Characters:
Bruce Franklin: The stud, college grad, lives in West Columbia, WA
Nellie Jacobs: Red-haired daughter (Twin), tall, slim, almost lanky, outdoorsie country girl
Nancy Jacobs: Brown-haired daughter (Twin), tall, slim, almost lanky, domestic country girl
Stanley (Stan) Jacobs: Grandfather to the twins, 'getting by rancher'
Hook: A young traveler is mistaken for ranch daughters' hired stud.
Tags: Twins, Cowgirl, Redhead, Shotgun, Breakdown, School girl, Daddy's girl, Inexperienced., No choice, FFM
Notes to Readers:
All sexually active characters are age 18 or older
Short story: Includes 3200 words (6 book pages)
I was oh, too aware that my car's engine was sputtering and threatening to stall all together. The gauge said my gas tank was nearly full, but the way the engine acted, fuel starvation sounded the most likely cause. Probably a clogged fuel filter. I never should have gassed up at that hick-town station on the edge of Mortonville. If you're going to get bad gas, a place like that was the place most likely for it.
I made it about another mile, the engine running rougher and rougher the further I went. The last half mile I was coaxing my engine at near-idle up every little rise in the road to keep my one-year-out-of-college heap running. Finally, there was no more. I coasted to the side of the road to get it out of the way of someone with better gas purchasing sense than me. From there I sat a moment, listening to the gusty, wind-blown rain hammer my car, wondering how far it was to that light I saw through the trees up ahead.
Damned! It was Friday night, and I sure wanted to get home yet tonight so I'd have a full Saturday ahead tomorrow, but it didn't look promising now. That's why I took this back road out of Mortonville in the first place. The service station kid said this road cut twenty miles off the distance, and he also said although the road was gravel, it should be in pretty good condition yet this fall.
So there I was, sitting with a dead engine halfway from Mortonville to West Columbia. I gave the engine a couple more hopeful cranks with the starter, but got nothing out of it. So I sat there a couple more minutes cursing my judgement, hoping behind it all, that if I waited, the wind would die down and maybe the rain would ease up. I'm sure you can guess my success from that wishful thinking.
I opened my door against the wind, and right off, got a heavy blast of rain in my face, followed by several more that succeeded in drowning my face, the front seat where I sat, and most of the workday-clothes I wore. As I put my left foot to the ground I found no gravel, only soft mud—fairly deep and getting-deeper mud.
I guessed that light up there was perhaps a half mile ahead. I found when I got closer, though, the house with the light wasn't near the road. No, when I should have gotten closer, the house and it's light got little closer, but back off the road to one side.
What I found instead was a driveway, also wet and muddy, and a long way off the road still to go to that house and it's single light. But by then I had committed all my energy—and little remaining dryness—to getting there and getting help. So I trudged on, stumbling through the road's windblown tumbleweeds and sagebrush clumps, trying to guess where the next mud puddle was relative to the blown-to-the-roadside weeds and trash. As I slogged along, mud and rain filled my oxfords, making me cuss myself for not wearing work boots instead. For a job supervisor on a construction site, either would be cosher, but there I was, caught wearing the worst choice of the two.
I think my teeth chattered by the time I reached the fence I decided in the dim light wound around the mis-kept yard and the house. The house was no better kept than the yard and its fence, but the light still glowed in a first-floor window, so my optimism held I'd get help here and still get going on towards home.
Standing on the dilapidated porch under the rickety roof, I knocked the door, which sounded as if it had weathered too many storms and had lost most of whatever held it together.
"Just a minute," a not-at-all friendly voice said from within.
Well, I'd use my vast interpersonal relationship building skills to set aside the negative attitude of whoever that was.
The door latch rattled, then the door. Next thing I realized was a double barrel shotgun greeted me through the half open door.
"How come you're so late?" The voice behind the shotgun said.
"I had car trouble out on the road. If you or somebody would come help me, maybe I could get going again on my way into West Columbia."
"Like hell you will, Sonny. You're three hours late, and my girls have already gone to bed."
"What?"
"You know what I said. Quit acting stupid. I wasn't born yesterday, you know, so get in here and do what you're supposed to."
By now the shotgun was even closer, poking me in the gut just above my belt.
"But what?" I tried to say, only to find the gun barrels pressing even tighter against my belly.
"Who are you, anyway?" the gunman said. "I never seen you before. What happened to that Jerry fellow who usually comes out? My girls like him."
"I don't know any Jerry. You got me confused with someone else."
"Bull shit. Now get in here, get ready, and get to work."
"Ready for what?"
"What I paid you for, that's what."
"But ..." I tried to say, only to find that gun's barrels now trying to stab a hole in my middle just to the left of my navel. Finally I came to my senses and decided arguing with a 12 gauge shotgun made no sense at all from my side of things.
"Where?" I said.
"Up the stairs, you jerk." With that I got another jab in the ribs, so I headed for the closest staircase.
"That's more like it," the gun holder said. "Don't screw with me and we'll get along just fine"
"Okay. Okay. Didn't mean to offend."
"You better not. They expect you on time, and by god you're going to come close to on time from now on. Got it?"
"Sorry, Sir."
"Don't sorry sir me, you peckerhead. Turn right at top of the stairs, first door on the right."
So, I turned. When I arrived at the door, I grasped the knob, but didn't turn it. My pause lasted too long for him, I guess..
"Well, what you waiting for? Go on in so they don't feel stood up and embarrassed."
So, I turned the knob and pushed the door open into a dimly lit room. Inside, two candles glowed on night stands, one at the head of either side of a huge bed.
"What?" I think I gasped.