[©2010 BY CLINTON09; ALL CHARACTERS OVER THE AGE OF 18; NO EVENTS DESCRIBED ARE TRUE; THIS STORY HAS A 'HARDER EDGE' THAN MOST; BE WARNED; HERE BE DRAGONS; FOR AGES 21 AND ABOVE]
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Tommy said: "face it Rex, you lost." And so the drama began...
Tommy was kind of my enemy in high school. We had both come from humble backgrounds, yet he always seemed to come up with 'scratch' when he needed it. It was strange, too, because I was living alone with my divorced mom while he was living alone with no parents. He had been held back a year so he was 19 to my 18. His parents had kicked him to the curb at 18, so now he was hanging with some real questionable types.
Angela was the common ground for us. She was a vision of beauty. Magnum cum laude, she had one of those grade point averages with those weird bonus points that put my 3.5 GPA (real, no bonus 'BS') to shame. I think hers was 6.9—seriously.
Anyway, she was smart, beautiful, from a 'good family' (whatever that means), etc. She was a trophy girlfriend in high school and would make a fine trophy wife. The girl of my dreams, but like many a young lady of that age, her favor could be won by simple material outlays. Put differently, Tommy always came up with the corsage, tux, limo, expensive dinner, front row tickets, well everything. He swept her off her feet, to the chagrin of her parents, who were much wiser about things than she.
And so it came to pass that upon graduation, we went our separate ways. I went to the finest school you never heard of, UC-Davis, while they fell off the map. I mean that literally. As in the days of old, with a flat earth and an edge to avoid, they disappeared.
Two years later:
I was about half way thru my degree in agricultural science, horticulture, when my mom sent me as an email attachment a letter she received from Angela's parents.
They had lost track of Angela also and hired a detective firm to find her. Their only lead was the Burning Man desert festival. An old school mate had received a tweet that she had to come east to the desert and enjoy the sun and freedom of Burning Man. Unfortunately, that was it, no specifics. Angela's parents were trying to hedge their bets by asking...begging for my help too, since I could recognize her regardless of how she might have changed.
I emailed mom back to say I would put school on hold for that search.
I felt like the investigators to the Pan Am crash in Scotland, having only a strip of foil from the bomb to identify everything else. Here, I knew where someone MIGHT be, but I didn't know exactly where, exactly when, or even exactly what she would look like. But, I had to try and would.
Well, I got to Burning Man, alright. It was a strange scene. There were clumps of people into wearing face paint, others doing some odd dances, almost everyone acting as if they were on mescaline or LSD. I almost wished I knew what THEY saw in the sky, in me, in themselves. Wild ride, isn't it, dude?
To my amazement, in that checkerboard of vast empty spaces and tight knit crowds, the sound of music and electric generators omnipresent, I found Priscilla. Penny, as I called her, was Angela's friend. It was an unbelievable stroke of luck.
I came up to Penny, waved, put out my hand, and waited for some response. Talk about odd, she had what the Marines called a '1,000 yard stare', as if I either did not take up space or did not matter. At her feet were two foil wrapped pill blister packs, with two empty slots. I wasn't sure, but I didn't think they were Bayer aspirin. I had to do something; couldn't let her just rot, and I couldn't ignore the chance to find Angela.
I put her into a bear hold. She offered zero resistance as I expected.
Some long haired guy came from nowhere and said: "Take it in the trailer, man, be cool." I guess even here they preferred people fool around in private. There was a rundown trailer right next to us. It was someone's home, but in the spirit of the festival, that dude said to use it, and I wasn't going to hunt for the owners in that mob.
Getting Penny up in the trailer, I laid her on the freshly made bed and turned to close the door. When I came back, to my amazement, Penny was mindlessly taking off her clothes, thinking that this was just another sex session in between getting high. By the time I told her to stop, she had removed her top and dropped her worn out jeans.
