Copyright Neonurotic, August 2011
The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons.
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Ryan Grant and his friend Scott walked into The Peach, a tiny country bar outside of Rome, Georgia. They'd just quite literally returned from hell, where Scott spent one day's worth of torture to Ryan's two weeks with his asshole of an uncle, Nathaniel. Although he gave a valiant effort, he failed miserably trying to bring reconciliation between his father and uncle since their bitter feud had lasted long enough. His father, the elder of the Grant brothers, had developed a terminal illness and wanted to make peace before he died.
While it was true that Ryan hardly knew Nathaniel, his father still thought he would be the best mediator, even though it had been seventeen years since he'd seen his uncle. His father's assumptions about Nathaniel, how no one would really turn away family with news of a dying relative and their last wishes were hugely wrong. Turned away, he was, and quite callously so.
Throughout the family talks, he said nothing in defense to his uncle's verbal abuse or the misdirected rants about his father. He knew it should've been Nathaniel attempting to settle differences. The feud was due to his uncle's affair with his mother, destroying his parent's marriage. All and all, the visit had been an utter waste of time. There wasn't going to be a happily-ever-after for the two brothers; the intervention failed simply because Nathaniel was a cruel self-serving bastard. He concluded that whatever went around, came around and bit his uncle on the ass, his uncle was surely deserving of such cold desserts.
The stay with Nathaniel was initially supposed to have been a week long, "getting to know you" sort of experience with his long lost uncle, but it turned into fourteen miserable days with a man he grew to despise. On the day he was to return home, his vintage, Jeep decided to develop ignition problems and since the car was old, parts were hard to come by. Now stranded and wanting to get as far away from his uncle as possible, he ended up having to wait for his friend Scott, a mechanic, to bail him out of hell. Luckily, his friend came to his aid immediately after attaining the ancient parts for his vehicle.
Once inside the country tavern, the drinks ordered at the bar and received, Ryan scanned the room to find a table. The bar was full, but he found a lone table in the middle of the crowded room.
This must be the only bar in this shit town, Ryan thought sourly,
eying the locals.
The two made their way, weaving precariously between the other tables with drinks in hand and took a seat, both groaning heavily. In unison, they kicked up their boots; heels thudded on top of the spare wooden chairs at their table. Ryan leaned forward and accidentally put his arm in a puddle of spilled beer. Muttering a "g'dammit", he wiped his elbow while he glared at the rickety table. It was clear that it had seen many drunken nights, with its cigarette burn marks and wet glass ring stains.
Annoyed, mopping the beer off the table with a stack of napkins, Ryan said, "Listen man, I'm real sorry about you having to come down here and ruining your whole frigging weekend." He apologized to his life long friend, feeling beat down as he hadn't spoken to his father yet about the outcome of his visit with Nathaniel, a talk he wasn't looking forward to. "But I'm glad you came."
"You, I bet." Scott grinned. "No problem dude, at least we can see why the asshole's wife left him."
"No fucking shit. What's funnier than hell is that cold bastard was actually surprised, even heartbroken when she left him." Ryan grinned back, watching Scott sip a weird local cocktail that looked like a pink girly-drink to him and he mentioned as such to his friend.
"Aw, fuck you jackass." Scott laughed, pretending to be put off by Ryan's comments.
"It's the truth, just wanted to warn you that you look entirely too femme drinking that." Ryan laughed because it really was quite hilarious imagining the Mission Beach muscle-head in drag. "Drink up, sweet pea, and I'll buy you another."
Scott made a 'fuck you' hand gesture.
Eyes roving the bar, Ryan quickly cased the room and spied a group of women playing a game of electronic darts. The machines were noisy with them hitting bull's eye with nearly every hit. The women were laughing, having a good time, and were giving Ryan and Scott the once over too. All of them looked at the very least half-drunk if not smashed.
"Hey man, don't you just love it when women make you feel like they're copping you a feel with their eyes?" he smirked.
