Note: This is the fourth chapter in what will probably be a fairly long series. If you haven't read Chapters 1-3, this section won't make any sense. Thanks for reading! Feedback is appreciated! Special thanks to LilTexasSexFiend for helping me clean it up.
Day 3 June 14 Tulsa, OK
You never know what your first thought will be on any given day.
Like yesterday, my first thought was: How exactly can I blow up the sun and stop it from blinding my ass while not simultaneously destroying life as we know it?
The day before that, it wasn't so much a coherent thought as it was a single word: Bluuuuuuhhhhhhhhhh.
Other times, I woke up wishing I didn't have to go to work that day, wishing that I hadn't drank so much the day before, or wishing that the acronym "PT" in the Marine Corps stood for Party Time. Platoon Transfer. Even Piss Test, since I'd never done drugs. Anything besides what it actually stood for: Physical Training, which usually meant six or seven miles of running and a few thousands pushups at O'dark 30 in the morning.
There were many times the first thought was, "What do I do with this erection?" Unfortunately, there were a lot fewer times that the answer to that question was laying in bed next to me instead of attached to my body just below the wrist.
This morning, though? I could safely say this was the first time ever my first waking thought was Steven Tyler.
You know who I'm talking about. The lead singer for Aerosmith, the guy who looks like he's 70 years old but can still figure out how to turn a random song lyric into an invitation for an orgy. The man behind one of life's great paradoxical questions: How can a man so ugly be the biological father of a woman so damn hot?
But, thankfully, I wasn't thinking about his face. Not so thankfully, I wasn't even thinking about his daughter, Liv Tyler. I was thinking about his voice, as the song "Pink" ran through my head just as if a stereo was behind me playing the CD.
It was the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes - pink. And instead of thinking about the color, or about any of the many things in life that happen to be that color, my first thought was, in the vein of Aerosmith, "Pink - it was love at first sight."
After I'd sung through the chorus once in my mind - not the easiest thing to do at.. whatever time it was - I realized it was a pink sleeping bag. I knew the sleeping bag I was in was black and blue. Was Becky's sleeping bag pink? Oh, fuck. Had she--?
No. The hair peeking out of the sleeping bag was blonde. I sighed in relief, but then, the obvious question swam to the surface - who the fuck was this?
I felt a tap on my shoulder from behind me, and immediately turned over to see Zia grinning at me. She was in her own sleeping bag, this one purple, and it was zipped up to her neck. I could tell she was topless though, because there was nothing on her arm or shoulders - no sleeves or straps, and if there was such a thing as a strapless nightie, I'd never seen one. Unless she was wearing sexy lingerie under there, which would be an odd thing to bring camping.
"Good morning," I said, wanting very much to ask what was going on. I could see the tent divider zipped up behind her, and could pretty much guess that the other half of the tent, the one closest to the door, was empty.
"Surprise," she said tentatively, not totally sure how I was going to take it.
"A very nice one," I said. "I'm going to guess that's Belinda behind me?"
She nodded.
"Very nice, again," I said. A thought popped into my head, and I wanted to dismiss it immediately, but for some reason I couldn't. "Umm, Zia?"
"Yeah?"
"The three of us didn't..." I didn't finish, but I didn't have to.
"No," she said, slapping me on the shoulder. "And you'd better fucking remember it if we did."
I laughed softly. As far as I knew, Belinda was still asleep.
"Now, the two of us, on the other hand," she said, still grinning. "Different story."
"Really?" I said, not quite gathering her meaning. Had she and I done something without Belinda?
"Yeah, but not over here," she said. "We did it on our side of the tent. Then we moved over here."
Ah, I thought to myself. Hopefully the look on my face didn't give me away.
"Why are you over here anyway?" I asked.
"We were both drunk coming back from the party," she said. "And yes, Belinda told me all about what happened yesterday morning. I dared her to sleep next to you, and she told me she would if I did. But hands were roaming on the way back, and we couldn't stop ourselves. When we finished up, we pulled our sleeping bags over here."
"Damn," I said.
"What?"
"Trying to figure out what would be a suitable punishment for myself for sleeping through two hot women having sex with each other three feet away from me."
She laughed now, and I put a hand over her mouth to quiet her down so Belinda could sleep.
"Well, whatever you come up with, don't be too hard on yourself," she said. "You may have missed the first performance, but there might be a re-run on tonight."
Now it was my turn to smile. So I was looking forward to tonight, but that left 12 or so hours between now and then, and I wasn't keen on waiting.