The World of Tom Stafford by D.A. Sanford - HTML preview

Chapter 2: Home base Thornton

"That can't be true, I was just having breakfast."

"It's true. I peddled for quite a few hours until I came across this pickup. I have been driving for an hour. " I lowered the tailgate.

"Please sit for a while. then we can figure out what happened and what we are going to do."

"I want to return home. Would you please drive me there."

"First I need to see the next town. Gentry, according to the map. it should be only a few more miles. I want to see if it is the same. I hope it is full of people but I don't have a good feeling about it."

"Then will you take me home?"

"Yes, but I think that, even if there are people there, why don't we get you some new clothes and shoes? Does that sound good?"

"You are right. I do need to get dressed but I don't even have my cards on me"

"Don't worry I have mine. I got you covered but if Gentry is anything like Thornton, you won't need to worry about money. I have to ask, do you have any family?"

She tells me, "My husband died a few years ago. I have a son, Bartholomew, he’s going to a special high school on the coast. I hope he is alright. By the way, that's his bike you have."

We drive the short way to Gentry. The only life there was animals. The town was totally deserted. Just a little bigger than Thornton. It had a superstore that sold both food and wares. The store was open so we went in. Totally deserted. Nadean went to the women's section.

"Is it okay for me just to take things?" she asks as she looks for her sizes.

"No problem. Take what you want. I suggest that you pick out everything that is in your size because, if this is universal, there will be no more clothes made let alone shipped to stores"

I continue, "To make clothes, we first have to learn how to make metal."

"Make metal?" She looks confused.

" To make cloth you need to know how to weave. To make the thread to make the cloth you need to know how to grow the cotton crops. To grow cotton, you need to know how to farm. To farm you need plows. To make plows, you need to know how."

She finishes my sentence, " know how to make metal. I'm taking all of these. Would you please get me more carts?"

"You have the right idea. The pickup has a tow hitch. While you are doing this, I will go back to that rental place. They have large trailers. They will also have tools that we may need. I'm going to make a safe haven out of Thornton."

“Does that mean that you are going to stay in Thornton?"

"That is my plan. Any objections?"

"I was hoping to convince you to stay because that is my home. I grew up there. My family lived there and I would feel safer if you were there. You seem very capable and smart."

"I have had a lot of ‘on the road savvy.’ If you trust everyone you will get taken. I had learned what to do and who to trust. The little I have talked with you Nadean, I am comfortable with you. Thornton is really out of the way. but we survived what ever happened so others must have also. It will be easier to fortify a small town than it would be to even to try to fortify Gentry."

"The first thing we need to do is get a hand pump for water and one for gas. The cars in the town have gas so we will salvage it. That way we can gut Gentry. Everything that can be taken is going to come with us. If I can find an eighteen wheeler, we can do it fasted but I want everything vital to our survival. I see me doing the running back and forth."

"What am I going to do?" She asks.

"You know Thornton. We need to search every house. You have to know who hunted.

We need their weapons. While I run, you will scavenge. It seems that all the electronics are fried. Are there any old car collectors in Thornton?"

Nadean tells me that there are at least four that she knows of. They have cars and trucks that don't even see the cold. All get driven in the summer but only on clear days.

"Which one would you like the best?"

"There is a 57 Chevy two door Nomad that I always drooled over."

"Well, let me get that trailer, you get everything that you want. I also would like my size items. I'm a 36 X 32 pants, two XL in shirts, 12 wide for shoes. Underwear to match my sizes. I'll be back in around twenty minutes. The rental place should have the pumps we need. I'll come back and help with the clothes."

I go down to the rental place. It is the first place that I found the doors locked but a window was not locked so I was able to get in. They had both hand pumps for gas and water, so I took all they had. There were a few generators that worked, took those.

There is a lot more but future trips. Now I needed to get back to Nadean.

When I got back, she was out front of the store. She looked relieved when I showed up.

"I'm sorry,” she said "I was worried that you just left me."

"Why would I leave you?"

"I'm not attractive. I'm average at best and you are very hansom. I did not figure that I come up to your"

"Stop right there. I judge people by their inward selves. I've seen knock down dead gorgeous women. Most of them were shallow trailer park queens beautiful on the outside but rotten inside. You Nadean are very attractive both inside and outside. Those are my standards. You rate on top. Does that answer why I came back?"

"I'm always down on myself" she says, "My husband used to tell me that I should be happy he chose me otherwise I would have been an old maid."

"What an ass hole! I'm here to tell you that he couldn't have been more wrong. I am going to show you just how wrong he was." I reached for her and gave a long passionate hug. I thought of doing more but held back. It is better to let her make the next move. We only have met. Nadean needs to sort through things but she is hugging me back.

She said after we broke from the hug, " It has been years since I have had a hug from the opposite sex. I really missed it."

"There are more where that came from. You feel free to take one when you feel as if you want one."

