Fun with Mary, part 1

I had known Mary for almost 5 years, as she had worked for a place I also worked when she was 15. At the time I didn’t notice her much, as she was a very tiny and young looking girl, about 4 foot 10 and 90 pounds, almost looking like a little boy with no hips and a pretty flat chest. She was also very quiet and shy, and being both home schooled and a Southern Baptist, I assumed she was pretty meek and mild.

The first clue that I was wrong was when she, at 17, showed up at work one day and told us that she was pregnant with her boyfriend. They quickly got married, and she left work to get a better job and had the baby. She’d still come by though, but after having gotten married, she was much more outgoing than she had been before, and over the next year became somewhat flirty. Having a child had also made a difference in her body… for the first time she had hips and breasts, and had suddenly become a petite yooung woman with a smoking hot body, still only about 95 pounds. With an almost 30 year age difference, I passed it off as nothing that was anything more than innocent flirtation however.

More time and a second baby, and I began to see her more. She’d drop by the shop and talk to me about things, which weren’t going well. Difficult children and an abusive husband left her wondering what to do, and she didn’t have enough confidence in her abilities to move out. Then he made that decision for her, and took a girlfriend, telling her that he intended to seek a divorce.

One Summer day she came by the shop and confided in me that she didn’t even have enough money to buy groceries for the week. I gave her $120, and she asked how she could pay me back. I planned on working all weekend, and needed help, so I offered her the chance to work it off. She showed up that Sunday afternoon, and it was a fun day, getting stuff done and talking.