Pierce Me: Satisfied by the Bad Boy

by Simone Sowood

  I am twenty years old. An adult. What does my father’s reputation have to do with me?

  Just because he’s president of the Lions Club, and has the largest car dealership network in North Carolina, doesn’t mean he has to have a daughter who never gets to have any fun.

  As Courtney, Maddie and I near the gates, the noise of the rides and people screaming, as well as the incredible smell of funnel cakes make me regret the zombie movies. I can watch those anytime, we missed all the fun here.

  The carnival is super busy. Half the young people in the town of Colmar are here, waiting in line to get in.

  “What are we doing first?” Maddie asks.

  “Let’s go on the rides before the lines get too long,” Courtney says.

  “Ooo, good idea,” I say.

  “Five bucks each admission,” the ticket man says. I recognize him as John from the Lions Club, this whole weekend is their biggest fundraising event. They keep the entrance price, the carnival takes everything else. My father helps organize it.

  We pay our money and bustle each other into the park.

  “Let’s go straight to the back and work our way forwards,” Maddie says.

  “The Ferris wheel first?”

  “Come on,” Courtney grabs our arms and we rush through the midway to get to the rides.

  “Hey pretty girls, come win yourself a SpongeBob,” a guy at a game stall calls.

  “First try is free,” another man at another stall says, spinning a basketball on his finger.

  “Don’t look at them, just ignore them all and hurry up,” I say. I hate the games, I don’t see the fun of them. They’re all rigged or impossible to win.

  “How is there already a crazy long line-up?” asks Maddie.

  “Ferris wheels always take forever to get on, since they have to put someone on, move the wheel and put someone else on,” Courtney says.

  “It’ll still be faster to get on now than it will later,” I say.

  “Okay, let’s do it,” Maddie says.

  We join the end of the line. There are dozens of people ahead of us.

  Two guys with tattoos poking out from their yellow carnival worker t-shirts walk from the Ferris wheel and along the line.

  “They’re cute,” Maddie says.

  “Definitely yummy. Too bad they’re carnies,” Courtney says.

  “All muscley hard coated-in-tattoos carnies,” Maddie says.

  “Stop it, we’re staring at them,” I say, trying to drag my eyes away from the taller one.

  Both their bodies are pure muscle, but his chest strains the seams of his shirt. He looks surprisingly clean, even though he’s covered in tattoos. Oh God, he even has a neck tattoo. A scorpion crawls across the right side of his neck, as if it’s crawling from the back of his neck. Its pincers reaching forward, and its tail curled and ready to strike.

  His dark hair is cut short in a stylish way even my father would approve of. But most of all, his piercing blue eyes are looking straight at me, dazzling me.

  “Why, you three are the cutest girls I’ve seen in weeks. Especially you, Goldilocks,” the blue-eyed guy says without slowing down or breaking his stride.

  Courtney and Maddie laugh.

  “Do you use that line in every town?” Courtney asks.

  He chuckles, transforming his already attractive face into movie star quality. I try to look away, to let the lights of the moving Ferris wheel lure my gaze, but I can’t. Courtney’s right, of course, but I can’t help being flattered that he singled me out.

  His blue eyes rake up and down my body. My cheeks heat in a blush, and I look away before Courtney notices.

  “See you girls around,” he says, as the two of them walk by us.

  I turn my head to watch them, but recoil in shame when I find him looking back at me. Swallowing hard, I shuffle forward to keep up with the long line.

  My mind drifts back to the conversation with my father.

  “Funny how you don’t care who your sons hang out with, aren’t you worried about them ruining your reputation?” I said, trying not to sound angry.

  “My sons are both men now, their reputation is their own.” One of my brothers is eighteen, younger than me.

  “But I’m a woman, so my reputation isn’t my own?” I said, widening my eyes but actually wanting to slap him.

  “And my assistant business manager, who will one day be my full business manager.”

