Storiesonline.net ------- How the Hell by cmsix Copyright© 2009 by cmsix ------- Description: Jake is finding out working for his Dad has its advantages. You see in North East Texas they aren't all that far from Arkansas, and no one pays much attention to sexual harassment on the job. Codes: MF mf mF Mult ------- ------- Chapter 1 I don't know why I was actually for Barak Obama, but I was. It didn't seem like it was something I should do, but if anyone asked I spoke up and told of my support. This didn't make me too popular in my small North East Texas hometown, but what the hell, I was never very popular anyway. I'll admit it. I wasn't well liked in my own hometown and it was a small one at that. It must have been something about the way I didn't mind speaking my mind. Hell, now that I was in my thirties and getting old enough to go down and pal around with the spit and whittle club at the drugstore I even got the cold shoulder from the old men down there. At first I thought it was because my favorite chaw wasn't a chaw at all, but a dip, of Skoal. They were all using regular pouch type chewing tobacco to generate the spit they were putting out. I learned later it was my political leanings that made me spitter non grata. You see I wasn't around when blacks were called nigger, even to their faces and the schools were integrated in our town when I was in the sixth grade. Most of the old spitters and whittlers hearkened back to the way things used to be, where black people were treated like lower class citizens if like citizens at all. I never tried to argue things out with them on this matter since I knew it would do no good. The only cure for this societal malady was time. Time enough for two or three generations of old folks to pass on and take their hate with them, to hell. I wasn't acceptable in other ways either. I wasn't a hide bound democrat and not much of a republican either. The good things our government did for us were overshadowed by the shit they passed down. I knew it and I didn't like it and mostly I didn't keep that to myself. Oh, I'd joined up when I was eighteen and let them ship me to the fuckup in Southeast Asia. And I definitely got notice for that on the bench where we spat and whittled, but then again many disapproved of the way I berated the Presidents and others who had presided over the war. Still, I didn't give a shit. The spit and whittle club didn't have enough members to fill all of the benches allowed for our meetings and when I wanted to spit and whittle I sat my ass down on any available spot, put a dip between cheek and gum, pulled out my knife and gave whatever piece of wood I'd brought along the business. Still, I didn't fit in exactly and I knew it. My visits now a days were mostly to let the old bastards know they couldn't run me off. Besides, it was a good place to sit down and catch my breath before I made my way inside Miles Drug to have a cup or six of coffee. Of course there were more old men to get into it with inside, but at least they weren't openly hostile to me, and besides, they could argue better. I might have grown up to be a ner-do-well if not for my family, but I didn't. When this little town got started my Grandfather decided to move his family up from Conroe Texas and start a sawmill here in the piney woods of North East Texas. One thing we weren't short of up here was Yellow Pines. He built a big mill in Bivins Texas and it just so happened a couple of World Wars came about and timber was needed badly. Of course he got rich and he even ended up owning a reasonable fraction of the land in Cass County. People were suspicious of selling the timber off their land to lumbermen at the time so they sold off the acreage instead. It wasn't my Grandfather's business to tell them he'd have paid as much or more for the timber than he did for the land. That doesn't even mention the fact that mineral rights almost always came with the land at that time. Mineral rights weren't a big thing then. Nobody was paying much attention to the black gold just below the surface. In fact it didn't catch on really well until the oil embargo the Arabs tried to get going. My Dad paid one hell of a lot of attention to the mineral rights later on. The big mill in Bivins had shut down shortly after WWII was in the books and one of my uncles had built a sawmill up in Atlanta Texas. My father had never liked sawmill work, so his job at the Bivins mill had been mostly in the commissary. In other words he ran the company store. After the big mill in Bivins shut its doors or gates or whatever, my father bought a building in downtown Atlanta and started Grogan Supply Company. It grew from there. He started with one building and kept expanding until he owned half a block, even buying a used bank building when the bank moved on to bigger quarters. He grew his one