The sun was obscene. It hammered down onto the bitumen, blurred the scraggly roadside trees into a mirage of grey and green. From a high angle, it produced an airless heat even with the four windows rolled all the way down. My throat was dry, and sweat trickled down my back. My thighs were sticking to the driver's seat, and I had to re-adjust every few minutes.
This small movement, this slight bucking of the hips, aroused a liquid feeling in my ass that was evolving to an active hunger. Before leaving home to drive up the coast, in the blue of the morning, I'd had the idea to lube up and slide a prostate massager into my furry hole, to keep things interesting during the long, lonely hours of my trip.
Now, hours in and with hours to go, sweat and precum mingled to dampen the crotch of my thin canvas shorts. I'd taken off my neon thong hours ago, un-wedged it from my crack in a servo toilet stall during my last stopover for petrol and caffeine, crammed the slip of fabric into my mouth and inhaled deeply. With my shorts around my ankles, and the low thrum of the massager still droning in my hole, I'd gotten carried away. Started tapping my balls, hanging low in the summer of the air, tweaking my nipples and floating away in the haze of corporeal lust mounting in me.
It could've been a minute or a handful of them, before I heard the knock of a foot on tile, and noticed the tip of a boot peeping under my stall. Spooked, embarrassed, riled up, I yanked the underwear from my mouth and re-dressed, before heading quickly towards the sinks to wash my hands. Not so quickly, it seemed, as a wiry man in hi-vis calmly exited the adjacent stall.
We made eye contact in the mirror. His vest was the same colour as my thong, which I noticed I was still clenching in one hand. I crammed it into my pocket, and he leered at me. The cicada sound of my massager was an insistent grumbling in my ears. His eyes raked down my body, and I imagined he could see the outline of it there, between my cheeks. Still grinning, he turned for the exit. I wanted to call him back, to beg him to replace the toy with his own meat but in the end, he was gone, footsteps fading into the outside, and I was left standing in the dim restrooms, trembling beneath the force of my own desire.
**
The aura of the encounter lingered as I drove, thick as the heat that filled the car. The road stretched onward ahead, scaled with cracks. The occasional pothole sent a shudder through me, long after the charge in my toy had gone flat. I considered pulling it out, but I liked the slight sensation of fullness, and besides, I'd been driving slowly out of caution and wanted to arrive at the AirBnB before dark. On the app, the small house was close enough to the sea to be a breakwater, and its wide windows gazed longingly out at a flat, cerulean sea.
The sky already was beginning to flatten to a gauzy lilac, the light on the dashboard turning dripping like syrup. I decided to stop, soon, and grab something for dinner that I could eat quickly, and hopefully finish with enough time to have a splash in the shallow bay before the onset of the shark hours. As if conjured, a roadside supermarket-bottleshop surfaced on the roadside.
The building was standalone, squatting on the edge of a small empty car park. Even though it was mid-afternoon, the late sun slowly carking in the west, it was still so fucking hot. I parked hazardously across two spaces, and with no-one around, I hoped I'd be lucky and wouldn't get booked or harassed by other shop-goers. This, I thought pleasantly, might also mean the trip inside for supplies would take no time at all.