Porn Star (19 page)

“Oh, sorry, I can’t do wishes like that,” the
creature said. “I can only do small wishes, like getting the
scratches out of your glasses lenses, or finding your keys when you
lost them.”

“You made me turn around for nothing?” Dennis
said. He then walked over and kicked the creature for good measure.
“Now shut up and leave us alone.”

Dennis and Cassidy walked back to what they
thought was the main cavern until they realized no one was there.
Looking around they realized they were either lost or everyone had
left in the last twenty minutes. There were no traces of human
activity so they didn’t know either way. All they knew was they had
to find their way back to where they came from and the cavern floor
wasn’t all sand and gravel, most of it was hard rock that left no
traces.

“Now what?” Cassidy asked. “We’re lost.”

“No, all we have to do is go back the way we
came from, find that creature and try another tunnel, I’m sure
we’ll be fine.”

“I’m hungry,” Cassidy said.

“You can go thirty days without food, three
days without water, you’ll be fine. Let’s sit and rest for a
while.”

Cassidy found a boulder to sit on and invite
Dennis to sit down next to her. “What do you want to do when we get
out of here?” Dennis asked.

“I want to get back into porn, start sucking
dicks and taking it up the butt, like the old days.”

“You really like what you do don’t you?”

“I do, I can’t think of anything else I’d
rather do than spread my legs and show the world how I finger
myself. It’s like being on drugs.”

“What about you?” Cassidy asked.

“I don’t know, my life is pretty boring, not
like a big named porn star like you.”

“You never had that moment, the one that you
brag about?”

“It’s different for men, we conquer, and when
we don’t, it’s tragic. You women can get laid constantly, we men
have to try and try and try and hope one sticks. It’s whores like
you that make the world go around, and I mean that in a good
way.”

“Are you a virgin?” Cassidy asked.

“Hell no, I’m just saying I can’t compete
with you. You’ve had sex with hundreds of men, I can count the
number of women I’ve screwed on one hand. Make that three
fingers.”

“I know, I’m special,” Cassidy replied. “Is
there one girl that stands out? One that you think back with fond
memories?”

Dennis scratched his chin and thought for a
moment. “No, but there is one that scarred me for the rest of my
life.”

“What happened?” Cassidy asked.

“This brings back a lot of really bad
memories. I’m not sure I want to dredge this all up again.”

“We have time, think of it as therapy.”

Dennis closed his eyes and tried to remember,
the events were over twenty years ago. “I had a crush on a girl
that worked in the pizza shop at the student union at college. I
went there every day for months just to order pizza and chat with
her for a few seconds. I hated that pizza, it was greasy and way
overpriced but it was the only way I could get close to her.

Then the next semester, I signed up for
American History and she was in my class. I eventually sat next to
her and we struck up a conversation and became friends. We helped
each other with tests, we studied together, and we were like a
thing.”

“Am I going to cry?” Cassidy asked.

“Maybe, this ends badly. One day I was in my
dorm when my R.A. asked me to assist him with a bust. Evidently,
there was a party in one of the rooms on my floor and he needed
some help busting it up and writing everyone up. I agreed.

We went to the room and he knocked, I guess
nobody heard and the R.A. opened the door and walked in. I was
right behind him. What I saw tore me apart.”

“What was it?” Cassidy asked.

“It was the girl from my class, she was naked
on all fours sucking a guy off and taking another guy in the
backside. She looked up at me, dropped his cock out of her mouth
and said, fifty bucks and you can drop a load in any hole you want.
She either didn’t recognize me or didn’t care. She was all about
getting paid.”

“What was her name?”

“Anne Poolstring,” Dennis replied.

“I know her,” Cassidy said. I did a scene
with her once.

“What? She’s a porn star?” Dennis asked
shocked.

“Not anymore, she got fucked up pretty bad by
her boyfriend. He cut her up.”

“Really, what does she do now?” Dennis
asked.

“Who knows, who cares,” Cassidy replied.

“I do,” Dennis replied.

“That was twenty years ago and she broke your
heart, get over it.”

“I am over it, she pissed me off, I want to
see how bad she looks.”

“You harbor a grudge don’t you?”

“I didn’t have women chasing me like men
chase you. You’re self-esteem gets boosted with every guy that asks
to look up your skirt, no women ask me for shit.”

“That’s because women expect you to do that,
it’s the aggressive male, like in the jungle, the lion with the
biggest main gets all the pussy.”

“No wonder men hate women, they pick the
worst pieces of shit just because they have the biggest mouth and
strut around like a fucking jackass. I loved her and all she wanted
was money.”

“Did you ever try to get any from her?”

“I was a gentleman.”

“Being a gentleman won’t get you laid,”
Cassidy replied. “Women fuck the man who treats her like shit. It’s
in her DNA.”

“Well, I wasn’t going to pay for it.”

“More men do than you realize. They just
don’t brag about it.”

Dennis stood up and looked around again, “We
better get moving, we need to find the way out.”

“Can you transport yourself to the surface
and find out where everyone went?” Cassidy asked.

“I could, but I don’t know if I could find
you again once I got there, let’s look around a little first.”

“What if we run into more of those
things?”

“I don’t think they will be much of a
problem, let’s head straight back down the cavern.”

Cassidy stood up and both of them walked back
down the path they came from. The walls didn’t look familiar
heading the other direction and it seemed like they were walking in
circles. “I have an idea,” she said. “Let’s yell and see if anyone
answers.”

“Go ahead,” Dennis said.

“Hey!” Cassidy yelled. An echo called back
and nothing.

