"Screw you!" she shouted and slammed the door closed. Just before that Mary had managed to say, "Thank you and God bless you". She and her dearest friend Ashley were used to this kind of behavior and those harsh words didn't have much effect to them. They were so devoted to their mission to spread the message of Lord and didn't let this kind of incidents to depress them.
Mary and Ashley were both 22 years old and strongly religious. They had known each other since they met in a camp of their sect. They both have felt the religion meant everything to them and ever since worked actively for their church. Actually, for the last couple of years their work had not been only voluntary, but they also got paid. In order to reach the next level of the ladder, they were obliged to do a certain period of missionary work. This didn't mean they would have to travel abroad to convert pagans to Christians. There was so much work left in USA. Simply, you could say, they sold Bibles door-to-door in rural areas, where their church couldn't reach the people so easily. Of course it was not only matter of Bibles. In addition they sold other religious prints and tried to get into conversations and make people to understand the true meaning of their lives. Mary and Ashley had now traveled across this state already more than two weeks. Most of the towns they had visited were very small. Some of them have had only some hundreds of inhabitants. To their surprise, they had also found totally deserted towns. They overslept in small hotels and drove from town to town.
They had not done so well in selling, but were still satisfied. They had found lot of lonely people with whom they had been able to have interesting discussions. If these hadn't led to sales, they had considered it as a secondary issue. Sometimes they faced rudeness like the previous lady had just shown, but they didn't care. They knew that would happen.
Now they were driving ahead to the next house. It was very hot and their old car's air conditioner had seen its best days. Their outfit didn't make the situation any better. In addition, that they wanted to dress conservatively, also the rules of their church demanded it. Their 'uniform' consisted of white blouse, naturally every button closed, a grey sweater, black skirt extending below their knees and black thick pantyhose. Probably not the best outfit for heat likes this. They were both sweating. Though the clothes were not any way revealing, they couldn't fully cover their beautiful appearance. They both had slim figures and what you could see, very nice legs. Mary had long blonde hair and she kept it in ponytail. Ashley's hair was dark brown and shorter and she kept it free. Mary's breasts were quite big and the sweater had no chance to fully hide the size of them. Sometimes she felt embarrassed noticing men to stare at them. Ashley didn't have that problem, since her breasts were hardly B-size. Also other ways, Ashley was more like a slim model type, she had small ass and she was 5'10" tall. Some kind of innocence shined from their faces with no make-up.
They parked their car by the road and approached the front door of the house. Mary knocked on the door. First, they didn't hear any move and were already turning away. They heard the door opening. "What do you want?"
The girls turned back and saw a man, probably close to 60 years old, keeping the door ajar. Mary replied, "Nice to meet you, Sir. We are from the church of... and we would like to discuss about the glory of our God with you."
"I don't know. I was happily married almost 15 years when I all of a sudden lost my dear wife. I didn't find it very fair from your God. I had to raise two children by my own," he said sadly.
Mary gave her sympathy. "The ways of our Lord are mysterious. Sometimes He tests our faith. Just remember the words of the Holy Book"
He responded lamely, "I think I have forgotten those words..."
This time Ashley tried to cheer him up. "Maybe we could find the right words for you together? We have here some Bibles to buy."
"Umm. I don't know. Ok, I guess it won't do any harm. Step in."
"I'm sorry, Sir. We are not allowed to do that, if there is no woman present," Ashley said.
"I'm not feeling very well and I don't want stand here in the heat. But I understand your point," he replied with almost miserable voice.
Both Mary and Ashley started to feel sorry for him. They walked couple of steps aside and quickly changed some words. The man could see them finally nodding. The girls returned to him.
"I think we can make exception this time, Sir. Please invite us to your house," Mary asked.
The man escorted the girls to the living room. Mary and Ashley could notice the lack of woman's hand in this house. They found it almost filthy. The carpet of the living room was covered with trash and dust. The old coach and the two chairs didn't look too inviting either. The man asked them to sit down. Mary sat on the coach. Ashley was supposed to do the same, but the old man managed to push himself between the girls and sat down next to Mary before Ashley had the opportunity. So, Ashley had to choose other of the wide chairs.
"Ladies, can I ask my sons to join us before you start? It might be a good idea to freshen their memory as well. I have to admit after their mother died we haven't been very common visitors in our church."
"Of course, Sir. It is our duty to spread the joy of God to everyone," Mary replied.
"Don! Rob! Come here! We have visitors," the man shouted.
Two younger men entered the living room. They were both muscular, but not very handsome. They were wearing jeans and boots. The other had a T-shirt which apparently had been white a long time ago. The other had a shirt almost unbuttoned. It revealed his chest and some of his belly.
"Say hello to the ladies. They have come here to spread joy...of God."
For a second some kind of grin appeared to their faces, but it died away soon. They politely shook the hands of Mary and Ashley and introduced themselves.
"Sit down and listen what the ladies has to say," the old man commanded.
Rob sat on the other chair. Ashley felt a little uncomfortable when Don took his place from the armpit of her chair. 'Okay, the armpit was wide, but why couldn't he sit next to his brother?' Ashley thought. Rob put her other arm on the back of the chair behind Ashley's head.
Mary was more talented as a speaker and took the lead. You could feel her honesty and belief to everything she said. Sometimes the old man interrupted her and challenged her message, but every time Mary could find good arguments from the Bible to convince him.
This went on more than 15 minutes. Mary was totally buried in her mission, but Ashley was getting a little bit worried. She had noticed that the brothers didn't put too much attention to Mary anymore. They seemed to stare at her. In no time she felt Don touching her hair with his fingers. He had lowered her hand down from the chair back.
"What are you doing, Sir?" she said politely. That also interrupted Mary.
"I just wanted to feel your hair. It looks beautiful," Don replied.
"Please don't do that. You shouldn't touch me," she responded.
"But you are so pretty. Give me kiss," he said and leaned over to kiss her.
"No! That is sin," she said with louder voice. She pushed his face away and rose up from the chair. Also Mary stood up.
"It is better we leave now. God bless you," she managed to say before the old man pinned her back on the coach.
"You are not leaving anywhere yet. We haven't got our joy yet," the man laughed.
Ashley tried to run away, but stumbled to feet of Rob and fell down on the carpet. She tried to crawl but Rob had taken a strong grip of her ankle and prevented her to move further.
"She has very nice legs," Rob commented.
