Lily looked around herself in awe. She had never seen so many beautiful trucks in all of her life. She was surrounded by them. Big ones, small ones, loud ones, quiet ones, shiny ones and rusty ones. She smiled broadly.
The Gumboro Mud Bog. One of her favorite events of the year. Basically, it was a redneck woman's dream come true! Beer, hot country boys, mud, oh and trucks!
"Lily! Look at that one!" she heard her friend Amy shout. Lily spun her head around and saw it. It was a truck straight out of her dreams. A brand new, 2009 GMC Sierra. It had what looked like a 4" lift, and 35-1350's under it. The paint was a gleaming black with a lime green pin stripe running down the sides. Oh, and it wasn't an average pin stripe, it was painted to look like a strand of barbed wire. The tailgate said "I'm Going Out With My Boots On".
Lily smiled as she saw it and shouted to Matt, the guy driving the truck she was sitting in the back of.
"Why can't your truck look like that Matt?"
"Cause I don't have a million bucks to make it look like that Lil," he said with a glance in the rearview mirror. They continued driving through the crowds looking for a place to park. Matt and his girlfriend Amy sat up front in Matt's '02 F-250, while Lily, Tom, Greg and Gina sat in the bed. Finally, Tom pointed out a parking spot a few places up and Matt whipped the truck into it.
Lily was the first to clamber out of the back of the truck. She was joined by Amy and Gina and they started to walk up to the area where everyone sat back, partied and watched the trucks go through the holes. Matt, Tom and Greg followed behind lugging two coolers and some sheets to sit on once they got up there.
Lily and the girls were busy chatting about all of the hot guys around them. "Oooh look at him," Amy said and giggled when Matt scolded her from behind them, reminding her she already had a hot man. Tom chimed in to Gina that she did too, considering the fact that they were together. Lily and Greg were the only two single ones in their group. Which meant Lily was free to have fun.
As they neared the mud holes the boys spread out the sheets and sat their coolers on them. Amy and Gina sprawled out on their backs, hoping to catch a tan from the hot summer sun.
"Aww c'mon guys lets go walk around first," Lily complained. When they all decided they'd rather stay there, the boys included, Lily decided to head off on her own, promising to catch back up with them around 4.
Country music was blasting from all directions and she heard whoops and hollers going up everywhere as she began to walk. Half of the people here were already drunk and probably had been since the night before. She smiled to herself; these were her kind of people. The smells of grilled hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken and more wafted through the air and made her mouth water.
After about ten minutes of wandering, she realized her mistake. She hadn't brought a beer with her! She made her way over to the concession stands and was floored at the prices. $7 for a bottle of Bud Light Lime. Lily groaned and spun around. She'd just have to go thirsty, no way was she paying that much.
"Need a drink?" she heard from behind her. She turned around and came face to face with who had to be the most gorgeous man there that day. He topped her height by a good foot, and probably doubled her weight easily, but it looked to be all muscle under those tight Levi's and that black wife beater tanktop.
Lily pasted on her most flirtatious smile. "I really could use one," she said sweetly. She watched as the guy's eyes raked up and down her body and felt her flesh start to tingle from just the touch of his eyes. He gestured for her to come with him and Lily immediately sidled up next to him.
"I'm Derek," he said as they made their way through the crowds. He nearly had to shout for her to hear him over the noise of roaring trucks and radios blasting.
"Lily," she replied holding her hand out to him and giving him a sweet smile. Derek chuckled softly and took her hand, kissing the back of it briefly and winking.
"Where are we heading?" Lily asked as they continued to wind through the people.