When
the universe sends you the person of your dreams, there’s nothing you can do
but hold on for the ride of a lifetime.
There’s no way to plan for it, there’s no way to calculate how things
should progress; you just have to be present in each moment to receive the
gifts you deserve. Little did Marcus and
Karen understand how perfectly suited they were for one another and how
vulnerable it would make them in the eyes of the other.
Most
people assume that when you meet someone whom you like, it all happens by
chance, that it’s all a matter of luck.
Little do they know that cosmic forces work diligently, crafting and
planning, coordinating and preparing the perfect set of circumstances in order
to facilitate the spark that ignites true love.
All the forces of extraordinary chemistry were in place at the Borders
bookstore in Hyde Park and the only thing missing were the key players in the
game. Karen Anderson was in place,
sipping a cup of tea with her head buried in her laptop, oblivious to the
world. Enter Marcus Stevenson, stage
left, precariously balancing a tray with food, books, and an ulterior motive
while looking for a seat.
“Excuse
me, Miss, is this seat taken?”
Karen
looked up, slid her things to the side to make space for her new table
companion, and mumbled something barely audible that sounded like, “No, go
right ahead.” She went back to staring
at her computer screen and shutting out the world around her. She was desperately trying to stay focused
but deep inside her heart had just skipped a beat. Marcus was breathtaking. Standing 6’ even, he towered over her 5’6”
petite frame. His butterscotch complexion,
dark brown expressive eyes, and enormous smile melted her heart. Karen was attracted in a way she hadn’t felt
since her first crush in Middle School.
Her palms were sweaty and she could actually feel an electric current
coursing through her body. Her body was
one big mass of heightened sensation. To
the casual observer, she was just another lady in self-absorbed, technological
distraction. Nervous and shy, she didn’t
even dare look up to make eye contact with her tablemate.
“For
all your generosity in sharing your space with me, I think you should at least
accept my offer of some more tea.” Karen
looked up as Marcus was sliding a freshly brewed pot of Good Hope Vanilla tea
towards her. He motioned at the fellow
behind the counter and said with a smile, “He was kind enough to tell me what
you were drinking, I hope you don’t mind.”
“Gee,
that’s very nice of you but it’s not at all necessary,” she said, thinking that
was the most polite way to say, “Oh hell no, you aren’t going to drug me with a
roofie.” Before she could even get the
thought completely processed, Marcus anticipated her reaction, poured a cup for
himself, and took a sip.
“Hey,
this is pretty good, I think you might have turned me on to something new. I like it!”
Karen
smiled at the coincidence and graciously accepted the offer of tea and went
right back to burying her head in her work.
She didn’t want to assume he was flirting with her and she was totally
unskilled at how to show interest in a man, so she went back to pretending she
wasn’t at all interested in Marcus and planning on what she would say on the
remote possibility that he extended himself to her again in conversation. After twenty minutes, she figured she’d
ruined her chance of striking up a conversation with him and made a mental note
to herself to be just a little bit more assertive the next time a gorgeous man
sat down at the table next to her. She
had all but given up her hopes that he might be interested in her, when, she
stared at her computer screen and blurted out in complete shock, “Three
thousand dollars?”
Marcus
looked up from his reading and inquired, “Is everything okay over there?”
Karen
apologized for disturbing him, “Oh, I’m terribly sorry, but I put a bid on
something on eBay and the price has shot up to $3000 with only twenty minutes
left in the auction. I’ve been watching
this item for a week now and there was no activity on it at $800. Now, there’s no way I can get it. It’s way out of my budget.” She looked disappointed but Marcus thought
her cute little nose squished up and her lips pouting out made her look
incredibly sexy.
“What
on earth were you interested in getting that upset you so, if you don’t mind me
asking that is?” Truth be told, Marcus
was looking for any opportunity to strike up a conversation. He had seen her sitting at the table from the
second he walked in and he was instantly attracted. It was the sort of, “This is the woman I’m
going to marry,” attraction that guys talk about in locker rooms when they are
describing the woman that is going to make them change their ways. From head to toe, she was his idea of
perfection. From her head of braids to
her exquisite face, all the way down to her delicious looking toes that peeked
out from beneath the table in her cute sandals.
After he made the first move and she didn’t respond, he figured she was
probably happily married already with two kids and a dog. Women that beautiful weren’t the type of
women to be single.
