Cindy's Offering - Destiny Manifest

Before Carol could catch up to Danny he was standing atop the back door landing holding the screen door open. When he saw Carol standing below him he told her it was locked and asked her to hold the screen door. When she reach between the pickets and grabbed the door, Danny turned his back to the door slab, bent his torso forward, raised his right leg bent at the knee and kicked the door just below the doorknob with his bare foot. The door moved slightly but not enough to jar it open. Danny kicked again and the door moved a little more. Danny slammed his shoulder into the stubborn slab of wood and the door flung open with a crack as flying slivers of wood fell to the floor. Carol released the screen door then rounded the rear stoop to run up the steps to catch up to Danny. When Carol entered the shattered doorway she saw Danny rocked back on his knees just inside the front door looking down at Cindy while holding her head in one palm as he smoothed her hair away from her face with the other hand.

When Danny saw Carol approach he looked up and said while holding Cindy's head, "Bastard must have hit her," then he looked down and said "come on baby, wake up," then he looked at Carol kneeling next to Cindy and said softly, "she's knocked out, got any smelling salts?"

Carol only had her essential oils but she offered what she had, "I have eucalyptus and peppermint oil mix, it might work, I'll get it."

When Danny looked up to tell Carol to hurry, Carol had already vanished.

Carol returned so fast Danny thought it might have been a miracle or divine intervention. Carol knelt down while unscrewing the small brown vial with a small cloth pinched between her knuckles. She poured some of contents of the vial on the cloth then she held it under Cindy's nose and waved it. The couple waited a few seconds then Cindy sniffed then coughed then rolled her head against Danny's bicep.

"Jesus," said Carol, "what the hell did he do to her?" then she looked up at the side of Danny's face as Danny looked down at Cindy and Carol saw something she had never witnessed in her entire life.

"Oh dear God," whispered Carol behind the palm of her hand. Silence filled the room as tears filled Carol's eyes while she watched tears drip from Danny's eyes and fall on Cindy's cheek.

A few moments later Cindy could walk with the gentle aide of Danny by her side while holding her stomach. Danny wanted to take Cindy to an emergency room and have her checked for anything serious. Carol suggested they vacate her apartment before David returned to finish his deed. Cindy looked first at her best friend forever, placed her hand on the woman's shoulder then said with a slight grin, "He's not coming back Carol ... I finally got him to admit it ... he's running to Linda," then she looked at Danny and said, "I'm fine, I just got punched in the gut and it knocked the wind out of me Danny, at least I bolted the door before I passed out, right?"

That night Cindy and Danny sat at Danny's table and shared a plate of left over country fried chicken, mashed potatoes and sweet peas nearly floating in Bob's heavenly gravy but Cindy could hardly eat. Danny asked her tenderly to stand in front of him and when she rose he lifted the front hem of her shirt and pulled the hem of her shorts down to her mound then looked at her abdomen. He saw a slight bruised area in the center below her navel then asked in a near whisper. "Why would any man do that to any woman?"

Cindy stood silently looking at the face of a real man and had nothing to say, except, "I love you Danny." then they embraced.

Danny helped Cindy to his bed and she crawled into the loving nest like a little girl after a very bad day. Danny knelt before the woman he loved and kissed her hand once before she closed her eyes.

Danny went to the kitchen and lifted Bob's bench, mainly because it was bigger and more comfortable than his tiny wooden chairs, carried it to his bedroom, set it beside his bed then sat on the bench next to sleeping Cindy and gently held her hand. Danny stayed with Cindy the entire night leaving only once to urinate like a racehorse.

Tuesday morning Cindy woke and opened her eyes to see the top of Danny's head. She felt his right hand atop hers and his left hand partially covering his chin. She smoothed Danny's hair with her free hand then smiled and whispered, "I love you so much."

A few moments later, Danny lifted his head and the first thing he saw was Cindy's smile. "Good morning sleepyhead," said Cindy, then she pulled her fist to her chin.

"Good morning Cindy ... How's your tummy?" said Danny as he looked into her eyes.

"Thank God I didn't have my period yesterday ... I would have had a really awful day." Cindy said with slight grin.

Danny giggled then raised his head, leaned forward and gently kissed Cindy on the forehead. "Want some coffee?"

