13 comments/ 22815 views/ 13 favorites The Girls Next Door By: Positraction This is my first story I hope you enjoy it. Please let me know, and special thanks to my editor. Originally written as A Thorny Rose and the Orchid My name is Brian Travis; I am 24 years old and still living at home. Since I was ten I wanted to be a mechanic and engine builder. I went to work cleaning up my dad's auto shop after school and at eleven I was cleaning up the machine shop down the block. I worked my way into cleaning engines and disassembling them by the age of thirteen. Andy Andrews was the head machinist he took me under his wing and taught me everything there was about the machine shop. With my vocational training in high school and my apprenticeship at that shop and other shops I have my ASE master machinist. When I was fifteen I bought my 64 El Camino and started to rebuild it, the work was done at Andy's home garage, with his help we rebuilt it from the ground up with all new suspension, disc brakes all around, 12 bolt 3.73 posi-traction rear end, 436 small block Chevy engine, 450 hp, 500 foot-pounds of torque coupled to a 6L 80E transmission. 4-inch header equipped with electric cutouts and three-inch pipes all the way back. With 150 hp Nitrous Oxide boost. Beatrice or Bee 24, the girl next door. I guess you could say she was my girlfriend at least we go together a lot, most of the time her kid sister Di 23 tags along with us. They were on the swim and softball teams. I haul them to a lot of meets and games. Bee majored to be a dietitian working at a hospital. Diana or Di majored in music and business administration and has a bachelor's degree in both of them. Bee and I have not messed around much, she said she was saving herself for her husband. It was okay with me because I put a lot of work and time in to be where I am now. It was the middle of June; Bee said she wanted to go to a party at a lodge in the town sixty miles away. I said okay. Di asked to come along it was okay with me. About an hour after we were there I figured out this was not a party for me. The booze and drugs were starting to come out and I wanted no part of it. I had worked way too hard to throw it away on things like this. Di was talking to her girlfriends Tracy, Gina and Kaylee and their boyfriends. I went over and asked them where Bee was. One of the guys said he saw her going down the hall with a couple of guys. That got a reaction from Di and from the look she gave me she didn't know what was going on. I started down the hall to the last room there. Di and the gang followed me. There were some muffled cries and noises coming from the room. I tried the door, it was unlocked I opened it and went in, to my surprise Bee was with three guys all nude and getting it on. She was sucking one and screwing the other two. That's when I lost it. I grabbed one guy and threw him halfway through the wall. The one that was getting sucked, came at me and swinging with this right, I blocked it with my left and caught him squarely in the nose with my right knocking him down, he hit his head on the corner of the end table. The guy on the bed jumped up grabbed a bottle and swung at me I ducked and came up from the floor with my right hitting him square in the chin I heard some cracking noise he fell back on the bed and was out. I looked at Bee. She looked terrified, Di was hollering at her, how could you. I looked at the mess that I just caused and figured I was in trouble because nobody was being forced. I think I just blew it. I slowly walked by everybody in the room and some in the hall and went outside to get some fresh air. I'm not sure what I did next, the next thing I remember is a red light staring me in the eyes and someone screaming at me to stop. The red light was the tack, red line at 8000. It was Di screaming at me to stop, I took my foot off the gas petal and the engine went from a roar to popping with big yellow flames coming out of the headers. I pulled over to the side of the road and stopped, Di was still hollering and hitting me, she really looks scared. I shut the motor off. "You scared the shit out of me." She was almost white. I have never heard her say a swear word before, she must have really been scared. I asked her what was she was doing here. She said, "You block head I've been in love with you since I was fifteen. I've waited eight years for you to figure it out. It time for me to tell you so. I didn't want to come between you and Bee but I figure that's over with." "You got that right." I don't know how I could have been so blind. This thing with Di was certainly something new to think about. I just sat there looking at her; staring into her blue eyes. When She leaned over and gave me a little kiss and a smile and asking if it was okay. I thought for a moment leaned over and gave her one long passionate kiss and she gave me her prettiest smile. I just sat there and was looking at her wondering why I had been so stupid. We kissed a little bit more and decided we better get. I cranked up the Chevy and it came to life making lots of noise I hit the switch for the electric cutouts, and the switch for the nitrous. I hit the bleed off switch for the nitrous it was empty. I guess I really wound it out and I don't even remember it. I pulled back out on the highway set the cruise control at 60 and the RPMs dropped to 1300 and headed home. Di's phone started ringing; it was her mother Carrie wanting to know what was going on. Tracy had called her, Di's dad Jim got on the phone because her mother was hysterical. Di told him the best she could and we'd be home in a half an hour. About that time my mom Helen called me and I told her we'd tell them when we got home. Our parents were in the driveway when I pulled in, we got out and Di ran over to her mother they were both crying. I went over to my parents I looked at dad and told him I blew it. We went to our house and sat around the table; we were trying to tell them what went on. My dad Bill wanted to know what I was going to do. I told him I had to think for a while and I might go up to the claim my grandfather left me. No electric, no phones, and no radio it's very quiet there. Dad said okay and he knew where he could find me if he needed me. Holding Di's hand coming into the house didn't go unnoticed by my mother. Di had gone to her house to be with her mother. Mom asked me if I had something going with Di. I said, "Yeah I think so." Mom said, "It's about time, you know how long she's waited for you." "Yes she told me." "You don't know the times she's come over and cried on my shoulder. She said never to say anything to you that you would have to find it out for yourself." I put the El Camino in the garage and started loading my Chevy pickup. My extra clothing, some bedding and food and the gear I didn't have at claim. Di was helping me load the things in between some serious kissing. I finally decided it was time to go to bed. I would be up before five and on the road. I said good night to Di a few more times then she went home. I started up to my room Mom gave me a nice smile and said good night. I had a lot to think about when I went to bed mostly about Di, as I think back over the years I never did see her go out on a date, have never seen a boy come over to the house when she goes out she's always gone out with Bee and myself. She was always over at our house so I could help her with