Rocket Science

A week later, I sat in Josies , alone, drinking a few brews and talking to Gus the bartender and owner of the establishment...

"Hey Junior...What are you doin ridin solo tonight? Where is Cherry? " he laughed..."You two have been inseperable for the past week?" he laughed.

"I'm givin her a break tonight Gus." I said.

Yeah, ever since we had that picnic...I had practically been living in Cherry's apartment....So much so that she went with me to my place to pack an overnight bag so that I could leave from her apartment and make it to work...

''Wow....Am I good or what?" she joked...

"You don't see me for two months straight and now I can't get rid of you." she laughed...

"I can't lie...you are that good babe...I aint never met nobody like you...I aint even gonna front." I said.

"Awwwwwwwww..now that was sweet, I think it was kind of lame,.but I liked that you tried." she said and we both laughed...

I pulled her to me....

"Nah, I'm serious Cherry." I said staring into her eyes....

"Okay....Okay....Don't get all mushy on me...I believe you." she said, smiling sweetly.

Finally,after two more days,  I packed my stuff and went back to my place....I decided that she did need a break from me...

I hadn't called or tried to make contact with Bridget in about a week either...But on the other hand, She hadn't texted me either, which was kind of strange...Since we had started our little arrangement...I could routinely expect an x rated text from her at least twice a week...

"Calvin...I'm horny..."   or Calvin...I'm not wearing any panties..." Which was usually enough to have me racing to my car and going through red lights to get to her....

Which resulted in the two of us damn near knocking the plaster loose on her walls in her bedroom ,having wild sweaty sex..

I went in my phone weeks before and cleared over one hundred of those text messages.....I knew too well from stories I had heard that women like to ocassionally go through their man's phone... I didn't want Cherry finding any texts from Bridget to me... I also took Bridget's number out of my phone...I'd memorized it anyway...I didn't need it in the phone.

My visits to Bridget were restricted to night time only and I always parked in the back...entered from the driveway entrance and exited from it also, just in case someone might be watching...I never went to either of her stores again and never met her in any bar again....

How careful was I?

"Hey Gus?" I asked.

"Yeah kid?" he said.

"Cherry's a nice girl isn't she?" I asked.

"Yeah, she is...She's had some pretty bad luck with the fellas over the years...but from what I've seen ,she's got a heart of gold...Will do anything for you if she likes you." he said.

"Yeah, she's good like that...She's a keeper." I said.

"You like her huh?   You don't need to answer ..I can see it in your eyes when you're with her." he said.

"What do you think about Bridget Jones?" I asked.

His eyes got a little wide, then he smiled...

"I knew her father...I've known her since she was a little girl...real smart girl, another good one....Has made a lot of friends, but still kinda lonely....I remember you used to have a thing for her when you guys were kids...Did you ever get around to tellin her?" he asked.

"Yeah, recently." I said and held my head down...

"You're seein both of em aint ya, junior?" said Gus, giving me the side eye.

I looked up...

"No grass grows under your feet does it?" I said.

"You think all I ever did was tend bar, shorty?" he said.

"What am I gonna do Gus??...I think I really love Cherry...I do....but you know, I waited all my life for Bridget and now I got her and...."I said, before Gus interrupted me...

"Bad Timin right kid? What can you do?  But the way you're goin...It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that you're headed for a bad landing...You'll mess around and lose both....The solution to this is for you to man the hell up....Decide which one of em you really want....Who do you want the most?" he said.

"Well who should I pick?" I asked.

Gus looked at me like I was crazy....

"You want me to dress you in the morning too?  Only you know that, Junior...It's hard...I know, cause I been where you are....You make a decision and you own it....and then be man enough to tell the one who didn't get picked what's up...." he said.

"Okay....That's what I gotta do." I said.

"Junior? Most things in life aint Rocket Science, just a clear choice between right and wrong." said Gus.

"You're a wise dude Gus." I said.

"You don't get my age by bein a fool." he said and winked... "Your tab is on the house kid, Go handle ya business." he said.

II-

I let another week go by...Finally, I texted Bridget...I asked her to meet me at Roxys....The location was perfect...Nobody that either of us knew drank here...It was the type of bar you could meet someone at for exactly this type of thing...

I didn't know how Bridget would react....She never seemed like the vengeful, woman scorned type... Once again, she was late...A half an hour late..but when she arrived...Heads turned and necks snapped...She was a hum dinger.....

"Hi Bridget." I said when I saw her...

"Heyy Cal." she said...

"What you drinkin?" I asked.

"Ciroc, on the rocks with Cranberry juice." she said.

I ordered a Mango Mojito...

"Listen....I've got something to tell you." I said.

"I've got something to tell you too...I suppose you've wondered why I haven't texted you in awhile...I was kind of trying to get my nerve up to tell you, but when you texted me, I figured, this would be the best time." she said.

''Ohh..I see." I said..."Well you go first." I said.

"You're probably not going to like this Cal, but I want to end our little arrangement...I can't do this...This sneaking around all the time...and with somebody else's man at that!...I'm not that kind of woman, Never wanted to be...Plus, I think you love Cherry Johnson more than you realize you do....You need to explore that." she said.

"Wow Bridget...I was coming to tell you the same thing, That I can't do this anymore either....You deserve a relationship that is out in the open, above ground...a guy you can take around your friends...be proud of, talk about..." I said.

