Chapter 7

Chad couldn't have known just how prophetic his words were, for in Pepper's room "Operation Wild Cherry" (as Dengrove had so aptly put it) was just getting underway.

A wide-eyed Pepper was lying flat on her back on the bed, her firm young breasts thrusting into the air, their cherry-red nipples standing proud and erect. Dengrove had propped a large cushion underneath the petite little blonde's smoothly rounded ass, elevating the girl's pubic area so that her entire crotch was thrust high off the bed. Pepper's short, shapely legs were splayed out to either side of the cushion and her soft, wispy fur-covered pubis was every bit the easily accessible target Dengrove had intended it to be. The ragged, pink-tinged lips of her pussy were gaping open as a result of the position she was in.

Dengrove stood beside the bed admiring his handiwork and checking to see that everything was as he wanted it. The sight of the willing and helpless little virgin with the flashing blue eyes caused the man's long, thick, rock-hard prick to jump and twitch involuntarily. He smiled down at the excited Pepper: "I guess it's about time for the ultimate take-off," he punned with a wink. "You're as ready as you'll ever be and God knows I'm about fit to blow my stones just looking at that gorgeous little bod of yours. Here I come, ready or not."

But before the pilot could climb up onto the high bed, the door opened and Chad, Lisa, Glory, Laurie and Carmen came streaming into the room yelling, "Surprise! Where's the ex-virgin! Let's see the last of the 'Wild Cherries'!" They all headed straight for the bed while Pepper and Dengrove looked on in astonishment.

Dengrove shot a look at Pepper, signaling with his eyes that he would get rid of the company if she so desired. Pepper shook her head and grinned. "The 'ex-virgin' you're looking for isn't here, folks I Sorry about that."

Glory, Laurie and Lisa looked puzzled and, finally, Lisa spoke: "What do you mean by that statement, squirt? Are you trying to con us into thinking that you're still a fucking virgin after two hours with that sex maniac?"

Dengrove and Pepper both started laughing. Pepper looked up from her prone position on the bed and spoke to her sisters: "It's the God's honest truth! Captain Fantastic and me have been getting it on in a lot of dynamite ways, but we were saving the best for last."

Chad looked at Lisa, a smug "told you so" look on his handsome face. Lisa just shook her head and grinned.

Pepper sat up for a moment. "Hey, look. Now that we've got a real live audience I think we should record this event for prosperity or whatever the hell they call it. Have you got a Polaroid or something like that, Chad? I'd like to have some real mementos of the night Captain Fantastic made me a woman."

Chad grinned. "I've got something even better," he chuckled. "I just bought one of those new movie cameras that can shoot perfectly in available light. It's even got a dynamite zoom lens for close-ups. How's that sound?"

Dengrove grinned and Pepper clapped her little hands together delightedly. "That would be far fucking out! Home movies that I'll never be able to show at home! Get the damned thing as quick as you can, 'cause I'm so hot I'm about to explode!"

Pepper lay back down on the bed while Chad raced from the room to get the camera. Lisa, Glory, Laurie and Carmen drew up chairs close to the bed. "Just like one of those great sex shows we saw in Denmark last year, remember, Lisa?" grinned Dengrove. Lisa nodded her head and smiled in warm remembrance. "Right! 'See the young virgin deflowered before your very eyes by five wild Scandinavian sex maniacs'," she recited.

Pepper began to giggle uncontrollably from the bed. "This is terrific You know something? I think Cliff and I should charge some kind of admission, don't you, Captain Fantastic?"

Dengrove laughed at the young girl's quick wit. "Personally I think this event should be free to members of the immediate family. But I'll tell you all one thing: If Chad's gonna capture this little ritual in glorious color-I'm going to wear a black mask over my face. If the Chief Pilot from Triangle ever saw them, I'd be back to flying prop jobs from Scranton to Milwaukee or some boonie run like that!"

The room exploded with happy laughter as Chad appeared, carrying a small, pistol-grip movie camera. "Sounds like the festivities are already underway. Well, we can start now." He held the camera high in the air and assumed a stiff pose: "Cecil B. de Winthrop is ready to roll!"

Then the ebullient young rock star dragged a sturdy chair to a point at the end of the bed which would afford him an optimum view of the impending proceedings. Once the chair was positioned, Chad jumped up on it and faced the bed, camera in hand. "Okay! Camera is ready and ... rolling!"

