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SO--HEY, YOU CAN COPY IT BUT YOU CAN'T CHANGE IT OR SELL IT UNLESS I SAY SO. ==================================== THE ADVENTURES OF ME AND MARTHA JANE by S.J.R. sjr <73233.1411@CompuServe.COM> ============ PART 8D: Perhaps, when I awoke groggily at my Mama Rose's house that Saturday morning, July 2, 1955, I had been dreaming of my father while asleep in that room. I had little else to hold before me as a model of what I might do and how I might behave when I went to Union Station later that day to say goodbye to Martha. I wondered how Steven Senior might handle it: he was a hero, a winner of the Air Medal, two Purple Hearts and the Silver Star. He had faced the terror of war with the Nazis twenty-two times. He had readily attempted to hold together a B-17 landing gear with little more than his bare hands. If he could do that, then as his son I could certainly hold my own at Union Station. I rode to the Tremont Cafe with Mama Rose and ate a big breakfast there. I left just before eleven o'clock and walked two blocks to Union Station. It was a gaudy Romanesque building of massive proportions, a relic of the Gilded Age, with a vast main lobby graced with chandeliers clustered, gigantic warm-white globes. The atmosphere was so much quieter than I would have thought; I expected a noisily milling crowd and a rush of people in all directions. Instead, all was quiet and sedate, with few people waiting on the long rows of curved mahogany benches. Martha sat in a pleated black skirt and white blouse near the newsstand in the center of the lobby. She was reading a magazine. At the sound of my footsteps she looked up and smiled, put her magazine aside, and rose to meet me halfway. She gave me a long warm hug. She whispered a happy "Hi, hon." And I almost cried. But I showed little of it. Heros didn't cry. The sons of Silver Star winners didn't cry. In the movies, neither William Holden nor Bogart did that sort of thing. Evelyn was there, and another girlfriend whom I didn't know but whom they introduced as Tasha. So I was unable to say much of what I wanted to say--and at any rate, I doubt I would have said anything anyway. Martha told me she had sold her car. When she told Mr. Buchanan about it before leaving, he had been bitter and unrelenting. There had been some angry shouting. He would support her in Memphis, but not in New York. New York was golgatha, sin city, filled with queers and commies and perverts. If she wanted to teach, she could teach just as well in Memphis and then find herself a husband and raise a good Christian family. Everybody in New York was a drug addict, the mafia owned everything, and anyone who wasn't a mobster was a Puerto Rican, a wetback or a Jew. Even staid Evelyn, who now sat waiting unhappily with Martha and her friend in the station, thought her stepdad's ravings were little more than strident hysteria, and certainly she thought New York could not be nearly so awful. My concern for my own problems vanished when I noticed that Martha herself, keeping up a good front of cheer and optimism about claiming her future, sat holding my hand hidden from the others in the folds of her pleated skirt. She held on tightly, almost frantically. Again and again she gave my hand a tight squeeze, and now and then she would rub her thumb nervously and firmly across my knuckles. At first I thought she was doing it for my comfort; after a while I could sense the tension throughout her body. But others were present, and there was little I dared to say, even in a whisper, lest they notice. At one point Evelyn mentioned that the announcement for the train's departure would be heard soon, and she and their friend jaunted off to the ladies' room. I sat with Martha and looked around at the vast railroad station that I knew so well and where I had spent so many weekends roaming and playing. Those weekends were followed by a trip back home to the Lauderdale Courts, where Martha lived next door. "Steven, I'm scared," I heard her say beside me. I turned to find her looking down at my hand, which she grasped and rubbed nervously. "I'm really scared. I didn't think I would be this scared. I can't have my father here -- He's long gone. It's been so long since he died. I know Mr. Buchanan was spouting nonsense and superstition. I mever thought he'd explode that way. I sometimes think I understand why he dislikes what I'm doing... but I had no idea he would hate me so much. It scares me, somehow. I can't even let Evelyn see, she's so strong and so successful and she fits in so well. But even Evelyn had to lie to him about coming here with me. He thinks she's at her office. It scares me. I don't know why." I whispered, levelheaded and all grown up. "I'm not scared." She looked up at me with thankful, loving eyes. I said, "I'm proud of you. You earned this. You deserve it. And after you leave here today, you'll be in a place where you can be your- self. Mr. Buchanan won't be around to make you feel like a criminal for being yourself." Her eyes shuttled quickly to one side and she whispered, "Evelyn and Tasha are coming back." She gave my arm an extra squeeze and, looking down, she sent me a secret smile. "Thank