All I Want... Is You

by Shakir Rashaan

  I bent her over the counter and slid inside her before she knew what hit her.

  All of a sudden, the towel was the last thing on my mind, and Cori didn’t protest at all.

  “Damn, D, you couldn’t wait, could you, baby?” Cori cried out as she adjusted her hips to fit me. “Take it, baby!”

  I took hold of her hips and took her hard and deep, hearing her cheering me on as we saw our dimly lit images in the mirror joined together in a sensual melding that felt natural the minute we started.

  “I want it rough, baby, fuck me!” she screamed, bracing herself against the edge of the sink with her hands.

  Without warning, I pulled out of her and took her hand, nearly dragging her to the bedroom. I laid her on top of the bed, spreading her thighs apart so we could finish what was started in the bathroom.

  “Damn, baby, it’s yours, take it!” Cori growled, tightening her legs around my waist the moment I was back inside her. “It feels soooo good!”

  The wave was coming fast, but I wanted to hold out just a little longer. Cori moved fluidly, rocking her hips while she was under me.

  “Give it to me, baby! I want it, come on, please!” Cori called out to me, raking her nails over my chest, encouraging me to lose control and let it go.

  She didn’t have to ask twice.

  My climax crested, a growl emanating from deep within my core, echoing off the walls with a ferocity that surprised us both. I pulled out again, this time unloading a storm that she took primal pleasure in being caught in.

  I felt my body relent, and I moved to the side of where Cori lay on the bed, trying my best to avoid the exhaustion and sleep that threatened to come for me.

  The ceiling fan was the only noise in the room.

  Cori was attached at my left hip, playing with the hairs on my chest, teasing my nipples, trying to get me going again.

  The pain in my arm made itself known quickly, the adrenaline of the moment that Cori and I shared dulled the pain until we finally arrived at this moment.

  “Is this how you operate?” she playfully asked.

  “You seduced me, looking all sexy in my jersey.” I shot back, earning a playful slap from her.

  “Mmmm, yeah, if you say so,” she replied. “I might want some more the way you feel right now.”

  “Damn, sexy, you hooked already?” I couldn’t resist keeping things light, anything to see that smile flash across her face.

  “So, what happens now?” Cori asked the dreaded question after a few moments. “You asked me earlier what did I want most… well, besides a recording contract for the group, I want you, Derrick. I like how you make me feel, and I want more.”

  I stared down at her, watching her eyes dance from side to side, trying to focus on where my eyes were going.

  I didn’t worry too much at that point. In my mind, my focus hadn’t been clearer.

  But I wasn’t about to make things complicated by trying to define things.

  “I don’t know what is supposed to happen next,” I finally answered her, kissing her across her lips. “But I know I want you here.”

  “I’m yours, D.” Cori grinned as she continued to kiss me. “All yours.”

  ~Cori~

  Mmmm… my lips hurt.

  Trust me, that was a damn good thing right now.

  And the way I was feeling this morning, I couldn’t wait to feel that sweet pain again… and again.

  I felt every inch of my body as if his hands were still caressing me. Every curve, every crevice, like my body was waiting for him.

  God, this was so worth the wait.

  But I saw him moving around in the bathroom like he was getting ready to leave, and I didn’t want him to go yet. I wasn’t ready for the fantasy to end.

  “Where are you going, baby?” I asked, reaching out to him as he sat down on the edge of the bed. “Come back to bed, sexy, please?”

  “As much as I would love to, Cori, I have shoots all day long.” Derrick replied as he continued dressing. “And you laying like that in my bed isn’t making it any easier.”

  I pulled the covers back, exposing my naked body to him, trying to convince him that he could be a little late this morning. “Can’t you at least stay a little while? I’ll make you breakfast and be your dessert if you stay.”

  Derrick stopped abruptly, making me think that I might have worked my magic. He angled his body toward me, his eyes taking mental inventory of my body as I laid there, seductively rolling my hips to awaken his other senses.

