Into Summer

Chapter 2-2

Robbie turned the kid’s face so he could see his eyes. “We’re not going to hurt you. Stop fighting dammit!”

The kid relaxed a little, and Robbie repeated, “We’re not going to hurt you.”

He waited a few seconds to let the boy settle down. “The only reason we jumped you is so you wouldn’t shoot us before we had a chance to talk. We just want to talk.”

Ronnie pulled his head around so the boy could see him. “If I take my hand off your mouth, will you calm down?”

The boy nodded.

Ronnie removed his hand but wasn’t about to release him just yet. “We’re travelers looking for peaceful people to help us rebuild this once great country. My name is Ronnie, and this is my brother, Robbie. Your name is Joey, right? That’s what your mama called you.”

“Yeah, I’m Joey. I might be more obliged to talk to you fellers if you let me up.”

Robbie stood up now that Ronnie could easily hold on to Joey, who wasn’t struggling any longer. “You’re not going to run or yell out, are you? We’d like to talk to your mama too. Once again, we’re not going to hurt any of you, and we don’t want anything from you other than a little conversation.”

“I’ll talk, but you’ve got to let me up first.”

Robbie picked his rifle up, and Ronnie released his hold. Joey got up and wiped off his clothes. “Can I have my gun back?”

Robbie shook his head. “Not just yet. How many people are there around here?”

“Five-hundred more or less.”

“Are they all the same color as you?”

“No, we have white boys and girls here too.”

Robbie looked over at his brother.

Joey started laughing. “You haven’t ever seen a black boy, have you? I can tell the way you look at me. Well, you better get used to us, ’cause there’s a lot of us around here.”

Ronnie walked over to the big oak tree and picked up his rifle. “We don’t care what color you are as long as you’re friendly. We’ve read about black people, but we’ve never seen any. Just a little surprised, I guess. We weren’t sure you folks were still around. We do have Asian people back home.”

Jooo . . . eeey drifted melodically through the trees. Joey quickly glanced back in the direction of his home, then back at his captors.

“So there was no squirrel over here?”

Robbie smiled. “No, that was me.”

“Mama’s going to be a little upset that we’re not having squirrel for dinner. Come on, I’ll introduce you.”

In Corpus Christi at the Hospital compound . . .

Sonny remembered his name when he relaxed after a while and introduced himself to Jen. An orderly brought in his breakfast, and he ate everything. Though it was only liquids, Sonny imagined it was prime rib with all the trimmings. His vocal chords were not working a hundred percent, but enough that he could chit chat with Jen while she checked his vitals and tried to make him more comfortable.

The doctor came in and checked on the patient. “I was just about to give up on you. You can thank your nurse. She talked me into giving you a couple more days.”

The doctor looked at the chart. “Get him up tomorrow. He’s got to walk, and as soon as he has a BM, I’ll release him.” He walked out.

Jen looked over at Sonny. “You heard the Doc. If you eat well this evening, I’ll start you on solid food tomorrow, and we’ll get you up to walk. Then you can go home.”

Sonny’s lips curled up into a weak smile. Where is home? How did I get here? I remember a girl . . . a pretty girl. Then darkness. The water . . . cold water . . . salty water . . . I was tied up. Lucky for the knife . . .

“You okay, Sonny?”

Sonny looked over at the nurse. “I don’t remember your name.”

“Jen.”

“Oh yeah . . .”

At Goliad . . .

Josephine pointed toward her youngest two kids standing by the woodpile. “This here’s Marcus and Samantha. Franklin left yesterday. The old coot’s usually gone fer three or four days. He’ll bring a hog or deer back. Sure wish you’d been a squirrel. I’ve got me a real hankerin’ for rodent. Thank you for not hurting Joey.

“If you’d have come into town on the highway, someone would have shot you fer sure. Usually, when people come ’round, they’re up to no good, hungry, or just plain sorry. Good thing you snuck up like you did.”

Robbie and Ronnie couldn’t get a word in edgewise since they sat down on the bench in the yard. They just kept nodding their agreement as Josephine rattled on. Once they’d introduced themselves and she learned of their intentions, she started talking and wouldn’t shut up. But the boys were just fine with that. She was giving them the information they needed.