"You're absolutely right...and that's what I've decided I'm going to do..." she said.

She smiled as our drinks came....

"Cal, Thank you for making this easy....I thought it was going to be a problem...Turns out we were on the same wavelength..." she said.

"Yeah...."I said...''How about that?"

"Cherry is a lucky woman....You need to bottle up and sell what you got in your pants....Whooooeeee, I have never had so many orgasms in one night in my life....I need to thank you....I needed that....I hope the next guy I meet can at least meet your standard.....It's going to be a hard one to top." she said.

That was high praise indeed from someone I had damn near worshiped most of my young life.....

"I don't know what to say Bridget." I said.

" Just say that you'll always be my friend." she said and stroked my hand gently...

"I hope you find someone Bridget.Someone for you ,Just you. You deserve it!" I said.

She smiled...

"I will....A couple of guys have come in my store and propositioned me already...One looks like he has some potential...Met a guy in Josies last week who looks interesting too....He's blind though, plays the piano." she said.

I wondered who that might be....He couldn't be that blind...Those curves Bridget had would make a blind man see.

I tossed a few dollars on the counter to pay for our drinks....Bridget kissed me gently on the lips and waved..

"Goodbye Cal, Treat Cherry good...." she said as she walked out..

"Yeah Bridget, I will, Good luck to you too, babe." I said.... I sat there after she left for a long time and then I got up and went to my car...



III-

Against my better judgement ,I went to Cherry's apartment...It had only been two days since she last saw me, but she let me in...

"I'm sorry Cherry, I know it's only been two days but..." I said before she cut me off..

"You missed me right?"she said with a smile...

"I did." I said.

"Wow....I'm not used to this....Guys I meet see me when they can....Either when their other girl was looking the other way or when they could get a moment...."she said.

''Yeah, it has been too soon...I'll go." I said.

''No...No..No...This I like...We aren't sneaking around....This is what I've wanted, Someone for me, Someone like you..."she said with the sweetest smile...

I came in and closed the door and pulled her to me and kissed her for a long time....

"You didn't bring a change of clothes..." she said.

''Well maybe I won't stay." I said.

"You know you're going to stay." she said...

She gently ran her hands down the front of my trousers,stroked my now raging erection gently and just gasped...


''Oh My God..."she said.

"What?" I asked laughing sheepishly...

"I'm always surprised at how big it is, how thick." she said...

"Yeah ,me too..." I laughed...

We continued to kiss in her living room....She took my hand and walked me to her bedroom...

"I missed you too Cal, but I didn't want to seem ,you know, thirsty..." she said...

I lifted her up.

She was wearing a short brown nightgown that came to her knees...I hiked it up, slipped her panties down and off and entered her slowly...

''Ouuuuuuuuu..." she moaned.

"I'm Thirsty for the both of us." I said.

"Thank you.." she cooed.

She was so soft, so warm,so wet....I could've stayed inside her like this forever , I just kept moving slowly,savoring every minute,every second and she kept moaning and  and cooing so sensually...and I kept moving in and out ,in and out softly, gently with no signs of stopping anytime soon....I was sweating profusely....so was she.....Enjoying myself imensely....How could anybody feel this good?

''Oh Cal...Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Cal...Ohhh Cal, I love you baby...I love you..." she said.

I found myself saying-''I love you too Cherry...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." I screamed...

She grabbed me and began kissing me slowly.... Which made me even more excited.

Wow...I had never yelled that out before.....and I wondered if she had herself.......At any rate ,it was good to hear!


EPILOUGE:

The next night, Josies was crowded....Cherry and I came in hand and hand... My good friends, Paris, Blake, Chance Howard, Anita Jenkins, Cole, Nicole Butler and Honey Brown and B-Flat were there......

I saw Bridget talking to the Blind Piano player, Chazz Gillison...She saw us and she smiled and waved...

"That's your friend Bridget." said Cherry.

''Yeah so it is."I said...Bridget and Chazz? What? I thought! Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

"Seems like that Blind Piano player has taken a liking to her." said Cherry.

I kept looking at Chazz...Something about his movements....It was almost as if he wasn't blind at all...He was really checking her out and salivating...I wondered if he was really blind...or if that was a front?

"Cherry, all I'm lookin at is you right now darlin....Let's get a booth, a private booth in the corner." I said.

Cherry blushed....

''You naughty boy...Why you want a private booth?"

"Because the thoughts you're given me isn't for the public." I said...

Cherry laughed...."Ouuuu, I like that." she said and busted out laughing.

We walked toward our booth and I just happened to see Gus , heading toward the front...He looked at me and whispered -

"Guess you made your choice huh Junior?" he said.

"Yeah man." I said.

"See,I told ya it wasn't rocket science." he said and smiled.

(For L.)

Heartbreak Hill

"Every place I've lived ,I've had a special place...A place that I would go to when I wanted to be alone, just think...." said Cherry Johnson as we drove to Wister Woods Park in the Mt. Airy Section of Philadelphia ,early one Saturday Morning...

''Oh yeah?" I said as I rode shotgun...I had left my car at her place and we were taking hers...

"As you know, I was born and raised in Oakland, California...I'm not a Philly girl." she continued as she drove.

"Where was your special place back home?" I asked.

