Author's Note: It is highly recommended that before you read this installment that you review the first chapter of THE WHITE GIRL to better understand the characters, their situation and the surprise ending.
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Finishing their transaction at the grocery store the committed pair paid for their cigarettes and quickly exited the establishment. Heading back to Johnny's rental car they hopped into their transportation and he revved up his engine and screeched the tires of his late model Pontiac Firebird accelerating his departure out of the parking lot.
Having had to proceed through the store's Self-Check, Self-Service isle, Butch and Paul were slightly delayed in their departure from the retail grocery. By the time that they reached the parking lot Johnny and Karen were just pulling out onto the main street traffic headed for the closest Interstate Expressway entrance ramp.
Inside their car Karen told Johnny to head to her workplace at the Metropolitan Jail downtown so that she could fill out the paperwork for harassment charges against the troublesome duo who were following them. Her criminal justice job as a jailer gave Karen the ability to have local authorities investigate her old tormentors in order to prevent them from making her life miserable again.
Butch and Paul ran to their muscle car in the parking lot and threw their beverages and accessories into the back seat. Paul got into the passenger side of the Ford Thunderbird and Butch jumped behind the wheel.
The tenacious pair of road warriors fired up their vehicle and directly gave chase to the automobile occupied by Johnny and Karen. Paul said to Butch, "Hurry up man, that cat is getting away with our old girl."
Butch and Paul were derelicts and deadbeats who had never grown out of living a wild and crazy street life, partying, getting high and chasing after women. They had several scraps with the law and had not amounted to very much in their lives but grown-up versions of their teenaged selves.
They wanted to catch up with Karen because they knew that they had fun with her many years earlier and they figured they could just pick right back up in her life where they had left off. They were also jealous of Johnny and wanted a confrontation with him in order to try to push him out of Karen's life and take his place.
Karen and Johnny by this point now had turned out onto Interstate I-71 and were rapidly making their way to the downtown Metropolitan Jail building. Karen said to Johnny, "I can't believe those jerks, I haven't seen them in my neighborhood in years and the very minute that I take some time out in my own personal life to develop a new loving relationship they show up out of nowhere to try to spoil it!"
"Why do they have to re-appear in my life just when we were getting so comfortable and satisfied with each other?" she asked. Expressing her frustrations caused Johnny to glance over at her sitting in his passenger seat and to notice that she was wearing a very short, mini skirt dress with a tight, low-cut blouse ensemble as its accompaniment.
This wardrobe selection caught Johnny's intense brown eyes and caused him to take a longer glance at the physical loveliness seated beside him as he was navigating the traffic driving into Karen's job. Her image caused him to realize that Karen had a pair of the loveliest thighs and titties that he had viewed in any passenger seat that he was driving in a very long time.
He marveled at her beauty and the fact that she was just sitting within arm's reach of his grasp and his enjoyment. He suggestively looked into her eyes to search for a sensual connection as the pair were in the midst of a surreal car chase.
Butch and Paul for their part were determined to catch up with Johnny's rental and they too accelerated their speed in their late model coupe to maneuver their way onto the expressway to catch up with their fleeing rival. Butch, as the driver of his stylish, red, speedy roadster had had many occasions where he was engaged in a high speed chase with other motorists. Growing up in the inner-city ghetto he usually was on the fleeing end of these pursuits rather than on the pursuing end.
He and Paul had gone to high school together and had both dropped out when the demands of academic accountability had heightened and the calls of the streets became too exciting.
By now, Johnny and Karen had settled back into their seats while he drove at a comfortable pace which allowed them to relax and enjoy each other's company. Not concerned with his adversaries in his rear, Johnny mischievously and eagerly extended his muscular right arm and octopus-like fingers onto Karen's smooth, tanned, desirous, bare and exposed thighs.
As she felt his touch on her bare, naked skin she reached down to join his caress as she guided his huge masculine hand and groping fingers on a physical massage of her lower extremities and her inner thigh regions. They immediately locked into a visual connection which conveyed the recognition that she was available for his indulgence.
The result of this mutual embrace caused Johnny to veer slightly out of his lane on the expressway and Karen quickly instructed him to get into the upcoming exit lane as the Metropolitan Jail was rapidly approaching. Glancing out of her rear view mirror she could see that the auto driven by Butch on the tail of her vehicle was gaining ground and coming up fast.