“Is there anything I can do for you?” a voice
called out from the dark.

Cassidy and Dennis froze in shock hearing the
voice, it sounded like it came from a few feet away, but no one was
there. “Who are you?” Dennis asked.

“I’m Jack, and who are you?” Jack asked.

“Dennis, and this is Cassidy,” Dennis
replied.

“Glad to meet you, what do you need, are you
lost?”

“Yes, we came back to the main cavern where
we started from and we can’t find anybody. Either they all left or
we are in the wrong spot.”

“This is the right spot,” Jack replied.

An awkward silence followed. “Where is
everybody?” Cassidy asked.

“They are all here, you can’t see them, and
they are in the walls.”

“What?” Cassidy asked.

“They moved into the walls.”

“Like ghosts? They were all alive when we
left them.”

“They are very much alive, but they have
shifted into a different dimension. Now they share space with the
walls, and all solid objects. They are here now with you and me,
they pass through you and you can’t feel them. They are like
ghosts, yet are not.”

“Is this some sort of sixties drug rush
you’re on?” Dennis asked.

“Close your eyes and look, tell me what you
see,” Jack said.

Skeptically, Dennis closed his eyes and tried
to see what Jack was talking about. “Do you mean with my mind?”

“No, you will see them in real time, for
real, keep looking.”

Then the images popped in Dennis’s eyes. He
could see them faintly in the darkness “What the hell?” he said and
opened his eyes. The images of the men faded away and Jack stood
before him again. “What happened to them?”

“It happens all the time, it has to do with
the makeup of the rock and landscape. It will shift back again. You
notice it because you left when the shift occurred, and now you
came back before it shifted back.”

“Why didn’t it affect you?” Dennis asked.

“It did, I live in all dimensions, I see you
and them at the same time.

“Then you can see them walk right through
us.”

“Yes I can, and I never get used to it.”

“So they will shift back?” Dennis asked.

“Yes, but you won’t notice, you and they are
shifted, it is very difficult to shift you back into the same
dimension. It would be like trying to sync two wind up watches in
two different cars driving two hundred miles an hour. It can be
done, but may take a thousand attempts.”

“Are we also out of sync with the people on
the surface?” Dennis asked.

“Yes, you may never see the people you know
again, you may be forever lost in space and time.”

“Are there more like you?” Cassidy asked.

“Yes, there are many like me, we may be your
only contact with anything human again.”

“You are scaring me,” Cassidy said. “All we
did was go for a walk.”

“This place is like a giant electromagnetic
time warp machine, any variation from the norm can send you into a
place you can never return from.”

“So now what do we do?” Cassidy asked scared
and shaking.

“I can take you to my people,” Jack
replied.

Later that day, after a long walk through the
tunnels, the three entered a chamber populated by people dressed
like Jack. They were in long brown robes and looked like monks. The
chamber was set up like a little town with small buildings stuffed
between the walls.

“This is where you live?” Dennis asked. “Kind
of cramped.”

“Yes, but it is all we’ve known.”

“You should get out more.”

“We do occasionally, but we don’t find
anything on the outside that we can’t find on the inside.”

“How about a little sunshine?” Dennis
joked.

“The sun’s rays actually harm us quite badly,
we can only go out at night.”

Cassidy scanned the small village and shook
her head in disbelief. “I can’t believe this is going to be my life
from now on, I can’t live like this.”

“Oh, it’s not as bad as you think it is, you
will get used to it,” Jack said.

“Used to what?” a voice said from a figure
walking towards them dressed in brown robes. “What is Jack telling
you?”

“He says we’re trapped here,” Cassidy said
almost in tears.

“What? What are you telling these people?”
the man asked. “Don’t listen to him, Jack likes to make shit up,
you don’t have to live here.”

“He says we’re time shifted, or something
like that. We’re stuck in some off dimension only he can see.”

“Is that right Jack? Did you tell them
that?”

Jack hung his head like he had just been
caught in a lie. “Maybe,” he replied.

“Jack here is sort of the local problem
child. He gets into a lot of trouble and making up shit is one of
his specialties.”

“So we’re not trapped?” Cassidy asked all
happy now.

“No, you can leave whenever you want,” the
man replied.

“Then where are all the men who were in the
cavern when I came down from the

surface? We went back to find them and they
were all gone.”

“Jack?” the man asked, “What did you do?”

Jack tried to turn and avoid the
question.

“I’m talking to you!” the man said
louder.

Jack turned back. “I didn’t do anything with
them. They were in the wrong cavern and I didn’t tell them. I let
them assume they were gone.”

“Why?”

“So they’d follow me here, why do you think?
Now leave me alone!” Jack snapped back like a spoiled teenager.

“Ok, now that I know what’s going on I think
I can help. The cave in that caused this whole thing has been
cleared, you can now get to the elevator and get back to the
surface. I’ll take care of Jack here.”

“How do we get to the elevator?” Dennis
asked.

“Go back down the tunnel you came from, take
the first right, walk about three hundred feet and the elevator
will be on the left side,” the man replied.

“What a fuck,” Dennis said looking at Jack
who was now staring at his own feet. “What were you going to do
with us?”

“That’s not important, you two need to get
back to the surface.”

Dennis took Cassidy by the hand and led her
out of the chamber back into the hall and followed the man’s
directions. It only took twenty minutes to find the elevators.

“What are we going to do when we get back to
the surface?” Cassidy asked.

“Get the fuck out of this place, what kind of
town separates it’s women and men like this?”

“But we can’t go back to where we came from,
they’ll take me back to South Dakota for execution.”