NOTE: We probably all know somebody a little bit like Emily Jeffers. That girl who wasn't that bright, but had all the goods. And because she wasn't so swift, guys took advantage of her naivety and easily convinced her into back seats, out of her panties, and plowed her like a fertile field — and then passed her on to their buddies. While this story is fiction, I have a certain fondness for Emily Jeffers. This is the first chapter.
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I hadn't been back in Johnsons Hollow for maybe 15 years until that night my truck tire picked up some shingle nails and I had to pull off the highway.
Turns out the closest garage was old Walt Dennis's just outside of town. I'd have breezed by the Hollow without a thought normally. The new highway bypassed the town now — and it's not like I grew up there.
It was about 8 p.m. and dark that time of year. The automobile association sent out a wrecker and some young guy winched my old F-150 up on the truck and I climbed in with the kid and we headed to the nearest off ramp and onto the old road into town.
Walt didn't own the service station anymore. It was mostly a convenience store these days but they kept one bay open and sold tires. The kid said it would be some time the next day before anybody could look at the truck. He was going into Owens for a beer if I wanted a drive.
I hadn't heard that name in awhile. They used to serve a mean grilled cheese and the kitchen was open 'til late. So I hitched a ride.
Some things never change, and Owens Bar and Grill was one of them. I knew Andrea, the girl behind the counter. She was older and if anything better looking than when I'd known her. She didn't recognize me right off, and I didn't go up to her or anything. Took a seat at a table and some young girl came and plopped a menu down. They still had the grilled cheese. Fries. The waitress came back a while later, put a coaster down and a beer on top of that. I looked her a question and she jerked her head to towards the back of the place and there sat Jack Misener with a shit-eating grin on his face looking square at me. He raised a hand and gestured me back to his table. I couldn't help but smile. Jack was a trouble maker if there ever was one, but as far as I know he never hurt anyone and would give you the shirt off his back. He'd taken me under his wing that first year in Johnson's Hollow. I owed him a lot because Johnsons Hollow is a strange place sometimes.
We caught up some. Talked old times. Had more drinks. A couple of guys I didn't know wondered over, young guys must have been just little kids when I left. And of course Jack had to bring up the name Emily Jeffers. There were a few snickers from the young guys, like they knew something.
I looked at Jack and he shrugged.
"They don't know Em like we did," Jack said. "All they know is the jokes told nowadays. They see her and think that's what she was always like. Not like she was 25 years ago. Not the finest piece of ass in three counties."
I nodded, but the young guys just rolled their eyes.
"Old Mrs. Jeffers?," one of the guys said. "You must have the wrong whore Jack. The one we know up in that double-wide ain't never been anything but a big breedin' sow."
Jack cuffed the young guy upside the head. Paul I think his name was.
"You don't know nothin' you twerp," Jack said. "Back in the day that old sow up there in that trailer could have done you and all your friends 'til you was wore right out — and turn around and do six Black boys while you was crawlin' home to yer mama."
Jack was right about Em. She'd milk it right out of you, get you back up in seconds, and pump you dry again. Jack Misener and I might have been the only ones who ever treated her with a little bit of respect. And it all started not long after I got the job as a clerk at the Savings and Loan. I was 23 years old, horny, and I had money to burn. And I spent plenty of it for the right to pump my ever-ready cock into her insatiable body.
The three young guys realized there was a story to be told and Jack ordered a pitcher and when it arrived he nodded to me. The young guys looked at me expectantly. I leaned back in my chair, looked at the ceiling, and let out a big gush of breath.
"Okay," I said. "Imagine the most beautiful woman you've ever seen. For Jack and I it might have been Marilyn Munro. Blonde like Emma. Full figure. Not some gym freak like you see these days, but a soft, loose body like in one of those Old Masters paintings they got over in Europe. That was her."
I took a drink and thought back, trying to find a starting point. I could visualize her, hear her moans, smell her like it was yesterday. I could feel what it was like to be inside her and her long velvet tunnel hot and wet gripping me. Milking me until I couldn't do anything but spill it all in that hole. Deep inn the centre of the universe.
Emily Jeffers wasn't maybe the sharpest tool in the shed, as Pastor Brown discovered. She'd flunked Grade 11 but the community college over in Haller City accepted her in the cosmetology course because, really, how difficult was styling hair?
Emily flunked that too. She did her driver's test five times and still hadn't passed.
But she was a nice person, and when Able Jeffers caught sight of her at Owens Bar and Grill one night, he'd quickly realized here was a somewhat clueless 22-year-old with a body built for bed. If she could cook, clean the house, and fuck on demand, well she'd be quite a catch.
Able wasn't so bright himself, but smart enough to sweet talk Emily, seduce her, and in a few short months get her to marry him. She could cook, she could clean house. Her mother was a drunk and her father was a long-haul trucker and gone for weeks at a time. Emily looked after things at home back before she and Abe got hitched. Once shown how to do something, she could manage to muddle through on her own the next time.
And she could fuck like she'd grown up in a whorehouse. With total abandon. Her creamy white body could increase pulse rates and set men to breathing all funny. And that's when she had clothes on.
"The Lord didn't bless her with brains, but He allowed her the body and talent of Mary Magdalene, and the generosity befitting a good Christian," Pastor Brown said once. "Her ministry here in the Hollow will certainly afford her a place in the Kingdom of Heaven."
Or as one recipient of Emily Jeffers' ministrations said, "When you put your dipstick in her, it comes out wet. Real wet."
Able owned a little farm with a few cows, chickens, and a couple pigs. He always planted a big truck garden, and sold vegetables at a couple of local farm markets. It was all mud and stink in the wet weather, and dust and tumbleweeds when it didn't rain for a while. In the winter it was just cold.
Emily helped out. She did as she was bid to do and of course never thought to think there was something different. Passersby might slow down to watch her bent over doing some weeding. She wasn't one to wear very much in the hot weather, and everything she had sort of hung out just right.