The Pleasure of Pain

by Shameek Speight

  D-Low had been trying to get with Tess and Iris sexy asses for a while now, but they knew his games and weren’t giving him any play. He wasn’t getting any pussy from them for a pair of sneakers and some money. So, Keri was the next best thing for him. Keri told D-Low that Tess and Iris had jumped her, which was only part of the story of what really had gone down. D-Low was happy to hear this. It gave him the opportunity and reason to beat their asses for not giving him any play. He’d use that Keri got jumped as an alibi so the street wouldn’t talk and think he was a cornball that got mad because he couldn’t get with either of them.

  Tess and Iris looked D-Low up and down wondering what this fool wanted. Then they glanced over and saw Keri and they knew what time it was. Tess thought to herself, ‘this bitch didn’t learn her lesson yet!’

  “Yo, what the fuck up with you bitches jumping my girl?” D-Low yelled.

  “Ain’t no one jumped your fucking girl,” Iris replied.

  “Yeah, she just got her ass whipped that’s all,” Tess added.

  “Fuck you, Tess,” Keri yelled.

  “Oh! So, now that your man is here you got heart,” Tess yelled. Iris and Tess started laughing hysterically.

  D-Low got pissed and punched Tess in the face making her fall back. “Laugh now bitch,” D-Low said as he jabbed Tess in the jaw then her stomach.

  Iris spit out a razor from her mouth and with all her might she swung the razor at D-Low’s face. The razor cut through his face like a hot knife on butter.

  “AAHHH!” D-Low yelled.

  He picked Iris up and slammed her on the ground and started stomping her with his feet. Tess pulled out an orange box cutter from her back pocket and cut D-Low across his arm. D-Low punched her so hard she saw stars and fell to the ground next to Iris. Keri moved in and started stomping both girls with D-Low. Tess and Iris were curled up in a ball trying to cover their heads.

  “You bitches want to cut me. I’ll kill you,” D-Low yelled with every kick.

  Coming from down the block, Bless could see D-Low and Keri stomping Tess and Iris. Bless had seen Tess around the way and was feeling her, but never stepped to her. He was too busy making money and running the streets, but his anger grew as he watched D-Low beat Tess and Iris like they were men. Bless pulled his 38 revolver from his waistband and ran and struck D-Low in the back of the head with it.

  “AAHH!” D-Low yelled as he hit the ground.

  Bless then hit Keri in the jaw with the gun making her cry and fall backwards. Bless began to pistol whip D-Low with the gun making him cry until he begged him to stop. Tess and Iris got off the ground and attacked Keri kicking and punching her to the ground until there was blood on the ground. Tess looked over at Bless and saw he was still pistol whipping D-Low, so she started kicking D-Low in the ribs.

  “Take that motherfucker,” Tess yelled as she kicked him.

  Bless stood up with blood all over him and looked D-Low in the eyes. “Open your fucking mouth,” Bless ordered. D-Low did what he was told and Bless put the barrel of the long 38 revolver in D-Low’s mouth. “If you ever or if I ever, see you touch them again. I’ll kill you.”

  D-Low was older than Bless, who was only sixteen, but the street was talking about Bless and how he was coming up fast in the crack game. The word on the streets was this young thug already killed six people and from the look in his eyes D-Low knew it was true. He had no plans on being his seventh victim. Lights from cop cars could be seen from down the block.

  “Come on follow me,” Bless said to Tess and Iris.

  Tess looked back to see the cop cars getting closer. Iris and Tess started to follow Bless. They walked four blocks down really fast to a house on Dean Street. Bless opened the door that led to a basement apartment. Iris and Tess looked at each other as they were standing in the doorway. Bless looked back at them and said, “Listen, I don’t bite and I won’t hurt you.” So they stepped in.

  Bless’s apartment was decked out with the finest things money could buy. His furniture was a cream color that matched the rug. He had a sixty two inch TV in the living room. Tess started to wonder how a sixteen year old could afford all of that, but she already knew the answer. She had seen Bless around the way and thought he was a sexy, chocolate brother. She always wondered why he never tried to holler at her like all the other hustlers.

