Chapter 14

The girls spend much of the next few days stark naked. Somehow Cindy rebelled from the intense session with John by showering her attentions upon Theresa.

John luxuriated in the brief respite, using the time to work on various projects around the silo. For one thing he refined his video interface breadboard. The new one was smaller and more reliably built.

The collection of video tapes had turned into a virtual library, outgrowing the closet. John solved this by carting them off to one of the many inspection tunnels that circumnavigated the silo. He stacked them chronologically along the inside wall around the back side of the silo in tunnel six. He also took to locking the access hatches lest the girls stumble on them by random chance while wandering.

He was running low on tape as well as other non-food supplies. He made up a shopping list and notified the girls to plan on a shopping foray. The girls were ecstatic. They jabbered back and forth about what shops they wanted to hit.

It was now late January. A semi warm stretch had left the road passable by Cruiser, but muddy. John made sure that he had chains and extra cable in case he got stuck. Just in passing he threw in a folding shovel. He told the girls to pack a change of clothes. They looked at him like he was crazy, but complied. By the time they reached the road they were grateful for them. They changed in the second ‘Cruisers shack. Wishing for wash facilities. A visit on the Internet had informed John of a new storm front, a big one, due in just two days.

John turned the girls loose with a wad of cash at the Mall with a reminder to be discrete and careful. They were both subject to being picked up by the law. They promised and each stole a long deep kiss in the relative privacy of the parking garage. They scheduled a rendezvous and John drove off on his own shopping spree.

The girls would not have been at all interested in the stores John found captivating. He visited surplus and supply houses. A trip to a local wholesaler for multiple cases of video tape. Electronics parts houses. A trip to a large merchandiser netted a small utility trailer. He splurged many thousands of dollars on esoteric gadgets. He was in seventh heaven. He solved the problem of security by renting a storage garage and parking the trailer in it while he went to meet the girls for lunch. He had one more stop to make first. He spent a whole hour searching out just the right person on the local college campus. The person was reluctant to deal with a person of his age, but a wad of cash overcame his fear and John left with a small package tucked away in his pocket.

When he met the girls they were laden with packages from almost every store. He cringed inwardly as they were a walking beacon of trouble. John helped them load the packages and then made a trip to the storage unit to stow them while they went out to eat.

At lunch the girls were fairly oozing with sexual energy. The shopping spree had left them in a sort of sexual frenzy. John managed to remind them to behave themselves. They almost obeyed.

John knew he was in for a hot night anyway.

After lunch John made a purposeful stop at the storage unit. With the door pulled down the girls released each other’s tensions under the single dull light bulb of the unit. They abandoned themselves in each other’s bodies, hardly noticing the unheated condition of the storage unit. When they were finally spent the girls donned some of their new purchases.

Finally on the road again John made a stop at a large book retailer and the girls collected study material for their GED’s. John went about pulling computer and physics books from the shelf. The book store cost almost as much as the girls had spent in the Mall.