  Wanting him to feel instead of look, I inched closer to him, wrapping my legs around his waist, grinding my pussy against the small of his back.

  I felt a low rumble and then a growl escape his lips, and I kept grinding against him, kissing his neck, cooing in his ear, anything to take his mind off leaving for work.

  “Cori…” he barely whispered. “I need to go, baby.”

  “Don’t go, not yet.” I insisted, sliding around to his waist, straddling him and kissing him some more. Yes, I wanted him to stay, but it was more out of concern now.

  What he went through last night would have… it should have… shaken anyone up, and he was acting as if nothing had happened.

  “Derrick, listen to me. I know last night was… oh my God, last night… but you didn’t sleep well.” I had to let him know that he was tossing and turning last night after we finally settled down. “Do you expect to act like nothing happened?”

  He tensed up for a moment and then I felt him calm down. He rubbed across his forearm and still felt the pain course through where he’d been hit, and I hoped that he realized that I wasn’t just babying him.

  After watching him unleash his anger on Brian last night, I didn’t want him in that headspace again.

  “I wasn’t trying to think about it, but I gotta do something, Cori,” Derrick finally managed to say. “Why he had to choose me to do that shit to, I don’t know.”

  “Baby, just stay here with me, let me help you take your mind off things, if only for a little while.” I told him, not budging an inch from where I sat. “You’re not going to be any good to anyone, including me, if you push your way through this without trying to rest, okay?”

  “Cori, I don’t just take the day off, I have too much to do.” he protested, lifting me off his lap with surprising ease. “I know you’re trying to take my mind somewhere else, and I love that you can do that with such ease, but the best thing for me is to go to work.”

  I found myself pouting a little, and he must have seen the expression on my face. He kissed my

  lips again and said, “I’ll tell you what, you can take me to work and pick me up for lunch, that way you can get some errands run before we get you home later today.”

  The smile on my face quickly spread, and someone would have thought I was the Cheshire cat that just had a large bowl of catnip at that point. “You are something else, boy.”

  “Yeah, definitely that, and then some, sexy.” he smirked as he got back up. “I need to freshen up before we head out.”

  I was just about to suggest a shared shower when my cell phone rang. I blew air when I saw Tracie’s number on my screen.

  “What is it, Tracie?”

  “Damn, what’s with the attitude, trick?” Tracie snapped back. “What are you doing, and where are you? I tried to come by last night.”

  I side-stepped the question because I didn’t want her in my business like that. “Something came up last night. I had someone drop me off somewhere to take care of it.”

  “Why you have to do all that when you have your car?” Tracie wouldn’t let up in her inquisition. “Or did lover boy come by to finally tap that ass?”

  “You’re really a nosey bitch, aren’t you?” I scoffed. “You’re with Brian now, so why does my life have to become so important to you? It’s not like I call you out of the blue to keep up with you.”

  “Just answer the question, Cori,” Tracie wouldn’t back down. “If you got sum, just say you got sum,
I wouldn’t blame you if you did.”

  “Mind your business, Tracie.”

  “You wouldn’t be this damn defensive unless you got your back blown out.” Tracie said again. “Look, if you think I’m trying to be in your shit, I’m not. I’m just trying to look out for you after finding out about that other bitch that’s trying some pay-for-play scheme. He’s still a player, and you need to protect yourself, darling.”

  “Listen, Tracie, the last time I checked, I was a grown-ass woman.” I had reached my boiling point, and I let her know it. “Worry about your own backyard before you come up in mine.”

  “Look, keep your blinders on, I don’t give a fuck,” Tracie lashed back at me. “I’m doing this for the good of the group. You’re getting too wrapped up in this dude, and we got a job to do.”

  Enough was enough.

  “We can roll for the good of the group, as you say, but we have nothing more to say to each other.” I finally dropped the hammer. “You and I are no longer tight like that, since you insist on disrupting my flow.”