  “Both of you, please, sit down on the couch,” he said.

  They did what he asked. Bless went into the bathroom and came back out with clean washcloths and two bowls of warm water. He kneeled down in front of Tess and dipped the washcloth in the water and began wiping the wounds on her face and arm, cleaning away all the blood. Tess was shocked to see that this young man with so much rage and power could be so gentle. After he was finished wiping Tess down, he went over to Iris and did the same thing to her. Both girls watched him as he got up and went into his bedroom. Bless took off the bloody clothes he had on and put on some blue jeans and a tank top. He came back out with some weed and blunts.

  “Yo, do you know how to roll?” he asked Tess. Tess shook her head no.

  “I do,” Iris said. Bless passed the weed and blunt to Iris to roll while he turned on the TV and put the movie ‘Friday’ in the VCR.

  They sat and smoked and laughed while watching the movie and shared things about their lives. Tess learned that the house they were in belonged to Bless’ grandmother, who lived upstairs, and she let him stay in the basement by himself. She learned that his mother was a crack head, who ran away when he was born. She had him at the age of sixteen. His father was a big time drug dealer in Brownsville, but started using his own drugs and became a dope head. Bless met him a few times, but wanted nothing to do with him because his grandmother told him that his father was the reason that her daughter was a crack head and now he’ll never know his mother.

  Tess looked over at Iris to see that she was asleep from smoking weed. “So, Bless, why did you come and help us today?” Tess asked.

  “Oh, on some real shit I’m not even going to lie to you. I’ve been seeing you around the way. I was feeling you and I like the fact that you don’t give any of these dudes around here any play. So, I knew you were different, but I was always too busy to holla at you. Today, when I seen D-Low beating you like you was a man, I flipped out and let my emotions get the best of me,” Bless responded.

  “So, do you regret it?” Tess asked.

  “No Mami, I don’t and I’ll do it again if I have to,” Bless replied.

  “Bless, I’ve been feeling you too and I used to wonder why you never hollered at me. Now, I know why,” Tess said. Tess bent over next to him and kissed him deeply and passionately.

  Bless picked her up in his arms and carried her to his bedroom where he laid her on the bed to kiss every part of her body as he started to remove all of her clothes down to her lingerie. Tess released soft, light moans.

  “Baby, let’s make up for all the lost time,” Tess said highly aroused.

  “Ssshh, I got you baby,” Bless replied.

  He kissed her down to her blue lace panties as he slid them off her as they were clinched in his mouth. He kissed her back up between her legs and between her thighs and licked until he reached her clit. He gave her clit one long suck and Tess let out a loud moan. He got up unbuckled his jeans, pulling them down to reveal his big hard dick. All Tess could think was, ‘Damn, that shit is thick and long’.

  She sat right up and stopped him from penetrating her after he pulled a condom on. She took his dick in her hands and then slowly put her mouth all over it, not missing a spot of his manhood. She let go with her hands and began sucking, slurping, and deep-throating his dick like a professional porn star. Bless after a while couldn’t take it anymore and gently pushed her off. She lay on her back and he entered her slowly. At a slow pace he penetrated her love box, speeding up after seeing a white cream all over the condom.

  “Oh, daddy, I’ll never leave you!” Tess yelled.

  “You better not. This is my pussy!”
That was the first time they made love and they learned each other’s body. From that day on, Bless was her man and Tess was his woman.

  No Turning Back

  Chapter 4

  Tess and her girls would spend every night at Bless’ apartment every opportunity they got. It was the only place where they could do what they wanted-- smoke, drink, and laugh all night.

  Tess wanted to learn more about the drug game. So Bless began to teach her how to break down pounds of weed, how to cook and cut crack, and put workers on the block. He even taught her and Iris how to use a gun and Tess and Iris taught Vanessa and Ebony.