Everyone in the room ceased their happy talk and laughter and all attention was riveted on the bed where Pepper lay waiting for Dengrove to join her.

The pilot, who was standing at the edge of the bed, had a small problem. The excitement and the presence of all the others, coupled with the fact that he was about to perform rather than simply take part in a free-swinging group scene, had resulted in a decided wilting of his normally long, thick member. Lisa was the first to spot the situation and she quickly leaped from her chair and walked to the pilot. She grinned at him and then, crouching down, took his limp cock in her hands. "I guess this is the least I can do for you-and my antsy little sister who looks about ready to take on a baseball bat!"

Pepper giggled and began running her small fingers up and down in her widely exposed cunt-crease. "You get him up and I'll keep it hot and greasy!" she chuckled.

Without the usual niceties, Lisa quickly stuffed almost all of Dengrove's flaccid penis in her hot, hungry mouth. She immediately began sucking and swirling it around inside her moist oral cavity and the results were quick in coming. Dengrove's cock rapidly began to expand and lengthen from the erotic, intense ministrations of Lisa's honeyed mouth.

Dengrove's legs grew a trifle shaky as wave upon wave of blinding sensation coursed through his prick, body and brain as Lisa worked away on his rapidly stiffening cock. The young woman was squeezing the man's semen-swollen balls while, at the same time, sliding her tightly pursed lips up and down the rising cock-pole. At one point she withdrew her mouth completely and flicked her hot tongue back and forth across and around the swollen, sensitive head of Cliff's cock.

While Dengrove gasped and gritted his teeth above her, the crouching blonde stewardess once again lowered her now saliva-smeared mouth over the head of Dengrove's almost rock-hard penis. She quickly suctioned every inch of the cockshaft into her mouth, allowing the head to curve down her throat. "Don't make me blow my load for Christ's sakes!" Dengrove moaned as the young woman's suctioning oral cavity caused his prick to throb with sensation.

Lisa abruptly withdrew her mouth, Cliff's cock making a viscous, sucking sound as it emerged, slippery and glistening, from within Lisa's mouth. The young woman quickly stood up and surveyed the object of her intense cocksucking. "It looks just about right to me," she chuckled, pulling the cock down and then allowing it to snap back into its fully erect position. Dengrove bowed low in a gesture of appreciation and Lisa just grinned. "Forget the Al Pacino bit and get in there and do your duty-Captain Fantastic. And for your sake, you'd better live up to the nickname Pepper bestowed on you or she'll probably sneak up on you when you're sleeping and cut off your balls with a dull Bowie knife!"

Dengrove gave Lisa a quick kiss and then while the others applauded-including the delighted Pepper-the pilot climbed up on the bed to join the eager young virgin. He crawled to a point where his head was directly between Pepper's elevated, widespread legs. A shiver of intense pleasure passed through Dengrove's body as he gazed directly into the pink-tinged, wet little pussy gash.

He immediately buried his face in Pepper's crotch and quickly snaked his long, sinuous tongue up into the girl's well-lubricated love-channel. Pepper gasped as she felt the rough-textured invader worm its way into her hungry, contracting cunt. She applied incredible pressure by tightly flexing her strong vaginal muscles and Dengrove gasped as his tongue was gripped and held fast. For a moment it seemed to him that his tongue might stay trapped deep inside the girl's pussy forever, but Pepper, with a giggle, released the pressure and Dengrove quickly began to sluice his lingual member in and out of the hot channel. Pepper's hard little ass thrust up from the cushion as Dengrove's long tongue speared deeply into the girl's creaming cunt.

Pepper was now wriggling, squirming, and making soft, erotic gurgling sounds which the others, watching spellbound from their ringside chairs, shivered with vicarious delight upon hearing. Chad, his cock standing straight out from his body, was as turned-on as the others, but he was able to keep his attention focused on the camera which was grinding away with a soft, clicking sound. At several points the young rock star used the powerful zoom lens to zero in not only on the action going down in Pepper's crotch area, but on the young girl's face which was contorted with passion and extreme sexual arousal. As she rolled her blonde head from side to side, Chad held on her expressive features for a long time before redirecting the lens of the camera back to where Dengrove's tongue was whipping Pepper's virgin pussy into a frenzy of frothing love juice and spasming flesh.

