by Mark Anthony
“Joy, it’s all good,” I said as I cut her off. “Listen, I’m gonna be right back. My agent invited me here and I don’t wanna be rude.”
I walked away from Joy, Steve, and Felicia and I had no intentions of fucking with them for the rest of that night. But I had to admit that Joy did not look like a woman who was in her early forties. And if things hadn’t gone down the way they had with Mashonda getting over on me, I woulda fucked her mother in a heartbeat.
About an hour later, I found myself surrounded by some of the most beautiful white girls that I had ever seen. And I don’t know who in the club had been paid off, but someone must have, because right where we were partying, the white chicks and the Asian chicks were snorting lines of cocaine as if it were legal.
“Didn’t I tell you I know how to party?” Tony said to me as he gave me a pound and handed me something with the same hand that he had given me a pound with.
I looked in my hand and saw a pill.
“It’s X!” he shouted into my ear.
By that time the liquor had gotten to me and I knew that I should probably leave before I ended up in trouble that I didn’t want to be in.
“You’re about to sign a six-hundred-thousand dollar deal! You’re allowed!” Tony urged.
This was definitely one of those moments from the old school cartoons where there was a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other shoulder. The devil was telling me to fuck everything and to live it up and have a good time. But the angel was trying very hard to remind me that the last time I was in this position, someone ended up dead and that I needed to be smart.
“Nah, I’m good,” I said to Tony. I was feeling good that I had listened to the angel on my right shoulder.
“You’re joking, right?” Tony asked.
I didn’t immediately respond and he was persistent.
So with his urging, I popped the pill into my mouth and swallowed it. That had been the first time I’d tried Ecstasy so I wasn’t sure what to expect. But after about ten minutes, the music became louder to me and everything just felt much more intense in a very good way. And I was feeling better than I had ever felt in my life. It was almost as if I was having a nonstop orgasm—that was just how good I felt.
I started dancing with a white girl who I had been staring at the entire night. She had some big titties, no ass, and no rhythm, but it didn’t matter at all. All I knew was that she was sexy as shit with green eyes and blond hair. And without even saying two words to her, I just leaned in and started tongue kissing her while I was dancing with her and it wasn’t just a quick kiss, it was more like a three-minute deep-tongue kiss. I felt so good and so horny that I was thinking about trying to undress her and fucking her right there on the dance floor.
She pushed herself away from me and gave me a smile and told me that she would be right back.
“What’s your name?”
“Angela,” she said as she walked away.
“I see you having a good time now!” Tony said to me as he gave me another pound and at the same time put another E pill in my hand.
And without hesitation I popped another pill in my mouth and then a few minutes later I remember dancing and guzzling a bottle of Moët. Steve caught up to me and I was sure that he could tell that I was in a much better mood than I had been in.
“You good?” Steve asked.
“Yeah, yeah, I’m good. Just trying to bag me a little snow bunny,” I said as I gave Steve a pound.
“That’s what’s up! But you need to leave with my ass and handle your business with Joy.”
Right as Steve said that, the white girl, Angela, walked back up to me and this time she initiated the kiss.
“That’s the six-hundred-thousand dollar man right there!” my agent shouted for the world to hear while Angela kissed me.
By this time the club was packed to capacity and it was real hard to move. But I did feel somebody grabbing on me.
“Lance, where’s your phone?” Joy said to me.
I just looked at her like she was stupid because now she was fucking up my high and she was cock-blocking what I had going on with Angela.
“Joy, I’m good. I’m good,” I shouted over the music. I was hoping that she got the hint that I wasn’t trying to take her number or give her mine.
“Take my number and make sure you call me,” she said.
Right at that moment, Angela bent down on the dance floor and she unzipped my pants and started sucking my dick right there on the dance floor. It was dark so it was hard for anyone to see what she was doing. The strobe lights would bring bright light to our area every so often, and when it did, I was sure that everyone in that immediate area knew what was up.
“Yo, I’ll get it from Steve later on. Just make sure he has it, a’ight?” I said to Joy as I saw her standing there with her phone out as if she was about to put my number into her phone.
“Oh, oh, okay,” she said with a surprised tone like she had finally gotten it. But I also think that she saw Angela sucking my dick and that was how she got the message.
I hoisted the bottle of Moët to my mouth and guzzled it some more and I knew that either the E pills were a natural aphrodisiac or that Angela had the best head game in the world, but I felt like it was only gonna be another few minutes before I came. Angela stood up and I wanted to push her head right back down to my dick because I definitely didn’t want her to stop.
“This is what I had walked away to go and get,” Angela said to me as she pressed up against me and handed me a condom.
A big smile came across my face and I asked her if she wanted me to put the condom on right then and there.
She didn’t say anything, but she did turn around and backed her little ass up into my dick. So I took that as my cue that she definitely was ready to get fucked right then and there. I put the bottle of Moët on the ground and I quickly slid the condom over my dick and slipped my dick under Angela’s dress until I found her wet spot. She wasn’t wearing any panties so that gave me easy access to her tight pussy.
