Chapter Nine
I’m a man, I’m a boy
I’m a man, well I’m your mother
I’m a man, I’m a one night stand
I’m a man, I’m a I bi
I’m a man, I’m a slave
I’m a man, I’m a little girl
And we make love together — Berlin
Morning came. Dell and Kay’s RV was in the parking lot at the White House again. I noticed this while still scratching the sleep from my red eyes, and went down the outside stairs to smoke.
“Good morning Darin!” Kay yelled, waving.
“Good morning to you both you two!” I tried to fake off with sleepy congeniality.
“Orange juice?” She offered, while holding up a pitcher, then setting down on their patio furniture.
“Not a fan, but thanks anyway.”
What sounded like a breeze, was Velvet brushig though the thickets lining the trail. She walked up to me, and asked if we could go out of view of the Stayner’s
Dell and Kay, gave an disapproving glance at each other, but I went with Velvet anyway. Once behind one to the corners of the White House; “I asked, “What are you doing here so early in the Morning.”
“ Have to catch my car pool a little ways down the road.”
“So is Josh here?
“You know he’s here.”
“I saw you, attraction right away, and there’s something I want to demonstrate.
She laid a big kiss on me. A passionate one.
Then she grabbed my hand and took me to the trail, where we parted bush’s to be alone. I think you can guess the rest. And about midway through, I had her hands to the ground, looked her in the eye, and asked what she was looking for.
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Velvet picked off thorns, and foxtails, from her clothes: her school clothes. We kissed goodbye. Off to school she went, brushing away a trail festooned with overgrowth of weeds, and trees. I just sat there for a while feeling guilty. Strange.Why did that have to happen? Plus, she knows Josh, is working so this was deliberate. Is she the definition of a black widow? Sometimes my head goes too far.” She walked off to school catch her carpool to school.
I went up the outside stairs to shower and bee-lined to it
“Darin, come here.” Whispered Dana. I walked in her room and closed the door. I want you to host, and sing tonight at Karaoke.”
“NO.”
“Well at least sing. Sing “Shout, by Tears for Fears, I melt with You, Mad World, and anything my Depeche Mode!”
“Ok, great. I’’ be there.
“Plus the whole family will be there and you will get to know Corey.”
“Corey’s sort of the wild girl in the bunch?”
“Understated Darin.”
“On a completely different note, I want to see Cary.”
“As you know, they're about to move the trail?”
“I want to see the courthouse, maybe something is going on.” I pressed.
“Let’s go check out the courthouse at 3:00 this afternoon, we should be done with our shifts.” Dana
Once downstairs, I noticed Josh working his ass off in the dish pit. I have never felt so guilty.
Dana, and I served all day. I got to go into the kitchen and make cheesecake. Then our day was over.
Once we cleaned-up, and decided our tips, we got into Dana’s Ford 150.
“So, who has your most attention: Josh, Velvet, or the sheriff’s daughter. Or Josh?” She said this with a good mood.
“I’m most interested in Josh’s family. Josh is hot too. So is Velvet.”
“You said Josh first!”
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“Only because you used the latter.”
“Ok, let's say you went for Josh, who seems to be at this point bi.”
“So, just because a person messes around with someone bi, or strait, necessarily determine sexuality. Besides, his family is fun.”
“Ok, I’ve messed around with men before.” Dana finally admitted.
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The Courthouse steps were rickety. Old wood, probably built in some-give a-fuck time in the 1800’s. The door was a double. A steeple with a clock with a white flower clock towered above the doors.
Dana opened the doors, which were closed. There were men inside talk in the old-smelling building. The sign on the door said; “No Press”, but me and Dana opened the door as silently as she could; just enough. There was Cary sitting next to his lawyer; shacked by the hand, and wrist. We watched for a moment. Boring lawyer talk; this statute, and quotes from other cases. We decided to creep down the stairs.
“Let’s go to Pony Expresso, I’ll get you an iced Americano.”
Dana is an expert at burying her emotions. She will come to me when she wants.”
At Pony Espresso, she mentioned nothing about what we just did. She acted with Patty like there was nothing wrong. Patty gave me an iced esxesso on the house. Is this how the whole Stayner family is? Rendered to oblivious truth, to mush?
When we were alone, in her truck, I said; “You asked me some questions, my turn. And these are personal, just like yours; “ Have you ever attend Carry’s trial, have you ever smoked pot, and have you ever gone out with someone around here who is less mature around here.”’’
“Yes, no, and yes.”
“Guess what?”
“I had a screwball of a time with Velvet this morning.” She came through the trail in the woods, took my away from Dell and Kay and we screwed like bunnies.”
“OH GOD, please tell me you’re kidding.”
“Nope, right off the trail.”
“Oh fuck, how are you going to get out of this one?”
“I kissed Josh too.
“So you have no problem kissing a guy, what would you be like with women?”
“Another topic, what exactly happened at the Bug? I’m guessing a whole lot of guys were jejous of you and Josh.”
“It was Eric, and he tried to suck my cock. He wanted to do both me and Josh, but that’s not all, he gave Josh a bloody nose when Josh said no. JUST because he said no. I was standing up for my friend.”
“WHAT? Really? “
“You know what Dana, you have no problem kissing girls, so why would have have a problem kissing both?”
“I guess I don’t. That’s not where I was going. I mean, who do you want, Josh or Velvet, or maybe even they crazy guy at the Bug?”
“I don’t know. They both have their pluses. Velvet in interested in a relationship, and she’s intelligent. Josh snuggles with me and kisses me. We shall see Missy” I said, perplexed.
“ I actually can relate Darin, I’ve made with a couple of people you know.’
“Don’t tell me. Later maybe, but now now.”
Velvet called my cell. Moments later so did Josh, and Moments later, the Sheriff.
I decided the answer the Sheriff first. “ Sheriff, what can I help you with?”
I understand you took my danger for a motorcycle last night”
“I did. I didn’t know she was only 17 she looks older”
“Well, I’m com over, we need to have some words. “ The Sheriff did’t sound that pissed.
I was hesitant to meet him at the Sheriff’s office, but I rode my bike. Just as I turned up 140, I was pulled over by a siren. I had no license to drive a motorcycle. I was nervous for a second. “You live at the White House.” He asked.
“Yes. I’m on way to see the Sheriff.
“Well I hope you don’t mind me pulling over, that’s the first bike I’ve seen like that. On and off road I take it.?” He asked for no I.D., or registration.
“Yeah, want to give it a spin?”
“Hell yea. Key start, here you go!. And take it on some dirt and rocks.”
“Wow, this things is a get up and go machine, she said after returning a few minutes later, coming into view of the low hanging needs from trees. A sheriff’s car pulled up behind the motorcycle. “So you’re Darin.”
Then, “You have a future here, if you are interested then marry her.” The cop with his car still running behind on my motorcycle, and the other cops. Then the motorcycle cop pulled up behind us all. Perspiration fell from his forehead as he took the helmet he was wearing off.
“No. I don’t want to be married to anyone.”
“Then stay away from my daughter.”
