"Ok, I’m going to change the subject. Tomorrow night we are going to have a good time at book club, and wait til you see all the food I’m preparing," said Yvette. "Oh yes its lady’s night, and the feelings right," she sang into the phone.
Sabra said, "I don't know. I might not make it to the meeting this time. Ray said he might ...” Yvette stopped her.
"Oh hell no. Stop waiting on that jackass and get out and have some fun. That's the bullshit women do all the time, for men who don't deserve them. I just know you weren't going to stand us up for him! Now here’s the deal: you are not allowed to say his name for twenty-four hours, or you are going to have to pay me a hundred dollars every time you do. Try not to think about him. Do you think his old baby making ass is thinking about you? Old ass with babies, um um um."
"Be over here at eight and I'm not taking no for an answer. Bye girl."
Yvette
“I'm so glad this shift is over," Yvette exclaimed to her coworkers. "I'm so out of here!"
Yvette was glad to leave Beaumont Hospital, where she worked in the emergency room as a registered nurse. It was 11 a.m. and she had just worked a sixteen-hour shift, and couldn't wait to get home and in her bed. She knew she had time for some decent sleep before she had to host their monthly book club meeting that evening. Her cousin had been over to clean up the house and prepare the meal they were going to eat. She went into the lounge to get her purse out of her locker and took out her cell phone to call her husband James. He answered on the third ring.
"Hey James, did you want me to pick you up something to eat on my way home?"
James answered, "So, you aren't going to cook me anything? And what about all this food you have in here? "
"Are you for real? I just worked sixteen hours. You know that food is for my book club meeting. I was going to grab something at a restaurant for you. I'm coming home and going to bed until time for me to have my meeting. I just know you aren't serious about me cooking!"
James said, "You so worried about that book club and not worried about feeding your husband, but don't worry about it. I will take care of myself, like I always do! And don't worry, I won't be home this evening while you have your little meeting," and hung up. "Wow!" she started to feel a little sad, then turned to being mad. "No, he didn't!"
Her husband James was a very skilled spinal surgeon, and did not have to work every day, but he was always on call. In fact, he was currently on vacation for two weeks. When he wasn't working, he was hardly at home because he was either with the boys golfing, playing poker, or fishing. The last few months he had been very testy and verbally cruel to her.
She met him over thirty years ago when they were both freshmen at Michigan State University, located in East Lansing, Michigan. Michigan State, home of the Spartans, is a popular Big Ten school with great sports teams and a beautifully landscaped, sprawling campus. East Lansing, Michigan is a small college town located an hour away from Detroit. Her friend Julie was her roommate, and her other friend Lillian lived down the hall from them.
James was on track to be a doctor, while she was pursuing her nursing major. They met in a chemistry class that they both had together. He asked her to study with him one day and after that they began meeting each other almost every day at the library, the park, or the dorm, and eventually became a couple that fell in love. They were very supportive of each other and spent almost every waking moment together.
Once she graduated, she quickly got a job and helped to support him while he was in med school and throughout his residency. The day he got his medical license, he dropped to his knees and proposed to her. That was over twenty-five years ago. They had a lavish wedding and a daughter nine months after their honeymoon. Their daughter Morgan, who followed in their footsteps, attended State also, and was a sophomore studying to be a sports doctor. They lived very well in a beautiful home in the affluent Bloomfield Hills, another suburb of Detroit.
Life was good until the last few months, when he started staying away from home for one reason or another. During the last few years, he let his once lean body go and often made cruel remarks about her physique. She knew she was slightly overweight ... she was 5'7'', 205 pounds. In college she weighed 155 pounds at her heaviest.
Yvette works out when she can, with or without her friends. She works so much over time that she is usually exhausted when she gets off work, and all she can think about is getting some rest when she is home. Even though she wasn’t content with her body, she knew she was healthy. She used to let his insults bother her but she stopped paying him any attention. She felt he was just unhappy with his own body and didn't find her attractive anymore, and he seemed to take pleasure in ridiculing her. She tried talking to him and suggesting they go to marriage counseling, but he said he didn't see a need for it, that nothing was wrong with him, so she just started doing like R & B singer Fantasia sang and started doing herself (“I’m Doin’ Me”), and only talking to him whenever necessary.
Yvette went home, and tried to get some rest before the book club commenced.
Elaine
Elaine woke up to a loud crash.
"What the hell are you doing in there!" she hollered from her bedroom. "If y'all broke anything, I'm gonna whoop some behinds!"
She heard some scurrying and then heard her seventeen-year-old daughter Darlene exclaim, "Oooo Jayden, you gonna get it!"
Elaine is a single mom with two kids and two baby daddy’s. She didn't consider herself a "loose" woman because of this. She actually loved both the guys at one time, but they both ended up being jerks.