  “So what? You’re letting Max run one of your dealerships, and no doubt you’ll give one to Cody too. It’ll probably be a high school graduation present.” My brothers get everything.

  “That’s got nothing to do with you,” he snapped. Of course it has everything to do with me, he gives my brothers everything, and me nothing but a hard time.

  “Why don’t you give me one of your dealerships?” I say this a lot.

  “Because you’re better as an office manager.”

  “Why? So you can keep an eye on me there?” It’s really because he doesn’t think women can sell.

  “Emily,” my mother says, smoothing my hair, “Don’t get so upset, your father and I care about you very much.”

  “If you cared about me so much, you’d let me grow up and live my own life.”

  My father rolled his eyes, opened the front door and walked through it, as he said “Just don’t do anything stupid.”

  After putting up with it all the way through high school, I’ve finally had enough of them holding me responsible for my father’s reputation. Right now, I’d really like to do something to ‘hurt his reputation’.

  “You ladies still waiting?” the hot carny from before says, snapping me out of my thoughts.

  Turning my head, I see the two guys returning to the Ferris wheel.

  “Looks like,” I say.

  He stops walking and offers me his hand.

  “Come with me,” he says.

  I look at Courtney and Maddie, and they raise their eyebrows and shrug.

  “You going to throw your weight around and get us all out of the line?” I ask.

  “For you, it’ll be VIP treatment all night long,” he says, flashing his killer smile.

  I bite my lip, wondering what to do. Then my father’s voice, harping on about his reputation pops into my head, and I take the offered hand.

  He leads the three of us past the line and straight onto the waiting car. It’s one of those ones that seats four, with the moulded plastic to look like an umbrella sticking up the center of it.

  “Hey, no butting!” someone shouts.

  Courtney and Maddie climb into one side of the Ferris wheel car, and I take a seat on the other side, looking back at them.

  “Enjoy the ride,” the guy says, latching the door shut. He looks at me as he says it, and once again I feel flattered for being singled out. I immediately chastise myself for being flattered, it’s just a ploy, he does it in every town.

  The wheel moves, stopping quickly again to load the next passengers. Courtney and Maddie chat animatedly, but I find myself unable to join in. I’m too busy thinking about what my father will say when he finds out his daughter let a carny take her hand and jump to the front of the line in front of everyone.

  He’s going to freak when he finds out, and he will, this is a small town. He probably already knows.

  When we get near the top, the wheel stops to load more passengers.

  “Look, Emily, I can see your house,” Maddie says, pointing.

  I move to turn my head to look for my house, when shouting and squealing floats up to me from below.

  My attention is drawn to the ground but a movement on the wheel itself catches my eye. The next thing I know, the blue-eyed guy appears and hops into our car.

  “Is this seat taken?” he says, sitting in the empty seat beside me.

  Caught in a Mosh (Steel)

  The look on their faces when I jumped into their car at the top of the wheel was priceless. Their chins hit their knees before they started giggling.r />
  Goldilocks especially.

  I found my blonde. Goldilocks is the girl I’m banging in this town. She’s tall, with legs a mile long. Her tits are small, but she’s slim all over so she looks mighty fine. Her long blonde hair is dead straight with bangs that reach her icy blue eyes.

  “How are you ladies enjoying the show?” I ask.

  “We just got here,” the redhead says.

  Then the ride starts, giving me about three minutes to make my move.

  “That’s cool, plenty of time to have fun,” I say.

  “How did you get here?” Goldilocks asks. Her voice is as enticing as her tits, and I can’t wait to hear her screaming when I pound into her.

  “I drove.”

  She laughs and throws her head back, exposing her long neck.

  “Not to town, into where you’re sitting,” she says.

  “How do you think?”

  “He climbed, obviously” the brunette says, snarling.

  I give her cut-eye.

  “You smell like diesel,” she says, returning my cut-eye.

  “I smell like a man.”

  The redhead bursts out laughing.