her "homework" thinking back on it now the only thing is I was going vocational and she was going after her bachelor and besides that she's a straight A student. She was always helping me around the garage and even over at Andy's when I was building the El Camino. Sleep didn't come easy, but five o'clock came awful early. I left the house at five minutes to five. Loaded Sam my black lab and we were off. About 6:30 Di called me and we talked for about a half an hour. I pulled into Placerville around seven and stopped at the grocery store and stocked up. Filled up the Chevy and my six diesel cans for the tractor. Headed up to the claim, after twenty miles there is a private road with a locked gate, after ten miles the road actually is in the creek most of the time, my claim is another five miles up and the last one on the road. I have a cable and lock on it so that when you're up there you're very much alone. I pulled up to the old trailer and unloaded most of my gear. We have a cargo container there that we keep all of the tools and the tractor in. Next to it, I wanted to level out some more ground for new parking places. The way the land is laid out, there's a cliff at the end of the canyon. A waterfall, and the creek are on the south side of the valley. The trailer and the container are on the north side of the valley. At the top of the waterfall there is a spring that runs year-round we have tapped into it and have running water. Plenty of water for the sluice box and camp with no pumps running. On the north side fifty feet from where I want to put the camp parking, is an old volcanic flow, which goes all the way to the head of the canyon and up the cliff. It covers about fifty feet of the north side of the canyon. The creek on the south side is where the 49ers panned for gold and this section produced more than five millions dollars in 1849. They're still a lot of gold in this part of the creek. I fired up the tractor started moving dirt by the container going into the hillside about twenty-five feet to make a level spot. I dug down about a foot deeper than we had gone before. I started digging up gravel. I got off the tractor and looked at what I had been digging. The only way gravel could be there is that it's an old streambed that been covered up by the lava flow and the mudslides coming down off the hill. If this turns out to be an old streambed it would have to be much earlier than when the 49ers were here, and from the looks of things they didn't find it. I'm thinking I may have found a hot spot at least I hope so. With the backhoe I made a few test holes. Took some samples down to the creek to pan out. This gravel was hot, more gold in the one pan than I've seen in a long time. I moved the old sluice box from down by the creek to where I was digging, and moved the water lines over to run the sluice. For the next three weeks I moved rocks and shoveled gravel. Moving the bigger rocks with the backhoe. I bought a gas-powered vacuum to clean up the bedrock, cracks and crevices. Between the nuggets and the dust I had about twenty pounds of gold and seven buckets of concentrate. It was about four in the afternoon, Sam started barking and looking down the road the hair was up on his neck. He stopped barking and was wagging his tail he recognized who was coming. Dad's truck came into view, the sun was on the windshield and I could not see who was driving. Sam went running over to the truck and Di got out. She gave Sam some love and stood looking at me. I smiled and held my hands out and she came flying, jumping into my arms. We kissed long and hard and explored a little with our tongues. I asked her why she was here, she then look sad and said Andy died, "I asked your dad if I could come and tell you and he gave me his truck." I asked when the funeral was going to be, "Day after tomorrow." I said, "It was too late to go home today," It got a shy smile out of her. She asked what I had been doing and I showed her where I was digging. She asked if I was doing any good. I took her over to my pickup and showed her my two bottles. I showed her the three, quart's specimen rocks with gold that I had found. We clean the sluice box out and the nugget trap and check the tailing piles with the metal detector. Di was real good at picking the gold out of the riffles. She said she was getting hungry and asked me what I had to eat. I gave her a little smile and said, " Beans." I had been eating them for two days. She looked at the trailer, and asks if I was sleeping in there. I said," Yes but I keep the windows open." I made a pan of cornbread and warmed up the beans, and had tomatoes with cottage cheese. We set out in camp chairs, ate and talked for about an hour. Then I said we better get some sleep we have a lot to do in the morning before heading home. I asked her where she wanted to sleep at table or the bunk. She pointed at my bed; I said, "Okay I'd take a bunk." She looked at me and shook her head no and gave me her shy smile. I smile back. Pulled off T-shirt and put on clean pair of gym shorts and climbed into bed. She stripped down to her bra and panties climbed in. For the longest time we just looked at each other. Those blue eyes will get to you after a while. I put my arm around her and was running my hand up and down her back. It was at about this time that the beans started to work. I knew that I would have to let one go any minute. The moonlight was coming through the window I could see Di real plain. I ripped off a real big one. Di hollered PU and punched me in the ribs; She was smiling. We lay there a little more and I felt her starting to squirm. She wiggled a little more and then she let one go. I poked her in the ribs and she jumped, I said. "Are you ticklish?" And she said, "No." I started to tickle her, she is very ticklish and I let her have it. She was hollering, Stop stop stop!" I did and just held her tight looking deep into her eyes. I leaned over to kiss her. I don't know what happened I never felt anything like that before it felt like an electric shock. Something definitely did happen. I asked her if she felt anything, she was breathing a little hard and said, "Yes." We did some very passionate kissing. We lay there looking at each other again I told her we had a busy day tomorrow and we better go to sleep she looked a little disappointed but said okay. She rolled over and put her back next to me and put my arm around her. My hand was inching up toward her breast she grabbed my hand and put it on her right breast. Lying there I could smell her hair and her perfume. Boy, I could really get used to this. We finally drifted off to sleep. I was up at five and started to make breakfast. Di looked at me and asked me you sure you want to get up. "No but do it anyway." We still have a lot to do today. We had everything squared away by noon and started home. The only thing I hated about going home was Di was in the other truck. Forty-five minutes later we were down to where the telephones worked, we both called home. Mom asked me if everything was okay I told her, nothing could be better. We arrived home about 4:30. I started unloading my truck. Put the dirty clothes in the washer and stacked the bedding for the next load. I unloaded my concentrates and started to run them across the shaker table. Di was there, I showed her how to load the trammel and work the table. Earlier in the spring I had built