Posted....02/24/2004
Vermont adventures
Chapter #45
Weekend –3
I had no idea what would be in store for me on this particular trip. Each trip was an individual fantastic vogue. Thinking about the things that had happened on the previous weekend made the weekdays fly by so quickly. Before I knew it, was Friday again and I was on the road heading north to Vermont. Every week I would come to work and tell my friend Jimmy about the good time I was having in Vermont. He was having a hard time believing some of the fantastic lies I told him. The girls wanted me to bring along another friend and thought that was a good idea, but I had to make sure it was the right guy. I asked Jimmy if he wanted to go along for the Weekend. He was ready when Friday came, and we left the plant together. We worked the graveyard shift so it was eight o’clock in the morning and we were wide-awake, thinking about the fun that we were going to have. When we got to Bellows Falls, I took him to the hotel where the band had stayed. I didn’t want to bring him to Dina’s house because I didn’t want to do anything to jeopardize my situation there. This was going to be a party weekend, so we didn’t need any formalities like meeting parents.
We got settled into the large hotel room that had two beds and overlooked a stream running along the base of the green mountains. It was a very cozy room for its size, so we were happy with it. We crashed for a few hours before we called the girls to let them know that we were in town. They were very happy to hear from me and anxious to see whom I had brought with me. They made their own arrangements for getting together with us. I was glad I didn’t have to drive around to pick them up and that gave us a little more time to rest. We were only a block away from the club so when the girls came to town, they came to stay until the club opened. We were ready to party. We brought a tape player and a cooler full of beer and wine, and I knew that the girls would be bringing more with them.
When the girls arrived at the hotel, they were ready to party. We greeted each other with the usual round of hugs and kisses. They were happy to see that I had brought some one else along. They liked my friend and wasted no time letting him know. Tammy was the first to move on him. She knew that she was the aggressive type and she didn’t try to hide it. Jimmy was cool and low-keyed and he looked like link from the 'Mod Squad", with his huge Afro and great physique. He was a natural ladies man and he knew it. His laid-back demeanor was just what I needed in a running partner. Tammy was doing a good job of keeping him busy while I entertained the other two girls with a massive joint that was pre-rolled for such an occasion.
Between the beers and the devastating joint of Columbian Red, we almost exterminated ourselves before we got to the club. We did manage to leave for the club before all was lost. After having visited the club on the previous weekends, I was becoming part of the woodwork, and was greeted by several of the locals when I entered. The girls continued to introduce us to more and more people throughout the night. We grabbed our favorite table, which was located next to the dance floor, and could accommodate eight people. It didn’t take long for us to collect more of the girls’ friends at our table. Everybody in the club knew I was the king of the bump and they were anxious to hang out with me in an effort to pick up a few pointers. This popularity unfortunately kept me on the floor a lot, which resulted in some very sore hips the following day. But it wasn’t a big deal because I had been bumping up and down the eastern seaboard over the past few months, and I was starting to get use to it.
We enjoyed each other’s company immensely that night and meeting all our newfound friends was especially enjoyable. James and I were outsiders and everyone knew it. Not necessarily because we were the only two black faces in the club, but Jimmy’s Afro was a giant puffball and I was the master bumper. These traits probably superceded any others as we tried to stay as cool as possible and still have a good time. We were well toasted when we left the club and returned to the hotel we brought a couple of extra people back to the room with us. Bringing other people along made the group balanced, girls and guys. It was amazing how we could continue to party, after all we had been through earlier that evening. Everybody was packing some kind of rolled up weed, and procession of joints started as soon as we hit the room. We didn’t do any dancing; we just piled onto the two beds and talked about the events of the evening at the club. At bout 3:30 or so all the extra people took off, leaving Jim and me with Tammy and Marie. Jimmy had just met Tammy hours earlier, but this was the first time I actually had time with Marie relatively alone. It felt like the last party on earth after weeks of hanging out and meeting so many different people. We took relished the opportunity to be together, and quietly slipped under the covers while Tammy and Jimmy were too busy making out to notice anything else.
The next morning came too fast when we awakened with foggy minds and bruises from that crazy dance that was going around. It still felt good waking up with a view of the mountains and woods and waterfalls outside your window. Marie and I looked at each other with pleasurable eyes. We knew we were lovers and not in love. We were having too much fun enjoying each other and it was too early in the relationship to get into all that gooey stuff anyway. We spent the next day traveling around the area and visiting more of Marie and Tammy’s friends. We eventually settled at Tammy’s house where we met her mother and her younger sister. They were very nice to us and invited us to stay over that night. Her mom was cool and quite hip to the happenings of the day. She was probably in her mid forties and was looking fine indeed. Her sister was only a year younger and she was certainly giving Tammy a run for the money with her green eyes and long blond hair. These mountain girls were in good shape and they had no problem with showing us a good time. They had a big split leveled ranch- styled house, with three bedrooms upstairs and a finished basement with one bedroom and a recreation area. They had probably kicked the old man out because their father was not there and no one was complaining about anything. The women seemed to have been holding down the fort just find. The mother conveniently disappeared and left us with the girls, but I had to be cool because Tammy and her sister were close friends with Marie and Dina, so I didn’t make any moves on Tammy’s sister. Besides, if given the right moment we could all wind up in the same bed anyway, so there was no panic to get over with her sister. We spent the rest of the day relaxing and making plans to go to another club that night. We needed to go to another place and spread the new dance around and that’s exactly what we did.
The new place we visited that night was a little more upbeat, but we still had a good time after starting off the evening with a bowl of onion soup with cheese melted on top. Our Saturday night partying ended much too soon. We dropped Marie off at her place on the way back to Tammy’s house. I could have stayed with Marie at the hotel, but it was a bit out of the way so we took a break and separated for the night. I wanted to stay at Tammy’s house for the night anyway because it would give me a chance to just stretch out and relax all alone. Jim and I would have to work at midnight Sunday so we needed to get some rest. I'm really just speaking for myself because that wasn’t happening with Jimmy and Tammy. They were up for most of the night and he paid for it the next day. We spent Sunday relaxing and later that day we checked out of the hotel. Then we stopped by Marie’s and Dina's house on the way out of town. We wanted to get back to New B. before six so we could get a little more rest before going to work that night.