EXCERPT From THE CABIN OF DEATH...
The three-lane highway appeared little trafficked, long quiet moments
passed in stillness... a car passed by; a blue Toyota. A few seconds later a
yellow extended convertible drove by, full of shouting teenagers, all female;
its radio blasted a song by Marcy Playground- Sex and Candy. The driver, Ann
Parsons was a beautiful Caucasian woman in her early twenties with natural red
hair, sparkling green eyes and a dazzling smile. She was going to med school
next year and very excited about the prospect, especially as she was sure her ex
likely wouldn’t be around. Sitting beside her, her best friend May (short for
Marilyn) Chung, just twenty short and Chinese with a brilliant mind and short
temper. She was pretty with glossy black hair and an energy that made men flock
to her, but deeply in love she ignored all others.
In the middle seat was Mary Beth, a nineteen-year-old black classical
musician. The daughter of a deeply devoted fire & brimstone style southern
minister, who had made a point of raising his daughter properly; refusing to
allow her to become the stereotypical preacher’s-daughter-who-rebelled. Beside
her Susan Maid, nineteen white and beautiful, with wheat blond hair and bright
blue eyes. On her other side sat Lisa Smith, nineteen and white, with brown hair
and the ever rare and exotic green eyes. Alone in the back seat, sitting amidst
bags and supplies like a vulture atop a recently deceased longhorn in the Texas
desert, Leslie Croux a French-Canadian from Ontario, with dual citizenship. She
was the youngest of the group at eighteen, but also the most outspoken and
fearless; she had several tattoos, was a professional dominatrix and Lisa’s
lesbian lover.
The girls laughed and joked, having a good time. Susan, Lisa and Leslie
all had open beers from one of several twelve packs in the back seat; they
quickly hid them when they passed a slower moving police cruiser. Up ahead in
one of the other lanes loomed the blue Toyota; suddenly raising her beer as if
to make a toast Leslie spoke up.
“Hay Mary, I dare you to show that car up ahead your sideways smile!”
Looking nervous Mary asked, “What? What’s a sideways smile?”
Lisa Smith knowing her Mistress well, laughed. “Your ass Mary! She wants
you to flash the car as we pass it.”
Mary looked very innocent and unsure. “I, I don’t know; I don’t think
it’s a good idea.”
“Come on what’s the worst that could happen?”Leslie cajoled.
Lisa agreed, “It only takes a second to pass them, it’s fun honest.”
“Well…”
Leslie encouraged, pushing. “Come on we’ll show you this time, right
Lisa?”
“Right! Watch us,”Lisa agreed enthusiastically.
Susan spoke up with a smile for the antics of the Dommina and her slave.
“Pass the car up ahead Ann, this should be fun.”
May looked very bored even sleepy, as Ann pulled her car up next to the
blue Toyota. Its windows were rolled down with four rowdy male teenagers
inside.
Leslie called out ringingly. “Hay boys!”
She got their attention easily. When they looked over Leslie and Lisa
pulled their pants down, mooning the boys.
Susan spoke conversationally, with a big smile on her face. “Do you like
what you see?”
One of the boys a camera in his lap, answered quickly for the group of
open mouthed teenagers, the eldest clearly no more than Leslie Croux’s age.
“Hell yeah! Oh baby!”
He fumbled with the camera, getting it ready just as the girls pull their
pants back up and sit down.
“Sorry boys, we’re lesbians!”Leslie called cheerily.
Susan blew the boys a kiss as Lisa leaned over the seat to kiss her
lover, then Ann sped up leaving the boys far behind while the girls laughed.
Soon a green bug appeared in the opposite lane.
“Ok Mary, your turn.”Oozing with fake enthusiasm, “Oh look it’s even on
the right side.”
Mary pouted a little. “Ok…”
As the convertible pulled even with the bug Mary, without looking at the
passengers of the other car, pulled down her blue jean shorts and lent her
rear-end out over the side of the car, wagging it a little and laughing as she
got into the mood. Ann honked the convertible’s horn repeatedly to get the other
car’s attention.