"Oh ,I had many....one was up in the hills near Marin County.....Another was in Daley City and I had a few spots in Oakland and San-Francisco." she said and smiled sweetly at me.

"How long have you been in Philly?" I asked.

"I came here in 2008....So I'd say about five years..." she said.

"You like it here?" I asked.

"I do...It took some getting used to...I came here after a bad marriage....My husband , as I told you is a murderer.....and he was abusive...He's doing life ,no parole at San Quentin....I came here because it was as far from the West Coast as I could get and I had no ties of any kind here...but he found me!!.....Thanks to Chris and Chess,The FBI found him and locked him up!!  I got a divorce later!" she said.

"Wowww!" I said.

"Chess was my first lover here.....He was and Is a good man....but he was involved with another woman, a woman who had given birth to his child...He was torn between us and he did the right thing...He married his baby mama.....He did right by me...He found me the nice Apartment that I presntly live in...and When he and Chris opened their shopping center, They gave my name to the Victoria's Secret people and I got hired as a manager of that store...I owe Chess a lot..." she said.

"Yeah, My apartment is one of theirs....I went to High school with him and Chris...." I said.

"You did?" she said.

"Yeah, they're a little older than me, but we all grew up on the block....Me, Kevin Morris,Sean Jackson, Chris, Chess, Fathead, Donald Smooth, Honey Brown, B-Flat, Chazz Gillison, Bone Hampton...all of us...grew up together... and Paris, Blake, Chance Howard, Cole,Bernadette, Harry Charles...We all were in school together too!" I said.

''Wow ,no wonder you guys are so tight." she said.

"We all came up in West Philly....It's amazing that we all wound up in this part of the city...." I said.

''Did you know that Fathead and I were engaged once?" she said.

"What? You and Arthur?? He wouldn't seem to be your type?" I said.

"He wasn't at all...I knew he was a gangster...I guess that kinda turned me on at first.....but he was a playboy...he ran women, and he left me at the alter." she sighed...

"I'm sorry Cherry." I said.

"Then there was both Reed Nelson and Downtown Rob Brown....Reed was a good man, Rob was a whore...Reed is married now and Rob seems to be in the longest committed relationship of his life." she laughed.

"That's cause  Delores will cut him if he screws around on her." I laughed.

''You know them too huh?"she asked.

''Went to school with Rob , Delores and Debbie too....and Rell, Chess's wife as well...He didn't know her back then though, but I did." I said.

"How bout Bridget Jones?" she asked.

I was startled by that question, but I played it cool...

"She was my crush all through out school.... I went to the prom with her....Wanted to do more, but uh you know how that is...Timing...It was never right...I didn't know you knew her." I said..

"I don't know her personally, but I know of her...I've seen her around...She seems like a nice person." said Cherry.

"Yeah!  She's good people...I ran into her a couple of weeks ago in Sam Mother's Diner..." I said.

"Oh that was nice...I guess you two hadn't seen each other in years huh?" she said.

''Seven years to be exact ...I promised to have a drink with her and catch up on old times one day, but who knows when I'll have time for that?" I said, trying to feel her out and find out how much she knew...

I wondered if Samuel Rasulala had been running his mouth to her  too,trying to get brownie points? He struck me as the type that would throw salt in another man's game to enhance his own... Playas had no honor, no code anymore.

Maybe not, because just that quick, Cherry dismissed the whole thing and pointed toward a path we were going to walk to get to her special place...Funny...I thought , by the way she was moaning and cooing in the bed just last night that I had gotten to her ,uh special place and more!

Cherry parked the car....We popped the trunk...I took out candles...a table cloth and a picnic basket....

Cherry took my hand and led me down a path and up a hill....

We found a nice spot at the top of the hill and we spread the table cloth....We lit the candles....They had a special scent to scare the insects away... We set up an ipod....It was loaded with Maxwell, Sade, Adele, Anthony Hamilton, Mary J. Blige and Charlie Wilson...Good sounds... We had Fried Chicken, Cole slaw, Potato Salad, Bread , Cheese, grapes, two bottles of Wine and some Sweet Potato Pie..

"You like?'' she asked.

''I do." I said with a smile..

"I was up all night cooking this...." she said.

She was up after we finished making love....I don't know how she found the strength...I was exhausted after that last session...She is quite the energizer bunny in the bedroom...Which explains why so many guys like Samuel Rasulala,Roscoe and to some extents, myself just can't seem to let her go ,despite whatever else we got going on on the side...

I felt like crying...Nobody had ever done anything like this for me before....This girl was too good, too good for me...Considering what Bridget and I had been doing for a couple of weeks....I felt so guilty....I couldn't keep living a lie...It was eating me up inside.

II-

"This is my special place Calvin....I came here and cried my eyes out when Chess got married, when Fathead left me at the alter, when Reed and I broke up and when Downtown Rob Brown and I parted ways... I never brought Roscoe here and never dreamed of bringing Samuel Rasulala here either.. " she says..."So consider yourself special...You're the first and only guy I've ever come up here with...." she continued...

"I'm...I'm flattered." I said.

"That's because I think a lot of you Calvin." she said.

"I think a lot of you too." I said....

