Big City, Small Town

I might have been too weak for sex the night before...but I woke up next to Cherry sometime that morning with a raging erection...Cherry woke up too...She saw it and her eyes got wide....She looked at me and smiled sheepishly and began massaging it ...first with her soft hands and then with her mouth...I was losing my mind...

I slipped her sweat pants off...she slipped off her top...I kissed her and rolled over on her....I eased her panties down and slowly entered into her...She moaned softly as I slowly, yet deliberately moved inside of her and out of her....We continued to kiss long and slowly and make slow, easy , yet sweet love well into the night...and early into the morning...

I kissed her neck and behind her ears....She kissed my chest...I entered her slowly again...In and out...softly, steadily...slow sweet lovemaking...

She was on top, riding me, ...I cupped her buttocks and moved her up and down....We kept at it just like this for the next few hours...I sat up and began kissing her deeply,slower...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Calvin....Calvinnn, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my God.....this feels so good." moaned Cherry as we continued making love....

In the back of my mind....It was just like in Atlanta....One woman one night and another woman the next night and me waking up drunk as hell not being able to remember either woman's name...This however was different...I cared deeply for both of these women, I did...I was slowly falling in love with Cherry...I wanted to be with her and yet...I was IN LOVE with Bridget....Time hadn't eroded what I'd always felt for her...What was I going to do and how long could this last??

Philadelphia, big city that it is...was still a small town at heart.....I knew that practically everybody that hung out at Josies came through Victoria's Secret at sometime during the week...They all knew Cherry...and Bridget hung out at Josies with women who knew Cherry... Hell, Bridget and Cherry even went to the same Church...Because Bridget's friends who knew Cherry attended that church...AND SO DID I!!!  Which was why I haven't been going....How long before they either run into each other??...or I'm seen and someone says something?

I took that off my mind as I completed the task at hand...!

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU LAWDDDDDDD CALVINN...OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH." screamed Cherry in ecstacy as she climaxed!!!

Wasn't long before I was exploding myself...

"I'm going to have to keep a box of condoms over here...You're wetting up my sheets." joked Cherry..

"I'm sorry." I said.

"I'm just kidding...besides...I'm not trying to get pregnant either.." she joked.

I smiled...

Once again, I got up and fixed her breakfast in the morning...I ran down the street to the market and bought a few things...I made her Shrimp and Grits....

and we had Orange Juice and Champaigne with it.... Usually women cooked me breakfast, but this was some extra-ordinary sex I was getting....Better than I deserved...So how come I was still thinking about Bridget?? Why was she still in the back of my mind...Why couldn't I just get into a nice thing with Cherry?

Cherry had told me about her simultaneous relationships with Samuel Rasulala, the instructor at Community College where she had been taking classes and with a gangster named Roscoe, who was married or rather seperated...She probably felt the way I was feeling now...

Roscoe had initially just been her friend, but elevated himself to a friend with benefits......With the understanding that their little arrangement ended when and if she found someone...She told him that she had indeed found someone...ME!   She told him this , a week after his divorce had been finalized...He didn't take it too well....They don't speak anymore!  She felt bad about this...But she had did everything she could do to avoid being in that kind of relationship with him...He knew that!

Samuel Rasulala, had been seen with at least two girls in the meanwhile...both were his students...She walked up on him in a car,making out with one of them and told him she didn't ever want to see him again and if he darkened her door...She was going to call the police...

Of course he sent flowers, called, begged her to take him back....When he showed up at her door...She had him arrested !!! Message sent!

She did all of that because of me....And here I am..doing what I'm doing!!! I know in the back of my mind...I'm going to burn for this!

II-

So what I am doing in Roxys, a few days later? Roxys was a relatively new bar in the area, it had a nice little crowd...No live music...no DJ...You went here to drink, talk and watch sports or videos.. The crowd was much younger...

Bridget had texted me...said she wanted to talk with me here... This was perfect....None of the crowd that hung out at Josies or The Aqua Bar or the Mermaid Club or Ciros came here... In fact, I didn't even know the Bartender's name.

