Sarah
Outside Hardstorm: July 10th 2052
"What do you mean you have been
bootlegging
?" Amanda looked at Sarah stunned.
"Well. It started a few years ago honestly," Sarah looked over at Amanda while she drove. Amanda was staring at her with those sharp green eyes. She had a few strands of her shoulder length black hair in her face. Sarah always thought that her bestfriends eyes were the best thing about her.
"What about Sam? What about Travis? What about, I mean how, where?" Amanda wanted to know everything and Sarah didn't have that much time.
"Trav doesn't know yet. Sam and I were going to tell him but it hasn't come up yet." Sarah turned off the side road onto a smaller dirt road. Sam's truck bounced over the pot holes, they were going deeper into the woods.
"My dad used to do this years ago. He was partners with a guy named William. He hated the fact that he was doing it to make ends meet and he made William promise not to get me involved." Sarah paused to look at Amanda again. She wasn't staring at her anymore but was listening as she looked out the window.
"When we moved back here together a few years ago and I started working at the bar, it was Sam that was supplying us with moonshine. I knew it had to be Bill because the moonshine tasted just like I remembered. I convinced Sam to let me join eventually and..." Sarah pulled off the dirt road onto a narrow path that the truck barely fit in.
"He was pissed at first but Sam didn't know that Bill already knew me." Sarah stoped the truck. "We're here."
"What do you mean? There's nothing here." Amanda noticed that they were deep into the woods. Nothing was around them, the foliage pressed close against the path.
Sarah opened the door, "wait here until I motion you to come out, he doesn't like stangers." Sarah grabed her carbine and slung it over her shoulder. She paused as she was closing the door. "Oh yeah... he thinks I'm a lesbian... so keep that going will you?" She closed the door before Amanda could respond. 'This is all Sam's fault,' she thought.
Sarah walked ahead 20 yards before calling out. She waited for a reply and got nothing. Bill was never late in the past. That could only mean one of two things. He saw Amanda in the truck or something happened to him. Bill was near 80 and one tough son of a bitch. But just to be on the safe side she unslung het carbine before shouting out again.
"It's me... Sam couldn't make it so I brought...
my partner
."
"Heh, heh..." she heard the familiar laugh. "Why don't you put that piece away. You think I'd let someone sneak up on me like you just did?"
William McCoy was an untrusting sort. He hated modern technology especially the electric motors that had been in use in all vehicles for the last 30 or so years. The oil prices and economic condition of the country made it the only affordable means of transportation left.
Bill stepped out from his hiding spot. His colt navy single action revolver in his hand. 'Old school.' Sarah thought.
"Not that I don't trust you Sarah, but let's have this
partner
step out of the truck where I can see her better."
'Her.' Sarah heard it clearly. He might have known her father and been old enough to be her grandfather but he was still an old perv. Sarah motioned for Amanda to get out of the truck. She started walking towards them but Sarah signaled with her hand to stop.
She glanced at Bill briefly, he was looking Amanda up and down. Sarah turned her gaze back at Amanda. She had to admit, Amanda was hot. She had on a olive drab tank top with a pair of tight black shorts. Her thigh holster and hiking boots completed the look. 'Damn she looks sexy in that.'
Sarah caught herself staring at her bestfriend but couldn't stop herself. Amanda waited impatiently and crossed her arms over her chest. Sarah looked back at Bill. "Had enough?"
Bill stroked his gray beard. He wore just a pair of overalls as far as Sarah could tell. "Alright... have her drive the truck up here, I always imagined you as the lipstick one."
"What does that mean?" Asked Sarah defensively.
"Well look at that body. What is she 90 pounds. Looks like she could eat a sandwich." Bill smiled with his missing teeth showing. "Then look at you... if your father was here now..."
"If my father what Bill." Sarah steamed at him.
"Heh, heh, I would be giving him a hard time that his daughter was getting more pussy then me." He smiled again and Sarah had to laugh.
Sarah turned shaking her head. Bill could always get her to laugh. "Get the truck and follow us." Amanda hesitated enough to make Sarah wonder and then went to get in the drivers seat. Sarah turned to follow Bill.
"So no Sam today. Anything I should know about?" Bill always wanted to know when things didn't go to plan.
"Travis had to go to Laketon and told Sam to do a firedrill today, so he is busy." Sarah tried to brush it off. She hadn't actually seen Bill since the war and worried that Sam's lie would come back to haunt her. She hated lying and this was torture.