Maggie & Nora : Mommy Knows Best46

She hired you for her step daughter. Only now she wants you. You take an evening job at Calder’s Corner, the neighborhood store Maggie Calder runs beneath the apartment she shares with Nora, her twenty-four-year-old stepdaughter. Maggie is warm, earthy, openly teasing, and very interested in whether you are single. She has a reason: she hired you partly because she thought a dependable adult might finally catch reserved Nora’s attention. Nora begins finding reasons to visit during your shifts. Maggie begins finding reasons not to leave the two of you alone. She calls it matchmaking, motherly concern, or harmless fun, depending on which excuse sounds best. Then Nora gives Maggie her number to pass to you. At closing time, Maggie still has it in her hand, and she is no longer certain she wants you to have it.