It was dusk as we drove across the Great Salt Desert towards the Rocky Mountains, which were looming on the horizon in the east. Well, it was getting closer to dusk. The sunlight was fading in the rear view mirror, and I had turned the headlights on. I looked at my watch, and it was just before 8:00...but it was still set on Eastern Time, and that had me confused.
"Ann, doesn't it seem a little dark for 5:00?" I asked out loud.
Ann looked up from one of the Polaroid pictures we'd taken earlier. She had been straining to see her image, not thinking about how much less light there was every mile we drove. Glancing out the windshield, she said, "It's 6:00, Neil."
"No it's not. My watch says it's 7:55, Eastern Time."
"We're in Utah now, baby. They're on Mountain Time. But you're right...it is getting darker a lot earlier."
"Well yeah...especially when you lose an hour when you don't fucking expect it!" I snapped. I couldn't believe I forgot about the time changing as we drove east. I factored that in when I flew out to California, but it really never occurred to me that it would have an impact as we crossed the country the other direction in the car.
Ann giggled as she realized I was still processing what she said. "You totally forgot about that, didn't you?" she smiled.
"Yeah...I did. And actually, I'm having a hard time with it, thank you very much. I can't believe I didn't think of that...that's three less hours!" I said, miffed at myself.
She reached over, her hand touching my thigh. Gently rubbing her palm and fingers back and forth, Ann leaned over towards me. "Don't be upset, Neil. I know it seems like you're going to lose a few hours with me on the way home. But it was always going to be whatever it was going to be...so don't think of it that way. Besides, getting dark earlier could be an advantage if we put our minds to it."
I smiled when I thought of Ann's comment. She seemed to always be looking at life with a positive spin, her glass half full. Sure, there had been moments when she was down, and I'd picked her up. And that's just what she'd done for me. As I felt her hand touch the bottom of my loose shorts, an electric charge ran through me.
"You're right. We still have the rest of the week. I just know you don't like riding in the car in the dark," I said, thinking back to a conversation we had earlier in the week where Ann said she had night vision issues. She could see, but having to concentrate on the road while staring into the oncoming lights over a long period of time gave her a headache when she was driving. Knowing that, I told her that I'd do the driving in the mornings and the evenings on the trip, and she could drive in the middle of the day. She argued at first, thinking she was putting too much of the load on me, but I won out when I told her that getting a headache would only put a damper on anything fun we wanted to do along the way, or when we stopped for the night.
And it was that 'fun' angle that had her licking my earlobe. "I said I don't like to DRIVE in the dark. I never said anything about riding. And I think it was YOU that came up with the reason you should drive at night...you didn't want me to get a headache and spoil our fun. And thanks to you driving, I don't have a headache, lover...is there some kind of fun you have in mind?"
"Now?" I said, looking at where we were.
"Sure. You're in charge...and I'm sure you can think of something you'd like your slut to do?"
I arched my eyebrow, and looked over at Ann, who had sat back in her seat posing for me, trying to entice me. Not that she needed to. What she'd said was enough to get my sexual blood boiling. I wasn't even upset with Ann calling herself a slut, which normally would have had me saying something about how much I didn't care for that word. I wasn't sure why, but when she'd said it, the way she said it...it seemed right for how she was behaving at the moment.
"Why don't you get undressed while I think of what that could be," I said with a naughty grin.
Ann giggled happily as she stripped off her little top almost before I'd finished my sentence. Raising her hips, she hooked her thumbs into waistband of her little skirt and lowered it down her sexy legs. She placed her outfit behind her seat and turned toward me.
"Any ideas yet?" Ann asked. I couldn't take my eyes off her, and she pointed toward the road. "You might want to keep you eyes that direction...or we're both going to have headaches, or maybe a whole lot worse," she laughed.
"Sorry. It's hard not to look when you've got a naked Goddess riding shotgun."
"Oh...that's sweet," Ann said. "Have you thought of anything yet?"
"I'm just trying to drive now babe," I said, pretending to be distracted. "Why don't you come up with something this one time?"
"Do you promise to concentrate on the road?"
"Sure...why?"
Ann unbuckled and leaned over, grabbing my shorts. I lifted my hips, and she helped me get them off. Once she had, she reached for her purse. "Because I want to play with you," she said with a wink.
~*~*~*~*~*~
I had pulled of to the side of the interstate, directly in front of the 'Welcome to Utah' sign. Ann looked at me, her eyes wide. She looked nervous, where just five miles before, she said she couldn't wait to get out of the car and strip for me again. It was an amazing change of in her demeanor in such a short period of time.
As I reached behind my seat for the camera, Ann looked at me and said, "You have GOT to be kidding me...HERE?"
"Well, they put the sign where the state line is, babe. I can't help it that it's here."
"But it's in the middle of a town!"
Actually, it was between two towns. Namely, West Wendover, Nevada, and Wendover, Utah. But you wouldn't have been able to tell the difference between the two without the sign. And it's not like it was a thriving metropolis, but that's where the sign was, and Ann was suddenly having second thoughts about our plan for her to pose naked like she had entering Nevada.
"Neil...I'm..."