Good Samaritan 3
By Spitfire
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished!


I went into the coffee shop Monday at 2:00 to try to miss Meredith's crowd. I
found Holly working again. I asked her if she ever went to school, she smiled
back at me and started yakking away, telling me her whole life story. "I only
go to school until 11:30. From there I come back here and go straight to work.
Then about 4:00 I go back to school for basketball practice. Then I get home
about 8:30 and do my homework. Then I go to sleep about 10:00. I wake up at
5:00 to run into school. I get there at about 5:30, lift weights for an hour,
then shower up and eat some breakfast and get ready for my first class at
8:00. You should come to one of my practices sometime. Do you play basketball?
I really don't like school that much though, did you like school? Not very
many of the guys like me too much, and they call me Girlzilla!" Do you like
tall girls? I think you do! I see the way you look at my sister and me. I
don't mind shorter guys but it seems to really bug my sister that you're
shorter than her. I just stood there in a barrage of twenty questions as she
just kept on and on. Finally Meredith walked in the door. "Hi Roe, what are
you doing here? Aren't you going to get in trouble for not being at work?" I
just smiled and told her I was off today because I had to work 24 hours
straight yesterday. She looked at me with her eyes widened and said, "You mean
to tell me that after you got done painting the other night you went back to
work on Sunday for 24 hours straight? That sucks! I definitely wouldn't want
your job. Look, I'm glad you're here I've been meaning to talk to you. I just
don't know about the two of us. I mean you're a really nice guy and
everything, but ... well" I interrupted her and said, "But I'm too short for
you, right!" She looked at me with a look of regret in her eyes. She said,
"Please don't be mad it's my problem not yours." Just then Holly stepped in
between us. "I told you Meredith, if you didn't want him, I'd take him!"
Meredith said, "Holly, quit being stupid! I told you he is too old for you!
His daughter is probably even older than you! I didn't want to sound too old
so just then I spoke up and said, "Jennifer is only 12 years old but your
sister is right Holly." Holly looked at Meredith and said, "You're the one
that needs to quit being so stupid! You have someone that obviously loves you
and you don't want anything to do with him because you're taller than him!
That is so stupid Meredith! You need to quit thinking of yourself all of the
time!" Don't you know that I hate working and living here! He told you he'd do
anything for you, isn't that enough? I mean what do you want! I wish I were
you, I wouldn't just toss Roe aside! I'd leave this stupid coffee house and
this dumpy apartment! I hate it here! Holly ran out the door crying and
upstairs to their apartment. Meredith broke down crying also. I asked her what
was wrong. She looked up at me with tears in my eyes and said, "My business is
going under! I've tried but I can't afford to keep this place open any longer.
The guy that owns this building wants me out by the end of the month. I tried
to talk him into giving me an extension on the rent and he wouldn't because
I'm already 2 months behind." He told me if we painted the apartment before we
left, he would call it even. I haven't told Holly yet but we aren't going to
have anyplace to live after the first of the month. I don't even have any
relatives we can stay with! The power company called me to tell me they were
turning the lights off Wednesday. That's where I just came from, trying to
talk them into giving us an extension. I looked at her and said, "Meredith, I
still own my house here and no one is renting it right now. If you'd want to
stay there until you got back on your feet, you're welcome to." She sat there
speechless. Finally she stopped crying and said, "You mean to tell me that
you'd let us move into your house? You don't even know us! How do you know
we're not a couple of psychos?" Then she asked me why I don't live there. I
told her it's just too big of a house to be in all-alone. Besides everything
there reminds me of my Melissa (my wife). It wouldn't be so bad if I could
have my daughter there with me but I can't because of the Army. Meredith got a
smile on her face and said, "Well why don't we strike up a deal? Since you've
done so much for us! We'll all move into your house, you can bring your
daughter back her and I can watch her for you in case you have to go
somewhere. How long has it been since you have seen her? I mean it would
probably help us all out!" I stopped for a minute and thought to myself,
"Whoa, hold on a minute! You just asked me how do I know you're not a couple
of psychos and now you expect me to let you watch my daughter? Then she
continued, "You wouldn't have to rent an apartment, we'd have a place to live
and you'd have your daughter back with you. Meredith smiled and told me she
was going upstairs to bring Holly down to tell her the news of what would be
going on in the next couple of days. Holly ran through the door and came over
to me and gave me a big hug. She told us that she had heard us talking through
the heating registers. Meredith asked me if she could use my truck to start
moving in tonight. Holly said she was so excited; it would be nice to have a
little sister! I was a little taken back, little sister? I told them it would
take a couple of weeks to make the arrangements with Jennifer. I wanted to
check them out before I trusted Jennifer staying with them alone.

