Chapter 10
Jabarri
My arm is stiff as hell from holding it in the same position, but it’s a small price to pay to hold a naked Skai in my arms all night. After the hallway incident, I carried her to her bedroom and laid her on her bed before going to the bathroom to wet a washcloth to clean her up. She ruined her leggings and panties when she squirted. I peeled the wet clothing from her body, threw them in the wash, cleaned her up, stripped, and joined her in bed. Even in her sleep, she got as close to me as humanly possible, and I was more than happy to hold her close to me as we both fell asleep. I really wasn’t expecting what happened. I really came to just talk, but when I saw how much she was avoiding me touching her, I knew I had to do just that. And I don’t regret it for a single millisecond. I feel the change as soon as it happens. “Good morning,” I say, kissing her forehead.
“How did you know I was awake?” she asks into my side, her eyes still closed.
“Your breathing changed,” I answer honestly. “Are you ready to talk this morning?”
“I guess,” she says, and I can feel her body stiffen.
“Relax, Skai, it’s just me and you here. Let’s talk this out, okay?”
“Okay,” she says, and I feel her relax a fraction.
“I talked to Natalie and explained to her that I can no longer do things the way we were doing them. That you are my priority, and I would still be there for her but not at the expense of you. She is planning on telling her parents and we’ve already picked out a house for her to move to. I need you to be okay with things, Skai. I won’t be away from you again.”
“I never wanted or expected you to not be her friend or help her, Barbie. I had a problem with her calling on you all hours of the night, and you would get up out of my bed and go running. It was other things, too, but the fact that you consistently put her first was a problem for me. I didn’t feel it was fair because it was never the other way; you never put me before her. Hell, I would’ve felt better if we were at least equal, but I didn’t even feel that,” she says, and I feel ashamed because as much as I didn’t want to admit it before, she was right.
“I am sorry, Skai, I won’t ever do that again if you plan on keeping me in your life,”
“Um, didn’t you say last night that I was yours?”
“I did,”
“Well, okay then,”
“Then let’s go talk to your mom and my brother,”
“Uh, pump your breaks on that one. First, we have to get Natalie settled, and we have to find our footing again before dealing with the fall out of my mom and your brother. DJ ain’t wrapped all that tight,” she says, and she has all valid points.
“Well, let me tell her to get a damn move on so we can just focus on us,”
“This is going to change everything for her. How does she think her brother is going to take it?” she asks, and I tell her everything that happened between Natalie and her brother.
“Well damn, he’s been planning his exit plan all this time,”
“He has, and as soon as his passport comes, he is out of here,” I tell her when my phone chirps. I manage to reach my phone without having to move away from Skai.
“Is that her?”
“Yeah, she basically telling me she is telling her parents tonight at dinner,”
“Oh damn, does she want you there,”
“No, she said this is something she needs to handle on her own,”
“Wow. I still feel like you shouldn’t make any plans so you can be ready to go help her if she needs you,” she says, and I realize even more that she didn’t have a problem with my relationship with Natalie. She had a problem with what that friendship was causing problems with us. “Maybe I will. Now, enough about Natalie, what do you want to do today?”
“Can we just stay in bed all day?”
“Oh, for sure,” I tell her because I can’t think of many better ways to spend the day. We ordered in food, barely got out of the bed, watched TV and talked the entire day away. The sun began to set, and as soon as the sun set, his phone began blowing up with notification chirps.
“Shit, she told them,” I say, relaying to Skai what is going on in my messages.
“Damn, her father damn near choked on his steak,”
“Her mother broke out in hysterical crying.” I am reading the messages as fast I can, but the amount coming in has me behind.
“Wow, her mother asked her to simply stop being attracted to women.”
“Her father said she was going to hell,”
“Her mother said that her mother’s neighbor”s granddaughter had the lesbian, and she just stopped being that way one day,”
“I’m sorry, what?”
“Oh, here we go. She told her parents there is no changing who she is and that Scottlyn is her romantic partner for platonic friend, and her father said she is dead to him,”
“Uh oh she sent a voice note this time,” I tell her, put the phone on speaker and press play.
“When I told them the truth and refused to give in to their demands, they basically told me to get out of their house and that I was cut off. So I told them fuck you, and I’ve already moved out. I also told them that I’m glad that you have each other since you won’t have any of your children or grandchildren. And I told them that I hope they die together because neither Camryn nor I will be around to take care of their old asses. Then I got up and left. Oh, by the way, Camryn is gone and I moved in with Scottlyn. So thanks for the house but we won’t be needing it. Tell Skai sorry and thanks, and if you two are up for it, let’s do a double date. Oh, and Scottlyn thinks since I came out to my family, it’s time you two come out to yours! Love y’all, bye!”
