Shifting Consequences--Chapter 30: Prime Rib
#31 of Shifting Consequences
I wish I could go visit northern or WI or MN right now. I'm jealous that my characters get to go there and I don't.
Zack and friends get some much needed food and then set out for their campsite.
Shifting Consequences--Chapter 30: Prime Rib By Zmeydros (Lucien Quinn) zmeydros.tumblr.com zmeydros (Twitter) Malfedrosti (Mal Twitter)
Zack and Bella keep their moveable cocks inside Zack's cunny for another hour, cumming twice more before they finally separate. After it is all over and Bella is back in the front seat, Zack just lies there feeling nice and full. He goes in and out of sleep feeling calm and satisfied.
Bella doesn't mind the fact that her pussy is sore from having so much of Zack's tail stuffed inside her. The slight pain is a trophy from their amazing lovemaking. She lets herself get hypnotized by the road as she tries to avoid thinking about how much she wishes she didn't have to switch back to human form.
Driving for so long has Glenn grasping at random thoughts to keep his mind occupied. Many of the thoughts are about family members he may never see again. By the time he's about forty minutes from the campsite, his thoughts are mostly about food. What he wouldn't give for a good Reuben or Rachel right now... "Mind if we stop in Phillips for dinner?"
"Nope, I'm starving." Bella leans back and pats her belly.
"How about you, Zack?" Glenn says.
"Wha?" Zack blinks as he opens his eyes. Was he sleeping?
"Mind if we stop in Phillips to get dinner?"
Zack pulls the blanket off of his head. "How far is it?"
"About twenty minutes, I think."
"Sounds good to me." Zack yawns showing off his draconic maw.
Bella watches him a bit jealous that he has gotten to lounge in the back seat in his dragon form. "Can you change back?"
"Oh, yeah... Probably." Zack stretches as best he can in the confines of the back of the car. "I don't feel any pain."
"Really?"
"Yep! I feel good as new." He curls the end of his tail. "Actually, better than new."
"Better than new?" Glenn says with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, I had hot kinky sex in the back of a car and I'm feeling satisfied. Sexual healing..." Zack giggles. "I love my dragon form!"
"I'm so happy! I never imagined it would give you this much joy." Bella smiles back at him. "You should probably change back until we get to the camp and I cast that spell to keep people from noticing us, though."
"Oh all right." Zack tries to change back and finds he is straining himself. He takes a few breaths and tries again. Eventually, his body complies and his tail starts going in. The changes pass easily once he gets them started and his mind drifts to think about what sort of food he wants to eat. For the first time since he started transforming, his mind is able to drift relatively freely. It just doesn't hurt or feel that uncomfortable anymore.
Bella watches him change. His ears get shorter, his scales give way to skin starting on his lower right thigh before spreading across his whole body within a few seconds. The ease of his transformation gives her hope that one day she won't have to cast a sustain spell. One day she'll just be able to change at will. She smiles to herself.
As they reach the edge of Phillips, Zack blurts out, "Do they have a Chinese buffet in this town?"
"Hmm..." Glenn tries to remember if he saw any Chinese food in the entire town. All the restaurants are on the main road and the town isn't that big. "No, I don't think so."
"Aww, what do they have?"
"American food mostly. I think there's a Subway, a pizza place, a diner, and the best place in town." Glenn's mouth starts to water as he thinks about their prime rib.
"Best place in town?"
"Yeah, It's called the Harbor View, I think. They have great prime rib and it's not even that expensive."
"Prime rib sounds perfect." Bella nearly drools. She is so hungry she almost wants to have them stop at a gas station so she can get a sandwich to tide her over until they reach the restaurant.
Zack's mouth starts watering. "Yeah, I haven't had good prime rib in a long time."
Bella sniffs the air. They'll all smell like dried cum, sex, and musk if she doesn't do something about it. A shower at a truck stop--if there even are any with showers around here--would delay dinner. She casts her cleaning spell once again as Glenn tries not to let it distract his driving and Zack stares in awe.
