Chapter 5
Lisa looked down at her watch, waiting for the time to get somewhat close to five o’clock so she could take off. She didn’t know how this weekend was going to turn out, or even if she was going to be married at the end of it. She had a feeling that her bullshit was going to catch up to her eventually, and the outcome wasn’t going to be good.
“Lisa, you can take off if you like,” Dr. Crosby said, coming out of the exam room. “I only got this gentleman here left, and I’ll be leaving myself.”
It was like Dr. Crosby read her mind, because she was about two minutes away from asking him if she could leave. Ralphy had made reservations for them somewhere, and Lisa had to find out where and make her move.
Both Ralphy and Dre were on her mind pretty much every moment, from the time that she woke up until the time she closed her eyes at night. She couldn’t believe that she was in love with two men. Each of them she loved for different reasons, but at the end of the day somebody had to go, and that had to happen immediately.
She bolted out of the building and jumped into her car. She took her car today so that Ralphy wouldn’t have to pick her up. She needed a little space and distance from him in order to do what she planned on doing.
Before she pulled out of the parking lot, she had to call Ralphy to find out about the plans for tonight. If he was trying to make it a surprise where they were going, it was going to be a little hard getting it out of him. But she had a trick for that, too.
“What’s up, beautiful?” Ralphy answered the phone while looking out on the highway on his way home from work.
“Hey, babe. I know we’re supposed to be going out tonight, but I’m kind of stuck at work right now,” Lisa lied.
“Come on, babe,” Ralphy said in a disappointed manner.
“I’m not tryin’ to cancel, babe. I’m just gonna be a little late.
“You know how hard it is to book at the Forrest Tree,” he said with an attitude.
The Forrest Tree Cabins was like a snow lodge couple’s retreat for relaxation time. It was very romantic but hard to book, not to mention the very steep reservation fees. “Babe, babe, babe,” she said, trying to calm him down. “How about I meet you there? Just grab my things and head on out there. I swear, I’ll be right behind you,” she pled.
Ralphy really wasn’t trying to hear any of that right now. He was irritated at the fact that they wouldn’t be driving out together. Nevertheless, he was going to enjoy his weekend with or without Lisa being on time. He had too much money invested in this getaway. “Yo, don’t have me waiting out there by myself, Lisa. As soon as you’re done at the office, you make ya way up the highway.”
The Forrest Tree Cabins was only about an hour and a half away, which gave Lisa plenty of time to work with. She had a little bit of running around to do before she hit the highway, and going to see Dre was her first stop. She really didn’t want to go all weekend without seeing him, and as long as she didn’t get caught, she wouldn’t have to.
* * *
“You make sure you pick these kids up first thing in the morning!” Ms. D yelled out from the kitchen to Tammy, who was sitting in the living room with Kim.
It had been a long, stressful week for Tammy, and a little time out with the girls was something that she could really use right about now. No ducking Mr. Louis, no doing house chores, no dealing with the kids, just loud music, dancing, and as many drinks as her pretty face could get her.
“And make sure that you go to the store and get some cereal and milk for this boy!” Ms. D yelled as she fed Sinniyyah.
Not only was Ms. D cool as hell, she was also the go-to babysitter for the block. She was good with kids and probably babysat every child on that street at one time or another.
Tammy actually used her as a childcare provider for both Sinniyyah and Anthony. That’s how she was getting the childcare check from welfare. Ms. D only wanted fifty dollars in cash and twenty-five dollars in food stamps per week to watch her kids. She was cheaper and provided a better service than the daycare center.
“Hey, bitches!” Falisha yelled, coming through the front door. “Hey, Ms. D!” she yelled toward the kitchen.
“You’re late!” Tammy joked, rising up off of the couch.
“Shut up, girl!” Falisha said, and ran to the kitchen to mess with the kids.
Falisha was Sinniyyah’s godmother, and she loved that little girl like she was her own. She wanted to be Anthony’s godmother too, but Kim beat her to the punch.