“Wow,” we both say.
“So what do you think? Time to talk to our family?” I ask her.
“Uh, no. Let’s not get carried away,” she says immediately, which makes me laugh.
“What would you do if our family doesn’t want us together?”
“Just ask what you’re really asking, Jabarri. What if my mom and your brother don’t want us together?”
“Yeah, what then?”
“Honestly, I have no idea. My mother has never denied me anything, ever, so I would be in uncharted territory. Truthfully, if I am happy, my mother would be okay with almost anything, but you are a Gideon, Jabarri. There aren’t really much better than y’all. I’m just not sure I am ready to let our family into what we have especially since we are just getting back on track. Let’s get our footing first and then talk about this,” she says, and she has a lot of valid points. Her whole argument is logical, so I simply say.
“Okay. I have a question,”
“What is it?”
“Can you get a few days off work?”
“Probably not, but if you are trying to take me out of town, I can make it a work trip there are a couple of recruits I could go talk to,”
“Where?”
“Um, it depends. Do we want to stay close or go far?”
“Far,”
“There’s a recruit in California,”
“How long would you need to do your thing?”
“A day, maybe two, and if I want to stay longer, I can,”
“How long?”
“A couple of days,”
“Yeah that’ll work. Let’s plan it,” We spend the rest of the day planning the trip.
Skai
Jabarri shakes me awake when the town car pulls up to the hotel. After his idea to go away for a couple of days, everything went pretty fast. I texted Saint and let him know my plans so he could call the family and set up the meeting with the Coopers. Another text to Shepp had the hotel secured, and Jabarri had us booked on an early morning flight. I don’t have to meet with the Coopers until tomorrow, so I plan on getting to this room and getting straight in bed. On top of being up at the crack of dawn the time change has me on the verge of collapse. I check-in, and they offer to take our bags up, but Jabarri declines, opting to carry them instead. As soon as the door is open, I walk in, stripping as I go until I reach the bedroom. Pulling back the covers, I literally fall into the bed and am asleep before my head actually touches the pillow. In my sleep-addled mind I think about how far I have come stripping in front of Jabarri with comfort and ease. I faintly registered him joining me in bed and pulling me into his arms before I got carried back off to sleep.
I woke up late and ravenous. I slept the entire day away yesterday, and when my eyes finally opened, I was running late for my meet, and my stomach was gnawing away at my backbone for nourishment. I hustle getting dressed, and rush out of the room, but not before Jabarri pushes a breakfast sandwich and a bottle of orange juice in my hand as I pass through the door. I make it just in time to not be late for the meeting and realize this was a waste as soon as I talk to the family. Although the kid has talent, his attitude is terrible and entitled as are his parents. Since Saint took over the football program at Hillwood University, aka the southern HU, he has won every College Football National Championship by stacking his team with talent but also using and instilling young men with an amazing work ethic, drive, and sense of teamwork. All this kid and his family are thinking about is money, sponsorships, and how much he touches the ball. They actually had the nerve to say he has to be in possession of the ball at least twelve of the fifteen minutes of each quarter of the game. Like damn, when does anyone else get a chance to play? I wrapped the meeting up and left. I feel sorry for any team that gets this Prima Donna for their team, but he won’t be a Titan any time soon.
To my surprise, instead of the car taking me back to the hotel, it is en route to the airport. I texted Jabarri in the middle of the meeting that I was going to be wrapping up soon, so I guess he figured we could start our trip a little earlier than planned. He is waiting for me when the car pulls up to the curb and helps me out of the car as soon as it comes to a stop. He has already checked in and checked the bags, but I need to check in, and that is when I find out we are heading to Molokai. Lord, the time change from Mississippi almost took me out, but now we’re going to Hawaii? My body is never going to recover. Hawaii is five hours earlier than the time in Mississippi. I’m going to sleep on the plane. Jabarri carries me into the hotel this time because I refuse to move, and back in the bed I go. It was a five-hour flight back in time. When we left California, it was four post-meridiem, which is six in Mississippi, and now here in Hawaii, it’s freaking one post meridiem. My body doesn’t know what to do.
“Wake up, baby,” I hear.
