I'd just left work and was ready to head on home. First, though, I decided to look around the shops to see if there was anything I wanted. There was, a number of things actually, but each time I checked the price I decided I didn't want them that much. My husband would kill me if I wasted our hard earned cash on that sort of thing. I eventually gave up and left the shops.
It was darker than I expected once I left the shop. Too dark for this time of the day. Looking up I observed the dark, lowering, clouds, all fat and juicy with rain. Now it was just a reasonable walk from the shops to where I lived. A mile at the most. I could do that in no time. The problem was, would my no time be faster than the storm that was about to hit? I decided it probably wouldn't. I'd wait and take a nice dry bus.
I wandered over and stood at the bus stop. Sat, really, as they had a nice little shelter there. After sitting for a few moments I heard a voice calling, "Hey, Darcy."
Now my name was Darcy so either someone was calling me or there was someone else with the same name. Either way I was curious to find out which, so I looked around.
Parked next to the bus stop was a van with a boy's head hanging out the window on the passenger's side. He was looking right at me so presumably I was the Darcy he was referring to. He looked sort of familiar, but only sort of, and I couldn't place a name to him.
"Hop in," he yelled, jerking his thumb towards the rear door. "We'll run you home."
Oh, yeah. That's me. Green as grass, just all too ready to hop in a van with somebody I didn't know and go for a drive.
"You've got to be kidding," I said scornfully. "Who do you think I am?"
"Um, I think you're Darcy Johanson, who just moved in a couple of doors down from my house," he said, with a big smirk on his face. He opened the van's door and jumped out. Now that he was standing there he did look a lot more familiar.
"I'm Victor," he said. "I helped your husband carry some of your furniture inside, remember?"
He was right. He was Victor and I now remembered him helping Jack carry our stuff inside. Sooner him than me, I'd thought at the time, as some of that stuff was heavy.
"Oh, Victor. Yes, I remember you, now that you mention it."
"Then you know that I'm going almost to your front door," he pointed out. "Certainly closer than the bus stop. Hop in and you'll be home before the storm hits."
It was a fifteen minute wait for the bus and it was a fact that I and Jack did know him. He'd proved to be a polite and helpful young man, not the type to start hassling a girl. I decided to grab the ride.
"You have a point," I said. "I admit I'll be relieved to get home before the storm hits. I don't like thunderstorms and this looks to be shaping up to be one."
He opened the side door of the van and I hopped in. The bench seat was scrupulously clean, even though there was a pile of junk in the rear of the van. Boys are like that sometimes. Carry all sorts of junk in their vehicle but still manage to keep the front immaculate. Weird.
Victor closed my door, seemed to bounce into his own seat, and slammed his door. He jerked his thumb towards the driver.
"That's my brother, Damon. Don't worry about his looks. Even though he looks like a ratbag he's quite a good driver."
"How many times did you sit for your driver's licence?" Damon asked in a sardonic voice. "Ignore the fool. As he said, I'm Damon, his superior brother. You, I take it, are Darcy? At least, I think that's the name he was bellowing out the window. Pleased to meet you."
"Yes, I'm Darcy. Pleased to meet you. Thanks for the lift."
"No problem. We were going home anyway."
Damon pulled out into the traffic and the rain started. Not very heavy but a promise of what was to come. With the start of the rain the traffic seemed to increase dramatically. After a minute Victor spoke up.
"Fuck this. Take the back streets. Same distance and we're a lot less likely to be creamed by some idiot with bad brakes and bad driving habits."
To sort of emphasise his comment there was a minor fender bender right next to us. Damon said something rude and turned off the major road onto a minor one. I knew this one. It was almost a straight line to our place. Just swing around the park and we'd be there.
We had just reached the park when there was an almighty great flash followed immediately by a tremendous clap of thunder and the heavens descended. Visibility was reduced to roughly zero, lightning was flashing like crazy, and thunder was almost constant. It was a doozy of a storm.
Damon pulled over to the side of the road, bumping against the curb when he did so.
"I think I'll just park here for a short while," he said. "Driving in this weather is what you might call contraindicated."
"But we're nearly home," I said in a half wail.
"Yeah, I know," he agreed. "Do you want to try walking it? You could be home in a couple of minutes."
I looked out the window and shuddered at the thought of stepping out into that mess. I couldn't really fault Damon for stopping until it slackened off a bit.
"I think not," I said consideringly. "Maybe if I was a better swimmer, but as it is..."
"I'm bored," announced Victor after about thirty seconds.
"Geez, man, we've only just pulled over. You can't be bored already. Like I said to Darcy, if you want to try walking..." He waved his hand towards the door.
"I said bored, not stupid," replied Victor. "There are other ways in which I can alleviate my boredom."
"Really? Are you going to play I spy?"
"No. I am going to take steps to satisfy my curiosity."
With that Victor slipped between the two front seats and landed on the back seat next to me.
"When I first saw you I couldn't help but wonder if these were real," he told me, casually bouncing one of my breasts in his hand.
Perhaps I should point out at this stage that I was dressed for work and a hot day, which it had been earlier. Work meant a neat skirt and blouse. The hot day meant I didn't wear a jacket. Combined this meant that my breasts were cover by a flimsy bra and a light blouse (non see-through).
"Yes, they're real," I said quickly, hastily pushing his hand away, blushing slightly. Really, that was embarrassing.
"Well, I can tell that you're not wearing a padded bra but I had wondered about implants," Victor admitted.
"You're on a loser there, Vic," Damon put in. "I could tell by the way they bounced when she walked that they were all natural."
"And you're the expert are you?"
"Yes," came the reply, while at the same time I said, "He's right."
"Still, I need to be certain," Vic said, and with that he flicked open a strategic button and slipped his hand inside my blouse.
He'd picked the button to undo quite nicely as his hand was now positioned to not only slip inside my blouse but to slide inside my bra, cupping my actual breast. With that done he started squeezing it, tactilely examining it.