With this ring, I thee lust
Poncho V. Ilia
CHAPTER ONE
When I was fresh out of Cape County High School, Julie asked me why I didn't enter the Miss Mackerel contest.
'Julie,' I said, balancing a tray of dirty dishes, 'you're shitting me.' 'No,' she said, 'it would be good business.'
I was working as a waitress for Julie in Julie's Seafood Restaurant, Old Town. I was just eighteen.
'You've got the figure for it,' Julie said. 'Good tits. Nice ass.' She was a plain spoken gal, Julie was. I liked her. She talked my language. 'You were Homecoming Queen, weren't you?'
I had been, but when she said it I had to smile and then I spent the next few minutes thinking about how I became Homecoming Queen, by spreading my legs for not only my current steady but for that big, black stud who ran fullback on Cape County High's championship football team and for-well, that's a story worth telling and since this is supposed to be the true confessions of me, it's as good as any as a place to start.
One tiny bit of background, however, before we get down to the nitty gritty and talk about one of my favorite subjects, screwing. My father was and is a no good sonofabitch who then and now exists on a combination of lying, welfare, unemployment and stealing. They have a saying in Cape County. When Juby is out of jail, watch out for your water pumps. Juby special-ized in water pumps. You know, in Cape County, city water systems are limited to the County Seat, Old Town, and one of the beach towns. Elsewhere they get their water by pumping it up from the ground with an electric pump which, tank and all, costs about two hundred bucks and which, sold as hot merchandise, can bring' in about fifty bucks. Juby had a good hacksaw and he could run it in the dark of night, whip the two pipes in two with his hacksaw and be off with the water pump in less than five minutes.
Juby had another speciality, which I'll mention later. I believe in not putting the really shocking material right up front, since it might sear the pants off any ready who stumbles onto my little account.
O.K., being Juby Gore's daughter got me assigned to a particular place in Cape County, the general area of low life. I didn't give a shit at first. I once told a goddamned social worker, who was trying to get me lifted out of Juby's house, 'Look why shouldn't I give the old fart a little? He feeds me don't he?' That was when I was young and innocent. And, whoops, I'm hinting at the shocking material which I was going to save.
So I was Miss Low Life of Old Town, which is as corny as it's name. An old town, indeed, with the blue- fucking-bloods to go with it, although they fall generally Ђ into the old southern catagory of being too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash. You had to be third generation Old Town to be accepted in that burg and I was white trash come in with my father's generation. Juby came in on a shrimp boat, being a Florida cracker, and found that state's unemployment payments to be great and stayed living in a tar paper shack on the beach road with my mother, who he never got around to marrying. She was a good old gal, sort of stupid, I mean, she was, like, retarded, but she didn't pass it on to me or my two brothers. Like, I think, her problem was brain damage at birth, so that she was a slow, smiling zombie in my life and I remember her best going about in a old house dress, clean but ragged, smiling and singing hymns while Juby had his hand under the dinner table finger fucking me and grinning at me across the table.
But I was going to tell you how I came to be Cape County High School's Homecoming Queen. The Queen was elected by popular vote.
I was already pretty popular with certain elements of the school. I liked 'em big and strong and the football team was a good one that year. I was going more or less steady with Bill Murphy because he was the only young stud I'd found with the staying powers to give me my whees. Most of them I'd tried would shoot off inches away from my muff and leave me stranded up there on a cloud of the hots. Bill was hung like a Shetland pony and he knew how to make a girl feel good. We'd make it every time we had a chance and once we almost got caught in the janitor's closet at the school knocking off a standing up piece between classes.
