June married young, at twenty, and by the time she was twenty-five, she had 3 children under the age of five-years-old. Unable to afford any more mistakes, after a night of passion, she had her tubes tied. Now, thirty-years-old, her last child was in school with his brother and sister. Finally, home alone with time on her hands, she could hear herself think.
Her husband worked as a machinist at Machine Die Cast Tool and made $18.00 an hour. A good wage for this small town, but not nearly good enough to pay all the bills, never mind to pay for any of the extras. They only have the one car, a 2004 Ford Taurus with over 100,000 miles on the odometer and it runs like crap. Good enough for her husband, John, to make it back and forth to work, which, fortunately, was only a ten mile roundtrip. Unfortunately, once he takes the car, unless she drives him to work on those days she needs to run errands, she's without transportation.
John works six days a week, half day on Saturday. The overtime that he makes, usually, 10 overtime hours a week, keeps them afloat. He plays the lottery every week hoping to win, but never wins more than a free bet. Forcing himself to quit smoking cold turkey, he buys his six pack of beer every Saturday, takes the kids to the park on Sunday, and does it all over again on Monday. Most times, it's a good life with a good wife, until he gets to thinking that he wants more.
Now that all three kids are in school, June had hopes of finding a part-time job to make a little extra money to tie them over, until payday Friday. Only, with nothing more than a high school education and no office or computer skills, the only place willing to hire her was McDonalds or Wal-Mart, neither of which appealed to her.
That's where Larry, her classmate from high school, comes into the story. He pimps on the side. Larry, a clerk at the sporting goods store rubs elbows with customers that have a few bucks. His main girl, Josephine, got knocked up and wants to keep the baby. His other girl, Daisy, after getting beaten and robbed by one of her Johns, has suddenly lost her appetite for the oldest profession and wants out of it. That's where June comes back into the story, again.
"Hey, how ya doin', Jane? What are you doing in here?"
"It's June."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever so, is June a month that should mean something to me?" He looked at her with a smug grin that she wiped from his face with a stare, while speaking a language that even he understood.
"June is my name, asshole."
"Oh, sorry. Can I help you find anything?"
"John's birthday," she helped clear his blank stare by crossing her arms across her breasts, when he focus his stare to her tits. "My husband's birthday is coming up and I'm shopping for a gift." She looked at Larry who started leading her to the high end fishing gear. "I only have thirty bucks to spend, Larry." She vaguely surveyed the store. "What can I buy that looks like it costs more? Do you have anything on sale that's a good value?"
"Well, what does he like to do? Does he like to hunt or fish?"
"He punches his bag in the garage. That's about the only thing he has time to do. Between his job and helping out with the kids on weekends, he barely has time to watch television."
"Boxing, huh? Do you know if he has a pair of bag gloves?"
"Bag gloves? You mean the gloves you put on your hands to hit the bag?"
"Yeah," he said walking her over to the boxing section and picking up a nice pair of weighted Everlast gloves."
"Yeah, he does, but they're old, worn, and smelly. They aren't heavy like these. I don't think they're even leather." She stuck her hand inside the glove. "These are nice, real nice." She smiled proudly. "He's been teaching me how to hit the bag and how to throw a punch. He said that I have a good left hand."
"Yeah, these are the best bag gloves we have, Jane," he said and corrected himself, when she shot him another look. "I mean, June."
"How much are they?"
"These are too much," he said looking inside and pulling out the tag. These are a hundred bucks." He held them up like he was holding a trophy. "These are what the professional boxers use."
"Yeah, well, that's way out of my budget," she said pulling the glove off her hand and gently setting it down, as if it was an expensive dish of chinaware. She tightened the grip of her shoulder bag while looking off in other directions of the store.
"I'll tell you what," he said rubbing his mouth, as if he was a man dying of thirst. He had a thoughtful face, as if he was about to tell her a secret.
Larry took her all in with one look. He peered down her gaping sweatshirt, when he threw his arm around her shoulder. She had a nice set of C cup tits and with a little makeup, her hair cut and colored, and a proper outfit, she'd look pretty hot, hot enough for someone to pay big bucks to fuck and/or suck.
"When is John's birthday?"
"Oh," she said slithering away from his hold, "I have some time, not until next month, August 27th."
"Good. That's good," he said, as if he was arranging his schedule in his mind to attend John's birthday party, after being invited. Only, June hadn't invited him.
He studied her figure again with a look that paid special attention to her hips. She had a nice ass and great legs for someone, who has given birth to three kids. Most of the women he knows have already started packing on the pounds.
"These are going on sale in a couple of weeks, marked down to $69 and with the employee discount that I receive; I'll pick them up for you for your thirty bucks. Actually, I get a 20% discount and can buy them for $55.00."
"I only have $30.00 to spend," she said looking at Larry with suspicion.
"Don't worry about it, June. I'll make up the difference, as my gift to you for your husband," he said with a creepy smile.
"Really? You'd do that for me? Why?" She looked at him with suspicion.
"Sure, we go way back, Jane," he said her name wrong again.
"It's June."
"Yeah, sorry, whatever, I had a brain freeze."
He looked at her face again. Had anyone known he was a pimp looking for a hooker to work the upcoming holiday season at the hotel downtown, June was certainly pretty enough to make him some much needed extra money and fill his stable of none. He handed her his salesman's business card.
"My cell phone number is on there. Give me a call in a few weeks and I'll drop off the gloves, when John's not home."
"Thanks, Larry."
"Yeah, sure, no problem," he said watching her ass wiggle away, as she left him and the store behind.
A few weeks later June called Larry.
"Hello."
"Hi Larry."
"Who's this?"
"June."
"June? June who? I don't know any dame named June."
"Bag glove June from the sporting goods store," she said with a laugh, ready to hang up the phone.
"Oh, June, yeah, hi. How are ya?"
"John works Saturday mornings," she felt the uncomfortable silence, "my husband, birthday John."
"Yeah, yeah, I'm with you. You're the birthday bag glove lady."
"Yes," she said relived that he finally remembered her.
"And you want me to drop the bag gloves off Saturday morning, while he's at work?"
"Yes and I'll pay you the thirty dollars for the gloves."
"Thirty dollars?"
"Yeah, you said that the gloves were going on sale for $69 and with your discount that you could get them for $55. You told me that you'd make up the difference," she said with nervous anticipation, while thinking what else she could buy her husband on short notice, should Larry not come through with the gloves.
"Did I say that?"