Ben had the strangest sensation, like waking up from a dream about waking up from a dream—but he had woke up ten minutes ago. He felt a strange tingling pain at the back of his skull, but after a few moments it subsided.
"Are you sure you packed everything?" Vic asked before yawning mightily, closing the driver's side door with a heavy enough slam to shake the snow off the window, "Your laptop? Your wallet? Your toothbrush"
"Of course, babe. I got everything ready last night," Ben responded groggily, leaning over to kiss his girlfriend's cheek, "thanks again for waking up early to drive me."
"You know me," she groaned to herself, "I can't say no to your big mopey eyes—especially when they are looking up at me from between my legs."
Ben chuckled. He had been particularly diligent the night before.
Vic smiled and winked at him as she turned the key in the ignition and her car fired up, its old engine groaning to life. Cold air started blasting from the AC vents, and Ben threw up his arms to shield himself as Vic scrambled to turn off the fan.
"Sorry babe," Vic said as the air turned off, "I must have forgot to turn the fan off yesterday. It always takes so long for the Tammy here to heat up."
'Tammy' was the affectionate name that Vic had given her twenty-five-year-old beater. She had inherited Tammy from her older brother, and he had inherited the car from their uncle. She seemed to always be in a perpetual state of disrepair, but in the two and a half years he and Vic had been together, Ben had yet to see Tammy actually break down. Vic was very protective of Tammy, and not even Ben was allowed to drive her.
"Hardly a point in turning it on at all—it's such a short drive to the bus station."
Ben nodded. Vic squinted at the rear view and grabbed it to readjust it, taking a moment to look at her own reflection.
"Ugh I look like an ogre," she said, her hand patting the misshapen mass of her curly black hair, "I guess you'll have to settle with a goodbye kiss from an ogre."
Ben looked at his girlfriend. It was true, her thick black ringlets, usually cascading down her shoulders like some sort of inky waterfall, was a bit more like a chaotic cloud, but he didn't think it made her any less beautiful. Her always liked to tell her she looked like Wonder Woman, which she would always take jokingly as an insult—either that her shoulders were too broad or her boobs were too big—though she knew after two and a half years that he loved every inch of her.
"I'll risk it," he said with a grin, "if you're an ogre, I guess I'm an ogre-sexual now."
Vic rolled her eyes at that, fixed her side view mirrors, and put the car in reverse, pulling out of the driveway and out into the wintry streets of their small town.
"I just hope there aren't any pretty ogres that catch your eye while you're in the city. Remember: you're mine."
"I would never forget, babe. Besides, I'm going to a boring conference for work, not a nightclub. MORE stands for Marketing Opportunities in Renewable Energy, not Man...Ogling...Risky..."
"Man-eating Ogresses Ravenous for Ejaculate," she said without missing a beat, giving him a dirty grin.
The telltale chime of Vic's phone notification on maximum volume rang through the car, and when they came to a stop sign she briefly pulled it out from her purse to check it.
"Who's texting you at four in the morning?" Ben asked grumpily, "and why is your phone so loud?"
"It's just Juliet," Vic answered quickly, closing her phone and silencing it before tucking it back in her purse, "she's always texting me, I just usually have it on 'do not disturb' when I'm sleeping. I made it loud so you would wake up to the alarm, silly."
Vic smirked as she eased Tammy out into the intersection and turned a slow left, the crunch of snow under her tires and the rumble of Tammy's engine the only sounds on the wintry street.
"What does she have to say?" Ben asked rubbing his hands together to keep them warm.
"Oh. Uh...something about a date with her new boyfriend? I just glanced at it, babe, I'm driving."
Ben nodded.
"Want me to read it for you?"
"Don't worry about it—I'll read it later. This early in the morning, I'm officially asleep for everyone except for you, ogre-lover," she waggled her eyebrows at him.
It was only a few more minutes before they made it to the bus station—some other time of year Ben would have walked, but at this hour and in this weather it would have been excruciating. On the way, Tammy's heat finally came on, and Vic flicked on the fan, the inside of the car finally starting to approach a comfortable temperature. The parking lot of the bus station was quiet—five or six idling cars were parked, no doubt kept running so that their passengers could stay warm while waiting.
"Looks like the bus is late," Ben said, taking out his smartphone—he had downloaded an app to track the bus when he bought the ticket a few weeks ago, more out of curiosity than out of any expectation that he would use it.
"It says its stopping up by the University now—and after that I think it goes by Blackridge. Ten, Fifteen more minutes?"
Vic pressed her face into the top of the steering wheel.
"I want to sleeeeeeeep," she croaked.
"Sorry babe," Ben said, reaching over to pat Vic's puff of curly hair, "I could go inside the station—I don't think there's any heating in there but at least I won't be in the wind?"
"No," Vic said vehemently, "I'm not an asshole; I'm not going to strand you out here in the cold just because I'm sleepy."
After a moment of thoughtfulness, she leaned back and looked Ben up and down with a mischievous grin.
"So—where do you want your goodbye kiss?"
"What?" Ben responded dumbly.
"Well, you're going to be gone for a couple days...and you did all of that for me last night..." Vic put her hand on Ben's thigh, and he felt his heart start to pound in excitement.
"You mean—here? Now?"
"Well I mean, you told me the other day that you thought the idea of doing things in public was kinda...hot," her hand moved up his jeans to his groin, cupping his crotch and squeezing gently, "but both of us agreed that actually getting caught was a deal-breaker. This is kinda public, but I don't think anyone's gonna get out of their cars and walk over here any time soon..."
Ben's heart was pounding. He was getting hard under her gentle ministrations. Vic started to move her hand up to his belt. He remembered the conversation—they had talked about fantasies, what the other one thought was hot. Threesomes had come up, as had a few other things, including this...but he had never expected to have anything from that conversation sprung on him like this.
"Look, babe, believe me this is like, the hottest thing ever, but what if I...make a mess? I'm wearing these pants on the bus and to the conference, and the ride is like, seven hours—"
"—I'll swallow," she stated, her deep blue eyes intently staring into his, her lips twisted into a hungry smile; Ben felt his cock press hard against his pants, bulging up to brush against her wrist as she worked on his belt.
"Mmmm it feels like you like this idea?" she said with a sultry laugh as she brought her other hand over to unfasten his belt and unzip his fly.
"Oh shit! Yeah, I love it but—" he paused briefly as she snaked one hand into his jeans and grabbed onto his cock through his boxer-briefs, "Holy shit!"
"But what, babe?" Vic asked, undoing her own seatbelt so that she could move more freely. She took her hand out of his pants and then started to peel them down; without a word he lifted himself up so that she could slide them to his knees, his erection springing to attention under his boxer briefs, tenting them comically—prompting Vic to giggle, swatting at the bobbing tent like a playful kitten with a new toy.
"The bus is going to be here in like...ten minutes..."
"I like a challenge!" she said, before quickly yanking his underwear down to reveal his penis, which bounced into the chilly air, pulsing with lust.
He inhaled sharply at the chill.
"What's wrong, Ben?" Vic asked, resting her head on his thigh to look up into his eyes, his throbbing cock between their faces, "Is my eager friend here a little cold?"
As she said the word 'friend,' she took her left hand and perched all five of her fingers at the top of his cock, only touching it with her finger tips, and then spread her fingers slowly as she pushed them down, tickling and caressing it on every side.
"Yeah—yeah he's a little cold."
"Then I'll warm him up!" she chirped enthusiastically, before grabbing his cock at the base with one hand, aiming it towards her mouth, and then licking her lips, "here's your goodbye kiss, babe."