In the green bug two old grannies looked on horrified as a young black
girl mooned them, laughing. The granny in the passenger seat rolled up her
window but was too scandalized by the sight to look away. Suddenly Lisa lunged
across the seat and grabbed Mary in a headlock, preventing her from pulling her
jeans back up.
Susan looked surprised, throwing up her hands in protest. “HAY!”
Her voice full of shock, surprise and a little fear, Mary struggled and
demanded, “Hay! What are you doing? Let go of me; Ann make her let go!”
Ann glanced quickly over her shoulder. “Cut it out you four, I’m trying
to drive up here.”She sped up to pull away from the green bug and horrified
grannies.
Meanwhile Leslie has already pulled a camera from her bag. As Lisa held
Mary still, turning her a little, Leslie leaned over the seat and snapped a
picture of Mary’s ass. Instantly Lisa released her, collapsing back into her
seat and laughing.
Leslie held up her digital camera to look at the picture. “That’s a nice
ass you got there Mary!”With fake envy, “Ohhh, pink panties with little red
harts.”
Looking flustered and angry Mary pulled her jeans up, then lunged across
the back seat, trying to get Leslie’s camera. “Give me that picture!”
Holding the camera out of Mary’s reach, Leslie laughed a little cruelly.
“Maybe I’ll make a copy and give it to Doug, but then he must have seen that
already.”
“Don’t you dare! Dammit give it to me!”
Laughing harder. “Little preacher’s daughter Mary mooning and swearing, all in
the same day!
We must be a bad influence on you Mary, what will choir boy Doug think
when we tell him?”
Near tears. “Damn you it’s not funny, give me that!”
Leslie pressed a button and ejected the image disk from the camera. “Ok,
okay…”she relented. “Here you can have the disk I have plenty more of them.”She
handed the tiny black disk to Mary.
Mary snapped the little disk in two angrily and hurled the pieces out of
the car, then turned around crossing her arms over her chest, and refused to
look anyone in the eye, sulking. Alone in the back seat Leslie pushed another
button on the camera, pulling the picture up from the temp storage drive built
into the camera. She looked at it for a moment with a smile of satisfaction on
her face before putting the camera away.
Two highway patrol officers were driving a few cars behind the yellow
convertible and could see most of the action. The driver a female officer in her
thirties with soft brown hair, a hard mouth and eyes hidden behind dark
sunglasses, looked vaguely bored. The other officer a man, was fat and in his
forties, unlike his counterpart he was not wearing a seatbelt, despite the fact
that this is a crime. A box of donuts sat in his lap, a jelly filled one in his
hand, the other held a pair of binoculars; a Styrofoam cup of coffee sat before
him gently steaming on the dash.
The male officer spoke. “Nice ass, all three of them…”As an obvious
afterthought and attempt at justification, “But what they’re doing is dangerous,
perhaps we should pull them over and check to make sure they aren’t under the
influence.”
Janet looked only slightly disgusted, used to him after a half dozen
years, but she forced a harsh edge to her tone knowing she had to work to talk
him out of six lovely ladies. “You’re a pig Frank.”Then suddenly bored. “Besides
you have a wife at home; like I told you that night at the bar when you had five
or six too many.”
A wheedling tone entered his voice, even as he ignored the not so subtle
reminder of his indiscretion. “They’ve got open containers of alcohol, I saw it
when they passed us back there.”
Talking to a child that wants a toy it can not have. “Four of them have
beer, the driver doesn’t and is driving carefully. Besides we go off duty in
fifteen minutes, you want to spend your afternoon filling out forms just so you
can cop a feel?”
Sighing heavily. “Several feels… I bet they all have nice firm asses.”
Looking at him firmly. “No Frank.”
“Ok, you’re right. Head for town.”
In the yellow convertible, an expensive classic car, Susan lounged at
ease in the comfortable leather seat. “So Mary, tell me about this guy your
boyfriend’s bringing for me.”
Mary answered enthusiastically. “He’s Doug’s brother, don’t worry he’s a
hunk, you’ll forget all about Greg in no time.”
Lisa spoke snidely. “Is this one a choirboy too?”
Bristling. “Yes, so what?”
Susan lept to Mary’s defense. “What’s it to you, you’re gay.”
