Author's notes:
Note 1 - All characters in this story are 18 years of age, or older.
Note 2 - IMPORTANT!!! This story starts... with an actual story. So, if you crave a bit of sapphic tension to get your blood moving, start at the beginning. If you're trying to nut off, start in the middle.
Note 3 - A lot of the following is true, true enough that I've really enjoyed this stroll down memory lane. With my hand up my dress.
Hope you get that O,
Elysia
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Mark Gibbly sat across the picnic table from us pushing his skater hair back from his eyes. He must have done this a hundred times in that ten-minute stretch, and it always fell right back in. Maggie was smoking and picking at her fishnets. Me? I was holding my copy of The Dragonlance Chronicles to my boobs like a shield. Maggie had convinced me to wear a white crop top with suspenders instead of a bra. There might as well have been holes cut for my nips, all the good my shirt did hiding them.
The summer after senior year was pretty wild. Most of my friends calmed down by the time we graduated, and in the summer settled into work and preparation for college. I had been a goody-goody all through high school. At my wildest, I let my long distance boyfriend suck on my tits in his backseat and had one or two sips of mom's cooking sherry. Now, with two months to go until I jetted off to a prominent engineering college, I was panicked that I hadn't made more than three core memories. My yearbook was full of have-a-great-summers and phone numbers... I should mention I had turned pretty shortly after my 18th birthday, and I was being hit on so aggressively that I'd taken introversion to a new level.
Of all the numbers I received, Maggie Weatherby's phone number was the only one I called, and I'll tell you why. Maggie had NOT settled. She was just as goth at graduation as she had been since middle school. She was smart, too. Devil horns and an wagging tongue closed her salutatorian speech to tumultuous applause from the graduates and polite palm tapping from the adults.
I don't know why she gave me her phone number. "Summers are boring. Wanna hang out? Call me." I wasn't on her radar. I was on no one's radar as anything other than a rack and an ass. The comments I received at school pretty much assured that. When Maggie offered to hang, the call of adventure was shrill in my ears.
So there we were, middle of July, afternoon sun deepening Mark's farmer tan, and Maggie still looked bored. I'm sure I was a disappointment to her. Yet, Maggie was still hanging out with me, even though I'd declined to participate in most of the things she wanted to do. Most of her ideas sounded more like jail time than a good time, but I didn't mind being near her when she did crazy shit. Maybe she just wanted the audience to carry her stories into the world. (Sometime, I should tell you about the convenience store grift of early June.)
Maggie cut Mark's story right down the middle. "Dude, I'm losing wood. No one gives a shit about aggressive skate wheels. You said you had intel on the thing."
"You said you'd..." Mark's words fizzled out as he glanced at me.
Maggie rolled her eyes. "I'm not going to go down on you if the details don't turn out. If I get mine, then you get yours."
If I could have willed the blood out of my cheeks, I would have, but I'm sure I was red from ear to ear.
Mark cleared his throat. "Alright, so I didn't check it myself, but Dan Kraditz's older brother swears it's real, and that guy has smuggled blow in his asshole before."
Maggie groaned. "How is this even relevant?"
"He has no reason to lie about this, is all I'm saying."
"So? Where is it?"
"Um," I said, lifting a hand. "What are we talking about?" Usually I keep my mouth shut and let Maggie's deals run their course, but I was getting stir crazy without context.
Mark looked at me with narrowed eyes and then looked at Maggie. "Is she cool?"
"Jesus fucking Christ, Mark!" shouted Maggie, swinging her leg over the bench. She was on her feet in a second. "Of course she's fucking cool? Would I hang with a loser? Look at her tits! Do losers have tits like that? If you don't know anything, just say so and stop wasting everyone's fucking time!"
"Alright! Alright. Whatever, this farmer dude has all the land between the cemetery and Middle Road, and it's out there in the middle."
Maggie took a drag on her cigarette and threw it onto the pavement as she sat back down. "Catholic?"
"What?"
"The cemetery, dude."
"Presbyterian," he said. "I think. I don't fucking know! It's the big one up by the machine shop. With the little dead people houses."
"Mausoleums," I said.
Mark's brows knit together, and Maggie smirked at me. "Yeah, that's the one. Okay, all that land back there is like, a dozen football fields and a whole lot of trees, so you gotta do better than 'in the middle somewhere'."
