Chapter 6 Blaze
Chapter Six
BLAZE
I knew when Ryan started scratching his neck and looking off to the side, he was about to spew some bullshit.
“What?” I asked with a frown. He mentioned that he was about to link with his homie, Maurice at a sports bar, and I said I’d tag along.
“So,” Ryan cleared his throat. “I mean you can come, you know I don’t care, but Melody is bringing Rhapsody to hang with Maurice. I’m sure you don’t give a fuck about being a third wheel though. I’m sure you can find something there to entertain.”
I chuckled while flicking the tip of my nose.
I wasn’t the type to kiss and tell so he didn’t know about me and Rhapsody.
What had me tripping was the twinge of jealousy that made my jaw muscle twitch.
I had met Maurice a few times, and he was cool people.
If Rhapsody wanted to kick it with him, there wasn’t anything I could say about it.
“Bro, you fucked?” Ryan asked with wide eyes.
“Why you ask me that?” I played dumb.
“Shit, I didn’t know. You want me to tell him she canceled?”
“Nah.” I shrugged. “Rhapsody is single. I’m going to come have a drink and shoot some pool if that’s aight with you.”
“Man, you already know what it is. You can go anywhere I go.”
I went upstairs, took one of my gummies and got in the shower.
Whenever I got ready to leave the sports bar, I wanted to be able to do so, so I drove my own car.
I stopped and got gas, and I arrived at the bar a few minutes after Ryan and Maurice.
When I walked over to the high-topped table they were seated at, Rhapsody kind of shifted in her seat, but she played it cool.
I spoke to everyone at the table, and she spoke back.
Their drinks had already been ordered, so when the server brought them over, she took my order.
I didn’t want to cock block, so I stood off to the side talking to mostly Ryan.
When the server brought my drink over, I heard Maurice ask Rhapsody if she wanted to play pool.
She said yes, and I couldn’t help but look at her as she sauntered toward the pool table dressed in denim jeans that looked painted on and a bra like shirt.
Her stomach wasn’t all the way flat just yet, but I loved how she appeared more confident.
She was bad for sure, and if she didn’t know it, that was a damn shame.
The opinion of one fuck nigga shouldn’t change how she viewed herself.
“Where’s your date?”
I turned in the direction of the voice and saw a gorgeous dark-skinned woman giving me a flirtatious smile.
“I don’t do dates,” I replied in a serious tone, and she arched an eyebrow.
“Damn? Straight like that? So, you just talk them out their drawers? No dinner or a movie first?”
“I never really had to do all that,” I answered in a cocky tone.
Shorty drew back a little and looked me up and down. “Oh, it’s like that?” she ran her tongue across her top row of teeth.
“Straight like that.” I didn’t even blink.
“And you’re single?” she clarified.
“As a dollar bill.”
“Take my number.”
And that was what I did. By the time she traipsed off, I was feeling the effects of the edible and the liquor I was sipping.
I sat down at an empty table because Ryan and Melody were playing pool.
I was a person that never cared about going anywhere alone or being alone.
After my drink, I was going to shoot a little pool and then take it in.
Rhapsody came over to the table and set her empty cup down.
“I hope this isn’t awkward. I wasn’t sure if you and Maurice were friends, but I’m just here with Melody,” she explained. “It’s nothing like that.”
I stared at her a bit before speaking. I didn’t want to care, but seeing her smiling and talking to Maurice made me feel things I had no business feeling. “You’re a single woman, right?”
“And make no mistake about it. I’m going to date and have fun. But I don’t homie hop. This isn’t that. It will never be that.”
“You gon’ date and have fun, huh? Watch how you talk to me.” I didn’t want to hear that shit.
Rhapsody shook her head lightly. “Okay, Blaze.”
“Can I have you tonight?” my eyes bore into hers.
“Sure.”
Three hours later, I was tipsy as fuck pumping in and out of Rhapsody while she moaned and dug her nails into my back. “What was that?” I kissed the corner of her mouth. “I didn’t hear you.”
“Blaze,” she crooned while digging her nails deeper.
“Open those eyes,” I commanded. When she did, a nigga almost lost his player card.
I wanted to tell her to dead all the dates and having fun shit.
I wanted to stamp that pussy and make it mine.