When she has the mess collected, she looks around the car until she sees a plastic shopping bag with some refuse in it. She grabs it and holds it open as she lets the mess fall inside it. She ties it up. Now that she's had time to rest, casting magic isn't so bad. Well, actually, she started feeling a lot less magically taxed after her fun with Zack in the back seat.
"I love magic," Zack smiles. "Next time we make love, I want our tongues to do the cleaning, though."
Bella blushes as she thinks about licking across Zack's tasty cunny. "Definitely."
Zack laughs. "Your mind is in a happy place?"
"My mind is in lesbians with that idea." Bella chuckles.
Zack gives a belly laugh. "I'm in lesbians with it too."
"I love the Scott Pilgrim movie. With my closest friends, the ones who knew I was bi, I would switch out the word 'love' for 'lesbians' to make them laugh."
"You're bi!!?!?" Zack gives her his best surprised gaping mouth and wide eyes expression.
Glenn starts laughing so hard that he takes his foot off the gas for a moment. Bella starts laughing, tries to calm herself, then laughs even harder. When she recovers, she says, "Well done."
"My aunt used to pretend to be surprised a lot. At first, I didn't get it and her family would laugh at me, but then I started doing it to her and got her back a few times." Keeping himself covered, Zack sits up. "Then we both did it to my mom at the same time completely by accident once and everyone at the table, including my mom, laughed so hard they cried."
"I think I like your aunt's sense of humor better than one of my cousins. He used to work pig latin into all of his jokes." Glenn pulls into the restaurant parking lot.
"That sounds more annoying than funny." Zack brushes a strand of his hair out of his face.
"Yeah. His brother always laughed at it, but I had no idea what was so funny."
"I need a change of clothes." Zack blushes as he remembers how he ruined his last set of cloths.
Bella gets out of the car. "I'm going to get us a table." She shuts the door.
Glenn pops the door open and calls after her. "Whose name are you going to use if you're asked?"
"Oh, I hadn't thought about that." She looks down at the red hair cascading down her shoulders. "Claire O'Donnell."
"Claire?" Glenn tilts his head. "I like the sound of that."
"I'm a walking stereotype now... I should have just gone with 'Susan Ivanova.'" Bella smirks.
Zack laughs. "Too late, you're looking at 'Susan Ivanova.'"
Glenn and Bella laugh.
"I'm named after my favorite character in Babylon 5, now."
"Great show." Glenn gets out of the car and walks back to the trunk.
"I'm already jealous." Bella turns and walks toward the restaurant.
Vale takes his helmet off and walks up to the back of the car as Glenn opens the trunk. "So what's up?" He asks Glenn.
"Finding a new change of clothes for Zack. He destroyed his last outfit when he transformed in it." Glenn pulls Vale's bag out and sets it on top of all the other stuff.
"Yeah, I saw the aftermath. Under different circumstances, I would have found it very sexy. I read a lot of transformation stories."
"Me too." Glenn chuckles.
Vale grabs the zipper. "I'll pick out stuff. He'll probably need a long sleeve shirt and pants because that restaurant probably has the air conditioning turned up. I hated being small and skinny. I had to bundle up when there was even the smallest cool breeze."
"Well, you don't have to worry about that anymore, hun. You're a smokin' hot muscly guy now." Glenn gives Vale a peck on the cheek which Vale turns into a deep kiss.
When Glenn breaks the kiss, Vale gropes Glenn's butt. "So are you." Vale reaches into his bag and pulls out a long-sleeve deep-yellow shirt with some khaki pants. Then he grabs a bra and a pair of female boxers. He tosses them on Zack's lap. He looks to make sure that Zack didn't destroy his shoes before grabbing a pair of socks and handing them to Zack.
"Thanks!" Zack smiles.
"To thank me, all you need to do is make sure I get to watch the next time you destroy my clothing."
Pulling the clothes under the blanket, Zack says, "Will do!"
Glenn zips up the bag and closes the trunk.
Vale walks up to Glenn and gives him a hug. Glenn feels so good in Vale's arms. So much has happened in such a short time and being close to Glenn is a great comfort.