building hardware store into a department store with dry good, furniture, ready to wear, and finally GE appliances and of course television sets when they came along. He made a good living and he needed it. What with one daughter and three sons he gathered up some outgo to match and sometimes exceed his income. Of course the details got to be too much for him to handle and he had hell finding good managers. Oh well, the mineral rights had started kicking in along about the time the big department store started having trouble paying for itself and so he fudged and used oil money to keep the store going. What the hell, it was his money, and if he wanted to spend it keeping the store afloat so be it. Even all that was winding down by the time I came back from my paid vacation in Vietnam. Of course with the shitstorm that blew up over the war I wasn't welcomed home as a hero, even though I had several medals for my actions. I hadn't done anything as exciting as one of my uncles who had been a sailor on the Helena and had been aboard when she was shot out from under him. It didn't matter to me though. I slipped right back into down home life and took over the running of my Dad's lumberyard. It was one of the best moves of my life, even on top of what it taught me about selling consumer durable goods. Not long after I took over I noticed that I didn't have any way to know what was gong on with the money. I lobbied for and got permission to hire a girl to keep up a set of books for me on site. She could set up just a couple of ledgers to let me know what I was spending and what I was selling. This was a much bigger deal than even my Dad knew, even though he could easily see I needed the figures. Hell, I needed the pussy too. There weren't any places to meet women in our town, at least there weren't after you had left high school. There were some bars just across the state line in Louisiana, but I wasn't looking for a barfly. I wanted to get hold of a girl I could fuck early and often and with this new slot to fill I intended to get a girl with a slot I wanted to be able to fill myself. Terri had just graduated from college, or from the local junior college anyway. She didn't have the money to go off to a larger school and she planned to work for a year or two to try saving up enough. Hell, did I have a deal for her. She hadn't had any bookkeeping courses or experience, but she could add and subtract and she had neat handwriting. She also had a nice figure, a pretty face, and she wore tight jeans. I left her alone for the first week, even though we were cooped up in the office together most of every workday. We'd seemed to get along well, and toward the end of the week she mentioned she had just broken up with her high school sweetheart. I asked her out for Saturday night to celebrate her first week with us. She wasn't long out of school herself and she still lived with her parents. I had to go inside to meet them when I picked her up and her Dad said the strangest thing to me. "Terri is old enough to make her own choices now. A couple of years ago I'd have told you she had to be in by midnight, but she's grown now and she only has to be in when she says she does," he told me, and I noticed it was out of earshot of her mother and Terri. What the hell? I wasn't planning on keeping her all weekend anyway, although if I got lucky I might want to. I took Terri to Texarkana to eat at a nice restaurant and then we went to see a movie. I wasn't a complete dummy so I picked a real tear-jerker where the girl's sweetheart got killed in the end. We were out of the movie just at ten and so I headed back to my small house with her, planning to watch the news or something else on TV for a while. Terri had other plans. As soon as we sat down, with her nearly in my lap, I knew she wanted to kiss and play around a little. Five minutes later I knew she wanted to play around a lot. She was a good kisser and I got into it so I almost didn't notice when I moved a hand up to pet one of her titties. She didn't exactly go wild over this move, but she did turn up the heat and started playing with her hands in my hair and then started kissing around my face, neck, and ears. I returned the favor, and then made a move to unbutton the buttons down the front of her short dress. She didn't bother me about it and I soon found out something I should have paid attention to already. Terri was braless and when I reached I found naked titty to peruse. I didn't quit until I had both her nipples standing tall. What's a young man to do? She'd given me free rein on her tits and so I took a chance and let my hand fall to her knee. When I slid it up between her thighs she helped out by spreading her legs a little and almost before I knew it I was petting her pussy with nothing between it and my hand but a sheer pair of panties. She