Finally, with a groan. Dengrove removed his tongue from her cunt and, making sure that the cushion was firmly in place beneath Pepper's wriggling ass, slithered his lithe body up over the equally lean body of Pepper. The girl's pert tits squashed against Dengrove's hairy chest and the girl gasped with pleasure as the hard nubs of her flattened breasts rubbed against the curly hair of Dengrove's upper body. "I'm so ready, I'll probably come three times before you get that damned thing in there!" she hissed into Dengrove's ear. As the pilot squirmed into just the right position, Pepper winked up at Chad who was busily recording every delicious moment on film. "Hey, Chad," Pepper giggled, "too bad this movie won't be in sound, too. I expect there's gonna be a fair amount of screaming and such-particularly when Captain Fantastic's cock rips my hymen to shreds!"

Chad grinned from ear to hear and turned the camera to one side so that Pepper could see the built-in microphone. "I don't fuck around when I buy myself toys!" Chad laughed. "This camera does have a soundtrack, so wail away to your heart's content. It'll all be there."

"Far out!" cried Pepper as Dengrove, now perfectly positioned, was about to guide his monstrous cock to its fetching target. Pepper stopped him. "I want to be the trip guide for my own cherry-busting, remember?"

With that the girl gently replaced Dengrove's hand with her own smaller hand and took a firm grip on the shaft of the rock-hard cock. With a smile of eager anticipation wreathing her face, Pepper slowly drew the man's cock towards her waiting honeypot. When the tip of the cock began nudge against the moist pubic hair of the girl's pussy, Pepper began sliding the man-root up and down in her well-oiled slit. She gasped and moaned every time the knobby head of the cock rubbed against her clitoris which was protruding prominently from its nest at the top of her pussy.

As she herself had predicted, Pepper began to climax and her body quivered like a tuning fork as love-juice started trickling out of her virgin cunt. "Oooh, that's fantastic!" she crooned. "Now Cliff, now! Take me while I'm still coming! Oh please fuck me! Bust my cherry and fuck the living shit out of me!"

Dengrove was incited to the point of near delirium at the sound of the horny, passionate words spewing from the beautiful little girl's mouth. Flexing the muscles of his buttocks he pushed the head of his cock against the tight, virgin hole lying open for his assault. In a moment his cock head had firmly lodged itself about an inch within the girl's amazingly constricted love passage. Pepper gasped with pain. Dengrove hesitated for a moment. "Don't stop!" the girl commanded, punctuating her demand with a violent upthrusting of her cushioned ass. The movement forced another two inches of Dengrove's cock up inside the girl's cunt. Spurred on by Pepper's own aggressiveness, Dengrove pushed harder and another two inches disappeared into the girl's tight little grotto. "Ahhh! That's more like it!" she hissed.

The people in the chairs looked on, their gazes transfixed at the sight of Dengrove's massive come-smeared penis pushing slowly bit by bit into the depths of Pepper's virgin channel. "She'll never take it all!" whispered Carmen, but Lisa, grinning, simply shook her head.

Chad, realizing that the supreme moment of truth for the young girl was close at hand, zoomed in not on her pussy but on her face. He wanted to capture, in extreme close-up, the expression which would pass across her features at the very moment that Dengrove's prick broke through the petite blonde's hymen.

Bracing himself for the ultimate thrust, Dengrove looked down into Pepper's eyes. She smiled, her eyes flashing with desire and pent-up emotion.

Then, with a violent plunging motion, Dengrove sent his cock rampaging deeper still into Pepper's flowing cunt. It stopped suddenly as it came up against the resilient virginal membrane and Pepper gasped as she felt the firmly w-edged cock butt up against her hymen.

Dengrove quickly withdrew his cock almost entirely out of the girl's cunt, the lips greedily trying to keep his massive tool trapped inside.

Then, without a warning of any kind, the pilot rammed his long cock into Pepper's pussy with tremendous force. The cock rushed up into the clasping channel and easily demolished the obstructing membrane. Pepper let out an anguished scream as the deed was finally done, but Dengrove continued his ramrodding thrust until his entire cock disappeared to the hilt in Pepper's wriggling pussy.

A thin trickle of blood mixed with the girl's juices from her recent orgasm seeped out of her ravaged pussy and Chad quickly swung the camera and zoomed in on the classic evidence of a girl's passage into womanhood.

