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Cherise, Virginia Slims, and Tennis Razzman14@aol.com Part 1 PART ONE Cherise Anderson was always a mysterious girl. She has always been a friendly girl, but sometimes seemed to hold back from letting people know too much about her. This trait, combined with her good looks, sometimes led her peers to think that she was snobby and aloof. However, once approached, she was quite friendly, and always ready with a warm smile for anyone. She was at once outgoing, yet private. She was quiet, yet adventurous. With her long, straight, sandy blonde hair, pretty green eyes, nice small lips, her warm smile that revealed perfect teeth, and a nice figure on her 5'6" frame, she had always had guys after her. They would flirt with her and sometimes aim catcalls her way, but Cherise always took it in stride. She would grin sheepishly, sometimes blushing a little, but otherwise seemed oblivious to all the courting from the male species. She had the cute, innocent girl next door looks, the look that makes people think she must be pure and must not have done anything wrong. She drove the guys nuts because she was at once pretty, friendly when approached, yet always mysterious and introverted, and she had a way of letting those around her sense that her mind was always on more important things... Cherise grew up in a comfortable suburb outside a major Midwestern city. Her mother, Courtney, and her father, Tim, divorced when Cherise was 8 years old. Tim was a good-looking man, an executive at a young age at a fortune 500 company. He was what one refers to as a "career man", often working long hours and going away for a week here and there on business. Tim prospered at his job, and as a result Courtney was able to stay at home in a nice $150,000 suburban home near a shopping mall to raise Cherise and her younger sister by 4 years, Carrie. However, Tim had an ego problem, a constant need for gratification from different people. This trait served him well at his job, as he was always seeking out ways to help the company, and was always being patted on the back by his superiors. However, his need for attention also included attention from women - other women besides for his wife, Courtney. The numerous young women that he worked with, plus the women he met on business trips, led to several affairs. Courtney found out about two or three different women that Tim was or had been seeing, and their marriage was in trouble... Courtney and Tim had met in college, where she was a cheerleader and he was on the baseball team. They had married shortly after they graduated college. When they were both 25, they had Cherise, and then at 29, they had Carrie. And at age 33, after undergoing counseling and after Courtney pleading with Tim to start spending more time with his family and less with his career, they divorced. Tim was not able to change nor did he seemed to want to, and seemed to shirk his duties as a father, being uninvolved with his two young daughters. After the divorce, Tim took a transfer to a different city, and Courtney, Cherise, and Carrie remained in their posh suburban house. With Tim's income and his child support payments, they were able to live a comfortable life, although Courtney began to work a 8-5 job at an advertising firm once Cherise and Carrie were both in school. The three females had to adjust to their new life. Cherise and Carrie both seemed to be fine, doing well in school and being obedient girls. They helped their mom with chores and their house was warm and clean. The adjustment for Courtney, having to work and take care of two young daughters, on top of the stress and emotional pain of the divorce, was a bit more difficult. She had always taken care of her body, dating from her days as a cheerleader all through high school and college. She had always exercised, ate good meals, didn't do drugs, and drank alcohol in moderation at the occasional high school or college party. On one particularly stressful Sunday though, she went and bought something she had never bought before - a pack of cigarettes. Courtney had smoked at parties while drinking during her high school and college years, but had never picked up the habit on a daily basis like so many do. She took pride in taking care of her looks and body and never felt the urge to start on a regular basis. Tim had been a devout non-smoker and definitely would not have approved of Courtney smoking around him. So it had been a good nine or ten years since the last time Courtney smoked, before she picked up a pack of Marlboro Light 100's on that stressful and overcast Sunday day. What started off as a way to relieve stress for a couple of days soon turned out to be a regular habit. Courtney began smoking daily shortly after that first Sunday, with her cigarette intake steadily increasing. At first, she would only smoke outside on the back deck, mostly after the kids were in bed or during lunch break. Then, in addition, she began smoking in her car - on the way to work, on the way to lunch, on the way back from lunch, on the way home. Little Cherise, then 10 years old, took notice of her mom's newfound habit. "Mom, your car smells like smoke!" she proclaimed one day while in the car after Courtney arrived home from work and took the girls out to eat. The young girls at that point had never seen their mother smoke before, but on that day Courtney admitted to little Cherise that she had indeed started smoking. "But why mom? You don't need to smoke do you?" Cherise asked. It was an important question that Courtney pondered over. The cigarettes were a way to help her relax, to