A happy sigh escapes Glenn's lips as he wraps his arms around Vale and hugs back. This is what he'd been missing: a manly closeness in his life. Zack was fun to bang, but he never got the impression that Zack and he had a cuddly synergy. Vale, on the other hand, fits in his arms perfectly.
When Zack gets out of the car, he shuts his door and makes sure the car is locked. Seeing Glenn and Vale holding each other, he joins in their embrace. Their contentment is pretty contagious and he finds himself sighing softly. Having them towering over him, he feels safe.
Vale and Glenn break up the group hug a half-minute later and they all walk into the restaurant.
The person at the podium asks, "You're with Claire?"
"Yep," Glenn says.
They follow the thin fine-featured man to the back corner of the restaurant. The dining area has a cozy backwoods feel to it even if it is slightly generic. Zack sits down next to Bella and Vale sits on the other side of her with Glenn sitting across from Bella.
The man says, "Your server will be right with you."
Just as Bella starts to say hi to everyone, a short stocky woman with curly brown hair and a deep red shirt walks up to the table. She hands out menus as she says, "I'm Audrey and I'll be your server this evening. Would you like to start off with an appetizer?"
Zack looks up from the menu. "Do you guys like fried cauliflower? It sounds delicious."
"I don't normally like cauliflower, but I'm willing to try it," Bella says.
Vale shrugs. "Sure."
Zack smiles brightly, "Oh yes."
The woman provides a practiced smile. "Okay, I'll put that in and then come back to get your orders. Our special today is an open-faced prime rib sandwich with your choice of soup, salad, or potato for ten ninety-nine."
"I'll have that! With a bowl of soup, please." Glenn says as he sets down the menu.
"We have homemade loaded potato or chicken and wild rice today."
"Loaded potato," Glenn says.
"I'll have the special too with a Caesar salad with the dressing on the side," Zack says.
"We normally serve it with a garden salad, but we can do a Caesar instead." The waitress writes on her pad.
Vale folds up his menu."I'd hate to be the odd woman out, I'll have the special too with the loaded potato soup."
"Odd woman?" The waitress raises her eyebrow.
Glenn chuckles slaps Vale on the back. "You shouldn't tease our waiters so much. Who knows what they might do to your order?"
Vale smiles as politely as possible. "Sorry, I was seeing if I could get a laugh."
"No problem, sir." Audrey turns her attention to Bella. "Another special for you?"
"Yeah, actually. I'll have a baked potato with all the fixings you can put on it." Bella folds her menu and puts it in the middle of the table.
Audrey picks up all the menus. "Okay, what would all of you like to drink?"
Bella says, "Lemonade."
Vale says, "Mountain Dew."
Glenn says, "Coke."
Zack says, "Just water."
"We only have Pepsi products, so I can do the Dew, but no Coke, I'm afraid." Audrey smirks.
Glenn chuckles. "I'll have water instead."
"Okay, I'll be back with your drinks after I get your orders put in." Audrey walks off.
Vale grimaces. "Sorry about that."
"It's okay for one of us lets something slip as long as they go along with whatever ruse someone comes up with to cover it up." Glenn pats Vale's knee.
"Isn't it odd that all of us are so close when we've only known each other for a few days at most?" Vale asks.
Zack says, "Yeah... I think it's hard not to be when we're sharing our most intimate desires openly. It also helps that we have a common secret and enemy."
"That's true. I also think Mal tried to bring people with similar interests together. He's been planning this for a long time. He may be the god of Absurdity, but in all my dealings with him, I've found that he is extremely methodical." Bella pokes at a scratch in the clear coat that's protecting the old oak tabletop.
"Have any idea what his plans are?" Vale holds up his hands while raising his eyebrows.
"For our ability to transform to spread far and wide." Bella speaks quieter as the waitress nears the table with a bunch of glasses on a tray.
She sets the various drinks in front of their owners and says, "Need anything else right now?"
Glenn says, "I think we're okay."
"I'll be back with your appetizer shortly." Audrey leaves.
"So you really think he wants it to spread all over?" Glenn raises an eyebrow.