“Oh,
it was just a piece of Shona sculpture that I wanted to add to my collection
and . . . well, never mind, it’s no big deal.”
Marcus’s
face lit up. “You like Shona
sculpture? No way! Check it, I’m reading a book on Shona
sculpture right now.” He handed her a
substantial coffee table book that he had been reading and went on and on about
how it was such a small world.
Skeptical,
Karen remarked, “Yeah, coincidence, isn’t it, just like the tea.” Are you sure you didn’t look over my shoulder
and see what I was looking at?”
Confessing
all his sins, Marcus whispered so the people at the table next to them couldn’t
hear of his attraction to her and his attempt to show his interest with the
tea. “Honestly, I love African art and I
was just here to look at some different books and Shona sculpture is one of
them. Promise. Cross my heart.” That puppy dog expression on his face made
Karen just melt. For the first time, she
let down her guard and started to open up.
It
was only then that Karen let the forces of nature take over and guide the
connection that would prove to be the most amazing relationship of her
life. Time seemed to stand still as the
two began to get to know each other.
Minutes turned into hours, hours turned into days, days turned into
weeks. The more they shared with one
another, the more obvious it became that they were twin souls separated at
birth. They shared the same loves, the
same passions, and the same temperament.
Most people would say that a love like that would get boring, that
opposites attract, variety is the spice of life and all that. That’s only because they have no concept of
what it’s like to find a true soul mate.
They base their beliefs off of relationships formed from physical
attraction and lust and then criticize emotional, intellectual, and spiritual
connection because they can’t grasp its parameters.
Within
a few months, it was more than apparent that Karen and Marcus were
inseparable. They both loved salsa music
and creative vegetarian cooking and obscure cerebral films. Their love was blossoming and taking on a
life of its own. They were both
supportive of each other’s goals in life, Karen the more creative and Marcus
the more technical. There were no
secrets to be kept because they could be completely honest without fear of
being judged. No secrets except for one. There was something unspoken, something
unsaid that was the wedge in their machinery.
Marcus was sure it was the bullet that would kill their budding
romance.
Karen,
unaware that there were any secrets, was in bliss. They’d become physically intimate and he
seemed like the perfect lover. He was
responsive and gentle and his sensitivity to her needs reminded her of her
previous female lovers. She’d been
completely honest with him, sharing details of her past and being completely
open about her preferences. She wasn’t
tied one way or the other with being with women or men. She was open to loving relationships and she
was interested in monogamy so whomever she decided to be with, male or female,
was going to be the recipient of all of her love and affection, and she expect
the same back in return.
It
was a typical Friday night and the pair had just settled in after dinner to
listen to some music and relax for the evening at Marcus’s crib. Neither of them were big fans of television
so when Karen suggested that they watch a movie, it sounded like a great and
novel idea to both of them. There was no
TV in the living room; it was hidden in an armoire in the bedroom. Karen made her way to the bedroom with a copy
of the DVD Chocolat in one hand and her shoes in the other while Marcus was off
to the kitchen to make popcorn and open a bottle of wine. He was carrying the tray up the stairs when
he froze in his tracks. He almost
dropped the goodies out of sheer terror.
He could hear the sounds from the television coming down the hall.
Karen
has made her way to the bedroom to start the movie. There were three remote controls and she was
just pushing combinations of all of them trying to get the DVD to play. Marcus still has a combination DVD/VCR player
and when the screen flickered and images appeared she quickly climbed on the
bed to get comfortable. She was ready to
call out to Marcus to hurry up when what she saw made the words freeze in her
throat. There, live and in living color
was a video of two men engaged in some serious, hot, and heavy action. Karen stared at the scene, two men licking
and sucking and fucking, but it was more than just typical porn, it was almost
as if they were making love. Karen
shifted on the bed, pulling her legs up under her, drawn to the action and
afraid to look away but almost sure she should turn it off before Marcus got
there. In an instant, Karen realized
that the porno on the screen wasn’t a regular porno; it was a homemade
video. It was a homemade video of Marcus
with another man. She gasped out loud
and looked up to see Marcus standing in the doorway with a look of sheer terror
on his face.
She
scrambled for the remotes, trying to find the one that would turn off the video
but she was pushing buttons in vain. For
a full minute, she was fumbling, cursing, and pushing more buttons trying to
turn off the video. Finally, she pushed
the right one and the screen went to blue.