Angela was slightly bent over and it looked as if we were just dirty dancing and grinding on each other. But there was a whole lot more going on. I was fucking a white girl for the first time in my life and it was easily feeling like the best pussy that I had ever had. When I finally bussed after about three minutes, I felt like I was gonna black out, simply because I had never came so hard in my life.
Right at that moment, as good as I felt, I knew that my life wasn’t just out of control—it was dangerously out of control! And I also knew that just as surely as God had blessed me with a new contract for six hundred thousand dollars, that the devil had been right there lurking and waiting for a chance to bring me down. The only thing was that I just had no idea how closely the devil had truly been lurking.
Chapter Seventeen
The car that my agent had taken me to and from the club was the best thing in the world, because by the time I left the club at three in the morning I was in no shape to drive. And what was worst was that by the time I got home I was feeling sick as a dog, but I couldn’t go to sleep because I knew that I had to be back up at six that morning so that me and LL could go to the airport for our trip to the basketball tournament in Orlando.
After taking Alka-Seltzer and eating a ton of oranges, I dragged myself into the shower and stayed there for about a half hour. I really felt like shit. Hangover didn’t do me any justice in explaining how bad I felt. But as I walked into my room and gathered clothes to bring with me on the trip, I knew that laying down on my bed even for just a second would be the worst thing in the world for me to do. My cell phone started to vibrate and I didn’t even have the energy to walk over to the phone, but I eventually answered it.
“Hey, just checking to see if you were up,” Meagan said on the other end.
“Thank you. Yeah, I’m up. I’m getting ready now,” I said, trying my hardest to mask any of the hangover effects.
“Lance, I am so excited. And you
know, I never told you this, but I have never even been to Disney World,” she said. She was sounding way too cheery and way too chipper, especially since I had the worst pounding headache in the world.
We spoke on the phone for a little while longer and before we hung up I confirmed everything with Meagan and told her that I would see her when I got to the airport. I had purchased a round-trip plane ticket for her so that she would be on the same plane with me and LL and the rest of the team, but I made sure that she wasn’t seated next to us. I also booked her hotel room in the same resort that we were staying at, only we were on the fifth floor and she would be staying on the sixth floor.
My plan was to keep Meagan away from LL as well as away from any of the other parents of the kids who were on his team. And being that she was only going to be one sleeping one floor above me, I was planning on going to her room when LL went to sleep and also when we took the kids to Disney World I was gonna make it where Meagan would be there already and then I would just bump into her as if it were a coincidence. Since Nicole couldn’t make it down to Orlando, I didn’t want LL to see me with any other females because I was really worried about the message that I was sending to him. I mean, as fucked-up as I was I didn’t want LL to grow up and be even remotely like me.
As time was flying by, Nicole called me and told me that LL was up and dressed and ready to go and that she would be at my apartment in twenty minutes to take us to the airport, being that I couldn’t drive.
When Nicole arrived I got in the car, trying my hardest to be as normal as possible and not let on to my hangover.
“Hey, what’s up, superstar?” I said to LL, who was dressed in full LeBron James gear.
“You supposed to call me MVP,” he said, correcting me.
“LL, what did I tell you about that?” Nicole said as she turned down the radio.
“I know, Mom, but I’m just doing what we learned in Sunday school. They said that we can speak things into existence and since I wanna win the MVP at the tournament, I’m speaking it into existence.”
I looked at Nicole and all I could do was smile. And at the same time I wished that I was as focused on God as my eleven-year-old son was.
“You okay?” Nicole asked.
“Yeah. I’m good. Just real tired. But I’ll sleep on the plane, so it’s okay.”
“Well, they don’t have any games or anything today, do they?” Nicole asked.
“Nah, today and tonight is a free time for them. So we’ll probably hang out in the hotel until about three o’clock and then we’ll take them to the amusement parks. This way it’s not just about basketball and then tomorrow they have their semifinal game, and if they win, then the next day they’ll play for the championship,” I explained.
LL then spoke up and he said that his coach told the team that the past MVPs of that tournament all ended up in Sports Illustrated and that they were ranked in the top twenty-five sixth graders in the country.
“You know, Lance, see, this is a little crazy! Why are they ranking kids in the sixth grade? Why don’t they just let them play the game and have fun? This is exactly how these athletes get so spoiled and walk around like the world owes them something. It’s because of being told that they’re all of that from the time they can walk.”
“It is what it is.” I replied. “But there’s also gonna be college scouts there.”
“For sixth graders?” Nicole said with a laugh.
Nicole really didn’t understand just how good LL was. He was playing for an AAU team called Riverside. And he wasn’t just on the team, he was one of the stars of the team. So with Riverside’s history of producing some of the greatest players to ever come out of New York City, LL was pretty much a shoo-in to get a basketball scholarship in six years.
We finally arrived at the airport and Nicole pulled to the curb. She got out of the car and gave me a hug and a kiss on the cheek. Then she hugged LL real tight. And even with the crazy hangover that I was feeling, it didn’t prevent me from feeling real nostalgic like the three of us were a family again. I loved that feeling.
