Chapter 1 - The Molester
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Chapter 1 - The Molester
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“Nice butt.”
It was a hot afternoon, right after lunch, and Jamie was calmly tilting the soil to prepare for the rainy season. The vast field before him is awaiting their turn and just that alone makes him sweat.
The field before him looks endless and dreadful at the same time.
There is no one else to help him and hiring another hand is just something that he can’t afford. The money that he had saved was used to marry his brother to the woman who suddenly showed up in their house with a big belly.
All of a sudden, a mouth was added to their expenses and another one would follow after a few months.
That alone just made him push himself more than once to extend his working hours.
He raised all six siblings he had after their mother died and his father remarried. Jamie at that time was a tad fourteen-year-old child.
Even so, his determination to raise his lovely siblings made him persevere until he is now a thirty-year-old bachelor.
He can’t force his six siblings to help him in the field since they have a life of their own. Most important of all, seeing them sweating bullets with him is never a sight that he dreamed of.
As much as possible, Jamie wished for his siblings to have a different and prosperous life compared to him. That was more than enough evidence that Jamie had achieved the oath that he swore at his mother’s tomb.
Life was hard and starting a family, for him, was harder since he didn’t have anything. Only the man can see is a vast land that he doesn’t even own and is just being rented by his family. The rent is getting higher and higher each year, making the income that they earn go lower and lower.
Complaining would only put them on the bad side of the landlord, so Jamie kept his mouth shut while continuously digging into the hard soil before him.
Finding another source of income would be hard and this kind of job was the only thing that had been taught to him since his younger days. Being a handyman might give him an extra penny, but it won’t even be enough to buy a gallon of kerosene.
And now, all of a sudden, a sweet voice called out to him.
Jamie turned around and saw a woman wearing a fluttering yellow dress. It looks rather expensive and refined to be seen in a place like they are currently in. The woman is like shooting a movie that is making the dry land turn fertile.
It should have been perfect if not for the fact that Jamie heard something inappropriate from the being that is standing in front of him.
He had a sharp sense of hearing and “nice butt” was certainly the phrase that had been said by the lady before him.
Even so, as a man who believes that all women were born with virtues, Jamie instinctually forgot what he had just heard and erased all kinds of doubts about the stranger, looking at him with unexplained awe.
“What can I do for you, ma’am?”
“Just too perfect. Even your voice knows no boundaries. How could it be this manly?”
Jamie can’t understand a thing. The “nice butt” has been erased from his mind and yet here it comes again saying that what he heard was real. The big man can’t help but think that he is being devoured by the almond eyes of the woman that is now crouching low to see him eye to eye.
Jamie is standing on the paddy field and the woman is on the road. The field is much lower, making him unable to take a clear look at the woman.
The reason why he was unable to voice anything when she crouched down. There is no woman who is as beautiful or who can even compete with her in the place that Jamie grew up in. The man momentarily forgot that the woman before him was saying vulgar words from the very beginning.
She does not wear any colorful products on her face and that makes her natural beauty stand out more. It was mesmerizing to the point that he once again entered the trance where he was forgetting everything.
“Kwak…kwak…kwak…”
Thankfully, the Gods helped him by sending their pets called crows. The sounds coming from the bird pulled Jamie from the zone that was making him daydream like a fool.
“Ma’am, if you are asking for directions, then please ask it now. I still have a lot of things to do and you are being a nuisance.”
To save himself from the faint embarrassment that his bewilderment caused, Jamie acted cold and tried to shoo the woman away with his words. It was not his intention, but the brain department is not really his strong point.
He was even told by their youngest that he needed to keep his act straight if he wanted to succeed in life. Embarrassing indeed, but the man couldn’t help, since he was not able to reach higher education to support his siblings.
Almost all of the people around them asked the eldest of the family to send his siblings to the orphanage, but he strongly refused, as he was unable to separate himself from them. Just thinking that they would be living away from each other made the once-young man have nightmares at night.
He is a minor as well, but his dedication and angst to pull a knife at all the adults ganging up against them are just admirable.
He swore to his dead mother that he would protect his siblings until they were old enough to care for themselves, and so he would do so despite the circumstances.
“Let me take a good look. This won’t do. It is just the first day and I have already met the man of my dream…”
The woman jumped from the road to the place where Jamie was. Her dress fluttered midair, making Jamie witness a scene that has never unfolded in his thirty years on Earth.
The world seemed to stop when he caught a glimpse of the woman’s underwear. He was so sure that it was the thing that women wore down there, though what he saw was something so fancy that he needed to ask himself if that is really what he thought it was.
It was yellow, like her dress, and was so small that it barely served its purpose.
“...Damn! What thick arms! And you smell like the sun. Your height is really something now that I’m standing right beside you. This is addicting. However, those juicy butts of yours totally won the competition even before it began. I want to grab it right now.”
Without even asking for his permission, the stranger grabbed Jamie’s arm and felt the roughness of his skin and the tightness of his muscles.
She was so bold that the almost brute-like man before her couldn’t say a word. The woman is on the smaller side since her head did not even manage to reach Jamie’s full chest. Her stature could trigger the protective instinct of any man she met.
“Please stop. I don’t know who you are, but you’re seriously making me uncomfortable. I will forget that this happened so get lost while I’m still talking nicely.”
As the man was unable to understand the present that was happening to him. He pulled his sweaty arm from the pretty woman and wore a stoic face. Her smell is making him feel ecstatic, and so his usual defense of acting aloof comes to light.
“Yeah, sorry. I just can’t contain my excitement. My name is Anastacia Salvatore. What is yours?”
Surprisingly, the woman named Anastacia stepped back after Jamie’s warning. The man was able to breathe in relief as Anastacia distanced herself from him. Needless to say, her smell still lingered around him and that made the man in Jamie shout for more.
Jamie was not, in any case, afraid of women, but Anastacia Salvatore appeared differently to him. It was as if she was an entirely different creature that couldn’t be lumped with them.
“Jamie Gray. Then, if you will excuse me, I still have a lot to do.”
“Go on. I’ll see you later...”
Jamie would like to ask the woman if he heard her right but she was already on her way out of the field. Since the word “butt” was still fresh in his mind, the man did not even notice that he was also looking at the rear of the woman who had just groped his arm.
It was as full as it could be and the shape, definitely, was Jamie’s ideal.
He didn’t want to admit it, but Jamie knew that his eyes had sinned that very moment, and his mind drifted away to dream of a scene that couldn’t be said to anyone.
“...Bye, babe. Make sure to drink plenty of water.”
And the woman was out of his sight before he could even say a word to correct what she had just said. Jamie was left in awe as he tried to analyze the storm called Anastacia who ruined his concentration. The air around him still smelled like her, and the touch that he could still feel on his arms, without a doubt, was still sending a thousand sparks to his mind.
For the first time in Jamie’s life, he learned that a woman could be this different and adorable.
He often used that word to refer to his siblings, but Jamie knew that it had been given a new meaning when it came to Anastacia Salvatore. For the first time in his whole life, the man felt that he should lock a woman in his arms.
Even if that woman is a molester in disguise.
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