If she wasn’t with it, she wasn’t with it.
Tipsy or not, I wasn’t gon’ play myself.
So, instead of saying what I wanted to say, I stared into her eyes while I sexed her.
“Who else had this pussy?”
“Nobody.”
I pulled out of her and did some shit I hadn’t done in over a year.
I lowered myself until my face was between her thighs, and I sucked her clit into my mouth.
Rhapsody was losing her mind as I gripped her thighs locking her into place.
I French kissed her pussy before slurping her clit into my mouth like it was a piece of ice.
“Oh my God, Blaze!” She squealed and clamped her thighs around my head as the flood gates opened. I had never let a woman cum in my mouth. Not even Andrea, and her ass took three showers a day.
Rhapsody hungrily sucked her juices from my lips as I pushed back into her.
Each time I had sex with her it got better.
Never had I fallen for a woman that was living her best single life and wanted no parts of a relationship.
As Rhapsody cupped the sides of my face and tongued me down, I knew I was in deep trouble.
A week later, I walked into the gym and saw a young nigga that wasn’t her trainer all in Rhapsody’s face.
She had to be my karma for all the women I’d hurt in my life.
She was the only woman I’d ever dicked down the way I dicked her down that wasn’t damn near begging me to commit to them.
She really wanted to remain single and unattached, and the shit was starting to piss me off.
I just had to figure out if I wanted her simply because of the chase or if I was really into her like that.
Rhapsody was cool as fuck. She didn’t crowd me.
She let me breathe and didn’t ask me a thousand questions.
We could go three or four days without talking and when we finally did talk, she didn’t have an attitude.
There was no “where have you been” or “who you been fucking?” she truly didn’t care and that made me want her ass even more.
I had to check myself because there were plenty of women that I could have sex with but since the first time I slid up in Rhapsody, I didn’t want to deal with anyone else.
I didn’t know what the hell was wrong with me.
I never even felt like that about Andrea.
She was tired of us just fucking, and she gave me an ultimatum.
I liked her for sure, but had she never told me she was going to be out unless she was my girl, we never would have been in a relationship.
Later, her trying to give me an ultimatum to propose to her was where I drew the line.
I went into my office and did payroll along with making the schedule for the next two weeks. When I went back out to the front, the lil’ nigga was still in Rhapsody’s face, and I was pissed. When his bitch ass finally left, she came over to me and had the nerve to smile.
“Hey.”
“Don’t come over here speaking to me after you was all in that man’s face and gave him your number.” I felt lame as fuck, but I was being honest.
“Blaze, what happened to you’ll never trust another bitch?”
“That still stands,” I replied adamantly.
“So, if you don’t trust a woman, why would you be with her? You don’t want a relationship, and I know you don’t. So when you trip about me and other guys, I’m not sure how to take it. I’m not the only woman you deal with.”
“You shouldn’t speak on what you don’t know about because you actually are.”
Rhapsody didn’t know how to respond, and it was obvious because she was quiet for a few moments.
“Blaze, I haven’t been single long enough to think about only entertaining one guy.
I’m not sleeping with anybody else, but I can’t limit myself to being loyal to someone I’m not even in a relationship with. ”
“Say less.” Oh, I was acting like a bitch for real.
Rhapsody’s face crumpled slightly. “You mad for real?”
“I’m never mad, shawty.”
Rhapsody gave me a look like she didn’t believe me. I was the one on some ultimatum type shit, and it was pissing me off.
“Alright, I’ll talk to you later,” she replied in a soft tone.
Rhapsody walked away, and I didn’t say one word.
I was getting in too deep, and the only option was to fall back and let her do her.
I never cheated on Andrea, so being faithful wasn’t anything new to me.
It was extremely hard however, to get me to that point.
I’d had women cry and beg because they couldn’t get me to that point.
When I finally got there, it was for a person that didn’t even want it.
There was nothing for me to do but get back on my best bullshit and wait for the feeling to go away.
I was going to respect the healing journey that Rhapsody was on and not press her for some shit that she wasn’t ready for.
I wasn’t about to keep watching her entertain duck niggas, however.
I was going to fall back and let Rhapsody do her.
If it was meant for us to cross paths later in life, that’s what it would be.