was still kissing me hot and heavy and she'd even started moving her ass a little as if to press my hand against her cooter more firmly. When we broke for a second I just picked her up in my arms and took her to my bedroom and lay her down in my bed. When I joined her she went right back to kissing like a house afire and so I put my hand back to her titties and then spread the unbuttoned dress out until I could get a good look. She ate that up and before long I moved my kisses down onto her nipples and she let me know right away it was the right move because she started moaning low in her throat. With my mouth taking care of titty watch I moved a hand back under her dress. I'd already noticed she was wearing a pair of low cut panties and so I took hold of the top of them and started pulling them down, mostly to see what she'd do. Hell, she raised her ass up to help me get them off her. I merely moved them down around her ankles to deal with later and put my hand back to her pussy. I could feel it was slightly damp and so I played my fingers over her lips and then slid one up her for the ever-popular fingerfuck. I was a little surprised she didn't have a hymen in the way, but she sure had a snapper down between her legs. It nibbled at my finger when I pumped it up her and her hips started a motion of their own. Hell, I took mental stock of the situation. I had her panties off her, she was in my bed with her legs spread wide, and I had a finger up her. She was still kissing me and even more hotly than before. I put my other hand to work trying to get the top of her dress down off her shoulders and as soon as it was I went back to sucking up her nipples with vigor. She took to this well so I slipped my other hand down to unsnap and unzip my jeans. It was a struggle, but I managed to get them down and off my feet while I was at it. I was lying on the bed beside her, naked from the waist down. I figured I could move over and get it up her with no problem. The only thing holding me back was a worry about a big come spot on her dress. I hadn't expected this type of success from the first date and hadn't even bothered with buying any rubbers, so whatever I shot up her would run back on her dress if I didn't get it off her. I slid my finger back up her, put my mouth back to hers and put my thumb into play against her clitty after getting it wet in her juices. Let me tell you it did all the good. Her ass was practically electric for a few minutes there and then she blasted off. It was the thing I was waiting for, and while she was wiggling and squirming I pulled her dress the rest of the way off her and moved between her legs. With my hand I lined my dickhead up against her vulva and then pushed. She sucked in her breath audibly and then moaned again. "Oh, you've got it in me now and I wasn't going to let you have any on the first date," she said, but she didn't really sound too disappointed. "You didn't let me have any. I made you come and then pulled your dress off while you couldn't pay attention. Face it, I tricked you and dicked you," I said, hoping she'd see the humor. "I guess you're right. As long as it's already done you might as well fuck me some more. God, that thing feels so big up me. Might as well go ahead and pump so we can both get some good out of it," She said, and so I did. I hoped she was getting some good out of it, because I sure was and I was already thinking about when I could do her again. She hadn't had a hymen when I pushed it up her, but she was sure as hell as tight as any virgin I'd ever had. Tighter than most in fact. In fact, she seemed to be getting tighter as we went along. "How you liking my tight pussy?" she asked, while giggling at her own boldness. "It is the tightest one I've ever had. How could it be?" "Oh, you mean cause I didn't have a cheery? I broke that myself playing with my pussy and a pencil. Ever since that I've been doing exercises. You're actually the first one to ever fuck me, though I doubt you'll believe it. I've put a lot of things up me to squeeze against when I do my exercises, but yours is the first dick that's been up me. You'd better stay close and keep fucking me though or I'll have to try another one. I've already decided I love fucking from the little bit we've done already," she said. "In fact, you'd better start showing up early for work. You never can tell, I might want you to do me over my desk before the rest get there," she said, and damned if she didn't giggle again. "You sure put some smooth moves on me though. I was determined not to give it up on this first date. Oh, I planned on sucking your dick to keep you interested, but I really meant to hold out until the next date at least before giving you any pussy. You've nailed me now though and I just know I'll never be able to hold out on you again. "Say, can we