I felt sick...This woman liked me soo much and while I really did care for her, I couldn't tear myself away from Bridget.....Yet, as much as I enjoyed Bridget in bed....I was coming to realize that I liked more about Cherry than just the out of this world sex she and I were having....For one, Cherry was smart!, Like me, she played chess..We played for hours and hours sometimes...She was well read..We could talk about any number of subjects, which I liked..She was creative...She could draw beautiful pictures....and she was tender....and thoughtful... She also had ambitions...She had just recently gotten her Associates Degree at Community and had her eye on entering either Temple or Penn in the fall for night school as did I...

Not that Bridget wasn't any of those things, but I didn't get to see them....I barely got to see Bridget's clothes as fast as we were tearing them off, and falling into bed...

I poured us both a flute of wine...I figured this was leading to something...Did she know about me and Bridget?  Was she going to give me a warning or worse, was she going to poison me and leave me up here rotting away, not discovered for months?? I wouldn't blame her if she did. ..I certainly deserved it.

"Come on eat, eat...I was up all night cooking." she said.

I devoured the food...I was hungry as all get up....I sensed she wanted to talk some more ,so I sat quiet...

"I usually came up here in bad times...This is the first time I've come up here in good times..." she said, smiling sweetly and feeding me grapes...

"I really like you Cal, I'm finally in a guilt free relationship and I'm finally with a guy who is all mine , who I don't have to share with anybody..." she said.

I damn near choked on my grapes when she said that....Just two nights before...Bridget and I were knocking the plaster loose on her walls in her bedroom ,having wild sweaty sex....I showered, left Bridget and then preceded to do the same thing at Cherry's apartment....It's a wonder I make it to work at all...There is such a thing as too much of a good thing...

This was too much of a good thing....It was time for me to be a man now...I couldn't keep going on like this...It was decision time...


III-

Cherry and I ate, listened to music, drank wine...and from our place on top of the hill, we sat quietly in each others arms watching the night sky line...

"You know...This is a beautiful city Cal." she said.

"I suppose it is...I've often taken it for granted...

"When one grows up somewhere ,one tends to do that....Right before I met you Cal, I was depressed...I was involved with two men, one who I know only was interested in me for sex....The other, may have been genuine, but has done things I find reprehensible...So I could never warm to him completely...but You!!You're special....You got no baggage...You're all mine!" she said...

I felt lower than an earthworm at this point! This girl was so nice....so giving....and soo sexy...all in one and she could cook too!....I might never ever stumble upon someone this good again....

Bridget?? She's a nice girl too....and if we were meant to be together...We would've been together....Maybe there was a reason the timing was always wrong for us....

I put my arms around Cherry and kissed her for a long time...

My mind was made up...I had made my choice.....

"I'm all yours kid!" I said....

"And I'm yours Cal." she said.

I couldn't believe it...a tear ran down my face....This had certainly never happened to me...

"Hey uh Cherry, don't tell anybody you saw me tear up....I uh might lose my man cards." I joked as I wiped the tear from my face.

''Awww, I won't." she laughed and kissed my cheek.

She smiled and hugged me...as below us....all the city lights shone brightly! I had to make my mind up and do something quick or I was going to be a man without a woman!

(CONCLUSION NEXT!)

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....)

Desire Always Wins

The homes in this section of the city were very nice...A little out of my price range right now, but still very nice...Bridget must be doing very well for herself ,I thought...Then again...her gangster father , who paid for practically everything in her life , out of guilt...probably bought this house for her...Just like he set her up in business too...and paid for most of her graduate education.

When we were kids growing up, it seemed as though everybody knew Bridget's father was a gangster ,except her! Her mother and her had moved here in Philly when she was two years old and we rarely if ever saw her father...It was said that he and the mother were divorced....Yet neither of them ever wanted for anything!

His money had sent her to Fisk and then to New York City and finally back here to run two lingerie stores...
How ironic....both of the women in my life make their living selling panties....Cherry works at Victoria's Secret in the mall and Bridget has her own lingerie stores. I had to laugh at the thought of it!

As for Bridget's father...His gangster life style caught up to him..I read in the papers that they found his body in a burning building with two gunshots in the dome....Killed by his former partners...All of whom were now in jail..Live that life, die in that life I suppose....Wished I had known Bridget was in town...I would have comforted her...Like Cherry, her skin was so soft and she always smelled so good...Both women intoxicated me sexually...but in different ways.

I felt like a stalker, driving around, looking at her house, driving slowly through the neighborhood, surveying it...but ever since I had run into her a few days before...I couldn't get her off of my mind.

And then...I saw her...Walking into her store...."Lady Chatterlies Lover...panties and bras for the discriminating woman." Cute, I thought and laughed...It was sooo Bridget!

Well, no need in cruising around any further...Might as well go inside.

It was a nice clean little place...Smelled nice, nice displays....I walked around, looked at a few things...even picked a few things out!

"Calvin....What are you doing here?" came the voice of Bridget...

"Uh...Hey...Hey girl....I told you I was going to drop by your spot and check you out..I-I-I- uh mean check it out...uh...uh , check some things out...uh..." I found myself saying and all of a sudden feeling like the biggest fool...


''I know what you meant..What you got there?" she asked.

"Uhhhh, what have I-uh...got? Uh." I said.

"Panties....and a lace bra?...a Teddy and a baby doll!!!Ouuuuuuuu." she answered...She took them and she inspected them...Then looked at me sheepishly....

