He looked over at me with his sexy gaze. “Old enough to handle my business.”
I held my head back and erupted with laughter. I could see his little bad butt saying something like that.
“So, I knew I was going to have to teach him a lesson.” Albert continued. “I say boy, what are those spots on your neck? And I’m really selling it; I got a look of horror on my face and everything. He starts freaking out yelling, what spots?” By this time, Albert is barely able to talk around his laughing.
“He’s literally climbing the seats of the Town Car crying, saying he just kissed the girl, he promised. I said it don’t matter, kid. She gave you something, just look, you got more spots.” Albert had to pause because he was now clutching his sides laughing.
“He screaming, what she give me?! Al, what she give me?! I leaned in close and looked at his neck. I say, it look like she gave you VD, buddy. As soon as I pulled the car up in front of his house, he shot out the door and ran straight to his father’s office, who at the time was meeting with the Governor of Florida. He didn’t knock or nothing. He just burst through the door yelling, dad help me, help me, dad! I got the VD!”
Both Albert and I nearly slid out of our seats laughing at him. Jo let us laugh for a minute, although he didn’t join us. He just wore that yeah you got me look on his face, but then he turned to look at me.
“It’s really not that funny.” And of course, that just made me laugh harder.
Albert helped me clean up after dinner and then told us he had to go. I hugged him good bye and thanked him for all he’d done. I’m telling you, I don’t know where I would have been without him. When I came back into the living room Jo was sitting there looking like raw uncut temptation. Ayana’s little feet were on his lap, he was relaxed back on the couch.
He watched me with those bedroom eyes of his.
“Did you have fun laughing at me all night?” He drawled.
I bit my lip and nodded. “I did, it was quite funny the way Albert chose to have the talk with you.”
He shook his head. “Funny to you. He scared the hell out of me. Because of him, I didn’t touch another girl for the next sixteen years.”
I tried to hold on to my laugh, but I couldn’t. Just picturing a young Jo freaking out at the thought of getting VD is comedy gold.
“I sure do miss the sound.” He said so low I barely heard him.
“What sound?” I asked sobering.
“The sound of your happiness…”
Danger! Danger! Danger!
The warning bells were going off in my head. I cleared my throat. “Umm…I’m going to lay Ayana down, jump in the shower and hit the bed. It’s been a long day. Do you need anything before I go?” It took him awhile to answer.
I could have kicked myself for my choice of words.
Finally, he put me out of my misery and shook his head. “Naw, I’m alright.”
I picked up the baby. “Okay, goodnight.”
I practically ran out of the living room. Now, I know a lot of you guys are looking at me as something of a coward. Well, call me what you like. My mama said not to give in too easy. Had I stayed in the living room a second longer I’d been a goner. You guys do remember how aggressive Jo is, don’t you? He had a way of forcing himself past all your safety walls.
As I got Ayana settled down for the night, I thought back to how excited she had been to be in the presence of both her parents. She had spent the whole time crawling from Jo to me, then back to Jo and then Albert, who she loved like a grandfather.
How could she not when he was always there and spoiled her right along with Jo and I, and my mom? I leaned over and kissed her fat cheek. She was tuckered out.
Although she had been sleeping through the night lately, I left the nursery door cracked a bit just in case she did wake up and freak out from being in a new room.
After I took a shower, I had to laugh out loud when I saw that Jo had stocked damn near a year’s supply of cocoa butter in the bathroom cabinet. I shook my head as I moisturized my skin. It was hilarious how much he enjoyed the smell of it. Poor baby, to be black and not know anything about cocoa butter until he met me.
With a towel wrapped around myself I went to my bag for my pajamas. However, my eyes strayed to the pretty nightgowns in all colors that hung there in the closet, pretty silk and soft to the touch nightgowns. I took a cream one down from the hanger and slid it over my head. It felt as if the material caressed my skin as it slid down my body to fall mid-thigh. There was also a pair of matching panties.
Standing in the mirror I looked at myself. With my skin glowing from the cocoa butter, it looked as if I was on the way to join my lover in the bed.
I exhaled. Oh well, there is no rule against looking lovely to bed alone.
Before I slid between the sheets I opened the canopy on the bed so that I could have a clear view of the Hill, hoping that amazing view would help lull me to sleep. However, after an hour of tossing and turning I gave up on sleep.
Kicking the covers back I just kind of sat propped up with my back against the pillows and just enjoyed D.C. after dark. I think Jo
