I made a quick U turn and headed back to town. Teeny and Jim just lay there wrapped around each other until I hit Main. With the little curtains I'd made to hang over the windows it didn't matter that they were still undressed. It was like riding in a bedroom on wheels. I smacked the steering wheel with my fist. A lot of good it did me. But someday I was going to use it. When I could find a chick who liked to ball. Maybe there were girls in other towns who…

That was when the idea hit me. Maybe it was watching my buddy Jim do his thing with Teeny all wild and free like. Or maybe it was remembering that I'd finished paying off my Ford and had a hundred bucks saved up to boot. Even the Rolling Stones screaming out of my tape deck must have had something to do with it. But all these things coming down at the same time made something snap in my head. Right then I knew I wasn't going to go to pharmacy school next fall or work in my old man's drug store or hang around this dumb-ass town any longer. It would be simple to pull off, too.

Since I was going to the cabin anyway with Janey and since the folks would be coming up in a couple of weeks, I could plan to leave just before they got there. With plenty of firewood in for chilly mornings and the kitchen stocked with food, my sister would be able to make out all right for a day or so.

I tightened and untightened my hands on the wheel and let the tach creep up on the green-glowing dial. Maybe I could try California. Yeah, that was the place to go! There sure wasn't any law that said I had to hang around my hometown for the rest of my life. I could write my folks a letter when I got to the Coast and tell them I loved them and all that kind of thing. They'd understand and I'd be free.

My speed was getting toward fifty, so I cooled it down and cruised Main Street twice. Then I saw that Teeny was finally struggling into her panties again so I headed for the school parking lot where we'd left Jim's pickup truck.