It was Friday! A few errands had delayed Tom's leaving Casper, Wyoming and heading for Wendover, Nevada and a hot weekend of sex, fun, gambling, and more sex in the Casinos with Brenda, a lady friend he had known for years. This was going to be a long weekend. He had taken Monday and Tuesday off too, just to make sure he had enough time with Brenda. They had been meeting there in February for the last few years. Tom intended to get there a day early this year and get a little gambling in ahead of time and more than anything, get out of town and way from his job and other hassles.
Unfortunately the few last minute errands had taken longer than expected. Now it was going to be very late by the time he got to Wendover. There was also the small matter of a winter storm that was rolling in from the west. He was still hoping to get to Wendover before the driving conditions got too bad, but this late start was making that look more and more like wishful thinking. He had made pretty good time between Casper and Rawlins in spite of the road not being a freeway. There were a few flakes of snow in the air already and the sky was getting darker. Tom was about to take the on ramp onto Interstate 80 when he saw an attractive woman standing by the road trying to hitch a ride. She looked cold and miserable standing there with her suitcase and her thumb in the air. The cars ahead of him had passes her by. Tom decided to stop for her. Normally he wouldn't stop for a hitchhiker, but she simply looked too pathetic to just leave there. Besides, he was a real sucker when it came to good looking women.
He rolled down the passenger's side window as she approached the car. "I'm going as far as Wendover if I make it that far in this weather." he told her.
"I'm going to California." she said, but I'll take you up on a ride that far anyway."
"Okay," he said, "why don't you just put your suitcase on the back seat?"
"Thanks." She opened the rear door and put her suitcase on the seat and then got in the front. "Thanks for the ride." she said as he started up the ramp and onto the freeway.
"I'm Tom." he said.
"Nice to meet you Tom, I'm Sabrina."
"Nice to meet you too Sabrina. I'm trying to make Wendover before this storm makes driving impossible. Keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't get too bad.
"It doesn't look too good. I guess I picked a bad day to travel."
"So you are going to California huh? Do you live out there?"
"No, I'm from Lamont, just back up the road a piece. I'm moving out to California to stay with a cousin until I can get a job and get my own place. She lives in San Diego. And thanks for stopping for me. I was freezing my butt off out there."
"You looked pretty miserable standing there. What made you decide to move out to California?"
"Have you ever been to Lamont?" she asked.
"Well, yea. I drove through it on my way from Casper."
"Apparently you didn't blink then. It is a very small town and I was going nowhere there. I was waiting tables at a restaurant and sharing a trailer with another girl who also worked in the same restaurant. I just had to get out. I called my cousin in San Diego and asked her if I could come and stay with her until I found a job and could get my own place. She said she didn't have a spare bedroom but I could sleep on the couch if I was desperate enough; I am."
"You are moving and all you have is one suitcase?"
"That gives you an idea of just how bad things were getting."
The snow continued to fall as he drove and talked to Sabrina. By the time they got to Rock Springs the snow was sticking to the road and the road was beginning to get slick. He had to slow down and he knew that it was going to take a lot longer to get to Wendover; if he made it there tonight at all. As they came out of the tunnels just west of Green River, there were two trucks in the ditch, apparently having jack-knifed on the slick road.
"I don't think I am going to make Wendover tonight." he told her. "It's getting dark and all this snow is making driving much more tonight a very risky venture. Going over the Wasatch Mountains in this wouldn't be a bright idea. I think I am going to bag it for the day and get a room in Little America."
"It looks pretty bad out there." she said with a very disappointed voice. "I guess I will just hole up in the coffee shop there and wait for morning. I can't begin to afford a room."
"Look, I know we have only known each other for all of two hours, but if you want, you can share the room with me. No strings attached. I'll even buy you dinner. Most of those rooms have two beds in them. You can even have your own bed." She was cute and he hoped she would take him up on the offer. It would sure beat spending the time alone with nothing but a television and a Gideon's Bible!
"No strings huh?"
"Nope. None at all. I'll even make sure I get a room with two beds in it. Uh that is, if they have any. If they don't I guess what you do will be up to you. I don't know how you would feel about sharing a bed with a man you have only known for all of two hours, but we can cross that bridge if we come to it."
"Well," Sabrina said with a sigh, "that would be very nice. I do kinda like you and it was very nice of you to give me a ride. I would hate to impose on you. Are you sure you wouldn't mind?"
"Nope, not at all. Let's just hope they have rooms." he said as they pulled into Little America. Stopping here seemed to be a popular idea. There were a large number of cars in the parking lot.
Tom went into the hotel lobby and checked on a room for the night. They were filling up fast. The clerk was very sorry, but they had no rooms left with two twin beds. All they had was two left with single king-sized beds. Tom got one of those rooms before they disappeared.
"Good news and bad news." he told her as he got back to the car. "The good news is that I got a room. If we had been another five minutes getting here we would both be holed up in the coffee shop."
"And the bad news is that there is only one bed right?"
"You got it. I'm sorry. There were only two rooms left and that's what they came with." She might have considered that bad news. At the moment he didn't. Sharing a bed with a good looking woman didn't strike him as a bad thing. He just hoped she was willing to go for it. He held his breath as she hesitated before she answered.