Cindy giggled then said, "Why is it so damn hard to get you in bed?

Danny stood and offered his hand, "Because I made a promised, and so did you for that matter ... here, let me help you get up," as he slid Bob's bench aside with his leg.

While Danny and Cindy drank coffee and looked at each other without talking, Cindy suddenly remembered she had to get ten plants ready for Wednesday morning delivery. "What's today, Monday?

"Tuesday," Danny answered as he placed his coffee cup on the table then looked at Cindy's worried face.

"Danny, I have to pot at least ten spiders for pickup tomorrow morning," said Cindy as she placed her coffee cup on the table.

"Oh no you don't, you just got punched in the stomach, we have no idea what's going in there ... take a break, if we explain what happened ... I'm sure she'll understand," pleaded Danny as he leaned back in the chair then he added, "You can watch me fix your backdoor."

Cindy giggled a little then said, "Oh, you're right, I forgot about that ... but Danny I'm fine, really, I can pot ten plants with one hand tied behind my back."

The couple compromised and planned to spend the day together with one preparing potted spider plants for pick up the next morning and the other using part of Cindy's jar money to purchase the necessary materials, and of course, tools, for Danny to fix the back door. The trip to the hardware store was silent, but it gave the couple time to think.

The afternoon was a bit hot and sticky and Cindy decided to call it a day after finishing what she had to do and break before sunset then shower to cool off. When she went inside she saw Danny wiping the floor then checking the door to see if it closed and locked properly. When he turned he saw Cindy and proudly showed her the fixed door and how it worked better than before and said, "A little paint and you'd never know." Cindy was amazed then asked Danny how did he know how to fix a door.

"A lot of people think farmers are dumb, but that's just not the case, we have to do pretty much everything ourselves and we rely on each other as well and a lot more than people think," said Danny as he washed his hands in Cindy's kitchen sink, then he asked with his back to her, "Get your spiders done?"

Cindy almost didn't hear Danny because she was standing behind him mesmerized by his tight buttocks with visions of kissing the skin of his naked buttocks while holding the crown of his penis between his knees. When Danny turned he looked at Cindy and noticed her head facing down and she had a gazed look about her, then he asked, "You okay?"

Cindy shook her head like she was shaking the marbles in her head, looked up and asked, "What?"

Danny felt concerned and asked, "You have a flashlight? I wanna check something."

"Yes I do in that drawer over there," responded Cindy as she pointed to her right with her left hand and turned her head to the right.

Danny pulled the flashlight out of the drawer then stepped up to Cindy, clicked the light on and lifted it above her head, "Look at the light." Danny said softly as he gently held her chin, "do you remember bumping your head on the floor or anything?"

Cindy looked up and said, "No ... are we playing doctor? ... I hope."

Danny didn't respond at first but he pulled the flashlight away and said, "Hum ... pupils constricted, that's what they're supposed to do ... you feel okay?"

"Danny, I don't have a concussion ... the problem is ... I'm very, very horny," offered Cindy as she looked up at Danny's face and gazed into his eyes.

"Oh," Danny said softy, "Um, maybe I should go ... you know, our promise ... and all."

"Yes I know, our promise ... go ahead, go, I can handle it, I'm a big girl now." Cindy said as she took a step closer to Danny and waited. They kissed each other and started to part then Danny suddenly turned and placed his hands on each side of Cindy's face, looked deep into her eyes then whispered, "I love you so much Cindy."

That night Danny showered, did some laundry, composed a draft article as to why tractor hour meters should never be trusted, ate a bologna and cheese on white bread sandwich with enough mayonnaise to help it on its way, drank three cups of coffee, waited for Cindy's lights to go out at 11 o'clock, and when they finally went out at midnight, Danny stripped naked, said his prayers, slipped into bed, whispered, "I love you Cindy" then went to sleep.

Cindy sat at her kitchen table sipping hot tea, watched a spider crawl across the ceiling until it dropped to the floor then started all over again by climbing up the strand of web, got her broom, killed a spider, cleaned the mess, showered, dried her hair, sighed, shut off all the lights in the house, lit the candle on her nightstand for the first time, sat with her back in a pillow against the headboard and played with her clitoris with one hand while pinching her nipple and imagining Danny sitting in front of her masturbating his long penis until it sprayed her breasts with semen. When she reached orgasm, she closed her eyes and moaned as she released the air in her lungs, rolled over on her side and whispered, "Help me God, I miss him so much." Then she fell asleep on her side in the fetal position with her thumb between her lips.