a power winch, by the way Di help me build it to pull rocks out of the creek I needed it now to move the big rocks where I was working. I loaded up the winch and my pulley system and a chain saddle for going around the rocks. We ran the shaker table to about ten o'clock. And put another five pounds of gold in the bottle and stored it in the pickup. Diana asked me what my plans were. I told her I'd be going back up to the claim the morning after the funeral. She asked me if I would miss her. I took her in my arms gave her a real long kiss, "What do you think." It was getting late, Di went home and I went up to bed. I called Di and we talked for about a half an hour before we went to sleep. I called my boss Steve, told him what was going on. He said he would see me at the funeral he was one of the pallbearers to. I called four of my friends and talk to them for a while. We had a little band going since we were in high school, mostly gospel and country. We had not been together for a long time. The funeral was real nice dad and Jim, Steve my boss, Joe from the shop and Sydney from our church and myself were the pallbearers. The funeral was at our church and a follow-up at the cemetery. Mom and Carrie planned that evening for a potluck dinner at our house. We sat around till about six just talking and remembering. Troy, Carl, Jimmy and Eric came over that evening and brought their guitars. I brought my banjo out and Di set down at the piano. Di has a beautiful alto voice that can go to soprano with perfect pitch. This was a real good break from all the things that had been going on. The guys left about nine. Carrie and Jim left a little later. I walked Di over to her door and said, "Good night". It was getting harder and harder to say good night. I was up and dressed by fifteen to five. Grabbed some toast on the way out, called Sam and started to back to the claim. About 6:30 the phone rang. The trouble was, it was not my phone and it was ringing from the backseat. I pulled over and stopped. Di pulled the blanket back and set up, answered her phone. It was her mother calling, wanting to know where she was. "Hang on a minute Mom," as she handed me her phone and climbed over the seat, giving me her prettiest, I'm innocent smile. "What are you doing here?" Back on her phone, "Mom, you know what I'm doing here. I'm where I want to be, I'll be okay." Carrie put Jim on the phone and he asks her if that's what she wanted? "Yes, dad, you know, this is what I want." He said okay and to put me on the phone. He asked me if we had worked this out, "No it is a surprise to me to." He asked me if I loved her. Looking at Di, I told him yes I love her very much and would take care of her. Jim said okay and to take good care of her. I said, "How long have you been there?" "Since about two. I didn't want to miss you and I didn't think you would have taken me if I'd asked." I looked at Di, put the truck back in gear and headed down the highway. Carrie came over, to cry on mom's shoulder. Mom finally filled her in on what was going on. Carrie said she could live with that. Mom called me about that time and asked me how things were going, "I don't think it can get any better. Looks like you'll may be getting a daughter one of these days," mom said she would be getting the best. "Just what I always wanted." We stopped at the restaurant that I eat at most of the time and had omelets. We then went to the grocery store stocked up. Filled the truck up and the diesel cans, and headed up the old road. I was thinking on the way up and asked Di about birth control. She said she had been on them for a month. We arrived, at Camp. Di was doing housekeeping and putting things away. I started the tractor and unloaded the truck. We worked about three hours getting the winch set up to pull rocks. The first rock was about 8 feet long and 4 feet wide, maybe 3 foot tall. I hooked it up and started the motor, put it in gear and started to pull. Everything moaned as it tightened up on the cables and the motor started to stall. I took it out of gear. The old winch had 100 to one reduction gear on the side of it. I slipped that in and put it back in gear. This time, cable tightened up and the rock started to move. It was a slow process; it was about a half an hour to move it. Di started kicking around in the gravel and hollered for me to, "Come over here." She had a nugget about the size of a silver dollar. I told her, that is what we are looking for; I put that one in my pocket. Di picked up a couple of buckets and started shoveling gravel. I hooked the cable and pulleys too another rock and started to move it. Under the rocks was another four pounds of gold. We finished up about eight. Di looked very tired. I started rubbing her neck and shoulders. She wasn't used to all of this manual labor, but she never stopped, or complaint. The Girls Next Door She said, "What I need is the hot bath." I told her the shower was working, "No I need a bath to soak in." "Is that all, come with me." I went to the trailer and picked up two towels. Taking her by the hand went behind the trailer and up a small trail, on the side of the hill. I hadn't told her that we had a Hot Springs. "Your bath awaits." I sat down and started taking my shoes and socks off. I stood up and pulled my shirt off and then I looked over at Di. I wasn't sure of my next move. Smiling and taking her shirt off, and said, "Go for it." So I did drop my pants and started into the spring. I turned to look at Di. She is absolutely beautiful; as I was watching her she blushed a little, when her nipples started getting hard as she waded out into the spring. That wasn't all it was beginning to get a hard. We soak for a while. I had some soap so we washed each other. The water is hundred and four degrees. Twenty minutes were long enough; we dried off. Put our shoes on, picked up clothing and started back to the trailer. Hanging the towels on the clothesline. She crawled into bed and was lying on her stomach. I climbed in beside her and was rubbing her back. All I got out of her was mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. The hot bath made her even sleepier, I pulled her up against me again. I told her we'd sleep in, in the morning and maybe go on a picnic. She said, "Sounds good," and was sound asleep. At five I was up, showered and was getting dressed. She looked me and said, "What are you doing?" "Get up, we are going to town." "It's five o'clock and you said we could sleep in." "I know, but I changed my mind. Now get up." She stuck her tongue out at me as she went to the bathroom. I went out and fed Sam. I was warming up the truck, when she finally came out; I asked her if she had her purse. "It's in the backseat why?" "You never know when you might need it. Where is my good morning kiss?" Started down the trail Di opened and closed the cable. We reached the gate she opened and closed it. We stopped at the restaurant for breakfast. "Why are we in town so early? It's only 6:30, none of the stores are open yet." "I know." I headed down to highway 50 and turned east. An hour and a half later we were in Carson City. I found a store that said homemade jewelry, gold and silver specimens. We went in a couple greeted us there name tag read, June and Roy. I asked Roy if he could make us a necklace. He said that was his specialty. I pulled out Di's nugget. He looks surprised, said he hadn't seen a