Girl Talk

The early summer morning...There is nothing like it....My wife Carlotta stood alone at Penns Landing...she looked up and she saw her friend, Mimi walking towards her with two steaming styrofoam cups of Latte from her tony Coffee shop...

Carlotta smiled....

"Ohhh thank you so much Mimi.." she said as Mimi handed her a Latte...

"Made just to your specifications girlfriend.." said Mimi....

The two women stood and looked at the riverfront as they sipped their tumblers of coffee and talked...

"This is nice ,us two girls just hanging out on a Saturday Morning....Say ,where is your husband?" asked
Mimi...

I was in an unmarked survielence van , just a few feet away with Sissy, Duke, Tyriq, Jimmy,Sirena and Hop listening and viewing everything...Carlotta was wearing a wire in her bra...and we had a small but powerful micro-camera placed near where they were talking so that we could view the entire scenario...

"This camera is picking up real good...I'm getting the clearest vision ever...it's like watching Television." said Hop.

''A little gift from our favorite FBI Agent, Sharon Hopkins....Your wife and Homeland Security." said Jimmy.

"Yeah she told them that we were watching someone named Ahmid Muhhamad." laughed Sirena....

"Girl you need to stop." laughed Sissy as she passed them tumblers of coffee.

''We got plain clothes guys in position?" I asked.

"Relax Keith...I got the area covered..."said Duke...

"She's your baby, but she was our partner and protoge' first...We are not going to let anything happen to Top." said Tyriq...

I knew that...It was just nice to hear them say it...

II-

 The conversation continued-

"He's hanging out with his friends...Two other detectives in our unit....You know, guy stuff, haircut, then basketball in the park...Then he'll come home and be all over me..." said Carlotta laughing..

"You are sooo lucky to have a husband...and such a handsome husband too...Be careful with him honey...There are some scandalous chicks out here....Right under your nose...and you know what I'm talkin about... Your so called best friend...Sharon....I don't trust her as far as I can throw her...but I know you always loved her...." said Mimi...

''Sharon is good people.."said Carlotta.

"Hmmmph....The way she treated Hop,always trading up for the next best thing...Poor guy was just so sprung, he stayed in love with her...Damn if I would have married her after a lifetime of taking crap from her like he did....but I guess she put that thing on him...Gave him a little taste and the poor guy just couldn't help himself.."said Mimi...

"Mimi that's cruel...Don't talk about my friend like that....She is not a bad person..."said Carlotta...

"Well maybe not to you...She didn't steal anybody of yours like she did me...." said Mimi...

"Who did she steal from you?" asked Carlotta..

"Paul Witherspoon." she said.

''Paul Witherspoon?"asked Carlotta...

"I loved him with all my heart from day one in ninth grade....He was my first...I lost my virginity to him...and he left me for Sharon...In the 11th grade, right before the junior prom..."said Mimi icily...

"Mimi, that was years ago...you can't still be mad about that."said Carlotta.

"He broke up with me in the 11th grade to date Sharon....And she didn't want him...She just wanted to make Gary jealous...because he had cheated on her with your sister."said Mimi..

"Mimi, Paul tried to talk to me...He was calling my house every night for awhile....Even came over to my house.."said Carlotta...

"Yeah, but you shut him down." said Mimi..

"My boyfriend, Mickey Lolo shut him down." said Carlotta...

"Yeah, how is he?" asked Mimi..

"He's dead....He was in the life you know....and he was killed by his own people..."said Carlotta.

''Wowwww...I remember you two were engaged and he broke up with you when he found out you were going to become a cop....His loss, dumb ass.." said Mimi...

"So Mimi..When was the last time you saw Paul or Gary?" asked Carlotta...

"Oh it's been years...After High school...I was at Community College for awhile and working and Paul and I ran into each other....He took me to AC for the weekend and we wound up hooking up again and getting engaged... I thought ..I thought...well this is it..I've finally got him, you know...Months went by...We were planning, We had picked a site...My dress was ready, invitations were about to be sent out and just like that, three months before we were to get married...He came to me, crying..saying that he had run into Claudette Robinson and they had got to talking and he realized that she was his true love....He broke off our engagement...Carlotta ,I had never been so humilated in my life."she said crying and slobbering profusely.."

Carlotta put her arms around her and held her....

"Don't cry...Don't cry mami..." she said.

"Carlotta girl...I nearly had a nervous breakdown....I moved to Chicago...I couldn't stay in Philly..." she said.

"So you never saw Paul Witherspoon again?" asked Carlotta...

"Nooo never.."she said.

