First Job by Diva

At the age of fourteen, I was hired by a white couple to watch their kids during the day while they worked. It was a summer job for me. The man worked with my grandfather who had recommended me. It paid $25 a week which seemed like a fortune.

After a week or so, the man started coming home for lunch which he had never done before. He said inappropriate things about my hair,  my body,  my skin ... then, he suggested that we could have beautiful kids. I looked so shocked he changed it to polkadot kids trying to make me laugh ... I did not laugh.

I told him my dad would kill him if he touched me. He left. I stayed with the kids until the wife came home and when I left I did not return. I told my grandmother because I knew cooler heads will prevail. I did not tell my grandfather because he would have felt guilty. I didn't tell my dad because he would have beat the man to a pulp. And, I did not tell my mom because she would've found a way to run over him. The next summer I got a different job in an office.

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