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Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree <1st attachment, "SecBest82.txt" begin> Author: Thinking Horndog Title: Second Best Part: 082 Universe: Second Best Summary: A full-length novel that follows several young couples and their families through the period immediately preceding their Senior Prom. Keywords: nosex rom Keywords for full story: F-solo, Ff-inc, M+F Ffm MF mf oral anal bd D/s Mg- inc Fm-inc mm mmf rom MF-reluc Chapter 82 On the road Jennifer Hardesty herded her Ford Expedition down Route 295 on the 20 minute run between the garment factory's locale and the exit leading to her small home. The roads were still damp, requiring the intermittent swish of the windshield wipers to clear the muddy slop splashed up by the cars ahead. It had been raining earlier in the day, and the showers threatened to return; Jennifer cursed her lack of foresight in not bringing a jacket or umbrella with her, despite the morning sun. Driving the SUV was sometimes a chore for one of her limited size, but she had gotten the lumbering beast for a song from a girlfriend at work who had bought into the SUV craze only to be disappointed by the reality. Besides, having the heavy beast wrapped around her made her feel safe, something she had a serious craving for. About halfway through the commute, there was a sudden loud bang, and the big Ford started wandering all over the place. Thirty seconds of stark fear later, she had managed to herd the beast out of the left lane, across the other two lanes of traffic, and onto the narrow shoulder of the freeway. Carefully climbing out, she circled the rear of the SUV and discovered the flat right rear tire. "And me in a blouse and skirt!" she grumbled to herself, kneeling down to examine the damage. There was no help for it - the ground was soaking wet, and by the time she had wrestled the jack and the spare into position, she was, too, not to mention dirty. Jumping up and down on the tire tool, she managed to break the lug nuts loose, then proceeded to hunt for the jacking point on the underside of the vehicle. "Damn!" As she withdrew from her inspection, a bit of trim snagged on her blouse, shredding it and popping off three buttons as she fell back in surprise. Her rapid retreat against the snag caused it to hook through the tear to demolish the right cup of her already somewhat tattered brassiere in the process. Picking herself up off the ground, she angrily began wrestling the jack into position. Eventually, she got the vehicle into the air enough to cause the tire to clear the ground, the effort not assisted by the fact that the jack's bottom plate wasn't quite big enough to be stable in the soft shoulder mud. One by one, she worked off the lug nuts, and began to tug at the tire. As she tugged, the tire tipped forward, snagging on a small rock and wedging itself against the lugs. A minute or so of squatting and tugging convinced Jennifer that she didn't have the proper purchase, so she gingerly sat on the ground with her feet out in front of her and hugged the tire to herself. Getting proper purchase required that she shift to the right, curling her leg behind the tire so she could pull on the bottom, but, with some difficulty, she managed to get the tire vertical again for a moment, clearing the lugs. Then the jack failed. Jennifer leaped back, but was in no position to get clear as the jack flopped forward. The tire crashed down, and the wheel hub dropped neatly into the center of the wheel, incidentally trapping Jennifer's right ankle between the wheel hub, axle and the wheel. After the initial pinching flash of pain, there wasn't much, but her ankle was truly trapped. The collapsed jack was wedged, and virtually out of her reach, anyway. So she sat, getting dripping wet from the misty splash of the passing cars, trying to get someone's attention from behind her automotive behemoth as the evening light slowly faded. Jennifer's cell phone, in the hands-free mount on the dash, might as well have been on another planet for all the good it was doing her. The damp and evening chill began to settle into her bones, and she became shocky as well as miserable. After about an hour, exhaustion caused her to nod off. "Well! What have we here?" The words caused her to become blazingly alert. She whirled, her mouth open, to find a man