opportunity present
its self in a while.”
“Well that’s a mistake,” Claire scoffed. “You
need to have sex Em it’s the romantic glue of the relationship. And
you need to get over your insecurities too. Brandon loves your
pregnant body and would take you in a second if you let him.”
“I know, you’re right, maybe tonight I’ll
initiate by sucking his…” Emily stopped suddenly, bracing herself
after hearing a loud pop.
The car began to swerve and Claire slammed on
the breaks, pulling the Audi off on to the side of the road.
“Jesus Christ! Mother fucker!” Claire
screamed. “Are you okay?” She looked over at her friend; Emily was
white as a ghost.
“Yeah I’m fine,” she managed in a small
voice, “what happened to the car?”
“I’m sure it’s a flat tire but let’s get out
and take a look.”
The two women checked for oncoming traffic
and then carefully got out of the car to observe the damage. The
tire had blown on the passenger side and Emily noticed the shreds
of remaining rubber clinging to the rim.
“Christ fucker!” Claire screamed. “How did it
blow up like this? I wasn’t even going that fast.”
Emily looked unconvinced but held her tongue,
“Well this is a minor setback Claire but let’s take a deep breath
and formulate a plan here. Yelling and screaming like a wild person
isn’t going to help at all.”
“You’re right, I’m going to call Jim and yell
at him instead to get his ass over here and to bring a new tire
with him,” Claire said quickly.
“No Jim is at work, don’t bother him with
this, there is nothing he can do right now. I have a AAA Plus
membership let’s call them to send a tow truck guy over. Maybe they
can change the spare for us or tow the car to a place that can fix
it,” Emily said calmly. “But I want you to promise me you will calm
down Claire. It’s not good for the baby if your blood pressure goes
up too high.”
Claire said nothing but folded her arms under
her boobs and across her chest and leaned against the side of the
car in submission. Emily went into the car to get her purse and
pulled out her iPhone. She dialed the number for AAA and hit
send.
The two women looked around soberly, trying
to figure out where they were. They could see nothing but dense
forest on either side of the road. And since they had pulled over,
they realized not one other car had passed by.
“Hey Claire this is Route 50 right? What is
the last cross-street that we saw?” Emily was on the phone with the
dispatcher.
“Yeah this is definitely Route 50 but I’m
really bad with road names, can they go with landmarks? If so,
we’re right between a big fucking scary forest and another big
fucking scary forest. And both forests are probably full of
creatures and rapists and rats,” Claire said sarcastically.
Emily ignored her, “Yes ma’am I believe we
are between those two roads and driving northbound on Route 50. Let
me check for a mile marker, I see one up the road a little ways
away.”
Emily trotted over to the little green mile
marker, her big belly bouncing up and down encumbering her every
step. “It’s mile marker 27. Yes, that’s it, thank you so
much. Thank you we will wait for him, 15-20 minutes?” Emily looked
up at Claire and smiled, “Okay we’ll sit tight thanks again!”
She hung up the phone and walked back toward
the car. Claire was less pleased with the estimated time of
arrival. Emily began to take in the scenery and she realized there
really wasn’t much around them except for trees. It was a bit
unnerving.
“Well I guess we’re fucked for 20 minutes,”
Claire sighed.
“Yeah but the wait won’t be so bad, and the
driver will be here before we know it,” Emily assured her.
“I know Em but I was planning on going to the
massage parlor, I set up two appointments for us, it was supposed
to be a surprise. I even made sure your main man was going to be
working today,” she smiled at Emily and raised her