  Out of the group the only one Bless really couldn’t understand was Iris. She would come by at night to his place and wouldn’t say a word. She’d look stressed and depressed. Bless would give her sheets and a pillow and she’d go right to sleep on his couch. At first he used to try to get her to talk about what was going on with her, but she would never tell him what was wrong. So he stopped pushing and told himself she’d tell him when she was ready.

  “Stop Papi, stop, please no more,” cried Iris as her father was humping and pumping his drunk dick in and out of his daughter until he busted a nut all inside of her. He left the room leaving Iris crying.

  She got up and got dressed and left her room and went outside and started to walk to the only place she felt safe. Bless heard a knock at his door as he was bagging up some coke. He grabbed his gun and opened the door to find Iris standing there. He moved to the side and let her in, “There are clean sheets in the closet and a blunt on the table.”

  Iris couldn’t understand how this man, this gangster could be so kind to her. At times she wished Bless was her man and not Tess’. As Iris sat down, she began to cry. Bless stopped what he was doing, “Iris, you ok?” he asked. “You know we are peoples and you can tell me anything. I always got your back,” he explained.

  More tears ran down her face and she wished her father and mother cared about her like he did. But her father only had lust in his eyes for her. “Bless,” Iris said between tears. “I’m going to tell you something that I haven’t even told Tess.” She looked Bless in his eyes and tears were running down her face. “My father raped me tonight.”

  “What!” Bless yelled.

  “It’s not the first time. He’s been doing it from the time I was seven years old. I always blamed myself and I used to tell my mother, but she would just beat me and tell me to do what my father said to do. So I just let him do what he wanted to me and pray it would be over soon. I used to go to Tess’ house and stay the night, but her uncle didn’t like me staying over there all the time. He didn’t know why so I don’t blame him. Then we met you and I started coming here after he raped me just to get away from that place,” she began to cry some more. “Sometimes I come here just to sleep without worrying that I will get touched and raped in my sleep.” Iris was now crying even harder.

  Bless was the first and only person she ever told about what her family had been doing to her. Bless went over to Iris and held her in his arms until she fell asleep. He grabbed his gun and left Iris asleep on the couch. He walked to Iris’s building and waited in the dark. He knew who Iris’s father was. Shit, he knew everybody in the neighborhood and he knew Iris’s pops was a drunk. He would come back out tonight because it was only 11:20pm and the liquor store closed at 12 midnight. The drunk that he was would want more bottles for the night. So Bless waited in the shadows of the dark and at 11:30 Iris’s father came out of the building as so expected.

  Bless ran up to him and punched him in the head knocking him to the ground and he began to beat the shit out of him. If there was one thing he couldn’t stand, it was a rapist and this man was the lowest of them all. He raped his own daughter. Bless beat him until blood was everywhere. Then he grabbed the man by his shirt and pulled his face close to his.

  “If you ever touch Iris again, I will kill you,” Bless meant every word. “If your hands or dick go next to her, mark my words, you are dead.” Just with one look in Bless’s eyes Iris’s father saw a beast and knew he was serious. Iris’s father began to pee his pants.

  “I…I won’t touch her. I swear, please, don’t kill me.” Bless left the man sitting in his own blood and piss.

  Watch Out For Your Past…

  It’s Always Waiting To Return

  Chapter 5

  Iris never knew what happened that night, but her father hadn’t touched her in three months and he’d never touch her again. She knew Bless had something to do with it and she was going to pull him to the side and ask him about it. Iris was leaving her building to meet Bless, Tess, Vanessa and Ebony at Bless’ place. She walked down the block. The night air hit her skin and it felt good. Then everything went wrong.

  A pair of hands grabbed her neck and mouth and then another pair grabbed her feet. They picked her up off the ground and started carrying her three blocks down. It was 12 am and only the hustlers were outside. The rule of the street was to mind your own damn business. So that’s what they all did.

  Once D-Low and his two workers, Boom and Phats, got Iris into his apartment, they wasted no time and started to beat her ass. D-Low grabbed a broomstick and beat her with it. “Bitch, you want to cut up my face! I’ll teach you,” he yelled with every hit. Boom grabbed Iris’ clothes and ripped them off. Iris tried to fight, but was no match for the three men.