Josephine checked her laundry. It was dry. She started taking it off the line and piling it in her basket as she continued to talk. “Tucked way back here away from the highway, we hardly see anyone except town folk. The no-gooders blaze in on the roads and are shot immediately. If there’s too many fer the one sentry to handle with his rifle, we have explosives. Doesn’t happen often, but they always work.

“I think most folk around here would be happy if we didn’t have to worry about outsiders anymore. There are a lot of things we don’t get these days too. I miss coffee and chocolate.

“We have a few cars, trucks, and farm vehicles. We have diesel and gas, but it’s used almost exclusively fer the tractors and such.”

Maybe Josephine realized she was giving out too much information, or that she wasn’t letting Robbie or Ronnie get a word in. She suddenly got quiet and stared at the boys.

Robbie uncrossed his legs. “Well, at least you have vehicles that work. If we can find a couple of guys to help us, maybe we can supply a little extra fuel from Corpus Christi. We have enough for our needs now, but are working on expanding our production for the new democracy.”

Joey had squirmed a bit, but sat and listened up to this point. “Maybe I can go. I have a couple of friends who I bet would love to get out of this hole. There’s nothing to do ’round here. We hunt, eat, and sleep.”

“What about Gloria?”

“She’s just a friend.”

“Maybe to you, Son, but I see how she looks at you.”

Robbie looked over at his brother. He nodded. Robbie turned back to Joey. “I tell you what, you discuss this with your mother and your friends. It may take us a couple of months before we can get back this way, but if you want to join us, be patient. We’ll be back.”

“Yes, I want to help.”

“By the way, how old are you?”

“S-sixteen.”

Robbie looked over at his brother. “Old enough for me.”

Ronnie nodded.

Robbie continued. “When we come back, we’ll come through this way so as not to be mistaken as marauders. Now that we know each other, we’ll call you by name.

“Joey, find a car you and your friends can use. It needs to be dependable. And you’ll need bigger guns than the .22 you have now. Josephine, you and Joey talk to the rest of the townspeople. Let them know what we’re doing. We need everyone on our side. We’re headed up to Refugio next. If we can get a few groups familiarized with what we’re doing, we’ll come back through and tie everyone together.”

“We have relations with the city of Refugio,” Josephine pointed out. “They have more fuel there. One of the big ranchers set up a mini-refinery after the grid shut down decades ago. There’s a lot of crude oil there, and those rich boys had the means and ingenuity to turn it into gasoline and diesel. We’ve got more fish and a few other things that they don’t, so we trade back and forth.”

Robbie looked over at his brother. “Maybe we can bypass Refugio then and head on to Sinton. It will certainly save us some time and danger if you’ll have your townspeople let them know what’s going on.”

“We’ll do that,” Josephine replied.

Ronnie pulled his map out. “By the way, do you know if there are any cell towers around here. Some of our folks back home are working to get communications going so everyone can keep track of what’s happening. That’s the only way we can effectively monitor the region. If people are going to stop shooting at everyone else, they need to know that someone is watching out for them. For that, we need a unified police force that can patrol and respond to any threat. For the safety and protection of everyone, communication is essential.”

Joey looked over at his mother, then back at the twins with a quizzical look on his face.

“Tall towers with what looks like vertical bars on top,” Ronnie said.

Joey’s eyes lit up, and he reached for the map. “Let me see that. I know where two are.”

Ronnie showed the map to Joey. He pointed to the locations.

Ronnie and Robbie shook hands with their new friends. “Be patient, Joey,” Robbie said. “We’ll be back.”

In Corpus Christi at the Farm . . .

Kim and Brenda worked diligently in the kitchen preparing dinner for Sean. They had both been cooks at the Farm under Sandra’s reign, so they moved the existing cooks back to the barn when they returned to join Sean. The temporary kitchen in the barn during the construction of the new farmhouse became the primary kitchen for the remainder of the farm hands. Kim and Brenda only cooked for Sean.

Cooking was probably the least strenuous job on the farm, and only cooking for themselves, Sean, and Christine gave the girls time to take care of the remainder of the vast house. The farmhouse was built initially with twelve bedrooms, but most were now empty. This arrangement also gave them more privacy between themselves and even with Sean when he was there. Christine was gone most of the day and stayed to herself after breakfast and dinner unless she had business to discuss with Sean.

