"Are you serious?" Michelle gasped. Michelle and Agnes worked side by side that next morning. She had told her friend about James's lustful advances though her reaction was less excited. They were taking a smoke break outside the diner by the dumpster sitting on old plastic lawn chairs that were older than they were.
"What?" Agnes became defensive.
"I'm just shocked that you would let him just finger bang you outside your house," Michelle insisted. "What if your mom saw you?"
"No one was home," Agnes explained, her cheeks flushed with irritation. "Though the dreams..."
"What dreams?"
Agnes took a long drag of her cigarette. She had often tried to quit but then a few years ago gave up on giving up. Bring on the cancer. She couldn't masturbate her stress away. Agnes would get carpal tunnel by the time she was 30. Smoking was a better option.
After taking a relaxing exhale, watching the toxic smoke cloud over head Agnes told Michelle about her erotic yet violent sex dreams about James Abel. After she had finished Michelle was silent. Usually Michelle would be more vocal about Agnes's wet dreams but this one left her still which was more disturbing.
"What's wrong?" Agnes couldn't take the silence anymore. "Aren't you going to say something like 'Damn, girl, you're into S&M?' or something?"
Michelle put out her cigarette, her olive green eyes dimmed. The color had suddenly drained from her face when she said, "That ritual totally worked."
"Oh come on," Agnes rolled her eyes. "Sex dreams don't mean anything."
"Think about it! We do that sex ritual and the next day some hot guy shows up."
"Michelle..."
"When has a hot guy ever come in to Paradise Falls? The good ones always get out of here the minute they graduate."
Michelle had a point. Deep down Agnes knew she was right but she wouldn't say it out loud. Sometimes Agnes was more like her mother than she cared to admit. Like Mary, Agnes would deny the truth of things even when confronted with all the facts.
"I don't know if we summoned him or not but those dreams might be a warning," Michelle stood up, brushing some stray ashes from her waitress uniform. "I'm going back in. I'll do some research about this ritual we did after work. Just promise me you'll stay away from Pastor Abel until I figure this out."
Agnes felt numb inside at the idea of staying away from this sexy, hot, mysterious guy that gave shattering orgasms both in her dreams and when she was awake. Nevertheless, Agnes nodded in agreement. When Michelle walked into the diner, Agnes's hand went to her chest where the hand print was left by that shadowy figure. That entire area of flesh was like pins and needles. Those pins and needles sank below the skin piercing her heart. The cigarette smoke writhed as it rose from the burning embers.
Agnes couldn't bring herself to reveal the whole truth. That Agnes enjoyed it when James attacked her. The way he took her also with tenderness. It was sick to admit that she loved the violence. She loved the dark feelings James aroused deep within her. There was a tether between them.
An unbreakable chain that may choke the life out of her but she was slowly suffocating for a long time before James. Dying a slow death of every day mundane life with the people of her life like little parasites that sucked her dry. James was like a savior to Agnes. But Michelle was her best friend. She would at least try to keep her promise.
***
Sadly Agnes couldn't keep her promise. Mary had invited Pastor James Abel to dinner. Sunday dinner with Agnes's whole messed up family. She would rather have nailed her tongue to the tree outside and wait for lightning to strike. Yet Agnes wanted to see James again.
"Agnes?" Charlie knocked.
"I need your opinion," Agnes let Charlie in, hurrying him inside. She held up two dresses. Both were modest. The red one though allowed for some cleavage while the other was a yellow dress that made her feel like she was 10 years old.
"Red is your color," Charlie scratched his chin.
"You think I should add that golden cross? It is the Pastor and all."
Charlie raised an eyebrow in amusement.
"What?"
"You've been really weird lately," Charlie accused his older sister.
"What do you mean?"
"Like you're having scandalous sex," Charlie tilted his head. "Or are you just masturbating everywhere..."
"That's gross. I'm going with the red one." Agnes threw on the red dress that made her breasts so round and appetizing. She also added a simple Christian gold cross. The cross rest snuggly between her ample cleavage.
Charlie shrugged then plopped onto Agnes's bed flipping through a trashy magazine that was at least 2 months old. They never got much Us Weekly in Paradise Falls but Louis's wife Carol loved to bring some to show the Miltons what the outside world was doing. Charlie fixated on a page with a shirtless Hugh Jackman at the beach.
"I'll find out," Charlie winked. "You'll see."
***
Mrs. Vanhorn was watching TV. She loved to watch FOX news like it was a new gospel of truth. The rest of them helped decorate the long table with fine china that Mary only put out for very special guests like Louis. Frank couldn't keep his mouth from salivating over Agnes's ample breasts as they budded out of her red sun dress. Mary gave Agnes one of her famous nasty looks of "Really? You're wearing that, slut?" as Frank leered at her with more gross intensity that made Agnes want to puke.
Usually they would have a screaming match about it but the Pastor came early. But Agnes could already feel his presence before he rang the bell. She was getting used to the burning hand print as if it were just 20 mosquito bites. Still irritating but not as painful as a burning iron.
"Pastor Abel!" Mary squealed like a child at the sight of their new Pastor who wore casual clothes. Just a pair of blue jeans, a navy blue shirt and a black dinner jacket. Agnes actually winced with embarrassment. Agnes watched Carol's face redden at James's touch. Carol was Louis's vain wife. Agnes suspected that Carol flirted on a regular basis and perhaps did more than flirt... She married Agnes's brother the minute Louis won the lottery. Carol wanted to wear all the designer brands to show off her wealth.
Then James's eyes settled on Agnes. Those dark pools raked across Agnes's body sending delicious chills climbing up her spine. That scene in the car still played freshly in her mind.
"What a lovely dress, Agnes," James smiled broadly. "Red is your color. Goes with those dark indigo eyes of yours. And the cross..." James touched the cross, feeling it between his two fingers admiring the golden sheen. Agnes's heart fluttered as she felt James's hand brush her skin. A surge of electricity surged through her making Agnes's heart jolt with new life.
James took Agnes's hands into his looking deep into her eyes, her very soul. Agnes felt weak in the knees. No one else mattered until Mary gave a loud cough wanting attention turned back to her.
"Let's sit down and eat," she said.
Frank glared at James as the Pastor offered Agnes his arm.
"Milady," he joked. Agnes chuckled.
"Handsome and funny," she said. "God doesn't make them like you anymore."
"Absolutely not," James winked.
***
They all sat down to dinner with James sitting right next to Agnes. Louis's 4 brats sat at the kids table throwing food at each other getting it on the floor more than on each other. Just as they were saying grace, everyone bowing their heads Agnes felt James's warm strong hand on her thigh, messaging it making her nipples harden and her cunt moisten. He wasn't bold enough to do this again? But the idea was exciting. Perhaps Michelle was right. Inside Agnes was a exhibitionist.
After they said grace, James didn't move to stop. He kept messaging her thigh sending waves of pleasure to Agnes's pussy.
"I wish Louis lived in town but he's a business man," Mary boasted of her golden boy. "He needs to go where the action is."