"Why wouldn't he? Maximizing his own entertainment value is his goal in all this. One time I wore different colored socks to church and sat in the front row because he asked me to. That's when I found out that our pastor had OCD. Throughout the whole service, his gaze kept drifting to my feet. He couldn't make it through his whole sermon without asking me if I knew my socks were different colors." Bella laughs.
Vale chuckles.
"What did you say?" Zack takes a sip of water.
"I looked down as if I was surprised and thanked him for telling me. People in the pews were trying not to laugh during that exchange. Most of them succeeded."
Vale laughs. "That's great."
Bella drinks some lemonade and then makes a happy mmm sound. "Homemade lemonade, how I've missed you."
Glenn asks, "Did you do other things to this poor pastor?"
"A couple small things, but I stopped when I heard about his kids untying his shoes so that they could get a head start when he chased them. He could not run after them until he tied his shoes." Bella takes another gulp from her glass.
"Wow, that's pretty solid OCD," Zack says.
"Yep, for him it was his entire mindset. There were proper things one did and proper responses to those things. If your shoe is untied, you must tie it before you walk. You cannot have sex until you're married. Blah blah blah. I ignored him as much as I could growing up."
"My pastor was a total nerd who got a degree in physics before he went to seminary. I'm not very religious, but I loved his sermons. He was the first person to explain quantum mechanics to me." Zack smiles and looks off into the distance.
"My parents never went to church unless there was some sort of social gathering at one of their friends' churches. My parents expected me to meditate for a half-hour every day and play piano for the rest of that hour." Vale shrugs. "It wasn't that bad, actually. Learning to type was easy because my hands were so flexible."
"Were your parents really controlling?" Glenn is using his straw to push down individual ice cubes before watching them float to the top again.
"Yeah, they controlled everything except what I did when I locked my bedroom door. They said it was healthy for me to have time to myself as long as I didn't abuse the privilege of privacy." Vale stares at his Mountain Dew as if he's trying to decide if he wants to drink it yet.
"The privilege of privacy?" Glenn furrows his brow.
Vale lets out a puff of air. "Me having time to myself was a privilege. If I used it to do things that would hurt my future, like drugs or vandalism or going to parties that didn't have adult supervision, they would start scheduling things so that I had less free time."
"What happened if you didn't go to the things they scheduled for you?" Bella asked.
"They'd ground me until I started going again." Vale takes a big gulp of her drink.
"That's actually similar to what my parents did, but they also would ground me when they found my furry porn stash, when I got one bad grade, when I swore, when I had an overt display of anger, when I made faces at people..." Bella trails off. "At least they didn't try to schedule my life as much as yours did."
Vale grimaces. "Wow, I'm not sure which is worse."
"I'm sorry you two had to go through that." Zack pats Bella on the shoulder and frowns.
"We survived." Bella says. "And now our appetizer is here, so we can be happy again."
They start grabbing chunks of fried cauliflower just after the plate hits the table. Bella likes it so much that she struggles not to take more than her share. When they're done with the appetizer, the salads and soups arrive and just as they finish those, the entrees are set down on the table.
The food disappears a bit faster than is polite, but all of them are hungry and the food is great. Zack savors the last third of his prime rib, putting just the right amount of the horseradish sauce on it. He's the last one with food still on his plate. The other three are leaning back in their chairs feeling nice and full.
When Zack finally sets his fork down, he smiles at Glenn. "I'm so glad you suggested this place."
"Me too!" both Vale and Bella blurt out before Glenn can respond.
Glenn puts down the toothpick he was using to clean the meat out of his teeth. "You're all welcome. I don't mind payin' for all of you when I can take you to places like this."
"Thanks for funding our adventure," Vale says.
"No problem. I don't have an unlimited supply, but we should be okay until we find a place we can lay low for a while and make some money online." Glenn finishes off his water.
Bella says, "Thanks."
Zack says, "Thanks for breaking me out of that cell and all that other stuff."
"It was literally my pleasure." Glenn winks. "Now, y'all better stop thanking me or I'll start blushing." Seeing that Audrey is approaching the table, Glenn gets a fifty and a ten out of his wallet.