I am quite ashamed to confess the next passage. I had always had a thing for Penny; she was one of the untouchable girls in high school. Like Angela, you needed an appointment and a written recommendation just to talk to her. Now, here she was of her own volition (which we could debate, but who's going to tell?), stripped to bare essentials and ready for action.
Gazing upon her incredible brunette beauty, her body toned from field hockey, her stomach rippling with perfect abs, everything else was solid, but feminine and sexy. As I was going to ask her if she really wanted to do this, she wiggled to the edge of the strangers' bed and lifted her legs, putting her feet on either side of my shoulders. Her hand grabbed my cock and used the rough, uncut head of that ten inch love pole to prepare herself. Once she pushed it in herself, taking the first five inches, my concern for her 'volition' evaporated. Here was the OTHER girl of my dreams, and I wasn't prepared to wait for a Gallup Poll survey to see if most people thought this savory or unsavory. I was drilling for gold...man.
Although Penny was 'out of it' in many ways, she was aware enough to moan in pleasure, to squeeze with the most powerful muscles I have ever felt 'inside her', and to get super hot. You can imagine my pride, joy, and relief to be going a mile a minute inside this nubile 20 year old vixen when I turned to my left and saw the owners of the trailer! Not just any visitors to Burning Man, they were coordinators that had been doing it for years. They were in their 60's, but to their credit, they looked like they were in their 80's. Ah, Burning Man...that healthy desert air and all.
As the old codgers looked on, they sat down as if we weren't there (!) and popped open a Malt liquor and a Pepsi. They both watched myself and Penny going at it as if it were part of the Burning Man show...and you know what...it WAS part of the show!
Well, the show must go on! I felt funny kissing a stranger and all, but I never finished love without a closing kiss. I kissed my dream girl and proceeded to pump seven loads of my potent seed deep inside her unprotected and presumably receptive womb.
After I finished, the two old codgers got up and applauded! The man slapped me on the back while his withered companion mussed my hair. They sat back down and let me dress. Penny was totally spent, between whatever she was on (might have been the powerful PCP, more likely LSD) and the sexual escapade. She would not budge and she would not talk. I looked in desperation to the old people and they said she could sleep it off right there. They encouraged me to go out and enjoy the festival. I thanked them and split. I felt terrible about leaving her, but she appeared to be in better hands there than with anyone else in that entire giant swath of desert.
I spent the entire next day, in desperation, walking the entire length and breadth of the festival. That night was going to be the highlight when they actually burnt the 'craven image', the burning man itself. I wasn't planning on 'hanging' that long. I finally caught a break when one of those clumps of like-minded freaks was doling out their entertainment (i.e. meds, or drugs if you prefer). I was no expert but it appeared to be speed of some sort.
As I turned away, I heard the last name of Tommy, my old opponent from high school.
I rushed back over to them, asking about that name. They thought I was a 'narc' (to use the outdated slang), a DEA agent or someone undercover. In desperation, I punted. I said: "Well, I don't need to buy from you; I can get Tommy's meth back on the road to LA."
One of them 'bought it'. The dude, maybe 35, six foot tall, maybe 140 lbs., said: "Hell, man, if you're going back to Bartow, then let me bum a ride off you."
I said: "It's a deal; tomorrow morning at 9am, I'll be right back here to get you. Don't want to miss the burning of the man, of course." (Sure, sure, as if I was going to wait another day in that place, or ride with a creep like you!)
I was rolling out of that place as soon as I checked on Penny. I went to that old trailer, where she was sitting, talking calmly, and coherently with the old couple. What happened next was odd. In high school, she wouldn't have taken the time to step on me. But here in the desert, having been dragged here by God knows who and strung out for two days, she was ecstatic to see a familiar face.
She leapt off the folding chair and kissed me, asking me: "when did you arrive? Are you with Angela?"
I gave her a hug, surprised that she didn't remember our 'tryst' the other day. I said: "Actually, I was hoping that YOU had some idea."
Penny: "Well, out here in the desert, no. I DO have her address in Bartow though." (my God, bull's eye!)
I said: "Well, if you want a ride there, let's roll."