Maddie sat staring out her window from the tiny desk in her upstairs bedroom. She was thinking about her boyfriend Les. The date they had gone on the night before would be their last date until Christmas break.
Les was off to college on an athletic scholarship. He had been the local heart throb with all the girls at school and linebacker on the high school football team.
During the last three months of their senior year, Les had taught her more about sex than her previous four boyfriends put together. He was an animal and always left her deliciously sore. His obsession with eating her pussy until she shook from head to toe then fucking her until he couldn't fuck any more was almost brutal. He fucked like he played football, hard and rough.
The view of the neighbors house with all the old cars and junk scattered around their yard looked like some kind of mini recycling plant.
Tom and Connie had lived in that junkyard for years before Maddie's parents had bought the house next door. At the time it was all they could afford.
Maddie's father had fixed their house up over the years. It was the nicest house around now, but the junkyard next door seemed to somehow suck the nice out of everything around it.
Maddie watched out her window as a shiny black car with black tinted windows and shiny chrome wheels pulled into the neighbors yard. She watched her neighbors Tom and Connie come out of their front door and make their way past an old washing machine and scattered piles of junk until they stood beside the car.
She watched a girl about her own age, nineteen, maybe early twenties, get out of the car. Tom and Connie hugged the girl then they pulled a suitcase from the trunk. Maddie sat watching out her window as Connie followed Tom and the girl back into the house.
She wondered why Connie always walked so slow. Maybe she had problems with her hips or maybe something was wrong with her legs. She reminded Maddie of an old, bow-legged cowboy, the way she walked so slow with her knees held further apart than most people. And she always took tiny, slow steps. Maddie snickered when realized that she had never seen Connie wear anything other than long, summer dresses. Her extra large breasts always swaying from side to side in time with each step.
Ava followed her uncle Tom up the dirty, creaking stairs. The wheels on the suitcase that she pulled clunked up each step until they reached the top. She felt nauseous at the thought of living there but for now it would have to do. Looking around, the small, dingy room already felt claustrophobic. Ava made her way to the tiny, dirty window. Looking out across the piles of junk she noticed someone looking back at her from an upstairs window next door. Ava slowly raised her hand and waved at the girl in the window. Madison smiled and waved back.
Tom told Ava to make herself at home. "Your aunt Connie is just about done with some lunch so it shouldn't be too long." He hugged her.
Ava listened to the squeak of each wooden step as her uncle made his way back downstairs.
Looking around the room, her eyes began to fill with tears. How could she be here? How would she make it without her mom and dad? The boating accident still seemed like a bad dream and she just wanted to wake up.
Maddie closed her laptop. Wondering who the girl was, she made her way downstairs. In the kitchen, she pulled a cold Coke from the refrigerator and walked to the front door. Outside, she sat on the porch in a large wicker chair still wondering who the girl was. Looking over her shoulder towards the upstairs window she could see the girl was still there. Maddie waved again, the girl raised her hand.
Ava wiped her tears and made her way down the narrow, rickety stairs. She found her aunt Connie in the kitchen and Tom sitting at the table. All the stacks of old magazines and newspapers piled in the corners of the dingy room had a thin layer of dust on them.
She offered to help with lunch but Connie told her to Just relax, "I got it!" Connie said.
Ava pulled an old wooden chair out from the table and sat next to her uncle Tom. He was her father's younger brother. She wondered why her father seemed to never have anything good to say about Tom. He had always treated her like his own daughter.
She wondered why Tom and Connie appeared poor and dirty when her parents had a beautiful home and drove expensive cars.
Tears began to blur her vision again. She stood up and walked slowly to the front door, thinking maybe a little fresh air would feel good and she could hide her tears.
The squeak of the old screen door drifted across the yard.
Maddie turned to see who it was. The girl was tall and slender, her long black hair went down to her hips. She appeared to be very pretty. The girl raised her hand again.
Maddie found herself weaving her way through the scattered piles of junk until she stood at the steps of Tom's porch. Looking up at the girl she smiled and offered her hand, "Hi, I'm Madison, everybody calls me Maddie!"
The girl smiled, "I'm Ava."
"I noticed that you had a suitcase, will you be staying with Tom and Connie? Want to hang out sometime?"
The friendly gesture seemed to lift a little of the sadness from Ava's heart.
"Sure!" She smiled at Maddie as she admired her blue eyes and silky, shiny, blond hair in the sun.
They appeared to be from different worlds. Ava in her black spandex leggings with a short skirt over them that barely covered her butt. Her pale complexion and soft hands.
Madison wore an old, tattered flannel shirt, tight blue jeans and no makeup. Ava found her to be very pretty, she didn't need makeup.
A pickup truck pulled up in front of Madison's house. It was Les. Maddie knew he had stopped by to say goodbye on his way out of town. Maddie asked Ava to come meet him.
A few minutes later the three of them sat chatting on Maddie's porch. He didn't stay long, saying that he had a long drive ahead of him. He hugged Madison and gave her a passionate kiss as he held her tight. He smiled at Ava and said that it was nice to meet her as he turned and walked back to his pickup.