“Leave me alone,”
“You gotta eat, or you are going to get a migraine. Then you can go back to sleep because I have a lot planned for us tomorrow,”
“Fine,” I grumble waking up long enough to eat and go right back to sleep. By the time morning rolls around I am well rested and ready to go. I leave Jabarri in bed, as I head to the bathroom to get ready for the day. I throw on a crop top tee shirt and some leggings with my sandals. I pull my braids up in high bun and through on some light makeup and lip gloss and I am ready for whatever Jabarri has planned.
I hear a deep breath behind me, making me turn to see Jabarri standing there looking good as hell and irritated. “What’s wrong?”
“You just want me to catch a charge. Why are you naked,”
“I have on clothes, Jabarri,”
“Is that what you call it? I can see your belly button piercing, and since you have on no bra, I can clearly see your dagger nipple rings. And as soon as someone looks too long or makes a comment, I’m going to have to fuck someone up,”
“Possessive much?”
“I’m a Gideon,” he says like that explains it all, and honestly, it does.
“I can change,” I offer.
“Nope, I want you to wear what you want. I’ll try to control myself,” He says, walking past me. “In more ways than one.”
An hour later, and we are in a jeep going up a mountain to God knows where. We go zip lining, whale watching, then take ATV’s up the volcano.
“Are you enjoying yourself?”
“Today was amazing!” I tell him as the sun moves across the sky in preparation for setting.
“The day isn’t over, come on,” he takes my hand as we walk towards a building that I didn’t realize is a spa. We are shown to our room and given the chance to undress for our massage. We get undressed and lay on the table, waiting for our massage therapists to come in. I am not at all surprised when a man and woman walk in. The man works on him, and the woman on me. After all of the activities that we did today, this massage is a godsend, and he and I are both a boneless mass of flesh when they are done. They leave us in the room when they are done to give us time to get dressed.
“This is the best day that I have had in a long time, Skai,”
“Mmm, me, too. Thank you for suggesting a trip and bringing me here,”
“Well, it’s not like we can hang out at home unless we want our families to know,”
“True, but you didn’t have to bring me to Hawaii to take me out though,”
“True. Come on, the day isn’t over. And if I know you, I know your bottomless pit is hungry,”
“Kiss my ass,” I tell him as I scoot off the bed. “Aahhhh!” I scream when his arms reach out and circle my waist before pulling me back to him, still lying on the table. He pulls my blanket away, pulls my panties down, and kisses my ass before giving it a lite bite. Then he pulls my panties back up, slaps my ass and pushes me towards my clothes.
“Don’t threaten me with a good time, Skai,” he says, sitting up and swinging his legs off of the side of the table. I am back in his arms as soon as he is close to me. He simply holds me, but then his mouth is on mine.
“Come on before I say fuck it and have my way with you on one of these tables,”
“I mean,” I start because even though I wasn’t before, I am ready now. Ready to be his completely.
“Come on, you cheap floozy, let’s get out here before you defile me and take advantage of my virtue,” he says, pulling his shirt collar together in mock horror and I burst out laughing.
“Virtue, my ass,” I tell him. “But I am hungry, so I’ll let it go for now,” I tell him as I push my feet in my shoes, and he gets dressed. We head back to the hotel, shower, and get dressed for dinner. I can remember listening to my mom talk about the dates that DJ took her on, how different and special they were but never in a million years did I think I would be experiencing it for myself. We are having dinner behind a waterfall. There is a table, flowers, candles, and a chef. The air is scented with Plumeria since they are littered everywhere, providing the perfect backdrop. He pulls out a chair for me before taking his own seat. “Jabarri, this is crazy,” I say, looking over the rail. It’s the only thing keeping us from falling at least forty feet into the water. The sun is going down and the reds and gold reflect off of the clear blue water.
“Are you happy?”
“Yes,” I say, looking at him as he takes my hand across the table. The chef serves us dinner, and Jabarri feeds me never breaking eye contact. It is one of the most intimate, intense things I have ever experienced. “Open,” he would say, and I would have to remember he was talking about my mouth and not my legs, and that would lead me to wonder why he wasn’t talking about my legs, too. Soon dinner is over and the servers clear all the food and plates away, leaving just him and I and out of nowhere music begins playing low. I don’t want to move or talk or break this spell that he has weaved for us tonight.
