A Two Guys Story
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"This Door Must Remain Unlocked During Business Hours." Odd, I thought, that they would require a door at the rear of a building, a door whose only access is through the rudimentary storeroom and office of this small business to remain unlocked during the day. I wondered if it was possible in an emergency that people would actually find the door. Wouldn't they all pile out the front door?
Nonetheless, the sign was clear and the door was unlocked. We'd made sure of that.
I was thinking of other things as well as I waited. It was nearing closing time. I knew that he only locked this door when he left for the night, not when he locked the front door signaling to would-be customers that the hardware store was closed.
He would lock the front door and turn some of the lights off in the front of the store as well as the neon sign outside over the door. People would know he was closed and would pass by without looking. They would be going home, work done, shopping done, ready for dinner, ready to help the kids with the homework, and TV. The same thing they did everyday of their useless lives.
My partner and I stood in the shadows created by the overhang of various buildings and the occasional overhead lighting for the alleyway. We'd brought our nondescript car like we always did. We wore clothes similar to what folks in this town wore.
Anyone looking at us would know that we were from out of town because they probably knew everyone in this godforsaken, one horse town, but we looked like them and there were undoubtedly others who looked like they did who were not from here, but 'from around here'. It had always worked before and we had no reason to suspect that it wouldn't work tonight.
We had learned he was prompt about closing. He had a wife and daughter at home so he cleaned up a bit, straightened the merchandise, put his deposit together and left. He always left by the back door, the one that was to remain unlocked during business hours. His car was not ten feet from us, but unfailingly he walked across the alley to the bank on the street behind his store with the deposit. He'd use his key and put the deposit down a chute.
It was called a hardware store, but it was more like a general store. This town didn't have a Wal-Mart or anything like it so he sold a lot of what you might expect a Wal-Mart to sell including appliances and electronics. The good folks here didn't use credit cards much either. They tended to use cash. What nice folks they were. Cash, not credit cards, not checks, would be in the deposit bag.
It wouldn't take but about half a minute. He'd walk into the back office and find us there. We don't say anything so there would be no voice to remember. We'd each have our Glocks out, our faces covered. A motion with the muzzle of the gun for his hands to go up usually sufficed. We'd tie him up, take the deposit bag, and be on our way.
It was about three minutes before closing. We pulled on our gloves. I gave the hinges on the door one last spray of WD 40 to keep everything as quiet as possible. A nod from my partner scouting the alley for one last time and we pulled our ski masks over our faces. In almost the same motion I opened the door and we were inside the small storage area.
Having scouted the inside as well as the outside, we made our way quickly and quietly to the small office. My partner entered the office first.
I heard something like a cross between a gulp and a yelp. Entering right behind him I saw we had company. In all our watching the store no one had ever been in the backroom at closing. Now I saw two women. Two terrified women to be exact. Their hands were raised. My partner hissed, "One sound and all three of you are dead meat. You got that!"
They shook their heads vigorously. They got it.
I realized that we didn't have time to tie them up, or, for that matter, do anything different than what we'd planned. We had to wait for him to show up and we had to do it very quietly.
We'd been doing this for about five years. We both had jobs we worked at four days a week. The three day weekends we used for scouting our next mark using a table of random numbers to help us select these types of towns around the country. Occasionally we'd have to take a day off work if we needed an extra day or two for the enterprise. Using the random numbers would help us avoid patterns, we hoped. There was a pattern, however, and it might be unmistakable.
Small towns, cash oriented businesses with little security, and perhaps some other details made up our pattern. The problem for police is that we spread out pretty much across the country. The holdups didn't yield much and we looked as if we were locals. We hoped that this would keep these small holdups off the national list of unsolved crimes. We didn't make a lot on any one weekend, but we didn't need any of it to live on so it was growing in the stock market. We planned to quit when we had enough to live the good life probably in Mexico.
Now here we were facing the first major bump of our careers. If these two women would cooperate, we could yet pull it off. We had only about five or ten minutes to wait, then we'd be gone. Even now I could hear him cleaning up in the showroom. He usually didn't take long. When he was satisfied with his cleaning and straightening, he'd bring the cash back here.