Both Brenda and Kim loved Sean and shared him equally. In the bedroom, they all worked together to the satisfaction of all three. Tonight was a special night for the girls. It had been exactly a month since they moved in with Sean, and they decided it would be the first of many celebrations they would have with him.

Sean spent lots of time at the Contractors compound, primarily making sure fuel production was progressing, but also dealing with their communications problem, so he didn’t have a lot of time for the girls of late. For the new government to work across south Texas, they needed security and this required adequate communications. They still hadn’t located nearly enough cell towers. Sean hoped Robbie and Ronnie would add significantly to their short list of tower locations.

These and numerous other problems always exhausted Sean. He usually slept in on Sundays, and tonight the girls would make sure he had a good reason to sleep in even a little longer tomorrow.

Brenda would soon be having her baby, so s*x would be out of the question for a while. She wanted one more pleasurable night with Sean before the baby became her primary concern.

Kim had fully recovered from her injuries sustained during the battle in Peaceful Valley. She had lost her baby, and while she didn’t want to get pregnant again, her desires for s*x had returned. Since Sean couldn’t provide her with another baby because Sandra Hawkins had castrated him, Kim wasn’t sure she even wanted to get pregnant again. She imagined being an aunt to Brenda’s child was all she needed. But tonight, she intended to ravage Sean’s body.

Kim strolled to the front door when she heard Sean’s car drive up. She was waiting for him at the door with a big smile. The girls always made sure they had their smiles on when he got home. Kim gave him a quick kiss and hug, leaned back to sniff the air, and hurried him off to the bathroom for his shower. “Dinner will be ready when you get out.” She patted him on the butt and pushed him onward.

The girls were putting the food on the table when Sean came in. Brenda ushered him into his seat and gave him a nibble on his neck. Kim poured the drinks, and the girls sat down.

When Sean had his fill of baked chicken with potatoes and gravy, creamed corn, and a fresh green salad from their greenhouse garden, the girls escorted him to the living room to relax with a glass of tea and some music while they took their showers. They found him snoozing on the sofa when they came out. They gently got him up and led him to the bedroom.

The girls stripped him down to his underwear and settled him into bed. Sean closed his eyes and presumed he was going back to sleep. But he was mistaken.

The girls snuggled against him on either side and giggled. Brenda took one of his earlobes between her teeth and tugged playfully. “We worked hard in the kitchen today making all your favorite dishes.”

Sean pushed the hair back from Brenda’s neck and nibbled at her shoulder. “I hope you saved something for me for dessert.”

He could feel Kim’s hand run up his thigh. “We never forget dessert,” they sighed almost in unison, as Kim massaged him.

Brenda’s lips fell to his n*****s, and she licked and pinched alternately until he fisted her hair and pulled her lips to his. The hard day he had was melting away with each lick, kiss, and touch of his ladies’ hands and mouths. He groaned in response to Kim’s ministrations down below, and when her head popped out from under the sheet at his waist, he licked his lips in anticipation. “I might just have a little dessert for you two ladies as well.” It had been a long time since their last encounter, and Sean’s mood fired up quickly.

Kim teased Sean like a cat playing with a mouse, both knowing she would devour him before the evening was over. Brenda squeezed her breasts against him while she pinched and toyed with his n*****s. Her tongue caressed his lips, then probed his mouth with careful precision, while she ran her fingers through his hair.

Sean was a prisoner to their affections and cherished every second with them. The girls did things to him he couldn’t have imagined a few months back. He now gave himself totally to these women and couldn’t imagine life without them.

Sean couldn’t hold back his emotions or his accumulated energy, and he didn’t want to. His body heaved, and the air was forced out of his lungs as he was thrust into ecstatic convulsions of relief and joy. Brenda and Kim both held on tight for the ride. They waited for the giggles to follow, which signaled Sean’s total satisfaction.

Sean got his breath and always felt anxious to return the favor for the girls. Even tired, he couldn’t get enough of playing with their bodies. They were always willing and readily accepted his affection. Two on one, the girls climaxed in minutes, after which they melded into a pile of one and drifted off to sleep.