Jabarri
“You’re stunning, even more now than when I first met you. There were so many moments that I thought I would never get the chance to be with you. So many days, I would long to be the one who shared your life and love, who cared for you and made you happy. I had given up on us altogether, and I started dating, and then I met Natalie,” I tell her, rubbing her face as I go back over our history. “The night you came to the house crying because you caught Alayna with another woman in your house, in your bed, made me want to go on a killing spree. But deep down I was happy, not happy that you were hurt, but for the first time, I had a chance for us to be together. However, now I was the one with the hold-up, Natalie. And I wanted to give you a chance to heal, and even after all of that I still almost fucked this up. I promised myself that if we got past that, I wouldn’t take you or us for granted. I love you so much and for so long, Skai. I can’t live without you anymore, and I am not perfect and I might mess up but I promise to always listen to you and always try to do better, to be better for you, for my wife,” I tell her and opened the box she didn’t even notice that I pulled out. She slaps both hands over her mouth as a tear races down her face.
“Jabarri,” she whispers.
“Talk to me, N?ku Ahi. Is that a yes?”
“Our family?”
“What about them? This is about me and you, Skai. Tell me, baby, will you be my wife?”
“Yes,” she says so softly I almost don’t hear it over the roar of the waterfall. I slip the three-row round diamond eternity wedding band on her finger.
“I got a flat ring because I didn’t want the ring to get in the way of your job while you are out on the football field with your brother. But if you would prefer a more traditional style ring I’ll get you a second ring to wear.
“This is perfect,” she whispers and jumps up, coming over to me to hug me. She takes my face in both of her hands and kisses me. Things turn fast as I stand with her in my arms, setting her on the table. I stand in between her legs, kissing her, and she has my shirt in a death grip as I explore every inch of her mouth. I grip her thigh, sliding my hand up her silken thigh until I reach her panties.
“Please,” she begs, ripping her mouth from mine. I pull down the top of her dress and capture her nipple in my mouth. I use my teeth to pull the nipple rings, wrenching out a moan from her. She cups the back of my head, holding my head to her nipple as if I planned on going anywhere. I switch breasts as I pull and manipulate the nipple ring of the other nipple. “Jabarri,” she whines.
“Are you ready for me? I wanted to give you time, if you need more time, I am okay with that. We have the rest of our lives,”
“I need you, I want you.”
“Hold on to me,” she wraps her legs around my waist as I stand to my full height and walk towards the falls. I walk us through the blanket of water to the hidden alcove behind the water. A local told me about it earlier. It is completely hidden from view from the other side. I set her on a stone ledge, immediately dropping to my knees, flipping her dress up, and snatching her ass to the edge of the ledge. I push her panties to the side, and I dive in head first. My first taste of her has my head spinning; sweet nectar, like the rarest ambrosia, erupts across my taste buds. I grab her ass in both hands, lift her to my mouth, and devour her pussy like I am on death row and she is my last meal. All I hear on repeat in my head is Skai, Skai, Skai, my mind unable to comprehend the fact that I am here doing this with Skai. She has snatched my hair tie out of my head as she uses my hair like reins, directing where she wants me, and I am okay letting her be the navigator this time. Her shoes clank to the floor seconds before her feet are on my shoulders, opening her to me even more. I slip two fingers inside, stretching her getting her ready to accept my dick inside of her as I take her swollen nub back in my mouth, holding it between my teeth as my tongue flicks across it, bringing her to an explosive orgasm.
“Fuck, Jabarri,” she moans, and I and already addicted to hearing her pleasure. “This is,” she stops to catch her breath. “I, I don’t know if I can do this. If I can take this,” she pants out, and I remember that this will be her first real-time with a man, that alone forces me to slow down. I am so hard it hurts. I think I would cum just by her touching my dick. Standing to my full height, I unbuckle my pants, letting them fall and push down my boxer briefs, my heavy dick hanging ready, seeking her out.
“I got you, Skai. Do you trust me?” I ask, already knowing the answer. I wouldn’t have gotten this close if she didn’t trust me.
“You know I do,”
“We are here together, baby. We are enjoying together. Do you want this?” I ask, pulling back so I can look into her eyes.
“Yes,” she answers, her eyes dropping to the ground.
“Look at me, Skai” I command, slowly her eyes find mine.
“I won’t rush this. I won’t push you. You don’t have to say yes, baby. You are not obligated to do this. I will be fine with what we’ve already done,”
“Jabarri, you are obviously turned on,” she says, her eyes dropping to my obvious erection.
“I am a grown man, baby. I won’t die. But I don’t want you doing shit you don’t want to do out of obligation or fear. I want you to want to feel yourself stretched around my dick. I want you to crave cumming on my dick. I want you to brag about the way your cum is dripping off my balls. The same way I crave to be with you in any way. If you aren’t ready, we will go back to our hotel and enjoy the rest of our mini vacation. So tell me, Skai, what do you want?” I ask, my dick still hard. I wait, barely breathing, waiting for her to let me know how this night is going to end. But she never answers me verbally. Instead, she grasps my dick with her slender fingers, and I almost buckle from the contact.
