Broke Down Girl (c) 2020 Nicolo Parenti
"Shit! Shit, shit - Ow." One last punt at the dead car reminded me I wasn't wearing my tire-kicking shoes. These were my drinking, dancing, driving home shoes. Whoever said 'two out of three ain't bad' didn't own this stupid car.
Ok, Emily, think. It's 1:30 in the morning, you're buzzed, it's very dark and your phone has no bars. And you're wearing the wrong shoes. That's what you get for taking a shortcut across a pass through the hills in a ten year old piece of shit Chevy Calcutta.
I hadn't seen any traffic for half an hour, and the car had died at the middle of a tight curve near the crest of a forested hill. The perfect place if I wanted to avoid being seen by anyone until it was too late to stop. I guess I'd be walking, at least to a spot with a good signal or better odds for a ride.
I got only a few painful yards before returning to rummage in the car for any footwear I might've left there. I found some ratty orange Nikes among the backseat detritus. I swapped them out for my low heels and walked to a spot around the bend where I'd at least be visible. Still no signal. Anyway, I was new to the area and had no real friends here to call, just AAA.
Twenty minutes later not one car had passed. By then it had dawned on my gin-soaked brain that maybe hoping for a random ride at 2:00 AM on a deserted road wasn't a great plan for someone wearing a spangly dress and little else. Although, really, in these shoes how appealing would I be to a trolling rapist?
I didn't remember seeing any houses, not that I'd been looking. Given the hour and the wooded gloom I doubted I'd see one now, but I had to give it a shot because walking ten miles to town was not an option, even downhill. Forward was better than back so I forged ahead until I'd gone maybe half a mile. One side of the road was a cliff face, so I just had to peer down into the hollows on the other side.
I smelled the smoke before I saw the cabin. I came to an almost-hidden mailbox at a driveway in the wall of green. Driving by, you'd never spot it. About 200 yards down the hill I saw a faint flickering light. Salvation!
As I followed the stony path, the glimmer resolved into a lighted window. Great, someone's home and awake. What I didn't see was a car, or any sign of a link to the wider world: no wires, cables, antennas, dish. Well, my little bird of hope reasoned, they probably bury the services out here. I knocked tentatively. Waited two minutes, knocked a little harder.
Finally, the door curtain was pushed aside and a woman's face appeared dimly behind it. A woman. Already I felt a bit relieved.
"Who's that? Jonas? Did you forget your key again?"
"No, listen, my name is Emily and my car broke down on the road. Can I use your phone? I can't get any bars on my cell."
"No phone. Jenny's off for the night." Who the hell was Jenny and why did I care if she wasn't working?
"Um, maybe a CB radio or something? I'm stuck here. I'm miles from home and it's dark and I'm wearing ugly shoes." Yes, I was whining but give me a teensy break here.
The door clicked and swung open. "Like I said, the generator's off for the night." Oh. Jenny. Right.
Here was a petite woman about my age, mid-twenties, wearing a thin flowing top and maybe nothing else. She took in my face and party clothes, then peered down at my shoes. When she looked back up she was smiling. "Ok, sure, come on in. Like I said, no power but Jonas'll be here in a bit and he can run you into town. I'm Marcy. Want some tea? I make it myself."
The only light came from a fireplace on one side of the open front room. It gave off enough glow that Marcy could read the book she'd draped over the arm of a stuffed chair. On a side table was a steaming mug. Suddenly a cup of tea sounded just right.
I accepted a matching mug and nestled into a comfy chair across from Marcy's. The tea had an earthy aroma I couldn't place. The taste was pleasant, but equally foreign. Not from Tetley, for sure.
"You make this yourself? Do you mean you grow the herbs?"
"Yep. The recipe, the herbs, they come down from grandma. Jonas likes me to have a little before he comes by." She sipped, while I took a couple of healthy swigs. "Best take it easy there, honey. It can surprise you if you're not used to it."
We'd been savoring the tea in companionable silence, gazing into the fire, when I felt myself getting a bit flushed. I squirmed in the chair trying to ease the small itch building between my legs. Marcy noticed and smiled. "Feeling it, eh? I told you it can surprise you."
Now it came on in a rush. My nipples hardened to pebbles and my pussy demanded a touch. So I touched it. Marcy nodded, her arousal just as evident through her thin shift. That was obviously all she wore, because it had ridden up to expose the tops of her slim legs, and a dark patch beyond.
She smiled and flapped her top to cool off her dampening slit. "Yeah, that's why Jonas likes me to have some before he gets home."
I'm no prude. I mean, I'd gone to a bar tonight wearing nice shoes and not much underwear, hoping to go home with some guy I didn't know and fuck him until dawn. Well okay, so that hadn't happened.
But Plan B was going home alone, not drinking myself horny having mystery tea with a witch. I was beyond embarrassment as we rubbed ourselves in pussy-centered circles. But I just had to. It itched, dammit.
I nearly jumped out of my chair as the outer door slammed. I did jump out of it, smoothing down my dress, when a deep voice boomed, "Ooh, I smell pussy! Good thing I brought some cock!"
The voice, and presumably the cock, belonged to an impressive male specimen. Six-four, lumberjack build, shock of black hair, with a square jaw showing a day's worth of rough stubble. Not who I'd have taken from the bar tonight, but tasty. His blue eyes went wide as he saw me.
He flushed and sputtered, "Oh, hey, sorry. I didn't know Marcy had company. I mean, I wasn't, I didn't..." He was cute when flustered. And I was still twitching with an itch that wasn't quite lust.
Marcy grinned and piped up, "This is Emily. Her car died up the hill and she needs a ride to town."