Ch. 33: At Gunpoint

Lara and Julia stared at the old lady as she kept her aim at the two of them. Nan, also had her rifle pointed at them as well.

"OK, I want the both of you to lay down on the ground on your bellies." The old lady demanded.

The girls looked at each other, and then looked at the ground and hesitated.

"I said lay down on the ground!" She demanded.

"Do it!" Nan added.

Lara and Julia slowly crouched down to their knees, and carefully laid themselves out on the wet dirt. Nan walked towards the two girls, looking down at the bodies sprawled out across the dirt, and then stood behind them.

"No please! No don't kill me!" Julia cried out. 

Nan reached down to Julia's ankles and ran her hands up her legs, feeling, patting, squeezing all the way up. She felt around her butt, and up her back, her sides, and her arms.

"There's nothing on her!" She yelled out. The she stood over Lara, "And I guess there's nothing on her too!" She joked.

The old lady walked closer to the girls.

"Now who sent you here!" She asked.

Lara answered. "No one did! We just got lost, that's all!"

"Well then how in the Hell did you get here?"

Julia remained crying, sniffling her nose, and gasping for air.

"We were in Asheville last night." Lara answered. "We couldn't find a vacancy, so we tried to find some place to park, and went down a street. It was raining really hard, and it was dark, and there was a lot of traffic behind us, so we kept on going. We turned down another road, and it was all dirt, but we couldn't find a place to pull over. Then we went on another dirt road, and finally we just stopped the car and decided to wait it out until this morning. But this morning the car got stuck in the mud. So we started walking to find help."

Nan started laughing.

"You expect us to believe all that?" The old lady asked.

"We'll be glad to leave, but we just some help getting our car out of the mud." Lara continued.

"And why are you naked?" The old lady asked again.

Lara paused for a few seconds before answering, and then muttered "I'm a nudist. I don't wear clothes."

"What?" The old lady replied, and then broke out in a laugh.

"You don't wear clothes? You expect me to believe that too? Let me guess, did Jimmy Baker send you two out here?"

"Oh come on Ma, you know Jimmy didn't send these two out here. I mean look at how the other girl is dressed, and look how scared they are. They came from some big city somewhere."

"Honestly, we just got lost, and now our car is stuck in the mud." Lara pleaded.

"I think they're telling the truth Ma." Nan replied. "Look at 'em, they ain't dangerous."

"No, but that Jimmy probably sent them here to distract us."

"Oh come off of it Ma! Jimmy ain't done anything to us for 20 years now."

The old lady paused and thought for several seconds.

"Well, alright. But we're going to find out if they're telling the truth!"

The old lady walked back inside the house, and several minutes later walked back out, locking the front door. Then she approached Lara and Julia.

"Now get up, and let's go find this car of yours."

Lara and Julia got up, and started walking towards the old car that was parked behind them. They slowed down a bit, thinking they would get into the car, but the old lady reminded them again.

"Go on, keep walking!"

She kept her rifle pointed at the girls. Julia and Lara continued walking, realizing they were going to have to walk all the way back.

"Sorry I got you into all this" Lara whispered to Julia.

Julia collected herself, and started to calm down.

"Uh huh", she nodded back.