“Falisha!” Kim yelled in a loud whisper as she looked out the window at Lamar coming out of the house with his duffel bag over his shoulder like he was going to work.
Falisha walked over to the window just in time to see him throwing his bag into his trunk. Kim whipped out her phone and started pushing buttons. The phone rang twice before Lamar answered it.
“Yooo!” he answered, leaning up against his car.
“What’s up, brother? What do you got planned for tonight?” Kim asked, looking out the window at him, undetected.
“I’m about to go to work in a few minutes,” Lamar answered. “Why, what’s up?”
“Nothing. I just wanted you to be on point because I’m going out with the girls. I’ll fuck around and need a designated driver by the time I leave the club,” Kim lied, only to see if he would stick with the work lie. Messing around with nosy-ass Falisha, Kim had become somewhat obsessed about finding out where he worked also. In fact, everybody was curious to know, even Ms. D.
“All right, just call me if you need me. I get off around midnight anyway,” Lamar said, and then hung up.
Kim, Falisha, and Tammy all watched as he got into his car. “He’s going to work. Y’all wanna follow him?” Kim asked in a juvenile way. “Ain’t nobody at the club this early anyway.”
Surprisingly, her comrade Falisha didn’t seem too interested in the covert mission tonight. She was still kind of confused about what had happened between her and Lamar a couple of nights ago. At this point, she couldn’t care less about where he worked. She really just wanted to get clarity on where they stood because, since that night, they hadn’t said a single word to each other.
“Fuck it!” Tammy smiled. “Let’s hurry up before it gets too late,” she said, grabbing her bag.
“Come on, bitch. Stop acting like you don’t wanna come,” Kim joked, pulling Falisha by the arm and leading her to the front door.
They all sat around and waited for Lamar to pull off before they exited the house. They didn’t want to give him any indication that they were going to follow him. After a few minutes of letting his car warm up, Lamar pulled out of the parking space. Kim knew from before the route that he would probably take, so she could afford a separation of a block or two between them. “Let’s go, y’all!” she said, leading the pack.
* * *
She was about two hours late, but Lisa eventually made it to the lodge. She could see that Ralphy still had a little attitude the minute she walked through the door, but he quickly tried to hide it behind a weak smile.
“You’re not going to be mad at me all night, are you?” she asked, walking over and giving him a kiss. “I brought treats.” She smiled, reaching into her bag and pulling out a bottle of Cîroc.
There was no way possible that Ralphy could stay mad at her. They had all weekend to be together and chill out. “You hungry?” he asked, wrapping his arms around her waist. He had already whipped something up before she got there, since he had the time to waste.
“We can eat a little something. I’m not gonna be able to do what I wanna do to you on a full stomach,” Lisa said in a seductive way and grabbed a handful of his dick.
“Shit, we can eat later!” Ralphy responded and palmed both of her ass cheeks and lifted her off of her feet.
“That’s an option too,” Lisa said, wrapping her legs around his waist.
Ralphy was good and roused up by now. He started to walk her toward the bedroom door, but Lisa jumped out of his arms and stopped him. “How about you go sit on the couch and wait for me to change into something better?” she spoke in a sexy tone.
He smiled and looked at her while he backed slowly away from her. He knew he was in for a treat, so her instructions were important to follow. He went over to the flat screen hanging over the fireplace and turned on the screen saver. There was a fireplace burning, covering the whole screen. He then turned off all of the lights and took a seat on the couch.
“Close your eyes!” Lisa yelled from the bedroom.
When she walked into the room she went to the radio and put on a lovemaking CD. It was a special CD that she made with all of her favorite slow songs on it. Janet Jackson’s “Any Time, Any Place” was the first song to come on. She then walked over and stood right in front of Ralphy. “Open ya eyes,” she said.
When Ralphy did open his eyes, his jaw hit the ground. Lisa stood there with a pink see-through panty and bra set from Victoria’s Secret, and she had on a pair of white Jimmy Choo open-toe heels. Her body was flawless from head to toe. Her 34-26-39 frame looked like she was supposed to be modeling for Black Lingerie magazine. “Damn, mommy!” he said, mesmerized by her beauty. If he had it his way, he would have sat there for hours just looking, and admiring how good his wife looked.