sixty-nine?" She asked, almost out of the blue. "I hope to shout we can. Do you want to stop this and try now?" I asked. "No! I want you to fuck me hard and then try a sixty-nine later. You've got it up my pussy now, so get with it," she said, and then slapped me on the ass. I guess I could take a hint as well as the next guy. She had the dick now and she wanted me to move it around more. She was already the best piece of pussy I'd ever had and I wanted to make sure she didn't have to look around for a good fuck. I pumped harder and faster. We both got our cookies a few seconds later and she hugged me tight while I pumped come up her. She kept holding on too and she kissed around on my face and lips like I was her long lost love. "Oh God. If I'd known it could be so good I'd have already been fucking for years. Maybe it's just you and that long dick you have that made it good," she said, and I wanted to lie and tell her that was exactly what it was, but I didn't. "I can't say I'm the best around because I don't have any way to know. I do try my best though and in case you're wondering I can do a good job with my tongue too," I said. "I know one thing, you weren't shy about shooting your stuff up me. How do you know I won't try to trap you?" she asked. "What's to trap? Goddamn, you're beautiful to start with and you just gave me a taste of the best pussy I've ever had. If you get pregnant you're just pregnant. Most girls get that way sooner or later anyway. Hell, their mamas did. "If you're pregnant you won't give me any static when I ask you to marry me. The only thing for me to worry about after that is the time you'll be out of commission while the baby is on the way," I said, and it must have been the right thing to say. Terri was on her knees beside me in a flash and the next thing I knew she had vacuumed my dick into her mouth. Of course some of it worked its way back out, as it got hard again. "Oh God, you do have a big dick, don't you. I thought it felt big when you had it up me, but now I can see it for myself. I've got to suck this back up hard so I can get some more of it tonight. Besides, I have to show you I can take care of you after you knock me up," she said, and it did seem like she knew what to do with a dick when she had her lips around it. I was hard again in minutes and then Terri let up and asked me, "Do you want me on my back or on my face?" "What do you mean?" "I just want to know if you want to do all three holes tonight. You've already had my pussy and my mouth; you might as well give it to me up the ass too. Up in Arkansas, where we moved from, it officially means you're going steady if you do all three of a girls holes in one night," she said, and damned if she didn't giggle again. "Let's go steady then. Be sure and tell me if I'm being too rough," I said. "Well, it's bound to hurt a little, but I will speak up if it gets to be too much. Run it up my pussy again a time or two just to make sure it's slick." Hell, I did, and it was, and pushing it up her ass was almost as good as the other way, just a little different. In fact it seemed to excite her even more and it was damned fine with me. Another thing I liked about Terri was the way she cuddled and snuggled after we were done. And oh, the things she said. "I know I didn't give you a real blowjob to the finish, but I think I can do a good job, and if you do knock me up later and you get to feeling left out in the bedroom we can probably get my cousin Marla to move in with us down here. She's been wanting to get out of her house because she says her oldest brother is trying to get into her panties. "In fact, she's coming down tomorrow to stay with us for two weeks. The next time we go out on a date she can come along and you can probably try her out. You don't have to worry about knocking her up since she's on the pill," Terri said. ------- Chapter 2 Terri had said more than a few mouthfuls there at the last and even while I was giving her a good hosing for the road she had me thinking. Inviting her cousin down here for a visit sounded too good to be true even though I doubted Terri was in a family way yet. Still it wouldn't hurt my feelings if Terri wanted to get her cousin down here for me to take a trial run. I wondered if Terri was serious. I knew one damned thing. If Marla were anywhere nearly as pretty and as built as Terri I'd have no objections to having them both around. Shit, why wait until Terri was knocked up? We could just get married and invite Marla to stay with us from the get go. I was just the kind of guy who thought he could handle a young harem from the start, and Terri and Marla together had that harem feeling to it already. Bad as I hated to, I thought I'd be better off getting Terri home by midnight, just to keep her dad from bitching. She though we'd just as well meet the deadline