“Let’s do this together,” I tell her as she explores my dick with her hand, slowly stroking and caressing me in her soft palm. I grit my teeth against the urge to thrust and cum. I am so close to being on the edge. “You like him? He’s yours, N?ku Ahi, anytime you want him. Can you feel how hard he is, how turned on you make me? Tell me, Skai, did you use a strap-on with her,”
“Yes,”
“Did it make you moan? Did you cum on it?”
“Jabarri,” she moans, not answering the question. I pull the top of her dress down to expose her tight nipples to the cool, wet air right as I suck one in my mouth, pulling on her nipple ring. She almost drops my dick from the sensations I am causing her body to feel. I pull on her nipple, flicking it with my tongue before releasing it with a loud pop.
“That’s not an answer, Skai,”
“Got damn, Jabarri, yes!”
“Hmm, that’s cute, baby, if you could moan and cum from a fake dick, I am going to have you screaming, crying, and begging as your pussy grips and sucks on this one hundred percent real dick. I am going to show you why authentic beats imitation every single time. I am going to slut you out over this dick, baby, like I am already slutted out for that pussy, now put me where I need to be,” I kiss her before she can respond, but I let her guide me to her. The first touch, and I am fighting not to push inside of her, letting her set the pace.
“Help me,” she begs, but honestly, I don’t think she needs any help as she rubs my dick up and down her wet pussy, using the head like a vibrator on her clit.
“Are you masturbating on my dick, baby?”
“Yes,” she says, completely letting the feelings eliminate any embarrassment.
“Well then, get that shit, use my dick to get off on. Let me watch you cum from the pleasure I provide,” I command. She doubles her effort. I pull my shirt off as I watch her, watching the pleasure reflect on her face until she throws her head back, screaming her climax. She slaps my chest before she grabs my neck, squeezing it as she rides the waves of her pleasure. “Ataahua, beautiful. Are you ready?”
“Yes,” she pants out. I place the head at her opening with one hand and grab her jaw with the other, forcing her to look at me as I begin to push my way inside of her. Shit! I think. She is tight. I play with her clit to get her to relax and loosen up on me. Rocking my hips as I play with her clit, I go deeper with each thrust, taking my time and opening her up. I lean down to suck her bottom lip in my mouth. “Loosen up, love, let me inside. Come on, Skai, let’s fuck each other. I want you to fuck yourself on my dick, baby.”
“Stop talking, Jabarri,”
“No, talk back to me. Say what you want to say. I’m yours, Skai, and you’re mine,” I tell her as I fully seat myself inside of her. “That’s what I’m talking about. I can feel you griping me. I dreamed about this with you for over eight years, and here we are. Fuck, I love you,” I tell her as I pull almost out before sliding back in. I put her legs over my arms as I hold her ass in my hands, lifting her off the rock to hold her just how I want her as I begin fucking her hard.
“Together,” I remind her. “Look at me,” I demand. Pulling back to the tip before slamming back in.
“Don’t leave me, stay with me,”
“I’m here,” she says, taking her leg from the crook of my arm and putting it over my shoulder. She has finally loosened up. She locks her eyes on mine, and I know I am not going to last long. My thumb makes its way to her nub and circles. “Cum with me, Skai,” I tell her as the telltale tinges at the base of my spine begin. I waited so long for this I can’t hold back.
“I’m so close,” she says between moans, and I readjust her in my arms, bending my knees, I thrust up, and she cums so fast and so hard the scream is ripped from her throat.
“Fuck yes, baby, cum all on me,”
“Cum in me, Jabarri,” and I realize a couple of things at once. I am indeed going to cum inside of her, and we did not use any type of birth control, and I don’t care. Skai is my wife, whether we’ve made it legal or not. “Cum for me, Jabarri. Show me how much you like being inside of me,”
“There she is! There’s my naughty girl. I’ve been waiting to meet you,” I push up again as she clamps down, and the cum shoots out of me so fast and unexpectedly that my legs almost give out on me, and I have to use the wall behind her to steady myself.
“Mmmm, looks like I am not the only one affected, after all, you did say we would do this together.” Her and that smart-ass mouth, I think as I rest my forehead against hers as we both struggle to catch our breath. I just fucked Skai! I think, amazed by the fact that after all these years I got what I have desired most in my life.