Serena opened the door and blinked monetarily in the bright glare of snow. She shivered and pulled the collar up around here neck as she pulled the door closed. A gust of wind caught the edge of her ankle length skirt and teased it as she pushed her way through the whiteness. She tossed her suitcase into the back of her little Dodge and slid into the driver's seat. She sighed feeling a bit warmer being out of the wind and looked up at the building that had been her home for the last 29 years. Her mother was standing in the window looking anxious as Serena started the car and pulled out into the street. She switched on the radio and reflected over her life as she drove.
It had started on her birthday two months back. The feeling that she was missing out, that life had overlooked her. Serena had worked hard through high school so she could get a scholarship to college, but then her mother had become ill. Serena was the youngest and the only child of their parents that was still at home so she had taken on the responsibility of helping her mom until she was well again. Before she knew it, the years had slipped by. She was working as a librarian to help out with the bills, and it had turned into a career. She sighed again and turned off onto the ice packed side road that would take her to the interstate.
The radio announcer gave the weather forecast (more snow) and then dropped into a spot for a local flower shop.
"Can't decide what you want to give the love of your life?" the simpering woman's voice asked. "Valentine's Day is tomorrow guys, and Glenda's Gift Shop has roses by the dozen for…"
Serena stabbed at the tuner button. It just served as another reminder that she was 29, unmarried, and a virgin without any hopes on the horizon for her situation to change. She raged for a moment and then sighed again. It was her own fault her life was so dull. After all her mother had only been sick from the first few years after she graduated. Fear had held her back after that, fear that she would fall on her face, fear that she wouldn't fit in at college because she was older than the other students were.
A love song was the next stop as the radio scanned through the available stations. It was familiar and it swung her thoughts back to the night of her senior prom. The sounds of taffeta rustling and swishing about and all the boys looking debonair in their tuxedos flashed before her eyes. Then she centered of Roger. Tall, handsome, and kind Roger who had asked her out on a whim and swept her into a new world of sensations.
They had danced until they were breathless and then he had taken her into his arms and kissed her virgin lips until they felt as if on fire. She remembered the taste of him still, and more. The searing places where his hands had held her tightly to him as they moved out of the gymnasium into the darkened corridors of their high school. Then how he had kissed her with desire flaming in his eyes and how his hands had roamed to cup her breasts driving a peculiar tingling sensation through her abdomen and into the regions of her womanhood. She had kissed him back craving for something she didn't understand but wanted desperately. Just thinking about it made her clitoris swell.
Serena fidgeted on the seat, clenching her thighs and rocking her hips to alleviate the pressure but all it was doing was making her hornier. Moaning softly, she pulled the glove loose from her hand and slid her long skirt up one thigh. She lifted her leg up and out against the door and slid her hips forward. He face was flushed and she thought about pulling over but knew if she did, she would be late of the library convention. She slid her naked hand between her thighs and pulled her panties to the side. She momentarily closed her eyes as her fingers grazed her engorged clit. She brought her index and middle fingers to her lips and moistened her fingers before placing them to either side of her clit and beginning to rub in small circles.
Serena was soon barreling to her orgasm and she let herself moan as loud as she liked since there were no ears for miles to hear. The tips of her fingers pressed harder and circled faster and her hips began to buck. She screamed aloud as the wave of ecstasy washed through her body. As she started to come around, she realized she wasn't on the road. Within seconds, her car careened down the riverbank into the icy water. The impact threw her forward and into the steering wheel knocking her unconscious.
Serena moaned as she woke and felt her head throb. She reached up and touched it wincing and drawing back her hand with blood on it. She then felt the car shift and realized that she was being pulled deeper into the water. It was already seeping in around the door soaking her up to her knees.
"Damn stupid thing to do Rena!" she muttered at herself and tried to shove the door open. The force of the current was too strong so she rolled down the window and climbed out. Standing now mid thigh deep in the icy water, she slogged her way to the shoreline tripping and falling twice. She was shivering and, soaked to the skin, she crawled up the embankment tot eh roadside. She then released she had left her suitcase with dry clothes in the car and returned to fetch it out. She collapsed at the top of the riverbank after climbing it a second time.
Finally, Serena stood and looked back down at her car. "How am I going to explain this." she whined and shivered. She looked down the road and then back behind herself trying to found a farm or another car that might help her out. Her shoulders sagged and she felt afraid for the first time, she was in the middle of nowhere. She climbed to the roadside and sat down on the bridge guardrail trying to decide what to do next. Her teeth were chattering and she knew she would become hypothermic soon if she didn't change out of her wet clothes. She looked back at the forest edge, which would at least provide some shelter from the wind as she changed into her dry clothes and headed back down the slope to them.
Serena stepped behind a set of bushes and began to peel her wet clothes off layer by layer. As she removed her bra and panties, she suddenly felt as if someone were watching her. She shook her head dismissing the feeling and berating herself for being paranoid, but quickly pulled on some jeans and a sweater. As she pulling on a pair of sneakers, she smelled smoke.
Serena stood and smelled again peering through the trees in hopes of seeing the fire that the smoke came from. She had no luck but the smoke seemed to be filtering through the trees from a certain direction. Figuring it would be her best chance she headed for its origin. It was a good half an hour hike before she thought she saw the fire. As she neared, she realized it was a bonfire and that she could hear voices. She pushed on through until at least she made it to a clearing.
The first thing Serena noticed was that the air around her had seemed to warm to that of a mild spring day. Secondly, she noticed the women dancing around the large bonfire. They were naked as the day they were born. Serena hesitated just staring at the scene not sure what to do. There was a cabin behind them that had seen better days but it still looked sound. Serena looked back to the women who were giggling and spinning wildly. Then in turn each threw something into the fire raising their voices and repeating the same phrase.
"Eros! We call to thee! Come to your supplicants and grant our heart's desire!"
Serena paused again, she had heard of groups like this, but now was not the time to balk she needed to have someone take her to the nearest town and get her car towed out of the river. She stepped timidly into view.
"E…excuse me." Serena called. All nine women turned around to look at the intruder. "I…my car…I need a ride into town." she finally spit out.
A tall brunette with piercing storm gray eyes walked forward, suspicion clouded her beautiful face but she smiled. "I'm Karo. Please, come to the cabin."
Karo walked behind here and Serena felt the woman's eyes on her back when she turned back all the woman had robed and were following. "Thank you. I'm Serena. I ran off the road back there and my car is in the river."
