The little cabin on the corner, that’s mine. I had been here for so long, I don’t even remember moving in. I was there before it even was a neighborhood. It was our place, mine and Ellie’s. Lost her about, damn, ten years ago. My God, I have been alone for ten years. Feels like yesterday.
So, as I said, I had been here for years and yes I heard all the rumors and scary tales the kids tell the younger ones about the creepy old man on the corner. Like in most neighborhoods we had that guy that all the kids are afraid of, that they run from if a ball or a toy goes over the fence and into his yard. Yeah, I was that guy in my neighborhood.
Now don’t get me wrong, I did not yell at the kids, I did not do anything with their balls, frisbees and other toys that have been abandoned in my yard. They were neatly stacked on my back patio waiting to be claimed. I did not go outside anymore, there were many reasons but let’s just say I didn’t really want to. I paid my bills online and had my groceries delivered, why go out. That made me the mystery man on my block.
Okay, I didn’t start this to tell about my past I want to tell you about my neighbor. Denise and her boyfriend moved next door in the fall six years ago. Scott had just gotten a job in town and they moved next door. I try to stay to myself and mind my own business but it was hard not to see the problems next door. Lots of arguing and tension. The daughter sat outside most of the time reading while the arguments raged inside.
This went on through Halloween and into November. I would hear the fight start and a few minutes later the young girl would walk out with a book and sit on the porch. One day it was a very cold snowy day as it gets around here in November and I just could not sit there quietly anymore. Still, I had no idea what to say or do.
I made her hot cocoa and then picked up a plate of cookies, I used to be a chef and love to bake. Then, I walked out onto my front porch. This had not happened since I lost Ellie. I had literally not been outside since she passed. I know I looked so odd. My hair is to the middle of my back, brown with some silver and I had a long bushy grey beard. In my long robe, I am sure I looked like some guy pretending to be a monk or wizard. Who’s that big guy in Harry Potter?
The girl looked my way and I almost laughed out loud at the look on her face. You could tell she'd never seen anyone like me.
I softly called to her, “What are you doing, bright eyes? You like chocolate chips?”
She smiled and said, “Hell yes!" I sat the plate down and pulled out a chair.
Sitting down I said, “I am Wayne. So nice to meet you.”
She lay down the book and offered her hand saying, “I am Maggie. Likewise, I’m sure.”
“Maggie huh, howdy, you aren’t a Maggie May are you?” I laughed.
She looked at me with a very cute face and I laughed again. Then I told her about the song Maggie May. That began her education of classic rock and all things music. I finally had someone to teach about my heritage and I never felt like she would rather be somewhere else. I didn’t feel that way with my kids.
During the next month, Maggie would come by each day after school and make sure I was okay. She would sit for a bit and tell me about school and then she would go to her house to get her homework and chores done. After a while, she would come over and we started having dinner together. It didn’t take long for me to ask her if she would like to be a paid caretaker. She was seventeen and only a few months away from her eighteenth. She said she would do it, but only for free. I let her know that my insurance would pay for it not me. She was thrilled.
So it started that she would come over after her studies, clean and cook for me. My little cabin really started looking nice. She had a lovely touch. She was making the meals but I was teaching her. We would sit through the evening and then she would go home to get ready for bed to get up for school.
After about two months with our routine pretty much a habit now, she stopped by after school, knocked and waited. I didn’t answer so she went back to her house and sent me a text. She began to worry when I didn’t answer and she went around to the back and dug out my hidden key to get in. She found me on the kitchen floor where I had been all day. This tiny girl picked me up, took me to bed and tucked me in. I heard her as she left through the front door and just figured I had scared her and she would not be back.
I was so wrong. About fifteen minutes later the front door opened and she was back. This time she had a suitcase and her school bookbag. She walked into my spare bedroom and left her things in there. The next time I saw her she was standing at the side of my bed and smiled.
“Okay, today can not happen again. I am moving in to take care of you. I will get up early and get started, go to school and when I get out of school, come right back here. I will sleep in the other room and that way if you need me I am already here,” came non-stop from her and she added, “Don’t worry I left Mom a note telling her all about this.”
Then she was out of the bedroom and in the kitchen. I heard her in there and could only assume she was making supper. She came back in shortly and had a bowl of soup. Sitting down next to the bed she began to feed me. I didn’t know what to say. I was in bed for a week. Seems I had dislocated a shoulder when I fell and Maggie did not leave my bedroom, except when she had to, for the whole week.
I learned rather quickly there was no arguing with Maggie. At the end of this little setback, things returned to normal but Maggie didn’t move back. She was now my live-in caregiver and I got better so very quickly. There was a new feeling on that little corner lot. I was starting to get a garden ready for this year. It had been such had been a long time since I even wanted to see anything grow. For me, the sun had returned to my life and I wanted to shine.
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Maggie's Story
So, did he tell you what I walked in on? He was laying on the floor, out like a light. I had to pick the big bear up and somehow carry him to his bed. I was scared to death he was going to die before I could even get him in bed. When I got him laid down and covered he reach up and put his hand on my shoulder and smiled. He just said, “Hey, when did you get here?” I was literally in tears. When I got him settled it went back to the house for my stuff, I was not leaving Wayne again.
Things really didn't go back to the same way after that. I couldn't leave him alone that much but I went to school so I couldn't be here all the time. I’d get up in the morning before school and get him some breakfast ready and get some stuff together for him to do in the mornings. You know so that he would get his energy back and we could do things when I got out of school. To help him get back on his feet. I even told him that I had the cameras that were in his house turned on and toward him so I could watch him. No, of course, I didn't, but I didn't tell him that it helped to keep him in line. I moved them so they were pointing at him but never really turned them on.
Wayne seemed to get better so much quicker the more time I spent with him so I just didn't leave. It just became natural I went from giving him a sponge bath to actually bathing him in the tub. I really didn't look at it as anything other than helping someone as if I was a nurse, but that started to change and I started well, I guess to get turned on when I was washing him. Especially, well, you know where. After the bath and he went to bed, I went into my bedroom and played with myself thinking of Wayne and wanting him to come and just show me what he would do with me.
One Saturday morning I was helping him get up. I woke him up standing at the foot of his bed. I called his name and as he rolled over the sheet fell off and he was laying there naked, a little hard and I kind of well, I don't know but I just couldn't help myself and I slid up on the bed beside him. I wrapped my hands around him. Gently stroking him as he hardened. I've never even seen a boy at school or anywhere. I really didn't look at pictures or porn, but all I wanted to do was touch him and kiss him. Every stroke he seemed to grow and harden. I was worried he was not going to stop. When he was as hard as I think he could possibly get I leaned over and licked him slowly.