Why did I pick up lingerie??, What was I thinking? I was suddenly very embarrassed and sorry I had even walked in.

"Your lady friend is a little smaller than I am, I see." she mused.

"Yeah, she's petite." I said holding my head down...Wondering why I even said that!

''Calvin!! You're blushing...Oh My goodness, look at you! What are you blushing for? ,I'm happy for you...Happy that you've found somebody...Is she nice?" she asked.

"Yeah...she's okay." I said.

"She must be more than just okay...If you're buying this stuff for her...I'd say that this is kind of personal." she said ,giving me the side eye..

"Well, I just met her a few months ago....We've only been on two dates." I said.

"And you've slept with her!" said Bridget.

"Huh?" I said.

"I know you have....You wouldn't be buying this stuff if you hadn't, right?" she asked.

''Yeah...I've slept with her." I confessed...

"Must have blown your mind if after two dates you buying drawers for her." she said and laughed...

I finally loosened up and laughed myself..

"You blew my mind once...one rainy night before you got married....I aint been right since that night." I said softly...

"Really Calvin?. That was seven years ago." she said softly...

I walked up to her closely...

"Yes....I haven't been able to get you off of my mind since then...That's why I went to Atlanta...I thought I could forget about you....Bridget, I tried...I tried ,but you can't run from yourself...I wound up right back here in Philly...Working....I don't live too far from where I work." I said.

"Bet you hang out in Josies, Don't you? Surprised I haven't seen you there..I'm there quite a bit." she said.

"Sometimes....I like the Aqua Bar and this other spot, Roxys." I said. ''Why don't you have a drink with me at Roxys after work sometimes?" I asked.

"Calvin....What about your new lady friend?" asked Bridget...

"Well.....Uh, We aren't a couple yet..I mean not officially...We've only been out twice..You know, we kinda buildin somethin...but I wouldn't say we really deep like that." I said, feeling as if I was betraying Cherry...I didn't even know why I was talking like this...Boy, I felt like the biggest heel at that moment.

"You like her don't you?" she asked.

"I do, I need to stop frontin with you Bridget...I like her a lot...I like her almost as much as I hate myself right now." I said.

''Why you hate yourself Calvin?" she asked.

"Because as much as I like her, as much as I'm thinking about starting a relationship with her...I find myself still attracted to you...Still wanting you." I said..

"Calvin, no...no...That's not right...You shouldn't be thinking about me.....You and me?...The timing was never right for us...I had a man, back then and now you got a woman...Let's just break clean...be friends..." she said.

"I don't know if I can do that Bridget...I don't know if I can ever be just your friend." I said.

''Why?  I've done it...I've broken clean...I'm trying to go on with my life....I lost two men, my husband and you....Two men I loved." she said.

''What happened with you and Mike?" I asked...

"It wasn't right between us...I wanted to be ...I wanted to have a career...He wanted me to stay at home and have his children...Which I would have done eventually....but you know how it was then?...I had my masters degree from Columbia, I thought I was Miss it..I was out there chasing a dollar, trying to seperate myself from my father's money and his influence.Tryin to be Superwoman...In the end, that came between both of us...We slid our seperate ways....Like I told you. Me and Mike split amicably and he remarried within a year and moved out to Cali....I had no friends, no relatives in New York City, So I came back to Philly." she said. "How bout you? What did you do? she asked.

"I moved to the ATL....It was cool....I dated a lot...Never settled on any one woman, Made a pile of money,but I just felt that something was missing...I just felt empty...Probably why I partied so much, Stayed drunk half the time...I couldn't stop thinking about you.....So I came back here...I realized that you were married and gone and there was nothing I could do about it....And now....Here you are and Here I am and I'm just looking for...for...something...something to come full circle." I said.

"What? You need closure?  I thought it was only women that needed closure. At least that's what Steve Harvey says." she said.

"Bridget ,look me in the eyes and tell me that you don't care about me, that you don't feel anything for me and I'll walk out of here and you'll never see me again." I said.

"Calvin...don't get all dramatic on me..Come on now..Let's not do this." she said.

"Tell me Bridget! Tell me you don't still feel something, just a little something." I said.

"I can't tell you that...I went on my prom with you...remember? We got history!You were such a gentleman... I knew I loved you, even back then, but you were so shy,so cool, you never would say how you really felt.Always with the aloofness...Honey Brown knew...She tried to tell me that you liked me...She told me on graduation day." she said.

"Rozanda??Wow...Heard she and Bernard got married again...I'm glad...They were made for each other.."I said.

"So were me and you...the timing was just always wrong for us." said Bridget.

Before either of us knew what was happening...we were kissing....right there in the middle of the floor....Customers walking by and everything.... Bridget broke our embrace...

''Whoa..We shouldn't have done that...We need to fall back..." she said.

"You need to fall back." I said.

II-

Bridget and I never made it to that bar, Roxys...After she got off work, we wound up in her house in her bedroom......

I was stripped down to my boxers , Her blouse and her bra was on the floor, I lifted her up and hiked her skirt up, slipped her panties down and slowly, gently, entered her....

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Calvin....I haven't had sex in two years....ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my goddddddddddd....ohhhhhhhhhhh it feels soooooooooooo goooooooooooooooooodddd." she said..

