Hitting the highway with a Harley sitting between your legs is one of the most thrilling things Iâve ever experienced. The sense of freedom, the power, like youâre riding a piece of a storm. Thereâs no better sensation to have while heading out on vacation.
Unless, of course, youâre having hot, steamy sex with a very attractive man. Then itâs a whole new ball game. Pun intended.
My name is Diane. Iâm 30 years old. The reason Iâm on the road on my Harley, Little Brother, is because my big brother Fred told me that I was going to get some R&R before he accepted any more assignments. My brother is also my manager. I do digital photography for a living. Most of the time I canât go anywhere without it. This time was the lone exception. No cameras, no laptop. Only a cell phone for emergencies. I was going to die from technological withdrawal.
Let me explain. Several weeks, or was it months, ago I was in a bar in Hollywood. A pool hall actually. Some drunk attacked me because I was admiring a tight ass from across the room as it was bending over to play a shot with a handsome man in tight leather pants. That ass, as it turned out, belonged to Kiefer Sutherland and the man in leather was Markus. Yes, thatâs right. The actor and sometime director. What a way to meet, don't you think?
Since that fiasco, Kiefer has been romancing me. First it was in a clearing behind the Hollywood sign, then it was on a secluded beach on the Mediterranean. Through a bit of trickery, I got an assignment to photograph Andalusian horses at a place called Castile de la Luna. It was owned by a Mr. Raoul Cordoba. Seems that Markus was his middle name. Kiefer and I had a wonderful two days of forgetting the world.
However, the Gods of Entertainment decreed that Kiefer return to work long before he wanted to. So he left to appease them and I came home as well, though by a different route to confuse any nosy tabloid people. I was so emotionally drained and exhausted, I was in a slump. Nothing I did seemed right. I was that way for at least a week before my brother came over.
Fred is a power house. When he wants you to do something, heâll steam roll you into it unless youâre a really solid rock in his way. He came over to my place and all but packed me up and booted me out the door. Verbally, that is. He knows better than to try it physically. He handed me the directions, the reservation information, and a map. The little shit even signed me up for snowboarding lessons when I got there a week from that day.
So, there I was, hightailing it up into the Rockies to get away from civilization, the paparazzi, and everything. It would take me about three days of hard riding to get to where I needed to go. But I didnât mind. Riding out on a deserted highway with the wind in my face is better than hiding in a car with the AC on. All my cares are put on a top shelf when I ride. Itâs perfect.
The ride was fantastic. Even the fact that I crossed the border into Colorado in the middle of a snowstorm didnât bother me. Although I did have the common sense to pull into a motel when the going got too bad. I made sure that my bike, Little Brother, was covered before I went into the room to unfreeze my riding leathers so I could get out of them and into a warm shower. That and a warm bed made all the difference.
For some odd reason the mountains made me feel more alive, more aware of myself. It was almost Spring and the mountains were still dressed for Winter. Yet I could almost feel life stirring as my bike roared away from the last hotel within a very large surrounding area. At least any ones that I knew of. I wasnât too worried. I knew how to rough it and camp out even in snowy weather.
Fifteen miles from my destination and the sun starting to go down behind the mountains, my bike decided to have a tire problem. Namely, it hit a sharp stone in the center of the icy highway and blew out. Luckily for me, I had on chaps and sturdy jeans under that. Laying a bike down on black ice is not my idea of a fun time. Having no choice but to lay it down on your leg is painful and will ruin anyoneâs day. Using one booted foot, I managed to shove Little Brother off my right leg and slide away from it into a snow bank.
My bike slid a little bit further down the road and stopped, its motor still purring away like a passive, yet playful kitten. âWhy me?â I asked to the growing darkness, âI haven't done anything bad this time around.â
I groused and cursed fluently as I stood up, only to have my right leg buckle slightly. Testing it, I found I could put weight on it, even walk on it, but it was going to be a slow painful process. It was just one piece of shredded mess. The reason it buckled is because the kneecap was skewed slightly out of place and the whole outside of my leg, from hip to thigh, was missing a good patch of skin.