"You ever run into his friend, Gary?" she asked...

"Yeah....a few months ago...We ran into each other...He asked me for my number..but I.....I didn't give it to him....All he wanted was to get me in the bed...again..."she said.

''You slept with Gary?" asked Carlotta..

"In High school to get back at Sharon for stealing Paul from me...and a couple of times after high school before Paul and me got engaged and a couple of times after Paul broke off the engagement...before I left for Chicago...but I haven't dealt with either of those losers in years...They just passed me around and then discarded me like I'm discarding this coffee cup" she said and began crying again and tossed her cup into a nearby waste recepticle...

She composed herself and lit a cigarette...

"I didn't know you smoked Mimi.."said Carlotta...

"Yeah,it's a bad habit I picked up.....It takes the stress off when I get in my moods..."she said.

"Let's talk about something pleasent..."said Carlotta smiling sweetly...

Mimi took long drags off of her cigarette and tossed the but into the same trash recepticle...

A trash man ,who was actually a plain clothes cop immediately came and gathered the plastic trash bag and replaced it with an empty one...and walked away....

The two women talked for another hour..

III-

Sometime Later in our conference room, We all met to discuss our findings....

Carlotta rubbed her good friend, Sharon Ferrell -Hopkins back as the entire episode was replayed on the video screen...Sharon couldn't like the things said about her...

"If Mimi is the killer..I would hate to have to bust her...She's been through a lot."said Carlotta..

"Wow...She hates me...She's hated me all this time...I thought so..And I guess I deserve it...I haven't been the nicest person...Look how I treated you guys when we first met...That bank robbery case.. Look at my career...D.C. , Atlanta, New Orleans...The local P.D. hated me..."said Sharon ,who looked close to tears...

''Heyyy Stop that..."I said ,putting my arms around Sharon..."You've been nothing but Sterling since you've been here and frankly I'm glad you are here...You've been a great help to our team and I'm glad to call you a friend." I said.

Sissy hugged her too...

"I don't know what happened between you and the Atlanta P.D. or the D.C. P.D.  but the Philadelphia Police Department loves you girl." she said and hugged Sharon...

"Mimi is hurting...Hurt people ,hurt people.."said Carlotta.

"Thanks for having my back Carlotta, even though you were undercover.." she said.

''Always" said Carlotta.

Jimmy walked in the conference room just then-

"Hey guys...She lied about not seeing Paul Witherspoon in years....I showed a photo around to some of his friends and they all identified her as the woman they saw him with close to two years ago and also..I cross checked her financials and his...And they spent at least two weekends in Atlantic City two years ago...He told his wife he was away on Business....I checked with his job....One time was a business trip...the other time definitely wasn't....So they were together while he was married..." said Jimmy....

Sirena and Hop came in next.....

"Lotta, Sharon...This is a little disturbing....We called Chicago P.D. and ran a cross check on any simular murders and we got one...A white male, Damon Nestle....went missing a few years ago and was found in the park in a half dug grave , with a gunshot wound to the back of the head...This was last year...The case went cold.." said Sirena...

"Guess who David Nestle was?  He was Mimi Honeywell's husband..."said Hop...

"She said he was bi-sexual and she caught him with another man...Oh my god....So you have her husband, Gary Campbell and Paul Witherspoon...all guys who crossed her and all wound up dead.."I said.

"It gets even worse Top." said Duke  "She said she hadn't seen either of them for years....I pulled this photo off of a surveilience camera in a 7-11 of Her and Gary, the night he was last seen alive...Look, She took the sunglasses and the floppy hat off for a minute....That's her...Mimi.....And I talked to a girl who knew Mimi and she gave me a description of Gary and identified him in a photo I showed her...He visited with her , a half a dozen times in the weeks leading up to his disapearence....These were all days he was supposed to be working late or running an errand for friends, according to what he told his wife...These two were together." he continued...

"Oh My God.."said Carlotta, Sharon and Sissy...

Some hours later ,Duke and Tyriq came in with a young man who recognized Carlotta and Sharon...

"Folks this is Renaldo Lopez.." said Duke...

"Carlotta Rodriguez??? ,Sharon Ferrell?/ You guys are cops??"he exclaimed, laughing...

They both laughed...

"Rennie...Is that you??" they exclaimed...

''Am I missing something?" I asked.

"Rennie was my boyfriend at one time...My rebound guy....After Mickey Lolo and I broke up...." said Carlotta.

''Yeah...We all were good friends throughout high school..."said Sharon...

