Urban Explorer 1
I'm not an urban explorer; however, it was a sure thing that I'd go with Danny.
We've been neighbors three doors apart most all our lives. Most of the time I'm in my left brain being all analytical and matter of fact. Danny is a right brain creative and adventurous person.
We were on our way home from our Community College classes. I was driving.
"Hey Robbie, let's go explore the old Playland Park. It's going to get dozed next week."
I loved it when Danny got excited about something. She was almost bouncing in the car seat and looking at me with a combination of expressions that all meant a pleading please and a little feminine flirting.
I hit the turn signal for a left.
"Oh, I love you Robbie." Danny leaned across the console and gave me a kiss on the cheek.
Our eyes made momentary direct contact. Danny's eyes were sparking, sparkling green with a slight blue halo surrounding the green.
I'm no expert at ESP, or mind reading, or telepathy though I know I felt one of her sparks.
I pursed my lips and blew a kiss in return.
Danny is five-foot nine-inches tall. Her hair is a very light brown that goes almost blond in the bright sun. I told you about her eyes. Her face is oval, cute nose above cute kissable lips. No, she is not a knock in the body area, and if you want to argue, no woman is the perfect one. Each is unique and individual and perfect on that basis. Her breasts are smaller than her frame might suggest. Her body does have a nice cut to the waist and swell over her hips.
I moved into the neighborhood when I was six. Danny was also six. Our birthdays were close so we started having our parties together. We were always together and in those 14 years since we were six, we never got close except as friends.
Throughout our middle and high school years we had our steadies. We didn't travel far from home. College is a community college here in town. We both work at the outlet mall. Danny works at an intimate apparel shop and loves to tease me with stories. I work in the tool store. None of my stories have exciting endings as Danny's.
The old Playland Park sign was just ahead. I was taking it in and Danny was trying to press her invisible accelerator.
"Please hurry up, Robbie. I can't wait to get you in there."
"Jezz, girl, slow down. Get me in there? You're bouncing in the seat."
What was left of the gate lay in the middle of the road but not a hazard. I drove over it. The front gate was just a couple of car lengths away so I stopped. Danny was out and around the car to my side trying to get the door open.
"Okay, let me get things locked up, I'm coming."
"I know you will." Those words should have registered just as "get you in there," and the sparks in her eyes should have.
Often, when I'm not moving fast enough for her, Danny will take my hand in a full fist grasp to drag me along. That is what I was expecting today. Instead, I got fingers and thumbs intertwined.
"Danny," I paused.
"What Robbie?"
I guided her to the back of the ticket booth, our entwined arms went around her waist, my free arm finished the trap. Danny set the bait and I took it. We kissed, timidly, then deeper, then into tonsil licking abandon.
Danny felt my raging hard-on and pressed her mound against it. "I knew it would feel good," Danny breathlessly sighed when the kiss ended.
I sort of drooped against the ticket booth wall and Danny just snuggled closer. Neither kept track of time during our stupor.
Finally, Danny rustled a bit, "Come on Robert. We have an URBEX to complete."
"Robert, what do you mean by Robert?" I was only Robert when someone was angry."
Danny's fingers laced in mine tightened. "That was not a Robbie kiss you gave me. That was a full grown Robert, ah, kiss. I'm glad you finally figured it out."
"What do you mean finally? I've always been there for you." I understood what she intended though in the moment, I pretended to be unaware.
"Robert, you're playing with me. I said I love you and you just blew me a kiss. Then the ticket booth kiss. That kiss is exactly what I knew it would be. If you had kissed me like that when we were younger...," her sentence trailed off as we embraced and kissed like lovers in a photo booth.
We crossed that line, we erased that line. My right brain felt things it had only heard of. My left brain processed the data and only returned smiley faces.
"Danny," she replied with an um. I whispered, "are you my playland park?"
I felt her stir lifting her head. I knew what was coming was going to be life changing.
"The park has not had an opening day yet." The sparks returned shooting bolts through my eyes into my mind and hundreds bursting in my chest making my heart race.
"Is that an invitation to the ribbon cutting?"
"You'll be the only witness and the ribbon cutter."
We began to stroll aimlessly taking in everything happening. The house of mirrors was a mass of shattered glass. The arcade was empty of pinball machines and games. Pieces of the tilt-a-whirl and the rocket lay scattered. The fun house came into view and I could see it was trashed.
"Shall we check the fun house, Robert? It looks a little sketchy doesn't it?"
I laughed, "After our revelations, fun house has a different meaning now."
"I know. Knowing how you react to me doesn't help either. But not now."
We walked into the fun house. None of the fun house gags were left. Graffiti was everywhere as if it was dueling spray cans.