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I hate this drive, the long stretches of straight road. I have been here a dozen times β the road from my family in Adelaide, to my life in Sydney. Two days of highway and a night lying awake in a musty caravan with a set of double lines running endlessly behind my eyelids. It is hot. Despite my short cotton skirt and singlet, I feel uncomfortable, my thighs sticking to the vinyl. I switch stations and start to sing. The rhythm propels me forward, through miles. Soon I must stop for the night.
There is an object up ahead. Not moving. There is usually nothing on this section of the road, except perhaps the occasional cockatoo feeding on the grass seeds at its bitumen edges. The object is closer now. I can see its outline. It's a man. A man with a head of dark curly hair and eyes so brown I can tell their colour as I pass by. Did he have his hand out? I think he did, and his thumb. He's a hitchhiker. I hit the brakes.
I can see him running now, the straps of his backpack swinging out across his broad shoulders. I wonder why he is out here, if he is dangerous. He smiles at me and I shiver, his teeth shine between full lips in the afternoon sun. He has smooth dark skin, a build that suggests fitness and an outdoor life. He opens the rear door and tosses his pack onto the back seat. Before I know it, he is sitting beside me, his shorts wrinkled around his groin, the golden hairs on his thigh tickling my forearm.
I release the handbrake and move my hand back to the steering wheel. He smells faintly of soap and although I am concentrating on the road, I can tell that he is watching me. My nipples are hardening beneath the damp material of my singlet.
It is night now and he has agreed, in his exotic accent (Spanish I think) to rest till morning. We take a detour on a dirt road and he has pitched his tent on the river bank. We are sitting by a fire on a blanket, and he smiles provocatively at me over his dinner.