It was getting dark when we settled in for a late meal in the diner next door -- another time capsule, this one more of a recreation than a restoration. I was feeling again like it really was 1964, and the late-model cars on the highway were the illusions.
"So, what do you like best about this era?" Aurora asked me at one point.
"The company," I answered, truthfully, before taking a bite of my burger.
"Sweet," she replied. "But, really."
So I waved my hand around the room while I chewed and swallowed, then said, "All this, really. This diner. That motel. The car. All the neon and the funky architecture. And then I think, you know, the space program,
The Right Stuff
, Kennedy... It just feels like everything was just bursting with confidence and potential."
"Potential is good," she mused.
"But it feels like I just missed it. Places like this have been 'nostalgic' our whole lives --
my
whole life; but being here today feels like we're there in the heyday. Before interstates come through here and these places are all replaced with Holiday Inns and Howard Johnsons."
Aurora nodded seriously. "Just like that movie,
Cars,
" she said. I had to look really hard to find the twinkle in her eye, then she finally broke down and burst into laughter.
Cars?
There's some classic cinema. My film studies major was teasing me about our age difference this time.
"So what
do
you remember from 1964?"
I shook my head. "I'm not quite that old. About the only thing I remember from 1964 was Felix the Cat."
She put her chin in her hands and looked at me seriously, and said, "Tell me about Felix the Cat."
I smiled and started to describe the black cartoon cat and his Bag of Tricks. I knew that exotic dancers are experts at pretending they find guys fascinating, but we were thirty-six hours into this wild hare of an adventure, and she still seemed to be having as much fun as I was.
***
Tonight would be our second night on the road.
I had never gone anywhere overnight with a woman before where the sleeping arrangements weren't already understood. In our whirlwind of planning for this trip, we hadn't addressed whether we were going to be intimate. I was afraid to assume, afraid to project a presumption, afraid to disrupt the fantasy. I still hadn't been convinced this was really happening until we had hit the road, right after she had put her hands over my eyes and told me that she was taking us to 1964.
It wasn't until we picked out a funky little motor court in southern Missouri that we confronted the issue. "One room or two?" I asked before heading in to the office to book accommodations.
"One room is fine," she had said, nonchalantly. "Two beds."
I nodded. I wasn't surprised, or overwhelmingly disappointed.
"Just because I make a living rubbing on strangers' cocks, doesn't mean I have sex on the first date," she told me later, in the room.
"Yeah, I was hoping you would notice I didn't make that assumption."
"I did. Good boy."
"I was thinking, though... this is a hell of a long first date. I was hoping we could look at this trip as, like, five dates in a row?"
"Clever," she said. "Well, we'll just have to see how those dates go."
She had came over to the chair where I was sitting and lowered herself onto my lap. She nuzzled my neck, and let me cuddle her, running my hands up and down her body. No more and no less than I had done many times before in the club; but this time the clock wasn't running. After dinner she climbed onto my bed and sat curled beside me while we watched some TV. Then we had each changed in the bathroom, and settled into our separate beds to sleep.
So, tonight as we got back to Room 8 after dinner, I was wondering how she felt about our "second date."
I took a quick rinse-off shower, my second of the night, to wash off the chlorine from our before-dinner swim, then put on a t-shirt and a pair of nylon running shorts and got into the bed on the left while Aurora went into the bathroom. I heard the sink running, but not the shower. After a few minutes she came out, brushing her over-the-shoulder curls, wearing a simple light blue cotton nightshirt that came halfway down her athletic thighs. She came over and sat on the edge of my bed.
"Still enjoying your fantasy road trip?" she asked.
"Uh huh," I said, wondering if I was about to be enjoying it a whole lot more.
"Sit up," she abruptly ordered. I scooted up higher in the bed so I was sitting with my back against the headboard. She smoothly swung a leg over me and straddled my lap, as she had done many times before in the club. But this time, I wasn't wearing slacks. There were only two layers of very thin cotton between my very aroused penis and the hidden lips of her sacrosanct vagina. I could feel her heat.
Suddenly she pulled her nightshirt up over her head, revealing the twin half-cantelopes of her breasts. They are actually on the small side for her frame, and they ride high and proud.
I felt myself getting hard inside my shorts, but bent sideways. She felt it too, no doubt, against her thigh, and briefly rose so my body could naturally readjust itself. Then she seated herself again.
I placed my hands on either side of her waist, and then gently moved them up to cup her breasts. Aurora, though, was in something more of an assertive mood, and she grabbed my head and pulled my lips to one of her stiffening pierced nipples. I gave it a couple of flicks with my tongue then closed my lips around it and and sucked.
"Taste anything different?" she asked.
"Yeah... chlorine."
We both laughed. "Oh, right," she replied, then wove her fingers deep into my hair and pulled me closer again. "I guess that swim washed off all the taste of Marlboros and Lone Star beer."
Oh. So we're playing that game, I thought. How, oh how, might the stale taste of cheap beer and cigarettes have been introduced to her decorated, pinkish-brown areola?