he does all the right things to me, says things very plain, very blatant. What am I going to do? Make love to him every chance I get? No. But I hope so. his c*ck is so hard all the time it makes me feel like a whore that I want him so bad. I want to examine his face, his features while he rocks my world, fingers me, exhilarates me. All day he was staring at me,
literally making me come it was exhausting. I tried to look away from him because his broken heart made me cry inside. We had a dinner date instead, we ate in silence, kind of. We touched each other in the restaurant and had sex upstairs in the hotel room. There was a wedding reception happening in the grand ball room down stairs and we could both feel the vibration of the music through the ceiling; he kept f*cking me.
It was the best-most, worst thing. Mainly because no one knows about it: not the heartbroken women or the side hoes, not even me. I cannot remember every detail off the top of my head, but it was very magical. Very mystical. We did magic-mushrooms in my Honda Civic while he made me moan. Touching me through my panties, and feeling the imprint of my vulva on his thumb. he took me shopping all day and bought me a pear necklace. I could already imagine myself handing it down generation after generation to happy princesses, while the King still pounds me out after supper. I smiled for what seemed like twenty four hours in the abrasive sun. I wanted to keep shopping with him, just so he could touch in line, or brush his lips against my neck while I pretend: pretend I am not in love with him, pretend I am squeezing my life into this thighs & he never let me go. We meant to sleep in the car, but did not.
My phone rings, and we both halt. You turn to look at me and spank your butt cheek a little.
“You not gonna answer that, are you?”
“Hold on, mama.”
I slide my strap out of your pussy and rush over to grab my phone hidden under my pile of clothes on the floor.
“Yo,” I say into the mic.
“Dauhd…”
“Lana? What’s wrong?”
“Tyson…he hit me…”
“What?!”
“I’m sorry—“
“Where are you?”
“I don’t know…I ran. I’m barefoot on a side road.”
“Stay where you are. I’m coming right now. Shit. I’ll call you right back okay? I love you, just wait for me.”
I hang up the phone and scramble to pull off my strap and get my clothes on. You light a cigarette.
“That little ass girl always crying about some shit,” you chuckle.
“Watch your mouth.”
“So you gone stop fucking me to go save a bitch that can’t even commit to you or admit she gay? Dauhd, get the fuck out.”
“Gadly.”
I slam the front door shut and jog to my car in Monica’s driveway. I dial seven digits once I am in the driver’s seat.
“Lana. It’s me, baby. Where are you? What’s around you?”
“Um. Uh, a gas station with green lights. Um. That’s it, Dauhd, that’s it.”
“Is it the Lenpro gas station?”
“Yeah. Yeah, that’s it!”
“Okay, alright. I’m coming. I’m coming right now. You want to stay on the phone with me?”
“Yeah…”
“What happened, baby?”
“I don’t know. He was angry. He could smell your scent on me. Your cologne. And he wanted to know where I been, who I been with. I told him I was leaving him and he choked me and punched me and—“
“What! Lana, what the fuck! Are you bleeding?”
“Yeah…”
“Oh my god. I’m so sorry. I should have never brought you there. I’m so sorry. Look, you can stay with me. I’ll run a bath for you and massage your feet. I’ll take care of you, okay? You don’t have to go back.”
“Dauhd, I love you. I can’t stay with you. I don’t want to fight with you.”
“I aint gone hurt you, Villana. You know me. It’s your choice, but you know me.”
“I know…I’m just so fucked up right now.”
“I know. It’s okay. Everything is going to be okay. I’m here with you, okay? I’m here. I’m here, Lana. Turn around.”
I jump out of the car and run over to you. I survey your bloodied face and both your black eyes. I’m not sure if I should touch you or not.
“Lana…”
“I know…its bad.”
You collapse into my arms and I hug you with all my might.
“It’s okay. He ain’t gone get away with this,” I whisper in your ear.
I hold your hand and lead you to my car and gently lay you down in the back seat.
I drive to my condo with fume releasing from my ears and I listen to you snore quietly behind me.
We ride down the empty street and rain begins to patter on the hood. Silence fills the space of the car, and you run your hand up and down my thigh. Something in me tingles to the sensation of your touch.
“You hungry?” I ask.
“Starving.”