Dengrove lay motionless atop Pepper, allowing the girl to adjust to the presence of his monster cock buried completely within her once-virgin, vagina. There were tears in her eyes, but they were more from the exquisite joy at finally accomplishing what she had wanted for so long than from the temporary pain of the defloration itself.

After a moment Dengrove began to flex his cock deep within Pepper's cunt and, after a short time, the girl began to move her hips in an exciting, salacious manner. "Now we can really get down to some serious fucking!" she whispered.

Dengrove, taking her verbal cue, slowly began to sluice his cock in and out of Pepper's pussy. The girl quickly adjusted to the man's steady motions and she established a rhythmic motion with her hips which perfectly matched those of the pilot. Dengrove increased the pace of his thrusts and Pepper stayed with him all the way, grinning, moaning, and generally babbling semi-hysterically with the incredible sensations she was experiencing within her young body.

Lisa, Glory, Laurie and Carmen rose from their chairs and moved even closer to the couple whipping out their passions on the bed. The three women gasped as they saw Dengrove's slippery, jism and blood-streaked penis sawing smoothly in and out of Pepper's elevated cunt. They watched openmouthed as the girl's fleshy pussy lips clutched and grabbed at the pile driving shaft whenever it withdrew from deep inside the girl's belly.

Pepper was crooning continuously, a low, melodic sound issuing from between her clenched teeth. The horny love sounds had their effect on the three women grouped around the bed-and on Chad who was still grinding away with his movie camera from atop the chair.

Glory and Laurie pulled their older sister down on the thick, plush carpet. "What is this, a rape?" joked Lisa as her twin sisters wrestled her to the floor. The pair of red-haired nymphets merely giggled in response.

Glory lay on her stomach, her head resting on Lisa's bushy, upturned crotch. Laurie quickly straddled Lisa's head and lowered her furry red pussy rug down over her sister's face. Lisa grinned and extended her long, pink tongue in anticipation of the adorable, sweet-smelling box which was rapidly descending upon her. As her tongue made contact with Laurie's erect clitoris the girl moaned and pushed her hungry cunt flat against Lisa's mouth. Lisa immediately went to work with her tongue, letting the slender lingual member slide between the lips of the girl's mossy cunt and up into the waiting channel. "Ahhh! That's it!" Laurie sighed.

Meanwhile, at the other end of Lisa's supine body, Glory was preparing to attach her eager little mouth to her older sister's moist honeypot. Slithering between the older girl's partially spread legs, Glory started licking up and down the insides of Lisa's sensitive inner thighs. The woman groaned and instinctively splayed her legs wide apart to allow the girl totally free and clear access to Lisa's cunt. Glory grinned and lunged into Lisa's crotch. She quickly began to send her tongue cruising teasingly up and down the crease formed by the girl's fat, hair-covered labia. Lisa groaned again and increased her own attack on Glory's creamy little box.

Carmen, whose attention was divided between the threeway mouth-munching on the floor and the frantic coupling of Pepper and Dengrove on the bed, decided that she had to take part in some way or go quietly crazy with desire.

She looked over to where Chad stood on the chair, filming both the action on the bed and that taking place on the floor. With a salacious grin, the brown-skinned beauty walked swiftly over to Chad's chair and, without any preliminaries whatsoever, took his semi-erect shaft in her hand and began to slide it up and down in a slow, sensual manner. Chad looked down from his perch and grinned. "Don't think buttering up the boss will get you a raise!" he chuckled.

Carmen looked at him and grinned right back. "It is you who are going to get the raise, Senor Chad!"

With that, Carmen took Chad's long but flaccid cock into her mouth. She easily managed to get all of it in at the same time, given its limp condition.

A shriek from Pepper momentarily distracted the attention of everyone else in the room who paused in their activities to turn towards the bed. Pepper, still elevated by the large cushion beneath her firm ass, had arched her back high off the bed and was jerking wildly like a puppet in the hands of a drunken puppeteer. Dengrove managed to keep his position, continuing to pump furiously into Pepper's creaming pussy.

