Rick was looking at the clock, ready to head home once he had closed up the store. He worked at his uncle's tractor supply store and had about 30 minutes left to go when he heard the front door open.
"Ugh, who is it now?" He said under his breath when he saw a familiar face. "Hey Gavin, what brings you in?" He asked, seeing his school buddy and his girlfriend Shadow.
He didn't know Shadow very well, but Gavin had been head over heels for her since they met. She mostly kept to herself, but there was a mysteriousness about her that even he was attracted to. She was very hot with long blonde hair, and most guys found themselves just staring at her, not even realizing they were doing it.
"Just figured we'd stop in and say hi. Her dad is thinking of getting chickens, so she wanted to look around." Gavin said.
"Gotcha, what's up, Shade?" she said, calling her by the nickname Gavin used on her.
"Hey, Rick, what's new?"
"Well, Leslie is finally moving in with me."
"Wow. That's awesome," Gavin said, congratulating his friend. "When she moving in?"
"Tonight she's been freaked out by stuff going on in her neighborhood, so it didn't take a lot of convincing."
"Wait, like what?" Shade asked with a serious look in her eye.
"What do you mean?" Rick asked.
"What kind of stuff is going on in her neighborhood?"
"Oh, they found two dead bodies in the woods behind her house, looked like they had been there a while, but she heard someone screaming for help last night."
Shadow looked at Gavin with widened eyes. She knew what had happened at Sasha's and that Nessira was looking for someone of her cursed bloodline who had become some sort of succubus-like creature. Something about this just set off a red flag in Shadow's mind before she took a deep breath and smiled.
"Well, in that case, it's good to always have protection," she said, dropping a condom on the counter.
"What the hell?" Rick said, looking at the wrapper. "Lilith's Erotic....... Wait, that's the place up on Raven Street, right? The old convenience store turned into a sex toy shop?"
"Yeah, her mom's the owner," Gavin said, rejoining the conversation.
"Oh wow, I've never been there. I asked Leslie if she wanted to check it out, but she didn't seem interested."
"Well, consider this a gift. We give them away all the time; it helps promote the store."
"Well, I used the brand name stuff myself."
"No," Shadow said, looking him in the eye. "You want to use this one; trust me."
"Woah, okay then," he said, putting it in his pocket. "Didn't realize you were so interested in my sex life."
"Hey, that's my girl you're talking to," Gavin said.
"Not what I meant at all; you know how I feel about Les. I mean, she's just....." he said as a smile came across his face. "Ahem, she's just the best."
"I get it, but trust Shade here. These things work wonders," Gavin said. "But it looks like it's almost closing time, so we won't hold you up. Maybe the four of us could hang out sometime after she's done moving in and everything."