nugget that like that in a long time. I told him I wanted a ring put in it so it can be put on a gold chain. "No problem. When would you like it?" "Now." Roy said, "It would be about fifteen minutes." I was looked at as display cases. There was a silver butterfly made to hold a ponytail. I handed it to Di she tried it on. Di's hair is dark brown, and comes almost to her waist. I told June, we would take it. They didn't have much gold on display. Roy had some bolo made up without anything on them. I asked him if he was short on nuggets, "Yes." "Do you need any nuggets?" He looked at the nugget he was working on, "Do you have any more". "Are you interested in buying some?" "Yes, it's hard to run a business without merchandise." I went out to the truck brought my box in with the bottles in it. Set it on the counter. I took the old T-shirt out with the specimens, wrapped in it, and spreading it out on the counter. He looked at them, called June over. You should have seen the astonishment on their faces. He said he had not seen samples like these outside of the museum. "Are these for sale?" "If the price is right." About that time he looked at my box and at the jars. "You need some nuggets and dust." This time, he said, "If the price is right." He took nugget jar and started spreading the nuggets out. Him and June were going through them, picking out different ones. I picked out one and asked him if he could put it on one of his bolos. "No problem." About fifteen minutes later we had worked out a deal, on what he wanted to buy. He bought the specimens, half of the nuggets and some dust. The price was $203,000 dollars. I looked around the shop; in the room next door were Western clothes. I asked Di if she liked Western clothing. "Yes." I asked June to show her some of their prettiest clothing. We went in, June was pulling things off the racks to show Di. I was walking around looking at different things. Then I saw a pair of brown suede boots with fancy stitching. They would come up to jest below her knees. I asked what size do you wear; I found her size and took them over to show her. "Do you like these?" "Oh yes," I set them on the bench. They had three or four blouses out and asked which ones I liked, I pointed to one and she said she would try it on. I went back to looking around. I found a black on black shirt with lots of snaps on it and some fancy stitching a pair of black pants to match and a pair of Wellington boots. I went over to the dressing area. Di had the blouse on; it was very fancy with fringe on the sleeves. "Do you like it?" "Yes." "Which skirt do you have to go with it?" I like the one, which came down to mid calf. While she was trying on the skirt and boots, I changed to the shirt and pants and slid the boots on. I was standing there when Di came out of the dressing room. She looked over and gives me a big smile. She was the one to look at with those clothes on. She was a real knockout. She was looking at them in the mirror. June said. "Are you guys going to a party or dance?" I looked at her and smiled. "No we are going to a wedding." It took two or three seconds for Di too pick up on that. She spun around looking at me. "If she'd have me?" I smiled. She came flying almost knocking me over and the rack behind me. After a couple of kisses, she settled down. Roy called; he had finished the nugget and my bolo. We went back to counter. "So you are going to get married," he said. I said, "Yes," he handed me Di's nugget. I told Roy, we needed a gold chain. He shows us some, "Those are not heavy enough." He picked out some others that were heavier. I said, "That's better." Roy asked if we had our rings. "Oh! No we don't." Roy asked if we wanted to see some. I told him to. "Bring them out." He measures our rings size. Di picked the one she liked." I told him we'd take them." He put them in a box and I put them in my pocket. Going up to the front counter. We pass the hat rack so we picked out our Stetsons. Paid June and asked them where the courthouse was. On the way to courthouse we passed a branch of my bank. We stopped, went in and modified my account. So Di was on it and order checks, and deposited the check from Roy. I pulled out 500 dollars I gave 200 to Di; she asked me what's that for. I told her she might need some money and to put it in your purse. I pulled into the parking lot at the courthouse. I looked at her and said; "You can still back out if you want," but I got a sharp elbow in the ribs. I looked at her and said, "Let's go." We went in and found the license division, filled out our application took it over to the window. The clerk looked it over. Checked our IDs, said that will be $75. I paid it, and she gave us our license. We went back outside. Back up the road. We had passed a wedding chapel. It was fixed up kind of fancy with a white arbor, lots of flowers. The lady asked what could she do for us. I told her we would like to get married. She gave us a smile and called her husband. She checked our license. And asked if we wanted pictures. I said yes and gave her my camera. She said the ceremony came with pictures; my camera would be a few dollars extra. I told her that was fine as we stood under the Arbor. The next thing I remember is. "William Brian Travis will you take this woman." "Diana Kay Skylen will you take this man." "With these rings I be wed." "And shall cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flash? Wherefore there are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." "I now pronounce you man and wife you may kiss the bride." As the pictures, were coming out of her computer. I checked my camera. The pictures were great. We picked out one picture we liked and had two 8 x 11's made. We went out to the truck. I looked at my wife and said, "Well, Mrs. Travis." On the way out of town, we stopped at Wal-Mart to buy some new work clothes. We bought six shorts and T-shirts each. I told Di to by the shorts two sizes larger. It's cooler working with them loose. We also picked up a pair of deck shoes for going up to the hot tub and two pictures frames. We started home. Di was sitting real close. We were touching a little bit here and there. Not wanting to mess up our new clothes. I pulled into a turnout that was off the road. Parking parallel to the road. I opened up the doors on the passenger side. I pull my boots off and started with my clothes. By that time I was hard. Di was playing with me; she would push me one-way and watch me spring back. I put a T-shirt and a pair shorts on and my deck shoes. I told her. It's your turn. She stepped out and took the blouse and skirt off. She reached for shorts. I said, "No." I undone, her bra and pulled her panties down. Then I let her have her T-shirt and shorts. Back on the highway, she was still playing with me. It's really easy when you're shorts are loose. Eventually I told her I was going to cum. She grabbed a towel from the back and continued to work me and until I shot my load. I pulled her shorts up and started playing with her pussy. She was very wet and I played with the chit until she came. I was playing with her tits and pussy most of the ways back to town. When we were on the old road I pulled off my T-shirt looked at Di and she pulled her T-shirt off too. I really like having a half naked girl setting next to me. We stopped at the gate. I got out and pulled my shorts off and threw them at her. I opened the