I feel him watching me... A steely gaze through a thick mist. The stare makes me strangely aware of every inch of my body... Tingling... Pulsing. I find myself immobilized by those dark grey eyes.... am I truly still? I feel a pulling... a tugging as the distance between us begins evaporating. I'm moving towards him... Or into him. Something in those eyes... menacing, dark, demanding, and something else... Wanting? I can't escape, nor do I want to. Those eyes... staring... staring...
***
An abrupt bump jostles me, bumping my head against the window. My lashes flutter; eyes fly open to look straight into the eyes of a man. These eyes are not the eyes from my dream. They are dull, void, fixated, and belong to a rather shabbily dressed man. He sits in the bus seat adjacent, with one leg slung into the aisle. Straddling the corner of the seat, he leans forward and places his hands on either side of my mine.
He looks me up and down. I quickly adjust my posture and turn to face the front of the bus. I attempt to appear unshaken and quickly look out the window.
"Your one'em Amish aren't ya?" the man slurred. A strange, unpleasant, soured smell came from his mouth as he spoke.
"Yes sir." were the only words I could manage. My throat seemed rather tight.
"Yeah, yeah... I could tell. You got that funny damned thing on your head. I can't stand you Amish. You know, I used to be a carpenter? Yeah, and I made a pretty damn good livin' for myself! Til' you Amish started under biddin' all my jobs. Yeah... Ole' Uncle Sam don't make you pay as much...."
The man's voice starts getting louder. I try to keep my gaze fixed forward, my knees start shaking. I notice the bus driver glancing in the big mirror above his head, his eyebrows drawn together over his cornflower blue eyes. The bus stops, the man is still mumbling and cussing.
"Joe! Hey man! It's your stop, so get your ornery butt off the bus and leave the poor girl alone." The driver smiles with his eyes but his mouth remained stern.
"Bradley man... I was just tryin' to have a simple conversation," Joe explained.
"Yeah well you're scaring the living daylights out of her! You should be ashamed of yourself!"
Looking, Joe sees my wide eyes and trembling hands. "Sorry miss, no harm meant or nothin'.'"
I manage a nod. Joe makes his haphazard way down the aisle and all but falls out the doors. I looked up at the kind eyes in the mirror and smiled.
"Th-thank you," I stuttered as the bus doors closed and the vehicle crawled into motion.
The smile reached his mouth revealing straight rows of white teeth. He was a very attractive young man, actually. He had short brown hair, a clean shaven square jaw and very friendly eyes.
"Miss, can I ask you a question?"
He startled me with his abrupt question. I was able to mumble, "Y-yes you may".
"Well," he started, "Judging by the fact that you are even on this modern-day contraption called a bus, I'm assuming your off the reservation... So.... the question is what are you planning to do?"
Off the reservation? I wasn't quite sure what that meant but I imagined he meant that I had left my family. Should I answer this man? I considered for a moment and determined I didn't have much to lose. He seemed kind enough to me.
"Well, Sir, I decided to take a job elsewhere. I'm going to be a housekeeper for a man, who's a writer, in Bayfield."
"You can call me Bradley," he chuckled, "You are so prim an proper. Ha ha ha.... housekeeper huh? I didn't know they even had those anymore. So you're not going back?"
I shook my head very quickly
This made him laugh and ask, "Well do you want some advice sweetheart?"
I considered and decided and I needed all the help I could get. "Yes, I most certainly do."
"Well darling, you need to get some new duds."
I scrunched my eyebrows and tilted my head, "Duds? I'm not at all certain what those are?"
"Sweetheart, why don't you come sit in the seat across from me. We got a ways until we make our next pitstop and I think you need a few pointers.
***
The young girl slowly stands and painstakingly makes her way down the bus aisle. She seems small, fragile, but with a hint of... what to call it... determination I guess? She's wearing a black dress that completely covers her slight frame. From her wrists, up to her neck, and down to just above her slender ankles is completely shrouded in black. Wearing thick black socks and a pair of horribly clunky shoes she displays a matronly appearance from the waist down.
I look to her face, which is focused down to ensure that the placement of her feet are sure. The only thing remotely colorful about her is her hair. What little bit can be seen, beneath that damned bonnet (or whatever the hell it is), is a vibrant copper-like color. Always a sucker for a redhead, I catch myself letting out a louder than usual exhale (refusing to acknowledge it as a sigh) I smirk.
She sits in the seat and looks up at me, apparently waiting for my advice. I glance over at her and am almost knocked down by the beauty of her face. She looks like an angel. Her gorgeous green eyes, now searching my face, are framed by auburn lashes. Her cute pointed nose have a faint dusting of freckles, telling of her youth and innocence. I move my gaze downward and... mmmm... Damn, that is a mouth made for wonderfully dirty and sexy things.
I imagine her holding my hard throbbing cock in her trembling hand, slowly parting lips as she starts to wrap them around...
"Bradley? Are you well?"