  Derrick was just getting back in the bedroom while I was in the conversation with Tracie. He saw the look on my face and kept about his business, thinking that I was discussing group-related issues.

  My potential relationship was not a group-related issue, regardless of what Tracie thought.

  “Cori, I… alright, damn, I’m sorry.” Tracie softened. “I didn’t realize you felt this strongly about your personal—“

  I hung up the phone before she could finish that sentence. I turned to get dressed, slipping on my jean skirt and top quickly before Derrick turned around and got any ideas.

  Not that I would refuse him, of course.

  “Ready to go, baby?” he asked, snapping me out of the funk that I was in.

  It was amazing how he does that to me, among the other things that he does to me. I was getting pleasurable chills just thinking about it.

  I slipped my hand inside of his, watching his long fingers swallow my hand whole, in complete awe at how warm he was to the touch.

  Tracie was not about to ruin the feelings that I was enjoying right now. For the good of the group? Whatever.

  “Yeah, I’m ready.” I answered as we headed out of the door. “Lead the way.”

  ~Derrick~

  “Just a few more, baby.”

  I was putting the last touches on a photo shoot with Toni, trying to freshen up the images for my website so I could attract some new clientele. Thankfully, I wasn’t hurting for it because RP is as generous about taking care of a brother.

  Toni just kept nodding between the flashes, giving me these looks and expressions that let me know she wanted to talk afterwards.

  After seeing Cori drive off with my truck, my baby, this morning, I figured she would want to have that talk.

  As I was sliding the memory stick into the PC to start looking at the shots, Toni took that time to begin her questioning.

  “I really like your new girlfriend, D. I can tell that she’s into you,” she began while glimpsing over my shoulder at the images. “So, did she end your misery last night and give you sum?”

  “She’s not my girlfriend yet, Toni,” I tried to correct her, but she only rolled her eyes and tried to set me straight.

  “Derrick, I love you to death, but you’re ignoring the facts,” she started. “Anytime a woman comes out in the middle of the night to be with you in a time of crisis, it’s safe to say that she’s into you and cares for you.”

  I tried to open my mouth to rebut, but she moved in closer on me and stared directly into my eyes. “She’s acting like your girlfriend, D. I can feel it on you now.”

  She always had a way of making me weak whenever we made eye contact. It was something I would never admit to her, but she has that on me.

  “Then I guess that you would really trip if I told you that she did give me sum last night, and she has my baby right now?” I figured she might as well know, it’s not like she didn’t already see it for herself earlier.

  “Now I know she’s your girl, you just don’t let anyone caress your baby,” Toni smirked, sliding across my lap. Her eyes were probing mine, trying to find something, but I couldn’t figure out exactly what she was looking for. “Should I be jealous?”

  “As much as we’ve been through, and you want to ask that question?” I asked, trying to break the connection between us before I did something that I knew I wouldn’t regret. “If you’re making fun of me, we can finish the Q&A now so I can get back to work, baby.”

  “Am I still your baby?” Toni brushed her lips against mine, lowering my defenses, as if she were testing me.

  My mind told me that this was not something we should have been doing, but my body had other ideas. I immediately took hold of her hips as she tried to grind against me.

  “Toni—“ I knew resistance would be futile, all she would have to do is beg me to take her and it would be a rap.

  She abruptly stopped in the middle of the flow, kissing me on the cheek and placing her fingers to my lips when she knew I would ask why she stopped. “I would never make fun of you, you mean too much to me for that. I just wanted to make sure that I was still where I was supposed to be.”

  Whether it was wrong of me or not, I really didn’t care all that much; she was exactly where she was supposed to be.

  Number one… with an asterisk.

  Toni stared at me again, this time with a concerned look on her face as she raised herself from my lap. “How are you holding up, D? You looked really out of it last night.”