"But more important..he sold Paul Witherspoon that gun...The .40 and Paul gave it to Mimi Honeywell for protection....This was two years ago...When she returned to Philly....Her cosmetics shop had been robbed."said Tyriq..

"Yeah...I told Mimi that Paul was no good and I asked her out on a date....she turned me down.."said Rennie.

Sissy looked at him and said-

''Let's just say...This is one time...It was good you got turned down."

We all busted out laughing.

Hazel finally walked into the conference room...

"I took the DNA off of her saliva on the cup and the cigarette butt and the panties...It's a match..She was definitely with Gary....and the fingerprint is also a match...Mimi Honeywell is our killer.."said Hazel...

Both Carlotta and Sharon hung their heads..

Tyriq walked over to both of them...

"I know she's your friend...but this is the job..She's killed two people,possibly three...She's a serial killer...and for all you know..There may be a fourth person out there...But I understand....I'm the primary....I'm taking it off you Top...I'll bust her."said Tyriq...

"No....What kind of cop would I be if I didn't do my job? You and Duke and Boss Lady...You taught me better than that." she said...

Tyriq smiled...So did Duke...

IV-

''Sissy ,put some plain clothes guys on her...She doesn't know we are on to her...It's Saturday...I'll swear out a warrant on Monday Morning...Let's go home guys....Enjoy the rest of this day..."I said.

Once we were home...I put my arm around Carlotta and held her tight...

"You okay?" I said.

She looked at me and smiled-

"I am now..and it is so sweet of you to try and comfort me..." she said as she buried her head in my chest....

"That's my job..I'm your husband.."I said.

"But you're not just a little bit horny? You've been checking me out in this yellow dress all morning...I've seen you." she said ,giving me the side eye...

''Welllll, maybe just a little bit." I said..

"Yeahhhhh, maybeeee..."she laughed...

Carlotta laughed and kissed me softly and tenderly and long...She rubbed my legs and the crotch of my pants..

''You are definitely horny now." she said and we both laughed..

I pulled her to me and kissed her longer..

"Yeahhhhh, maybeeee..."I laughed...


(CONCLUSION NEXT)

Tacony

Carlotta, Tyriq, Jimmy and Duke arrived at the scene, The Tacony Creek with Hazel and scores of uniformed policemen...

Sissy and I were also in attendance.....

 A uniformed Policeman with Lieutenant bars walked over to Carlotta and Tyriq...

"You Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace?" he asked...

"I am." she said "And this is Detective Tyriq Pile, the primary and Detectives James Barlow and Edwin Baylor..They're also working on this case...

He smiled...

"I know Duke...Quite well.."he said.

Duke Smiled...

"Heyy Bud.." he said..

"Is that Tyriq?  "

"What's up Bud?  Bud used to be a detective in Robbery-Homicide and Special Investigations...A little before your time Top." said Tyriq...

"And now you're Water Police?" asked Carlotta...

"That's how I made Lieutenant...There was a spot open..."he laughed...He saw Sissy and me approaching and he smiled...

"Oh My God...Sissy, Smooth Keith?" he said.

"Heyyy Bud" we both said in unison...

''So you guys are all Murder police now huh? Well I was reading the decks and I heard that you were looking for a missing guy...We were out here a day ago...a boy drowned and we found his body...but we also found skelatal remains...the body has been down here a long time..maybe two years...but it matched a description of a guy Detective Rodriguez-Wallace was looking for." he said.

"That's my wife Bud." I said...

Carlotta smiled..

"Yes..Smooth Keith is my husband!" she said.

"Wowww...You always did get the most attractive females Smooth Keith...And I see you still are right on par... She's a pretty one...Hope she makes an honest man out of you."he said and we all laughed...

Several Police cars were here now ,along with CSI people and photographers...as the body was removed from the water...

It was a mess, a big mess......The body was mummified and nearly skelatal....It still had the clothes on that it was wearing when it got killed...and they were damn near to the point of deterioration...

Hazel examined the remains....

"He's wearing a Central High school jacket....and  oh my..." she said..She went into the jeans and pulled out a water beaten wallet....It had credit cards and dollar bills that were nearly destroyed because of the time spent in the water...and a drivers licensce...
that read...Paul Witherspoon..

Carlotta, Jimmy and Tyriq glared at the contents of the wallet....The body was in too bad of shape to identify from facial recognition...

"Wow Top, you were right...He was dead..."said Tyriq...

"This body looks like it has been here at least two years...but I'll know better when I do a full autopsy..." said Hazel..

Sissy shook her head....She leaned down and looked at the body...She put on latex gloves...

"Look...Two gunshot wounds in the back of the head....He was murdered....." she said shaking her head...

