ROAD TRIP
"Do I really need to get in there?" I plead to Garth, attempting to appear as aggrieved as possible, hoping to avoid being stuffed in the trunk of my Chevrolet Cavalier.
"If we get split up, I might want to be able to come back here. And when I'm asleep, I certainly don't want to be woken up by no goddamn light from a police helicopter shining in my fucking eyes because you've told the cops where this shit hole is!"
"Don't flatter yourself. They ain't gonna send no goddamn helicopter up here after you; maybe just a deputy and the sanitation department to knock down this shack after you get a round put in your head when you go out to take a piss."
I had become brazen over these last few weeks during which Garth had come to enjoy me. The long tender kisses that heralded the outbursts of passion we'd share were signs that the man I hoped he'd become was emerging.
The man who still held me captive would insult me or my heritage after my sarcastic retorts to his Neanderthal screeds, but I knew he secretly appreciated being in the company of someone who doesn't accept their world the way it is. Although our conceptions of an ideal world were poles apart, in our enmity, we were one.
"You're going into the goddamn trunk. And the more you bitch, the longer you're staying in there."
It has turned to fall. I have enjoyed watching the cascade of colors on the trees during the walks we have taken along the wooded trails through which Garth's ancestors were connected to the other settlers of the area whose descendants had long since abandoned their properties in this inhospitable territory.
But the decrepit farmhouse in which we dwell will not keep out the Arctic chill that descends from time to time on these mountains in the winter months. So we will return to our home town and I will stay under the wary eye of Garth, to whom I have made the promise not to reveal the crimes of bank robbery, rape, and kidnapping of which he certainly is guilty.
"I could get carbon monoxide poisoning!"
"And then I wouldn't have to worry about you going to the goddamn police!
"Then who would you fuck?"
"You know, this ain't worth it. I think I'm just gonna chain you up inside the house and let you fucking starve to death. You ain't even worth a goddamn bullet!"
"OK, OK. I'll get into the trunk."
I place my right foot into the trunk, but he pulls me back.
"No, no. Not that way."
"Well then, how?"
"I ain't gonna have you making no noise in there if we get stopped by a cop."
"Oh no! You're not going to tie me up!"
I back away from the car.
"The fuck I'm not. And I'm going to gag you, too."
I take off down the road. I lose my right sandal and then shake the other one off. The stones hurt my feet but I continue running, even knowing I have no chance of eluding my pursuer, whose steps I hear pounding on the ground as he closes in behind me.
"Where the fuck do you think you're going?"
"You're going to have to catch me and drag me back as I bite and scratch you if you intend for me to ride in the fucking trunk of my car with my hands tied behind my back and a gag in my mouth!"
It is then that Garth's arms surround me. Resistance is now futile. I try to run but only manage another two steps before his arms tighten around my torso like a vise. My arms are immobilized at my sides and I do not resist as he takes me down to the ground-he the lion and I the gazelle awaiting the coup de gras.
But gazelles do not have the cunning of a human woman. I am lying flat on my back on the ground. Garth's eyes are beady, his countenance grim with anger as he expects me to continue resisting the indignity of being restrained in the trunk of my car.
I wrap my arms around him and draw his lips to mine. We exchange a passionate kiss and I feel the tension leaving his body.
"You didn't expect me to go in there without a fight, did you boss?"
"Fucking crazy bitch!"
The words he uttered were not meant insultingly, but instead were an expression of relief, convinced that he was now that his cargo to Pittsburgh would remain passive during the journey.
I feel his crotch. My lover is tumescent.
"Do you want me to do something about that?"
"What do you want to do about it?"
"I want to put my lips around it and suck it, and then I want you to shove it in and out of my pussy until it explodes."
"And then you'll let me tie you up and put you in the trunk?"
"I'll just lie in there, quiet and satisfied, while you just drive us along."
He plants his lips on mine. Our mouths open and our tongues wrestle as I wrap my arms around his torso, trying to mimic the strength with which he grabbed me and realizing that, while my physical prowess is feeble compared to his, the strength of my love far exceeds that of his body.
He grinds his crotch into mine and the mass between his legs exerts its magical prowess on my intimate parts which become alive. I become wet as we kiss and begin rocking my pelvis to stoke the fire that was building inside me.
We roll over and I land on top. I shed my black camisole and my nipples become erect as the cold mountain air caresses my bosom. I then collapse upon my man's sturdy chest and feel his heart pound as he envelops me with his powerful arms.
"Oh Garth, will it be the same back home?" I fret.
"As long as you don't spill the beans to the cops or put a round in my head. You know, no jury would convict you of murder for killing me and you could make quite a bit of dough if you write a book about what you've been through."
"Garth, don't spoil this!"
He takes the hint and plants his lips on mine. We kiss as tears stream down my face.
"Quit blubbering. I know you ain't going to the cops, at least not if I treat you right."
"It isn't that. I'm gonna miss this place!"
"This is a dump. So when we get home, I'm gonna get us some more money and we can have ourselves a nice place."
"You don't understand. This is where I fell in love with you. And I might never again get to see this place. You won't let even let me know where it is!"
"You'll forget this shit hole once we're staying in some place classy."