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Sindi had been standing at the gas pump for just a few moments when the radio began to play a song that seemed to fit the mood.
"On a dark desert highway,
Cool wind in my hair,
Warm smell of colitas,
Rising up through the air."
"Well, if colitas is a high octane gasoline, then yep, I'm right there with you, Don," Sindi said to her radio. She looked around the single island of two gas pumps at the old gas station in the middle of the Nevada desert, just wondering where in the hell she really was. "You guys better not be having fun without me," she said to herself.
Sindi's short fire-red hair caressed her jaw line with its edges, in a tickling fashion. She could just hear in the distance the sound of a wolf being carried by the gentle breeze. Thinking about wild animals, even those as beautiful as wolves, made her just a little bit nervous to be standing out in the open like this.
She turned her attention to the blackness just outside the ancient lights of the gas station. She thought she could see shadows moving at this midnight hour, dark images that didn't look like animals or humans. A shiver ran down her back, causing Sindi to cross her arms tightly to her lower chest. She strained her eyes to make out those shapes, knowing that they couldn't be real monsters; but those shapes had to be something.
If there was just a little more light, she thought to herself, wondering where the traffic had gone. Since pulling into the gas station, it seemed all the cars that she had been seeing on highway just disappeared. There hadn't been a car to pass the gas station since she had climbed out of it. The only real close noise was that of the older model pump clicking the numbers over as the price changed.
Turning her attention back to the only way in and out of the station, she could barely make out the edge of the road in the darkness. It, apparently, was her luck for the full moon to go behind a very thick cloud bank while she was refueling. Once again, the sound of the wolf's howl in the distance drug her attention back to the pitch black darkness around the island of light she stood in.
"I thought the desert was supposed to be beautiful," she said aloud, just to hear her own voice. "Why does it have to be so creepy?"
She had a sudden feeling that the darkness was creeping in from behind her, and she slowly turned her head to look over her shoulder, thinking to herself it was just like a horror movie. She was going to see the evil monster, mouth salivating and long tongue hanging out, hundreds of long white razor-sharp teeth, staring her face, waiting for the green scaly claws to finish ripping her five foot one inch frame to shreds no bigger than confetti.
She had just seen that the darkness had not come into the lighted area and let out a sigh of relief when the sigh burst into a yelp of shock and surprise. Her cell phone, deep inside her low slung, very tight, jeans was playing Hotel California as it vibrated against her inner thighs. The feeling, at that moment of release from the fear that had gripped her, almost made her press it harder into its location so it would stimulate her more.
Instead, Sindi did what she knew she should do. She reached into her pocket slowly, giving the vibrations more time to play its music into her body, before reluctantly pulling it out. She saw Cinder's picture on the screen and answered the call. She needed to find out where she was going to meet back up with the band.
"Hey, Cinder, what's up? ... Yeah, I know I'm late, but it was a pain in the ass to get the guy to stop staring at me and give me your new mike."
Sindi shook her head at how easily she had been spooked by the desert, especially since there was now traffic moving regularly on the road and the full moon lit up the desert in a beautiful evening shade of blues, grays and black. She could even smell something floral on the wind, just underneath the smell of the gasoline.
"Yeah, I'm still here. Sorry. What were you saying again? ... Okay, for starters, I was getting your new mike, Cinder, and you guys are the ones that left me behind...of course my car's fast. It's a fucking Mustang! ... Ha. Ha. Very funny. Yes, I'm sure I can catch up, too."
She stood still for a bit, listening to Cinder talk and hearing the other girls in the band doing something in the background that sounded like fun. Damn them. She heard a loud click and saw the gas pump had stopped.
"Okay, I'll hurry and catch up with you guys soon," she said into the phone as she walked to the glass enclosure of the gas station. "Do you have a map of the area?" she asked the man behind the counter.
He looked up at Sindi with little more than a glance, just catching her eyes, before looking under the counter and pulling out a folded up map. He slid it across the counter as grabbed a pen set out for customers paying with credit cards.
"Where are the next couple of stops you guys are going to make for fuel so I'll know which direction to head in?" After scribbling down a couple of intersections on the front of the map, Sindi put the pen back and picked up the map. "Okay, and where are we playing again, in case I don't meet up with you before then?"
"All right, I don't think I'm too far behind you guys; but if I am, I'll see you tomorrow night at the club."
Sindi hung up her cell phone and slid it deep into her front pocket, and pulling out $40's and handed it to the older man. She took her change and gave the attendant a nice little smile before making a purposeful spin on her heals and let her ass sway from side to side on the way back to the burnt orange mustang with its black racing stripes.
I bet it's the best looking ass he's seen in years, she thought during the walk. When she climbed into driver seat, the sound door closing and locking was like a gospel choir singing "Hallelujah." The next chorus was when she heard her own tires squeal out of the lot and back onto the highway in the traffic.
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It seemed like it had been days, though she knew it was only been about five hours since she had left the gas station. The horizon behind her was just starting to lighten up as the sun slowly reached it, and her head was beginning to grow heavy and her sight was growing dim from the long drive over night.
Sindi pulled over and looked at her cell phone for the twentieth time and saw that it still had no bars.
"Can you hear me now, my fucking ass," she said aloud, just to hear a voice. Sindi picked up the map for the first time, figuring that it was about time to figure out just exactly where she really was. She at least knew that she had remained on the same highway since leaving the gas station.
Opening it, she was surprised to find a bright red dot on the map showing with the words, in the same red ink, "YOU GOT THIS MAP HERE" written next to it. Following the blue line of the small highway east, Sindi unfolded the next portion of the map and saw a large red X just off the highway, not far from where she believed she was at, with the words "SUCCUBUS RANCH" next to it.
"Well, even a ranch this far out in the middle of no where should have a phone of some sort," she said to herself. "If anything, I might be able to talk them into letting me catch some sleep in a spare room. Hell, anything is better than driving while I'm this tired."
As she drove on, still headed toward the left over darkness of the waning night, Sindi saw a shimmering light. As she got closer, she discovered that the light was coming from a large neon sign at the end of an entrance to a parking lot. A very scantily clad woman with black bat wings and small horns was glowing in the reds of the neon wrapped around the form. The name of the business almost caused Sindi to decide to sleep in her car after all.
"Succubus Ranch is a brothel?" she asked the empty seat next to her, glancing at the map lying there. "I'm probably going to hell for this, but I can at least see if they'll let me sleep here for a few hours. If not, at least I'll finally be talking to someone else instead of myself."
As it was in the early morning hours, Sindi was able to find a spot real close to the two story building. Climbing out of the car, she marveled for a moment at how elegant this southern-style plantation house while it was surrounded by nothing but a parking lot and barren desert land. Movement on the large porch caught her attention, and she could have sworn that she saw the grey fluffy tail of a wolf move around the corner of the building through the porch railings.