Just as Zack is about to tease him by thanking him for something else, Audrey sets the check on the table and asks, "Can I get you anything else?
Glenn puts a fifty and a ten dollar bill on top of the check the moment she set it down. "No, I'm good. Keep the change."
"I'd like a glass of water," Vale says.
Bella takes the last sip of her lemonade. "I'll have one too."
"Sure, I'll be right back with those." Audrey walks to the back and uses the touch screen on the register to get their bill handled.
Zack rubs Bella's thigh and looks into her eyes. Seeing Zack show affection, Vale decides to give Glenn a peck on the cheek. He responds by squeezing Vale's ass. Vale murrs in his ear. Glenn whispers, "Easy, hot stuff, or I'll be driving with a hard-on again."
"Heh, maybe that's what I want." Vale licks Glenn's chin.
Audrey stares at Glenn and Vale for a moment before setting the waters down.
Noticing Audrey's stare, they stop leaning toward each other and try to act like there was nothing going on. Zack nips at Bella's ear when the waitress is distracted and Bella bites her lip to stop herself from moaning.
Bella drinks half her glass of water in one go. That was a long car ride with nothing to drink and lots of sex. Her mouth was still dry after the lemonade even though it was less sugary and more refreshing than normal.
Vale drinks some of his water, feeling a bit awkward. Something about the way the waitress was staring seemed judgmental. Maybe Glenn shouldn't have tipped her so much? The food was amazing, but you can't really tip the cook unless you're at a traditional sushi place.
For the next couple minutes, Glenn doesn't say anything and stares at the table top while poking at his coaster. No one says anything after looking at Glenn's dour expression. When Vale and Bella are nearly done with their water, Glenn says, "Let's get back on the road."
They all get out of their seats and follow him out. The moment they're near the car, Glenn says, "It's been a while since I've felt that awkward. I wasn't sure if she disliked male-on-male affection or was just not used to it."
"Well, I would say she had an issue with PDA in general, but she didn't look at us even though we were giving each other little kisses." Zack shrugs.
Bella sighs. "Being gay can really suck. I remember being in a pizza place with one of my friends and we were being overly affectionate. The waiter suddenly started being really short with us. He was in his fifties. We called him out on not liking gay couples and he responded that he didn't care what genders we were, he just thought public displays of affection were improper. The hard part of being gay is being so used to people taking issue with the gender of your lover that you start to assume people are prejudiced against your orientation whenever they start treating you differently."
"Yeah, I know exactly how that feels. I really hate it... "We had a great meal, I'm just going to focus on that." Glenn unlocks the car.
"For a moment, I forgot that I looked like a female. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm surprised the waitress didn't stare at us too." Zack hops in the back seat, but keeps the door open.
Bella walks over to the passenger's side of the car. "Yeah, unless we ask that waitress, we'll probably never know for sure why she did that."
"I don't care. Let them think whatever they want. I got odd looks whenever I wore very masculine clothing to formal events and other stuff. I stared right back." Vale walks up to Glenn and gives him a kiss on the lips. "Do whatever you want to me in public, hun. I don't mind stares."
Glenn kisses Vale on the lips and takes his head into his hands before breaking the kiss. "Just be patient with me, I've always felt awkward about PDA."
"Can do." Vale hugs Glenn.
Glenn hugs back and when he lets go, he says, "Time to hit the road."
Zack moves his leg out of the door and stomps on the asphalt. "Am I doin' it rite?"
Glenn and Vale laugh along with Zack, but Bella looks at them and says, "What happened?"
When Glenn stops laughing, he says, "Zack stomped on the road right after I said, 'Let's hit the road.'"
Bella chuckles. "Oh, Zack, you're adorable."
"Especially when I have a big fat cock." Zack smirks.
"I think you're stretching the meaning of adorable, there." Glenn glances back at Zack.
"That's what big cocks are for--stretching things." Zack grins.
Bella and Glenn laugh hard. Zack starts laughing with them. Vale looks at them after he gets on his bike, wishing he knew what was so funny.