Twice as Hard - 5th Excerpt
TWICE AS HARD - (5th)
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AJ lay back on the sofa and Lois leaned against him, encircled by AJ’s long arms. They passed a joint back and forth, with AJ doing most of the puffing. It was a little chilly in Anita’s apartment and Lois wore a small pink cardigan, but AJ was bare-chested. Between the marijuana, the tequila and the heat of youth, he needed no further covering.
“Man, it’s real cool for your sister to let you stay here,” he said.
“Yeah, but it’s a temporary situation,” Lois said. “Neville is already acting like an asshole and it’s only a matter of time before he makes Anita kick me out.” Neville was Anita’s boyfriend, but apparently Neville was not the father of Chucky, the child Anita had given birth to a mere six months earlier.
Short and slender, Neville was a brown-skinned, fast-talking country bumpkin with big city ideas. AJ was first introduced to Neville when Lois visited Anita shortly after Anita first moved into her new place. AJ joined his heartthrob at her sister’s house and found Neville to be friendly and generous.
Neville often asked AJ to go to the liquor store for him, which the younger man would eagerly do, knowing he’d get a chance to imbibe with Neville. The legal drinking age was 18, but AJ’s size and his mature bearing made it easy to assume he was older. Neville would also send AJ for weed, since the teenager knew the city. AJ never questioned why Neville enjoyed having the drug around, but seldom if ever indulged in it himself.
A native of the same town where Charles Jones was a squatter, Neville had a rather complex history with the Jones family. He had initially tried to date Lois a few years before, but the match was ill fated. Neville ran into Anita in Rochester, and totally by chance, after the young woman was attending nursing classes. After a short time courting the lonely student, Neville moved into Anita’s apartment and started taking control of her life.
AJ didn’t like the situation and he wasn’t really fond of Neville, but he understood that discretion was the better part of valor, at least until AJ and Lois could get their own apartment. In the meantime, it was a convenient place to link up and his randy hormones led AJ to that door almost every day. Thinking about such things gave AJ ideas. He closed the door to the little sitting room in Anita’s apartment again and returned to the couch where Lois sat. The R&B group Heatwave’s hit song Always and Forever was playing over and over on a portable record player.
There’ll always be sunshine when I look at you
Something I can’t explain; just the things that you do…
AJ stared straight into Lois’ eyes and slowly moved closer. He put little kisses on her face. Her back arched and AJ unbuttoned her blouse, then unzipped her jeans. The song played on, but the listeners were otherwise engaged.
Take time to tell me you really care
And we’ll share tomorrow forever…
posted by JahStorm @ 12:17 PM
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