Pepper screamed again and then jammed a tiny fist in her mouth as a tremendous orgasm began to race through her body. She moaned and shook her head back and forth, finally ripping her fist from her mouth and transferring both her hands to her pert tits which, although partially flattened against Dengrove's chest, were still accessible to her grasp. She rubbed the palms of her hands up and down over the stubby, sensitive pink nipples, writhing furiously from the combination of her own massaging, Dengrove's maniacal fucking, and her surging climax. Love-liquid was pouring out of her honeyhole and Dengrove's prick was making loud sloshing noises as it speared in and out.

Aroused even further by the climaxing Pepper, the others in the room resumed their own sexual play with increased fury.

Laurie ground her crotch into Lisa's face and Lisa speared her tongue swiftly in and out of Laurie's hot little quim. Down below, Glory was busily lapping up the stream of sex-syrup which was pouring out of Lisa's gaping pussy.

Over at the "director's chair," Carmen had taken Chad's flaccid penis into her eager mouth once again and was tonguing and sucking it with such fervor and skilled technique that Chad almost lost his balance and toppled from the chair. To ensure that he didn't, Carmen quickly wrapped her long arms around Chad's ass, keeping his cock contained totally within her mouth at the same time.

With Chad now secure, Carmen was able to devote her complete loving attention to her employer's cock which was beginning to stir and swell as the Chicano woman's ministrations began to bring their desired results. Within a few minutes Chad's prick had swollen immensely and grown to its normal erect state. Carmen then withdrew her mouth and, pursing her full lips into an oval shape, began sliding her tight oral suction pump up and down Chad's ballooning cock. The man emitted a series of satisfied moans and Carmen smiled to herself and intensified the suctioning pressure which brought forth out and out gasps of delight from the moviemaking rock star.

Finally Chad could stand it no longer. He pulled his cock from Carmen's mouth, laid the camera down on the chair and jumped down to the floor. Without a word he sat down on the chair and pulled the woman towards him. Carmen's eyes gleamed and she licked her full lips as she immediately realized what Chad had in mind for her.

She quickly hoisted herself up into Chad's lap, straddling his legs with her sleek, powerful thighs. Chad put his strong hands underneath the woman's asscheeks and lifted her straight into the air. He then brought her down hard, impaling her gaping cunt on the end of his ramrod-hard cock. As she sank easily onto the rigid pole, Carmen moaned and began rocking her ass back and forth, greatly increasing the sexual stimulation of them both.

Finally Carmen's firm buttocks were pressed tightly against Chad's sturdy thighs, his cock buried to the hilt in the woman's reeking pussy. Gripping the sides of the chair with her hands, Carmen began to lever herself up and down the greasy cock-pole, her ass smacking against Chad's thighs on every downward plunge of her body. She grunted with pleasure as the long, thick prick rushed to the most extreme depths of her writhing cunt and butted against her cervix.

Pepper, in the meantime, had come through her frenzied orgasm to find that Dengrove's prick was still as hard as a rock. Giggling with delight, the insatiable little sex kitten threw the man off her body with a tremendous heave of her ass. He rolled over on his back and, before he could say or do anything, Pepper had straddled his legs and was guiding his cock into her still-dripping honeyhole. Dengrove groaned with the exquisite pleasure of the girl's cunt walls which leeched onto his prick and seemed to be literally nibbling away at it as Pepper rose and fell with feverish up-and-down plunges of her hard-muscled ass.

The pilot reached out and managed to capture Pepper's gently swaying tits in his large hands. While the girl slid up and down his come-slickened cock, Dengrove contented himself by kneading, rubbing and squeezing the satiny-smooth cones of her young grapefruit-sized tits. Drawing Pepper's upper body closer to him, the man managed to get his mouth over one of the bobbing tits and he started sucking furiously on it, constantly switching from one delicious mound to the other. Pepper's new position forced Dengrove's cock into her cunt from a different angle, an angle which caused the slippery cock to rub against the girl's erect clitoris with every thrust. This added stimulation brought forth a series of shrieks and moans from the young girl whose body felt as though it was being attacked by a thousand hands-a thousand pricks, all at the same time.

Carmen was bouncing like a yo-yo up and down the length of Chad's cock and her eyes signaled that her climax was quickly approaching. Chad was aware of this and intensified the upward thrusts of his ass with every downward plunge of the woman's crotch. He felt his own orgasm rising and he knew that they would probably wind up coming at the same time.