“What do you want? I don’t know whats open, but…”
“A burger. Oh my god, a burger,” you moan and rest your head back against the seat. You grip my thigh firmly as I make a U-turn toward the only spot I know that has the best burgers and fries at this time of night.
We pull into the diner and you link your arm into mine as we walk in. All at once I notice your drunken sway and I smell alcohol on your body that I didn’t notice before. I am baffled and shaken inside, but determined to help you.
We sit down and both order double cheeseburgers and steak fries. You eat your burger with mayonnaise and I eat mine with mustard, ketchup, and pickles. I order a beer, but dare not to actually drink it. You order ice water and we hold each other’s hand across the sticky table under the dim lighting. We talk about music and romance; how we want to make love on the beach and have breakfast underneath a sunset. I stare into your eyes as you smile and tell me about one of your political science classes. You shake your head as you explain that your professor unrightfully gave you a C- on an essay you spent two weeks writing. I kiss your fingers and offer to edit your next essay. You agree and yawn. I pay our tab and we ride the rest of the way to your place inside the saxophone of a new jazz artist I’m into.
When we pull up to your place, I cut the music off and park the car.
“You gonna be okay?”
“I think so. Thank you, Dauhd. For being you. For accepting me.”
“Aint no thing, woman,” I smile and look over at you, “Just assure me that you aren’t fucking that guy up there.”
You pull your keys out of your purse and lean over to grace me with a sloppy kiss on my cheek.
“I don’t let him touch me. And as soon as the semester is over, I’m moving out. I’m calling off this stupid wedding as soon as possible.”
“Promise?”
“Promise. Try not to have too much fun without me, okay?”
“Hey. Be careful. Call me.”
“I will. Bye.”
“Bye.”
You stumble out of the car and I watch you until you ascend up the flight of steps leading to the three bedroom apartment that you share with a man whom I have never met. A man who has placed a diamond rock on your finger which I could never afford.
Once you disappear, I pull out my phone, flip it up and dial the only number that makes sense to me right now.
“Hey, Monica.”
“Hey, D. You good?”
“No. Not really. You tryna fuck me?”
“Weird timing, but hell yeah. Where you at?”
“I’m twenty minutes from you, downtown.”
“Well let me go shower then. I’ll leave the door unlocked.”
“Then tell me the truth,” I sit up in the bed and cross my legs, “How many men are you fucking, huh?”
“Why? It’s not important.”
“It is important. Why won’t you tell me?”
“I don’t want to hurt you,” You sit up also and climb into my lap, wrapping your arms around my neck, and holding me close to your heart.
I respond with my arms around your waist, “This hurts me, Villana. It already hurts. Tell me, please just tell me. How many is it?”
“I don’t know. A lot.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know.”
“So why don’t you want to have sex with me anymore?”
“Because I actually like you!” You jump up and storm across the room to the window and peer through the curtain, “I fucking like you. I want more. I’m discovering myself. I don’t want to lose that. I don’t want to lose you. You are different. Kind. Sweet. Real. You’re real. Understand?”
“Do you understand? I have fucking feelings.”
“I know. I’m sorry.”
“Villana. Just tell me the truth…how many…is it?”
“Ten.”
“Jesus.”
“See! You’re judging me!”
“I’m not judging you. I don’t care. But…I love you. I cant even think about another making love to you.”
You turn to face me. I swing my legs over the side of the bed and glare at your silhouette.
“I don’t make love to them. I just let them fuck me.”
“Stop.”
“And maybe I suck their dicks sometimes.”
“Stop it!”
“And I like it in the ass.”
“Will you stop it.”
“You said you wanted to know. So there it is. All my dirty laundry, Dauhd.”
I sigh. I walk over to you and stand inches away from your face.
“How can you tell me you love me,” I whisper, “When you share yourself with so many. People who don’t matter. You’re getting married next month. When you gonna call it off?”
“I’ll do it now. I’ll call him and do it now.”
“Then what?”
You stare into my eyes as though I just slapped you in the face.
“I don’t know. We can be together.”
“I don’t want to be with you, Villana, now that I know this.”
“See that’s why I didn’t want to tell you.”
“You didn’t want to tell me the truth?”
“You tell me the truth. How many women have you been with?”
