Chapter Forty-Three - Escape
B. J.' s text said he would arrive at my motel around ten in the morning. I waited for him eagerly; there was so much I wanted to tell him. Like winning the race yesterday! Slick pulled out with fouled injectors so I took my shot and it worked. Ok, it wasn't an important race and there were lots of novice drivers on the track, but still, a victory is a victory, except it wasn't a big purse.
I had my first encounter with a NASCAR groupie at the award ceremony. This big-busted blond gave me a trophy, kissed me, and whispered that a lot more was possible if I was interested. I told her we were racing in Talladega next in about three weeks. So who knows where that will lead?
Ten o'clock came and no B. J. I texted him but got no answer. Waiting was torture. Tolstoy said, “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” It was in one of his plays. I admit I haven't read it, but I like the idea. I paced the room and I sat and tried to read and I checked my phone and I pictured B. J. naked and I paced some more and I ached a little and finally I heard a vehicular door slam in the parking lot. I spotted an airport shuttle van driving away and waited for the knock.
“B. J.!” I tried to hug him before he even got in the room, but he shook me off. He glanced furtively around the passageway and parking lot and then hurried into the room. “What?” I asked and got a quick kiss before he peeked out the window.
“Flight attendant!” he said. “Really creepy!” he added after making sure no one was outside. “A stalker, I think,” he added, turning to me with a smile.
I sighed inwardly. He's so handsome. This time I got a much better kiss and a hug and a squeeze. His ass felt so …
“Whoa!” he sprang back. “I gotta tell you about this, Racer. So fuckin' spooky!” I watched and waited for him to speak. “Fuck!” he said again and paced the way I had been doing fifteen minutes earlier.
“The plane was a little late leaving so I drank a big coffee and had to piss before we landed. So, ok, I piss and go to wash my hands but the faucet sticks or something. I can't turn it off.” He took a breath. “So, I called the flight attendant and this guy says what and I say the faucet is stuck. And he looks at me hard and pushes me into the lav and comes in after me. See, I tell him, and we look at the running water. And it's really crowded in that tiny lav. Like God knows how people ever get into the mile-high club, there's just no room. So he looks at the running faucet and puts his arm around me so he can get closer and he grabs my ass. And I don't know what I did but he says have you ever been fucked? And he grabs my ass again! And then he looks up at the ceiling and says, oh, Mary, has this one ever been fucked! He's still grabbing my ass. And then he looks me right in the eye and says, you loved it, didn't you?”
“Did you get in a fight? What did you do? Are you just teasing me?” I asked as he continued to pace.
“I told him yes – about me loving it. Cause, well, it's true; I do love it when you fuck me and I'm not denying it any more after the mess that got me into at Thanksgiving.” He stopped pacing and looked at me. “Cause I love you, Racer.”
“B.J.! I know you love me! What about the flight attendant?” Sometimes he tells a terrible story.
“He says I knew it! and brags that he's a great fuck. And I say not interested and he says wait til you try it and I say hell no and he says I'm gonna find you and fuck you. And he's like totally EVIL saying this to me. And I start to go back to my seat and he says you better hide that! And my dick is hard and pointing out like a dowsing rod.”
I couldn't help it. I laughed.
“What's so funny? He meant it. Every word! He's out there lookin' for me.”
“Not evil, just bull shit, Beej. That's what your flight attendant is full of.” I shoved him back onto my bed and lay down with him. He was out of breath and sort of automatically resisted me until he realized I was just kissing him. “Bull shit!” I repeated and laughed again.
“You think?” he asked with his brow all furrowed. It's another one of his cute looks, like a puppy. I kissed him some more. Eventually he relaxed and kissed me back. “There's an hour until check out,” I told him. “You want to …” My hand was on his cock.
“No. Let's just go. I don't want to be in the same state as that creep.”
“Ok, I just need to collect my check from Lucas and I'm done here.”
“Good!” B. J. shook himself, still trying to clear the memories of his aggressive flight attendant. “He did turn the water off at least.”
I approached Lucas's office and was taken aback. I could only see the top half of the scene through the window between the office and the shop, but there was Lucas with his head thrown back, and his shirt pushed up, sitting on something, apparently getting a blow job. I could see a hand twisting one of his nipples, but that was all. I quickly turned away and went back into the pit area where one of the younger guys was working on Slick's engine. “'S up?” I asked him.
“Some strange kind of gummy stuff is pluggin' this injector.”
“Really?” I got closer to take a careful look.
“Yeah, stuff in gasoline is usually particulate, silicates and hard stuff; this is sticky. You'd think the gas would dissolve it. Congrats on yesterday's win by the way.”
“Thanks, uh ...” I didn't know his name.
“Troy,” he filled in. “I'm hoping I get a chance to drive some day.”
“Stick with it. Maybe you will.”
“You mind my askin' …? Did you have to do anything special for Slick to get the chance?” I knew exactly what he was asking.
“No, last season I drove one of the cars before a race, to check the suspension, and he won with it. He thinks I'm lucky and let me drive after that.”
“You are lucky, I guess.” He let that hang in the air.
“You know, you need to tell Ches about that gummy stuff. He'll be real pleased you found it.”
Todd came into the pit from the direction of the offices. “Is Lucas free now?” I asked, suspecting Todd had that answer.
