Mark looked out the window at the dark highway. Glen was driving. Glen had carried a sleepy Cass to the motor home and put her to bed. Glen was going to drive for a while and then Mark would take over.
"Glen are you really going to just let her take off to the mountains by herself, rock climbing or whatever with no way to call us if she fell or got hurt or something?" Mark asked looking at Glen.
"Mark I'm her lover, not her daddy. I can't tell her what to do. Cass is a free spirit, that's one of the things I love about her." Glen said.
"Well it's dangerous. You should put your foot down." Mark said.
Glen started laughing.
"Cass is the sweetest person I ever met, but I have no doubt if I tried to put my foot down with her, she would put her foot up my ass." Glen said.
Mark sighed.
"Listen Mark you barely know her, what's your interest?" Glen asked.
Mark just shrugged.
"Come on Mark you're my best friend we tell each other everything." Glen said.
Mark looked at Glen he was right, he wasn't going to start keeping things from Glen at this point.
"When I met her I felt an instant connection to her. Its like I know her already, I really can't explain it any better than that." Mark said.
"I feel you man, it was the same way when I met her, It's like I was sitting there waiting for her." Glen said.
Mark nodded that was exactly how he felt.
"Mark?" Glen asked.
"Yea?" Mark said hoping Glen wasn't going to ask him what he thought he was.
"Are you attracted to her?" Glen asked.
Mark turned and looked at Glen.
"Yea." Mark said.
Glen sighed.
"Damn I finally get a good one all to myself, and now you're checking her out." Glen said.
"Hey man I said I was attracted to her, I didn't say I was fixing to jump her bones. I mean hey you're my best friend nimrod." Mark said.
Glen laughed.
"I know, I know, if there's one person I can trust it's you." Glen said.
"Yea well don't forget it." Mark said looking at Glen.
Mark turned around; he heard the bedroom door opening. Cass came out and came up to the front. She bent and kissed Glen.
"You could have woke me up, I'll drive for a while, so you guys can sleep." Cass said rubbing her eyes.
"Honey, you were exhausted. Me and Mark is going to drive for a while." Glen said.
"I'll stay up with you guys for a while, I'm not sleepy." Cass said.
Cass plopped down in the space between the two seats cross legged.
"I want you to stop in Cherokee, so I can get the trailer hitch and truck. I'll take the truck and catch up with you guys in Charlotte in a couple of days." Cass said.
"Cass I really want you to take the cell phone with you. You can keep it turned off so no one can bother you. But you'll have it if anything goes wrong." Glen said. He held his breath and looked at Cass to see if she was pissed.
Cass smiled up at him.
"Of course adanata, I wouldn't do anything to worry you." Cass said.
Mark about choked.
Glen just smiled, that had been easy.
"Hold on just a minute. I asked ya the same thing and ya told me it would distract ya." Mark said looking a little put out.
"Well Glen made it sound so reasonable, and I didn't know he would be worried about me, I wouldn't do anything to upset him." Cass said smiling.
"On the other hand ya don't mind upsetting me?" Mark barked out.
Glen and Cass were both on the verge of laughing.
"uwoduhi dikata, you barely know me why should that upset you?" Cass asked looking up into Mark's eyes.
"Hell if I know." Mark growled and looked away.
Cass put her hand on Mark's arm.
"Don't bury your feelings Mark, it's not good for you." Cass said.
Cass stood up; she bent and kissed Mark on the cheek.
"You're very sweet, but you try very hard to hide it behind that fierce growling of yours." Cass said.
Mark looked up at her. God she was beautiful.
Cass moved over to Glen.
"I'm going back to bed." Cass said and kissed him deeply.
Cass pulled away and headed toward the bedroom.
Glen looked at Mark.
"You want to drive for awhile?" Glen asked.
"Okay." Mark said.
Glen pulled over and Mark took over the driving.
"Wake me in a couple of hours and I'll drive the rest of the way." Glen said.
Mark watched him walk back to the bedroom and go in and close the door.
It wasn't ten minutes before Mark heard groans and moans coming from the bedroom. Mark gritted his teeth and turned on the radio and drove on doing his best to ignore the sounds coming from the bedroom.