  “What, you don’t believe me? What do you think, Goldilocks? Do I smell like a man?” I say, putting my forearm to her nose.

  She inhales, and her eyelids flutter. That’s all the answer I need right there.

  “Don’t keep us hanging, Emily. Does he smell like a man?” the brunette asks, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

  “Emily, eh? I think I prefer Goldie,” I say. I want to touch her hair, but hold off. I know how to play these situations, this one’s going to take some work. But it’s going to be worth it, I can tell already she’s a good girl. The kind I like best. Nothing makes for a good fuck like a girl who’s been sexually repressed her whole life. They’re always the ones who can never get enough.

  “Do we get to learn your name?” the redhead asks.

  “I’m Steel,” I say, not taking my eyes off Emily.

  “Steel? Why are you called that?” she asks.

  “Lots of reasons,” I say.

  The brunette rolls her eyes, “I thought you were going to say something lame, like it’s because you’re a strong as steel.”

  “That’s one of them,” I say, lifting my shirt to show them my ripped abs.

  Three sets of eyeballs pop out of their heads as they stare at my six pack. I lift my shirt a little higher, to give them an eyeful of my tattoo-covered pecs too. Best perk of this job is it gives you a body like mine. Gets a reaction like theirs every time. Even the brunette is silenced.

  “You can touch, Goldie,” I say.

  To my surprise, she reaches out her hand. Not what I expected from the good girl, but I sure like it. Emily hovers it over my abs, and I assume she’s going to chicken out.

  But after thinking about it, she presses her hand against my belly. Her hand is soft and delicate while she runs it over my washboard stomach. My dick twitches in my pants, and I wish to fuck her two friends weren’t here. Unless, of course, they wanted to join in.

  I glance over at them. Nah, not a chance. Emily’s the only one I want in my bunkhouse cabin tonight.

  “What are the other reasons they call you Steel?” Emily asks, her voice breathy and her eyes still fixed on my stomach.

  “That’s something I have to show you in private,” I say, smirking.

  Our ride is over. Whiskey wisely unloaded our car last, but I still have to move my ass before Papa Smurf catches me.

  Before our car even stops, I hop out of the car and stand beside it, as if I’ve been standing here helping people get on and off the ride all day.

  I offer my hand for Emily to take, and she takes it. I support her as she climbs off, and Whiskey does the same for her friends.

  “Enjoy the rest of the carnival,” I say. This is when I play it cool. I want her gagging for me by the time I find her later.

  The three of them walk off without saying goodbye, but Emily can’t resist a quick glance at me over her shoulder. I pretend I didn’t notice, and help Whiskey load the next group of people onto the ride.

  I work for another hour, helping Whiskey and moving around the other rides to make sure everything’s running like it should. I’m the ride foreman, and am responsible for all the rides. If we don’t pull in the money, Papa Smurf busts my ass, plain and simple.

  But the whole time I’m moving between rides, I’m looking out for Emily. I can’t get the memory of her hand on my abs out of my mind.

  Already I’m thinking about what I’m going to do to her after the eleven o’clock closing. I have to find her before then to tell her to come find me at closing. I’m going to take her to our nightly party before I take her to my bunk.

  I’m checking up on Zombie at the bumper cars when Emily and her friends get on, each in their own cars. Fucking perfect.

  A bunch of other people get in cars, and Zombie starts the ride. Emily is behind the redhead and her car lurches forward and smacks into the back of her. The redhead flies forward, her head jerking in an unnatural way.

  Emily’s car zips near the edge of the course. I hop onto the bumpers on her car and grab onto the metal rod connecting the car to the ceiling. She looks up at me and smiles. I’m not exaggerating when I say it’s the prettiest smile anyone’s ever given me.

  The way her eyes crease when she smiles is especially perfect. Like it’s a hint of the way they scrunch up when she comes.

  The brunette zooms near us. I use my foot to turn Emily’s wheel and drive us straight into the side of the brunette’s car. She jolts with the impact, and both Emily and I laugh.