standing there, grinning, and a scream of fear erupted from her throat. Mike McCormick blinked in shock. The tattered ragamuffin in front of him, her soaked auburn ponytail dripping, had spun to reveal that her clothing was not only dirty and wet but shredded! Instantly, a look of concern washed across his face. "Easy, Missy! I won't hurt you! I'm here to help!" Jennifer stared at the tall man in obvious fear, and Mike began to wonder if she had been molested. Certainly, her blouse and bra were a wreck. He turned his eyes from the fear-erected nipple peeking through the gap and began pulling off his jacket. "Here, Missy, put this on. Has someone hurt you?" Jennifer scrabbled for control. Despite the scare he had given her, he appeared to be concerned, not dangerous. "N-no." She looked down, discovering the reason for his concern, and clutched her blouse closed, blushing. "Truck snagged it. I'm caught!" She took the jacket and donned it, savoring the warmth his body had generated in it. "Are you hurt?" Mike hunkered down to look at the site. "N-no. Not much, anyway. I just can't get it out!" she replied. "Okay, I'm going to get a flashlight. I'll be right back. Okay?" "O-okay. Don't leave me!" Jennifer sobbed as he went out of sight. Mike stuck his head back around the fender and smiled. "I won't. I have a tow truck, right here. I'll get you out, Missy!" Mike went around the passenger side of the truck and fished out his heavy-duty flashlight. The relief on Jennifer's face when he hove back into sight moments later was a sight to see. Mike hunkered down and got a look. Despite the odd capture, it didn't appear that she was actually hurt much, just pinned. 'A straight lift should do the trick...' Mike thought. "Okay, Missy, I'm gonna set up the truck to lift the rear end, here. I'll be real careful. You just hold still. I'm gonna be back to check on things before I actually start. Okay?" Jennifer mustered a weak smile. "O-okay!" Mike backed the truck into position with the ease and control of long practice, sliding the sling at the rear under the tail end of the SUV. Then he hopped down and chained it up. Finally, he came back for one last check. Squatting down next to Jennifer, he issued final instructions, "Okay, Missy, you fish your ankle out as soon as the axle comes up, hear? I worry about the whole business shifting, so I want you out as soon as it's possible. You CAN move it, right?" "Yes. I can move it." Jennifer's tone left some doubt, but... The driver of the eighteen-wheeler never came forward. Maybe he never knew what happened. Maybe he was napping, and the bang of the impact merely awakened him... In any event, at that moment a tractor-trailer rig swerved in past the tow truck and entirely too close to the SUV. The tail end of the trailer clipped the Ford, causing it to jump a foot to the right. The wheel hub jumped out of it's seat in the wheel and dropped over the outside edge of the tire. The action tore skin on Jennifer's ankle, and the leverage caused her to spin 180 degrees in place, ending up prone. Jennifer screamed in shock and pain. Mike didn't fare as well. When he saw what was happening, he threw himself supine under Jennifer, one leg on each side of the tire. The wheel hub crashed down on his thigh, only stopped from going straight through by the wheel rim. Both of them passed out from the pain. Jennifer awakened lying on Mike's chest. Mike was slowly retrieving his Nextel phone. He activated the walkie-talkie feature. "Dad!" Big Al and Helen had just retreated into the living room after dinner and sat down to snuggle and watch TV, when his phone went off. Al hadn't reacted properly when it repeated, "Dad!" Al frowned and hopped up. Mike didn't sound right...He picked up the phone from the charger and responded, "Mike?" "Dad, I'm at mile marker thirteen on 295. I was helping a tire changer, and..." There was a wheeze. There also seemed to be the sound of someone crying in the background... "an eighteen-wheeler smacked into the vehicle. We're both trapped - I need you to get us out. Oh, and Dad? Send for an ambulance. I'm not sure about the woman, but my leg is probably messed up, bad!" Al and Helen exchanged glances - Helen was already rooting in her purse for her cell phone. "We'll be right there!" Al replied, and got moving. Helen's hands shook a bit as she manipulated the phone. "I've got the ER's number