gate and told her to drive through then I climbed back in the truck she had pulled her shorts off. We pulled up behind the trailer; she said she needed to clean up. We grabbed our towels and started to the Hot Springs. We washed each other again. I had a hard on standing there. She started down on her knees. It wasn't long before I told her I was going to cum. She just sucked me more. I told her once more, I am going to cum. She caught every bit of it, and working me a little more. She stood up and looked real happy. I kissed her and she gave me some of my sperm. A couple more kisses and I picked her up and put her on a big rock. I kissed her nipples and work my way down. I worked my way up and down her pussy and started working on her chit. I slipped two fingers in her and started rubbing her G spot. While sucking her chit she was starting to get close, throwing her legs around me: and pulling my face tight against her. She had a very intense climax. I got a mouthful of her juice and more squirting on my face and was the dripping off my chin. This time, I gave her some of her juice. Looks like if she gets hot enough, she'll squirt. By this time I was rock hard. I stood up and was rubbing my cock against her pussy. I slipped it in a little bit. She tightened up every time I moved. When she loosened a little I would slip in a little further. She was very tight. I was about half way in. She loosened up. I went for it burying it all away. We held that for a while and she started to relax. I started to stroke a little. It was long before I were going full stroke. After about five minutes she was joining me stroke for stroke. I was one happy camper. She started to tense up. I went at it harder. She wrapped her legs around me dug her fingers into my back and let out a scream. She really came hard. It was a few minutes before I slid out. She gave me a very special smile. We cleaned up, dried off and started to the trailer. Climbed in bed and just held each other after a while, she whispered to me, "Do it again." So I did. We woke up about eight o'clock. The sun was full up, and beginning to getting warm. Getting up I shower and started to get breakfast while she showered. We worked hard that day and went to bed around nine. The next day I was running the backhoe and Di was shoveling gravel. This didn't look right. So I asked Di to run the backhoe. It took me about a half an hour to show her how the levers worked she picked it up real quick and after a few hours she was running it real smooth. This worked out better. We started to get a lot more work done. We worked hard and played harder. Next week it was fairly hot. I pulled my T-shirt off; Di said, "No fair." I said, "Take it off," so she did. Now, looking at a beautiful girl operating a backhoe is one thing, but looking at a topless girl is something else. We worked for about an hour. I stopped and looked at her, motioned for to turn tractor off and come over here. She came over I grabbed her and pulled her up tight kissed her hard pulling her shorts down. I took mine off threw them over on a rock. Up to this point we had been making real good love, but right now I wanted just plain old hard sex, so we did. We went at it for about twenty minutes. Sweat was pouring off of us when we came. We went down to the creek and jumped in the swimming hole for about fifteens minutes. The cold waters cooled us off and we went back to work. We didn't bother with our clothes the rest of the week. By this time, we could read each other real well. It was two days until our first month anniversary and we had worked up to the lava flow. I climbed out of bed and was sitting on the foot of it. Di had gone to the bathroom and came out and looked at me, "What's wrong." I said, "What would you do if I left you." I NEVER want to see that LOOK again. She ran over to me, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN." I said, "We are going home, and I'm going to straighten this mess out. I may be going to jail for a while." She gave me a big smile jumped on my lap and said, "That's not leaving me it's just we might be separated for a while. Now make love to me," so I did. We spent the rest of that day cleaning up and putting things away. The next morning we were up early and finished packing. We started down the mountain. When we were in phone range, we called home and told them we were on our way. I had mom give me the Sheriff's number. I called them they put me through to Deputy Garnett. I told him I wanted to turn myself in. I would be there at nine o'clock in the morning. Dad and Jim took off early to be home when we arrived. Di wanted to know how we were going to tell them we were married. I told her the plan I had thought of. She said it would be fun doing it that way and asked about her ring she didn't want to take it off. I told her to wrap some tape around her two fingers, so they couldn't see it. I could probably keep mine hid. We called about five minutes out, as we pulled into the driveway they were waiting for us, almost like last time Di ran over and hugged her mother. She gave my mom a very special hug and kiss on the cheek. Mom looked at me. I gave her a big smile. While they were talking I went into the house and set up the camcorder on the shelf beside the TV. And covered it with a book. Di told them we had some pictures to show them, I'll set the camera for our work pictures. They were surprised that Di could operate a backhoe. I told them she could handle it with the best. I showed the sluice box and cleaning it out with some gold in the pan. I unplugged the camera and went to the wedding pictures, the one where we were holding hands facing each other with the preacher reading in the background. They thought we were done, with the pictures and were starting to get up. Di had taken the tape off of her hand. "Oh! I have one more." I plugged the camera in and our wedding picture came up. Carrie was going oh, oh. Mom looked at me and said, "You're married". Di showing them her ring and I flashed mine. More hugs and pats on the back. We gave them the 8 x 11's and the wedding books with the pictures. I told them that I had to be at the Sheriff's station at nine o'clock in the morning. We went out to eat. It was too late to start a meal for everyone so we went to El Camino my favorite Mexican restaurant. When we were back home, we were setting around the table talking. There was a knock at the door, Mom answer it. It was Beatrice and some guy. Mom invited them in, I recognized the guy he was the one I threw into the wall. This was the first time Bee had been home. She would not look at her mother. She said, "Paul had something to talk to me about." I got up and started over to him. I thought from his looks he was going to turn and run out the door. I held out my hand and told him I was sorry, he calmed down a little bit. Bee would not look at me, but was talking, looking out the window. She said, "Paul had a hospital bill and didn't have any money to pay it." I told him to sit down, "I guess you know who I am, what is your name." He introduced himself as Paul Clark. He had arrived in town that day and was with his cousin, one of the other guys I clobbered. He had come looking for work and his cousin invited him along for a little fun. I see now that the whole thing had been prearranged, Bee turned, looked a little in our direction. She had tears in her eyes. I thought