Vibes

 Sometimes I think Olivia and Beverly love us as much as Ms. Yvette...They heard we were working on a rather difficult and controversial murder case...They offered us their facilities to study and work in peace..

They have a wonderful law library in their Duplex...which allowed us to study and draw up trial theory and research predicates among other things..

and upstairs in Olivia and Donnie Ray's apartment..They always started their mornings off with breakfast...

Olivia, Beverly and Donnie Ray loved to cook and I suppose they loved to entertain.. They lived within walking distance of us..so it was nothing for us to walk over to their place and join them for breakfast in the morning...

Me, Bee Bee, Sofia and Kahlil, joined by Nelson, Josie and her boyfriend Paris....Josie and Paris stayed overnight , when the group was working a big case, which they were...

Beverly's Mother, Ms. Alfreda, their office manager, was a good cook too and so when she joined us, which wasn't every morning, but often enough..We had two great meals...Breakfast and Lunch...

Ms. Yvette and Jade often joined us for Coffee in the morning, to see how we were coming along and for lunch a few times, but thy didn't stay...

All in All it was good fellowship...It had always been good fellowship between our two teams..

and the best thing...It kept all of us out of the sights of Lt. Tragg,

who was livid that we were defending Jeffrey Robinson , who he KNEW was guilty and didn't want anybody to ruin his big case.. Olivia and Beverly were working another case of his and he was equally worried about that...So it was good , we were eating our meals at their Duplex and working at their duplex..

Our other friends,  Dabnis, Jazzy, Kayla ,Jessica and Chip would drop by and tell us what a nuisance he was making of himself.. So much so that Jazzy and Kayla would order their lunches from Sam Mother's or Mabel Jenkins' soul food joint on line and have it delivered to their office at Penn's Landing..

and their husbands would meet them there for lunch... Jessica and Chip would order their lunch on line too and often join us at Olivia and Beverly's place.....

We had our dinner at Bee Bee and Sofia's apartment...Just the four of us...It was quiet and intimate and we didn't talk about the case much..

Such was the life of young successful attorneys in our area.

II-

and at our office...Ms. Jade was talking to Ms. Yvette..

Things had been quiet with us not being around the office lately..

"You miss the kids when they aren't around here don't you?" asked Jade..

"Yeah...They bring a certain liveliness to this office that was missing...For many years...I was here by myself and the only time I interacted with people was in court or in the boardroom..I like all of you being here.. I went by Liv's this morning and had Breakfast with them...They are coming along just fine with their research...and I know they are in Hog Heaven with Liv, Beverly, Donnie Ray, Nelson, Josie and Alfreda around..."laughed Yvette..

"They are...It's always fun being around them...They love to cook and they love to entertain...So Look, I have been studying this Trevor Lawson...He's been using that dating service for three years...been on close to 100 dates...All of the women I talked to except Ms. Maitland slept with him....Usually after the second or third date...They all said he was a real horn dog...Never got enough and that they practically had to force him to leave the next morning...but there was one, Belinda Mitchell, who would not sleep with him....She said, two hours later, someone broke into her apartment and tried to strangle her...Only she fought back...She flipped him..and she kicked the person square in the jaw...and knocked him down..The person was dressed in all black, like a ninja...He dove through her front window and got away..She couldn't give the police a positive identification and there for couldn't prove it was Trevor Lawson..." said Jade.

''So the ones he slept with....They went unbothered...The ones who turned him down got a visit...He failed with this woman because she fought back...He failed with Ms. Maitland because he couldn't get in...but he got into Lola's house...He...He didn't fail that time...."said Yvette, starting to cry again...

"Don't cry Ms. Yvette...I like him as the killer too...At least we know that Jeffrey, goofy Jeffrey isn't the killer of your friend...and if he had just gone to sleep and not gotten up to go to her house...He wouldn't be in this predicament.."said Jade.

Yvette straightened herself up...

"Okay, let's talk about alibi's.....The street cam shows Trevor Lawson leaving Lola's house at 3:15 am..and pulling off..We know that at 3:40 am...He got gas and gum from a nearby Gas Station and Quickie Mart due to his credit card reports...and he went to his Mistresses condo....where he stayed all night." said Yvette.

"I talked to his Mistress...She confirmed that he arrived at her place at 4:00 am and was there the rest of the morning... His wife thinks he was away on business as he told her and doesn't understand why the cops linked him to this woman...He told her he didn't know Lola and that they had him mixed up with someone else.."said Jade..

