Summer Lovin and Hidden Desires of a Boarding Kennel Worker

Summer romance blossoms for a young boarding kennel worker with secrets to uncover

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Summer Lovin' and Hidden Desires The first summer I worked for my family's boarding kennel will always rest fondly in my mind. It was my first job outside of flipping burgers or delivering newspapers. It was also the first job that entailed any real authority or even decent pay. But mostly, it was that particular summer, and that particular job that enlightened me to my innermost desires. I remember my trip home that summer, the long bus ride, the sketchy bus driver, and the long walk to the family plot. I'd already walked the 3 miles from town when the pavement ran into the gravel road that would take me home. I knew it was another mile up the road, but I could already hear the canine howls and barks from over the fallow fields. I sighed heavily, brushing my crinkly auburn hair over my shoulder, as the memories of my childhood started trickling back. I remembered the creek where I and my brothers would swim, the same swimming hole where I discovered, at the tender age of thirteen, that there were more differences between boys and girls than just long hair and privates. My brother's teased me for my budding breasts, breasts that would grow to a generous 38DD, and my mother scolded me for swimming with boys. Later, she would scold me for more than just swimming with boys, though my brothers weren't involved then. I walked past the old fir tree where I made my youngest brother, Luke, practice kissing when we were children. That was before football and wrestling, before he started sculpting his powerfully masculine physique. And then I rounded the bend and could see the old farmhouse I grew up in. Everything was just as I remembered it, though a little older. The chicken coops and rabbit hutches, the small garden and orchard, and of course the kennel itself. Converted from an old barn, the kennel could easily house fifty dogs, more if Dad was less humane and bunked the animals more than one to a kennel. "Alyssa," I heard a voice call me from the house. I looked up to see my mother drying her hands on an apron before waving to me. I waved back as I jogged toward her. "Hey, Mom." "Alyssa, why didn't you call," she worried at me, "your father would have been more than willing to pick you up from the bus stop. The hardware store isn't that busy this time o' day." "I know, Mom," I replied slightly breathlessly after my jog. …but everything was about to change

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