Note: The story involves adultery. If you find that offensive please skip. I recommend reading Parts 1 and 2 first. Thanks to Leonardo for his friendship. Feedback welcome.
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My body was humming on the drive up to Flatwoods on Wednesday. My movements that morning had been heavy, clumsy. I smashed my head against an open cabinet door. I knocked my water bottle off the counter and had failed to secure the top so ice and water splashed everywhere. Thank god my dog, Max, was there. He got most of the water up while I chucked the ice cubes into the sink. My fingers just weren't working properly. My mind was too preoccupied with what was to come and couldn't concentrate on the present. I managed to get myself out of the house with all that I needed: bike, helmet, biking bag, change of clothes, protein shake, apple. Jeez. You'd think I'd never made an appointment to have sex before. Oh, that's right, I hadn't.
I pulled into the parking lot promptly at 9:25 (oh, that's good, you're supposed to play hard to get, not overly eager.) There were about half a dozen cars there. I saw Gary's Matrix but there was no sign of him. It was another picture perfect winter day in Florida. Fiercely blue skies, a few white puffy clouds, high 70's. I went to the bathroom, then busied myself unracking my bike, and checked the air in my tires. They were both a little low but not too bad. Since I was Miss Fumblefingers today don't think I could manage to unscrew the valves properly. I finished the rest of my long pre-ride ritual and was at a loss what to do. Should I start riding and hope to run into him? Why hadn't we exchanged cell numbers? Hell, my cell couldn't get a signal out here, anyway. I nervously headed to the bathroom again when out of the corner of my eye I saw him swoosh by the exit and pull into the entrance. Oh, good, he was wearing the blue jersey again. He looked divine. He stopped in front of me, by the entrance. I turned to face him, arms akimbo, and watched while he gave me a hot look, down and up again. "Hiya Jay short for Jayne! Ready for a ride?" he asked cheerily, mockingly.
I grinned and rolled my eyes at him. "I'll be right out." The nervousness factor was wreaking havoc on my bladder. Our first two times together had been spontaneous. This was new territory. I managed to pee a bit, splashed water everywhere when I washed my hands, and came out. "OK. I'm ready." I was jittery and it showed He was over by his car and was stashing some things into his back pack.
I fastened my helmet, mounted my bike, joined him and we rode off together, exiting the parking lot and heading towards the loop. "Relax, m'dear, you look ready to jump out of your skin. I'm not gonna...well, uh, yes I am, now that I think about it." He grinned at me, a big, wolfish grin, white teeth flashing, that left no doubt of his intentions.
"So, what's the plan?" I asked, spinning faster than normal trying to keep up with him. "And can you slow down just a bit? It's me you're riding with."
"Oh, sure, sorry. I'll let you set the pace. And as to where we're going, you'll just have to wait and see. It's not far." He cricked his neck back and forth, I heard a slight pop. "I'm glad to know you're so eager." That grin again.
I blushed mightily behind my sunglasses. "Well, truthfully, I've thought of little else over the past few days. What's the line from Rocky Horror...An...tis...eh.............payshun!!." We both laughed and I could feel some of the nervousness drain from my body. "Oh, oh, Oh! That silliness from the other day, the rhyming thing we were doing. It kept looping around in my head when I was running. After a while I started coming up with limericks." We had passed the beginning of the loop and about 200 yards up where it bears pretty hard to the right we slowed and he indicated it was time to stop.
"Uh, we walk from here. Limericks, huh? I'm afraid to ask. I pretty sure it'll be horrible." We were on a wide sandy path and I could see what looked like an obstacle course over to my left. The path disappeared into the woods. We pushed our bikes at our sides.
"Judge not, until you've heard." I cleared my throat.
There once was a man named Gary Whose balls were rather hairy He decided to shave But the razor went astray And now he talks like a fairy.
I laughed and he groaned loudly, then hooted. "That's just awful, that's putrid...you call that poetry?" He laughed with me. "OK, you just wait, woman, until I get a minute to think about it. You're gonna get it back, in spades." We were far enough into the woods so we couldn't be seen from the road. He pulled me to him with one arm, our bikes on the outside of us, and kissed me soundly. The heat started in my toes and spread upwards. I leaned back and opened my mouth to accept his invading tongue and returned the kiss with all the passion I was feeling. I was getting light headed.
"Whew!" I said when we finally parted. "That made me dizzy. Is it much further?"
"No, not too far up here." He was able to steer his bike with one hand and rested the other on my shoulder. I needed both hands to steer my bike. We walked another three or so minutes along this widened path and it started to narrow but there was the sense of an allee with the trees tall on either side. "Here we are," he said and we turned. On the left there was an opening, another path off the one we were walking on, but it was barely visible. If you didn't know what you were looking for you'd miss it. "It's up this way."
"What's up this way?" I asked.
"You'll see," he said, steering me onto this path. After walking about a half a minute a shape emerged in the woods. I saw a towering palm tree next to a chimney. As we got closer the shape of a cottage emerged. An old, beat up cottage, but it was shelter all the same. The sunlight filtered through the towering trees. I could see an overgrown bougainvillea with profusely blooming bright purple flowers on the right, wild branches everywhere. On the left was an untended orange tree. Then the woods took back over. Gary marched right up to the ramshackle cottage and leaned his bike against the overgrown shrubbery. I was more tentative in my approach. I could smell the sweet scent of orange blossoms in the air, along with the unmistakable stench of rotting fruit.
"What is this place?" I asked. He turned to me, took my bike and propped it against his.
"This belonged to the previous owners of the land, the ones who sold it to the county. I think it must have been a hunting camp or something. My buddy who works for the park system tells me that there are still a few old hunting stands around here that are in good shape." He pulled back the dilapidated screen door for me and I walked into what I would call a sleeping porch. It ran the entire side of the house and was covered at the top but the screen at the side was collapsing. There was a door about 10 feet in and Gary took my hand and led me through the doorway. It opened into an empty room that was most of the house. There was a fireplace at one end, flanked by curved bookshelves. The floor was slab, so it couldn't be that old. I dropped his hand and explored. There was a total of three rooms, and the one that had been the kitchen was stripped bare, it was just a small, square room. The room right behind the living room was tiny. Maybe it had been a bathroom at one point but I couldn't see any plumbing fixtures. Those were my impressions on a quick glance around. While I was exploring a bit Gary knelt down by his backpack. I looked back to where he was and noticed an air mattress, already inflated, in the larger room. How did I miss it before? I crossed the room to where Gary was and knelt down beside him. "I got here earlier and set this all up. Whatdaya think?" He had pulled a few smaller bags out of the backpack. I picked one up and rummaged through it, pulling out the contents. Inside I found a bottle of Gatorade, Gu, and an powerbar. I shrieked with laughter.