  “Toni, I actually feel nothing, to be honest,” I deadpanned. “He tried to kill me last night, and if he wasn’t so hopped up, he might have succeeded.”

  “I needed to be sure that you were okay, baby.” Toni answered, rubbing my shoulders. She always had a way of changing my mood for the better. “Do you want me to go with you to the funeral on Saturday?”

  “No, that won’t be necessary, but we would love to have you with us anyway,” I heard Cori jump into the conversation. “I hope he hasn’t been working too hard.”

  “No, he’s actually behaved, for once in his life,” Toni responded, giving her a hug and kiss in greeting. That surprised me. “We were just talking about you.”

  “I hope it was all good, I haven’t done anything naughty… at least, not yet,” Cori smirked in response, winking at me.

  “A woman after my own heart,” Toni smiled, which tipped me off to something that was going on between them. I wished I knew what it was, though. But I didn’t complain too much.

  My best friend and my potential girlfriend were getting along. What more could a man ask for?

  “Well, I was just about to take this sexy ass man to lunch, would you care to join us?” Cori offered, but Toni held her hand up in protest immediately.

  “No thanks, I have another appointment that I have to make, but I want to get together later in the week – just us girls – to celebrate your signing in a couple of days.” Toni told her, which threw Cori off a little bit.

  “Umm, I’m going to head in the back to get these images logged into my system while you two get some plans out of the way without my interference.” I mentioned, knowing good and well I was going to eavesdrop on the conversation anyway.

  I popped in the flash drives to let them load, and I tuned my ear to the girl talk that I was “missing.”

  “For someone who has a glow on her after spending the night at Derrick’s, you look distracted.” I heard Toni get down to it. “Don’t worry, some things are between us.”

  I kept myself busy so I wouldn’t sound so obvious, but I had to admit, I was curious to find out why I wasn’t so observant about her body language.

  “Toni, I—“ Cori hesitated for a moment, then continued. “There is this girl who I ran into while Derrick and I were out, Tina Parker, and she has been leaving these weird messages all morning about keeping their agreement.”

  “Lord, she’s at it again.” Toni sighed, e
choing my own private thoughts. “Look, girl, Derrick blew her off a long time ago; she’s a child for goodness sake.”

  “I know, but she tried to make a scene in front of me like D was with it,” Cori explained, and I felt the nervousness in her voice.

  “Tina unfortunately eavesdropped on a conversation that Derrick and I had a long time ago that she’s taken advantage of ever since.” Toni recalled. “Just ask D what his deepest dream… the one thing that he wants more than anything. Once he tells you that, you have power over Tina’s threats.”

  This was my cue to jump back into the conversation before Toni completely sold me out.

  “Are you ready to go? I’m starving.” I walked back in asking. The way I came in on them, you would think I interrupted a bonding moment.

  I put on my best poker face so that I wouldn’t let on that I didn’t hear their conversation. I’m sure one, or both, of them will tell me something sooner or later.

  “Yes, I am, baby. We’ll talk later, Toni.” Cori winked as she took my hand and headed out of the studio.

  “What were you and Toni talking about, Cori?” I couldn’t resist asking, even though I already

  had a clue from my eavesdropping.

  “D, try not to be nosey, it’s just girl talk,” Cori kissed me on the cheek as we walked to the elevator. “If you need to know, I’ll tell you.”

  ~Cori~

  “Come on, D, tell me, please?”

  All through lunch at Prime Meridian, I kept trying to get Derrick to tell me what the fuss was all about. Every time I asked he side-stepped the question. It was getting to the point to where I was ready to let him suffer on his own and deal with the mess that Tina was putting him in.

  Finally, his demeanor changed and he was subdued as he measured the words that he wanted to say to me.

  “Cori?”

  “Yes, Derrick?”

  “I assume that Toni told you that I have a special secret that I’ve kept for a long time now.” he kept flexing his fingers as if it was something that he really didn’t want to talk about.