I couldn't believe she had been without sex for two years....I certainly hadn't!! I took my time...kissing her and thrusting mightily into her as though the world was coming to an end....I was going to show her what I had learned....

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu sweeeet lorddddd...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." she moaned....

"OHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Bridget...I've misssed you sooooooooooo much!' I moaned....

 She wrapped her legs around my back and I went in...I mean...I was trying my best to give her something she could feel....

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH CALVINNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.."she continued to moan...

Her bed squeaked louder than mine... and at one point I thought we were going to split the headboards....

An hour of this was all Bridget could take , she began to climax furiously and I felt myself about to explode...
,I pulled out and exploded like a gusher.....

''Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmphhhhh.." I moaned...

Bridget and I lie across the bed, sweating and panting....

"Calvin...what did we just do?" she said..

"What did we do? , We made love." I said.

"No we didn't..We had sex...that's what we had...This isn't love." she said.

" Bridget,It was more than just sex...At least it was to me!" I said.

"You have a girlfriend...This aint right...This is so wrong on so many levels." she said.

"Bridget" I said, almost pleadingly.

"Calvin...Come on get up...Let's get dressed.." she said.

She put on a robe and she walked toward the shower....

I looked at her and smiled...

"No we aint taken a shower together." she said.

I showered and got dressed....Bridget gave me some lotion....

We sat on the bed together...I went to put my arms around her , but she moved my arms away...

''Calvin this wasn't right...I don't think you should come back here ." she said.

"What did I do?" I asked.

"It wasn't all you...I was horny...I haven't had a date or been with a man in two years...You kind of showed up at the right time....The right time for you! I'm ashamed of myself for being so weak." she said and hung her head...

"I don't look at it that way." I said.

"I suppose you wouldn't....Calvin...the timing isn't right....Go be with your new girl.... and maybe one day I'll find a guy for me...or maybe , we'll find each other some other time." she said.

"You're sending me away again...and this time...It's my fault." I said.

"It's not your fault...Just bad timing is all." she said.

''Desire always wins." I said.

''Does it? Does it really Calvin? Goodbye Calvin." she said and walked me to the door.

III-

Hours later, I was in Josies Bar....practically the other side of this section of Philadelphia...in an area that was a little more working class...Gus poured me some rum and coke...I sat there drinking alone for a long time, when I smelled a particular fragrance and was tapped on my shoulder....I looked up and to my surprise, it was Cherry! Cherry Johnson.

I turned around and my eyes nearly popped out of my head...

"WOW! You look great!'' I said.

"Thank you...Where have you been? I haven't seen you in a few days." she said.

"Been workin at the other store." I said.

"I thought so...I stopped by the store in the mall and that's what they told me." she said.

"I'm beat!" I sighed as I drank...

"Rough Day?" she asked...

"You just don't know...I'm sapped of all my energy." I said, hating myself...

"Yeah, me too...Wanna come by my place and just watch a movie or something?" she said.

I smiled..."That would be nice." I said...

She was so nice... She deserved so much better than me...

We left shortly afterwords.... Cherry changed into some sweat pants and we laid on her bed watching some movie, I can't even remember...She made some popcorn and passed me a Coke...she enjoyed the movie...I don't even remember it!...I was so lost in what I'd just done earlier today...

I was too weak for sex...Even though she deserved to have it ,if she wanted it...She rested her petite body up under my shoulder and drifted off to sleep..I kissed her forehead and all the while thinking about Bridget..

What was I going to do? I could mess around and lose them both!

(TO BE CONTINUED...)

Bad Timing

My name is Calvin, Calvin Wardlow....I manage the Verizon Wireless store in the same shopping center where my date, Cherry Johnson manages a Victoria's Secret...Funny we would both be working in the same shopping center...Fate just works out like that...

I had been checking Cherry out for some time now...a couple of months...but I hadn't made a move.. I had seen two guys talking to her in what looked like serious relationship kind of talk...

One guy ,I didn't know at all....The other guy was a professor at Community College...
Samuel Rasulala....I knew him...I had taken one of his classes...He hit on every fine young thing in his class that was willing...

It was ironically enough a bouquet of roses from him to Cherry that mistakenly were delivered to my store that gave me the opportunity to meet Cherry, get to go out with her and have one of the most intoxicating nights of sex in my young life....It was so intoxicating and good ,that I woke up the next morning and fixed her breakfast!! Something I've never done for a woman before!!

Cherry was just hot like that!   I drove her to work the next day and we did meet for drinks at Josies that night after work and agreed to go out again, but we never set a date and two months have passed.

I have another store that I also manage , a few blocks away, well about eleven blocks away to be exact( a subway ride away!) and I worked there for a couple of weeks getting them set up and then returned to my original location...I saw Cherry off and on, but it was just hi and bye...

We had lunch one day last week and agreed to meet again..Which brings me to this little wine bar....One of my favorites...It's quiet and away from people I know..
Cherry met me here and we are enjoying the wine and casual conversation!

II-

"You're ordering another bottle of wine?  Cal, if I didn't know better,I'd swear you were trying to get me drunk." joked Cherry.

"Drunk? Me? Nahhh,A drunk woman is no fun." I joked...

"A drunk man isn't either...." she said.

"Relax...I just have a slight buzz..After we leave here..you wanna go to Aqua Bar?" I asked.