  “Yo, she got a nice body and a fat ass. Let me go first,” Boom said.

  “No punk, I’m the boss. I’m fucking this bitch first,” D-Low responded.

  Boom held Iris’ hands while Phats held her feet after D-Low spread her legs pushing his dick inside her. He pumped up and down like a wild animal until he busted all up inside her. Then they flipped her over and held her down and D-Low hit it from the back. Iris screamed and cried the whole time. Then D-Low pulled his dick out and pushed it in her ass. She tried to resist, but the men were holding her down. She tried to squeeze her butt cheeks tight together, but it was no use. D-Low fucked her carelessly and hard until he saw blood on his dick.

  “Your turn,” he said to Boom and Phats. Then he let Boom and Phats have their way with her.

  Iris had passed out from all the pain, but the men were still tossing her back and forth between them fucking her over and over. D-Low grabbed an iron and turned it on until it got real hot and placed it on Iris’ leg.

  “Ahhh!” Iris yelled. She woke up only to pass back out from the pain.

  “Yes bitch, you mark me now I mark you,” D-Low said with an evil grin on his face. “Yo, throw this bitch outside,” D-Low ordered. Phats and Boom did just that.

  At five o’clock in the morning an elderly lady stepped out of the building and was about to head to work, but saw Iris’s bloody, beaten body lying there on the sidewalk. She ran to a payphone and called 911 for an ambulance for Iris.

  Where to Turn

  Chapter 6

  Tess hadn’t seen nor heard from Iris all day and that was unlike her. The two girls were always together. Tess went by Iris’s house and asked for her, but her mother didn’t know nor seem to care and her father was scared and claimed that he hadn’t touched her. ‘What was that shit supposed to mean?’ Tess thought to herself.

  Tess didn’t know where to turn. She knew something was wrong with her best friend, but she couldn’t find her. Tess stayed at Bless’ house crying and worrying about Iris. Bless kept trying to tell Tess that she’d show up. Tess just prayed she would and that she was okay.

  Three days had passed and still no one had seen nor heard from Iris. On the fourth day Bless’ house phone rang and Tess picked it up. “Tess, it’s me,” Iris said.

  “Where are you?” Tess asked in concern.

  “I’m at Kings County Hospital. Can you please come see me?”Iris said.

  “I’ll be right there.” Tess and Bless hopped in the car and rushed to the hospital. They had no time to look for Vanessa and Ebony to tell them what was going on. Tess and Bless were at the hospital in minutes. Tess
found out what room she was in from the lady at the hospital’s information front desk where they had to sign in to visit. They went to the second floor and went inside Iris’ room. What they saw had them in tears. Iris’s face was all swollen and lumped up.

  “Iris, what happened?” Tess asked with tears rolling down her face.

  The first thought that came to Bless’s mind was that it was Iris’s father who had done that and he swore he would kill him for it. Iris began to speak, but stopped and put her head down because she was ashamed of what happened.

  “There is nothing to be ashamed of Mami. We’re all family, so tell us.”

  “D-Low and his two workers grabbed me the night I was coming to meet you two. They raped and beat me for hours.” Tears were falling down Iris’s face and it hurt her just to cry. The tears stung her face.

  Tess began to cry from seeing her friend in so much pain. “I’m going to kill them,” Tess yelled.

  “I’m with you, Tess,” Bless agreed.

  “Wait,” Iris said, “I don’t want you two to do anything until I get out. I want to be there, alright?”

  “That’s cool,” Bless said.

  “I’m down with that,” Tess replied. “But what took you so long to call us Iris?” Tess asked.

  “I’ve been passed out for three days after they did what they did to me. I just woke up today. That’s why it took me so long to call. The doctor said I’m okay and everything else healed up, but my face. I can go home tomorrow. The cops asked questions, but I didn’t tell them anything. I was hoping we’d handle this,” Iris said.