Thunder rumbled a distinct purr in the distance, and the heavy smell of rain snuffed a corner of the sun before it emerged again.
"Promise I won't be scared?" Charlotte implored around the grind of her heel into the dying summer grass. Her white sneakers flashed a blinding reflective blue over the spindly yellow like pulsating alien landing lights coaxing it to grow.
"Would *I* lead you into something scary?" Tom protested, patting his girlfriend's meaty cocoa-hued forearm.
Her mouth opened.
"...err don't answer that," he interrupted.
The sun withered over Evan, (pronounced Ee-von), Iowa's garden park, forfeiting its characteristic gold to the sky. -Breathtaking gold, the color of a baby Jesus halo resting on the puffy softness of blanket white clouds or hot popcorn in a red basket. Still higher, the blue of His Father's eyes flitted over the stoic face of the crumbling Sunnyville Rehabilitation Home and watched as chubby fingers nudged a spiral of silvery-blonde bangs from his girlfriend's eyes. Blonde. Red. Brown. Black. Red. Blonde. Black. The girl had more colors than the panoramic exhibits themselves.
"Where's everyone else?" she cooed, nudging her white canvas skirt and belt down tight around her wide hips. Childbearing hips.
He licked his lips and looked back at the sky. A sickle moon peeked like an obscured needle through cerulean eyes. "John and Jerry will be here soon. Nothin' starts til it's dark anyways."
"Dark huh?" she purred, glancing at the tree-laden fringes around the open green field.
His attention snapped back and audibly sighed as her hand covered his thigh then squeezed. Tom draped his full six-foot frame against the electrical box, hording its warmth in the treeless area as the last rays of summer sun beat on his red-stubbled skull. Her form slid like a bulky stream of misdirected water, and Charlotte's fingers made fast work of his loose jeans, wriggling them open enough to access his boxers. Her hot tongue plastered them to his pale muscular thighs, tongue flicking the comfort button back and forth before opening it.