"Ouuuu, big spender aren't we?  " she joked.

"I paid all my credit cards off just in case we really did get a chance to go out again." I said.

"For me?  Awwwww...I'm flattered." said Cherry.

She may have thought I was joking...but I wasn't...I really had made double payments on my Visa and my Mastercard, so they would be paid off by this time..

We left the wine bar and went to the Aqua Bar....The D.J.'s were spinning some hot new music tonight....and the drinks were flowing... We danced until we were sweaty and found ourselves laughing and gasping for air when we sat down..

"Whoooo...oh my god...that was something...I haven't danced this much in years." said Cherry..

"Years?" I laughed...

"Yes..Years..." she said.

"That was fun." I said.

All this drinking and dancing had made me hella horny and Cherry wasn't helping me with that tight dress on that was hugging every curve and that nice smelling fragrance ...

They played some Jamaican music...You know the slow grinding kind of music that my friends dubbed "Rub a dub " music...and Cherry and I began dancing real close...

 I pulled Cherry close to me...close enough to feel her body heat...I got an immediate erection...I was a little embarrassed and surprised...Cherry stared in my eyes kind of strangely...We were in a crowded room full of people... She slowly and descretely ran her hands down my leg, felt my erection and squeezed it a little bit....Her eyes grew wide and she looked at me...

''WOW!" was all she could manage to say....I smiled a bit...She shook her head and smiled a little too..

"Oh my Goodness Cal." she said and giggled as she put her hand over her mouth...

I took my suit jacket off and kind of used it to cover my pants....

Cherry whispered to me...

''Let's get out of here."

"Your place or mine?" I asked.

"Your place is closer." she said.

III-

Cherry and I stood completely nude in my bedroom....she stroked my now raging erection gently and just gasped...

''Oh My God..."she said.

"What?" I asked laughing sheepishly...

''I guess I didn't get a good look at it the last time because we tore into each other so fast." she said.

"Getting a good look now?" I asked.

"Yesssss...Yessssssssssssss..oh my goodness..." she said...

Our lips locked in a slow ,passionate embrace.....The more I kissed her, it seemed as though I got even harder.....She continued to stroke me gently...It was driving me crazy!

I caressed her breasts slowly and began kissing her from her neck down to her belly button...

She giggled like a school girl...I cuped her buttocks and pulled her closer to me as I began kissing her soft lips again, slowly, softly....

She began to tremble, slightly....

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.." she moaned....

She continued to stroke me softly slowly......I was almost to the point that I couldn't take much more...

I walked over to my night stand and got a condom out of the drawer...

"You might need two of them to cover that up." she said laughing..."WOW!" she said .

I opened her legs and I entered her very slowly as we both seemed to fall on my bed... Not surprisingly, she is already wet and I begin to maneuver very easily inside of her...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..." she moans and cums very easily as I begin... She holds me and wraps her legs around my back as I really begin going in and out of her....

"YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS...YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS..OHHHH YESSSSSSSSSSS."
she screamed..."ROCK ME DADDDYYYY...OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH." she continued....

I could've stayed inside her like this forever , I just kept pounding and she kept moaning and grabbing ahold to the pillows and tossing them and moaning and howling...and I kept pounding in and out ,in and out for close to an hour and a half with no signs of stopping anytime soon....I was sweating profusely....so was she....

I pulled out for a minute and just stared at her noticing how beautiful she was....

She pulled me to her and began kissing me...sloppy wet kisses and began massaging my penis with her soft hands..and begging me...

"Ohhhh, get back inside of me please Cal....I need you...I need you inside of meee..." she said. I was happy to oblige and I slid inside of her and began moving first very slow and then speeding up with each thrust...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHH GOddddddddddddd...ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh good lawdddd...ohhhhhhhh Calvin, ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu babyyyyyyyy.." she moaned as I continued...she pulled at her sheets and began moving her head from side to side...

The bed began to rock from side to side.....squeaking something terrible.....the headboad banged against the wall gently.....

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, ummmmmmmmmmmmmmph..." I moaned...

Now it was me who came...I came harder than I had come before...shaking, trembling and exploding like a gusher....Cherry was coming too....Shaking violently and moaning
something terrible.

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"

''Wowww, that was worth the wait." I said.

"I'll say."she said.

"That's all I thought about since the last time." I said.

"Really?" she said laughing...

"Yes..." I said as we both drifted off to a very long and peaceful sleep. she snuggled up beside me and rested her head in my arms....All during the night ,she continued to fondle my penis....Almost as if she thought it might take leave of me and go off somewhere....

IV-

We woke up the next morning and realized it was Friday!

"Oh my God...I've got to get home and shower and change and get to work." said Cherry.

''Yeah...So do I." I said as I hurriedly got out of bed...

"Next time we do this...It's got to be on a Friday night." she laughed...as we both got in the shower...

We soaped each other down in the shower and continued to kiss and fondle each other....I lifted her up and entered her while in the shower....

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh...Oh my God....." she moaned as I began thrusting away again..

Needless to say..We left my shower,clean and satisfied...

We dressed and I drove her a few blocks away to her apartment.....She leaned over and kissed me for a long time before she got out of the car...

"Thank you...I haven't had this much fun in a long time." she said.

"Me neither Cherry...We definitely aren't going to wait three months before we do this again." I said...