it serves her right. I asked Paul if he had the bill. He handed me a folded over envelope. I opened it. The bill was for $1343 for the ambulance and emergency room. He had dislocated his shoulder. I looked at Di, "Time to write your first check." She wrote the check. I tore off the payment part, put it and the check in the return envelope and sealed it. I told him mom would mail it tomorrow. I wrote on the top part of the invoice paid in full and handed it to him. He looks surprised. I guess he thought I was going to fight him. Who knows what Bee had told him? I turned to Di; "He needs some pain and suffering how about two." "Hundreds." "No thousands." Di started writing the check signed it and handed it to him. Again he looks surprised. Bee came over and looked at the check, she started to ask why Di was signing the checks when she looked at the names, Di flash her ring. She had tears rolling down her cheeks as she ran out the door. Jim and dad asked Paul if they could see him in the other room. A few minutes later they came back, Paul said he had to go. I got up and told him I was sorry, one more time, he said he understood a little more and we shook hands. We sat around and talked till it was time for bed. Jim and Carrie started home. Carrie turned to Di, "Are you coming." Di looked at her mom and smiled, "No." Carrie said, "Force of habit." We were lying in bed and heard some noise coming from mom and dad's room. I said, "I haven't heard that for a while." We laughed a little. We were up by five, cleanup and had breakfast by 6:30 we were just getting ready to leave when mom came running into the kitchen. She was clutching her bathrobe I told her to slow down. We were all done and ready to go. I noticed she was not wearing her nightgown. I smiled at her and kissed her on the cheek. She blushed a little. Di gave her a kiss on the cheek, "I'll call you "mom" when I hear something," and it got a smile out of her. I was going out the door when dad came down, I started to give him a high five. He asks what for I told him I think mom liked it. He blushed. I said, "Go for it". As I shut the door. Mom said, "Bill not in the kitchen." I fired up the Chevy and headed out of town when we crossed the County line there was a Sheriff's car beside the road. I had to cruise on 60 and continued on. We passed two other Sheriff's cars on the way in into town. We picked up one in town and he followed us to the station. The Girls Next Door I looked at Di, "This could be serious." We started into the station; the deputy parked and started to follow us inside. He asked if I was Travis, "Yes." He said, "I'm glad you made it, I'm deputy Garnett." He took us to a small room with a table and chairs. Sheriff McDonald came in. We sat around the table, they ask us some questions I answered the best I could. The Sheriff asked me who Diana was. So I told him the story and told them what happened at the Lodge. Di filled in some of the parts I'd missed. Deputy Garnett said they had received a called from Clark last night, dropping all charges and that I had paid his bills. The Sheriff said, "Now for the other two. The first one you broke his nose and when he hit his head on the table, he got a concussion. The second one, you broke his jaw in four places. The Sheriff's looked at me, then at Di and gave her a little smile, looking back at me, "I think those two were resisting a citizens arrest. They were wanted on ten bank and nineteen convenience stores robberies. There is $75,000 reward on each of them. As of now, when they are convicted, you will receive the reward money. He looked at me, "Looks to me like while you were looking for your rose you found a mess of thorns and wound up with a beautiful orchid." I looked at Di, "I sure did." Deputy Garnett said, "There's that small matter of leaving the Lodge, when you passed me at 162 miles an hour. I looked at Di," No wonder you looked scared." "What should we do about it?" I looked at Deputy Garnett and said. "That's entirely up to you. I'm not making up any excuses. I did it and I am here to straighten it out. He said looking at Di, "That is a good answer, now get out of here, consider it a wedding present." Looking at me. "There is one thing before you go, I want to see your Chevy I am working on one of my own." We went outside, and opened the hood and started talking hot rods. He asked me who built my engine. I gave him my card and said I did and if he comes to the shop. I would get him a 10% discount. He wanted to know if I was trying to bribe him. I told him no. Police and firemen get 10% discount and the military gets 15%. He said, He would contact me, "Now get out of here before I change my mind." I shook his hand and said, "Thanks." As we pulled out of town I looked at Di, "Can you believe what just happened?" She didn't say anything, just held my hand. Di called home and said everything was okay and we will tell them later. As we came into town my phone rang. "This is Mr. Mitchell at the law office of Mitchell, England and Denton. We've been looking for you for a month, how soon can I see you." I said, "How about five minutes, we are a couple blocks down the road." "Fine, we'll see you then." I looked at Di. "Now what, this is going to be a civil matter, the criminal has been dismissed. We pulled up at the law office, and went in. I told the receptionist who we were. "Mr. Mitchell is expecting you, second door on the left." "Mr. William Brian Travis." He motioned for us to be seated, and asked who I had with me. I told him my wife. "I didn't know you were married." "I've been handling the estate of Andrew Anderson. He had everything arranged before he died, along with his wife before she died. "They must have thought a lot of you, anyway to make this quick. He left his entire estate to you they didn't have any living relation. After all the taxes and arrangements. The house, garage and cars and other things are all yours and a bank balance of $283,000." We had a bunch of papers to sign. I had him put Di's name on everything with mine; he said he would take care of that and all of the filing. He gave us the check and the keys to the house, garage and cars. He would be in touch as soon as all the paperwork was done. Setting in the car looking at Di, "Can you believe this day, we must be doing something right." We headed over to "our" house pulled up in the driveway, went inside and were looking around. I called mom. She wanted to know where we were; we should have been there two hours ago. I asked her if Dad and Jim were there, "Yes," I told her to get them, and Carrie and to come over to Andy's old house. She wanted to know what was going on. I told her we'd tell them when they arrived. There was a knock at the door. It was Mrs. Johnson from down the street. She explained to us that she straightened up the house once a week for Andy. She was wondering if we could use her help. I talked it over with Di, we would still be at the claim for a while and we could use her help. I knew she didn't have very much, and probably needed the money. She seemed very happy and said she would see us later. We were sitting on the couch when our folks drove up. They came up to the door, looking in at us and said what are you doing. We invited them in and said welcome to our home. We received some very strange looks, then we told them what had happened. They couldn't believe it. We took a tour of the