During my senior year of High School, I'd taken a job as a busboy at a restaurant that was just down the street from my house. Football season had ended, I'd turned 18, and since I didn't play basketball or any spring sports, I decided a job would be a great way to earn some money and keep me occupied until I went off to college. And, yes, being a busboy making just-a-little-better-than minimum wage sucked. But, it kept me busy and out of trouble.
It was a busy Friday night dinner rush and I'd come out to the dining area from the dishwasher room and set to work cleaning up a table. I looked around and my brother's ex-girlfriend, Karen, was there eating with, I assumed, her mom. She looked up at me, smiled, and waved. I smiled and waved back and got back to work. After a while, I took a turn through the dining area to see if anything needed picked up when Karen walked up to me.
"Hi, Mike!" she said. "I didn't know you worked here. How've you been?"
"Ok," I told her. "I've been working here since football ended. It's ok. Close to home. How have you been?"
We made small talk for a few minutes when she said "Hey, I need a big favor. I need to move some stuff from my Mom's house to my apartment tomorrow. My brother said he'd help me move the stuff into the truck, but not up to my apartment. Do you think you could help me move tomorrow?" Then she smiled and said "I'll get you high afterwards!"
Karen was about 24 or 25 years old. I always thought she was very pretty, but not gorgeous. She was about 5-4 or so, maybe 110 pounds at the most, and kept in excellent shape. She had long black hair and pale blue eyes, but her best feature was her tits. She had very large breasts and loved nothing more than to wear low cut tops that really made her cleavage stand out. Today was no exception. It took all of my concentration to not stare at her chest while I talked to her, but since I'm a sucker, I said "Sure, I'd be glad to. What time should I be there?"
She gave me her address and told me to come over about 11am or so. Then she smiled and walked away.
As I pulled up in front of her apartment building, she was standing there by a large pick-up. I walked up to her and said hello. She turned and I could tell that she must have had one hell of a night last night. She looked completely hungover.
"Oh, thank God you're here." She said. "I didn't want to have to unload this all by myself!" With that, she turned and picked up a box. "Grab one and follow me."
I picked up a box and followed her, keeping a good eye on her ass as she walked toward the door. She looked over her shoulder and said to me "I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that I scored some really good shit. You're going to love it."
"And the bad?" I said.
"The elevator's out and I live on the third floor," she said.
"Wonderful. Is that why your brother wouldn't help?" I asked.
"Yep. He's an asshole for sure."
We made our way up the stairs to her apartment. She told me where she wanted the box and I set it down. I turned and headed for the door when she said "Mike, would it be too mean of me to ask that you carry the boxes up for me all by yourself? I have a wicked bad hangover and I'm not sure I could do it."
"Sure, Karen. Not a problem."
She walked up to me, kissed me on the cheek and said "You're a dear, thank you so much. I have a hell of a night last night and I'm really paying for it now. I need a shower." With that, she turned and walked away and I went back to carrying boxes.
When I got back to the truck, I got a good look at the amount of shit I was going to be hauling up three flights of stairs. There had to be 20 boxes of shit there! Goddammit!! This is going to take all day!
After about 5 trips, Karen came out to the front room, hair still damp, wearing jeans and a t-shirt. She looked at the pile of boxes and then had me move them to whatever room she wanted them in. I continued making trip after trip and the last few trips, the boxes started to get really heavy. They were filled with books and magazines. Super.
I brought the last box into her apartment, closed the door behind me and asked where this box went.
"That's more magazines. Just put that by the coffee table."
I set it down, and then plopped on to the couch. I was hot, sweaty and tired. I'd not had this much of a work out since football ended a few months ago. Karen brought me over a glass of water and I downed it in one pull. "You're sweaty! I really, really appreciate you doing this, Mike. You're the best!"
I waved my hand absentmindedly and said "No problem. I'm happy to help."
Karen sat down on the chair at the end of the coffee table while I tried to cool down on the couch. She reached under the end table and pulled out a little wooden box, opened it, and handed me a joint out of it. "Here, you can do the honors," she said.
I pulled out my lighter and fired it up. It was, indeed, some very good shit and the effects of the pot hit me straight away. We made idle chatter as we passed the joint back and forth until we'd smoked it all. By then, we were both very high.
"Do you have to work tonight?" she asked.
"No, I'm off, " I replied. Then I reached out and opened the box of magazines by the coffee table. "What kind of magazines did you make me carry up here why do you want to keep them?" Atop the pile in the box was a Victoria's Secret catalog.
"Sweet!" I said. "Victoria's Secret!" And then I started to leaf through the catalog. "You know, I don't get lingerie. Look at this get up here." And I tilted the magazine so she could see what I was talking about. The model was wearing stockings, a garter belt, a thong and a corset, all in white. "It's very sexy, sure, and she looks hotter than all hell, but how are you supposed to screw with that on? Why wear something that's going to drive a guy crazy, only to take off for sex?"
"You leave it on, silly!" She said.
"Leave it on?" I said. "How does that work? It's going to get in the way!"
"No it doesn't get in the way," she said. "You just move things aside is all." Then she made a motion across her crotch like she was moving her underwear aside.
"Ah, I can see that, I guess." I said.
"Lingerie is very, very sexy. I love wearing it. I actually have something very close to that set up," and she pointed to the model in the catalog.
"Wow," I said. "I bet that's pretty hot." Then I glanced over at the box of magazines and spied something I've never seen before.
"Playgirl! You have a Playgirl magazine!" and I reached out and grabbed it before she could stop me. "I have never in my life seen one of these," I said as I opened it up.
"I read the articles," She said while laughing.