An Idol of a naked woman

“Junk junk junk junk.”, Abby said casually tossing items into a pile.

Not wanting to stay longer than she Abby quickly got to work. Her system was simple split this stuff into three piles. ‘Keep’ things that she thought looked nice or had sentimental value. ‘Sell’ stuff she thinks she could get a few bucks for on eBay. Then there’s ‘Junk’ stuff no one in their right mind should ever buy and if they did they should be put in an insane asylum.

So far all the items were thrown into the junk pile. “Really Grandma was there no way to get him to toss this crap?”, she groaned.

She opened another box and to her surprise found something of significance. Photos of her family, her grandparents wedding, her dad as a new born, and towards the bottom she found a picture of her and her grandpa sharing an ice cream. “Well I guess not everything here is junk.”, Abby said smiling as several forgotten memories returned.

With a renewed determination she sorted through the rest of the boxes. Still she found stuff that she couldn’t reasonably keep or sell but that wasn’t as often.

She sorted through dozens of boxes until finally she had just one left. A rather small box hidden in the back of the corner. It was so hidden that Abby would’ve almost missed it if she wasn’t so thorough. She flung the box flaps open and was shocked to find a small marble statue of a naked woman inside.

“Grandpa what the heck?”, she exclaimed. Carefully, she picked the statue up out of the box. The craftsmanship on it was astounding, the marble carvings were seamless and the proportions were perfect, if this statue was life sized Abby could’ve mistaken it for an actual person.

What struck Abby as strange was that the statue wasn’t in a sexy or provocative pose. It was simply standing up straight with her arms at the side almost like she doesn’t even realize that she’s naked.

“I can’t let grandma see this.”, Abby thought. “I better just through it out.”, Abby said placing it in her trash pile.

Finally, finished with organizing Abby gave herself a small sigh of relief, she fell to floor letting herself finally relax only to quickly realize she wasn’t done. “Ugh I gotta move all this stuff now!”

Moving the things she thought could sell, and wanted to keep were easy. Each pile only really took up one box. It was the trash pile that was the real challenge. Over and over she had to carry boxes all the way to the dumpster on the opposite end of the building.

Finally, after an hour she was finished, dumping the last boxes contents into the dumpster. “Finally, time to…go.”, Abby trailed off seeing on top of the trash pile was the statue of the naked woman. The statues marble eyes locked on her’s. ‘Is it staring at me?’, she thought.

With an uneasy hand she picked up the statue, “I guess keeping this won’t hurt.”