place. The house has five bedrooms, three baths, and a full basement. The shop fully stocked with tools. We open the garage Andy's 50 GMC pickup, and Ida's 66 Chevy Bel Air set there, the Chevy had 23,000 miles on it and look brand-new. Our parents were still shaking their head in disbelief as they headed home. We set back down on the couch and talked about the day's events. We kissed some and I started unbuttoning some buttons. We tested the couch it works very well. I said, "Let's go test the bed." This house is going to work out very well for us. We spent most of the next day moving in most of our personal things. It was Wednesday and fellowship night at the church. I asked Di if she wanted to go. We had a lot to be thankful for. We hadn't been there in months. The church was fairly full when we came in. The three or four gossip groups usually set in the back. As we pass by them they were silent for a little bit. Then I heard knocked up, pregnant, shacked up and a couple other things I didn't like. Di whispered to me, "Let's go." We started to turn around and I said, "No!" taking her by the hand we went right up to the front. "I heard a few words when we came in that I did not like. The ninth commandment says, "Shall not bear false witness." Psalms says, "Keep your tongue from evil." In Providence, "Gossip betrays a confidence." In Matthews, "On judgment day men will be held accountable for every careless word they have spoken." In first Timothy, "They get into the habit of being idle and going house to house and not only do they become idlers, but also gossip, and busybodies, saying things they ought not to." And second Timothy, "We hear that some among you are idle. They are not busy. They are busybodies." "I don't have a lot more to say. What I will say if you have something to say, say it to me. Not behind my back. And as for this girl here she is not knocked up or pregnant and we are not shacked up. When we left here. We were married. This is my wife and I will not let you say anything bad about her." As we started back down the aisle I made eye contact with most of the people. The El Camino was in the back parking lot as we came around the church. Most of the congregation was standing in the driveway with their arms locked together. Pastor Daniel came over and said, "Turn it off and come back in." Three or four other cars left the parking lot. I guess I did step on somebody's toes. We went back in Pastor Daniel said, "That's all the preaching for tonight. There's nothing more I can add. How about a good song service." Ms. Jennings, our organ player for 30 years sat down and turned it on. It an old organ, it made some hissing noises, couple of pops and a loud snap. Pastor Daniel said, "Looks like it finally gave up." Looked at us boys, "Do you have your instruments?" We said, "Yes." As we were tuning up I looked at Di, I went over took her by the hand and set her at the piano. We had a real good song service. On the way home we were talking and decided we could help with the new organ. The next morning we went over to Mr. Jensen's music store one of the church members. We were looking around. Mrs. Jensen came in and asked what were we doing there, "Looking for a new organ for the church." "Yeah, I'm sure you kids could buy one now leave and quit wasting our time." I think Mrs. Jensen was one of the busybodies whose toes I stepped on last night. Back in the car I asked what is the name of the music store across town; Di said, "Morgan's music." Looking around the store Mr. Morgan asked if he could help us. We told him we were looking for a church organ. Looking at the used ones I did not like them. He showed us to some small rooms where the new organs were set up. In one of them was a Hammond 935; he turned it on played some. Di tried it out. Pushing this, pulling that it really sounded great. He said it was just $26,000. Looking around more we passed a room with the pianos one was a used Steinway model L-B. Di sat down and began to play. After a couple of songs, she was all smiles. The Steinway had been rebuilt and was guaranteed for a year. Against the wall behind the Steinway was an Schafer & Sons 1909 player piano. It has been rebuilt and updated with an electric blower after three songs Di said, "It plays and sounds great and would be perfect for our parlor. Our home is an old Victorian. I asked what was the price for all three was, it came to $63,500."What kind of deal can we worked out, if we bought all three." It would be $58,000. Diana, and I talked it over and thought it would be a good giveback for what we had received. I asked when they could deliver the Hammond and the Steinway. He checked with his crew and said three o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Morgan wanted to know how we were going to pay for it, and what kind of trade in were we talking about. No trade-in. just hall off the old organ and piano. I told him we would write a check for it. In the office the accountant said they would have to clear the check first. I gave them the bank's number and to talk to Mrs. Lang. Ten minutes later we had ourselves two pianos and an organ. The player would be delivered the next day. I called Pastor Daniel asked him to meet us at the church at 2:30. He was curious as to what was going on. "It's a surprise." Fifteen minutes to three the delivery truck pulled up, the crew disconnected and removed the organ and old piano. By five o'clock the grand piano and Hammond were in place and operating. Ms. Jennings was driving by and stops to see why there was a delivery truck there. She almost fainted when she seen the new organ. We told her to try it out. She pulled out all the stops and let 'err rip. She was rattling the windows in the old church with the biggest smile on her face. Friday morning, Troy called me about the car show they have every Saturday night at Rusty's drive in. They wanted our band to play this weekend. I told him sounds good to me. Troy said, "May would like to play in a band," and wondered if it was okay with me. I told him great, the more the merrier. May is Troy wife and plays the fiddle and is quite good. If May was going to be in the band I thought Di should be to. I drove over to Morgan's again; Mr. Morgan was all smiles when I came through the door, he says, "How can I help you. "I told him Di was going to be in our band, so I needed a keyboard. He was showing me some beginner's models I told him. " No." I want a professional model; I picked out a Yamaha Motif XF8 it runs about $4000 with the speakers, accessories for the keyboard, preamp, amplifier and three 's mic's and a boom mic for the keyboard. It totaled about $6500 for the package. Walking through the guitar room. I was looking at the new Gibson banjos. My old banjo, was a Fender FB-54, I picked up in my early years of high school it was really a beginner's banjo. Mr. Morgan said he had a Gibson that had been discontinued a year ago. It Was a Granada Flying Eagle one like Earl Scruggs used to write the book on five strings banjo playing. He showed it to me. I tuned it, played Cripple Creek and on into foggy Mountain breakdown. I now know why anybody that plays wants a Gibson; I picked it up for $6000. . That afternoon Di had her girlfriends over for lunch and a visit, when I arrived home they were sitting around laughing and giggling, looked like they were having a good time. Di had made a special