I was driving down I-75 and it had literally become a trip through hell on earth. A trip that would normally take 8 or 9 hours had stretched already into 13 with no end in sight.
I had left Detroit that morning at 6 AM and I'd been on the road ever since. I had told my cousin that I'd arrive in Nashville in the early afternoon but it was 6 PM and I was still on the road, somewhere between Lexington and Richmond in Kentucky.
Just across the Ohio border I had run into construction, my first delay. On the other side of Toledo there was a massive accident that took forever to clear, my second delay. In Dayton, it seemed as if the entire stretch of highway through the city was undergoing reconstruction and traffic was like something from a third world country. Now, outside of Richmond in Kentucky, traffic was at a virtual standstill, the radio stations all sucked and I was running low on gas. The first day of my new life was a total disaster.
I had left Detroit to escape a relationship followed by a bad breakup. Scott and I had lived together for 2 years. Actually, he was the reason I'd moved to Detroit in the first place. From the very first I had loathed the city. It was an urban war zone, miles of abandoned and rotting houses. I'd grown up in the country and the only countryside I could see were weed grown vacant lots and the only wildlife had four legs and a long scaly tail.
Everything worked fine at first, and then Scott lost his job. At first he was too depressed to job hunt, and then it seemed to become an unimportant thing to him. I wound up going every day to a job I hated while he stayed home doing who knows what. All of the bills, all of the responsibility fell on me.
Then, the day before yesterday, I had forgotten my phone when I left for the day. I went to work and took care of a few things and then took an early lunch so that I could go home and pick up the phone. Normally, I wouldn't have been back until at least 6 PM and it was just around 11 AM when I let myself into the apartment.
It was totally quiet and I wondered where Scott might have gone. Then, I heard the unmistakable sound of our bed. Not just the bed itself, the sound of the springs straining over and over as someone was getting fucked. I walked to the closed bedroom door and quietly opened it.
My current best friend, Billy, was lying on his back with his knees hitched over Scott's shoulders and Scott's big hard cock was sliding in and out of Billy's ass hole.
"Has anybody seen my phone?" I asked the room at large.
Scott jumped up, his hard dick swaying in front of him and Billy struggled to cover himself with a sheet.
"Ah, there it is, right on the nightstand where I left it." I said.
I walked in, not looking at either one of them, picked up the phone and called my job.
"I quit." I told the receptionist. "Yes, that's right, I won't be coming back. Just throw away anything I left behind."
I walked into the living room and Scott followed me, jabbering behind me. I ignored him and called my cousin in Nashville.
"Hey, cuz! Guess who?" I said. "Remember telling me that I could bunk on your couch if I ever wanted to relocate? Well, the time has come. I'll be leaving first thing in the morning so I should get into town sometime in the afternoon. Is that okay? Great! I'll see you then."
After I hung up I walked into the bedroom and started taking my clothes out of the closet. Scott and Billy were both jabbering at me by this time but I couldn't seem to concentrate enough on what they were saying to understand. I made several trips to my car with my clothing on hangers and stuffed into Ikea bags, then went back and filled my arms with books and papers, all of the accumulated stuff that I'd piled up over the past two years. Scott had slipped on pants and a shirt by then and he followed me back and forth, still jabbering away.
After I had loaded everything I wanted into my car, I went back upstairs to make a final sweep. Scott and Billy had stopped yammering and were standing in the kitchen.
"Scott, it's been real. Billy, he's all yours. The rent and all of the utility bills are due and I suggest you pay them if you want Scott to have someplace to fuck you."
I walked downstairs, got into my car and drove to a motel. I rented a room and slept until 4 AM the next morning. I was sad but so relieved that I felt 10 years younger. At 6 AM. I hit the road and descended into highway hell.
The sign up ahead said "Richmond 20 miles" and I knew that I didn't have enough gas to make it that far in the crawling traffic. I came to an unmarked off ramp about a mile further on and I took it, reasoning that if there was a ramp there must be a gas station. Wrong. And even worse, there was no re-entry ramp. I was in the middle of Kentucky on a two lane road with no idea of where I was.
I figured if I kept driving I was bound to come to an on ramp and that might have happened except that the road suddenly veered to the right, away from the interstate.
"Okay," I thought to myself, "the road must lead to a town and there's sure to be gas."
So, I kept driving.
It was early summer and still light out so I wasn't too alarmed. That is, until the road started rising and becoming less and less maintained. I hadn't passed another car the whole time but I kept driving.
Finally, after about an hour, the road had turned into whatever the modern equivalent is of a dirt road and I was totally lost and running on gas fumes. Plus, it was getting dark.
I drove on another few miles before the car just died, dry as a bone. I was in the middle of a dark wood with night coming on and no one around for miles as far as I could tell.
I thought about just staying in the car and waiting till morning, hoping that someone was bound to happen by but after a half hour I was ready to go nuts. I got out of the car, locked it and started walking.
I don't know if you've ever been in the wilds of Kentucky at dusk but let me tell you, there is no romantic sunset. It's like it is light one minute and then the next someone turned off the light. Blackness crashed down around me with a thud and I had trouble even keeping on the road.
I stumbled through the night for a while and then suddenly, up ahead on my right, I saw a glow of light. I hurried toward it as fast as I could in the blackness and soon was able to see that it was a house with softly glowing window panes. I started up the hill toward it and promptly fell ass over elbows into a ditch which caused an unknown number of bloodthirsty sounding dogs to set up a racket of barking and baying.
From where I was lying, I could see the front door open and a figure silhouetted in the soft light.
"Who the hell is out here?" a man called.
"Help. I'm sorry. I'm lost." I called back.
A flashlight came on in the figure's hand and I watched as it bobbed down the hill toward me. He stopped a few feet away, the flashlight shining in my face and illuminating my predicament.
"Hell, you sure do look lost. What are you doing out here rambling around in the dark?"
"I ran out of gas down the road." I said. "I got off of the interstate to look for a gas station and then I got lost on the road. I got out and started walking and I saw your lights."
"Well, are you hurt? Can you get yourself up out of that waller?" he asked.
I struggled to my feet and he shone the light so that I could see the path up to the house. I climbed the porch steps and as I stood on the porch he shone the light up and down me.
"Don't look like you got damaged." he said. "Just a little dirt and that'll brush off."