That wasn’t going to happen, though, with Lisa taking it upon herself to straddle him while he sat there. She leaned in and kissed him softly on his lips and neck while he grabbed two handfuls of her ass.
“You know you’re in trouble, right?” Ralphy said, thinking about all of the things that he was going to do to her.
* * *
“Don’t lose him, girl,” Tammy told Kim, who was trying her best to keep up with Lamar.
Kim did well while he was on the highway, but once he got off the highway things started getting difficult. Red lights here, stops signs there, and a bunch of drivers who didn’t have a clue how to drive were getting in her way.
Lamar had a certain route that he took to work every day, and it involved a lot of turns and going through city blocks. It wasn’t that he wanted to shake any unwanted cars that may have been following him, but it honestly was the easiest way to get to his job. Otherwise, it would take him an hour and a half to get there, instead of forty-five minutes.
“It’s dark as hell around here, girl,” Falisha said, looking out the window.
“Yeah. Where the fuck are we?” Tammy chimed in, not noticing the names of the streets that they were passing.
They made so many turns and followed Lamar for so long that they got lost. Not only did they get lost, but they also managed to lose Lamar in the process. It was like one minute he was there, and then the next minute he was gone.
“Does anybody recognize any of these streets?” Kim asked, looking at the street signs.
Nobody noticed anything familiar.
Falisha quickly pulled out her iPhone 5 and went straight to her Google Maps. It told her exactly where they were, and from an aerial view she couldn’t believe how far away from home they were. “Yo, it’s gonna take us at least an hour and a half to get back home, y’all,” she said, tapping on her screen. “We’re all the way da fuck out in Greensboro,” she added.
Nobody could believe it. It didn’t even seem like it took them that long to get to where they were.
“Why don’t you check to see if they have any clubs around here?” Kim suggested. “Since we’re out here, we might as well make the best out of it.” She pulled over so she wouldn’t waste another drop of gas while they decided on what they were going to do.
Falisha was already at work, tapping away on her phone. “Ooh! There’s a couple spots jumpin’ around here,” she said, looking at the screen. “There’s a club called Impulse like fifteen minutes from here, and there’s another one called Mandingo’s Den. I think this shit might be a strip club.”’
“I wanna go to the strip club,” Kim whined.
“Hold up. I don’t have any money for a strip club,” Tammy spoke out, not even wanting to jeopardize the forty dollars she had in her pocket.
“You’re right,” Falisha said, agreeing with Tammy. “Let’s just see what Impulse is doing, and then go back home if it’s not jumpin’,” she suggested.
Everybody agreed to that, and without further questions, Kim put the car in drive and they were on their way to Impulse.
* * *
Lisa got out of the shower and dried off as quickly as possible. By the time she was through with Ralphy, he was curled up in the bed with his thumb in his mouth like a baby.
There wasn’t an area in the cabin that Ralphy didn’t sex her in, and there was nothing sexual that she didn’t allow him to try. She just so happened to have a little more energy than he did tonight, so round two was now in full effect.
She periodically looked into the bedroom from the bathroom as she was getting dressed, slipping on a different type of lingerie for the next escapade. For some reason she was still horny as hell and could feel her pussy getting wetter by the minute. She had to move fast before she messed up her brand new panties and bra set she just put on.
She walked over to the bed and stood over Ralphy. She leaned over and kissed him lightly on the cheek before grabbing her jeans, sneakers, and tank top off of the floor, and then putting them on.
* * *
Kim could see all over Tammy’s face that something was wrong with her. She threw back drink after drink at the bar, and at no point did she ever get up and dance to a song.
After awhile, Falisha noticed it too and became a little concerned. As she came off the dance floor she yelled out to Tammy, “Come on, girl! Get ya ass up and dance with us!” She tried to pull Tammy by the hand, but Tammy refused, feeling the effects of the three shots of Cîroc she threw back.