relieve stress, and to give her something to look forward to. She enjoyed the anticipation of smoking her next cigarette. It was an eerily identical feeling to when she would look forward to making love and having sex with Tim. The anticipation was just as exciting as the event itself in both cases, and always left her wanting more. The adrenaline that both smoking and sex gave her, the overall relaxed feelings she had, the same feeling of something deep inside her, causing her great pleasure and a feeling of euphoria.... Smoking and sex did have a lot in common, she decided, and she knew that she was not going to give up her habit just yet... Now that the girls were aware that their mother was smoking, she began to smoke in the house. She now smoked immediately after meals and during the evenings while watching television. She rationalized that her daughters, now 11 and 7 respectively, were older now and the smoke wouldn't affect them as much as it would when they were younger. She begins to experiment with different brands, preferring long white 100's and gradually developed a preference to menthol cigarettes. She enjoyed the Benson & Hedges Menthol Lights, Misty Slims Menthol Lights, and Virginia Slims Menthol Lights. She began to smoke those brands exclusively. At her job at the advertising agency, Courtney had various tasks. When she first started there, she worked exclusively in the office. Now that she had been there a while, her duties expanded to being out of the office a lot going to different businesses. She was able to smoke more, being in her car more often, as a result of this change at work. She had never smoked in the office, though, but by now her co-workers were aware that she was a smoker. At 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., the people in the office would take 15-minute breaks. On the days that Courtney was in the office, she would now smoke two cigarettes during her 15 minute breaks in the company "smoking room". With all of these changes in her life, Courtney was now smoking 15-20 cigarettes a day, and would definitely have a difficult time quitting. By now, her smoking was so much a part of who she was, that she had no strong desire to quit. She enjoyed her cigarettes. She enjoyed the feeling of sucking something deep inside her chest, enjoyed the mentholated taste of her cigarettes, and enjoyed handling them and was fascinated by the smoke bellowing from her mouth and nose when she exhaled and from the cigarette itself. She smoked in her car, even when the girls were with her. She would always crack the window in her car so the smoke could get out, and in order to flick the ashes from her cigarettes. Sometimes, when she was by herself and it was a nasty day out, she would leave the windows rolled up and use the ashtray of her Saturn to flick the ashes from her cigarette. This only seemed to enhance the neurotic, yet sensual pleasure she got from smoking. Courtney had also begun to date again. Occasionally, on Friday and Saturday nights, a girl in the neighborhood would come over and babysit Cherise and Carrie while their mother went out. Courtney was a pretty, youthful looking 37 now, and the men were still hot after her. Sporting the same hair as Cherise, long, sandy and straight, often worn in a ponytail to make her appear more youthful and fun, Courtney was a catch for any man. Although she didn't exercise much these days, she still ate healthy foods and that - plus her smoking - helped keep her figure looking good. Eventually, Courtney began to get serious with a 41 year old divorced man named John. John ran a successful business installing swimming pools, and was an attractive man. The two clicked after being introduced by a mutual friend, and they became one another's steady. John was also a smoker, and the two would often light one another's cigarettes when at a restaurant, nightclub, or at one another's homes. Meanwhile, Cherise was now 12 and in junior high. She was really coming of age and developing a nice figure. She had always been somewhat athletic, playing sports with the kids around the neighborhood. Her favorite sport was tennis, and she frequently played at the courts near her house. Sometimes she would practice on her own, other times she would play with friends from her neighborhood and school. The neighborhood had a large amount of kids around her age, and, as pre-teens and teenagers, were beginning to get into more adult things, like courting the opposite sex, drugs, alcohol, music, smoking, etc. Cherise was one of the "goody-goody" kids - did well in school, obeyed her mom, and avoided alcohol, smoking, sex, drugs, etc. She was really starting to become a good tennis player, and tried out and made her 7th grade team in middle school. She held her own, playing at the number two singles spot, and won most of her matches. Sometimes, when the weather was nice, Cherise would badger her mom to come out and hit tennis balls with her. Courtney would often accompany her, but she was never an avid tennis player, and all the smoking she had been doing for the last three years had made her get winded quickly while running around chasing the tennis ball. She would often have to stop to catch her breath. Cherise would often tease her."C'mon Mom what is the matter? Maybe you should quit smoking!" she would badger her mom teasingly. Cherise had rarely complained to her mom about her smoking. Her mom was a full-fledged smoker that smoked pretty much anywhere in the house no matter who was around. After a meal, Courtney, Cherise, Carrie, and John (if he was there) would sit around the table and talk and tease, and