The Hitchhiker Chapter 15 – Home Sweet Home

It was just past 11PM when we pulled into my garage, I grabbed the bag of things I brought and let her in. I told Alexa to turn on the bar lights as we walked in and May Ann said, “Jesus Tony, this is beautiful.”

“Make yourself at home while I put everything away.”

She wandered through the downstairs, went to the sunroom and turned on the outside light so she could see the large yard, deck and pool. Then she came back in, looked over some pictures and made her way upstairs. I found her sitting on the edge of my bed crying.

I sat next to her and said, “Hey now, what’s wrong little girl? I thought this would make you happy.”

“It does but when I look at everything you have, the pictures of your kids and the ones of you and your wife the reality of what I’m doing here set in. I’m using someone else’s father and husband for my own pleasure and it’s wrong.”

I held her in my arms for a long time and finally said, “Listen to me. I told you when we started this that I would never do anything to hurt you and when you felt it was time to move on that would be your decision. You’re right in feeling how you feel and if you want me to take you back to your apartment tonight I will. I’ll be sad about it but I will. It doesn’t change anything I promised because I think you’re amazing and deserve a couple breaks.”

She looked at me for a long time and said, “It’s not as simple as that Tony. If I was some slut who just wanted you to fuck me I probably wouldn’t have done anything with you after the day you picked me up but I’m not like that. I watch how you treat people, hear the things you’ve done in your life and I think about all the things you could teach me.