programmed into this thing!" she announced. The couple burst out the door heading for Al's old pickup, Helen urgently relating the situation to the ER dispatcher. Mike put the phone down and wrapped his arms around the shaking shoulders of the woman atop him. His leg hurt like hell, but it was somehow as soothing to him as it was to her to stroke her back and comfort her. Jennifer lay there atop him, wrapped in his arms, crying bitterly as he murmured, "There, there, Missy. Help's coming. It'll be all right..." Al and Helen took 20 minutes to arrive; the ambulance took 25. By the time the ambulance got there, Al had lifted the vehicle and extracted the pair from beneath. Both were bleeding a bit, but not seriously; the extent of Mike's injury wasn't known, however. The EMTs gathered them both in and took off for County Hospital. Al and Helen stayed until the State Police had taken pictures and started the accident report, then lugged the battered Ford out of there, Helen following in the pickup. Al was gratified to find out that Helen could operate its 3-speed on the column manual transmission. They dropped the tow truck at the garage, Al piled into the pickup and they roared off to the hospital. It took about four hours for everything to settle down. Bobby was chased down at Nellis' with Dina, and it was decided that that situation could continue; Bobby could stay the night and go to school from there the next day. Jackie was harder to track; Jennifer didn't have the Michaels' number. Helen called Mandi, who got it from Rick. Ellen assured Jennifer that Jackie would be fine and that Terry would bring her to the hospital and take them both home. Around eleven p.m., doctors had finished stitching and bandaging Jennifer's ankle, and told her she could go home if she took it easy. Al would pick her up Wednesday morning and help her to work with the insurance company to repair the damage to the Ford, which was safe enough where it was. Mike was confined to a bed until a radiologist could look at the X-rays of his left thigh. Doctors couldn't decide whether it was crushed, or chipped - the X-ray made it look dented. The soft tissues had taken quite a lick, too, and there was some worry about the femoral artery. Jennifer set off to visit her hero, maneuvering on her crutches through the door to his room. Coming around to his right side, she smiled tremulously, "Hi!" "Hi, Missy. Feeling better?" Mike smiled. She sure was cute, dry. Hell, she hadn't looked bad soaking wet and scared to death! Fragile, though... "I came to thank you." She husked. Mike spread his arms. "All part of the service. Wait'll you get my bill!" he teased. "I'll pay it, whatever it is," Jennifer started out smiling, then sobered. "You went 'way beyond what you had to do, and got hurt in the process. And all I did was cry on you and get you wet!" "You were soaking wet, scared to death, and shocky. You didn't just need help, you needed protection. I HAD to give it to you - I couldn't do anything else!" Mike reassured her. "Well, I can't thank you enough." Jennifer laid her right crutch aside and leaned forward, pressing her lips to his. It was intended to be a chaste kiss, but Jennifer, who was driving, just couldn't seem to pull away. She inhaled his musky scent and remembered feeling protected for the first time in years with his arms rubbing her back and his voice murmuring in her ear. Mike was in no hurry; he was going nowhere soon, and if this sweet lady wanted to kiss him, well... When it became apparent that the kiss wasn't going to end soon, Mike gently wrapped his arms around her. At the feel of his arms, Jennifer dumped her left crutch and leaned into the embrace. Simultaneously, her lips opened and her tongue snaked out. Mike KNEW that this woman didn't just give away kisses! There was something urgent going on here - and he would figure it out just as soon as he had to stop enjoying her embrace! Oral exploration became too serious at that point to support anything advanced in the way of thought in either of them. Jennifer was on automatic when she climbed onto the bed and draped herself over Mike's right leg; all either of them noticed was that they were more comfortable. Sex wasn't even thought about - this was comfort kissing, and both of them were half asleep in each other's arms fifteen minutes later when Helen stuck her head in the door to find