"Oooooou I hate lying ass nasty dogs like him...He reminds me of Olivia's first husband, Elwood Barnes..always had a story...usually a lie..I remember how mortified Liv was one time, when she picked me up from the Airport  in her car and my foot , the heel of my shoe got caught in a bra strap under the seat of HER CAR...I was sooo embarrassed for her."said Yvette.  "But getting back to the subject at hand...Trevor Lawson has somewhat of an alibi..The Autopsy report puts Lola's death anywhere between 3:00 and 3:30... Jeffrey arrived at 3:35...after Trevor had gone...and he said the door was open..Lola would have never left her door open, especially at that time of morning..He said he walked in and found her on the living room floor, dead...Trevor said she was alive when he left...I think he killed her before he left..."said Yvette.

"But why jimmy the basement door? I'm beginning to wonder if maybe someone else is behind this...Anyway, I have an idea to smoke Trevor out if he is indeed our killer."said Jade.

III-

In another part of town....A doorbell rings...

Lloyd "Late night" Butler, owner and manager of Atlas Dating Service was at the Door..

Monica Lawson answered the door..

"Lloyd come in ....How are you?" she said..

"Where is uh your hubby?" he asked, even though he already knew..

''Either with his whore in that condo downtown or with one of the skanks you set him up with at your dating service ."she said tersly

"That Private Investigator you hired a year ago was good....Very good...." said Lloyd..

"I've got enough to divorce him right now...I'm just biding my time...He tried to tell me that the cops had the wrong man, that it was a case of mistaken identity...I know he was out with that woman...I have photos of the two of them..He told the cops he was with his mistress, told me he was out of town on business...He is such a liar..

Some lawyers and an investigator were by here to talk to me a few days ago..His lies are catching up to him...Lloyd, why are you staring at me like that."said Monica. 

"You look sooo good...You're a sexy woman Monica...And any man would be fortunate to have a woman like you...Trevor is a fool, He's been a fool for years....If I...If I could have you...I I certainly wouldn't be wasting money keeping some bimbo in a condo and using a dating service...If I had you...I wouldn't need one.."said Lloyd..

"Lloyd that was soooo sweet....I've always thought that deep down inside you liked me...I've caught you looking at me on several occassions...At first I thought nothing of it...but..but now....Now I know..."she said..

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh." he moaned as he stared at her breasts...

They embraced in a kiss...A long awaited kiss...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YOU DON'T KNOW HOW LONG I'VE WAITED FOR THIS DAY!" he moaned..

"REALLY?" she said smiling...

"Ummmmmmph, yesssssss..." he moaned...

She took her top off and he slowly unhooked her bra...

His eyes bulged out of it's sockets , watching her undress....She giggled....

They stood in the doorway, kissing passionately...

"Ohhhhh my god, I couldn't wait.." he moaned..

"I seee,"she said , taking his clothes off and marveling about his size and girth..

"Oh My lord, Lloyd you are HUGE!" she said.....

''Well uh ahhhhh thank you..." he said shyly...

"No...THANK YOUU!! OUUUUUUUUU LOOK AT YOU!!! MYYYYY GOODNESSS!" she exclaimed..

He tossed her on the bed...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh LLOYD..IT'S BEEN SOOOO LONG...OUUUUUUUU" she moaned... It felt good to say that..

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmph.."he groaned in his low baritone as the bed began to squeak and the headboard began to rattle..

''Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" she squealed..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SWEEET BABY!!!" moaned LLOYD.....

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU TALK TO ME DADDDDDDYYYYYY!!!!" cooed Monica Lawson

They were back in the bed now, going at each other strongly.....

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMPH!" he groaned..


"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOO HOOOOO, OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
OUUUU HOO HOO...OH MY GOD!!!! OUUUUWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ''MONICA LAWSON screamed..

The bed was squeaking loud now and the headboard was slamming hard against the wall...

THREE TO FOUR HOURS slowly drifted by....

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!  OHHHH LLOYD, you aren't making any
damn sense!  OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Myyyy LAWD!"said MONICA LAWSON!

''OOOOOOOU..AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" moaned Lloyd..


THREE TO FOUR MORE HOURS PASSED  before Lloyd came and came hard....and Monica Lawson's legs began to quiver and then shake...her head turned from side to side and tears streamed down the side of her face..She was crying like a little girl..

She continued kissing Lloyd and rubbing his penis until it hardened again....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu there it is! OUUUUUU LOOK AT THAT MONSTER....OUUUUUUU!" she said..

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! YESSSSSSS BABY! YESSSS!" Lloyd moaned..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Mrs. Lawson  wailed..

"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW SWEEET BABY!" moaned Lloyd..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU YESSSSSSSS!" she cooed!

Lloyd  was engaged and on her again....

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!"he moaned..

"TALK TO ME BABY..YOU LIKE IT DADDY?" she asked.

"YES!!! YES...OH YESSSSS!"moaned Lloyd..who didn't know if he was coming or going...

THREE TO FOUR HOURS drifted by....

"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW LAWWWWWWWWWWWD!" Lloyd moaned as he began to cum like a gusher...