Blue easily described the look on Marcus’ face as she turned to
apologize for the accidental invasion of privacy.
“I’m
sorry . . . . I . . . I . . . I didn’t
mean to . . . I’m so sorry.”
Looking
dejected and broken, Marcus set down the tray and sat on the edge of the bed to
keep from falling down. He whispered,
“There’s no need to apologize, I’m sorry for being dishonest for all these
months.”
It
was in that moment, Karen froze. It
hadn’t occurred to her that the video might be current. They had spent every moment together possible
and there wasn’t any time that Marcus’s whereabouts weren't unaccounted for, or
so she thought. She was scrambling for
her shoes and trying to make her way out of there without crying. “I thought, I thought we had something
special,” she said, sniffing and holding back the tears. “I never thought you would be capable of
cheating.”
Marcus
was dumbfounded. He hadn’t even
considered that she would think that he was cheating on her, he was sure she
was going to call him a faggot and a sissy and go off about how he wasn’t
really a man and about how she was going to out him to the world. “No, no, no, that was made over two years
ago. I would never cheat on you. I respect you too much to lie to . . .” He stopped himself, realizing that his lack
of full disclosure counted as a lie.
“I’m sorry, I’m so very sorry.”
He waited patiently; ready to answer questions if she asked, mentally preparing
himself for her to walk out of his life forever.
Karen
sat on the bed next to him, covering his hand with hers. She comforted him. “I can understand why you wouldn’t tell me
about this. I really wish you had but I
can understand why you didn’t. Boo, we
were tested. I know you aren’t
positive. I could have handled it. You should have trusted me.”
Marcus
felt a sigh of relief flow over him.
He’d been expecting the neck rolling, irrational, deranged tantrum of a
woman who was going to rip him a new asshole.
It almost seemed to him that Karen was being supportive, allowing him to
share with her without judgment. He
couldn’t even conceive of a woman like that.
“Have I watched one too many Oprah shows or is it possible . . .” He sat staring at the floor, afraid to
speak.
“Or
what? Is it possible that I’m
understanding of you being with another man,” she said, finishing his
thoughts. Baby, you should know me by
now, you should know me well enough to know that I would never equate your manhood
to something as silly as who you share yourself with. My identity isn’t shaped by whom I sleep
with, why would I think anything different for you?”
With
those words, a weight had been lifted off Marcus’ shoulders. He turned to face Karen and she touched his
cheek softly. She kissed his lower lip,
gently sucking it in her mouth and his hands instinctively encircled her. She fell back on the bed and he tumbled on
top of her, driven by passion. “No,
stop,” he said, “We have to talk about this.”
He stood up and paced the room.
He was trying to find the right words but he was just saying the first
thing that came to mind.
“Sometimes,
I think we are more alike than is even possible. I wanted to tell you so many times. I wanted you to know but I was so afraid
you’d leave.” He continued pacing and
talking. “Reggie and I were lovers, for
over a year in fact. He’s the only man
I’ve ever been with, I swear. I have to
tell you the truth and do with it what you want. It wasn’t just sex, we were a couple. I cared about him; he cared about me. There was no top or bottom; nobody was the
woman. We were both men, involved in an
intimate, sexual relationship. I guess I
secretly wanted to get caught by leaving the video of us in the machine. Seems like some sort of sub-conscious fuck
up, right?” He went on and on about how
the relationship taught him more about himself than he had ever imagined, and
how he sometimes just missed the sex. It
wasn’t a reflection of his dissatisfaction with Karen; it was just a part of
his sex life that really couldn’t be duplicated.
Finished
pouring out his heart and soul, Marcus came out of his oblivion and looked
up. Karen was on the bed naked, with her
legs spread, watching the video and rubbing the remote on her clit. His dick jumped at the sexy sight and he
wanted nothing more than to bury his face between those silky thighs. He looked at the TV and his dick jumped
again. It was the scene where he was
engaged in a hot, wet 69 with his lover.
Karen’s eyes were glued to the screen and she seemed to be in a
trance.
“Marc,
sweetie, is it inconceivable to you that I could be aroused watching you with
another man? How would you feel if you
were to watch a video of me with another lover?
