Her stomach growled at the thought of coffee. She hated the stuff but Alice was hungry. Her watch was back at the house but she guessed the hour was before midnight. The drive-in restaurant might still be open and that was closer than Bernie's. Lots of kids hung out at the hamburger stand and maybe she might spot someone she knew. Her heart beat like a hammer. There was hope yet. She might find a place to stay with one of the high school kids. It was better than going home, a prospect which made her quake in her shoes. Anything was better than going home!
It was past closing time for Mel's Drive-In, but the frightened, pimply-faced boy who worked the night shift was afraid to close up. Nic Adams had cruised by half a dozen times looking for girls to pick up. Since he had failed to find one, Adams was angry. And he vented his hostility on the counter man. "You keep this place open," Adams snarled, "until I tell you to close."
The counter man, whose name was Algernon, might lose his job if the boss, a gnarled septuagenarian named Rosebud, drove by which he occasionally did on Friday nights. On the other hand, he would almost certainly lose the use of his arm and perhaps his jaw if he didn't follow Adams' orders. Algernon weighed the two possibilities and decided that his two-buck-an-hour job was not worth it. Fuck Rosebud, he said to himself. If he fires me Jean always collect unemployment.
So the hamburger stand remained opened and surprisingly vacant while Adams circled every two minutes trying to pickup pussy.
The Strand was quiet town which shut down at dusk, therefore, the neon-lit hamburger stand stood out like a beacon at midnight. Algernon propped his skinny six-foot-two frame into a chair and bounced an art-gum eraser off the plexiglass wall when Alice's voice startled him.
"Jesus," he said staring at the willowy blonde girl, "you scared the hell out of me!"
"I'm sorry," said. Alice. "I only wanted a hamburger." Her stomach grumbled some more and she said, "Make that two hamburgers. Everything on them. And a chocolate milk shake."
Algernon quickly took down her order, looking up to see if Adams' car had passed by. Since threatening him, the counter man's perspective had changed drastically. Now he wanted the hamburger stand to stay open because eventually Rosebud would drive by and then it was goodbye hamburgers and hello unemployment.
But his hopes were dashed when he spotted the dark-maroon convertible come screeching away from the stop sign and wheel into the parking lot.
"Shit," he said under his breath. He scribbled hurriedly on the note pad, repeating the order to Alice then turned to the counter. "Good luck, that's all I can say," he mumbled, slicing the hamburger bun and filling the halves with relish and catsup.
Adams recognized the girl immediately and felt his crotch grow warm and wet. He opened the door and strode up to the counter where Alice patiently waited.
"Remember me, sweet thing," he sneered. Adams was used to shocking people; he expected to see Alice cringe away from him, and watched the fear mount in her eyes.
He had learned from his father that women secretly like to be forced into sex. Fear played a key element. If you couldn't frighten the shit out of them, they wouldn't really enjoy it.
So Adams, who had spent most of the night striking out with girls, was overjoyed when he stumbled on to Alice. He remembered the joy ride across the town and the tantalizing thrills of her mouth and cunt. His ears perked expectantly, waiting to hear the deep choking noises that struggled from the throats of women caught in a web of fear.
This is what he expected. But instead Alice smiled openly and ran towards him, her eyes bright and merry as if she had discovered a long, lost friend. Adams was startled. His mouth hung open in amazement and the girl's slim but strong arms gripped him around the waist as she buried her head into his gut. "Nick!" she said. "Oh, Nick!"
She made no attempt to hide the lascivious way her tits rubbed against him. He felt his cock rising up in his pants and for an instant he was afraid that Alice might unzip him and cop his joint. Right there in public!
"It's a little late for you to be out," he sneered, trying to regain his composure, "ain't it, jailbait!"
The counter boy was looking at them, a crescent smile slashing through the sea of pimples when Adams shot him a silent warning. The boy's smile fell flat and he left the hamburgers on the counter front.
"I want to go home with you," said Alice. She dug her fingers into his belt loops and tugged downward. Adams was so stunned he nearly fell over.
"You come home with me?" he warned. He didn't believe her, not for a minute. His old man would kick the shit out of him for shacking up with a broad. The old man was strict about the sanctity of the house and Adams was not about to challenge his dad over a woman. The old man would kick his ass from here to China for starters. Then he'd get mean.
Adams tried to hide this fear under a desperate appearance of violence and vulgarity. His car had become his whole life. It was where he took snotty girls like Alice and turned them into women. But now Alice was asking the impossible, he was in a bind.
Then for some unexplained reason, she reached down into his crotch and grabbed his dong.
"Holy shit!" he shouted. Alice had honked him right there in the hamburger shop!
"Get in the fucking car," he said dragging her away.
"Hey your hamburgers," yelled the Algernon from the window.
"Fuck off," snapped Adams, pulling the girl into the open car door. "Stuff them up your asshole!"
The kid gave him a funny look, as if that's what he had in mind, when the car engine roared and Adams peeled away.
He drove like a madman, the ripe smell coming from Alice's sweltering flesh egging him on. He felt as if a rocket had exploded in his brain. The girl, squirming from unbridled sexual stimulation, quivered like Jell-o. He ran three stop signs and ended up at a small park not far from his house. He screeched to a halt and in what seemed the same motion advanced upon Alice. "Baby, you drive me up the wall," he said through clenched teeth.
Alice said nothing. What could she say?
He was strong and incredibly fierce. Adrenaline pumped his muscle. His nose twitched at the ripe smell of her cunt. He smelled her leaking juice and he smelled the other odors that came from her. Alice trembled in the front seat. Her weakness turned him on.
"I'm gonna fuck your brains out!" he snapped.
Alice only stared at him. Her heart pounded a mile a minute but it was not Adams that scared her. Only a few hours before her father had staggered into her bedroom and yanked the covers off the bed. When she had turned around, half asleep, his cock stood out at her like a torpedo.
"Slut," he had said, the harsh smell of alcohol emanating from his skin. "I'm gonna fuck you, baby. Just like you been fucking all them studs at school."
She didn't know what her father was talking about – there was no way that he could have found out about Adams – but she wasn't hanging around for an explanation. When he lunged forward, she slid under him and staggered against a wall. Alice was scared shitless of her father; he'd beat her senseless for not doing as he ordered. She grabbed the wood-frame chair and brought it down on his head as he rose up to grab her arm.
The chair had smashed into splinters on impact. Her father wavered for a moment before his legs buckled and he fell to the floor.
"What the hell you thinking about?" Adams snapped. He was pulling at his pants trying to free his cock. Women, he thought. Nobody will ever understand them. His loins trembled under the heavy denim material that refused to open in his hands. He tugged and pulled on the zipper, grunting and groaning like a madman. He wanted to fuck, he wanted to be fucked and sucked by this fourteen-year-old cunt and he couldn't get his Goddamn pants off! Jesus was he stupid!
Frantically, he reached under Alice's blouse and stroked the naked breasts underneath. She was small but very sensuous to the touch and her nipples were hard as diamond points. Alice made no attempt to stop him as he thrust his face under the blouse and licked and sucked her tits as if they were ripe mangos.