Note: The descriptions and accounts in these stories are fictional and do not portray any actual people or events.
I didn't get back to the dorm until about 3 AM Thursday morning, and I had two exams this afternoon and three big exams on Friday, and then was looking forward to three days of acting in our in house production of 'Mastering Millicent', which sounded like a movie I really wanted to make, plus another ESU football victory. Gee, Dad, you can be proud of your boy, because for a three day weekend, I have three girls on tap each night, not just one per night, and my goal was to tap all three of them, each night. So I had simply to devote myself completely to schoolwork until my last class period Friday, which was also my last midterm exam, and then I could let it all hang out for the rest of weekend. It was an excellent plan. I was reminded of my tennis coach, saying when you have tough match, just give it your all and make sure you leave everything you have out on the court. I was going to apply that principle to both of my endeavors this weekend.
I set my alarm for 6 AM, and went to sleep instantaneously. When it went off I took a quick shower, dressed, and hit the early breakfast line for protein replacement therapy. I was pounding down bacon and eggs with an orange juice chaser when Nora sat down next to me. "Hey stranger!" She gave me a little shoulder hug. "You really do still live and breathe, and you somehow look better. I guess Suzanne has you in training, huh?"
I smiled my best shit eating grin. "It's tough work, but it's gotta be done!" I was suddenly very interested in tuning in to Nora and trying out my new Suzie signal sniffing capabilities. She was clamping down on her signals very well, but things were leaking out despite her best efforts, and I soon learned where to concentrate to detect them. Her 'flight data recorder' was very well protected, like it was shielded, or encrypted. I could tell there was something in there, but I could not yet ping it or decipher it. "You look hot yourself! What's up with you?"
She shook her platinum hair and smiled, and it lit up the room. "I just finished my last midterm for this week yesterday, and I have walks in all my classes Friday, so today will be a light day. I am going with a group of students to the WTTU football game on Saturday. It's a long drive but we can leave early Friday and take it easy. I have never been to a football game out there." She held up a tentative 'hook 'em' sign and smiled. "I hear that it's great as long as they don't have a dust storm."
"Or a real Blue Norther! It's not Oklahoma, but when the wind does come whipping 'cross the plain, the temperature can drop 50 degrees in two hours. I'll be watching the game on TV. I hope the TV analysts are wrong again about ESU!"
Nora looked at me funny. "I didn't realize you were such a football fan, Robbie."
"This is Texas. Besides my chosen sport of tennis, I follow all of the other culturally important sports: fall football, football recruiting, spring football, and summer seven on seven football! I would rather die than play fantasy football, though, and I am not coming back for the game on Thanksgiving Day. But my dad and I will watch every minute of it on TV. "
Nora snorted and looked glum. "I'll be here on Thanksgiving."
I laughed. "I guess the holiday never really caught on across the pond, eh?"
She laughed. "We have Harvest Festival earlier in the year, but it's not the same thing really. My folks sometime invite visiting yanks over if they are in London on that day, so I know a little more about it than most do."
I gave her a hug and headed for campus, making a mental note to see who was planning to be where for turkey day. I found an empty classroom and did 'mock lectures' as an exam review for my midterms, and studied all the old exams from the UDP files that Oiler had given me, then went to my first class. I thought I did really well on the exam before lunch. All those mental gymnastics made me hungry, so I was back for lunch and felt good about the afternoon exams, too.
Thursday evening was study and review for the Friday exams, except for a call from Rodney Driver. The black suburban that had tailed us was registered to a '527' organization, referring to a section of the Internal Revenue Code, AKA a 'Super Political Action Committee' or 'Super PAC' dubbed 'Real Texans for Truth'. The people listed as contributors to the organization mostly had addresses in Lubbock and environs and most seemed to be alumni of WTTU. Rodney said that some of the websites he frequented contended that members of the group were also big supporters of the recently fired WTTU football coach, who had an ongoing feud with James Craig. So far the PAC had run ads supporting James Craig's opponents in his Senate race, and apparently was also spending money on polling firms and other political consultants, including opposition research. Their activity was at a peak with the election coming next week.
The head of the organization was Winifred 'Wylie Coyote' Wimmers, a notorious attorney, political consultant and rabble rouser who hailed from Wylie, Texas. Winifred was a former beauty queen in her late 40's and had a reputation for being a staunch political conservative and for leaving behind her a trail of heartbroken twenty something guys that she had toyed with and then dumped in the usually male Texas tradition known as 'find 'em, fuck 'em, and forget 'em'. Her first cousin was John Wimmers Blakeley, AKA 'The Wylie Fist' a notorious trial lawyer so named for his habit of pounding the table in the courtroom instead of making substantive arguments and apparently also his preferred mode of sexual gratification. It was said that if he had been as pretty as John Edwards he could have been VP, but he mainly had 'a face for radio'. 'Fist' was also a card carrying member of the West Texas Trial Lawyers Association, a flaming liberal and a James Craig supporter, and the two first cousins were apparently in a constant state of ongoing political war. Were all these guys sniffing around the AGs and trying to figure out who was behind all the negative publicity for James Craig?
Rodney turned our conversation back to the Saturday night party and gave me an address out west of the city for a house near the road that led to one of the city parks on the river, and said we should take a taxi show up there for the 'pre-party' Friday night at about 11:00 PM, and we would have to solve a puzzle to figure out how to get to the real party, which was at another location. He also said that most of the people would only know about the pre-party, think it was the only party, and would never make it to the 'VIP party'. That sounded mysterious enough, but both Lara and Suzanne were enthusiastic and highly practiced puzzle solvers, and very party driven, so I felt pretty confident we could figure it out. Rodney would arrange transportation home from the second party sometime Sunday afternoon. I got to sleep early.
Friday morning I tanked up on protein and carbs, and I was certain I did really well on both morning exams. I hit the track at my new pace and was feeling a little better than average, and Suzanne joined in just as I finished my initial seven miles. She looked fantastic, as usual. "Let's do a final briefing on Millicent!" she began. She went through the newly foreshortened project plan for Millie, which now finished up early afternoon on Saturday. It was tough, so tough that I questioned it, but she insisted it was something that Millie needed and wanted, and that both Lara and Suzanne wished that they had found for themselves even sooner. She said I did not realize how many guys today were too damn wimpy and immature and how many girls really wanted a strong guy that they could respect, and frankly, how many girls just plain needed a really hard fucking every week or so, not to 'be understood' or 'actualized' or some other psychobabble. After wringing out Millie, the girls would all either sleep or watch the ESU football game with me, and then we would all take a nap before heading out for the Saturday night party, where Millie would star as our novice submissive again. When I told Suzanne about the 'solve the puzzle to get to the real party' deal her eyes flashed brightly. She was motivated.
I changed the subject "I am going to visit my family for Thanksgiving. My grandparents don't travel as well as they used to, so I am going to catch a ride with a friend from high school who is driving up on Monday, and not coming back until Friday. What are your plans?"
She looked a little startled. "Well, my folks are in Europe until December, so I have been again invited to Thanksgiving dinner with Mike's family. I'm not sure they have much to be thankful about, but I have gone down to visit them and Mike in the burn hospital the last two Thanksgivings." She looked sad, and I felt sad. I knew there had been no change in Mike's prospects to regain consciousness.
"I think Lara is going up to be with her Dad, and her only surviving grandmother, for Thanksgiving. She did say her dad is coming to town for the Formula One race in two weeks, and wants her to help him out with a last minute party."