenant and he had assumed a man but his mom brought into the house a stunning young woman, quite possibly 20-year-old or younger, with braided blonde hair falling onto the middle of her back. She looked at him with an angelical smile and thanked him for welcoming him into his house and that she just couldn't be happier with the place. Or maybe she said that to his mother, or the room, but he took it for him.
He had resented his mom for renting out the guest room to those craigslist types... The house was not made for it, being a three-bedroom one bath. And the placement of the guest room, at the center of the whole, made for an awkward cohabitation: it is hard to focus on your homework when a middle-aged fat traveling salesman crosses the living room wrapped in merely a towel because the dumb-ass architect had put the rooms on one side of the house and the bath on the other. But now all was forgiven. He had just turned 18, it was his last year of High School, he would go to college. And as a form of apology the universe had delivered the prettiest girl he had ever seen right to his doorstep. Past it, actually.
So what brings you to town, Emily? -- his mother said.
I work with the Education Department, of the city of Franklin, Mrs., we help young children from diverse backgrounds integrate into the American Education System!
Oh isn't wonderful, but you can call me Cathy of course, you must have dinner with us tonight and tell us all about it!
Dinner came and dinner went and they shared chicken with biscuits and she told them all about what her and her sisters -- that's what they called each other -- were doing here in town, though in truth he did not register much of it. He scarcely looked or thought of little else than her face, her body a close second. There was talk of unprivileged groups and unfortunate children and much was said about the education and the value of Hope and learning and of enlightening experiences. She had gone to Haiti Granada and Trinidad and even Jamaica and her expenses had been paid by the charitable organization which she and her sisters had funded not two years ago but had visibly run into some public money to finance it all.
This town needs a lot of help, we received word from the mayor's office through the federal department of education's new bureau for immigration. My official title is Immigration Facilitation Consultant but really I just take care of the children all day, she smiled, the titles help us sound more corporate.
Could I help?
She smiled at him and her white teeth seemed to beam out to him like sunlight, god she was cute.
You can help me hand out flyers after school if you'd like, we're always looking for help, and locals always fare better! I could introduce you to my sisters!
That night the kid masturbated will staring at the wall, a mere thin layer of plaster which separated him from that godsent angel. Pictures of marriage and a pregnant belly and breasts heavy with milk with pink nipples coming through his mind. He came on a towel he kept in his room for that purpose and it seemed to him as if the semen was extra white and extra thick that night. He was happy.
They met after school in one of the streets at the center of town. Emily stood with a few girls each more beautiful than the last though the kid only saw her. She introduced them as her sisters, fellow consultants and one of them produced a stack of flyers and they all set out by pairs to distribute them all. He gave them a quick look. They were green and postured a red headed girl holding a mixed-race child on them and both smiled at the reader. They told of equality in opportunity and education but he did not read.
He would keep at a corner and hand them out to passersby, but Emily would set particular importance to women. She walked up to a group of teenage girls and spoke to them a little just out of earshot. Then to a woman waiting at a bus stop. A lady passed by with a stroller and she walked with her a bit, disappeared around a corner and came back five minutes later. At one point two black men passed on the opposite sidewalk and three girls of the town followed them gleefully, she stopped to look them on and he stopped to look at her. They talked of banalities, weather and his day. She asked a lot of questions. He answered as if they were assignments and that made her laugh. He looked down at his shoes. She touched his shoulder and told him she'd see him at home that evening.
At dinner he kept his eyes on the door but it stayed shut. He kept up past midnight and went to bed but couldn't sleep. Finally, around 3am he heard her come in and the shower ran. When the sound of the water stopped he sneaked a look into the hallway and caught a glimpse of her entering her room wearing only a towel. As per. He saw her calf and the delicate foot and the tiny ankle. So little yet so much. He masturbated in the towel again, imagining what went on above that calf.
Over the next few days he found her profile on linkedin and he would zoom on her picture and use that to masturbate. He imagined her below him and repeated to himself how perfect she was. He humped the mattress hard. He was as much in love as teenage boys can be, and she was always in her thoughts. He needed to find a way to spend more time with her.
He set out and pretended to care of the only thing which he knew she would engage with him on: her charitable work. When he polled her on that she answered that they were done with the pamphlets now, but he could help with children activities. They met one Saturday in a gymnasium the city had requisitioned for daycare: most children were the light brown shade of mixed children, only a few had pronounced African features.
Emily and her sisters handled any very small child, but he played with the 5- to 8-year-olds. They jumped and played catch and they climbed at some small tree and they would measure each other against his legs. He was to them some object of peculiarity, one young curly-haired girl said she never saw a man like him but he rather looked like his mom. When he asked her where her mother was she pointed to one of Emily's friend who was introduced to him as Penny.
In fact he asked near each of them where they were from, those who knew answered they were from America and had come to his city in a car with their mother. Then it was time for snacks and he let the matter go. Emily walked him back to the house. She was gleaming.
Aren't they wonderful? I can't wait to get one myself.
Same! I'm too young now, but I can't wait to have a family of my own too.
She didn't answer and did not smile. He watched her face but she kept looking forward. Had he said anything wrong? When they reached the house it was dusk, she wished him good evening and did not come in. She slept elsewhere that night.