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM CUM DADDDY!"moaned Mrs. Lawson.

Lloyd lie in between her legs....exhausted...

Mrs. Lawson  wouldn't let him sleep , she continued kissing him, rubbing his large penis...keeping it hard..

''OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.." he moaned..

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM..LOOK AT THAT!!" she cooed..

They were at it again...The Bed was squeaking out of control...….The headboard was slamming against the wall...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Lloyd!!!!, I'm not going to be able to walk tomorrow..but it feels so good!" she cooed..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he moaned..

The Bed was rocking from side to side...The headboard sounded like it might seperate itself from the bed....

They were standing in the middle of the floor now, Lloyd was long stroking her..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU HOOOO HOOO HOOO HOOO HOOOOOO, Aye...Ayeeeeeeee, Ayeeeee, Ay yi yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii….OH MY GOD Lloyd!!!!!...OUUUUU!" she screamed..

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU HOOOO HOOO HOOO HOOO HOOOOOO, Aye...Ayeeeeeeee, Ayeeeee, Ay yi yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii….OH MY GOD Lloyd...OUUUUU!  ayyyee, aye yi yiiiiii" she screamed.

They were back in bed...going at it slower..

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMPH!" he moaned...

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu lover...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu this is soooooooo
nice...Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.." she cooed softly..

"YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" moaned Lloyd as he came again like a gusher...

FIVE TO SIX HOURS drifted by....

Lloyd lie in between Monica Lawson's legs, exhausted....too exhausted to move...Monica was  totally satisfied...She had never had this many orgasms and such strong ones at that...She held Llyod's head in her arms...She looked at the clock...They had spent the entire night and most of the morning in bed.. It was nearly 3:00 pm , the next afternoon...Her lousy husband had been out all night and still hadn't come home through all that..

Lloyd woke up an hour later...He was astounded that it was nearly four in the afternoon...

Monica Lawson  was up , but still in her lacey babydoll and panties..He pulled her to him and kissed her softly and slowly.....

"Ummmmmmmm how are you?" he said..

"I'm fine..."she said..

"I'm hard!" he said..

"You are unbelievable..Ouuuuuu I see! OUUUUUUUUUUUU, Myyyyyy goodness!"she giggled, stroking him lightly...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he moaned...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh myyyyy.." she said....

After a few more minutes of kissing,

They wound up back on the bed again, making love..

"My goodness...I had no idea Lloyd was such a stud..."she thought...."He has lost his mind since I first gave him some. I knew he always liked me but damn.."she mused...

''OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.." he moaned.

. "UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.. dadddyyyyy" she cooed..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BABYYYY!" he moaned...

TWO TO THREE HOURS drifted by before Lloyd came and came hard.....

Amazingly, they both got their showers and got dressed and she changed the sheets on the bed and aired the place out...

"Wowww..look at the time.." he said as he stumbled to the door.. "I uh never expected all of that.." he said.

"I hadn't made love to a man in close to a year.....Trevor comes home and crashes...He barely touches me anymore...I thought something was wrong with me...that I wasn't attractive anymore...but you just proved all of that wrong...boyyy did you....It's been a long time for you too huh?" she asked..

"Yes.....it has been...WOWWWWW!..." he said..

"If you want some more..just call me...I'll meet you somewhere.." she whispered..

She kissed him one last time and waved goodbye as he left..

He was as happy as a clam...He had loved her from afar for years...Through all of  her husband's cheating he had wished she could be his girl..He had always said he'd treat her better...Now he had held her in his arms...He had shared her bed...She was still married to him...but he was going to bide his time and take care of that he thought...He smiled and even whistled as he walked down the street towards his car.

IV-

Arguments began in the preliminary trial of Jeffrey Robinson for the murder of ADA Lola Albright..

Ms. Yvette was putting her best foot forward trying to defend Jeffrey...She really didn't believe that he had killed Lola, but she also began to understand what Lola had gone through... He tired of talking to us on the Portal and began calling Ms. Yvette on her business phone constantly..First to discuss the particulars of the case, which she didn't mind, but increasingly to discus personal things...Her bust size...what she liked to eat, her favorite flowers...Going out after the trial was over...She told him half a dozen times that she was in a serious relationship...This seemed to go over his head.

He told me and Kahlil that he was getting serious "vibes" from Ms. Yvette and that he sensed a love connection..

I told him as plainly as I could that this was all in his imagination and that she has a boyfriend, Gary Lockwood, an Investigator in the D.A.'s office..

Kahlil confirmed it....

Sofia so much as laughed in his face, when she heard him talking about it..

Bee Bee never one to mince words told him that he couldn't handle Ms. Yvette, she was not even on his level and he might as well forget it..She said..".If Ms Yvette wanted you...You wouldn't have to guess...She'd of let you know it by now..We had to convince her that we didn't think you murdered her dear friend.."she said.