you, hon." Within five minutes the cathedral-like walls rang out with the echoes of the departure announcement. Groaning and sighing, Martha and Evelyn and Tasha grabbed the baggage and we all walked to the departure gate at one end of the lobby. Before us the trains waited noisily, hissing and steaming and whistling. It was near the end of the era of the long pas- senger railroads, and the line of Pullmans was not as long as I remem- bered from a few years earlier. But the black porters were still there, smiling and polite and spry, asking "Can I see your tickets, please ma'am? Here ya go, Miss, the porter'll take those bags for you, ma'am. George, these are for car 4111." It was still the age of tipping caps and friendly smiles. We walked together to the start of the waiting platform, where the sun blazed down on us in the open air. Beyond that point, only ticketed passengers could venture down the platform walkway. "'Bye, sister," Evelyn whispered tearfully as she gave Martha a close and affectionate hug. Then her girlfriend took her hand and looked in her eyes and tried bravely to smile, saying "Martha...", only to break up angrily and sob, "I'm gonna miss the hell outta you!" They clutched each other and Martha whispered something in Tasha's ear I couldn't hear above the hissing steam of the waiting trains. In response, Tasha nodded and stepped back. Then Martha came over to me with a courageous smile and reached out for me to come to her for a hug. I went to her and she grabbed me like a big watermelon and almost lifted me off my feet. I felt certain there was no danger at all that Martha would cry, but I still wondered if I could hold myself together so well. I was barely taller than she; her lips, as usual when we embraced, were just below my ear. She laughed and whispered, "I won't cry if you won't." "I won't," I said. And then, her face on my shoulder, she started crying. Almost in terror, I wondered if the others noticed. They had, but not in the manner I feared; Evelyn gave a sad little smile and said something to the other girl and pointed to me, as if explaining about me and Martha. Reading her lips, I saw Evelyn mouth the words "grew up together", and the other girl nodded as if she understood. That, at least, is how their conversation appeared to me. But my concern was about Martha's crying. With a deep breath and a sudden straightening, she stepped back and wiped one eye hastily with a bare hand. "Damn, I didn't think I would do this." I gave her a kiss on the cheek, and a gentle smile that said it was okay. "You behave, cowboy. And write to me." She kissed my cheek quickly and turned away. Unstopping, undaunted, she smiled and waved to the others and made her way down the length of the train. Two or three times she turned as she walked, one time shouting to us, "You people write to me, or I'll come back!" The other girl shouted back, "Watch out for those New York taxi drivers!" For a brief time I watched as she grew smaller on the path down the line of Pullmans. I did not want to see the rest of it. She was walking ahead strongly now, far past the point where any of us could be heard over the steam and the commotion of the boarding platform, so she no longer turned to yell at us. The others stood waiting, and as I turned to leave I caught their glances and motioned a polite goodbye. I felt I had to go elsewhere; I was exhausted from holding back all expression of my feelings. I walked into the cool shade under the giant awning that covered the departure area, and into the quiet station. The noise of the trains retreated behind me, leaving me feeling less haunted by the sounds of their leaving and taking Martha away. I retreated to the area around the newsstand, stood alone and shoved my hands into the pockets of the dressy slacks I wore for the occasion. A deep breath. Another, deeper breath. I loitered, pretending to gaze at the magazines while I pulled myself together enough to pass through the station and appear perfectly normal in front of the bystanders who entered and left through the main arches. I was not really aware of anything around me. My mind went completely blank. I didn't know where I was going or what I would do. My urge was to hop on the train, ticket or no ticket, baggage or no baggage. I could not believe I was thinking such impossible thoughts. Abruptly I felt I'd had my fill of this scene. I turned and, in one long series of movements during which I consciously fought to keep moving ahead rather turning and running for the departing train, I kept going until I was out of the station and onto the sidewalk. I made my way quickly back to the Tremont Cafe. I have no idea what kinds of sounds the train made as it left Memphis, no idea how it looked or whether Martha might be gazing out the window and back at Union Station, or what she might look like riding in the Pullman on her way out of town. I entered the front door of the Tremont Cafe, now crowded at the height of the lunch hour with crusty old railroad men and a bunch of my aunts and grandfolks and the two middle-aged waitresses who worked there. Bill Hailey and the Comets were drumming out "Rock Around the Clock" on the light-swirling Wurlitzer. It