Very early Wednesday morning Danny walked through Cindy's back doorway without knocking while holding an open envelope in his hand. When he saw Cindy at the kitchen sink wearing her famous white panty and t-shirt combination he had to stop and recall his bizarre dream as well as study Cindy's beautiful body. Then he stepped forward and the couple embraced, kissed each other softly then Danny stepped back and opened the piece of paper.

"I've good news, Cindy, I'm excited ... this is the final order ... they have graciously granted me permission to move on with my life with you, imagine the arrogance," said Danny as he held the paper up for Cindy to read. When he heard a tiny squeak, he dropped the paper to reveal Cindy's smiling sweet face and she looked incredibly beautiful to Danny. The couple embraced once again as the piece of paper floated to the floor like an autumn leaf after spending its message.

When they released, Cindy reached for a small yellow piece of paper and said while giggling, "And here is the bad news."

Danny gently took the yellow slip from Cindy's hands and read it then said, "Violation? ... What violation?"

Cindy lifted slightly on her toes and pointed to the fine print then said, "I think it means, people are not allowed to sell plants in their front yards, then it says there, the fine is seventy five dollars."

That morning they loaded ten specimen spiders into the back of a station wagon, worked numbly in the yard, ate lunch together in Cindy's kitchen, worked until sundown, embraced, said I love you then went their separate ways. Both were so worn out they slept like babies.

Thursday morning, Cindy and Danny were searching the downtown area street numbers for the address printed on the yellow piece of paper. When they arrived at the address they found themselves in front of a large ominous building with an even more portentous dark metal sign in the center of the massive gable above them supported buy six Ionic columns atop a grand set of stone steps.

"Town Hall," said Danny, "I've never been in one of these places, it's almost as if it's telling us, 'do what we tell you and not what we do, and just so you'll never forget, here's a scary building paid for with the money we stole from you,' but I guess there's a last time for everything."

Moments later a brutally handsome young man with the body of a weightlifter wearing jeans, a stretched out white t-shirt and old work boots escorting a dainty platinum blonde with the face of a movie star and the body of a porn star, wearing a skin tight gray workout suit, with a white button front shirt and white canvass slippers entered a building seen to them as a prison from another planet.

They decided to ask anyone behind any counter directions. When they approached one of the few occupied counters they found a woman methodically stamping pieces of paper and stacking them in a stack, one sheet at a time, adjacent to a stack of papers she was pulling the papers from in first place. Danny and Cindy waited for recognition for at least two minutes.

"Excuse me ma'am." Said Danny finally then he waited as the lady placed her palm on the back of her neck and turned to face the direction of the voice she heard while rubbing her neck.

"Yes?" Danny heard, but the voice didn't sound like it was coming from the woman's mouth. Danny decided the only way to get the point across was show the lady the yellow piece of paper and ask who, or what he needed to see or do to resolve the issue.

The lady squinted at the paper then pointed to her left, "Cashier, is at the end."

Moments later Danny and Cindy were in the presence of an older gentleman with snow-white hair who seemed to be more cheerful.

"Good morning folks and what can I do for you," he said as he scanned the outline of the curvy female body standing before him.

Danny held out the yellow paper and asked as if he was asking one of his students why they had such a ridiculous answer on a test paper, "What is this supposed to mean?"

The man dropped his eyeglasses on his nose and looked directly at the yellow paper then said confidently as he looked at the paper, "It's a zoning violation sir ... apparently somebody is operating a commercial enterprise in a residential community ... That's a section 4 zoning violation, there's a seventy five dollar fine."

Danny gently placed the small piece of paper face up on the man's desk, slid it closer to the man's hand then said, "I only have two statements sir ... the body of the woman standing beside me is for my eyes only ... I'm sure you are familiar with the term, peaceful resolution of disputes."

The man suddenly appeared uncomfortable when he said, "I apologize for looking at your wife sir ... however I'm not familiar with that term."