"Wow...two who done it's in one week...He's been in here so long..We don't have a clue as to how he got here or who dropped him in here..."said Duke.

"It's going to be rough, but I'm going to grab some uniforms and question everybody in a five mile radius of this park...I know it was two years ago, but somebody might have seen something ."said Jimmy...

"Rico, it's been two years...People can't remember what they did last week.." said Carlotta..

"I know Top...but we gotta try.."said Tyriq...

"I think there is a connection...We got to reconstruct what both of these guys did up until the last time they were seen alive...Rico and I will take this guy here...Top, you and Jimmy work on your guy from the other night..."said Duke...

"Chica...Did you and Sirena get anything from the prostitutes you questioned?" asked Sissy.

Carlotta smiled weakly....

"Hop went along with Sirena and I....We must have talked to about 50 women....Most of them didn't know Gary....Maybe three did....One told us that she saw Gary last week with a woman with a floppy hat on and a white curly wig...and a long coat...She said what was strange was that the coat seemed rather odd to be wearing on a night as hot as it has been...but she said the girl definitely was not one of the working girls.."said Carlotta....

"We went out a second night...and this time with Rico and Jimmy and talked to some more people...Not just working girls, but neighborhood guys...And they remember seeing the same woman...Only they said that she had on next to nothing underneath the coat...One guy said just panties and a bra and stillettos and another guy said panties and a bustier.."said Carlotta.

"And all that really proves is that he had a female companion...that maybe he had sex with..It doesn't prove that she killed him."said Sissy...

Hazel  and Duke walked over to us....

"I'm finished with the preliminary examination Sissy.." said Hazel...

"Yeah...we might as well release the body.."said Duke..

Sissy looked at Carlotta and Tyriq....

"Yeah release it." they both said.

II-

We all broke for lunch at Sam Mother's Diner and then headed for the M.E.'s office where Hazel was holding court...We brought her some food back with us...I didn't know how she and Duke ate meals in the M.E.'s office surrounded by dead bodies...Well, I at least understood Duke...I had nothing to do with him being a seasoned Homicide Detective...It had more to do with him concentrating on Hazel's very seasoned and sexy body...

 Sissy, Carlotta,Tyriq,Jimmy,Duke and I gathered around as Hazel examined the body...Also present was Paul Witherspoon's wife, Claudette Robinson Witherspoon, who reported him missing...She positively identified him, saying that this is what he was wearing the last time she saw him....We also used dental records and DNA from his family members to positively identify him...

"This is the missing Paul Witherspoon....My examination concludes that he has been dead for close to two years...He died from two gunshot wounds to the back of his head...and his death was from a .40...The same gun and the same type of bullets found in the dead Gary Campbell.." she said.

"Wait a minute...You're saying...This guy here..dead for two years...was killed with the same weapon that killed our victim of a few nights ago?" asked Tyriq.

"That's exactly what I'm saying...He was shot with this gun two years ago....and two nights ago...This other man was shot with the same gun....So whoever killed this man here on the table...more than likely killed your guy from a few nights before."said Hazel...

''Hmmm...These guys were friends...They shared everything...They shared Sharon...They tried to share me once....Let's backtrack and see if they were sharing anything or anyone else."said Carlotta.

"Babes...Witherspoon's wife said that neither of them had seen Gary in years." I said.

''She didn't have to know...Gary obviously had some woman...Maybe Paul did too."said Sissy...

"It's certainly worth another look."said Jimmy...

"We've certainly got our work cut out for us." said Duke...

III-

Carlotta and I retired to our home...It was the first night in a few nights that she wasn't out with Sirena and Hop or Rico and Jimmy running down leads to this baffling case...Two guys killed two years apart ..with the same gun...Was their killer the same and who was this woman Gary was last seen with??

I was exhausted...I said nothing...I took my suit jacket off and my socks and shoes and my shirt and tie....

"Hey babes...you want to go and get some dinner ?" I asked..

''Nooo, I just want you.." said Carlotta...

I smiled and pulled her toward me...

I kissed her and ran my hands down her back and up her legs and just stood in the middle of the floor of our bedroom kissing her passionately...She unbuckled my trousers and I gently stepped out of them...

I slipped her skirt off, unhooked her bra and gently slid her panties down.....we stood in the middle of the floor hungrilly kissing each other...

Carlotta was so soft, smelled so naturally good and had surprisingly soft kisses that seemed to evaporate into thin air...She was like a drug and I was hooked on her...

