The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Acepilot

Disclaimer - This story is based on the album by Roger Waters. Any references are intentional and I'm not earning money or intending any actual plagarism.

Part II - Running Shoes

"Yes."

My breathing suddenly falls short as I watch her clothes seemingly melt away. Her eyes never leave mine as the sun dances around us before finally settling into the twilight hour. Everything finally turns to shadow except the green in her eyes. The rest of her face becomes bland and uninterested, but her eyes sparkle and dance like nothing I've ever seen before.

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We kiss again as I hold her liquid form in as tight an embrace as I can manage. She's an elusive prey, slipping an sliding from my arms even as I try to hold her. Finally as I gve up on her she becomes whole again, giggling at my predicament without opening her mouth.

Sighing in defeat as she smirks at me, I lead her around the back of the building again until we're standing in front of the service station. The man and Kimi are gone, probably off somewhere alone, I think idly. There lies my car, my Lamborghini, my way out of this world and finally into the one I want to be in.

"Want a ride?"

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"Yes," she repeated.

We tore off away from the gas station, sliding effortlessly toward the sunset, toward the trees that provided an inviting cover away from the world, the dirt road that felt strangely familiar under my feet, under my wheels, away from the place where we had left my wife behind.

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Tucked away in a grove, I finally allow myself to succumb to my desires, what I want and what I know she wants. For just a handful of moments, the worries that dominate my mind disappear.

"I want to make love to you."

She grins darkly at me. "You think you do. You'll never make love to me. You don't want to make love to me."

An alarm bell begins wailing in the background.

Her eyes turn pitch black. "You want to f--- me."

My blood runs cold as I recognise the truth in her words, and that stupid alarm won't shut up. The forest drains away from around us and we're left, cold and naked in an unforgiving world. And the damn alarm is still ringing.

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"Shut the useless thing up!" I scream as the world I'm so despeately clinging to finally disappears and -

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