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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?"