The Secret Life of Wendy Milque
Can a love loran librarian find true romance within the stacks?
Note:
This story is a parody of James Thurber's short story 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.' As Wendy Milque is a librarian, the original 'pocketa-pocketa-pocketa' has morphed into 'ta-booketa, ta-booketa... ta-booketa.'
Ta-booketa, ta-booketa... ta-booketa
-- the sound of the approaching motorcycles was the first thing to catch Wendy's attention. Glancing in her rearview mirror she saw five, no maybe six, Harley-Davidson's quickly approaching behind her. As they got closer, she deliberately slowed, so as to allow them to pass single file -- one by one. Wendy watched in her outside rearview mirror as each bike passed, their cylinders pounding, gently shaking her car, and pleasantly vibrating her seat.
The first biker was a large hulking man. He worn no helmet, allowing his dirty blonde hair to flap wildly as he gunned his hog to pass her. His eyes were shielded by aviator goggles and his barrel shaped chest was covered with a black leather vest. As he past she noticed various tattoos adorning his exposed muscular arms and a large colorful club logo stitched on the back of his vest.
As each subsequent biker passed, Wendy noticed that their actual outfits, hair, and physique may have varied. However, there was the same matching club logo on each biker's back. The other thing they all had in common was a customized Harley-Davidson. Each with their distinctive deep throated rumble that sent shivers down Wendy's spine, all settling, one on top of another, deep in her groin.
All too quickly they were gone -- down that long lonely strip of asphalt and over the next distant hill.
* * *
"Excuse me -- Excuse me," Wendy heard a young voice say.
Still slummed in her chair Wendy peered over the top of the Reference Desk. All she could see was a mop of blond hair. Sitting-up she realized it was a young boy -- maybe seven or eight years old. Leaning forward to make eye contact with the young patron she said, "Yes, may I help you?"
"Motorcycles," the young library patron said in a nervous but determined voice.
"Books on motorcycles?" Wendy asked in clarification -- but also stalling for time as she cleared her head from her last daydream.
As the young man shyly nodded yes, Wendy pushed her chair back, stood, and pointed to the children's wing of the library. "Sure," she said shaking the cobwebs from her brain. "Right this way."
The young man followed closely on her heals as she walked him to the Children's Wing. "Cars, trucks and motorcycles are all in the 629s," Wendy explained as they headed down the through the juvenile non-fiction section. "Motorcycles would start here -- and run through here," she added pointing to several shelves.
The boy immediately pulled out a half-dozen books and quickly thumbed through them before selecting two. Mumbling an abbreviated thank you to Wendy, he turned and headed towards the circulation desk at the front of the library, leaving several books un-shelved on a nearby table.
Wendy quietly returned all but one of the books to its rightful place on the shelf and took one large picture book back to her desk. Setting back down at her desk, she wistfully studied each page as she casually thumbed through the glossy pages. Her fingers tracing each customized bike as she flipped through a dozen or so pictures of customized Harley-Davidsons. Gently she placed a hand in her lap and closed her eyes.
* * *
A roadside tavern appeared on her left. As she approached, she realized the bikers had stop for a beer and must all be inside. Her heart raced as she quickly placed both hands on the wheel. Slowing first to make sure it was them, then quickly signaled a left-hand turn before turning in and parking.
Gathering her nerve, she swallowed hard as she stepped from her car. Adjusted her skirt and blouse, before pulling open the heavy tavern door and stepping inside. The smell of cigarette smoke and stale beer almost overwhelmed her, but she was committed now. Her silhouette was brightly backlit by the intense noonday sun as every eye in the place looked up to see who it was. Though nervous as a mouse, she had no regrets. Once the door swung closed, the room was dark again, only lit by a variety of aging neon beer signs. There was a pool table in the center of the room and several guys standing around it playing pool and drinking beer. At the far end of the room was a bar from wall to wall with two guys standing drinking beer and a male bartender on the opposite side.
As Wendy sauntered across the room to the bar -- all conversation, as well as all other activity stopped. Six pairs of eyes, plus those of the bartender, just stared as she walked up to the bar and took a stool. After a long pause, Wendy asked, "So what does a girl have to do to get a beer around here?"
"Three bucks," the bartender said, as he placed a cold long-neck in front of her, still a little surprised to see an unaccompanied woman sitting at his bar.
After taking a long swig, she said with a sweet innocent voice, "Oh, I don't have any money."
The burly biker standing just a few feet away said, "Well sugar pants, we'll just have to take it out in trade."
Taking another prolonged swig of her beer, Wendy sweetly asked, "Well what could I possibly have to trade?"
Without hesitation, the biker set his beer on the bar and grabbing her around the waist, picked her up and firmly sat her on the bar. Sliding between her legs with his unshaven face just inches from hers said, "I can think of six things you can do right now."
Wendy just smiled and brought the bottle back to her lips for another long slow swill of beer. Picking up his beer with one hand, the biker ran his other callused hand up her bare leg -- up and under her skirt all the way to her underwear. After rubbing his knuckles up and down the moist fabric of her panties several times, the biker placed his beer back on the bar and ran both hands up under her skirt to the elastic band of her panties. Wendy returned her beer to the counter and placing both hands on the bar behind her, lifted her butt allowing him to strip her of her undies.