She knew what it was like to be lavished with
unwanted attention.
"Come on, let's just go in and sit down. They'll
leave us alone if we ignore them." I said, opening the
door to the diner.
After we'd ordered I got up to use the bathroom
and when I returned to the table I saw that one of the
motorcyclists had sat down in my vacant chair. I
cleared my throat and he started to get up. Crystal,
Raven and Butterfly all looked up at me gratefully, as
if I'd saved them from some sort of torture. When I
heard the motorcyclist speak, I knew I had.
"Well, if you girls need anything you just holler
for Paulio. I'll be right over there," he said, pointing to
the table where his greasy friends sat.
Thankfully the waitress came then with our
order and we settled in to fill our grumbling tummies.
As we finished the last of our food Crystal asked if
we'd need gas soon.
"I'll get gas here before we leave," I said. "The
wagon's a guzzler. Lucky we have Gordon's credit
card."
"Don't you have to sign his name?" Butterfly
asked fearfully.
"We'll use those tanks where you just stick the
card in," I said. "When we drove up, I saw they had
them here."
Crystal took out the map and we started to
discuss the trip, where we thought we would be after
another day's travel, and how far we would get by