He didn't want to hear any of this...but it didn't matter...We had to defend him...

ADA Cal McCaffry had a somewhat good case from a prosecutorial point of view against him and we hadn't presented a good reasonable doubt case yet...We were still putting together a credible defense and fashioning a time table of 15 minutes ,between 3:15-3:30, when Lola died and the time he arrived to find her still warm corpse..We argued that the real killer may have still been in the house...Unknown to him...escaping through the basement...

We had a photo of a jimmied basement door lock...One the police missed..but it still wasn't enough..

Lt. Tragg sat back, laughing...

"Vettie and her snot nose youngins have stepped in it this time...They got nothin..." he laughed..

Judge Reynolds was forced to say...

"I see enough here to warrant a full trial for First degree Murder.. It's Thursday....Trial will resume Tuesday at 10:00 am...Be ready for trial.." he ruled...

It was not the verdict we wanted...but we couldn't play our full hand if we didn't have an absolute winner..Ms. Yvette had taught us that..

"Looks like we got work to do Hot Stuff."said Bee Bee...

''Well we knew that.." I said..

"Bee, let's give the guys our grocery list for tonight...I saw a pair of shoes I'd like.."said Sofia.

"Good idea...we'll meet around four at our place and we'll fix dinner."said Bee Bee.

"That sounds like a plan.."said Kahlil..

"You guys sound so..so domesticated...like you're married ...You do everything together.."he said...Then he noticed Ms. Yvette..

''Ohhh Vettie, about what we were discussing last night.."he said.

"That's Ms. Yvette or Ms. Jones to you...we aren't that close.." said Yvette sternly...

"You can't deny the serious vibes between us..." said Jeffrey as Gary Lockwood rolled up..

"There's my sweet girl....How'd it go today?" asked Gary Lockwood..

"We got held over for trial...Trial begins Thursday...I expected as much..." she said..

She kissed Gary passionately, right in front of Jeffrey...

"I went to the Market...I bought some groceries and a nice port...I'm going to fix you dinner tonight and then run you a hot bath....How do you like that?" said Gary...

"Ouuuuu lover, YOU ARE THE BEST!" said Ms. Yvette..

She kissed him, slower and more passionate this time..

Then waved to us...

"Bye Guys....You can come in an hour late tommorow ....It's Friday." she said.

"Byyyyye Ms. Yvette, Gary..."said Sofia..giggling..

"Byyyyye Ms. Yvette, Gary..." said Bee Bee, giggling..

"VIBES huh?" said Kahlil,looking at  Jeffrey...

"We told you."I said and the four of us walked away....

Jeffrey stood there thoroughly embarrassed..Whatever aura he thought he had over us had been totally exposed...He had been exposed as a fraud and he knew it...He had actually believed his own lies and pretenses he had been selling to us ever since law school..

Thing was...He was actually a brilliant student and a fine Attorney..but very insecure and he lived in a world of his own making...We knew and he knew we knew that Lola Albright 

was not into him at all..The fact of that was, she was on a date with another man the night she was killed and his 27-28 unanswered phone calls , the flowers he sent in the corner trash can was further proof of that...

Sofia and Bee Bee  were never into him like he said...Proof of that was , they were 

with Kahlil and me..and Ms. Yvette definitely was not thinking about him..

They were still kissing in the parking lot

 as we all left to head home...

We left him there in his embarrasment to ponder that..

And meanwhile in our building at the Atlas Dating service..

"Where you been?  They said you didn't come in for work yesterday...I went by your place, got no answer  and I called you and texted you.."asked Trevor Lawson.

"I was busy okay??" said an unusually defensive, Lloyd Butler..

''Awwwwww...Oh Ho Hoooo...You got you some didn't you?   Ohhhhhhhhhhh Who is she? You met her through here ?   Ohhhhh, that's okay...Your business....Happy for you man...Didn't want you suffering with all that back up....It's been awhile since you had some isn't it?  Hahahahaha...."laughed. Trevor..

"Look, I've matched you up with another girl...This one is a winner..She's new in town...She's originally from here..An Actress...She's home for awhile...Very pleasent, very outgoing...Very Sexy...This is her phone number and address...Call Her."said Lloyd Butler.

Across the street from us, there was a knock on Ms. Jade's door..

"Heyyyy how are you?" said Ms. Jade.

''Worked like a charm..This guy...Trevor Lawson...He called me...We have our first date set up for this Saturday..." said a pretty African-American woman...

"Perfect..."said Ms. Jade.

"My Bra is wired and I've got a .22 in my purse...Let's hope it doesn't come to that.." said the young woman...

(CONCLUSION NEXT)