Sally was in the shower her tears were mingling with the water on her face. It was her second shower that morning but she still couldn't get clean. How could her life have become like it was? Only last year they had been a happy family, her husband of twenty years, had loved her and her son of seventeen had always been attentive and obedient to her and everyone else. This morning something had happened which she knew was her fault but how could it have happened?
All of their troubles had started when Dave, her husband had been sacked from the job he had had from the day he left school. He had been caught stealing ten pounds from a petty cash box. Ten pounds! He had been on twenty thousand a year at the time, what could ten pounds matter to the people he worked for? Worse still was the fact that he had been about to be made redundant, his pay off was what they had been hoping for, for years. It would have set them up for the rest of their lives. Now at fifty-three no one would even give him an interview.
That was a little over a year ago. Their son Paul had to leave his school with only two terms to go, as they now couldn't afford the fees. He didn't settle at his new collage and failed just about all his exams. But worse than that his new 'friends' were all into drugs.
Dave put all their savings into a new business. His partner promptly disappeared, along with all of the money. Now they lived in a semi on a scruffy estate and she knows no one. Dave would sit around the house all day drinking beer. He used to keep himself fit but now he had a beer belly and looked like death. She had got a job, on a till at the local supermarket. At first she had hated every second she was there. But now it was the highlight of her day. To have people actually speak to her and to be with other women was what kept her from ending it all.
The depression that overtook Dave led to him hitting Sally whenever something went wrong. This morning that had included his egg being too runny. It wasn't the fact that he had slapped her in front of Paul, which was making her cry. It was because after Dave had stormed out of the house Paul had come up behind her, she had thought to hug her, but in fact he had slid his hands under her jumper and squeezed her breasts. She had been too shocked to move or say anything and he had taken this to mean he could carry on. Before she had recovered herself, he had pushed a hand under her skirt and was feeling her pussy. By the time she had come to her senses he was in front of her and removing her top. She was too slow to stop him and he quickly pulled it from her. She hadn't properly dress yet and hadn't put her bra on. While she tried to cover her breasts he had taken hold of her skirt and with one quick pull had lowered it, along with her knickers, to her ankles. He then sat on the table and held her at arms length to look at her.
Sally had been so ashamed of herself, she couldn't think what to do. She tried desperately to cover both her exposed pubs and breasts. Whatever she did though wasn't enough to stop him seeing her just about completely naked. After he had looked at her and squeezed her tits again he turned her around and pushed a hand between her legs. Once there he felt her and rubbed her before she was able to break away, kick off her skirt and knickers and run upstairs to lock herself in the loo.
Now as she washed herself for the second time she still felt dirty. How could her once loving son have acted like he had. It was his new friends, she always knew they would lead him astray but it still didn't explain why he had done it. Between showers she had heard an outside door slam. Either Dave had come back or Paul had gone out. Sally carefully opened the door and silently crept to her room. She quickly dressed in tight jeans and several thick shirts before going downstairs and then quickly outside. She was already late for work and ran most of the way to the shop. She managed to make a mistake with every order and the manager sent her home after the tenth one. He could see she wasn't right and said she should go home to rest. To 'go home' was not something she wanted anymore. Instead she stayed out as long as she could before she knew she had just enough time to get home and get Dave's tea ready.