You should have trusted me, trusted that I wouldn’t unfairly judge
you. You should have had faith that I
would respect you for who you are and not whom you have sex with. When I look at that video, I see two
incredibly beautiful people engaged in an intensely erotic situation. It turns me on incredibly.” She spread her legs and beckoned Marcus to
come join her on the bed.
It
was Marcus who was in a trance now and he fell to his knees and pulled her sexy
body close to him. Karen took his head
and held it tightly against her mound.
Karen spread her legs and awaited her moment of reckoning. He lowered his mouth to her sweet
center. Her slippery and sweet juices
were flowing freely. Her lips were
parted slightly, exposing her silken and pink center. His tongue softly flicked at her clit,
sending waves of pleasure throughout her entire body. Karen’s body jerked and shook every time his
lips sucked her sensitive button. The
more he licked the wetter she became.
Her moans and utterances of profane and graphic directions were music to
his ears. “Baby, I love the way you lick
my pussy . . . oh shit . . . fuck . . . yesssss. . . finger me. Oh, it feels so good.” Marcus cupped her ass in his hands, pulled
her pussy to his mouth, and drove his tongue deep inside her as she released
her juices down his throat.
Karen was not
a woman to be denied her own brand of pleasure.
She moved quickly to take advantage of the situation and climbed on top
of Marcus. She held his stiff dick in
her soft hands. She began to softly,
gently lick the head, licking it like a soft serve cone and expertly using the
tip of her tongue in his slit. She began
swirling her tongue around the head, getting it wet and slippery with her spit;
stroking him to full hardness with her hand.
She looked at him with a sexy look in her eyes took his entire length in
her mouth in one stroke. She took a deep
breath and went further down, deep-throating him with a technique that would
make porn stars jealous. “Is that the
way your boyfriend did it,” she teased.
Totally
consumed, all Reginald could do was moan and grab the sheets tightly. He was breathless as he knew what was about
to come. Karen began her technique of
licking, sucking, and stroking his dick in a way that made him want to lose his
mind. The pleasure was
indescribable. Her lips, her tongue, her
mouth and hands all worked together to suck with the right pressure, to lick
the right spots, to give him sloppy, wet, sensuous pleasure.
Marcus, out
of control with lust, grabbed his dick and squeezed it tightly so as not to
cum. “Marcus, make love to me,
please.” She was pleading with him,
desperate to have him inside her. Marcus
paused, nervous again. He took the head
of his dick and placed it at her hole.
The heat traveled up his body and Karen pulled him to her. Her silky walls grabbed him and pulled him
deeper. Their cries echoed out into the
calm night sky. He was stroking her hard
and she was meeting each thrust with passion.
It was too intense. Marcus
couldn’t control himself. He needed to
be deep inside her, to fill her completely.
Perspiration glowed on their bodies and their grunts became
animal-like. He braced himself and
started working her pussy, hitting every spot, every angle. He was a machine, giving her pleasure like
he’d never done before, experiencing pleasure in ways he’d never known were
possible.
Karen was
cumming all over him. Her body was
trembling and her juices were flowing freely.
She was begging for more, pleading with him not to stop, so Marcus
concentrated and kept up his technique.
He placed her legs on his shoulders and gripped her hips tightly. Her soft flesh filled his hands. The head of his dick was hitting bottom and
he couldn’t stop his own orgasm from overtaking him. The cum in his nuts boiled up and exploded
inside his lady love as she held him tightly to her body.
His
orgasm hit him hard. More than just the
physical sensation of pleasure overtook him; it was the realization that they
there were no more secrets, that he was accepted and loved
unconditionally. He collapsed on top of
her and she cradled him and comforted him in her sweet and loving embrace.
“I
will always respect you baby,” she kissed his cheek, “as long as you continue
to be a man of integrity,” she whispered our of breath, “and as long as you let
me control the remote.” They laughed,
snuggling together as they fell asleep in each other’s arms contemplating the
possibilities of what was to come with their new-found sexual freedom.
Copyright
2006 AfroerotiK
Well, I hope
I’ve given a few people something to think about and I’ve opened the door to
greater communication for some others.
It’s really past time that we redefine what makes a man and stop having
such illogical, knee jerk reactions to healthy erotic expression. We need to raise our standards of behavior so
that sex becomes more than just a way to bust a nut but it is really about
sharing someone special with your partner, whether they be male or female.
