This story begins the long-awaited continuation of my
Road Trip
series also posted on this website (see the end of 'Road Trip -- California' for a list of the chapters of that series, in order to be read). You need not read that series to enjoy this one, although I do make references to events and characters in that story to tie this story and that one together. My plan is to post weekly additional chapters to this story, so check back about weekly. This story is fiction. Please 'read, enjoy, vote, and comment.'
CRYSTAL CLEAR
Jim's New Life After the Road Trip
My meditation was broken by the almost inaudible sound of a footstep nearby. I sensed an animal; but instead of jerking my head around to look I remained absolutely still and fully opened my eyes.
From my right side, a fawn moved into the clearing with me -- light brown with white markings, large dark eyes full of curiosity. The pretty animal knew I didn't belong, yet obviously didn't fear me. It approached and sniffed at my ear. Not too far away, I heard the heavier footfalls of the mother.
I slowly turned my head to stare face to face with the fawn. She looked back with beautiful loving eyes. Over her head, I could see the mother slowly and cautiously come into the clearing. She watched me closely.
I sat cross-legged in the mossy clearing wearing nylon running shorts, a singlet, and running shoes. I exuded my male aroma owed to the seven-mile run I had ended moments before stopping here, near the house, for a brief time of meditation.
The doe shook her head slightly, and the fawn backed away from me at the nearly silent command. Just for kicks I nodded slowly at the doe, as though to say thank you for visiting. She too nodded, turned, and pranced away with the fawn in close file. She didn't bolt or run; she pranced.
The moment was touching, and I gazed back at the shaft of light through the conifers I'd been using to focus my meditation and thought with thanks for the closeness I had felt with the animals. A minute later, I acknowledged that the pair had irreparably disturbed my concentration, so I rose and started to walk the last half-mile to the large house that Crystal owned outside Nashville.
I did have so much to be thankful for.
From the low point in my life when my young wife Karen had died, I'd rebuilt an old Harley Davidson motorcycle and started on a road trip across America -- a road trip to grieve and re-find my center. I carried Karen with me, surely in my heart; and I had distributed a part of her ashes in each of the lower forty-eight states. I'd expected a solitary journey where I wallowed in grief at my loss, yet as I traveled I met many interesting and loving people -- often going out of my way to help them in some way. I even got shot in the process in Alabama, yet each person made my life better, and helped me 'up' in some way.
Surprisingly, I seldom slept alone in my travels from Massachusetts to California, and the journey took months. The sex started when I visited Lauren, Karen's sister and my sister-in-law, in Vermont. A near look-alike for Karen, we'd quickly formed a physical relationship in which neither of us could get enough sex from the other. Although we parted as I continued my trip, she reconnected with me a couple of times along my journey, even joining me at my sister's home in San Diego where along with others we put the last of Karen's ashes into the Pacific Ocean. Lauren also made me promise to give her the graphic details of my sexual exploits along my trip; I promised her believing at the time that I'd have a chaste trip across country.
Something else happened in my travels -- sexually -- that had never before occurred in my life. I had sex with more than one woman at a time, and later shared a foursome with another man -- although neither of us was into other guys. At first in Pennsylvania, and then in other states as I went west, group sex was often the norm. In Oklahoma, I became part of an orgy after a debutante's ball. Yes, my life changed a lot on my trip. I often wondered what kind of pheromones I'd started emitting. I'm an Average Joe coming up on forty, yet when I met a pretty woman we ended in bed more often than not.
Besides a loving relationship with Lauren, at least three other centers of gratitude registered in my mind as the big house came into view. First, I'd formed a sexual relationship with my sister Anna. Against social norms, we'd found we cared deeply for each other as both siblings and lovers.
Second, I'd met and fallen in love with Crystal Lee -- America's country music sweetheart, and fortunately, the feeling was mutual.
Third, I'd also had a loving relationship with Ellen Lee, Crystal's younger sister. She worked with Terry Ross, Crystal's agent, and helped organize her appearances, travel, concerts, and recording sessions.
Crystal saw some things in me that came to light pretty quickly after our chance meeting when my road trip took me through Tennessee. She saw me as the lover she'd been looking for, and for a good portion of our time over the past year since then we'd been bouncing around together in one bed or another satisfying our mutual urges.
Crystal also saw a talent in me I didn't even know I had: singing country music. We did a song together called "Texas Dawn" that alone spent over forty weeks on the country music charts and that I still frequently heard on the radio. We did an album together that made the top of the charts, and she coached me to do some solo music that too made the hit parade. I became a bono fide country music singer -- even a star in a matter of weeks. Jim Mellon was now a name known in every household in the western world.
Crystal and I had a highly sexed relationship from the get-go -- very highly sexed. We both acknowledged that we had an 'open' relationship, easily admitting others, including Ellen. This made my trip across country guilt free as I enjoyed sexual relations and new friendships in almost every state. The requirement was that I shared the details -- the nitty-gritty, sexual, wet, orgasmic details -- with Crystal ... and with Lauren who asked the same of me ... and with Anna who also asked. The whole 'family' had an interlace of highly sexed and loving relationships.
As I got sucked into the country music industry, I quickly adopted Terry Ross, Crystal's agent, and Ellen as my own. Terry was in his early thirties, and a ball of fire about making high payoff events happen for the two of us. We stood amazed at some of deals he put together that put us and our music out in front of the world -- and made us all a lot of money.
Crystal introduced Ellen to me early in our relationship -- and I mean that in a sexual way. If I hadn't fallen in love with Crystal first, I would have picked Ellen. The two were beautiful, smart women with upbeat personalities and loads of talent. Crystal found her primary skill in singing and entertainment; Ellen excelled at arrangements and all the behind the scene preparations. She also had an artistic streak that would later influence our lives together.