out what the Hell the delay was. "Psst! Al!" she hissed. Al came and peeked around the door. "Huh! Willya lookit that!" He waved the recently arrived Jackie and Terry forward. Jackie looked through the door and gasped. "Good God!" She went white. "What's the matter, Dear?" Helen asked, concerned. "Momma is SCARED TO DEATH of men! I'd bet big money she hasn't kissed a boy since before I was born!" "Well, she's kissing Mike!" Al observed. "You don't understand! She's very high-strung! And she's incredibly vulnerable!" Turning to Helen, she added, "You know how unreasonable she gets where men are concerned!" Helen nodded. "Yes. It's my opinion that she's highly sexed, too, and has been denying herself for a long time. I think that's why she gets the way she does; she gets excited and can't let it out!" Jackie and Terry nodded synchronously. "Exactly!" Terry announced. Jackie went on, "She's been coming around over the last couple of days, and her barriers are down! If she gets fixed on Mike, and he dumps her, I don't know WHAT she'll do - but the results could be awful!" Helen nodded agreement. "If she bares herself again, and the guy she settles on dumps her, she could end up in the funny farm! I don't think she can take it!" "Mike isn't exactly a hot and cold running women type," Al assured her. "Losing his momma hurt him bad. They could be good for each other." "Well, she's a timid soul, not meant to be alone - but she has been, for a long time. She's going to want to flow over him like a coat of paint. This isn't a date or two - she's looking for someone to keep the world away. Can he do that? Should ANYONE expect him to?" Helen replied. Al looked thoughtful. "It may already be too late!" Jackie hissed urgently. Terry piped up, "Okay, let's do this: Mr. McCormick, you and Helen go in and direct Jackie's mom out here. You can warn Mike while we try to settle her down!" Helen's resolve firmed. "Good plan!" Al nodded, and they passed through the door. Al announced them with, "Hey, you two! One to a bed!" Jennifer popped up, blushing, and Mike let go so she could chase down her crutches. "Thanks," she murmured, dropping her eyes. "Huh! Thank YOU!" Mike laughed. "Dear, I think your daughter and her boyfriend just arrived." Helen observed. "Oh. Thanks!" Jennifer made for the door, then stopped, giving Mike a meaningful glance. "Can I come back?" Mike nodded. "Hey, Son, how are you doin'?" Al asked. "Fine. Leg hurts some, but not as bad as expected." Mike replied. "Nice lady. She's the mother of one of Bobby's friends." Al nodded at the door. "Really? She doesn't look that old," Mike got to thinking, then blushed. "Where's her husband?" "Isn't one," Helen replied. "Never was. She's scared to death of men since her first fathered a daughter by her and blew her off." "Um," Mike pondered. "That's why she seemed so fragile..." "Yeah. She is. Her daughter's new boyfriend was the Antichrist for a week, but she's coming around. She's been re-evaluating men, and then this knight in shining armor shows up..." Helen amplified. "Uh oh." Mike grimaced. "Look, according to her daughter, she's VERY vulnerable, and could fall for you like a ton of bricks," Al cautioned. "If you let her, then dump her, she could crash totally. Certainly, she'll never trust a man ever again." "Jesus! It could already be too late!" Mike exclaimed. "Damn! I like her, too." Helen favored him with a close regard. "It's up to you - but she won't settle for casual sex. She's looking for a MAN - someone who can shoulder her burdens. Someone who will always be there. Someone she can cuddle up to, every night! She wants love, and protection - and she wants it to be permanent. You're the first man to get inside her shell to the soft and gooey parts in a looooong time. You can save her - or you can destroy her." "Be damn careful, Son," Al cautioned. "If you do it now, you can probably turn her away gently. But if you start a relationship with her, you'd better be serious!" Out in the hall, Jackie lit into Jennifer. "What are you up to, Momma?" "I was just saying 'thank you' to Mike..." Jennifer looked perplexed. "You don't know his last name, do you?" Jackie pounced. "Uh, no... But he's really sweet! He helped me and protected me - it was terrible, and he was there...He's so nice!" Jennifer vacillated visibly while she remembered her ordeal. "Yes, Momma, Mike's a nice man. But