“In my lifetime?”
“In the past two months, Dauhd!”
“Stop yelling at me.”
“Tell me!”
“Tell you what!”
“How. Many. Women. Have. You. Been. With,” you muffle through clenched teeth.
“Several, Villana, because am I supposed to wait around for ten men to gets their nuts off?”
“Fuck you, Dauhd.”
“Fuck me, Lana, cause that’s the only thing you ever want to do.”
“I’m leaving.”
I watch silently as you spin around the room gathering your belongings and stuffing them in your duffle bag. You start toward the bathroom, but the darkness reveals an item on the floor that causes you to slip and fall. I run over to you as your body hits the floor. You break out into a sob, curling yourself up into a fetal position.
I put my arms around you and hug you tight.
“I’m sorry,” I whisper, “I shouldn’t have asked, “Where are you going to go? It’s 2:00 a.m.”
“Away from you,” you say between whimpers.
“Please. Don’t go. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”
“Shutup, Dauhd.”
“I’m serious. I’m sorry. Please. Come lay with me. At least let me make love to you before you go.”
I scoop you up and carry you to the bed. I lay you down gently and begin to kiss all the tender spots of your body: your cheeks…your chin…your neck…your chest…your abdomen…
I see your body start to relax and moans escape from your lips. You massage my shaven head as I kiss you.
“You’re right,” you state quietly.
I stop and look up at you, “What?”
“You’re right. It’s disgusting that I’m fucking that many men. You don’t deserve that.”
I crawl up next to you and slide my arms around your body and pull you close to me. Our breathing is in-synch. I can feel your heart beat on my chest. Silence embodies our auras in the dark room. The crickets harmonize outside the window. A couple down the hall argues and a baby wails.
“Villana, should I get tested?”
“Yeah…”
“Are you protecting yourself?”
“I don’t know. I been drinking a lot,” you sniff and wipe your eyes with the palm of your hand, “I been drunk Dauhd, I don’t remember.”
“Lana…”
“I’m sorry. I wish I could stop, but…I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I don’t know—I—“
“How long you been drinking again?”
“Maybe six months…” your voice trails.
“Are you drunk now.”
You begin sobbing again. I tighten my hold on you. Your tears run down my skin and your shoulders heave.
“Just tell me. This is our life, right? Are you drunk?” I demand your gaze with my own, “Tell me, baby. I’m not mad. I’m worried about you.”
“I’m drunk, Dauhd. I’m always drunk. I’m so stressed! School is fucking killing me! Work is stringing me by the throat! I’m always drun—“
“Alright…alright. It’s okay. Okay? It’s okay. I love you. It’s okay.
I hold you and time passes as you weep in my arms. I close my eyes and listen to your breath. I rub your back and kiss the top of your head over and over.
Once your emotions start to slow I say, “Let me take you home so you can rest.”
“He’s there.”
“I know, but you need to sleep it off and take care of yourself. Okay…?”
You grip my hands on your breasts as you climax. My eyes run wild as I watch you shake and quiver with pleasure. You laugh as the waves rush onto the shores of your body. I giggle a little too as I try to steady my breathing. I grind myself with you as you come, hoping to intensify the orgasm. The seconds feel like minutes before you collapse onto my chest, heaving and chuckling.
“Thank you”, you whisper as your breath starts slowing.
I wrap my arms around your back and massage your spine. “Thank you”, I reply.
You prop your chin on my chest, smiling at me, looking into my eyes. “You held your orgasm for me didn’t you?”
“Its okay”, I kiss your forehead, “I wanted to. I was enjoying you.”
“I enjoyed you also, but I want you to come…if it’s okay with you of course. Can I taste you?”
“Are you sure?”
“I’m positive.” You grin at me and your eyes shimmer with passion. We kiss for a few moments before you begin to lick and suck patterns on my neck.
I close my eyes, and bite my lip. I massage the nape of your neck while you explore me.
“Your skin smells like lavender.”
I smile. “I wonder what it taste like.”
You bite your lip and give me that look you give before you are about to rock my world.
You kiss my chest and trail your tongue down my stomach until you settle yourself between my legs. My breath deepens and I spread myself open to give you space to get comfortable. I feel your tongue and I tense up involuntarily.