Bill was the captain of the team. He was a nice looking boy, blond, built like a champ. The team, itself, was integrated, as was the whole school. And it was not quite half spades. I'd sampled the wares of, maybe, five or six of the white players and they all called me buddy. They, at that time, didn't know that I'd spread it so freely, because I learned early that you keep it quiet if you're going to screw a little. I learned that when I popped off about my dad to the social worker and had to lie and cry like hell to get out of it. You don't tell and you make it damned sure that the stud doesn't tell, either. I had it made in that case. Once, when I was a kid, I put out for a young kid and he, icky kid that he was, started telling it all over school that Ruby Gore was a hot piece. I didn't mind the praise, but I was trying to make something of myself, made pretty good grades, and didn't want my reputation ruined, because I wanted to be in a couple of clubs and the clubs sort of frowned on what they called 'bad girls.' So I told my two brothers, Sam and Ruf, that this little shit was bad-mouthing me. Sam and Ruf whupped up on him a little and after that I told each of my boyfriends, 'Look, if I give you a little, buddy, you'd better make damned sure it's just between you and me, for if I ever get word that you've been bragging around about screwing Ruby Gore, I'll sic Sam and Ruf on you.' Sam and Ruf were both older. Sam had been in and out of the chain gang a couple of times, once for nearly killing a guy, and Ruf was built like a horse and could lift the front end of a car by himself. After they heard me say that they kept quiet.
But there was no need to tell Bill Murphy that. He loved me. Bill was a sweet guy. When I first let him screw me I pretended to be tight, holding my twat muscles in and grunting and moaning, and he thought I was a virgin and wanted to marry me. That would have been great, except that Bill, popular as he was, Old Town and all that, was just the son of a commercial fisherman and I didn't see myself getting assfat and chasing snotty' nosed kids in Old Town while Bill went fishing and made, maybe, five grand a year. But he served the purpose in High School, because he was Old Town society and he got me into a few of the clubs and got me more or less accepted, except with the snitty girls of the town, who knew rough competition when they saw it. Then, when we were seniors, Bill asked me why I didn't run for Homecoming Queen. Man, that turned me on. I'd picture myself riding the Boat at the big game, dressed in virginal white, ha ha, and looking down on those snitty bitches who wouldn't speak to me in the halls. 'I can guarantee the support of the team,' Bill said. Well, the way it worked, the Homecoming Queen was always the girlfriend of one of the players, usually the captain. I began to think that maybe I could make it. I said, 'Yes, I'll do it.' We started the campaign with posters saying RUBY GORE FOR HOMECOMING QUEEN. And the snits of Old Town came up with Selena Smith, daughter of the crooked lawyer, because the nice ladies couldn't stand the thought of Juby Gore's daughter representing their school at the big game. And the spades, who had developed the technique of block voting through their N.A.A.C.P. training, put up a nice looking black girl with a neat Afro. I saw the handwriting on the wall. The spades would vot for the black girl and the 'nice' kids would vote for Selena Smith and little old Ruby would lose.
There was this great, black stud who was fullback. Jesus, he was a boss. Give that spade bastard the ball and he'd bulldoze his way through the entire opposing team. He was built like the proverbial brick shit house, strong, Jesus. I'd seen him carry three men for twenty yards without slowing down. He was built a lot like my brother, Ruf, and sometimes when I was easing Ruf's growing pains, my legs spread, his stocky, strong body on mine, I'd pretend that instead of Ruf's cock in me it was Roalt's. That was his name, Roalt Pepperdine. He went on to play fullback for one of the big pro teams, if you remember.
Roalt was as poor as we Gores. His family, consisting of two old women and his fat mother, no men, the black stud who sired him having taken off for parts unknown, lived in jigtown in a shack about as bad as ours. So I thought me and Roalt might have something in common.
But I had a devil of a time getting a chance to talk to Roalt. The spades sort of stuck together. We didn't have any knifings in the hall or like that, but the blacks and the whites didn't really integrate, they just went to the same school. But one day, when we were rehearsing for the Senior Play, I got a chance to get Roalt alone. I was playing a minor part, the society gals having glommed into the best parts, and Roalt, being black, was the butler or some such, so we didn't have much to do but sit around and wait for our one or two lines. We were sitting back in the auditorium behind the rest of the cast. There were only a couple of other spades in it, so they were up on the stage, leaving Roalt alone. I went and sat beside him.
