Lauren's left home alone

Lauren watched the apartment door close as she sipped her coffee before wrinkling her nose. Her brother like drinking it black and it looked like his girlfriend liked milk and sugar in hers. “Don’t they know you can get flavored creamers.” Placing the half empty cup in the sink she wondered what she should do with her first real day of vacation. When she first started school, she worked a full-time job at the same time. The example set by her big brother, ever the example of hard work and no play leaves you one a dull boy. It has been rough working forty hours a week as a waitress with also still having thirty credit hours to balance. More than once some of the other girls or the store manager sat with her at a table at break or after hours helping her with some homework and without the help, she was sure she wouldn’t have made it. The tips were nice at the owl-based wing eatery, but she didn’t want to do that forever and without a business degree she wouldn’t make it in the professional world. Lauren wasn’t aiming for a position like her brother as a project manager for a major construction company in the city. She remembered her mom saying how they never see him because of work, how he had to earn his way up, and then it was he had to help support others or he couldn’t take a vacation to come home because work needed him. No, she wanted to still have a life but also make a good wage. Maybe a steep down like a project coordinator at a big firm so that she would have people around to do the little things that her big brother couldn’t, like take time off and have a life. No wonder Jordan felt like she was in a rut, beyond having a little sex at night she doubted her brother took her out anywhere, not with how her legs looked this morning.

Helping Jordan look a little better this morning showed her she really did have some nice clothes in the closet, some downright sexy stuff that she would love to try on herself. She wondered why Jordan didn’t dress in them anymore. Maybe if her oaf of a brother knew how to show some affection and attention Jordan would be more willing to be her old self. So off Lauren went to go through what she thought was Jordan’s clothes. She was having a good time and loving her taste and decided to see what it felt like to look like a career woman herself. Pulling out a nice business dress suit she placed it on the bed before going to the drawers to find the right nylons for the look. The first drawer she opened was Jordan’s underwear drawer “Oh girl, at least you wear the right panties to feel sexy.” She mused before opening the next finding her brothers boxers all folded neatly. Lauren was about to close it and go to the next when she saw something in the corner a little box. “Oh what do you have hiding here Eric?” She asked herself as she pulled it out and opened it. Inside was a crumpled piece of paper and a beautiful diamond ring. The ring itself she recognized; it was their grandmothers engagement ring. “OH MY GOD! I thought something was up when he said he was taking this to get cleaned up at a Jewler the last time he was home. That sly jerk! He even added an extra setting. How can he have thought about marrying Jordan and not even tell us she existed.” Lauren shook her head as she put down the box and opened the note before sitting down on Eric’s computer chair. Uncrumpling the note she read what looked like her brother trying and failing to write a poem. As crumpled as it was it was hard to read everything and she missed the name Becky written at the beginning because of it, but what she did see what the date. Almost two months ago he wrote this and crumbled it up. “What could have happened between the two for him to give up on this. Whatever it is has to be more than just money for this to be shelved and Jordan to be in such a rut.” By Jordan’s clothes it looked like she was one of the examples one could point to for a girly girl and one that wanted to be sexy, hell she is pretty sure she only found a single pair of sneakers in the closet. It was such a contrast with the shy woman who wore minimal makeup that she met. “Don’t worry big brother, I’m going to help you. When I’m done with Jordan she will be her old self, and with the right tutelage even you can learn how to woo someone like her.

Happy with herself Lauren put back things where she found them, but continued to snoop a bit through the drawers to finish getting herself dressed up. Rolling up some stockings and putting on a pair of four-inch peep toe heels she looked at herself over at Jordan’s vanity. “Well, I think I can pull off the corporate image just fine.” Lauren was all smiles thinking about maybe as a thank you she would do some laundry for the two of them before she heard a knock on the door. The sound of her heels echoed off the hardwood floor in Eric’s apartment. She loved that sound, but considered hardwood floors in an apartment in the city, maybe one of the reasons he was having money troubles. Before she could get to the door to see who it was it opened and in stepped a slightly overweight balding older man in overalls. The man stopped in his tracks seeing the attractive young woman in front of him. “What are you doing in my brother’s apartment!?” Lauren said raising her voice and looking the man dead in the eye.