Kim danced her way over to the bar as well and tried her best to encourage Tammy to take a load off and dance. Again, Tammy refused, this time with a sadder look on her face.
“Walk me to the bathroom,” Falisha told Tammy and Kim so that they could get away from the loud music.
When they got to the bathroom, Falisha waited for a female who was in there to finish using the toilet before she started talking. She didn’t want anybody in their business.
“What’s going on, Tam?” Falisha asked while watching the young lady leave the bathroom.
Tammy shook her head, not really up for talking about her problems. Life was pretty much kicking her ass right now, and the only thing she could do was roll with the punches. Chris not being around made life so much harder, and every time she tried to do the right thing, something always knocked her down. “I really don’t feel like talking about it,” she responded in a low voice.
“Come on, Tammy. Don’t do that to us. We’re family,” Kim butted in. “If something’s wrong with you, give us a chance to help you.”
Tammy just stood there in a daze, thinking about her situation. The Cîroc was doing its part, too, because the more she thought about it, the more she started to cry.
When Falisha saw the tears coming down her face, she knew it had to be serious.
“My life . . . is so fucked up right now,” Tammy began, letting out a sob. “I can’t even pay my damn rent. I can’t find a job for shit no matter how hard I try. I’m tired, y’all. I’m tired of everything!” she cried.
Tammy had Mr. Louis threatening to have her evicted. When she finally did open up the utility bills, there was a shut off notice for the electric if she couldn’t come up with $342 by the end of the month. The other day when she was at work, she watched two employees walking into the manager’s officer with a smile, and then exit without a job, and they were full-time workers. The rumor got around quickly that the firings were actually layoffs. Chris’s people didn’t bring the money they were supposed to, and the kids were in desperate need of some new clothes.
Tammy just sat there and let it all out. She had so much weighing her down, so much that, at times, she wished she didn’t have any children.
“Tam, we’re gonna get you right, girl,” Falisha said, comforting her with a hug.
“Yeah, we got you, sis,” Kim added, joining the hugging session.
These were true friends, the kind of friends Tammy needed right now.
* * *
Lisa crept out of the cabin in the middle of the night, only having the moon as her light to guide her down the trail about a quarter of a mile east. The sounds of the wildlife screamed through the air, and the only thing that she had for protection was an ice bucket she brought from the cabin.
As she approached another cabin she could see that the lights were on. She walked up, tapped the door twice, and waited.
A huge smile came over her face when Dre opened the door wearing nothing but a pair of sweatpants. His stomach was so inviting, and the bulge in his pants let her know that he was thinking about her.
After she entered, Dre closed the door tightly, and then grabbed her by the throat and slammed her back up against the door. “Where da fuck you been?” he snapped, and leaned in to kiss her. His lips locked on to hers, not giving her a chance to answer the question as he passionately stuck his tongue into her mouth.
Lisa was submissive to his will, watching as he took one hand and yanked her pants down to her ankles. The sight of her blue satin panties made his dick even harder. Lisa was frozen. She couldn’t fight her way off of that door if she wanted to, not that she did, because this was the kind of shit she liked.
Her body trembled when Dre ripped her tank top straight down the middle, exposing her breasts. He grabbed a handful of one of them and then bit down on the other, sending her into a trance. “Dre!” she whispered, feeling her moist cookie getting softer.
He stepped on the middle of her pants so that she could climb out of them, grabbed both of her thighs, and lifted her up against the door. He wanted to fuck her with her panties on, so he just moved them to the side and stuffed his large, thick, rock-hard member inside of her.
“Aaaaaaaawwwwwwwww!” Lisa yelled out, feeling every bit of his long dick inside of her. He dug into her pussy with every stroke, bending his knees and pushing his dick up into it as far as he could. She came within minutes of him being inside of her. She bit down on his shoulder in pleasure, only wanting him to keep going.
He did, too, all the way to the point where Lisa could no longer feel her legs that were now too weak to wrap around his waist.