Gwen, in Green by Hugh Zachary

Author:Hugh Zachary
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Valancourt Books
Published: 2021-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

10

Billy was working the inland side of the cut. Jock, his friend, was on the ocean side. There was a buildup of clouds to the west, indicating a short work day. Billy was rooting for the clouds. He’d had a rough night. First, he and Jock had stopped by a joint in Ocean City on the way home, punched a few coins into the juke for a couple of country-­western goodies, shot a few games of bowling on the little game machine, and put away a few tall, cold Buds. Back at the trailer, Billy had been restless. Jock was out of it. He could hold his booze, but beer did him in and made him sleepy. He hit the sack just after dark, leaving Billy on his own. He considered calling the two sisters, and entertained a delightful vision of talking both of them into bed at one time. He had to walk all the way to the office to use the telephone. The aged, short, fat, wrinkled mother of the two sisters answered and said, rather curtly, that her daughters were not in. Billy said to hell with it and walked back down the line of trailers, kicking at the bare, white sand.

The Tennessee girl came out of her trailer just as he was out front. She had her bleached hair piled up high in a beehive. She wore slacks which showed the outline of her panties and the firmness of her fanny. Jesus, she was a piece.

“Evenin’,” Billy said, giving her his best smile.

“Hi yawl, Billy.” She was walking right toward him, her big set bouncing inside a little knit thing.

“Where you off to?” he asked, seeing that she was headed toward her new Ford. He stood in front of the car door to block her.

“Outta cigarettes,” she said. She was, he could tell, well aware of the fact that he was looking toward her with more than neighborly interest.

“Your old man get off to work?”

“Damn night shift,” she said.

“Might ride along with you, if you don’t mind,” Billy said.

She looked around. The evening was a hot one and everyone was inside, window air conditioners were roaring and pumping. “Well, I’m just going down to the store.”

He walked around and got in. He saw, when she sat down, that he’d been wrong. She had on a bra, after all. She just had a set so big that no bra could handle them, that was all. She smelled of a nice perfume and—before the air conditioner beat down the accumulated heat in the car—a bit of good girl sweat.

The nearest store was on the outskirts of Ocean City, five or six miles up the road. Billy began his work immediately. “Don’t you get lonesome all by yourself every night?”

“You don’t have time to get lonesome with kids,” she said.

“Shame for a good-­looking girl like you to spend every evening with no more company than a couple of kids,” he said.

“Breaks of the game,” she said, but she turned her face toward him with a quick smile.

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