Friends With Benefits, Maybe!

Cherry Johnson sat at the bar with an old aquaintence of hers... Roscoe...Fathead Newton's Chief enforcer and Number two man....Gus served them drink after drink and they laughed and talked throughout the night...
Roscoe kept looking at Cherry though as if he was undressing her... A fact that hadn't been lost on her.. She had been Chess's girl when she first came to Philly...Running from an ex husband  in California , where she was from, who is now incarcerated.

She abandoned Chess and eventually wound up with Fathead Newton... a gangster....They nearly got married..but it was not meant to be...Fathead was a lecherous , cheating dog..she found out...He married someone else...Who eventually left him....

She was briefly involved with the man who was up on stage now playing with his band...Downtown Rob Brown, but he too tried to be a player...juggled her with his girlfriend and with yet another woman, a vocalist.

She toyed with leaving Philadelphia and returning to her native San-Francisco, and then she got a job managing a Victoria's Secret store..

and she got a boyfriend!! The Handsome and dashing Samuel Rasulala ...Who teaches at the community college...Only thing is...Sam has wandering eyes and hands...She's caught him eyeing a couple of his students and found a pair of panties in the backseat of his car that she knew weren't hers!! She hasn't seen him in three weeks...

Roscoe, who often would pick her up and drive her to wherever Fathead wanted to meet her was always her trusted confidant...He would listen to her complain about men ad nauseum...He would take her out and buy her a drink ,when she was lonely and spend hours on the phone with her...He was recently seperated himself, so tonight...They were both crying in each other's beers...

"Oh Roscoe...I think about just packing up and going back to the west coast all the time.." she said.

''Why you wanna do that Cherry? You got a good job here.....Chess and Chris let you live in a nice condo at a subsidized rate, you goin to school at night...you got friends here...Come on now...What do you have in Cali?" he said.

"Wow... you really are selling Philly...They got Victoria's Secret stores  in San-Francisco...Hell, that's where the chain started...I could transfer there..Could still go to school and I could live cheaper prolly.." she said.

"Damn girl..So you gone sky up huh?" he asked.

"I don't know.....Probably no time soon...I want to at least get my degree.." she said.

''What about you and that teacher?" he asked.  She sucked her teeth..

"He's so busy chasing other skirts...He wouldn't even notice that I was gone." she said.

"I'd notice baby." said Roscoe..

''Awwwww, you so sweet...You probably would." she said.

"Why don't you just drop that fool? You just a notch on his bedpost....He tried to crack on Kevin's Wife once when she was his student." said Roscoe.

"Sepia?? Really??" said Cherry...

"Yeah...It was before they got married ..When she was just livin with Kev...But Sepia aint go for the okey doke..." said Roscoe...

"He done made moves on Mabel Jenkins...Reed Nelson's girl, Debbie...a couple of babes." said Roscoe.

"What a dog...See...aint no good guys around for me to do anything with...I haven't had sex in about a month!" she said.

"A month? Damnnn girl...I guess by now you're about ready to bust." he joked.

"Nahh, not that bad..but it's gettin that way." she said.

""Damn girl...Why didn't you call me?" he said...Only half joking....

"Oh stop playin Roscoe.." she laughed.

"I'm not playing Cherry...." he said...no longer laughing...or drinking...She smiled and ignored him..

"Look...Me and you been cool as a fan from day one aint we?" he said.

''Come on Roscoe...Let's not go there." she said with a laugh..She was clearly uncomfortable with where this conversation was heading.

Roscoe said no more...They both drank and listened to Downtown Rob Brown and his quintet finish his set.
Gus came around and Roscoe paid for both of their drinks...

''You don't come around much Roscoe" said Gus.

"Been tryin to stop drinkin Gus." he laughed...

Gus looked at him, gave him the side eye and burst into laughter...Roscoe laughed too......

'You know me Gus." he laughed.

"Yeah, I know you." laughed Gus as he scooped up the money...

"Ready for me to take you home?" said Roscoe.

"Yeah...I'm a little tired." said Cherry.

II-

Roscoe drove Cherry to her complex and parked the car....To her surprise...He cut the lights and got out of the car and opened the passenger side.  He usually just dropped her off and kept going, unless she asked him to come up.

Tonight was different.  She said nothing...They walked quietly to her complex, went in and got on the elevator.  Once inside her place...He looked around...

'Wow, it's been a minute since I been up here." he said.

"Yeah...I know." she said.

"You've done wonders with the place." he said.

"Yup." she said.

