The bunny pinched her nipples, moaned, and gave me a look of unequivocal desire. No one, especially not my wife, had ever given me a look like that in my entire life. The bunny, of course, was not a bunny per se, but Debbie Marks who owned the beauty salon on Main Street, and was a member of the new reformation pagan cult of Oster, one of the fastest growing religions in the United State.
I was an open-minded guy. I wasn't necessarily atheist, or religious, or agnostic, but merely uninterested in theological matters. When my neighbor started proselytizing to me about the spiritual benefits of Osterism, I nodded my head to be polite. If you wanted to create a set of commandments, being polite would be a good place to start. Call it Church of the Midwest.
My neighbor Bart was extolling all of the virtues of membership in the New Reformation Pagan Cult of Oster, including spiritual cleansing and satisfaction. I was locked into the cultural zeitgeist to know that newly awakened masses were flocking to Osterite Sunday services all across America. I speculated it was the Supreme Court ruling in favor of sex orgies and sacred prostitution that had suddenly lead to this newfound popularity.
Certainly, the Church of Ishtar was popular (tithing was incredibly profitable when it came with free blowjobs) and the New Orthodox Megachurches of Aphrodite and Priapus were bringing in crowds of thousands with their pyrotechnic shows and free wine and Viagra that came flowing out of golden chalices, but in the Midwest, with its rich Germanic heritage, Osterite celebrations were becoming as well known a cultural currency as Oktoberfest.
As a lapsed Catholic, I wasn't interested in wandering down any new spiritual path, especially if it interfered with Sunday Football. However, mostly to get Bart to shut up, I acquiesced.
"Fine, you win. I'll see you on Sunday for this "Wild Hunt" thing. I don't have to bring anything do I?"
"Just a healthy appetite for fun and your lovely wife?"
I felt a little uncomfortable with the way Bart licked his lips as he asked the question, but I knew I didn't have to worry about that. There was no way she should show up. She might be a lapsed Lutheran, but she still had all of the indoctrinated disgust towards these news cults springing up all over the place and viewed them as somewhere between damned kids walking on the grass and Book of Revelation style shenanigans.
I remembered just the night before flipping through the channels and stumbling upon the Church of Satan televangelist extolling the virtues of sodomy both in sermon and through visual example. The college aged girl he was sodomizing seemed to be speaking in tongues or having a mind-blowing orgasm due to either the cloaked figure with the ram-horned mask or one of her many cooperating congregants participating in the stimulating her erogenous zones.
When Lucile caught me staring, she nearly blew a gasket. I ended up sleeping on the couch that night. Even though it wasn't really fair was it; it wasn't like I was watching pornography. That girl was exercising her religious expression.
And the new religious cults had seemed to create a new age of Aquarian morality. Tits and ass were everywhere. Vestal Virgins being used to sell Coke and Apple Pie; presidents being revered for their public satyriasis; protests and marches breaking down into public orgies. Dogs lying down with cats.
So maybe spite was another reason why I didn't tell my wife that I had accepted my neighbor's invitation to visit their church. You might be thinking that I was some sort of pervert trying to fuck other women behind my wife's back, but the truth was I was curious. Almost all of my neighbors went to the Oster Church. At one time, before the Supreme Court case that protected these new faiths, Osterites were a hidden society. Apparently, it existed in our small town, but nobody knew about it. An impressive feat considering how everyone tends to know everything about everyone here. I suppose there were rumors that I heard as a young boy growing up in a Pagan sex cult hiding in plain sight amongst us, but that was mostly fueled by my teenage sex drive.
When the cult finally made themselves known, the town was shocked. The town librarian, the mayor, the Lutheran Pastor, all secret card-carrying Osterites. And the religion spread quickly. It turned out services that involved beer and orgies were surprisingly popular.
From the outside, the building looked ordinary, a church and a steeple, and a sign that read, "BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY: Adult Service Only." Day Care service seemed to be provided in an adjacent building where I could hear laughing and screaming kids, and over the fence, see a bouncy castle.
I wasn't even a member; just a curious pilgrim who took a pamphlet and a wreath of flowers and an inviting kiss from a sinewy girl in a yellow dress. I bent down expecting her to kiss me on the cheek and was surprised when her open lips collided with my mouth and I could feel her tongue exploring my mouth. Then without any lack of composure, she turned towards the woman behind me.
I walked past the egg hunts, and the potato bag races, and the buffet table filled with laughing and smiling couples from my neighborhood to the woods behind the church where a banner read "Wild Hunt: 10 O'Clock".
Bart and his wife were there. Bart tried waving to me and I pretended not to see him. I didn't really know anybody else and awkwardly stood while everyone else conversed.
A college age girl in a tight NYU belly shirt that hung above a fit stomach and belly ring, and a dark bra outlined through the white fabric that advertised youthful breasts overflowing the V-neck top and creating a Y-shaped crevasse where the tits mashed together, and a tight pair of jeans that were so tight you could see the skin crease and flex beneath it, came up to me. She was startlingly young and attractive with luxurious auburn hair. She looked like one of those girls who cheered for colleges, or did pageants, or lead sororities, or got involved in dirty sex tapes that then get uploaded to the internet.
She certainly wasn't the type of girl who invited themselves into conversations with forty-year-old Underwriters.
"Hi," She smiled, and good god even her teeth were perfectly white and straight. "My name is Sandra. You looked like you had no one to talk too so I thought I would introduce myself."
She reached over and placed her petite hand on my arm. I flinched at the inappropriateness of a girl her age touching me and glanced around nervously feeling like some old lecher, but everyone there was chatting and smiling and ignoring the interaction.
Sandra mainly talked about how much she loved to come down from college to partake in this holiday, "The Wild Hunt" she called it, however since she was baptised into the Church of Osterism she had been a devout member, and that she felt like she was more connected to her family and neighbors than she had ever been, and that wasn't it all really about community, and that she was so happy and hoped that she could help into bringing another member into the fold.
I mainly stared at her bright perfect teeth, and megawatt smile, and I mostly felt this "gut" sense of wrongness, this feeling that I was somehow being set up for something.
"I so love older men. God, You remind me of my father." She bit her lip as she talked to me. Through the V of her top, I could see the lacy edges of some Victoria Secret bra, and a scattering of freckles on the tops of her breasts. She giggled.
"Where's your bathroom," I stuttered.