Scott nodded, indicating that he knew the girls were doing just that. "Do you think that's copping a feel? It feels more like rape to me." After draining the rest his drink, he licked his lips. "Guess I'll have to do something about that." He grinned as he got up from the table and went back to the bar to order another drink.
Out of the group of women, Ryan noticed one particular hot Georgian peach dressed in a short skirt and a red t-shirt, two sizes too small that showed off her sexy curves perfectly. He made eye contact with her, she smiled, whispered to her girlfriends, and the group of women giggled back at him. Scott returned with a pitcher of his girly type drink, a bottle of tequila, and a couple more beers.
"No way," Ryan made a play of resistance on seeing the tequila. "Dude, I'm not drinking Jose tonight." He groaned, remembering the last time he drank shots until he couldn't stand.
Snorting as if he heard the most ludicrous thing ever, his friend poured a couple of shots of the tequila. "It isn't all for you jackass, it's for the ladies over there too."
Ryan leered, shot one of the Jose's and chased it with the cold Mexican beer then shuddered from the bite of the tequila. The reason for the wicked grin was he recalled his friend's "Drunk Ass Test", which required consuming copious amounts of the liquor. Scott's theory, a principle that Ryan wholeheartedly agreed with, was one of three personalities intoxicated off tequila. You'd be a mean ass drunk, a silly ass drunk, or an easy ass drunk. Scott and he both being silly asses preferred the female type silly asses. Easy asses were the ultimate piece of ass, but never ever the mean ass, for obvious reasons why not.
"All righty, lady killer, go slay them." Ryan snickered.
Scott rolled his eyes and grunted. "Get off your lazy ass. I'm not doing all the work here."
Ryan feigned an exasperated sigh, got up, and drank the last shot of liquor. "Fine, I'm going to get silly then."
"Going to get? You are already are."
Ryan picked up the bottle tequila and gestured to his friend with it, indicating it was Scott's fault.
"You would've fucking whined if I hadn't given you any."
Scott was right about that. Making a show of it by twisting Ryan's arm into drinking it made it easier, since they both knew he'd eventually end up being stupid with tequila. Even then, he could always charm the pants right off the ladies with his sweet-talking, So-Cal, surfer accent that only made its appearance when he was drunk.
Scott coolly swaggered over to the ladies with Ryan in tow. Georgian smiles greeted them.
"Hey there ladies, I'm Scott and this here is my friend Ryan. We're a couple of Cali boys." He smiled broadly, as the women in turn, made their introductions.
The girl whom he eyed earlier like candy, smiled invitingly to Ryan. Up close, he unconsciously zoned in on her, as she was indeed a very hot juicy peach. Honey blonde hair framed her pretty heart-shaped face with a smattering of freckles across her pert nose. He flashed the Peach his best lopsided 'fuck me', the smile that earned him many a one night stands.
"I'm Kristina."
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Kristina gave her hand to Ryan, which took in such a way that no one could say it was a mere handshake; it was a lightening bolt that felt like hours of sweaty hot sex. Instant chemistry had her smiling, flirting with him without words. His vivid blue eyes lit up—maybe he felt it too?
And good lord, he's beautiful,
she thought weak-kneed, and wanting him in a bad way. She was such a slut. She knew it was cliché to think, 'love at first sight' but it certainly felt that way. She then recovered and gathered her wits about her.
Lust at first sight, silly and Christ...horniness too!
Having not felt that way in quite awhile, she forgot what being horny was like. It had been much too long since she last had sex. To be exact, eighteen months, five days and several hours too many since the last she was properly laid. The thought of sex and the heat of his hand holding hers made her panties wet. Sopping was more accurate as the wetness spread quickly and actually dripped down the inside of her thighs.
"It's nice to see you Californian boys up here in my Peach."
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Huh? Not yet, but I will be . . . uh, the bar dummy, the bar.
"Oh, you meant this bar, The Peach." Ryan finally got what she meant; she wasn't referring to her pussy. "Well, not just yet, but maybe soon enough." He said, under his breath.
Kristina's eyes gleamed.