“Are you okay?” You ask me, peaking from between my legs.
“Yeah…yes…I’m alright.” I clear my throat and try to relax my body.
You begin tasting me again I clench my jaw. I look up at the ceiling and try not to think too much.
I close my eyes shut tight because I feel the urge to explode; to squirt all over you, but I hold it back. I try to wait it out.
I’m having fun, I determine, No need to come right now.
“Are you close?”, you whisper between my lips.
Shit.
“Yeah. I’m sorry” I say, embarrassed. My eyes are still shut and my lips still pursed closely upon yours.
“Hey…it’s okay.”
You plant soft kisses on my cheek and trail the kisses down my chin and into my beard. I exhale through my nose and feel the sensation. The spots on my skin warm up as your lips stimulate them.
You plant one on my lips.
I grin slightly before we begin to make out once more.
I feel myself starting to sweat and the urge fills me up again. You roll yourself on top of me with a seamless straddle. Gripping your thigh, I align your pussy onto me. You rock your hips back and forth…tentatively. I breathe into you. Both our mouths are open and our moans exchange.
You sit up and throw your head back as you start to ride me faster.
“Oh my god”, you pant.
I place both my palms on your breasts, swirling them in small, slow circles. I can feel the firmness of your nipples.
I thrust into you harder, causing you to bounce; the bed creaks.
Might I say you look beautiful right now, on your back, legs spread wide for me.
I lower my head down between your legs and kiss your clit a few times. It’s wet. You’re wet. I’m wet. You taste golden. I slide my tongue inside of you and you shiver.
“Kiss me”, you whisper.
I lift my body up gently to meet you. My lips glisten with your fluids. Our tongues meet and twirl with the other. They dance, and you pull me closer. Our nipples are touching, we are so close. I slide my middle finger in you and massage you from the inside. You moan into my mouth and I can taste your breath and saliva. I taste your 3pm cigarette.
But something tells me there is more under the surface of your discarding of me. I need you, now more than I ever have. Why? Because I am ready to love you actively and fully. Transparently and forreal, woman. Can you hear me? Can you feel me? I feel you. Or maybe I just feel myself, hoping a piece of me can float amongst the universe and reach you somehow. And…I know this happens to people. They do not get the lover or the romance, but I am in love with you.
I never felt this way before.
A feeling of being so close and so far away from you. I am having a hard time expressing this…mainly because I wish I could express this to you. Talk to you. Tell you everything, and nothing. Nothing at all cause you do not care. Seemingly.
Your lights were in high beam, Your heart was in 3rd gear. Why did I not hear You as Your words screeched like tires on My tired road. Why could I not see You? Does this make Me stupid? Obscured? Devoted to feeling heartache, and pain.
I think the difference between You and I is the fact that at least I can be honest about My lust, about My distrust for You, My yearn for You, My love, My lust for You. At least I can be honest.
Why could You not at least say, “Fuck you”, if that is what You felt? Instead, You said nothing. Absolutely nothing, and that left Me, leaving you, breathing You.
And I have nothing left to receive from You, or even the thought of You, I cannot think of you, I cannot stop thinking of You.
I feel pretentious writing this because I still do not understand why I am doing it.
Maybe this is closure?
Delete
Hey.
It is me.
I think my soul needs to do this and you certainly do not have to respond.
Delete
I miss you.
I miss your energy and the connection of us. I felt anger for you for a long time out of jealousy.
Delete
Why was i not enough for you? What could I have done to help you to see me? Maybe these questions are obscured but I loved you…I am still Loving you and I really do not want to be.
I wish I could let my heart know that.
Delete
There is this gaping hole-space inside of me that I have filled with complacency.
Maybe I was empty before you, and now I can feel it. I feel you spiritually and my body vibrates to the thought of you.
The sex with you meant more for me than I allowed myself to process and I am still trying to process it.
I felt small in your mind as though you used me to fill your own empty hole-space inside of you and that hurts more than if I knew you were in Love with someone else.
I know this because you were, indeed, in love with someone else.
Delete
I wish it could have been me.
Delete
I have never met another person like you. I have never met someone who made it so easy for me to bring me out of myself.
My apology goes only to myself for pretending I did…do..did…do not Love you.
Inside The Mind of a Black Artist 