I laid Carlotta across our bed...I pressed the head of my pulsing penis into her dripping wet vagina, then pulled out again.She moaned..."Ohhhh, papi don't tease me...ohhhh, give it all to mami..."

I entered her several more times like this, until I could feel her pushing harder and harder against me. I grabbed her hips, and pushed all the way into her. She gasped,

''OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY GAWDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD! OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.Ayyyyye MIOS DIOS!!!"

as she jerked forward for a moment, then braced herself before thrusting her nice round behind back against my penis. I watched, as each thrust sent waves rippling through her like waves breaking on the shore.

We went at it just like this for close to four hours..Carlotta's moans gradually became louder and louder. I grabbed her hair from behind, and pushed her head into the pillow. Her arms reached for the headboard of the bed and gripped it tightly as her vagina contracted in orgasmic releases.
"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu doddy doddy dodddy....I like it....." she moaned...

Her heavy spanish accent  always turned me on.

 I was about to come, I thrust harder and harder into her welcoming flesh. I exploded with a wild abandon... The orgasm felt like it lasted several minutes, even though it was just seconds.She came violently too..Shaking and rattling the headboard against the wall. I collapsed on top of her, kissing the nape of her neck.
She turned and began kissing me and rubbing my penis until I came again....like a gusher.......It seemed as if she was cumming again too...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, dodddy!.....Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu it felt so goooood.." she moaned as we both collapsed on top of each other... 

She smiled at me...

"I needed that..It has been about what? Two nights since we last did it?" she said...

"You're not counting the quickie yesterday?" I asked, smiling...

 "Oh that...Well that was nothing like this.."she said.

"We've got two guys who knew each other...Killed two years apart with the same gun and in two seperate places...."said Carlotta.

"You said that at one time both of these guys were kind of like players right?" I said.

"Yes."she said.

"What if they did something really bad to somebody...Something that would make this person want to kill them both?" I said.

Carlotta's eyes lit up...

"That could be any number of girls...including me and Sharon..."she laughed....

It made me wonder.

The other day in the coffee shop-

"Yeahhh...You know I was living in Chicago for awhile....I was a model....You may have seen me in Ebony and in Essence....I saved my money and I opened this place about two years ago when I returned to Philly..." said Mimi...

"You've done well for yourself." I said.

She smiled...

"No...you girls did well for yourself...Married ..and married to good guys that helped you in your careers or at least support you...Not a bunch of thirsty ,horny maggots who only want to get you in the sack and then break all of their promises..."she said, suddenly becoming almost a different person...

Her brief metamorphisis was frightening, chilling...and everybody noticed it..Carlotta, Sharon, even Hop... Mimi realized she had come off kind of frightening and changed up...

"Mimi, do you remember Gary Campbell??  We went to High School together...I found his body a few days ago in a shallow grave...How ironic huh..That's m y latest case."said Carlotta...

"You know I remember him....He stood me up at the prom..." said Mimi...

"He did?" asked Carlotta..

"I remember....He told you he was sick....but he was at the motel with Vonetta Simpson..."said Sharon who seemed to be giddy to mention it..

"Did you know that Paul Witherspoon and I were engaged to be married?" asked Mimi.

"Yeah..his supposed best friend...He tried to talk to me senior year, even though he knew I was seeing Gary....I ignored him then, but after graduation...We hooked up and got engaged...We were engaged for seven months...I was making plans....my whole family was excited and then he broke it off...Next thing I know..He was married to Claudette Robinson...The cheerleader." she said.

 Funny what you think about when you're exhausted and sleepy...I knew that that was Carlotta's friend...but no one was above suspicion now in this crazy case...Maybe it was nothing...but if for nothing else but to rule her out as a suspect...Somebody should check Mimi out...I thought..

Carlotta leaned over and kissed me softly...

"Are you alright Honey Bunny?" she asked...

"Yeah...Just thinking...Thinking about you and Sharon's friend...Mimi....She certainly had an axe to grind with both of those guys...Did you see the way she tensed up, the way she changed so suddenly when both of their names were brought up?? I'm just saying...''I said.

Carlotta rolled over and straddled me...and kissed me some more...I cupped both of her buttocks with my hands and pulled her closer to me...

"I was lying here thinking the same thing papi..."she said. "I don't want to believe it...But just to be on the safe side...I'm going to look into her..I sure hope I am wrong."said Carlotta..

"I hope so too...She seems like a nice person "I said...

Carlotta kissed me for a long time...I found myself getting aroused again...

"Enough shop talk right?" I said looking up at her...

She kissed me softly and tenderly without speaking...

I guess that was my answer!

(TO BE CONTINUED)