Act Two: Secret Origins
Chapter Two: Anything That You Can't Break
The gloom of a New Moon twilight settled over long stretches of grassy, undeveloped commercial lots. The elevated highway loomed ahead, but the onramp was nowhere in sight. Dee flipped on the car's high beams, switched off the radio, and drove into the whistling wind, waiting for the other shoe to drop. It took about two minutes.
Dee heard a metallic sigh. "First this Ursula woman is giving you bars of homemade soap," Galatea grumbled from the back seat. "Now I find that a lipstick fem from Japan and a chick with a three foot dick made out of rock candy want to take you 'clubbing' and treat your balls—which, I'm sure I don't need to point out, are named Mine Too and Mine Also—as their personal sperm banks."
Dee smiled into the rearview mirror. "So?" He saw no sign of Galatea in the rear shadows.
"So? So? So what is it with you and lesbians?" she demanded.
"I collect gay friends," Dee shrugged. "Everyone needs a hobby."
A chilly silence descended in the creaky cabin of the old Volkswagen. He glanced up at the mirror again, but the reflection of a high-riding pair of headlights ruined his night vision.
Dee sighed and tried again. "Would you believe I'm a butch trapped in a man's body?"
The cold silence seemed to turn thoughtful. "You know," Galatea said after a while, "I just might." Her voice sounded a little closer. "How did you know I was here, anyway?"
"I didn't," Dee said, peering ahead for the elusive onramp, "until SB tipped me off by looking right at you."
"Your lesbians are conspiring against me!" Galatea cried. Dee heard a rapid, unhappy drumming.
"Oh, come on," Dee laughed. "Besides, I should've known. You just said 'I could never be seen like this.' You didn't say that you weren't coming with me. Oh, there you are. Where's the rest of you?"
A diminutive Galatea lay on her back on the passenger side headrest, no bigger than a Barbie doll but twice as curvaceous. "At home," she fumed, "and probably so horny I'm raping the next door neighbor. Think he'd put the X-Box controller down long enough to notice?"
"Possibly. But I think Viggo's safe. "
"How do you know? This is the longest I've gone without touching you, or kissing you, or, or tasting you—"
"Or tying me down and tickling me to death."
"Exactly!" She punctuated her exclamation by fracturing into dozens of little emeralds, pelting down into the passenger seat and reforming with her head squashed shapeless against the grey cushion and her doll-sized, heart-shaped rump wiggling a few inches the air. "And I need you inside me so much it...it hurts. It actually
hurts
..."
Dee took his foot off the accelerator. The headlights behind them drew close but soon receded. Dee reached for her but she seemed so small and so fragile he did not know where to put his hand. "Honey," he soothed, "honey, what is it? What's wrong, really?"
Galatea sat up on her knees, rubbing her eyes. "Can't cry," she said, "too small. Not liquid enough."
Dee's car was rolling down the road little faster than twenty miles per hour. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to," he said, his fingertip alighting against her cheek.
She nestled the pad of his fingertip to her face as if it were a favored pillow. "Back at the store," she said, "it felt like you had more in common with those two women than you did with me. I watched the three of you become friends. We never became friends like that. They were your friends, and I was just a fuck buddy. It made me feel so lonely."
"Do you want to know why I asked for the extra hour? It wasn't for clubbing."
She hugged his finger closer. "I know," she sighed and shivered for a second. Then she perked up, "and yes, I want to know."
He pried his finger away and pulled a grubby, folded piece of printer paper out of a jacket pocket. "I'm going to get one of these," he said, handing it over.
Galatea's face crinkled in confusion as she unfolded the paper. She stared, and stared, and stared, and then leapt into the foot well of the rear seat. "Where is it?" she grunted. Dee treated his car like a purse. Maps, empty cans, CDs, and more detritus flew high in Galatea's frantic search. "I know I saw one here somewhere!"
"What's wrong?" Dee said, stomping on the accelerator. "I'll try to get home as fast as possi—"
"No!" Galatea screamed, and then: "Yes! Yes. Got it. Yes!"
She lugged a plastic water bottle, an inch stouter than her pint-sized form, back into the passenger seat. She wrenched off the white bottle cap, crammed her unhinged jaw over the mouth of the bottle, and plopped down onto her back. Dee found the onramp to the highway at last and gunned for it. "Hang on, honey," he said, watching the plastic bottle crunch and accordion down as she sucked it dry.
The crumpled, empty bottle fell away from her face. She wobbled up. A smidge taller than twelve inches high, she had plumped from voluptuous to positively zaftig, a figurine of a fertility goddess carved of mint jelly, the swells of her breasts and hips as wide as she was tall. "Okay," she gulped, "okay. Okay...
Wah
!" She cried like a lawn sprinkler. Tears squirted in curved trajectories all around her.
Dee's car roared onto the highway. "Honey?"
"That's so romantic!" Galatea sobbed, spilling over onto her back again. Saccharine, green water rained down inside Dee's car.
"Galatea, it's not that big a deal. I just thought you'd appreciate it."
She undulated up and over to hunker on all fours. "I love it," she groaned, starting a deliberate, rippling crawl toward Dee's crotch. She had lost much of her water weight but she was still so stacked it looked like her tits and hips were creeping along and her arms were moving just for show. "It's also," she panted, "the hottest fucking thing I've ever fucking heard in my entire fucking life."
"Uh," said Dee, checking the rearview mirror and shifting uncomfortably as Galatea oozed over the emergency break between the two front seats, "you've said that already. Uh. Remember? Galatea?"
"No," she cooed, flowing into Dee's lap like a fat, hungry cat, her outline swallowed by the shadows beneath the steering column, "this tops that by like a fucking mile." Dee felt hundreds of questing, urgent fingers slip over his belt, into his pants, behind the elastic band of briefs, and wrap snuggly around his dick. The fingers squeezed a pulsing rhythm. His hands jerked on the wheel and the car swerved. "Why the Hell are you still wearing pants?" Galatea said.
Dee tried slow the car down but felt thick rubbery bands bind his foot tight to the accelerator. "Oh, no," Galatea chuckled from the darkness below the steering column. "You're going to make sure you keep moving as fast as you can." Dee's belt flew into the back seat. The top button of his jeans, trailing thin shreds of denim, soon followed. "And I'm going to make sure you keep cumming as hard and as fast and as much as you can."
The long, narrow fingers encircling his manhood braided together into flexed, snaky ropes. "I think I'll start you off with a quickie," Galatea said as more ropes threaded into position, wedging the fly of his jean open and ripping his briefs in half. "I'm gunna need a vitamin Dee pick-me-up for what I've got planned."
Dee tried concentrating on the dark highway ahead. The braids twisted over him, their knots clicking out a quiet percussion. The rhythm sounded familiar and he did his best to act terrified. "Not the Nest of Twenty Rattlesnakes Technique!" he improvised.
"The very same!" reveled Galatea, her impression of a vaudevillian villainess pure perfection. "What the Twenty Rattlers lack in subtlety—" Dee's lap began to purr like a snare drum "—they make up for in
speed
."