Elaine is thirty-five. She is a petite 5-foot 3-inch, 116-pound cutie. She fell in love with her first baby daddy, Larry, in high school. They were the picture perfect, stereotypical couple from freshman year to senior year, her being the cheerleader and homecoming queen and him being the star basketball jock and homecoming king. They were both very popular and looked great together, despite the height differences, Larry a towering 6 foot 6 inches. You rarely saw one without the other. She really loved him and she held off having sex with him until their prom night. At that point she felt that they were going to be together forever, because they often talked about getting married and having a family, and she really loved and trusted him.
On prom night, they had a room at a Courtyard Marriott, where they made love for the very first time and accidently made their child that night.
She thought about that night ... he was very gentle. With her being a virgin, she didn't have anything to compare the experience with, so all she knew at the time was how good it felt after the pain subsided.
He seemed to be very skilled during their encounter and since he was supposed to be a virgin also, she asked, "How did you know how to do this?"
He answered, "Man, I watch a lot of porn and have jacked off to it a lot because you wouldn't give me any, but you are worth the wait! I'd been taking notes for this night for a long time, and I'm glad that we will be each other's first."
Ok. Good answer, she thought while also realizing that she never knew he watched porn.
They had messed around before, but they had never gone all the way. He knew her body and had even gotten her clothes off once when they were at her house and her parents were away but she always stood her ground and would not engage in sex. He left many a night with a hard on, and on a couple of occasions she would jack him off, but that was as far as she would go.
That night, when they got in the room, he pulled out some champagne that he had bought.
"Boy, what are you doing? You know I don't drink, and when did you start?"
"Baby, tonight is our first time together like this and I'm not ashamed to say that I'm a little nervous ... don't know about you. Besides, we are celebrating! We graduated, and you getting a scholarship to Eastern Michigan, and my basketball scholarship to Notre Dame!"
Eastern Michigan is a university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and Notre Dame is located in Notre Dame, Indiana near South Bend.
He got a glass, rinsed it out and filled it with the Andre champagne he had brought. She took a sip. The bubbles tickled her nose. "This is actually pretty good," she giggled. He, on the other hand, was taking good, long gulps straight out the bottle.
"No, it's not bad at all!" he said in between swallows.
They sat and drank, then cut on the radio and listened to some music. Soon they were relaxed from the alcohol. Since they weren't drinkers, it didn't take much.
He leaned across the bed and started kissing her and doing that very familiar caress that she knew so well, although this time it felt a little different. His touch was a little stronger, more aggressive, and she figured it was due to the anticipation that they both were feeling and that they were both a little tipsy. He helped her stand up, turned her around, and unzipped her beautiful, strapless lime green, goddess prom dress that made her feel like a princess, and let it drop to the floor.
"Babe, you are so beautiful." He pulled her to him and started kissing her on her neck while caressing her body. Goosebumps rose up all over her and she felt tingly all over. She was feeling sensations that she had never felt before. He stopped touching her long enough to undo his belt and pants. She reflected on how handsome he had looked in his white tuxedo and lime green accessories. “Help me," he said. She stepped up to him and helped him ease his pants down and she immediately saw the huge hard on that was trying to bust up out of his underwear. She got excited and a little scared at the same time.
Oh, I hope he doesn't hurt me with that! She thought about all the times she handled it, trying to figure out how she would ever be able to have sex with him.
He pulled down his underwear and kicked them off, then took off his shirt. He had the best chest and a six pack that wouldn't quit. She couldn't resist running her hands over his chest and he reached for her hands, pulled her to him, and started kissing her again, and gently eased her onto the bed, straddling himself between her legs so that his hardness was against her cute, wet, lime green lace panties that she bought special for this night. I bet he didn't even notice them ... my coordination, she thought, but was brought right back to the task at hand as he started kissing her with heated abandon. She moaned into his ever-exploring mouth. He kept kissing her and used one of his hands to ease her strapless bra down until her breasts were exposed. As soon as he saw the erect nipple, he put his mouth on it and began to suck and twirl his tongue over it. She thought she was going to die from excitement. His sucking became increasingly harder.
"Ow, baby, not so hard," she cried.
"Oh, I'm sorry babe. I'm just so excited! Is this better?" he said into her breasts as he relaxed his sucking grip on the nipples and planted light kisses on each one, then softly sucking them. "Oh yesss," she purred. Wow, how does it get any better than this, she thought.
He guided one of her hands to his penis. She was a little reluctant at first, but let his insistent hand guide her hand there. She grabbed it and started massaging it with up and down, twisting motions, a technique she had learned when they were fooling around.
"Oh yes, babe. That’s good, but I can't wait any longer. I have got to feel you." He stood up and she sadly released the hold she had on him. He went to his pockets and pulled out a condom.
