When they pulled into the motel Pat reminded the girls to be quiet about what had happened at the outdoor store. Shasta rolled her eyes to the roof of the truck and assured him that they had heard him a hundred times and that they weren't going to say anything to the others.
As Pat got out of the truck he saw that the Escalade was missing. He got worried and hurried into the motel. He found Pauline walking through the lobby.
"Where's the Escalade?"
Pauline walked into his arms and kissed him, "Sarah went to find a drug store. A couple of the girls have been sick for a few days and this morning they were really complaining about being sick. Sarah said that she thinks its bronchitis. She went to see if she could get some antibiotics for the girls. She said that she's going to talk to you when she gets back about holding off on traveling for a few days to give the girls a chance to get over the bronchitis."
"Did she take her gun with her?" Pat asked.
"I think so," Pauline said with a concerned look on her face.
Pat paused to think, "I don't see where waiting will matter one way or another. I'd rather make sure that everyone is well than have a crisis on our hands by pushing it."
Just then the power went off and Pauline muttered, "Damn, that's all we need."
"That's going to happen more often now," he said, "There's only so much fuel that the coal fired plants can possibly store at the generating plant and the nukes can't take up the slack of the coal fired plants going down. Eventually the nukes will go down too. We should have a little hot water for a while yet."
"But there's no one using the electricity but us," Pauline said with concern in her voice.
"But you have to remember," Pat reminded her, "when everyone disappeared they were living a normal life and they were using electricity at pretty much full capacity. It was the middle of the day and everyone was going about their life just like they did every day. I'm sure that there's a lot of electrical devices running right now that aren't needed but we just can't be running all over the world turning the lights off. A bigger problem is what is going to happen at the factories and refineries when the power suddenly goes off."
"I guess we'll have to learn to live with or without electricity," Pauline said.
"Tell everyone to not open the refrigerators and the icemakers unless they have to. The freezers will remain cold for a long time so we should move some of the food that we'll need into the freezers. The pool will remain clear until we leave so that won't be a problem if anyone wants to use the pool."
Sarah pulled into the parking lot with the Escalade. She got out of the SUV and walked into the motel. She saw Pauline and Pat and walked over to them.
"I got the antibiotics for the girls," she said with concern, "I had to research the dosages and the recommendations. I'm sure that these doses won't hurt the girls. Damn, I never thought that I'd have to do the doctoring this soon."
"You'll do fine," Pat said reassuringly.
For some reason the power came back on and stayed on. Pat figured that it had something to do with the electrical grid shifting power to their section of the grid.
The next two days Sarah nursed the two sick girls and did her best to keep the other girls away from the sick ones. Each day Sarah assured Pat that the girls were making good progress and would be ready to travel when he was ready.
Two days before they were to leave for the long trip to their permanent residence a fight broke out between two of the girls. Pauline stepped in and tried to break up the fight and got a punch in the eye for her trouble. After she had calmed the fight down and separated the girls she came back to the lobby. As she stomped through the lobby Pat could see that she would have a black eye the next day.
"Let's go, we have to talk," she snapped at Pat; almost taking his head off.
Pat followed as she walked quickly away from the motel. She was walking so fast that Pat had trouble keeping up with her. When they were out of sight of the motel, Pauline slowed down.
"Hey, are you going to talk to me or not?" Did I do something wrong?" he asked.
Pauline turned, "That fight was about you. Apparently the girls were arguing about who was going to get you into bed with them and it escalated until they started swinging at each other. Brenda's in love with you and she has decided that she's going to get you in bed and she feels that you belong to her so she was defending her turf. It's time for you to step up to the plate. If you don't do something about Brenda this is going to get out of hand."
"What do you mean?"
"Don't play coy with me," she snapped, "I'll get her in a room away from the others tonight and after everyone is calmed down you go to her room and do ... whatever."
"Pauline, I don't..." that was all he got out before she stomped away from him.
Pat walked around until it was almost dark and then walked back to the motel. Several of the girls were swimming and there were some in their rooms. The girls sitting in the lobby talking got quiet as he walked past them. He found Pauline in the kitchen drinking tea.
Pauline looked at him as he walked in the kitchen, "Brenda's in room 206."
Pat saw that she was still mad about the black eye that she was going to have so he didn't attempt to say anything else to her. He left the kitchen.
An old saying came to him as he left the kitchen, "When you walk through the jungle don't go kicking the tigers."
Pat made his way to room 206. He knocked on the door and he heard a voice call form him to come in. Brenda was laying on the bed with a sheet covering her. Her leg was out from under the sheet. She seemed startled to see him in her room.
"Uh, Mr. Pat. What do you want?"
"I want to talk to you Brenda," Pat said in a soothing voice, "What was that fight about this afternoon?"
She began to blush, "It was just nothing. We just had an argument."