By the time the moon came out from behind the trees, I had the bike off the road and into a small clearing. The emergency pouch I always keep with me had a small pup tent and two solar blankets, along with the requisite all weather matches. With the temperature dropping rapidly, I managed to get set up and a fire going in no time. Then I turned to little brother.
The cause of the blowout was easy to spot, though it was quite a surprise to see. A spearhead shaped stone was wedged nicely between the rim and the tire itself. It took a bit of work, but I got it free and amazingly enough the tire was still intact. No tears, no bent rim, nada. It was strange to say the least. I set aside the stone an the tire and gazed at the fire, pondering my next move.
Sleeping was on my mind, but so was staying alive. So I sat there and rubbed fresh snow into the road rash on my leg, gritting my teeth at the cold and pain. The injury wasn't that bad, but I wanted to stop the bleeding in case it attracted hungry animals. I didnât feel like being a meal for anything cute and fuzzy that had very large teeth.
I must have dozed sometime around midnight because I woke with a start, grasping the spearhead stone I had set aside earlier. It was dark and there was a heavy fog surrounding the area, like a huge cloud decided to land on top of the spot I was sitting in. The wispy tendrils of the fog drifted in and out of the trees like wandering ghosts searching for something. There was something mystical about sitting there next to a bed of red coals and watching the forest through the haze of the fog.
The silence was absolute except for the drums in the distance. Wait a minute, Drums??? I stood up and started following the sound, hoping someone would be there to get a message to the lodge so they would worry.
How long I walked, I don't know. But the drums seemed to beckon me onward into the night. I followed the sound to the shore of a lake. For some odd reason, it didnât seem strange to me that there was a lake in the middle of a place where I rationally knew there wasn't one on the map. Suddenly, out of the trees came women dressed in buckskins. They all disrobed and waded into the water without a word. Two of them beckoned me, inviting me to join them in the water.
Urged on by the drums, I removed my clothes, carefully folding and laying my clothes off to one side. The shredded pant leg gave me a bit of a fuss, but I got them off to one side. The only thing that wasn't coming off was the necklace.
Turning, I waded into the icy waters of the lake, gasping as goose bumps worked their way up my spine. My nipples stood straight out like mini pointers and gave my nether regions a reason to shrivel and hide.
The moment I got comfortable and completely wet in the water, the women converged on me. Gently, they lowered me until I was floating on my back. One of them produced something that looked to be a bar of soap, but smelled like sage. I was like a babe in arms as they gently and thoroughly washed my body and my hair, making me moan softly as their hands left nothing untouched.
When they were done, they helped me to stand and leave the frigid waters. By now my blood was heated by the touch of the women, the cold that forced my circulation to adjust, and the thumping of my heart in time to the drums. I looked around for my clothes and found that they were missing. In their place was a belt with a beaded flap in front and back and a pair of buckskin leggings.
Confused, I turned to ask the women, only to find that I was alone and only my foot prints were in the sandy shoreline. âIâm dreaming,â I thought as I donned the unfamiliar garments, having a slight problem with the unfamiliar buckle. But soon I was ready for whatever came next.
Out of the fog came what appeared to be an old man dressed as the others had been. He walked with a staff and had feathers braided into his silver hair. Neither of us said a word as he motioned me to join him. Without questioning why, I came over to him and we stared at each other while the beat of the drums wrapped their sound around us and drew us together.
The old man reached up to trace the scar on my face with a frown. Then touched the love bite on my neck. I couldn't help it. I blushed and the old man laughed and winked. But his eyes caught sight of the chest scar and and his hand splayed itself to cover it. Amazingly, I saw tears in his eyes as he traced the puckered edges. I found myself reliving that day and its aftermath. The old man pat patted my chest and grinned a tooth less grin as my mind played out the rest of the story to him. It was like he was reading the memories of the scars through his touch. I had to smile.
After a moment or two, he took my arm and together we went towards the sound of the drums. I was a bit self conscious about being topless amongst a group of people, but somehow I couldnât make myself form the words to voice it. We came upon a clearing, one that looked familiar yet didnât because my tent and my bike werenât there.