He pulled her to him gently and kissed her in the lips...She didn't resist him...She loved the way he smelled..Whatever he was wearing smelled great...and the smell of liquor on his breath was equally intoxicating...She felt herself getting aroused and moist, even though she didn't want to...The next thing she knew , she and Roscoe were standing there in her living room kissing passionately and making out like two high school kids...She felt his erection in his pants...He was huge...like a horse!! She thought...She allowed her hands to feel it!!!  She was astounded!!!!She was getting even more aroused!!

Her common sense got to her...She could not do this...Not with him..She stopped kissing him and moved his hands away...

"Whoa partner...down boy..We can't...We can not be doing this...Me and you....For god sakes...you work for Fathead...He'd kill you!" she said.

"You gonna tell him?" asked Roscoe...

She continued to kiss him passionately...He eased his hands up her skirt and began massaging her butt cheeks with those large hands of his...She was definitely turned on now....He kissed her neck..in between her breasts
and behind her ears...She shuttered...

''Ouuuuuuuu...ohhhhhhhhhhhhh.."she moaned...

Like a pro...he had her dress off and she kicked her heels off...He slipped her panty hose down to her ankles and she stepped out of them and he had her bra off in mere seconds....

She unzippered his trousers and unbottoned his shirt...His undershirt was off and he had stepped out of his socks very quickly...He kissed her from her nick down to her panty line and she moaned and shook..As he backed her up against the wall and began french kissing her like nobody's business..Her hands drifted down and squeezed his massive penis and began gently stroking it...

"Ohhhhhhhh Cherry...Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."he moaned...."I've dreamed of this moment since I've known you." he said.

"You have?? ummmmmph...well why didn't you tell me..??  " she said in between slurpy kisses...

"You were involved with the bossman" he said.

She thought that he was more than likely lying...but she didn't care....he felt so good right now!

"Ohhhh girlllll." he moaned as she led him to her bedroom.....They didn't even waste time pulling the covers off...They fell right on the bed and Roscoe entered Cherry slowly and surprisingly gently...

''Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...you feel sooooo gooooooodddd." she said as he began to move slow at first, but eventually faster...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GOD.....OHHHHHHHHHHHH GOdddddddddddddddd...OHHHH
MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY godddddddddddddddddddd!!!" Cherry screamed as Roscoe and she continued to move in perfect synchronation on her bed....

The bed rocked from side to side...The headboard slammed softly against the walls......Cherry moaned deeper and guttarally!!!

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu......"

"Awww baby" he moaned as he continued to stroke her..... Cherry had several orgasms while Roscoe was making love to her...finally, she came so hard that she felt like she had touched the sky...she would later say!

Roscoe came quieter, but just as hard!!!!.....

They both sat naked on the side of her bed...Fully exhausted!!! They had been making love for close to three hours...Roscoe was spent!!!

"Phew...baby you got any water?" he asked...

"I got a few bottles in the refrigerator...bring me one too." she said as He got up, gathered his clothes and put  them on a chair.  He slipped on his boxers and she slipped on  t-shirt that had been lying on the other side of the bed..

He passe her a bottle of water...

''Roscoe...What did we just do?" she asked.

"We made love baby." he said with a laugh...

"That wasn't love Roscoe...That was just sex.." she said.

"Call it what you want, it was good." he said...

He aint never lied, she thought to herself, but did not say...


''We can't do this again or ever speak about it..We just friends...friends Roscoe." she said.

"Can't we be friends with benefits?" he asked.

"I don't want that kind of relationship...Not with you!" she said.

''What's the matter...you're too good for me? A couple of hours ago you was screaming my name..." he said angrily.

"Come on Roscoe...We are friends....This changes everything..." she said.

"Why?" he asked.

"Because ...Because ,,,Because it just does." she said.

"Look here...aint nobody got to know, cept you .....and me." he said.

''You know it doesn't work like that...It never does.. I sure hope you not catchin feelings?" she said.

He thought for awhile....She was right of course....People have a way of looking at two people and knowing that something is up between them....He had to work for Fathead.....She could come between the two....even though he knew that Fathead was long over her and at this very minute in Atlantic City with some exotic dancer he met...He might feel some kind of way knowing that he had screwed his ex-fiance...Cherry was right..This could be uncomfortable on many levels...

He said nothing...He slowly put on his clothes...He finished his bottle of water and tossed it in the trash...

''Roscoe...you're not mad at me are you?" she asked.

"Uh Nah...No...We good." he said..

''Where are you going?  It's five in the morning?" she asked.

"You want me to stay the night?  Think of what you're sayin." He said.

She said no more...He was right.

He left her complex...Drove to his place and quickly showered, shaved, brushed his teeth and got in his own bed, alone...He smiled at the memory of his night with Cherry though!