for the first date anyway. Of course I asked her out for the next night too. She happily accepted and then she played with my dick all the way to her house. "Maybe it wasn't so bad giving you a shot on the first date after all. You sure seem like you liked it," she said; as we were nearly dry humping standing up by her door. "I'll tell you I'm damned happy about it." I said. "Good, and now you know you can count on me to keep you happy too. Don't forget, we did it in all three places so we're going steady now. That means no other boys for me and no other girls for you, unless I approve of them first. I know boys are stingy about sharing their pussy so I won't even ask for any other approvals from you. Just make sure you can get it up when we go out," she said, giggled, squeezed my dick and then went into her house. Terri was a refreshing change from other girls I'd dated. Hell, she knew what she wanted and how to get it. Better yet, she seemed to know what I wanted and she was quick to give it. I figured my car would know its way to her house without me having to bother to drive before long. I made it home just fine and thanks to Terri I was ready for bed. I slept a little late the next morning and just after I'd finished eating my breakfast Terri called me. She wanted to know if I could come pick her up and then take her to town to pick up Marla at the bus station. Hell, could I? Terri's father was at work when I got there and her Mom let me in. "Terri will be ready in a moment. Sit and have some coffee," she told me and I didn't mind if I did. I could see where Terri had gotten her looks since her Mom was a beauty herself. She was a little taller than Terri and a little heavier too, but she carried all the weight in the right places. Her hair was deep auburn, like Terri's and her face resembled Terri's or maybe Terri's resembled her Mom's. I noticed her Mom was a lot nicer to me this morning and she leaned into me after she set my coffee cup down. I felt her titties against my upper arm at once and they caused a stirring in my jeans. I decided two could play at this game and when she moved away I reached down and gave her ass a squeeze. "I see now why Terri couldn't resist you last night. She told me you were going steady already and I know what that means, even if my husband doesn't," she said, and then winked at me. God Almighty, was her Mom coming on to me?? If she was she was going to succeed, as long as her husband wasn't around. I guess I should wait until Marla showed up, but I already knew Terri could let her Mom pick up her slack while she was pregnant. In fact I was wishing for a ride right now. Her Mom even fixed me some toast and when she brought it over I took the chance for another pat on her ass. "Oh, I see Terri has a naughty boy to go steady with. Maybe you can come out and protect us when my husband is out on the road," she said, and then she put her hand in my lap to give my dick a squeeze. No doubt I'd be sure to be out to protect them when her old man was on the road. Right now I was hoping he would need to go often. While she was petting my dick I took the opportunity to pet her titties and she had a pair for real. I hadn't missed that they were unrestrained by a bra. It was obvious from the way her dark nipples showed through the T-shirt she was wearing and so I went for it and slid my hand up under the hem and took hold of one. She surprised me by stepping closer when I did and she put her lips up to be kissed. Hell, I was ready and by the time her tongue was in my mouth I had already teased one nipple into standing tall. We broke apart when we heard Terri coming in and shortly afterwards the two of us left. "I saw you were getting to know my mother. That's good. You don't have to worry about our going steady where she is concerned. Feel free to do all you can with her. My father is often gone for days at a time and I know she gets lonely. I'll let you know when he leaves again and you can come out and keep us both company," Terri said, just before she put her hand in my lap to pet my pecker. I didn't know what to think about all this except to think I was the luckiest fucker I'd ever heard of. Hell, I figured there were plenty of older women who wouldn't mind a visit when there husband was off on an overnight trip, but finding one that looked as good as Juanita, Terri's mother, would be a lifetime job. Besides, Juanita must have been one of the youngest brides in Arkansas when she got married. I didn't think she was more than thirteen or fourteen years older than Terri. In fact she didn't look ten years older. I really had my hopes up for Marla by now and if she didn't pan out I was hoping I really could count on Juanita to help me out while Terri was pregnant. We made it to the bus station just in time and Terri pointed out Marla to me at once. She