“Whoah hold on, yes you hold. It is okay that I be here, I have work order to fix.” The olderman said as he pointed to the caution taped room.

“Oh.. “ Lauren said feeling unease, the man had a real valid reason to be here and wouldn’t have expected anyone to be home. With her outrage deflated she just nodded to him and stepped out of his way. “Good, good you know.” The repair man said as he went by taking the chance to breath in deep smelling the young woman. Lauren scowled at the pervert as he pulled down the caution tape and unlocked the room. Soon as the door opened, she could smell the mildew and was positive the last thing she wanted to do today was go into that room. The repair man looked over to the nicely dressed girl thinking she probably had money just like the man who lived here, she did say she was his sister. “You ah.. Guest of Mr. Morrison?”

Lauren wished he would just go into the room so she didn’t have to deal with the perv who thought it was okay to lean in and smell people. “Yeah, why?”

“Maybe it was you living here?” he thumbs towards the room.

“No, just someone who doesn’t live here anymore I think.”

“Well you see, look. Let me be Frank.” The older man laughs a little at his own private joke. “I am Frank you see. Well Mr. Morrison has a problem, see bed in here and clothes everywhere.. Well someone lived here and no one was on lease. This okay, till problem happens like this. If maybe you and me were friends no one would know and brother, not get in trouble, maybe evicted.”

The young woman’s eyes grew wide, sure she had been propositioned a few times and well she is okay with having a good time, but this creep wants her to sleep with him. Frank held out his hand hoping the girl would give him some more cash, but to her it just looked like he was inviting her to take his hand. Revulsion grew in her and then she had a sinking feeling, what if her big brother helping someone out with a place to stay really did get both him and Jordan kicked out. If she could help, shouldn’t she?

“I will be right back.. You don’t move, umm Frank. Please.” Lauren dashed into the master bed room as fast as her heels would take her and pulled out her phone calling her brother.

“Come on, come on pick up, pick up, pick up..” The second the line went live Lauren starting verbally throwing questions at her brother, she was in a rush and needed answers if she was to save him.

“Did you really have someone living here off the lease? Can you really get in trouble for that? Why did you kick this person out, or did they just leave? Are they coming back? How could you be this foolish!”

Eric pulled the phone away from his ear, he did not need this right now. She was asking way to many questions, way to fast, on a topic he did not want to talk about and he really didn’t want to be caught in a lie. “Look Lauren I am on my way to a meeting I can’t talk. The person who lived with me is gone and I did it to help a friend and small risks of getting in trouble are worth it to help a friend. That good enough?”

Lauren was leaning on the closed bedroom door nodding. “You are a good man Eric, I love that about you. You have a good day, I will take care of it.” Eric was entirely confused by the last statement and almost wanted to ask before she ended the call. “Take care of what?” he wondered out loud before getting in his car to head off to a meeting.

Walking back out into the living room Lauren walked up to Frank who did as she said and hadn’t moved. Getting close to him and tapping her manicured finger up his chest. She swallowed hard before looking up into his eyes “We can be good friends.” Where she was now Lauren could actually see into the room and see the mess, but she also saw things like a computer tower, a few large monitors a musical keyboard of some type in there and she had a much better idea than saving her brother with a blow job. “Say, why not instead when you go to throw away everything in the room, if you were to find some things of value. I don’t know, you could just keep them or sell them. Would that” She hesitated for a second “Make us friends?” Frank was more than enjoying the pretty girl being this close to him and when she said that he looked back into the room. “Yeah, sure this is good.” If she wanted to try and play this sex kitten thing and offer him what he could salvage from the room he was more than happy. The computer alone would get him more than he got out of her brother.

“Good.” Lauren said smiling happy that turning up her charms was enough to get this guy to take away some things she knew her brother would just end up having to throw away or store forever just in case this friend that took advantage of him came back for them. With that she leaned forward and gave Frank a peck on the lips. “To seal the deal.” she said as she walked away grabbing her purse off the counter. It didn’t go with the outfit, but she wanted out of the apartment in case Frank changed his mind. Walking down the steps out of the building she looked back “You are lucky I came big bro, and I can’t believe I almost did that.” Lauren laughed out loud before getting out to the street to figure out what she wanted to do in the city while on vacation.