COLLEGE COEDS OF THE CORN
Part I: The Stradlin Massacre
The townspeople of Stradlin, Nebraska did not, at large, perceive the change when it happened, though there was one family in-particular on the edge of town who understood a change had occurred even if they did not understand the full extent of the moment's implications.
The family's youngest son, Isaac, had just turned eighteen. In fact, Isaac was the youngest person in the town that day, with the few younger people who called the small town of Stradlin home having gone to a Bible camp a few towns over less than a week earlier.
Thanks to this fortuitous confluence of events, Rebecca Chroner chose this day to walk down Main Street Stradlin with a heavy leather book cradled in her arms. Wearing a long black dress with a white bonnet that covered her black hair, Rebecca drifted silently up the sidewalk until she reached the Cornstalk CafΓ©. She paused by the window and turned to look in, a pious look on her face as she looked down her nose at the patrons inside.
Hank Letter was sitting in a booth with a clear view of Rebecca when she stopped outside the diner. The owner of Letter's General Store across the street, he frowned as she blocked his view of his store's front entrance, which he had been watching to look for any customers so that he could head across the street if and when he had to.
"There's that weird Chroner girl," Hank said with a shake of his head, looking back down at his plate and hoping she moved on quickly. "I do wonder what goes through that girl's odd little head."
Hank's daughter Rachel sat across from him, her dark hair tied up in a bun. She turned to look at Rebecca standing in the window, catching a slight nod aimed in her direction.
"Excuse me, daddy," Rachel said, wiping her mouth with her napkin. "I've got to use the bathroom."
"You wanna use the one over in the store?" Hank asked, gesturing with his fork past Rebecca.
Looking over her shoulder again, Rachel noticed someone walk into her father's store and said, "Actually, sure. I'll be right back."
Rachel stood up and exited the diner, nodding quickly at Rebecca before crossing the street towards her father's store.
A few moments after she had left the diner, the front door opened again and five young women entered. When Hank looked up he immediately figured them for a few girls from over at Bachman University, the girl's college on the other side of Richard Stevenson's farm.
When his daughter had graduated high school two years earlier she'd gone straight to helping work Letter's General Store in addition to nannying for a couple whose kids were currently away at Bible camp, so it didn't occur to Hank to associate the girls gathering at the front of the diner with his daughter. This disconnect made it easier for him to slyly appreciate the sight of the out-of-towners in their variety of tight gym shorts and tighter jeans over the lip of his coffee mug despite the fact that not one of them could be any older than his own daughter.
The girls paused by the entrance, looking around the diner at everyone gathered inside. After a moment, one of them leaned her head out the door, made a gesture, and a sixth girl came walking in a few seconds later.
As they took their seats at a table by the entrance, Hank got a brief look at his daughter walking into his store.
Bathroom's not a bad idea,
he thought to himself as he lost sight of her. He stood up and headed towards the back of the diner, thoughts still tending towards the gaggle of unfamiliar girls behind him.
Wonder how many lesbos that school's makin',
he wondered, casting the prime examples in the Cornstalk CafΓ© into his pillow-fighting, soft-lighting, pant-tightening fantasy as he went into the men's room.
He flushed a little as he undid his zipper, tugging his half-hard penis out and looking around as though there could be anyone hiding in the tiny bathroom who'd catch him being a bit of a perverted old man.
Forty-one ain't that old,
he told himself, his slight erection fading as he did what he'd come back there to do.
Could still show those lesbos a good time. I'll just have to satisfy myself with the straight-as-can-be missus when I get home tonight.
Hank was just about to put himself away when the door opened behind him. His heart twisted for a second, as though it was someone who somehow knew what he'd been thinking while he was busy being an old pervert alone in the bathroom coming back there to call him out. He steadied himself, shaking his softening self as he turned to look over his shoulder--
--directly at one of the college girls standing with her back to the bathroom door, staring straight at him.
"Jee-zus!" Hank hissed, nearly shouting but not wanting for people to come running to see what was going on. He hurried to tuck himself into his pants, adding, "Wuddya think you're doin in here?"
"I came for
that,