Page 22 of Smoke N' Stroke

“What you up to Two 6s?”

Midnight Two 6s was my dice name. MJ rarely referred to me by my government name.

“Bullshit,” I said. It was a familiar rejoinder.

“That’s the best way,” he laughed.

Nala started humming and singing Muni Long’sMade For Me and it was loud enough tocapture MJ’s attention. My baby could sing like a bird.

“Uh, you with a woman, dawg?”

“Yeah, man.”

I wasn’t quite sure I wanted to tell MJ that Nala and I had moved to the next level because that level wasn’t quite defined. So far he just knew about this woman I was feeling at work.

"You got her singing in the shower and shit. My man!”

I couldn’t help but smile but only for a moment. She wasn’t for gossip.

“It’s Nala, my lady.”

“Nala, Nala, Nala,” he said with a distant voice as if he was trying to recall.

“From the clinic.”

“Oh damn! You got her, Midnight? That’s dope. It’s about damn time. You were going out sad.”

“Don’t exaggerate it.”

“Let’s be real negro. You been whining like Keith Sweat trying to get with her… I was beginning to wonder if you had lost your juice.”

I ignored his ribbing when I heard the shower stop. I imagined her drying off her pretty ass brown skin and knew I needed to be inside of her before we started sessions.

“I gotta go, man. I’ll get with you later.”

MJ’s chuckle grated my nerves. “Aight man. Do what you do and get up with me soon.”

“Bet.”

I headed to the bathroom and opened the door finding her bent over applying some oily stuff on her hands to her legs.

“Stay right there.”

She looked back over her shoulder, hair all over her face.

When I pulled my boxers down and my dick sprang forth, she knew exactly what I wanted and bit her lip as only someone who understood the man that I am would do.

So believe me when I say, I needed this woman to understand she could stop tripping!

16

NALA

“Idon’t get what the fuck the problem is?”

He walked away from me with measured steps like he was trying not to get too close to me and we start kissing and fucking. Part of me was thrilled he wanted me that much but not enough to forget about Alicia.

“There is no problem, Zaire. I knew it would be like this.”

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