was a record that had been on the juke box so long it had taken on a cloudy, garbled, hissy sound. Without a word I stepped behind the lunch counter, grabbed a dish, and filled it with several round scoops of Forest Hill vanilla ice cream. Though there were no tears, I knew I was crying: I had a thick salty taste in my throat. Shuffling past the help and the dishes, I made my way through the rear kitchen where my ancient great-grandmother, Mama Nifa, smiled her toothless smile and happily stirred a huge caldron of steaming beef stew. I smiled and nodded to everyone who smiled and nodded at me, and found a seat in the fairly quiet and unpopulated rear lunch room. I sat wordlessly and poked at the ice cream, which was soothing and cool, although in my numbed state I couldn't taste it. Wanda, a wiry little redheaded waitress who always talked out of the side of her thin mouth, came into the room on a break with a glass of iced tea and asked me, "Hi, sport, you gonna type the menus for us again today?" Mustering my most casual smile, I answered, "Sure." "Here," she said, grabbing a seat at the table in front of me and pulling several handwritten pages out of her apron pocket. "Here's the dishes and the prices, so you can type this up for us. I'd rather you did it anyway, I can't spell worth a damn and you do such a nice job on the typewriter." She spread the pages on the table before us. She lit a cigarette and sipped her iced tea. I looked at her. She was in her late thirties and I knew she was divorced. She was thin, long-necked, rather attractive despite her long and slightly crooked nose. I had always felt there was something seduct- ive about what I could see of her small tits and slender arms. High- waisted and leggy, she was always friendly and unceremonious with me from the first time I saw her. Now I sat directly across from another woman whom I knew to be sexually attractive to me in a kinky way that partook of something of the forbidden manner in which Martha had been sexually attractive. But Martha was gone. Those two facts -- Wanda's physical presence and loose manner, and Martha's complete absence -- gave me a new and undefinably odd feeling. It suddenly occurred to me that for the first time since I became a sexual person, there was no way for me to express my sexuality. I found it strangely disorienting. Wanda puffed on her cigarette. "What's up, sport? You don't look so happy." Brazenly I said, without a blink: "I just lost my girlfriend." "What the hell," she said, with a disdainful smirk and a wave of her hand. "So get another one." "I don't know any other ones." "So what? You're young. Not like me! My last one wore me out! Made me old before my time." She stretched in a tired yawn, a motion that shoved her tiny nipples against her thin apron, and it occurred to me that she didn't appear to be wearing a bra under her uniform. "Anyway, I gotta get back to work. Give the menus to the boss-lady, you know, your Aunt Frances, when you finish. And thanks, honey--my English ain't nearly good enough for that kind of work. I envy you, bein' smart enough at your age to do that kinda stuff." She turned and sauntered off, with horny little thirteen-year-old me following her slim hips and long legs all the way out of the room. I retrieved the heavy Smith Corona typewriter out of the broom closet and loaded it with paper and carbons for the day's food listing, of which I would type several carbon copies that would be slipped inside the plastic covers of the restaurant menus. As I worked I wondered what it might be like to fuck Wanda. But, then, Wanda wasn't what I wanted. I knew I was merely lonely and that what I really missed was knowing that sooner or later Martha would be around, moaning and talking and fucking. Of course, that wouldn't happen. With a new and sudden pain in my balls and in my gut, it began to hit me -- suddenly and with the force of the wind from an atomic blast -- that my needs had nowhere to go. Restless and growing anxious and angry, I threw myself into typing the menus. The restaurant had no duplicating machine; I had to type the menus manually, one original and five carbons at a time. Aunt Frances would give me five bucks for the job. Not much, but five bucks was five bucks, in addition to a couple of bucks for a weekly allowance that she would slip to me, and another two or three bills from Mama Rose or Daddy Joe as the balance of my allowance. My brain started adding this up. That was about nine to eleven bucks a week. If I continued to lie about my age at the movies and kept getting in on the child's ticket price, and if I kept my spending down to a reasonable level at school during the week, I could save perhaps twenty-five or thirty bucks a month. Maybe more. And I would be deliv- ering at my step-dad's grocery, which would amount to more money every week. As I typed, I wondered: How long would it take to save up enough money to get to New York? Continued... ==================================== THE ADVENTURES OF ME AND MARTHA JANE by S.J.R. ============ PART 8D -30- -- +--------------' Story submission `-+-' Moderator contact `------------+ | story-submit@qz.little-neck.ny.us | story-admin@qz.little-neck.ny.us |