of course Courtney and John would be smoking. The four got along great, John treated the girls well, and they often went out to the movies or shopping together. Oftentimes friends of Cherise and/or Carrie would accompany them. Sometimes Cherise would look at her mom's magazines and notice the pretty women in the cigarette ads. She always thought that her mom could be in one of those ads. She would often watch her mom smoke a cigarette from afar, and wonder to herself if she really enjoyed smoking or if she was just hopelessly held captive by her habit. Whenever she watched her mom take her deep drags off whatever all-white menthol 100 that she was smoking, and flick the ashes into the ashtray, and hold her cigarette, she always thought to herself that her mom really seemed to enjoy it. It seemed to relax her. Seeing her mom with a cigarette became synonymous to Cherise that she was content and relaxed, and not stressed out like she sometimes was. That explains why she didn't chastise her mom about her smoking. She knew that when she smelled cigarettes, her mom was content. Cherise didn't mind the smell of the cigarettes, and her mom was always courteous so that the smoke didn't get in the girl's eyes or face. During the summer after Cherise's 7th grade year, she experienced many firsts. She shared her first kiss with a boy her age that would often come around the neighborhood. His name was Josh. Josh was for the most part a good kid, with nice parents that took care of themselves. But Josh had already had experience with sex and drinking, two things that Cherise had never experienced. One afternoon, while Josh's parents were at work, Josh raided his parents liquor cabinet. He mixed some rum and coke and gave some to Cherise. Cherise, after some persuading by Josh, drank the whole thing and felt quite buzzed. She had taken her first taste of alcohol. They spent the afternoon kissing and listening to music. She felt as though she could do more while under the influence of the alcohol. Cherise felt a little guilty about drinking the rum, though, but she really enjoyed the time she spent with Josh. She didn't know whether or not to tell her mom about the drinking. She had told her mom when her and Josh first kissed, and while her mom seemed cool about the whole thing, she did receive her first lecture on the "birds and the bees". Her first sex talk. Cherise thought that if she told her mom about drinking with Josh, then she may not have been allowed to see Josh anymore. There was another thing that Cherise was growing more curious about - smoking. Her mom continued to smoke a pack a day, day after day. It was a ritual for the family to sit around the table and talk for a bit before going their own separate ways, and her mom would now smoke two in a row after eating a meal, and smoked first thing in the morning after waking, and last thing at night while lying in bed. Cherise knew how bad smoking was - she had seen it first-hand watching her mom chase a tennis ball around, and she had also notice her mom developing wrinkles that came about from taking her long deep drags on her cigarettes - and plus she was devoted to being a good tennis player. But she still wanted to try it sometime. She knew that like most kids her age, she was going to experiment with things. Lots of kids try smoking and don't like it, she thought. Maybe I will be one of those people. She looked at herself in the mirror one day. Her hair was pulled back that day by a headband. She often wore headbands while playing tennis, and she thought she looked cute and innocent in it. Her breasts were developing and she was now about 5'4" tall. Her teeth were perfect, and she knew from looking at herself that she was cute, but that she didn't have that "wild" look that a lot of the other kids had; kids that she sees at the mall, in school, in the neighborhood. Kids with piercings, tattoos, wild haircuts or colored hair, kids that seem to want to go against the grain. She realized, at that time, that almost all of those kids were already smoking. She knew that she definitely did not have the "smoker" look. She considered herself preppy, dressed conservatively but always modern and in style, the nice, friendly girl-next-door type. But then she realized that her mom didn't look like a smoker either, and hadn't even started on a regular basis until she was 34 years old! She wondered why her mom never started at an earlier age, if she felt that she missed out on all the years she could have been smoking. She wondered, knowing her father Tim's strong disdain for smoking, if her parents would have married had her mom been a regular smoker back then, like she was now. Would her mom be with John? John was a pack-a-day smoker just like her mom and surely she wouldn't have put up with that had she not started, would she have? Would she have even been born or been anything like she was now had her mom been a smoker? The summer drew on. Cherise was now old enough that Carrie and her could get along just fine during the day without a babysitter. They would play with friends in the neighborhood, watch television, walk to the mall, listen to music, etc. Cherise still played tennis, and now would ride her bike to an indoor multi-purpose center and play against other avid tennis players, some a good deal older than her. She was starting to get a little reputation, and people would watch her play against an older, bigger opponent, and cheer her on. Her coach at the middle school would often show up at the center and work with her and a few other girls. END OF PART ONE |
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