I think we held our breath while we waited.
After a couple of minutes I actually looked at the women. It had to be mother and daughter. It must be the family I surmised. Dad would be very cooperative if he thought his wife and daughter were in danger.
We both moved to the corners of the office and had the women lie down on the floor. We tried to position them so that he wouldn't see them as he entered the office. We placed ourselves so that we'd be out of sight as well. I stood behind the door ready to push it closed when he came in.
We waited.
With the women face down, I took more time to actually look at them. Both had great bodies. I'd noticed the very appealing racks on both before we put them face down on the floor. Beyond those great racks, were two curvy bodies and very pretty faces. Dark shoulder length hair on the mom and very long dark hair on the younger completed a couple of very attractive women. I was having nice thoughts about pulling the pants down on the younger one who lay near me. I was fantasizing about feeling that cute round butt against my groin, my cock pushed up inside her, but we wouldn't be leaving any DNA here. Having a terrified woman wasn't part of the plan and certainly having a terrified, raped woman was well outside our strategy for this enrichment scheme.
In fact, neither of us had loaded guns. We didn't want to risk killing someone. We relied on great planning rather than on force.
The more I looked at the really fine ass of the younger one in her tight black pants, the more I was willing to reconsider, however. Mom looked pretty good, too.
She was also in slacks. Hunter green with a lighter green top that really had showed off her rack. Her hips had spread, from having the kid, I presumed. Her skin wouldn't be as soft and she wouldn't be as tight, but these differences would be trivial. Might just have to use the other entrance if I was looking for a tight fit, I thought.
We had left the door was ajar. We heard steps, then it swung toward me as he entered. I closed it firmly, but didn't slam it. In a flash he sized up the situation. He would have had to have been a dunce not to. Wife and daughter on the floor and two masked men with guns should be clear to anyone.
"Don't shoot," he said immediately handing me the cash and raising his arms.
I took it.
"We're going to tie everyone up to give us a few minutes head start," I said in what I hoped was a matter-of-fact, non-threatening tone.
"We're going to tie mister to the desk chair and the ladies back to back. So, sir, if you would please sit here," I indicated the desk chair. He sat. We had him remove his shirt for use as a gag. I watched everyone as my partner took the plastic ties we carried for this purpose and began to secure him to the chair. Once tied down, he gagged him.
The girls were to be more of a problem. We decided to attach the wife to the legs of the desk. Arms behind her back held together with the plastic ties looped around the legs of the desk at one end, her legs fastened to the other end. When we finished, she was lying on her side. It was probably not very comfortable. I looked around for a gag complaining out loud at the lack of usable material.
"Do it like this," the girl said jumping up. She went to her mother and pulled her shirt up to her face covering mainly her mouth. Her mother started to let out a scream but, fortunately, thought better of it. I could see why. She wasn't wearing a bra. The bra-less look must have been quite risquΓ© in this town. As I said earlier, she had quite a rack. It took some restraint for both of us to ignore the opportunity to at least explore her body.
The girl took a plastic tie from my partner which she fastened around her mother's head holding her shirt in place in the manner of a loose gag.
"For me," the girl said pulling her shirt off, "you can use my shirt as a gag, too." She was looking at us holding the shirt over her shoulder. Like her mother she was bra-less and just as well built, though obviously younger. She stood there, shirt over her shoulder, other arm on her hip, half naked with a come hither look worthy of a fifties movie.
I heard a gulp from her mother on the floor.
Neither of us moved. We just gawked. She ranged somewhere between cute and gorgeous. I knew we needed to get out of there, but she was offering. She radiated sex.
I took a deep breath and started to back out the door with my partner. Maybe we wouldn't tie her up. We'd just get the hell out of here. The young girl's look suddenly turned angry. "Aren't you going to rape us," she asked clearly disappointed.
My partner and I kept moving albeit more slowly.
"Wait a minute," she said getting in my face. "Are you really leaving?" I nodded.
Her anger flared. "Nothing ever happens in the miserable town. You two are the first thing to happen here in my lifetime and now you're just going to leave? You can't do that!" She actually stamped her foot.