PennySaver
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About Jennie's youth
Jennie hadn't had such a good night's sleep in … well, forever! She'd been spent, totally sated, and what with relative confidence in their current safety, she'd been able to curl up against Manny without fear that she'd be woken in the night by alarms, warning texts, gunfire, or strange men in their room.
The next day after she'd gone out to get more food and drink and arrange some travel for three days hence, Jennie sat down in the ratty old arm chair across from Manny and began talking about her childhood, as he'd requested.
"When I was 8 years old, my father was killed by a hit and run driver," she began, her tone matter of fact with just an occasional hint of emotion in it. "My mother had been a 24 year old, unpaid school volunteer who'd loved her job … can you call it a job...? No, but, you know what I mean. She'd had no real work experience, other than the 30 hours plus she volunteered with the school. She'd only been 16 when she got pregnant with me … dropped out of school … married my father just before my birth. He stepped up … didn't have to, I guess, but he was a good man.
"She'd quit her volunteer work and started a string of minimum wage, part time, go nowhere jobs that were somehow keeping us warm, dry, fed, and in our home. I was too young at the time to realize that there was no way she could support us like that flipping burgers or tapping keys down at the local Dairy Mart. Her night shift job … the one for which she left me home with a neighbor and for which she wore short dresses and skirts and a skimpy top and a push up bra … it was the one that was bringing in the real money.
"About two years after my dad's death, mom remarried. Phillip had been one of mom's Johns but he'd fallen hard for her. He asked her to quit the business and marry him."
Jennie smiled and laughed, looking off into the space before her and seeing nothing but memories. "She'd arranged for him to bump into us at the park one afternoon, my 10th birthday. He was eager to make an impression, so … he brought helium balloons … which got away from him as he shook my hand and floated off, not high into the sky, mind you, but off to the edge of the park where they contacted a power transformer and blew a fuse, killing power to over 600 homes for most of the afternoon. He'd also brought a puppy, knowing that I'd been asking for one since even before my dad's death. It bit me … and it peed on my new birthday dress … and it knocked over the cake ... and sat in it."
Jennie laughed, filled their glasses with tequila, and went on. "After I surprisingly approved of him, my mother married him the next month. I loved that man, as much of even more than my father. He worked his ass off seven days a week in his freelance repair shop and still had the energy to show my mother love and play games with me and explain computers to me and teach me how to drive.
"Then … about two years later … things changed," Jennie said, her tone becoming solemn. She hesitated while she contemplated how she wanted to frame the next part of her life. "I was old enough to know about husbands and wives and sex and about how icky it was to walk in on or hear your parents having sex. But you know the saying out of sight, out of mind? I hadn't realized it, but my parents -- I'd considered Phillip dad, of course -- I hadn't realized it, but they never had sex. Later, when I came to realize that my mother had been a prostitute for two years, I would wonder Why don't my parents ever fuck?"
Jennie's eyes began to glaze over, but she fought the tears back. "Days short of my 16th birthday, my mother died. I wasn't there … I was in Haiti with a church group, helping children and reading to them and stuff like that while the adults were building a school. Phillip told me at the time that she'd died of an embolism. In truth, she'd swallowed a bottle of pills and died. On his own deathbed two years after that, from lung cancer, Phillip told me mom had contracted HIV while hooking. He'd avoided contracting it himself, somehow. I guess it's harder for a woman to pass it to a man than the other way around … I guess … depending on what kinky shit you're doing under the sheets or something. Plus, like I said, they'd quit fucking, too.
Anyway, the regimen for treatment was failing her, and she couldn't bear to have me see her like that … so … she killed herself. By then, I was already killing people for a living."
Jennie hadn't had such a good night's sleep in … well, forever! She'd been spent, totally sated, and what with relative confidence in their current safety, she'd been able to curl up against Manny without fear that she'd be woken in the night by alarms, warning texts, gunfire, or strange men in their room.
The next day after she'd gone out to get more food and drink and arrange some travel for three days hence, Jennie sat down in the ratty old arm chair across from Manny and began talking about her childhood, as he'd requested.
"When I was 8 years old, my father was killed by a hit and run driver," she began, her tone matter of fact with just an occasional hint of emotion in it. "My mother had been a 24 year old, unpaid school volunteer who'd loved her job … can you call it a job...? No, but, you know what I mean. She'd had no real work experience, other than the 30 hours plus she volunteered with the school. She'd only been 16 when she got pregnant with me … dropped out of school … married my father just before my birth. He stepped up … didn't have to, I guess, but he was a good man.
"She'd quit her volunteer work and started a string of minimum wage, part time, go nowhere jobs that were somehow keeping us warm, dry, fed, and in our home. I was too young at the time to realize that there was no way she could support us like that flipping burgers or tapping keys down at the local Dairy Mart. Her night shift job … the one for which she left me home with a neighbor and for which she wore short dresses and skirts and a skimpy top and a push up bra … it was the one that was bringing in the real money.
"About two years after my dad's death, mom remarried. Phillip had been one of mom's Johns but he'd fallen hard for her. He asked her to quit the business and marry him."
Jennie smiled and laughed, looking off into the space before her and seeing nothing but memories. "She'd arranged for him to bump into us at the park one afternoon, my 10th birthday. He was eager to make an impression, so … he brought helium balloons … which got away from him as he shook my hand and floated off, not high into the sky, mind you, but off to the edge of the park where they contacted a power transformer and blew a fuse, killing power to over 600 homes for most of the afternoon. He'd also brought a puppy, knowing that I'd been asking for one since even before my dad's death. It bit me … and it peed on my new birthday dress … and it knocked over the cake ... and sat in it."
Jennie laughed, filled their glasses with tequila, and went on. "After I surprisingly approved of him, my mother married him the next month. I loved that man, as much of even more than my father. He worked his ass off seven days a week in his freelance repair shop and still had the energy to show my mother love and play games with me and explain computers to me and teach me how to drive.
"Then … about two years later … things changed," Jennie said, her tone becoming solemn. She hesitated while she contemplated how she wanted to frame the next part of her life. "I was old enough to know about husbands and wives and sex and about how icky it was to walk in on or hear your parents having sex. But you know the saying out of sight, out of mind? I hadn't realized it, but my parents -- I'd considered Phillip dad, of course -- I hadn't realized it, but they never had sex. Later, when I came to realize that my mother had been a prostitute for two years, I would wonder Why don't my parents ever fuck?"
Jennie's eyes began to glaze over, but she fought the tears back. "Days short of my 16th birthday, my mother died. I wasn't there … I was in Haiti with a church group, helping children and reading to them and stuff like that while the adults were building a school. Phillip told me at the time that she'd died of an embolism. In truth, she'd swallowed a bottle of pills and died. On his own deathbed two years after that, from lung cancer, Phillip told me mom had contracted HIV while hooking. He'd avoided contracting it himself, somehow. I guess it's harder for a woman to pass it to a man than the other way around … I guess … depending on what kinky shit you're doing under the sheets or something. Plus, like I said, they'd quit fucking, too.
Anyway, the regimen for treatment was failing her, and she couldn't bear to have me see her like that … so … she killed herself. By then, I was already killing people for a living."