On the Road Again

The mist rose up from the ground in the early morning as we struggled sleepy from the motel where we stopped to rest a bit before getting back on the road. I lit a cigarette, passing my lighter to Fairy and sipped the brownish grey coffee like substance I got in the motel office when I turned in my key. The road was a greyish snake, mostly deserted except for the 18 wheelers that whizzed by, causing the cool, damp wind to blow back my hair.

I clenched the cigarette between my teeth and reached in my pocket for an elastic band to band back my hair in a pony tail. I wondered where our Vampires were sleeping? Were they somewhere, motionless quiet as the grave in some safe place far from the morning? Or would they simply take off in Air Anubis and appear?

There was something lovely about driving a stretch of highway in the early morning. God Speed was looking at his IPad and saw there was a diner about 20 miles up the road. That was fine. All I wanted this early in the morning was caffeine and nicotine. I finished my cigarette and flicked it into the gravel and watched it smolder a moment. Renee was waiting for me, standing in the open door of the shot gun side of the truck. Kid was already in the back, the door open, her Ipod on listening to her music. U2 was just not her thing...but I understood. Beware Kid, someday a child of yours will be rolling their eyes saying gee whiz mom could you turn that old crap off?

I pulled my keys out of my pocket and put on a pair of sun glasses I'd caged off Eric. (Why would a Vampire wear sunglasses anyway) They were those dark bug eyed sun glasses, which I think is the reason he let me take them off him. If Eric wore sun glasses, he would wear the sort that reflected whatever or whoever he was looking at back at them. (I could almost hear him say in his low voice, "What we have here is a failure to a communicate," just before he did something painful and bloody to you and you would see it reflected back to you in the lenses of his shades.)

God Speed pulled out in his huge RV and I got in the rocking chair, driving my white Ford F150 extend cab between he and Fairy in her RV. Lina had her RV behind us. Westexan would be meeting us somewhere in Kansas, to join our convoy today, around supper time, at a diner GS found on his GPS. We were making excellent time. Scarlett and Vi and Aolani would meet us at Minnie's house, as they lived a bit closer.

Raki would be meeting us in Kansas as well. It was something to think of all of us, moving westward to meet with the most important people in our lives. Oh and the Vampires too. Over the nearly three months we had built our home, I felt closer to the folks on the forum than I ever had. We were ready for the adventures to begin, but until then, we were happy to be with the fangy men and women in our lives.

Twenty miles up the road saw us at Daisies, a little hole in the road place that guaranteed eats like mom made. And though I doubted their honesty, I was so hungry I could eat the south going end of a north bound mule. I slid Eric's shades up on top of my head and looked around at the little tables and booths. Just as we liked to do, we began to push tables together to create our family table and sat down. I noticed Fairy looking at my sun glasses.

"What?" I said, looking at her.
"Are those Eric's?" she asked.
"Yeah, I took them off the desk at Fangtasia when he gave me some money to send to Minnie for Tru:Blood," I said. She still looked at me. "Well, give me yours and you can have his." You would have thought I was giving her the Holy Grail. Thank God she didn't know I had his shirt on from doing a little painting job at Fangtasia or she would have me there topless at Daisies. I spilled black paint on myself and Eric took his shirt off and I slipped it on. Funny, no matter how often you wash, you can still smell Vampire on it.

I opened the menu...I wanted to look at the waitress and say "Okay" and hand her the menu but she looked as if she hadn't any sense of humor and ordered three eggs over easy and potatoes and sausage and toast and jam and juice and coffee. God Speed looked at me with frank admiration then shock when I added two pancakes.

"Got keep my blood count up," I said, rubbing my Bill bites.

We ate like a great hunger was upon us, mopping our plates with toast and biscuits and paid our bill and headed towards Kansas........