meal for us. The first real nice one since we moved in. Later that evening we were lying on the hammock in the backyard trying to make love in it or on it. It was not working out very well; she was talking about that afternoon, and some of what the girls were talking about at one time or another they had all had their picture taken by the town clock. I told her that's no big deal. Then she said they had them taken in the nude. I asked her if she wanted hers taken that way. She didn't answer me. Instead, she said, "Let's go for drive." It was midnight and still 95° outside. "Sounds good to me. Let's get dressed." Putting her arms around me, and giving me one sexy kiss, "No." I like the way this girl thinks. We grab shorts and t-shirts and a couple towels, and my camera, and throw them in the back seat of the Bel Air. One thing about the Bel Air it has bench seats and your girl can set next to you. We drove up to Lookout Mountain, about twenty miles away. It was a great night for a drive. At the Lookout Tower, you could look out across the valley. We walked around for a while, hand in hand, retrieving an old blanket from the trunk. I spread it out on the ground, we did some really hot kissing and I sucked her nipples for a while, and then moving down and licked her pussy, then worked her clit till she came then made intense love for the next hour. We lay there and talk for another hour making plans about our future. On the way back we took three pictures of her at the clock one by the department store two at City Hall, one by the police station. That should hold her girlfriends for a while if she tells them. We showered when we got home; she gave me one real good blowjob and while I licking her pussy I got her to squirt again, we drifted off to sleep wrapped in each other's arms. Troy called about 10:00 wanted to know what time should we set up for tonight. About 4:30 would be a good time because I had some new equipment and that I would like to have Di in the band as well. What do you think about a keyboard and vocal? Troy said "A keyboard would put our band, over-the-top". And May could backup Di vocally. Setting up took about an hour I had Di's keyboard on the right, my microphone to the left of the keyboard, speakers on stands on each side of the stage Troy and Jimmy's amplifiers set in the middle, Carl and May were on Troy's amp and Eric on Jimmy amp. Troy has a Les Paul Gibson. Jimmy plays bass on Fender and Carl has a Martin for rhythm. Eric plays a Lund 12 string. I called Di, Ask her to put on something pretty and come on over to Rusty's the band was playing tonight. I met her at her car, Di had on a real nice dress. As we walked to the stage, I told her we had two new members in the band. She asked whom, I told her, you'll see. She was eyeing the keyboard "Try it out. Nobody will mind." After testing a few bars. The other members filled in behind her. She looked at May, then at me and I ask her "How do you like your new keyboard." She flashed her prettiest smile but didn't say too much but I know later tonight I will be one happy guy. Troy started playing Di picked up on it. I pulled the Gibson out and hit a couple notes. Troy stopped in the middle of a cord and looked at the Gibson. Di turned around and looked. Troy smiling then hit dueling banjos from the movie Deliverance and for about ten minutes we put those two Gibson's to work. The rest of the evening went very well. We were still going great at about nine o'clock, the cruise usually breaks up around eight, but while we were playing no one left. We finished up with two Gospels; we received a good round of applause. Back at the house I asked Di, if she wanted to stay home are go back up to the claim for a while. I know whatever I said she would go along with me. I picked up four marbles gave her two, told her two marbles we stay home one marble we go to the claim. We both dropped one marble on the table. For the next three months we were up by five and worked extremely hard, going to bed around nine we were home about every third weekend. We bought a bobcat with tracks and hydraulic hammer to breakup the lava flow. We were home for Christmas and New Year's. The band played for three Christmas parties a church service and one New Year's party. While snuggled in our bed two week before Christmas. Di was asking about starting a family. I said it was fine with me, but I'd like a little more practice first. January saw us back at the claim working, some time in the middle of the month, after making some hot Love. I rolled over on my side, and was rubbing her stomach. "What are you doing?" She asked, as I kept rubbing her stomach. I just said, " Davina Marie." She whacked me one and said," who is this Davina person, "You're daughter, you are off your pill aren't you?" "Yes, are you mad at me and how do you know I'm pregnant." "I know," I pulled her close and drifted off to sleep. In the morning she got one of her test strip. It came up positive, "See I told you." It was now the last of April and we had worked our way about 300 feet up the lava flow. For May we would be home. We needed a break from the hard work and it wouldn't be long before Di wouldn't be able to work anymore. We had been shopping; Diana asked what we were going to get our mothers for Mother's Day. I hadn't thought about it, but wanted to get something nice for them. We were passing the Chevy dealership. I turned in and one of the hotshot salesmen came over, and said, "What can I do for you." "We want to see some SUVs." He showed us what he had, and I said. " We wanted two of them a red one and a blue one, what kind of deal can we worked out". He said he would check and after five minutes he hadn't come back. We looked through the window. He was sitting at his desk with his feet on it. It was obvious they didn't want to sell us a car. Back in the El Camino, down the street was a Hyundai dealer, we pulled in and one of the salesmen came over and he asked us what he could do for us. We wanted to look at the SUVs. He asked what kind of accessories we wanted. I told him well loaded. He asked about the navigational system. I told him no, we didn't need that. He showed us a new Tucson well loaded. I told him we wanted a red and blue one, did he have them in stock. He said he didn't have a red and blue one. They were either red or blue. I told him we wanted a red one and a blue one, two of them. He said he never sold two at the same time, I said, "Make us a deal and you'll sell two of them." we went in the office and worked out a deal with the boss. He started to ask us about the down payment and monthly payment. I stopped him and said, "Cash," his mouth fell open. "Not too often, do I get cash for two cars at once. Di wrote the check out and once again gave them the banks number. Half Hour later they were ready to go. I told Di let's have some fun on the way home, follow me. We took the red one first as I pass the Chevy dealer. We turned in honked our horns and drove out. We put it in the shop at home and went back to get the blue one and we did the same thing at the Chevy dealer again. This time an older gentleman stopped me and wanted to know what was going on. I told him he said, "Thanks," and headed for our hotshot salesman. We took the blue one home, put it in the shop. Mother's Day get-together dinner would be at our house. Our patio is covered, set up with tables and barbecue grill.