was more of what I expected out of a girl with Spanish heritage. Unlike Terri's auburn hair, Marla's was black and she was well and truly built too. She wasn't quite as tall as Terri, but she had titties for days and she looked shapely everywhere else too. I noticed that Terri took some time to explain something to Marla before they headed to my truck, but I didn't think much of it. Maybe I should have. Terri let her slide right up beside me on the pickup's bench seat and as soon as we were introduced I took off. It seemed like only seconds before Marla dropped a hand to my leg to start stroking up and down my thigh and after a few minutes she was giving my dick a little pat at the top of each stroke. We were back at Terri's house in about fifteen minutes. It was long enough for Marla to have my dick hard as iron, but about five minutes short of me shooting off in my pants. I guess that was a good thing. When we were back in the house Terri's Mom, Juanita, told us Hector had to leave for a three-day trip when he got in to work. Something about picking up some cars. "So, will you stay here and protect us while he's gone?" Juanita asked me. "Of course I will," I said at once. Terri and Marla took off for her room then and I sat on the couch. Juanita didn't waste any time coming over to sit right beside me and almost before I knew it we were kissing and I was mauling her titties big time now. She was as hot as a pistol in seconds and she reached down to unsnap and unzip my jeans. I was surprised when she popped my dick out and started stroking it and even more surprised when she dropped her head into my lap and damn near swallowed me whole. She had me ready to go in seconds and then she stood up, reached under her dress, and pulled her panties down. I nearly swallowed my tongue, but decided to go with the flow. Juanita spread her skirt around us as she settled onto my lap, facing me, and then her hand took hold of peter and guided him right where he belonged. She swallowed me again, but with a different set of lips this time. It was glories. She was hot and wet inside and even though she was married she was still a snug fit. She had her T-shirt up and off in seconds and she deftly placed a nipple in my mouth while busily humping away below. She was taking care of both her titties by swapping them out in my mouth so I put my hands under her skirt and took hold of her ass, to hang on if nothing else. Juanita must be getting some mileage out of the fact she was fucking me in the living room while Marla and Terri were in Terri's bedroom. She was coming close to a boil already, and when I reached around and ran my finger up her ass she exploded. Thank God I was kissing her at the time, because she screamed out even with my mouth covering hers. Her pussy gave my dick a few clenches and then she sagged forward to lean against me. I think it was the fastest fuck I'd ever had and I know it was one of the best. My dick was still spurting come up her when she leaned against me. "God I am so glad Terri found you. It is nice to have a long dicked gringo run it up me. When I catch my breath I'm going to show you how much I appreciate it. She showed me a couple of seconds later by hitting her knees before me and sucking my dick. She was a master at it too and I was hard again in almost no time. "Now, you must go back and take care of Terri and Marla. One of the things you are protecting us from is getting too horny. I'm sure Marla was horny when she got here since she's been having to avoid her brothers. Pull your pants back on and go protect them both good," she said, as she got up from in front of me. I found the two in Terri's room and I wrapped Terri up in my arms as soon as she came within reach. We swapped spit for a couple of minutes and then Marla broke us up claiming she needed a turn. Hell, I was happy to oblige and she settled in so nicely that I thought I might as well go ahead and see if I couldn't get my hands on her ass up under he short skirt. I could, and I was quick to find out she wasn't wearing any panties. I eased her over beside Terri's bed and then onto it where I settled in right beside her. Since her panties were already gone I slid a finger up her and started the ever popular fingerfuck. Going steady or not it seemed like Terri was all for me hosing Marla and she used the break to get naked herself. She even removed Marla's shoes and then unsnapped and unzipped her mini skirt while I was busy unbuttoning Marla's blouse. I pushed her bra up over her titties as soon as I had her blouse open and then latched my mouth onto a nipple. She had rather large examples of such by the way. While I was sucking and slurping on her nipples I used one hand to get rid of my jeans and drawers and promptly moved between Marla's legs. She showed she knew what was coming by grabbing hold