Meredith and Holly started moving their furniture down the steps and into my
truck. They were carrying the entertainment center that I could barely scoot
across the floor the other night! Meredith asked me if I could carry their VCR
and TV down while they carried down their king-sized mattresses. I started to
wonder if this was really a good idea or not! I mean I'm not really
intimidated by taller women, but a woman being stronger than me kind of scares
me a little bit, though I'd never admit it! I should have figured as big as
they are they were probably pretty strong! I guess my male ego wouldn't let
that register in my head though! They carried all of the heavy stuff and asked
me to carry all of the lighter things. What the hell! Did they think I was
some kind of weakling or something? Maybe they just didn't want to make me
carry the heavy stuff because they figured I had done enough for them. I don't
know. Finally about 3:30 a.m. we were done moving all of their furniture out
of their apartment. Meredith asked me if she could use my truck to finish
moving the little odds and ends tomorrow and she would let me use her car. As
I was carrying in the last box of Meredith's dishes, I found Holly and her
sleeping on the floor of the living room. I left them my truck keys along with
the ones for the house on the counter with a note. I went back to my apartment
and went on the Internet to do a background check on Meredith. She came out
clean with no record other than 1 case of domestic violence. She was
apparently the victim though. I will have to ask her about this when I get the
chance. But at least she didn't have a record or anything, but even though she
made an impression on me as being a good, decent person, I still wanted to
check her out a little better. I had been up for another 24 hours and was
pretty tired; even so I got ready for work to be there at 5:00. I came back to
my apartment and found all of my furniture gone! What the hell is going on
here! I drove over to my house and saw Meredith and Holly moving my stuff into
the house! Meredith walked up to me and said, "I figured we'd move your stuff
because I knew you'd be kind of tired today. I couldn't believe it! They moved
all of their furniture and all of mine while I was at work! Meredith asked me
if I could order a pizza for us to eat for supper. I figured this was the
least I could do for them since they moved all of my furniture too! They asked
me to order 2 large Supremes and whatever I wanted. We sat in the dining room,
ate the pizza and talked until about 10:00. They were 2 really good people.
Holly told me she always wondered what it would be like to have a family and
this is the closest she'd ever come. She walked over to me, kissed me on the
forehead and told me good night. Meredith smiled and said, "You look a little
tired too honey, maybe you ought to go to bed also." I told her that was a
really good idea. Now if I only knew where I was sleeping. She smiled and
said, "Well, this is your house, you're the master, so you should sleep in the
master bedroom."

I went into the bedroom and pulled down the covers. I stripped down to my
underwear because I didn't think it was right to sleep in the nude with them
in the house. I didn't even notice it was Meredith's bed I was so tired.
Around 11:30 I felt someone get into bed with me. It was Meredith! She curled
up next to me. I half whispered in surprise, "Meredith, what are you doing in
here?" She whispered, "I'm going to sleep in my bed sweetie, where did you
expect me to sleep, with Holly? Now scooch over." I just scooted over and was
speechless for a moment. She stroked my face and said, "Now you'd better leave
those undies on and no funny business over there mister. You can sleep in here
with me as long as you're "good." Then she flopped her legs over mine so she
was lying diagonally in the bed. A few seconds later she was snoring. It
didn't take her long to fall asleep! It sure took me a long time though! I
couldn't take my eyes off her! I was so hard I couldn't stand it!

My watch went off 4:00 a.m. and I switched it off. I asked Meredith to move
her legs off of me so I could get up. She moaned and rolled over long enough
for me to move my legs. I walked out to the kitchen still in my underwear to
get a drink of water. Holly was standing at the sink getting a drink. She
turned and smiled at me. "Good morning Roe!" I moved behind the recliner for a
moment to hide my hard on I had all night from sleeping next to Meredith.
Holly walked over to me with a mischievous smile on her face as she looked
down at my underwear sticking out and said, "What ya got there little guy? Is
that for me?" I was so embarrassed! I could feel my face immediately turned
beet red. I told her I was sorry and I shouldn't have come out in my
underwear. She walked over towards me. She giggled and said, "Why not, it's
your house isn't it? You should be able to do whatever you want in your own
house, shouldn't you?" She was walking even closer to me as I backed away.
"What's the matter Roe, are you afraid of a little girl?" I said shakily,
"N-n-no." Holly laughed and grabbed my hands. She forced them over my head and
looked down at me. "In case you haven't noticed, Roe, I kind of have a crush
on you! I don't know what my sister could be thinking. I think you are really
good looking. I don't know what kind of stick she has up her ass!" "Aren't you
attracted to me, Roe?" She asked. I looked up into her eyes and said, "Does
cradle robber, um dirty old man, 16 will get you 20 mean anything to you?" She
smiled and thought. Then she said, "Does big, tall, strong girl mean anything
to you? Bigger, taller, and stronger than you!" Then she made me laugh when
she said, "And besides you'd better watch out because I'm drinking milk and
I'm getting bigger and stronger everyday!" Then she said, "See I think you
would really have a good time with me if you gave us a chance!" I told her,
"Please Holly, let me go. I have to go to work and besides my morals just
couldn't let me even touch you the way a man touches a woman. No matter how
tall you grow or strong you get; you would still be a little girl to me and it
just wouldn't be right." She frowned and said, "I bet you wouldn't fucking
turn Meredith away would you? Did you know that Meredith has a husband that's
trying to track her down? He was very abusive and we ran away. It would
probably be in your best interests to just leave her alone because sooner or
later he'll find us again and I don't think you'd want to meet up with him.
Oh, you're a big tough Army guy, but he's about 6'10" and weighs about 300
lbs. I don't think you would stand much of a chance against him. That is why
Meredith won't have anything to do with you. She told me she's afraid to get
you involved. She tried to refuse your hospitality but you forced your
niceness on us. She just couldn't say no to you. She just doesn't want to see
you get beat up in case Stan finds us!

That is just what I wanted to hear! Meredith has a psycho husband out there
that's bigger than her! What the hell do I do now? I told Holly I had to go to
work and asked her if she needed a ride. She told me she would be running to
school but thanks for the offer. As I drove to work that morning the whole
situation was weighing heavy on my mind. What should I do now?