"Here, help me put it on." She sat up and clumsily helped him put it on. She laid back down, and returned to his straddling position over her and started kissing her again. He started rubbing his hardness against her. She wiggled and moaned into his mouth. He pulled her panties down with one hand and lifted her up with the other to get them off. He then put the tip of his penis to her tight opening and said hotly in her ear, "are you ready?" All she could do was nod and kept her eyes tightly shut, like she was preparing for the worst.
"Relax, babe. Open your eyes and look at me. I wouldn't ever hurt you. If I do, I will stop, ok? Now look at me."
She did as he said and slowly opened her eyes and looked into his.
He took his time and eased it into her tightness, never taking his eyes from hers, starting with short strokes with just the tip. She was moaning and writhing all over the bed, and he increased his strokes. She was so wet that it went in pretty easy. She felt a little pain as he plunged deeper, then all that quickly washed away into a sensual, wonderful feeling. She slowly began matching him stroke for stroke with her gyrations, and all at once she felt a big tidal wavelike sensation come over her, and she grabbed him tightly around his neck, her back involuntarily arched up, and she had her first ever orgasm. To her it seemed to last for hours, while in reality it was only a few seconds. She didn't know it at the time, but in the midst of her orgasm he came too, and unfortunately, the condom came off too, which they discovered later.
Larry went on to college at Notre Dame University and Elaine went to school at Eastern Michigan University that fall. He went to school early because he had to attend basketball camp in July. At first, they were writing each other every week and talking on the phone every day, and then after only a month, his replies started to wane off ... the letters from him stopped and the phone calls were less frequent. He told her he was busy with basketball and school and that he couldn't call or write as often. She told him that she understood but she still missed their daily communication.
One day she decided to take a surprise trip to the school. She drove to Indiana during a time when she knew the team would be at home. When she arrived at his dorm, she located his room and knocked on his door. He hollered out, "Who is it?" in an irate voice. She knew he was probably sleeping because it was so early, so she disguised her voice and announced she had a delivery for him. He yelled out saying he didn't order anything. She knocked again. "Special delivery from Nike," she said as she stifled her laughter. She couldn't wait to see his reaction when he saw her. She heard some shuffling from inside the room and he opened the door just a little, and peeped through the crack.
"Surprise!" she shouted. He was really surprised, and his eyes bucked wide open. As she moved in to hug him, he grabbed her by her upper arms and backed her out of the door.
"What the hell are you doing here?" he asked.
She looked at him confused. "I just wanted to see you and come talk to you about something that's very important, and bring you some of your things. You told me I have an open invitation to come here."
"Well, you shouldn't have come without calling," he said angrily.
He was mad and she didn't understand why.
"Ok, I'm confused. Every time we talk, you say that you couldn't wait for me to come and see you. I came because I'm your girlfriend, didn’t think I had to call first, I miss you, plus I have something important to discuss with you, but, if you don't want me here, I can leave. I drove all the way here, and you can't give me a few minutes out of your busy schedule to talk to me. Well, Mr. Basketball Star, I need to use the bathroom. I've got to pee really bad, and then I will be out of your nappy ass hair, if that's ok."
"That's not a good idea," he said.
"Well why n ... you got some bitch in there don't you?" she tried peeping through the cracked door, then she shoved past him. To her surprise, there were not one, but two naked women in the bed.
Her heart hit the floor and tears immediately sprang to her eyes.
"Wow. You son of a bitch." She tried to smack him on the face, but he was too tall, so she redirected her aim and hit him as hard as she could in his nuts.
"What the fuck!" he shouted as he grabbed his sore balls with tears in his eyes. She ran out of the room, her eyes also filled with tears, and her heart shattered. This only happens in the movies. This is all a nightmare, was all she could think of.
Elaine found out that she was pregnant the same week Larry left for training camp in July. She didn't tell him earlier because she didn't want to distract him and she wasn't sure if she
was going to keep the baby, which was the main reason she went to see him. She decided not to have an abortion after praying about it and talking about it with her parents, and wanted to tell him face to face ... not really a conversation she wanted to have over the phone. Then she walked into his ménage à trois. She didn't talk to him or return any of his calls for a long time after the incident.
After a couple of months, she and her parents decided she should tell him, so she asked him to come see her, and when he did, she told him she was pregnant. He was quick to deny being the father, saying she was just being vengeful and trying to trap him. She was devastated but moved on and raised the baby without him. To make a long story short, his basketball career ended his sophomore year when he ruptured an Achilles tendon. God don't like ugly. That was baby daddy number one.
She did not let having a baby stop her from finishing her education. She stayed in school and with the help of God, her friends, family, and the government, was able to get her degree in accounting and found a job soon after graduation.
She met baby daddy number two, four years after graduation. She found a job with the Internal Revenue Service, and Ted, short for Theodore, worked in the cubicle next to hers. They went to lunch together a few times and he eventually asked her out. He took her out on really nice dates, and after five months of dating, he asked her to be his lady. She was really feeling him and she said yes.
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