of my dick and placing it to her entrance and then the fuck was on. I did notice her hymen as I passed through it, but she barely winced when I did and it didn't slow her down any. I'll have to say she had one of the tightest pussies I'd been up yet and it was hot and slippery inside. Every time I pushed it up her she raised her ass to fuck back at me and she matched me step for step. As I pumped her up she got hotter and hotter and soon she was crooning encouragement with every thrusts. I don't know exactly what it was with these kiinfolks, but they all seemed to like a finger up the backdoor to get them off top dead center. When I wiggled one up Marla's ass she howled like a dog and shook like a willow tree in a tornado. Terri was on the bed beside her and sucked one of her nipples up to chew on just as she let go. I kept pumping for as long as it took for me to get off and hen I kissed Marla soundly and then rolled off her and in between she and Terri. Juanita took that moment to walk into the bedroom buck ass naked and she got into the bed with us. "You done begged my mama in the tater patch, didn't you?" Terri asked me, but I was saved by Juanita. "Hell no, it twern't in no tater patch. It was right on the living room couch and he didn't have to beg a lick. The way you were swishing your ass around after he put the meat to you let me know I needed some of that for myself, and I was ever so glad to get it. Ain't he got a long one?" Juanita said. "He does in fact. I thought it was a lie when he first pushed it up me. I'd never even had any before no matter what that damned Jeff Poke lied about. Now that I know what a good strong dick can do for me I know where to come find me some more. You ain't gonna cut me off are you Terri?" Marla asked. No I'm not. In fact, Jake was thinking we should both marry him so one of us could take care of him while the other was pregnant," Terri said, and Marla looked like a kid at Christmas who's just found out all that candy was for them. Now Terri, you know the law won't let you both marry him, but I know there ain't no law agin you both living with him, and I know you can still name your babies after him as long as you tell them to at the hospital." Juanita said. Well, we were fixed up for the night anyway. At least we were fixed up to suit me. Juanita had us all climb in her big bed together and I did them by the numbers then, both ways. First I gave them all a dose starting with the youngest first and then I rested, let them all take a suck or two on my dick and then gave it to them again starting with Juanita and working my way back down to Marla. We fell into a pleasant sleep after that, but I had to do them all again as soon as we woke the next morning. After showers and breakfast the next morning we got a call from the county sheriff and it was bad news. I even felt a little guilty about it for a while. Juanita's husband had been involved in a wreck before he made it to pickup the cars and he was dead. I turned out the dead part was his own damned fault for not wearing his seatbelt. The truck he was driving had rolled and since he was loose inside it to start with the second time it rolled it rolled over him. Jim Jenkins, his boss, had told them to bring the body back to the undertaker here in town and he also told Juanita that his insurance would take care of the funeral arrangements. It seemed the only thing he was stymied over was who to send for his cars. As soon as Juanita mentioned it I volunteered to go if he had a truck that would pull the trailer. Juanita put me on the phone. "I can go pickup the cars Mr Jenkins, but I don't have anything to get them on and nothing to pull a trailer with but a half-ton Chevy pickup," I said. "I'll pay you good and I can furnish a truck to pull the trailer he was pulling. Apparently it came unhooked when his truck rolled. I talked to the wrecker driver that cleaned up things and he thinks the trailer will still hitch up and work fine." "You don't have to pay me anything for this trip. You did Juanita a good turn by tending to him and getting him back here. We'll let this one slide as payback for that," I said, and we agreed. Terri and Juanita were both in the bedroom bawling by now and I asked Marla if she was up to driving me into town to pickup the truck from Jenkins' place. "Sure, I can run you into town and I need to get a few things to cook up for the people who are bound to show up once word gets out," she said. We headed that way and I met Jenkins at his place. He tried to talk me into taking at least some money for the trip, and I got the hint he felt like he was somehow taking advantage of Hector by not paying me to do this for him. "Hell, I ain't paid Carl for the trip yet anyway and somebody sure need to earn a little for it. Take this hundred and we'll both feel a lot better about