Chad quickly wrapped his arms around Carmen's slender back and he began to rise from the chair, never once missing a thrust into her supercharged cunt. Carmen's eyes grew wide as she understood Chad's intention. She quickly wrapped her long legs around the man's midsection and Chad, now standing on the carpeted floor, had the woman suspended in midair.

Fucking madly, the rock star worked his way over to the nearest wall and flattened Carmen's back up against it. Taking his arms from behind her back he quickly thrust them underneath her thighs and supported her easily. He wriggled his cock around to gain the best position and then began whipping it in and out of the woman's now widely gaping hole. Her back slammed again and again against the wall, but she didn't even feel it, given the extreme pleasure the unique position was affording her.

Carmen's large breasts swayed back and forth, continually brushing their hard, long nipples across Chad's chest. She gasped as the sensitive tips of her tits received the additional stimulation. Then she let out a high, piercing wail as her orgasm broke over her with sudden, unexpected fury. At the same time Chad began to moan softly as he felt the pent-up come rushing from his balls, up his cock-stem and then come hosing out of the tiny hole at the tip of his cock. He clenched his teeth in exquisite agony: the gushing sperm burned and felt like sandpaper as it rushed down the narrow channel.

As both Chad and Carmen groaned out their pleasure a large pool of female love-juice and semen began to form on the carpet beneath their feet. Chad rammed into Carmen's gaping, come-drenched slot with the ferocity of a pile driver. Carmen, her back against the wall, ground her crotch against Chad in a frantic attempt to take his entire cock and balls deep inside her ravaged vaginal passage. Finally the couple slid slowly down the wall, landing together in a crumpled, tangled and satiated heap on the come-soaked carpet. They lay silently together, neither one of them having the strength or will to make the slightest move or sound.

On the carpet beside the bed, Glory and Lisa began to wail and thrash about violently as their orgasms struck simultaneously with wicked force. Glory lapped furiously at her older sister's streaming cunt, greedily swallowing the enormous quantities of honeyed sex-syrup which was gushing out of Lisa's wildly spasming pussy.

Up above, Lisa herself was drenched with the juices that were flowing from Laurie's tender young cunt as the girl rocked back and forth on her sister's face. As wave after wave of climactic sensation swept through the beautiful redhead's body, Laurie grabbed her tits and squeezed them violently as tremors wracked her. Lisa was lapping and slurping as more and more juice sluiced from her younger sister's red-furred box.

Up on the bed itself, Pepper and Captain Dengrove were tearing at each other as they raced towards their own orgiastic peaks. Then, with a wild scream, Pepper fell forward and lay prone on top of the pilot. The young girl's orgasm had obviously been so intense that she'd blacked out.

Dengrove was initially a bit frightened at the intensity of Pepper's orgasm and he was about to pull his cock out of the girl's cunt when his own ejaculation began and it was too late for him to do anything except wait until his climax had run its course. He groaned as jets of hot semen hosed through his cock and splashed violently against the walls of the unconscious young girl lying on top of him.

A moment later he heard a soft sigh and he saw that Pepper had come to, possibly as a result of the hot come that was lashing the innermost parts of her pussy. She smiled at Dengrove and planted a soft, moist kiss on the man's mouth. "You're still coming. I can feel it!" she whispered. .

"You passed out. I didn't really know what to do," chuckled the pilot, now that he knew the girl was perfectly okay.

"You did the best thing you could," Pepper replied with a grin. "You didn't abandon ship!".

The two of them laughed and began wrestling around on the bed. The others in the room drifted over to the bed and within seconds the sexy seven were all tumbling around, laughing and giggling hysterically.

Finally it was Pepper who broke them up with the ultimate question of the night. "Considering the history making events that have taken place here tonight, I'd like to know if Laurie, Glory and I should change our professional name from 'The Wild Cherries' to 'The Wild Busted Cherries'?"

When the laughter finally died down, it was Chad who had the last laugh. With a totally serious look on his face (and a sly twinkle in his eye) he turned to face the three young sisters. "I think you can get away with your original name 'The Wild Cherries'-as long as you don't let any of your male groupies get their fingers in your pie and blow the secret!"

The trio of nymphets swarmed all over Chad and playfully wrestled him down on the bed and pinned him there securely.

Lisa caught Chad's eye and grinned. The initiation had been a success.

But the trio of red-hot little "Wild Cherries" wouldn't be going back to Texas for a while yet. Who knew that would happen next?