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Cabin Of Death (and Other Stories)
(Aaron Majewski)

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!"