“Be good,” she said to LL.
“Okay. I love you, Mommy,” he said as he threw his bag over his shoulder and whipped out his PSP.
“I love you,” Nicole replied.
“Nicole, I’ll call you later on,” I said before me and LL walked into the terminal.
It was a little past six-thirty in the morning and our flight wasn’t until 8:00 A.M., so after we checked in me and LL waited at the flight gate and as he played with his PSP I got a little emotional because I wished that I could just do right and not feel this need to constantly step out on Nicole. Like I knew that I was so blessed and yet I was always fucking up those blessings. Yet at the same time, I was who I was and therefore it was hard for me to change. But it was clear that God had wanted it just one way and that was with the family unit intact. I knew that had I just always stayed focused and done right, that this trip to Orlando would have been ten times more fulfilling for me than it was. It woulda been more fulfilling simply because I was proud of my son for so many reasons that extended beyond basketball, and for me to be able to travel with him and support him in something that he loved to do was so much more than I deserved and could have ever hoped for. But the reason I say it could have been more fulfilling was because I knew that had LL known the true character of his father then he wouldn’t have been as proud of me as I was of him.
Before long both LL and I had dozed off right next to each other. And eventually I felt a tap on my shoulder and I opened my eyes to see Meagan standing in front of me, looking sexier than I’d ever seen her look. She had some dark shades on and she had a baseball cap on in order to help hide her identity since she was a television personality. And even with the hat and the shades she still looked sexy.
She mouthed the word hi without actually saying anything because she didn’t want to wake up LL. So I stood up and I talked to her for a minute.
“Did you just get here?” I asked.
“Yeah, I hit a ton of traffic on the George Washington Bridge. But I’m good because I just have this one carry-on that I’m bringing.”
“Yo, I am feeling so fucked-up right now. I didn’t tell you but I’m getting ready to sign a new deal for six hundred thousand and my agent took me out last night and we celebrated, but I drank way too much.”
“Wow, Lance, that is good. I’m so happy for you. You should go get some ginger ale or something to help settle your stomach.”
“Nah, I’ll just chill. I’ll be all right by the time we land.”
After I said that to her I told her what the plan was for the kids and that I would come up to her room and see her as soon as the kids got involved in their first activity.
“Okay. I’m still so excited! I feel like a little kid on Christmas eve,” Meagan smiled and said. “Lance, is that your son?”
I nodded.
“He is such a cutie. I can’t wait to see him play,” she said before she walked over to another area and took a seat and started reading Essence magazine.
We had a very smooth flight to Orlando and after the flight had landed Meagan took a cab over to where we were staying, while LL and I and the rest of the team and the parents were picked up in a chartered van and chauffeured over to the Walt Disney World Resort, which is where we were staying. Walt Disney World Resort was also only minutes away from Wide World of Sports, which is where all of the AAU National Tournament games would be held.
By the time everyone got settled into their rooms it was a little after one-thirty in the afternoon. LL was like an Energizer bunny and he was bouncing off the walls, ready to jet from the room and go have fun with his teammates. But I wanted to make sure that I reined him in just a bit so that he wouldn’t get lost or into any trouble. Overall, he was a very good kid, but with the resort being as big as it was I just wanted to make sure that he didn’t roam free and do anything that might have jeopardized him or his teammates.
Altho
ugh I wanted to jump in the bed and go right to sleep, I knew that I couldn’t be selfish and that I had to hang with LL in order to make him happy. So we left our room and went down to the arcade and played video games and pool for about an hour or so until it was time to eat lunch at three o’clock.
At three o’clock everyone on the team and parents met up in one of the restaurants that was located on the second floor of the resort. Since all of our accommodations were all-inclusive, it meant that the kids and the parents could all eat until their heart’s content. And as parents, we didn’t have to tell the kids twice that all of the food was free because they had a field day. They stuffed their faces with hamburgers, French fries, pizza, soda, and ice cream. It was amazing watching them eat so much food. When they were done eating everyone retreated to their rooms to rest and to let their food digest. But again, LL was bouncing off the walls and he couldn’t sit still for a moment.
My cell phone rang and it was Meagan.
“Hey, just checking up on you,” she said.
I went into the bathroom to talk on the phone so that LL couldn’t hear our conversation.
“Yeah, I just got back to my room with LL. The kids just finished eating so we’re just chilling now.”
“Lance, I love these rooms! This place is so nice. Thank you so much for flying me down.”
“It’s no problem. Thank you for coming.”
“So are you feeling any better?”
“Yeah, actually I’m feeling much better,” I said. I didn’t tell her that I had thrown up in the bathroom while we were on the plane and that was mainly when and why I had started feeling better.
“Okay, so just call me when you can. I’m probably gonna just go downstairs and walk around, take everything in,” she said.
“Meagan, listen, LL is dying to get out of the room and go play with his friends, so I’m gonna let him go chill with them and then I’ll come up and see you in like fifteen or twenty minutes.”
“You sure, baby? I’m okay. Really, I am. I don’t want to cramp you in any way.”