Bridget was a little late , which wasn't like her....but when I saw her, I saw that she was worth the wait!!

She had on a stunning ,form fitting red dress that was turning heads and snapping necks..as she came in the door..I was kind of proud that I was the man she was coming to see..

"Hi Calvin." she said.

"Heyy Bridget." I said.

"I can't believe I'm doing this....I thought I would never ever do this...but I had to see you...I know I told you I didn't want to see you again..but I haven't been able to stop thinking about you since you and I...welll, you know." she said.

"I really put it on you didn't I?" I joked.

"Oh stop, now you're making fun of me." she said.

"I'm just kidding.." I said.

"How serious are you with this other woman?" she asked.

"I can't lie to you Bridget...I think I'm starting to fall in love with her." I said.

"Oh!" she said.

"But I'm in love with you already!" I said. "I've never stopped." I added.

She looked at me kind of funny, as if she was afraid of what I'd just said.

"Calvin, I'm so lonely...I've been alone a long time...All my friends, Sepia, Honey, Bonita, Corrie,Bernadette, Sheila...They have husbands....and even my friends that aren't married  like Sissy and Carlotta. have steady boyfriends...Whenever we hang out, I'm always either the third wheel or the last one at the club...They all go home to their men and good sex...I go home alone....I have the sexiest lingerie known to man...Although your girlfriend might dispute that....but anyway, no man to see me in it!" she said.

"Hold up...What do you mean my girlfriend might dispute that? You know ?" I said.

"Yes...I know, You're seeing Cherry Johnson, who manages the Victoria's Secret...in the mall where you work." she said.

"Wow, as big as this city is..." I said.

"It's still a small town in nature." she finished and laughed.

"You sound like Gus ,the bartender at Josies." I said.

"That's who says it all the time." she laughed.

''How'd you find out?" I asked.

"Samuel Rasulala  told me...He saw you and me in Sam Mother's Diner the other day....Just talking ,.I think he's angry that Cherry broke it off with him for you and he was in my store venting yesterday....And I put two and two together." she said.

"You think he knows about us?" I asked.

"There is no us....He just knows that we know each other....Your secret is safe with me...It's just...It's just I'm so lonely sometimes....I don't know how to ask you this...But could we have..a ..little ugh arrangement  from time to time?" she said and then hung her head down..almost in shame.

"You mean, friends with benefits? A secret lover type tip?" I asked.

''Kinda sorta...We can see each other on the low...If it starts getting complicated, we can end it, as friends and neither of us has to say anything about it." she said.

I was quiet for a minute.....This was not what I wanted...and yet, I didn't want to lose Bridget....I didn't want to lose Cherry either....I was a selfish bastard, but you only get so many great opportunities in life...

I looked at Bridget for a long while...

"What?" she said.

"Damn girl, you sure look good in that dress." I found myself saying.

III-

Here we were once again in Bridget's home, In Bridget's bedroom making wild , sweaty , jungle love.....

Bridget moaning and screaming to the top of her lungs!...

The bed squeaking like crazy, the headboard rocking from side to side....pieces of the wall chipping off!

Me thrusting inside her warm, soft, wet center like crazy and moaning myself...

Bridget kissing me passionately like kissing was going out of style.....

Of course this wasn't going to last forever....She already knew about Cherry and how long would it be before a slip of a tongue told Cherry about her?  They knew each other ,vaguely, and they had friends in common, ran in the same circles...This was not going to end good,I know...but I might as well enjoy it while I can...

And tonight ,I was enjoying it!

IV-

The next day I had two dozen roses of multiple colors sent to the Victoria's Secret where Cherry worked...

I watched out the window as Minay, her assistant signed for them and gave them to her...She was ecstatic!!!
She read the little card I sent and she gushed...

Cherry saw me standing outside of her store and she blew me a kiss...I smiled...

Who was I?  This wasn't who I thought I was....I was losing myself....I was becoming seperated from my soul....I needed help!

(TO BE CONTINUED....)