"Oh most definitely not." she said as she exited and headed towards her apartment.

I needed breakfast and some coffee....I decided to head to Sam Mother's joint...It was closer to me than Mabel Jenkin's Soul Food Restaurant, which is where I usually had breakfast on Saturdays...

I loved the food at Mabel's and I loved looking at shapely Mabel and her sisters, Corrie and Anita...Even her older sister, Victoria was a brickhouse...Mabel, Corrie and Victoria were married, plus they were older than me...but it didn't matter...I think the combonation of good food and T&A is what made her joint so popular amongst the males in the area...The younger sister, Anita was my age, but involved with somebody...She was still nice to look at...and the waitress, "Baby Phat " was saying a taste too...but after last night....the only woman I wanted to think about was Cherry Johnson...She had blown my mind..That was saying a lot!

Sam Mother's joint would do...In hindsight...it would turn out...I would've been better off going the extra blocks to Mabel Jenkin's Soul food joint.

There was a nice crowd in Sam Mother's joint and I sat by myself enjoying some Blueberry Pancakes, Sausage, Hash browns and a side of scrapple...I had coffee and an orange mimosa...

I was just about finishing up when I looked up and I saw her!!!!

"Bridget??? Bridget Jones?" I found myself saying...

She had been sitting at the counter...she turned around and looked at me in pure shock!

"Cal Calvin Wardlow?" she said.

"Oh My Goddd..Bridget..."I said.

She looked at me and hung her head a little bit.. I had a breif flashback of the last time we were together...

About seven years ago in a hotel room in New York City...

Making hot and crazy love almost as good as the love I had made with Cherry the night before...

Bridget!! Her flawless cocoa brown skin...her long, shapely legs wrapped around my waist in that bed, in that room...and all ten inches of me submerged in her .......both of us, sweating...moaning....Bridget moving up and down furiously and me with my eyes about to roll into the back of my head thrusting like it was the end of time and finally climaxing furiously, like a gusher...hoping amongst all hope that I had made Bridget pregnant so that she'd be linked to me forever!!!

But it was all for naught...This was two nights before Bridget Cashew was to marry ,Mike Jones...It was the first and only time we had ever made love....I knew that my chance to have her had been blown once again....

"Bridget please...please don't marry Mike Jones...You don't love him....You know you don't...If you did...You wouldn't be here in bed with me..." I pleaded that night..

"Don't do this Cal...I'm sorry...The timing between us was just so bad.." she said...

"In high school ,I wanted to tell you how I was feeling about you so bad...but I couldn't get up the nerve and you wound up dating Marco Gervay...Then the whole time we were in Temple....I couldn't seem to say anything to you." I said.

"You had four years Calvin...That was a long time...I thought you just wanted to be friends.." she said.

"Then when you went off to Fisk...I was gonna tell you then...but.....but.." I said.

"You tell me a few days ago...when I'm engaged...and I realize that I always cared about you too...I just-I just didn't feel as though you were interested..."she said.

''So now we know..Now we know....Call this wedding off." I said.

"I can't do that Cal...This was just- just too late. I'm sorry Cal." she said...

She got up...took a shower and dressed... I cried the whole time she was showering and dressing...

She walked toward the door....

"Bridget, everytime I think about you I'm going to feel this big hole inside of me.."I said.

"Then don't think about me Calvin.....Be well." she said and she walked out that door and out of my life...

That was in May, 2006...This was now....

"Calvin, how have you been?" she said and hugged me..

"I've been good...Lived in Atlanta for awhile......Back in Philly....I uh manage two Verizon Wireless stores...One up in the shopping mall across the street from Josies..and the other one about eleven blocks away.." I said.

"I just moved back to Philly myself...about a year ago...I have my own business...Two lingerie stores...They're about eleven blocks from here too...Lady Chatterlies Lover...panties and bras for the discriminating woman." she said...And the other one is called "Simply Underwear" a few blocks away. " she said.

"Those are your stores? Wow...I've seen them...just never stepped inside.  No reason to, but uh maybe now I'll drop by." I said.

"Ohhhhhh, you seein somebody?" she asked.

"Kind of..." I said.

"It serious?" she asked.

"Uhhhhh, well ,we've only been out twice."I said.

"If you're buying lingerie for her, it must be close to serious." she said.

"Well..you never know...I just met her about two months ago." I said.

"Ohhhh, I see." she said.

"So...how's married life? You got a few kids by now, I know." I said.

"I'm not married to Mike anymore...We've been divorced for over two years now.....In fact, he's remarried and moved out to Los Angelas. We didn't have any kids." she said.

"Oh........................Damn...I'm sorry to hear that Bridget......Well uh, you got a card?
Give me your card..I may come in visit your store, give you some business...Maybe we could go to lunch or somethin, catch up." I said.

"I'd like that." she said and smiled and passed me her card...

We exchanged phone numbers and business cards.....

"Well, I've got to open my store...I'll be talking to you." she said.

"Okay Bridget....nice seeing you again."I said.

"Same here Cal." she said and she left...

What was I doing? Why did I have to run into Bridget Jones/ Why did she have to be free now?  and me on the verge of a new relationship??...

Timing was everything....Timing was a bitch!

(TO BE CONTINUED!)


See Also ''Keeper"