*Author's Note: Any and all persons engaging in any sexual activity are at least eighteen years of age.
Disclaimers: This story has been edited by myself, using Microsoft Spell-check. You have been forewarned.
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Joi Marchot sat on the bench and sobbed. Her cheek still stung where Ricky had slapped her. She hated when he did drugs; he always got so demanding, so aggressive.
Ricky had agreed that they'd go see Tomorrowland at the Flowers Movie Theater, then to Yum Yum Ice Cream for a snack afterward. He'd been unenthusiastic about the date and had even muttered he expected some pussy for having to go see such a pussy movie.
"Ricky! It's not!" Joi had protested.
Ricky picked Joi up at her mother and step-father's house and had sneered that she'd brought a sweater with her.
"What?" she said. "It gets all cold in there, 'bout freeze to death."
"We ain't going see that stupid shit; Matt seen it, said it sucks. S. U. X," Ricky snapped.
"What? Ricky! I want, you said..." Joi spluttered.
"Fuck that; we going Manny's and bowling," Ricky said, scratching at his face.
He pulled up to the Mexican restaurant, despite Joi's protests. She reminded him; they'd eaten at Manny's two days ago, had been bowling two days ago. And he had agreed, he'd promised that he'd take her to see Tomorrowland.
A slap to her pretty face silenced her protests. He gave her a second slap for crying and got out of his car.
A few patrons of the restaurant walked past as Joi sat on the bench outside of the restaurant. Most looked away, embarrassed. Some pretended they did not see her.
"Hey; you all right?" a soft voice asked.
Joi looked up into Brian Louviere's soft brown eyes. He held out a handkerchief.
"No," Joi whimpered, taking his handkerchief.
She told him the story; she'd wanted to see a movie, her boyfriend had agreed they'd see a movie, then at the last minute, changed his mind. When she'd protested, he'd slapped her and marched into the restaurant, leaving her outside to 'get over it, stupid bitch.'
Brian listened, sucking on the peppermint Manny's had supplied. He dug his cell phone out of his shirt pocket and offered it to her.
"Need call your daddy?" he asked.
Brent Arcenaux, her step-father, had let his dislike of Richard 'Ricky' Hebert be known. Catherine, Joi's mother also voiced her low opinion of Ricky.
"No," Joi whispered, shaking her head. "Could you, you just take me on home?"
"Well, I uh, I yeah, but know what? I ain't seen that movie neither," Brian offered.
He did not tell the attractive eighteen year old girl that his bowling bag was sitting right behind his seat in his truck. He did not tell the girl that he'd just eaten at Manny's, and had planned to go next door to the Bowl-A-Rama, bowl a few games. As she'd poured out her tale of woe, the twenty six year old had admired the short denim cutoffs, the pronounced camel toe the shorts presented, her small round face and large eyes, with her one heavy eyebrow, button nose and pouting lips. He'd admired her somewhat chubby body, long brown hair, and nice cleavage.
"Yeah?" Joi asked, holding his handkerchief out to him. "You uh, man! Don't even know you!"
"Brian Louviere," Brian said.
"And I'm Joi Marchot me," she said.
"Marchot? You any relation Dudley Marchot? Work with a Dudley; he out of Crowley," Brian asked as they walked toward his 2010 F150 pickup truck.
"Crowley? Don't think so; have to ask my momma," Joi said and climbed up into the cab of the truck.
As she climbed up, a goodly portion of her left buttock slid out the bottom of her shorts. Brian smiled to himself as he closed the passenger door.
Just as Brian and Joi pulled out onto Highway 52, Ricky swaggered outside to ask Joi if she'd finished with her little pity party. He looked around, even walked over to his car and looked around again.
"Fine, fucking cunt!" he screamed out loud. "Fine! Be that way!"
"Stupid fucking whore, like I need this shit, huh?" Ricky snarled as he marched back to the restaurant.
At the Flower's movie theater, Brian paid for two tickets, then guided the girl over to the concession stand.
"Giant, you like butter? Giant buttered popcorn, and uh, box of them Charleston Chews, and just a water; Joi what you like?"
"Water; I ain't never had them what they called? Them chews?" Joi asked.
Two waters," Brian agreed and paid the small fortune the few items cost.
They had just sat down when the theater darkened. Then the intolerable volume of the trailers started.
"Okay, take a couple of these," Brian suggested, holding out the box of Charleston Chews. "Then you take you a big old handful of popcorn and..."
Joi did as he suggested. She looked at him, eyes wide as she tasted the sweet, the salty, the buttery flavors all melting together in her mouth.
"Man! That good!" she enthused.
"Why I got a Giant," Brian muttered as Joi immediately stuffed more of the combination into her mouth.
By the movie's end, Joi had her head on Brian's shoulder, his right arm in her two arms. She'd also draped her sweater over her stubby legs.
"Man! It always so cold in here," she complained as the credits rolled.
"Uh huh," Brian agreed. "Guess they wanting us cuddle up, huh?"
"You want cuddle up?" she asked, a little smile in her voice.
Brian was handsome, with thick brown hair, a strong, tanned face and deep brown eyes. He had thick arms and broad chest, made muscular by nine years of working off-shore.
He wasn't as handsome as Ricky, did not have Ricky's long blond hair and ice blue eyes. Brian was five feet, seven inches tall and Ricky was six feet, two inches, a full thirteen inches taller than Joi.
But Brian had sat quietly through the movie, had not complained non-stop about having to see the movie. Brian had let her eat the lion's share of the popcorn, the candy.
Before Brian could agree that he did want to cuddle up, the lights went on.
"Now, what's this Yum Yum place; ain't never ate there," Brian admitted.
"It right up there," Joi pointed in the general direction of the small restaurant. "They got hamburgers, um, hot dogs, ice cream."
He let her choose where they would sit. He let her order what she wanted. He did not offer any opinion on her large hot fudge sundae. He did not point out to her that her ass was already too big, her thighs already too fat for a large hot fudge sundae.
"Thank you; that was a, I liked our first date," Joi said as they left the small restaurant.
"Oh yeah?" Brian asked.
"Yeah," she enthused, taking his hand in hers.