it. Carl was a damned good hand for me to hire and I ain't about to poorboy his ending. It's the least I can do," he said, and so I took the bill and put it in my pocket. He gave me a credit card to buy diesel and I hopped into his Ford 450 Super Duty. The drive was right up I-30. They must have got the word out about Hector pretty fast, because they were still sorting things out on I-30 just south of town. Hell, the bull rack that had leaked a cow into the northbound lane for Carl to run over was still sitting there and the damned driver was out walking around it. I pulled over, got out a pad and pen and went over to take down the truck's license tag number. Naturally the driver came snooping around asking me what I was doing. "I'm just getting the facts and numbers for our lawyer. That was my Daddy in Law you kilt letting that cow get away from you, and if I ain't mistaken there's going to be one hell of a lawsuit. I hope you've got plenty of insurance because I never did want to own a bullrack and he tractor to pull one," I said, and it didn't set to well with him. A policeman came up then and asked the same thing and I gave him about the same answer, but I had some questions for him. "Did you do a field sobriety test on the driver of the cow leaking truck?" "No, should I have?" he asked. "Well I don't know for sure officer, but I've been a truck driver for about fifteen years and it's damned hard to catch a bull whacker that ain't either drunk or high on coke or crank. They use the drugs to stay awake during long runs. Didn't this happen about midnight?" "Yes, just a few minutes before it," he said. "Prime time for a bullwhacker to be snortin' up. Look how bloodshot his eyes still are. A good drug screen might help my mother in law collect what she's owed out of this jerkoffs insurance company," I said, and for once a cop seemed to be on my side. He called another unit to come up and once it was there they arrested the driver and sent him for drug tests. "Normally I'd a kept my mouth shut, but this wasn't normal. Carl was Juanita's husband and Terri's Daddy and I was damned if I was going to let some cracked up bull whacker get away with killing him. If it turned out I was right about the drugs we'd end up owning everything the bastard had and probably getting him a year or two in jail at least. I'd done about all I could to help the cause now, but I figured I'd better get us an ambulance chasing lawyer out on the scene took a chance and asked the cop if he could name me one. Damned if he couldn't and I was quick to call Jethro Pugh the forth out to take a look. Jethro smelled money as soon as he heard the details of the accident. For one the driver had skipped the bypass and gone right up I-30 to town instead of taking the cutoff. Jethro called a photographer out to go over the gate and ramp arrangement on the trailer to see if he could get any shots, which might let on how the cow got out. If we could drag the trailer manufacturer into the suit it could only mean more money for us. Mr Pugh had some papers for me to sign before he could get the ball really rolling, so I signed them and then was able to get directions to where they'd pulled the trailer Carl had been hauling. When I found the trailer I did a damned good job of looking at the hookup. There was a big spring broken in the works and I could also see one of the jaws that clamp around the trailer knob was broken. They had a repair shop right at the lockup yard and I was able to get the whole hookup replaced for a hundred and fifty bucks and it only took thirty more dollars to get it moved into the rush job line. Two hours later I was headed on up the road to get the cars loaded and two hours later than that I was headed home. There was a little gnashing of teeth when I told Juanita and Terri what I'd done. "But Carl will still be dead even if we win?" Juanita said. "That's right Juanita, but money is all we can get out of it. No matter what we do we can't get Carl back. You won't have to do much except take the check when it comes. They'll probably settle out of court. You might as well take the money. At least if it's enough they might be more careful next time and it could save someone else this heartache." They both calmed down after that, though Juanita still looked a little sad. I noticed what was to be done about that near bedtime. Juanita drank a couple of Mexican beers and then called Terri and I in to sleep with her. In my own defense I will say I did my best for Juanita and country. I doubt she thought about Carl after the way I had her moaning and shouting. I'm pretty sure I took Terri's mind off her loss too. I even had plenty left over for Marla when she joined us. ------- Incomplete and Inactive ------- Posted: 2009-08-19 Last Modified: 2009-08-24 / 09:18:08 am ------- http://storiesonline.net/ -------