"Look Brenda, we have to try to get along. This fighting could tear us apart and seriously affect our efforts to survive. There's going to be some arguments I'm sure but we have to get past them and work together. I guess you know that Pauline is going to have a black eye tomorrow."
Tears came to her eyes, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hit her. Tell her that I'm sorry I did that."
"I think that you should tell her," he said, "Let's go downstairs and you can tell her yourself. I think that an apology is in order."
Brenda pulled the sheet up to her chin, "Uh, I can't. I don't have anything on. I mean I don't have nightclothes on."
Pat wondered what Pauline had said to Brenda. He looked at her and the young girl was looking at him as if waiting for whatever he was going to do next. Pat walked over and sat on the bed.
"Pauline told me what she thought was the cause of the argument. Do you want to tell me what was really the cause or do you want me to believe Pauline whether she's right or wrong?"
Brenda blushed and averted her eyes. Pat waited for her to speak but it was obvious that she was too embarrassed.
"Brenda, look at me. Were you all arguing about me?"
She nodded slowly, "The other girls said that they saw you watching them and they said that they were going to get you in bed soon. I said..."
Pat saw that she was too embarrassed to continue, "Are you a virgin Brenda?"
She nodded her head but then shook her head, "I've never had sex yet but I think that I lost my cherry with a vibrator that some of us were using"
She turned away from him quickly when she realized what she had said. Pat grabbed her shoulder and pulled her back. As he did so the sheet fell away from her, exposing her breasts, and she quickly pulled the sheet up around her chin again.
"Did you have a boyfriend before all of this happened?" he asked.
She shook her head, "Boys think that if they go out with fat girls the girls owe them something."
Pat grabbed the sheet and pulled it off of her. Brenda was shocked and it took her a few seconds to react and try to cover herself with her arms.
Brenda was maybe ten or twelve pounds overweight but she could loose that extra weight fast with a little exercise and watching her diet.
Pat began to caress her shoulder, "Why do you beat yourself up? You're definitely not fat. There's nothing wrong with that body. When I was your age I'd have been beating your door down for a date."
Brenda gave him a half smile while covering herself as best as she could. Pat got off of the bed and began taking his clothes off slowly. Brenda's eye got wide and she watched as he undressed. When he dropped his pants her eyes locked onto his cock. Pat let her look for a minute and then got in bed next to her and pulled her in his arms. Brenda tried to keep herself covered as best as she could.
Pat began to gently caress her back, hip and arms. He took care not to scare her by becoming too aggressive too fast. He felt her relax in his arms just a little.
"Have you ever seen a man naked before?" he asked her.
She shook her head and he took the arm that was covering her bush and put it on his cock. She tried to pull back but he held her hand on him. His erection began to grow.
Brenda gasped when she felt him grow in her hand and she exclaimed in astonishment, "It's getting bigger."
"It has to get hard if we're going to make love and when it gets hard it gets bigger," he told her softly.
"You'd make love to me?"
Pat leaned forward and kissed her, "I will if you'll allow me to make love to you."
Pat kissed her again on her lips. Brenda didn't kiss him back but she didn't resist him either. Pat began to caress her and his hand dropped to her breast and he cupped her beast and gently squeezed it. Brenda softly moaned and her nipple hardened. She held his cock after he removed his hand from hers.
She looked down at his cock, "It's so big. It won't fit. I'm so small."
He kissed her again, "It will fit. We'll go slowly until you are comfortable with it. I promise you that I won't hurt you at all. It will be very pleasurable for both of us."
He lowered his head and took her nipple into his mouth and teased it with his tongue. Her nipple got harder than he thought possible. She pushed her breast up to him as if to push her entire breast into his mouth. He moved to her other breast and teased that one in the same way. She moaned and put her hand over her mouth as if she was embarrassed at being aroused.
Pat moved between her legs and lowered his mouth to her mound. He raked his tongue the length of her slit.
"What are you ... Oh my God," she put her hand in her mouth and bit down on it to keep from screaming.
Pat found her clit and began to suck her clit into his mouth and to tease it with the tip of his tongue. Brenda began to raise her hips off of the bed and she grabbed his head and held him against her clit. Suddenly she bit her bottom lip and then began a low growl and her hips began to bang against his face. She tensed and held him tight as wave after wave of pleasure swept over her.
When she calmed down Pat lined his cock up to her and slowly began to push into her. Her eyes widened as he moved into her a little. He began to pull out a little after each thrust and then he would push into her further than he had been.
Brenda began to rise up to meet each of his thrusts and she started to moan continuously. When Pat was completely inside of her he paused to let her get used to him.
"Is it all the way in?" she gasped.
Pat didn't answer her. He started to pump into her and then pull out until he was almost completely out of her and then push into her again.
"That feels so good," she said hoarsely.
Pat began to fuck her harder and Brenda matched his thrusts until she tensed and then grabbed him and held him as she mouthed unintelligible sounds as she floated on the waves of her orgasm. Pat let himself cum and he emptied himself into her.