Road Angel
Copyright 2025 Christopher D.B.
Note from the author: This story is part three of a series. Please read the previous stories, Collateral Damage, and From the Outside, which can be found here at Literotica.
There was a time when I was hiding out, working at forest service campgrounds and living in my old Airstream trailer. I'd been off the grid for most of that time, and I'd also hoped I'd been off the radar so to speak.
After a year of that life I thought it might be okay to slip quietly back into civilization and landed in a small city just off the interstate. It had some tourist attractions so you might know the place, but otherwise it was kind of run down. I'd managed to find some handyman work and had recently been putting in some late hours renovating motel rooms.
Coming home after dark, I pulled into the little trailer court where I lived. It was located next to this cluster of billboards that could be seen from the highway. I'll admit it was sleazy looking, and while I'm sure that the billboards are still there, the old trailers were probably hauled off to the dump years ago so don't bother trying to look for the place.
My Airstream had a crooked wooden deck outside the front door, abandoned by a previous tenant, and as I pulled up I could see that someone was sleeping in my lounge chair under the overhead glow of the billboard lighting.
It was Road Angel. Curled up into a ball, the hood of her sweatshirt drawn down tight, and hands pulled up in her sleeves. She didn't move until I gently touched her shoulder, and then acted as if she was waking up. Maybe she had been sleeping, but I was pretty sure the diesel clatter of my F250 had wakened her as I drove up.
We had met shortly after I moved to this town. I had picked her up when she was hitchhiking. Although she said she was heading into the center of town, when we got to the trailer court entrance I told her that was as far as I would take her. To my surprise she asked if she could have a glass of bourbon.
Well, I had a bottle of Old Crow at my place so I invited her in. My dog took a liking to her, which was a rare thing. After a few drinks one thing led to another, wrapping up in the little rounded bedroom at the back of my trailer. I did end up giving her a ride to the center of town afterwards, but you probably figured that.
She made her money by the fountain in the town square. Telling fortunes, reading tarot cards, that sort of thing. The cops didn't tolerate homeless or begging or anything like that, but if someone was a street musician, caricature artist, fortune teller, or did other harmless stuff to scrounge a few bucks off the tourists that was okay.
Road Angel. The name always made me think of some CB handle a chick might have back in the day. She never told me what her real name was, or where she lived, and I never bothered to ask. I was never sure if she was a local or had just drifted into town like I did. Not exactly a friend with benefits, more of an acquaintance with benefits. About once a month our paths would cross and we would end up back at my trailer, and in bed, which was fine with me at the time.
She might have been a few years younger than me, always dressed in loose fitting, unflattering clothes, and big heavy combat boots. Her shoulder length hair was dyed jet black and always had some random streak of color in it. The color this evening was an electric blue.
As usual, Chewbecca was happy to see her. My retired junkyard dog, a chow, mastiff, shepherd, wooly mammoth mix.
"I see you're walking with a limp. Maybe had some trouble?" I asked, thinking that she might need a place to stay for the night.
"I jumped a month back in time. That's tough on my body but I'll be fine. I just came to say goodbye," she said with an irritated tone. So I asked her where she was going. "It's not me. You left town without saying goodbye."
Road Angel explained that she dropped by to visit and my trailer was gone. A neighbor across the street said that I had left town for a better paying job. She had come back to a time when I was still in town, my present time, so she could say goodbye.
She had told me before that she could travel through time on a limited basis but tried to avoid it because it was bad for her health. Also said she was a psychic and could do other stuff but I assumed it was just for show to go along with her hustle on the town square.