  “Having fun yet?” I ask, shouting over the noise of the bumper cars.

  “Yes,” she laughs.

  That’s the third best thing about being a carny — making people smile. Especially when their smiles are as pretty as Emily’s. The second best thing about being a carny is every night’s a party.

  Like I said before, the number one thing about being a carny is it gives you a body like mine, with muscles no woman can resist. Which means I can fuck who I want wherever I go. And tonight that’s going to be Emily.

  Zombie shuts the ride off, and all the cars come to a standstill.

  “Stick around for another turn,” I say, glancing over to the long line of people waiting their turns.

  “I can’t, I’ve got to stick with my friends,” she says, standing.

  “Suit yourself.” I step down off the bumper edge and step aside so she can get past me.

  “Thanks,” she says.

  “Enjoy the carnival,” I say. I know exactly how to treat these small-town good girls to get what I want out of them. You have to start slow, or they get scared off.

  Another thirty minutes pass, and I move between the rides, keeping everything running smoothly. I spot the three of them at the end of the long line for the Zipper ride and realize this is my chance. Zipper cars only seat two — cozily.

  Junk’s operating the ride, so he’ll make it extra long for me. Though he'd better not be a dick and speed it up until she pukes on me.

  “Hey, ladies, I told you, you’re VIPs tonight. Come with me.”

  Without touching them, I lead them to the front of the line. I nod at Junk, giving him my signal for a longer, slower ride and he laughs.

  The brunette climbs into the car, and Emily moves to follow but I grab her hand and hold her back. The redhead either didn’t notice my move, or didn’t care and climbs in next. Junk slams the door and locks it, then moves the ride until the next car is in place.

  Emily climbs in and turns to look back out the car. I hop in beside her and pull the cage shut, and Junk quickly moves our car along.

  The cage is cramped, and the sides of our bodies touch, from our ankles to our shoulders. She tries to shuffle away to minimize our physical contact, but there’s nowhere to shuffle to.

  “What’s the deal? Why do you keep coming up to me?” she asks.

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sp; “Because, you’re the prettiest girl I’ve seen in the whole country.”

  “But not the whole world?”

  “I’m sure the whole world too, but we don’t go there.”

  Kickstart my Heart (Emily)

  “Oh, where do you go?” I ask, making polite conversation.

  The ride moves again. It’s still loading new passengers, so we only go a short distance up the side of the track. Our cage swings back and forth when we come to a stop again, and I grab the padded bars in front of me. Steel doesn’t even look like he’s aware we’re moving.

  Why does he keep talking to me? This, for some reason, is the third ride I’ve been on with him tonight.

  There’s no point in denying that my skin tingles everywhere his body brushes against mine. This cage is cramped, and I’m pinned between Steel and the metal.

  “We go all over. Since we’re small, we take a different route every year.” I can feel his eyes on my as he speaks, but I keep my gaze on The Gravitron that’s straight ahead of us.

  “Huh, interesting. Have you been in the carnival long?”

  “Ten years.”

  My eyes widen, and I turn my head to look at him. Our eyes connect and a rush of something moves through me. What was that?

  “Wow, that’s a long time,” I say, holding his eye contact. Even in the dark of the night, the blue of his irises is bright.

  Our cage moves and stops again to load more people.

  “It’s all I know.”

  “So, what made you join? Couldn’t find a circus to run away and join?”

  “Something like that,” he says smiling.

  The smile once again transforms his face to utter gorgeousness, my heart flutters and I have to look away.

  No one in Colmar looks half as good as him. Or even a quarter as good. Even Dylan, our high school’s heartthrob, is a smear on a shoe compared to Steel.

  “Something like that? Like I’m sitting in a cage with an ex-con?”

  Our cage moves and stops to load another pair of passengers.

  “You know, carny code says you don’t ask a person about their past. It’s no one’s business.”

  “Carny code?” I say laughing, “Do I have to follow your code when I’m not a carny?”