“Lucas is blown to smithereens right about now. What do you need?” Todd was grinning ear to ear.
“My check. Then I'm going home.”
“He can manage that I expect. And how are you doing, Troy?” I could see Troy cringe as Todd approached him.
“Uh, I gotta go see Ches,” Troy called back to us as he practically ran from the engine stand.
“You were blowing Lucas? I thought he was straight.”
“He might be; but he's just about a virgin, lacks confidence with women, and is desperate for sex. My kind of man, in other words. I'm working on loosening him up. ”
“Why?”
“Cause I'm bored with Slick.” That comment raised a bunch of questions, but I didn't hang around to ask them.
Lucas was obviously flustered and not completely over whatever Todd had done to him, but he did find my check. It was for more than I expected. “Ches says it's traditional that the driver gets the entire prize from his first win.” Then out of the blue he added, “I'm going to Dollywood with Todd. See you in Talladega, Racer.”
The small office still contained the residual smell of sex and I was glad to leave. B. J. boosted my mood and made me laugh when I could hardly see him waiting for me in the truck. He was all hunched down in the seat with just a bit of his head showing. “You afraid your stalker is here at the track, Beej?”
“Don't mock, Racer. He was totally creepy.”
“Put some music on,” I told him. “It's six hundred fifty miles to Warrenton.” I patted his leg, fired up the truck, and we were off. I think I bored him to sleep telling him what had happened in Shelbyville. I didn't tell him about Todd or Adam, but stories about the track and driving I think put him to sleep. He tried to listen, but I could see him nodding and he didn't complain when I stopped talking. Almost two hours later we were just east of Knoxville when I saw a sign that caught my interest.
“B. J.?” I shook him and left my hand on his leg, because it felt warm and I enjoyed the contrast of the soft denim and the firm muscle underneath. “Beej?”
Mmffpt,” he said. “I'm awake. I'm awake.”
“Even been to Great Smoky National Park?”
“No.”
“It's right at this exit. Wanna take a look?”
Yes was the right answer. We paid a small fee and entered the park. B. J. checked out the trails on the map we got at the gate. The first few parking lots we passed were full of cars, but the crowd thinned as we got farther into the park.
“There's a lot with no cars at all,” I pointed out.
“Do it,” B.J. said and I wheeled to a halt.
We walked along a marked trail that worked its way up some unnamed mountain. A few hundred feet up we paused to take in the view, first of eastern Tennessee and then of each other. He's bigger than I am and he can always gather me into his arms easily and comfortably and this day was perfect and private. I loved his warmth and his smell. It was distinctively B. J. I hugged him back and relaxed in his hold. We sat on a rocky outcropping and enjoyed an unhurried make out session, some kisses and touches, a few words of love, mostly just the gentle comfort of shared closeness and love. The sudden loud shriek of a bird distracted me.
“You think it's an eagle?” I asked and B. J. shrugged. “I'm gonna look.” I walked over to where I could get a clear view and scanned the sky. I called back to him, “I don't see anything,” and looked some more without finding the source of the cry. I turned back to report my disappointment and saw B. J. pulling off his underwear. He turned to face me and leaned back against the rock on his elbows.
I swear the most beautiful man in the world stood naked before me in the dappled sunlight waiting for me. He cocked his head and smiled.
“You're so fuckin' gorgeous,” I told him. I put my hands on his biceps and kissed him. He reached out and held my face. We kissed for a while and then I slid down his body and kissed his cock. And then I licked it and took it into my mouth.
“You can fuck me,” he said matter-of-factly, as a kind of invitation.
“I know,” I answered. But at that moment I just wanted his cock. In my mouth. In my throat. In my hands. I felt him tremble and continued worshiping him with my mouth.
“Racer … baby ...” He lay back on the rock and strained to shove his rigid cock as far into me as he could. He shook repeatedly and flooded my mouth with his cum. I gulped what I could and felt more dribbling out onto his belly and my hands. He pulled me against him and I thought he'd never stop saying “I love you,” but eventually he did. We lay together in the soft light and I admired his body.
“Beej, are you in any hurry to get to Warrenton? We might could rent a cabin ...”
He giggled. “Might could … you sound like a fuckin' hillbilly!”
“I was just suggesting ...”
“Yes, we MIGHT COULD rent a cabin! I want to spend the rest of my life in a cabin with you. And fuck our brains out. And tell you I love you 'til you go deaf. And after that write you letters that say you're the most beautiful hillbilly boy I ever did see, Racer Tyree. And if that cabin has two beds we can burn one to stay warm because ...”
I shut him up with more kisses. We rented a cabin. And we fucked. And when that was done I told him how seeing him naked in the woods had taken my breath away. “You're so handsome, Beej.”
He smiled and said, “You're the only one who thinks so, Racer. That flight attendant said I looked like mean rough trade.”
“I don't know what that means.”
“Good. I'm not telling you, either. Even my mother joked when I was a baby about asking the hospital if they'd take me back I was so ugly. I'm in good shape, but I'm not great looking.”
“I think you are. I love looking at you.”
He took that to mean the it was his turn to fuck me, which it was, which I loved because he's good at it, which sounds a little stupid I know; but that's how I get after he fucks me.