Not a lot of sex in this story, all of it is between individuals of legal age in the state in which it takes place.
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"Jim, let's stop at the diner in - HOLY SHIT!"
Hank's scream came over the CB just milliseconds after the largest bolt of lightning I've ever seen crossed the road and struck a disabled horse trailer on the opposite side of the divided highway. The flash nearly blinded me and I'd have to check my shorts at the next stop.
If my mom had been in the cab of my truck with me, she would have made the sign of the cross and said a prayer to St. Jude for any of the horses, people or other critters in that horse trailer. I just let out a long whistle and kept moving at sixty-five miles per hour.
I was hauling an oversized load through the Cascades, a long bed of rotors for a wind farm. Don't ask me about the pros and cons related to sticking a big fan on top of a mountain, I understand both sides have their arguments, but I just deliver the load and collect my pay, same as whatever cargo is on the trailer behind my cab.
Hank, the lead driver - you've seen these guys, they're usually in some compact car with a rotating light and a big "oversize" sign on the top - well, Hank had to take a leak and grab another cup of coffee (he still hasn't figured out the connection). There's a little café with truck parking just ten miles east of Vantage and that's where Hank finally got off the highway. I decided I needed a bite to eat, it took four hours to get out of the dock in Tacoma and through the west side traffic so I was hungry. I parked the rig and walked into the door.
You couldn't miss her, she was the prettiest lady in the room. OK, that's not saying much because there was only one other woman in the café and she weighed at least a couple hundred pounds wearing a tavern jacket - very classy. I took a seat at the counter and watched the waitress as she finished taking an order from the booth of roughnecks in the corner. The old Ronnie Milsap song popped into my head, "That Girl that Waits on Tables (Used to Wait for Me at Home)".
I kept my eye on this beauty as she put the order on the spindle for the cook and turned to take my order. The look in her eyes when she recognized me was hard to read; was it shock, humor, irritation, or a combination of all three?
"Well Jim - Of all the gin joints in all the world."
Damn, how could she remember? It was one of Bogie's famous lines from "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart can't believe his former lover walked into his bar in Morocco with another man. I took Nancy to see Casablanca at an art house theatre when we were married.
"What brings you in here?"
"Coffee and a Denver omelet, Nancy."
"Coming right up." She turned and put the order on the spindle.
Just then Hank came out of the bathroom. He stared at Nancy for a second and sat next to me.
"Isn't that her?"
"Isn't it who? How would you know? You never met her."
"I saw the photos on your visor when I gave you the logbook. Hard to miss a looker like that. Who is she?"
"My ex. And the biggest mistake of my life."
The mistake wasn't marrying that sweet lady, the mistake was letting her go. To help you understand how my love life turned to crap, why I was still mooning over and carrying photos of a woman who left me five years ago, I need to go back a long time ago, back to high school. That's where my life started to go off the rails for the first time.
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Jocelyn Murphy had the prettiest face and cutest smile of any girl in school. She carried an extra twenty pounds or so, but at least five of those extra pounds were located in each one of her breasts. It was the beginning of our senior year when I worked up the courage to ask Jocelyn out. We hit it off and for the rest of the school year we were inseparable. Jocelyn took my virginity sometime around Thanksgiving; I'm certain she lost hers much earlier, but I never asked for specifics.
Given the set of circumstances, very hot girl, mildly good looking guy, I figured I hit the jackpot and ended up one of those guys we all called 'pussy-whipped'. Was I ever. But I was a eighteen year-old guy getting regular pussy and my hands on those bodacious ta-ta's, so what did I care?
At the same time, one of my teammates, Spencer Crasser, was the least whipped guy I knew or have ever known. Spencer was a decent athlete, he was a starter on the football and basketball teams, but not a star. He also didn't appear physically impressive (not to me anyway, but I'm straight as an arrow), maybe five-nine and a hundred-sixty pounds, but this guy was dating the hottest girl in school. Not only was Spencer dating Debbie Drake, but he treated her like shit. He didn't beat her or anything, but the emotional abuse was disgusting.
For example, there was a story told that one night Spencer is driving Debbie and two other guys home from a party. The two guys are in the back seat and Debbie is sitting next to Spencer up front. Spencer pulls over.
"Debbie, suck my cock."
"Spence, not now, please. Not with Dave and Tom in the car."
"Debbie, if you're not going to suck my cock, get out."
The two of them argued like that for another minute before Dave and Tom heard the sound of a zipper and Debbie's head disappeared from view. Spencer drove until they stopped in front of Dave's house to let the guys out; as they leaned in the front window to thank Spencer for the ride, Debbie was still bent over Spencer's lap, bobbing up and down.
Neither Tom nor Dave kept quiet about the blow job. I was disgusted by the incident and lost any remaining respect for Debbie that I had, but since I didn't hang with that group, it had little effect on my life. I just made damn certain to continue treating Jocelyn with respect.
We both graduated in June. I was enrolled in a diesel technology school come fall and worked at a lube depot. Jocelyn's grades weren't good enough to get her into any four year college, she was working in a dress shop at the mall. We continued to date exclusively, make love and plan our future together. Then everything went to hell.
Jocelyn's folks, through some contacts of her father's, finagled a probationary acceptance for Jocelyn at the state college down south; three hundred miles away. Did her folks do this because they wanted her to get an education or to get her away from the grease monkey? I never found out. Jocelyn left in January for the spring semester.
For the next five months I stayed true to Jocelyn. I wrote her letters, called every couple days and went down to visit her twice. We made love the first visit, but something was off. There wasn't the same intensity in her response to my efforts. We laid on her bed after the first time making love since January.
"Did you cum?"
"No, but I don't always cum when we make love. And it probably will take us a while to get back in synch after being away from each other for so long. Don't overreact Jim. Let's just go to sleep."
The next evening, after a decent day hanging out together, I redoubled my efforts. I spent a half hour tweaking her nipples and teasing her clit with my tongue. My cock was as hard as a steel rod and I needed relief, but I held out until Jocelyn had at least three orgasms. Only then did I move up, put a condom on, and entered her. Twenty minutes later we fell asleep in each other's arms. I left the next morning feeling confident.
I drove down five weeks later, but unfortunately, she claimed her 'monthly friend' (her period, I assumed) was visiting, so a few kisses and a quick feel were all I got before I left on Sunday afternoon. Jocelyn didn't make it home for spring break, she said she was too busy studying.
Jocelyn kept me on the ropes. Her infrequent letters always ended with "Love, Jocelyn" and she never got off the phone without telling me she loved me. Jocelyn was due home for Memorial Day weekend; school was over and Jocelyn failed her probation. I was ready to greet her back home; I had the ring she had picked out the previous Christmas in my pocket. I called her up and asked if I could come over the first day she was home.
"Yea, come over Jim; we need to talk."
I was such a naïve puppy back then. "Damn right we do." I thought to myself as I got into my pickup truck and headed over to her house with a smile on my face.
There was an older guy talking to her parents when she opened the door. Jocelyn stepped out of the house and closed the door behind her. I tried to kiss her and she turned her head enough that we did one if those French air kisses on the cheeks. I was shocked, the damn ring box fell out of my hand and hit the pavement as she pulled away. I quickly picked it up, but not before she saw it.
"Jim, I'm pregnant."
My first thought was, "Did the condom fail?"
My second thought was, "When was the last time we were together?"