Danny responded, "I accept your apology sir for viewing my wife lustfully, I trust it will never happen again ... as for the term ... you just avoided it.

The man was silent for a moment then said calmly nearing robotic jabber, "The fine is seventy five dollars sir, and I see it's due by next Tuesday, and if not paid by that date, there is a additional penalty fee for late payment ... we take cash or personal checks with two forms of identification."

Danny turned to Cindy and whispered, "They simply don't care."

After paying cash for a judgment against them, and in Danny's view, without due process, Danny and Cindy scooped up the receipt and walked away not knowing the man was scanning Cindy's beautiful buttocks while saying under his breath, "What a gorgeous fucking ass, and a real fucking asshole." Cindy, on the other hand was full of glee, recalling the word Danny had just used to describe her.

Friday morning, Cindy and Danny removed the sign from the gate, wrote the words 'Spider Palace' on the reverse side of the white metal and placed the sign inside Cindy's living room window facing the street. In spite of the nearly invisible sign in the window, Cindy sold seven spider plants that day to people who told Cindy, a Mrs. Jennings from St. George's Episcopal church, sent them.

That evening after working without eating lunch, as usual, they went their separate ways. Cindy ate an apple, showered, shampooed her hair, brushed her teeth, put on some eyeliner, soft red lipstick then dressed in her baggy white shorts and a soft green tube-top, which happened to be the same clothes she wore the first day she saw Danny. She looked in the mirror, took a deep breath and said softly, "Now God, it's my turn."

She quietly exited her back door with a small key in her hand and walked barefoot to Danny's back door, unlocked it, opened it without knocking and stepped inside then set the deadbolt. She took the time to listen to the sound of splashing shower water but resisted the urge to join him because her plan was much more erotic. She looked at the healthy but small wax plant Danny had place on his windowsill and smiled, then suddenly visions of Danny's wet muscular body began forming in her head in a way reserved for a woman so horny she was about to explode. She knew what was going on in her body and she also knew her mind couldn't take it any longer. She stood with her back to the sink and waited.

A few moments later the water stopped and Cindy adjusted her hair and corrected her stance then posed with one hand on the edge of the counter and the other on her cocked hip. Danny emerged from the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his hips and when he saw Cindy he stopped dead in his tracks. He had an urge say something to the beautiful woman standing in his kitchen, but he remained still and looked into Cindy's eyes. Instead of speaking, he turned one of chairs around and sat to study the gorgeous woman before him then as he scanned her beauty from her ankles to the top of her head, suddenly Cindy looked at Danny with a dreamy gaze not saying a word.

No other sound except occasional light breathing could be heard and both knew at that moment, all the promises, all the guilt, all the sin and all the prayers in the world were not going to stop Cindy from doing what needed to be done.

Danny watched the vision before him reach for the elastic of her shorts and he began breathing heavier as he watched the beautiful woman slowly slide the material over her curvy hips until her shorts fell to her ankles. Then she turned around slowly and bent over revealing the curves of her buttocks, pinched vaginal lips between her thighs and her tiny pink rectum while pulling the cloth from her feet and stepping out of the cloth at her ankles. She then stood and turned to face Danny and slowly lowered her top until her breasts popped out her the cloth, wiggled the material to her waist then looked at Danny, and waited.

Danny felt his penis expand and he wanted to kneel before Cindy and caress the pure white skin of her naked body, suck her pink erect nipples and kiss her mound but he couldn't think of any reason why he should interfere with the eroticism happening before him.

When Cindy stepped forward she looked into Danny's eyes as if she was warning him not to make a move. When Cindy was standing beside him she tugged the edge of the terrycloth towel slightly and the material dropped to the sides of Danny's hips revealing his enormous penis swelling and slowly beginning to rise.

Cindy never looked away from Danny's eyes as she lifted one leg over his thighs and stood on her tiptoe while placing her left hand behind his neck. Then she lifted her body up slightly and reached behind her, gently gripped Danny's rising penis in her right hand and eased the swollen tip of his erection between her moist vaginal lips. Cindy's eyes began to water as she slowly lowered her body down the hot shaft to fully consume the massive organ entering her body and the man it was attached to.