there are a LOT of nice men - I've been trying to tell you!" "But he saved me, and protected me!" Jennifer protested. "Yes, he did! That doesn't mean he's your perfect mate, or even that he wants to be! Don't pin so much on him! If nothing else, you'll scare him off!" Jackie pushed hard. Jennifer stopped, and the light in her eyes faded. "Oh! God! I was going to throw myself at the poor man!" "It's okay, Momma. He IS a nice man. Maybe he likes you! But if you pin all of your hopes on him..." "I'll be disappointed." Jennifer drooped. "I had put him on this pedestal..." "On the other hand..." Terry piped up, "did he take advantage of you?" "No. He was a perfect gentleman. He was just so comforting to be around, I just didn't want it to end..." Jennifer's eyes glazed. "Well, that's the good stuff. Just make sure he really wants you before you throw yourself at him. You're asking him to make up for stuff you've been missing since before I was born! That's a lot!" Jackie asserted. Terry said quietly, "You don't know who he is, but we do. He's Bobby McCormick's big brother!" "Oh, God! How old is he?" Jennifer was scandalized. She'd thrown herself on a teenager! "I think Mr. McCormick said he's 24 or so. He's not a kid, even if he IS younger than you are." Jackie replied. "Whew! Still..." Jennifer's relief was palpable, if not complete. Back in the room, Mike was rallying. "What if I like her? I don't know what it is, but she makes me feel good!" Al stomped on it. "Well, let's see... When's the last time you had pussy? When's the last time you cuddled a woman?" Both Helen and Mike were blushing furiously at Al's raw comments, but they had their effect. "This is about more than sex, Son." Mike struck back. "While we're at it..." he framed Helen with a significant glance, "Are you ready to tell me the difference between love and sex?" Helen piped up. "If anything, we have the opposite problem. Your father will have to go a long way before I can accept that we have anything in common but sex. Jennifer is likely to go straight to deep romance." "What if I don't consider that to be a bad thing? I haven't exactly been swimming in the stuff!" After a moment's thought, he added, "Jennifer? Her name's Jennifer?" Helen nodded. Al shrugged. "Son, I'm not going to run your life - I'm just here to warn you that this isn't a normal woman, and if you enter into a relationship with her, it likely won't be a normal relationship! I'm done talking - you do as you please!" Jennifer stuck her head back through the door, looking sheepish, eyes downcast. "I guess I made a fool of myself." "Are you sure?" Mike asked. He crooked a finger. Jennifer hobbled over, hope and fear warring in her green eyes. When she reached the bedside, Mike regarded her, poker faced. "How sure are you?" Jennifer visibly gathered her courage. "I'm not. I felt something. I want to feel it again!" Mike locked eyes with her. "So did I. Look, I'm not superman, and I can't promise we're the perfect couple. But if you want to try..." Jennifer started shaking like a leaf. Mike took it for a moment, then held out his arms. "C'mere, Missy!" Crutches went everywhere. They didn't kiss; Jennifer just crawled onto the bed and tucked her head into his shoulder and cried, loudly. Mike rubbed her back and crooned softly to her. Jackie and Terry watched from the door. They shared one of their patented telepathic glances, and Jackie shrugged. "She needs it, bad. I wish us all luck!" Terry hugged her to him. Twenty minutes later, a frowning nurse intervened to push them all out. Jennifer promised to see Mike the next day, inside the hospital or out. As she hobbled out the ER doors, Jennifer observed, "You haven't said anything." Jackie shrugged. "Mike made the call. I don't really think he has any intention of hurting you; in fact, I think he's really nice. I just wanted to make sure you weren't harboring unrealistic expectations. I REALLY don't want to clean up the mess, afterward. But I also REALLY want you to be happy! If Mike can do it, more power to him!" On the way home, Jennifer called Ellen Michaels. The question blew everyone who heard it away: "Can Terry crash at our house? It's late, and I don't want him to have to get up extra early, too. We can take proper care of him..." Ellen stared at the phone like a hand had popped out of the earpiece. "Uh, well, okay. Let me talk to him." Jennifer