It was a Thursday, and ordinarily on that day of the week Myrna would go to her friend Paula’s house after school and wait until dinner time to actually go home. This day, however, her schoolmate had an appointment and Paula’s mother had to take her to it. Unfortunately, her boyfriend Dylan had his own after school activities, so she couldn’t go visit him either. With nowhere else to go, the young black teenager headed for her apartment.

Since the apartment was on the other side of town from her friend’s house, it took Myrna two buses and well over an hour to get there. She went up the stairs to the second floor and was surprised to see a tall white man with wavy brown hair wearing a suit coming out of her apartment. Even more surprising was seeing her mother in the doorway dressed in her housecoat.

Instinctively, Myrna stepped back onto the stairs and out of sight. Peeking around the corner, she watched the man put something in her mother’s hand before putting his hand on the side of her face.

The young teen was shocked to see him move his hand down and open her mother’s robe revealing the fact that she was naked underneath it. Gloria stood passively, her head bowed, while the man squeezed her bare breast.

Without warning the man turned and started walking towards the stairway. Gloria shut the apartment door. Myrna didn’t want to be caught watching and there was no way she’d make it down the stairs to avoid him. So, she decided to bold it out and stepped into the hallway as if she’d only just come upstairs. The tall white man smiled when their eyes met.

“Good afternoon,” he greeted her.

Given what she’d just seen combined with the fact that she found him rather handsome, Myrna wasn’t ready to answer him right away.

“Uh, good afternoon,” she replied bashfully after an awkward moment.

“You aren’t Gloria Mason’s girl, are you?” he asked.

“Uh…, yeah, I am,” Myrna spoke hesitantly.

“My, you’re all grown up!” he exclaimed happily. “But, I bet you don’t remember me. I’m Mister Gantner, your mom’s boss at work. Last time I saw you must have been ten years ago. Here you are now, a pretty young woman.”

Myrna blushed again. She wasn’t used to hearing such praise, especially from important handsome white men, like her mother’s boss. She didn’t remember him at all, but was happy that he’d remembered her.

“Thanks,” said Myrna in an embarrassed voice.

“Well, I have to run,” said Mister Gantner. “I’ll see you later.”

With that, Mister Gantner went down the stairs. Myrna started towards the apartment door. The unexpected encounter with the white man had startled the girl, but now she remembered what she’d seen just before. She wondered what all her mother had been doing with him.

Opening the apartment door, Myrna let herself in. Her mother was nowhere to be seen, but she could hear the shower running. The young teenager changed out of her school clothes and was sitting in front of the television when Gloria came out of the shower.

“You’re home already?” asked Gloria.

“Yeah, Paula had an appointment so I couldn’t stay at her house,” Myrna answered.

“Oh,” replied Gloria.

Myrna decided not to say anything about what she’d seen or that she’d spoken with Mister Gantner and Gloria didn’t ask anything further.

The rest of the evening was like any other, though Myrna couldn’t get the picture of Mister Gantner fondling her mother’s breast out of her mind.

* * *

On Saturday morning, Myrna was already eating her breakfast when Gloria sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee. The girl noticed that her mother was wearing the same housecoat she’d had on when she’d been with Mister Gantner.

“My boss at work tol’ me how he talked with you in the hallway the other day,” Gloria started uneasily.

“Yeah, we just said hi,” Myrna replied.