“Hurry up!” The white girl’s hushed cry was exactly 6
what I wanted to shout.
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“I got it now,” Clarance said, throwing down some-8
thing. The next morning I realized that it was the wrap-9
per from a condom.
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He bent his knees and took a long slow slide into his 11
new friend. Her welcoming moan made my heart skip so 12
hard that I thought I might be having a seizure.
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Clarance started slamming hard against her backside.
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The smacking flesh and high-pitched barks from the girl 15
made me sweat.
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“I cain’t hold it, baby,” Clarance barked. “I cain’t hold it.”
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“Come come come come come,” she answered.
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And then they were both silent and rigid. After a mo-19
ment Clarance made a grunting sound that was no more 20
than the crack of a dry leaf and the girl exhaled through 21
her open mouth.
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Jane pulled me by the arm. When we got around to the 23
other side, she kissed me. I led her straight to the basement.
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There was no inside connection from the house. You 25
had to go outside and through a heavy trapdoor to get 26
down there. I suppose that it was called a basement be-S 27
cause it was under the house, but it was more like a crypt.
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I snapped on the light and Jane kissed me again.
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“Don’t say a word,” she told me as she lifted her skirt and 3
I dropped my pants. She sat back on my great-grandfather’s 4
oversize traveling trunk.
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It should have been safe sex but it wasn’t. I was happy 6
that I just made love to China because I didn’t want those 7
moments with Jane to ever end. I rocked back and forth 8
on the balls of my feet while she stroked my other balls 9
and scratched both of my nipples with the long, press-on 10
fingernails of one hand. We were looking into each other’s 11
eyes. Every once in a while she’d lean forward to kiss me, 12
