Frank Neary was a postman and was on the way back home at the end of his shift on Monday and he decided to call in at Martini’s General Store between Saxvirdan and St Pierre to see the lovely Maya.
She was a small skinny young
woman, but not in an emaciated way, she just had a slight, narrow frame, and
she was couple of years younger than him.
Her hair was the colour of
ripened corn, and her eyes were big and brilliant blue, and she had a delicious
toothy smile, which lit up the whole shop, if not the street.
Frank always flirted
dreadfully with her, and she always flirted back, and when it came time to pay
there was always a lingering exchange where their hands would almost touch but
not quite, occasionally he would caress her hand with his fingertips, and she
would blush and get very flustered.
The shop was owned and run by
Francisco Martini, although it was his young Niece Violeta and her Aunt Louisa
who did all the work.
He was a surly old goat, and
bone idle, and he always sat on his arse in the back room watching cricket, or
Golf.
Violeta and her Aunt were
both lovely though, Violeta was a few years older than Frank, tall and slim
with thick black hair.
They were on their way out to
the cash and carry as he approached so they exchanged pleasantries briefly
before he went in the shop, and he smiled because if they were gone that meant
Francisco and Maya were running the shop, and one of them would be watching TV.
When he entered the corner
shop, he knew she would be on her own
in the shop.
When she saw him walk in, she
quickly fussed with her hair which he thought made her look even lovelier.
Her toothy smile lit up her
face, so knowing there were no prying eyes Frank blatantly held her hand and he
would have asked her out there and then if another customer hadn’t entered the
shop, so he gave Maya’s hand a final stroke picked up his milk and left.
Frank didn’t get in the shop
the next day as he had to work late which meant he didn’t get to see her toothy
smile, and later in the day he heard the news that Francisco Martini had
collapsed in the shop that morning.
Having heard the news he
resolved to pop into Martini’s sooner rather than later, which happened to be
7am the next morning.
As he got close, he was
delighted to see the lovely Maya opening up.
“Hello Maya” he called as he
approached
“Oh Frank” she said
flustered, not quite knowing what to do or where to look.
“Where is everyone?” he
asked, he knew Francisco was in hospital though he didn’t know why
“Louisa and Violeta are still
at the hospital so I’m opening up on my own today”
“Let me help” he offered
“Thank you, Frank,” she said
smiling coyly
Between the two of them they
soon made light work of it and when the last stack of plastic goods came out
through the door he stood in the doorway and said
“Well that’s everything”
“Thank you, Frank,” she said
and beamed a beautiful smile
“If there’s nothing else to
do I need to get to work” he said, and the smile left her face
“No, no, that’s everything”
she said
“If you’re not too tired
later perhaps I could take you for a drink” he suggested
“Oh yes” she agreed
Unfortunately, he didn’t get
to have his drink with Maya as Louisa and Violeta were at the hospital all day
and had to man the shop on her own right up till closing time, so he turned up
at the shop at closing time to help her and walk her home.
They repeated opening and
closing together on Thursday and Friday.
Frank finally got to take
Maya out on Saturday night and the drink turned into dinner.
They also spent much of
Sunday together on Centurion’s Beach.
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