She thinks about it before responding, “I may just take you up on that."

. We get things loaded and return to Thornton. For now, the town meeting hall is a good place to start storing our haul.

"This is okay for now but we need to have smaller separate stores of the goods in case of fire,"

"Most of the houses in the area have basements and or garages. I just want to go to my house. Will you come with me? "

"You need your new clothes dropped off there anyways"

We go over to her house. Sure enough it was the one that I got the bike from. The house was a shade of gray with white trim. An older farm house. It had something that is missing from the modern houses, a wraparound porch. The kind that on the warm

summer days the whole family would sit outside and enjoy the breeze sipping tea? No, a cold beer.

There is a garage that was added some time later. Both house and garage show signs of neglect. Nadean had said that her husband was dead and son was off somewhere at a boarding high school so it does stand to reason that there was some neglect.

I finish helping her with her clothes. I stored the equipment in the garage for now.

"Now that that's done, I need to decide which house I will stay in." I said out loud.

Nadean looking confused says, "Aren't you going to stay here with me?"

I silently say to myself, Play it cool. Then I tell her,

"I just assumed that I would be imposing on you. This is your home after all. Are you inviting me to stay here?"

"I'm feel like taking --- one" as she wraps her arms around me burying herself on my chest. With no space between us, I feel everything she had pressing against me. I wrap my arms around her and squeeze. With out much hesitation my hands started to wander.

First it was a gentle rubbing all over her back. Her response was a slow moan. I look at her finding that she is looking at me. Then she closes her eyes and tilts her head. Our lips met. There was an old smoldering ember in Nadean that suddenly got oxygen. That ember was now a fire. My hands were now squeezing those ass cheeks that I had been watching since I first saw her walking down the road. I could feel her going limp as I massaged those cheeks.

"It's been so long since I felt this kind of touch" she said then amended that "no I never have felt this excited. I need you to stay here with me."

She led me, by the hand to her bedroom.

"Please can we do this? I really need to feel you close to me, inside me. Please take me." she passionately begged me.

I could tell that this was not just a plea for me to stay her but a plea from a woman who had never been truly appreciated for her being her. She wasn't offering herself as a bribe to stay, there was a lust that had never been awakened until now. I start unbuttoning her blouse.

I took my time as I loosened the last button. Sliding my hands across her now bare stomach. Feeling every inch of her exposed skin slowly brought my hands to the point

that I was able to side the blouse off her arms. It fell to the floor. Starting from her lips, I kissed my way down to her neck, then the collar bone. while undoing her pants.

Breaking off the kissing, I slowly lowered her pants. By this time, she was entirely rubber legged, so I picked her up and put her on the bed. Removing her pants, I found that she was totally soaked through.

"Is this okay with you?"

I ask, knowing it appeared so.

"I never thought that I would feel this turned on, so don't you dare stop."

Standing up, I get completely undressed. I hear a gasp from her at the sight of my erection.

"And you thought you were unattractive" I told her.

We start to grope each other. I slip my hands under her bra to free those breasts. They are not small by no means but not the oversized ones that are in all those magazines.

These are just right. Her pale skin and bright pink nipples were something that I needed to taste, so I did. As I was doing that, I felt down her stomach and found the panty band.

Slipping my hand under it, I felt her whole body stiffen. Her back was arching. She was obviously having an orgasm from the touch.

My fingers found what they were searching for. I slowly started to rub her clit. Slow circles with slight pressure.

"Oh Tom, Tom I need this so badly I need you in me now."

"Not there yet" I'm teasing her. Leaving her breasts, I lick my way down as I remove the last cloth barrier from my objective. I needed to taste her. Spreading her legs, I enjoy the sight, smell and taste of her. It was better than I could have hoped for.

After feeling that she has had enough I position myself so that I slid into her smoothly.

As I started moving, I asked her. Simply "in or out"

There was no hesitation “In, oh god Tom inside me. I had my tubes tied a long time ago."

As I start going, I take is slow when I hear her say,

"Give it to me rough. I want to hear skin slapping. I have wanted that but never had it in my life"

As I really pick up the pace I become like a piston, ramming it home until I start to feel like I can't get any deeper.

Hearing her now only grunting, I see that her eyes are rolling up into her head. She starts screaming

"Oh yessssssss this is the way I had hoped I would feel but never have. I needed this; I need you."

She came again but I have lost count on how many orgasms she has had.

Feeling that I have reached my limit, she tells me

"Let me feel your hot seed in me. I need it now"

That's all I heard as I busted my load in her hot pussy. It seemed like forever. We were both in raptured with each other.

After we scrape ourselves off the ceiling, she coyly says "Does this mean you'll stay?"

"I need to get one of the generators hooked up to the water and furnace. I like to take a hot shower after sex like that."

"The shower is a large one. It also has seats." She tells me.