handed Terry the phone. "Mom?" "Terry, is Jennifer sick? Did she hit her head?" Ellen was somewhat concerned, not to mention confused. Terry laughed. "No, actually, I think she's cured - or at least on the proper treatment..." "Hmph. I'd have diagnosed her as in dire need of a man..." "And you'd have been right. Look, I'll be fine - we're past the rough spots. I can crash on the couch; I've got some spare stuff in the back of the car. Okay?" "Okay, Dear. I'll see you tomorrow." "G'night, Mom." "Good night." Paul regarded his wife with raised eyebrows. "And that was?" Ellen was still somewhat glazed. "Jennifer Hardesty, asking if Terry could spend the night." "Excuse me?" "You heard me! I guess she DID get hit by a truck!" "That's not terribly charitable!" Paul reproved. "Well..." "Come to bed. If you can't say anything nice about someone..." Paul yawned and turned over. Helen and Al returned to Al's and settled down for the night. The night's activities had left them both pretty jangled, so when Helen rather sheepishly crawled into bed, Al just gathered her in and hugged her to him. They talked disjointedly about this and that, then fell asleep during one of the gaps in conversation, Al half-draped across Helen with an arm under her neck and the other hand wrapped around one of her massive mammaries. Jennifer organized Jackie's efforts to settle Terry in the guest room. It hadn't seen much use over the years, and required so much reorganization to find the bed that they almost gave up and parked Terry on the couch. Finally, however, all of the proper components had been gathered, and the bedding had been changed. Terry brought up some stuff from the car that he had kept around for emergencies; the top layer wouldn't be fresh, but his underclothing would. Only an idiot could miss Jackie's excitement at having her boyfriend sleep under her roof, and Jennifer wasn't one. She gathered the pair together and put her foot (the good one) down. "I know I've been paranoid before, but this time I think I'm being totally reasonable. You (looking at Jackie) need to stay in YOUR room, and you (eyeballing Terry) need to stay in the guest room. I'm not ready to indicate even tacit approval of you two sharing a bed! Do we understand each other?" The pair exchanged one of their signature glances and nodded in unison. The request was reasonable, and so was the tone; the pair decided not to act up. "Good!" Jennifer continued. "I'm tired, and we all have a long day ahead of us. Don't stay up too long!" She turned and hobbled toward her room, leaving them to say their goodnights in peace. Jennifer undressed and got into bed, but sleep wouldn't come. The past few hours had been a kaleidoscope - elements of pain and fear mixed liberally with comfort and joy. The ordeal under her broken vehicle was a scary memory - but intermixed with it was the smell of Mike's musk and the feel of his hands and sound of his voice murmuring as he comforted her. The scene in the hospital room had enforced the finer parts of the experience; Jennifer had totally lost herself in his embrace. It occurred to her that bringing Terry home might have been a mistake; it was asking quite a lot of the pair to be good, and just the idea of the pair of them together, added to her own recent exposure to romance, had her experiencing feelings she couldn't put a name to. Finally, she fell into a troubled sleep, dreaming fragments of mixed tenderness and terror. The young couple followed instructions, necking uncomfortably in the hall for a few minutes before retiring to their separate rooms. Their sleep, too, was troubled, but at least they recognized the problem for what it was - sexual tension - and each took what actions he or she thought they could get away with to relieve it. At Nellis', things settled down quickly following the blow-off triggered by Merry's amazing punishment. Mandi never left Rick's bedroom (except maybe to pee) the whole night. After settling Bobby's status during the phone call with Big Al, Bobby and Dina handled the sleeping arrangements in the usual manner: Bobby settled on the couch, and Dina went upstairs until things got quiet, then joined Bobby there to sleep and spoon. <1st attachment end> ----- ASSM Moderation System Notice------ Notice: This post has been modified from its original format. 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