All peeps in this story are over the age of 18. All characters are fictional, and locations are moderately fictionalized
Thanks to Kenji Sato for his excellent editing, without him this would not have been possible!
yes folks, it's another one of those Roberts Boys! (See my other stories!) Hope you enjoy!
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David Roberts sat at his table. On yet another service call to some far-flung place; this time, he found himself in a charming, though really small mid-western town. So small it was, he had actually used a vacation rental app to rent a little bungalow for the week he would be here, as it beat the other place to stay; a local bedbug hotel (or so the reviews claimed). Pushing 'The Big Four-Oh' in years, David had worked his six-foot frame hard, and managed to stay in excellent shape, and he could easily pass for a man ten years his junior, if not a bit more, wisps of graying hair aside.
It had been a long day, and it may have appeared as though he was looking at his menu, but David was, in fact, eavesdropping on the two waitresses at the station just behind him, talking shop. One was discussing her car repair and if she should just repair it at more than a thousand dollars, or get another car altogether, along with her desire to escape this small town altogether. Odd thing was, this particular waitress was, he was quite sure, the young lady who had also waited on him at the hardware store earlier the same day. The town was too small for it to be anyone else, and that got his mind spinning.
She was not his 'regular-type', not that she had been particularly flirtatious; nor had he, but so much time on the road had worn on him, and as she moved towards another table across the way, David let his eyes take her in. Her name tag said Ashley-Nicole, yep, it was her. With very narrow hips and breasts that looked to be a B or perhaps C-cup at best, he could see that Ashley-Nicole stood about five feet in height, and was quite slim and petite, with a very light complexion, and her brown near pixie-cut hair, accented her face quite well. David gathered from the conversation, that Ashley-Nicole lived at home, and was in tech school, so that put her about age twenty, a surprisingly-attractive, blue-collar girl in a nice little, working-class town.
As she approached his table, Ashley-Nicole also had the 'I know you' look, and they had a nice chuckle at the coincidence. As she went off to place his order, David's mind was now spinning full tilt. Throughout the meal, David noted she checked on him several times, always with a smile. It was her job to be friendly, he got that, but she did seem to give him a bit more attention than the others around her, and he liked that. Finally, at the end of the meal, David was careful to give her a very generous tip, quite a bit more than the price of the meal itself, sure to get noticed, and exited the little place, knowing his plan was underway.
The next day, his last full day in town, David headed to the hardware store under the guise of needing a few items. David noticed that she approached him on a side-aisle and with a slight blush, Ashley-Nicole thanked him for the generosity. David smiled. "Well, look, as I see it, you are a young lady really trying to improve yourself, just wish I could help further."
Ashley-Nicole smiled and said, "Thanks! I know you're new here in town..."
"Yeah," David replied, "I own my own business, servicing hospital electronic systems mostly and that is what brings me here." Seeing her nod, he went for it. "I hope I'm not being forward, but if I may, I see what you are trying to do, trying to get ahead, because I was once like you. May I ask, do you intend to stay here?"
"Umm...No," Ashley-Nicole replied, "this is nice, but there is a world out there and I want to see it, but it's hard to do that when you're here....working two jobs and a bum-car."