Leslie the girl’s Mistress teased. “No, that’s physically impossible
she’s a lesbian. Men are gay women are lesbians: and I’m bi,”she grinned
wolfishly, “nobody is safe from me.”
Deciding the best course was to ignore her Mary causally changed the
subject. “So Ann, what about Rick; I know he’s driving up with the others in
your second car,”a note of carefully hidden concern entered her voice, “but how
is it between you two?”
Ann hunched her shoulders defensively, and pretended not to hear.
May spoke with a carefully modulated drawl. “Annnnn…”
Muttered quietly. “What?”
“Mary wants to know about Rick, perhaps you should tell them.”
Muttered a little louder. “Not while I’m driving.”
Mary and Susan spoke at the exact same time, using the exact same words.
“What? What about Rick Ann?”
Ann replied very causally. “I’m breaking up with him.”
Mary exclaimed, “What? That’s great!”
At the same time Susan competed to say vehemently, “Good, he’s scum!”
Lisa teasing aside and glad for her friend, spoke at the same time as the
other two. “It’s about time, he was no good for you.”
Leslie spoke very calmly, waiting until after the others were finished
speaking. “It is about fucking time! We’ve been ignoring the bruises, you’re a
big girl and no one wanted to say anything; but that bastard is no good for you
or anyone else.”She lent across the seat, with sudden vehemence. “Now when
exactly are you going to tell him? ‘cause I want to be there to spit on him on
his way out.”
“I’m telling him when he reaches the cabin, that way he can take the
motorcycle and just leave.”
“It’s a good thing the other three are coming up with him, we know he has
a dangerous temper,”Susan said.
Ann answered. “Well Marilyn will be there too, you know she has a brown
belt in aikido, and a green in savat.”
Lisa exclaimed girlishly. “Wow! May I never realized you were so… um,”she
looked at the sky as she searched for a word, “dangerous.”
May shrugged, not bothering to reply, instead she looked out at the
terrain rolling smoothly by.
“Ann this is really good, and you know we all support you but, when did
you make this decision?”Leslie asked.
“Last month, remember when I disappeared for three days? Well, we had a
big fight and… he beat me pretty bad… even broke a rib.”
May spoke as if bored and only half present. “She’s been staying with me
ever since.”
Leslie with good reason, was furious. “God dammit Ann, you should have
charged that bastard. Did you go to the hospital, get a record of the injuries,
make a police report; anything?”
Ann shook her head emphatically. “No I don’t want him to go to jail, I
just want him out of my life.”
Leslie spoke softly, so softly the three in the seat in front of her
could hear, but Ann didn’t. “Shit Ann, I’m still worried for you.”The dom sighed
heavily and looked up at the sky, as if looking to god for answers; answers that
weren’t there.
Susan reassured. “This is a good thing Ann, but won’t it be a little
awkward when you get to medical school, he’s going to be taking all the same
courses isn’t he?”
Ann shook her head ruefully. “That’s what the fight was about,” a note of
scorn entered her voice, “his daddy pulled financial support, said it’s time
Rick learned to fend for himself. There he was with all the grades but not the
money, about to look like a loser in front of all his friends. So he comes to me
and orders me, orders! me to convince my uncle to let me use my trust fund to
pay for his tuition. I might have done it if he’d tried to be nice, up till a
month ago I was totally in love with him, but he made it sound as if I was his
slave and the money was his rightful due. So we had a big fight and I went to
stay with May, didn’t speak to him again until I called and invited him up to
the cabin. The big jerk probably thinks I’m going to beg him to take me back,
thinks I’ll once again spread my legs and my wallet for him.”She snorted, “he’s
in for a big surprise.”
“Don’t worry about him any more Ann, we’ll all take care of you, in the
meantime let’s all enjoy what remains of our summer before we all have to go
back to university.”Leslie made it sound like an order, and somehow it made Ann
feel better.
Susan screamed and pumped her fist. “Yeah! Here’s to summer fun and the
rest of our lives!”
The other girls all cheered.
“To summer!… and med school without Rick!”Ann agreed.
May leaned over and punched Ann’s shoulder lightly. “You’re the only one
who would cheer for school, but the part about no Rick is good.”Screaming, “Down
with Rick!”
All the girls screamed. “DOWN WITH RICK!”
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