"Take the railroad tracks up to the creek, then follow the creek up through the corn. Dan's brother said it's along the tree line, if it hasn't collapsed yet."
"Perfect," said Maggie standing. She grabbed my hand to help me up, and I nearly fumbled my shield, I mean book.
"Hey!" said Mark. "When are you going out there?"
"Why do you care?" asked Maggie.
"Well, when am I going to get my... you know?"
"Oh right," said Maggie. "Do you have a pussy?"
"Fuck no," said Mark. "I gotta dick, a huge one. Er, a reasonable one."
"Aw, that's too bad," said Maggie. "I only go down on pussy. I thought I was pretty clear about that."
"What the fuck, Weatherby!" said Mark, climbing up and over the table. He was lanky, but he was shredded and towering over us. It was a bit intimidating. "I did all the work. What am I gonna get out of this?"
Maggie held up her pack of cigs. "You smoke?"
"One of you bitches had better suck my cock." At this, Mark knocked the book out of my hand. "Or I'm gonna..."
He didn't finish. Maggie cracked her knuckles, wound up, and in rapid succession jabbed Mark Gibly in the throat and then the nose. The blood spurt made me light-headed.
"How about this?" said Maggie as Mark stumbled and moaned and cried. "As payment, I won't tell anyone how you broke your fucking nose."
"Fuck you!" Mark shouted into his hands, blood pouring down his skate or die shirt. "Fucking bitch! Whore bitch! Cock tease cunt!"
"Your creativity is noted," said Maggie. She picked up my book, handed it back to me, and curled my arm into hers. "Come on."
"Shouldn't we like... call an ambulance or something?"
"What?" said Maggie, tugging me away from the baseball complex and toward her beat up Lincoln in the parking lot. "He looks better now. And he can tell everyone it was a skating accident. His friends will eat that shit up. That's the real payment here."
"But like," I said, "where are we going? What's special about an old barn?"
Maggie stopped and looked me in the eye. "If I tell you, you're going to chicken out. Do you want to have an adventure that won't hurt anyone with minimal chance of being arrested?"
"Define minimal."
"Trust me," she said. "Do you trust me?"
My eyes narrowed, but I smiled anyway.
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We stopped back at the house for bottle waters - Maggie pounded two - and Lunchables, and I changed into a plain teeshirt (with a bra) and soccer shorts and from my thong sandals into cross trainers. Maggie was good in her Converse All-stars, fishnets, short skirt, and black button-up. She looked hot. No, like, temperature hot. But her black lipstick and eye makeup might as well be on at midnight for all she seemed affected by the July sun.
We parked up near the older headstones where no one visits and made our way down along the ornate iron fence to where the train tracks crossed the drive into the cemetery. From there, the ballast crunched underfoot as we headed away from civilization.
"You got me out here," I said.
"Yeah?"
"So?" I said. "What's special about the barn?"
Maggie's mouth quirked at one corner, her cute little dimple making an appearance. "Do you like pirates?"
"If you don't want to answer the question..."
"Seriously," she said, hopping onto the nearest rail and maintaining effortless balance. "What's the best thing about pirates?" Her black-nailed hands folded at the small of her back, just above her pert ass.
"The sea is their mistress," I said.
"Ew! No!" shouted Maggie. "They fuck the whores in port, and the sea is a slut. The best thing about pirates is their fucking treasure! Say you understand!"
I giggle and immediately regret it. When Maggie gets worked up, the flutter in my tummy makes it hard not to find her adorable. This is not ideal when she's trying to appear fierce. Or breaking some asshole's nose. I straighten my expression and clear my throat. "The best thing about pirates is treasure."
"I'm glad you think so, I quite agree. Now, the thing people don't consider about pirates is, the successful ones began to amass riches, but they're fucking pirates, so they don't have any place to cash in. They just keep getting richer and can't do shit with it. And it wasn't abnormal for captains to pass on their hoard after their deaths, generation to generation to generation to generation..."
"Didn't pirates really do their thing from 1650 for like... another 75, 80 years?"
"Dude."
"I'm just saying, how many generations could there have been?"
"You're killing my story, you fucking nerd."
"Said the Salutatorian."
To which Maggie glared at me.
"I apologize," I said. "Please resume."
"So like... pirates added to their hoard by passing their maps on to the next pirate they'd chosen, and that captain would add to the hoard, and then that captain would pass on the map and so on. You still with me?"