Part One… #5
She didn’t answer. Adair could hear the uncertainty in her shaky voice just by saying his name. “You’re okay,” he assured, easing his way on top and between her legs, kissing and sucking on her neck.
Adair could feel her body shaking beneath him as he removed his throbbing pipe from its confinement. The thickness slapped down onto Sabine’s stomach and she tensed up.
“We can stop baby.”
“No…I want it.”
DECEMBER 20, 2010
Waking up in Adair’s arms confirmed for Sabine that she’d been getting weak sleep all these years. Never had she felt so well rested and relaxed. She found the perfect place to get a good night’s slumber, and she wasn’t sure if she could ever go to bed without him again.
Not being a virgin anymore felt weird but incredibly satisfying.
Not even because of the sex but from whom the sex was with.
All night they made love, laughed, cuddled, talked and bonded while in their rarest forms. Sabine couldn’t believe how luck she’d gotten.
She feared attracting men like her father but somehow, she’d been blessed with a man who was completely obsessed with her and only her.
Adair’s biceps were nearly smothering Sabine, yet she wasn’t going to say a darn thing. She’d die just like this. In his arms. “You up?” his extra deep morning voice asked.
“Mhm…”
“Why you playing possum then?”
“I’m not, I didn’t want to wake you.”
“Man…” Adair groaned, stretching his long body. “Time is it?”
Sabine craned her neck to the clock. “Eight-thirty-five.”
“I gotta get up anyway and start packing to go…what time you hittin’ the road?”
“Ummm…” Sabine yawned. “Probably this afternoon, I’m…I’m gonna wait for my sister to pass through and catch a ride with her.”
“Oh,” Adair nodded in skepticism but accepted her words. “Okay…”
“I really enjoyed last night.”
“Shit, I would hope so,” Adair joked, and she slapped his arm. “I’m just fuckin’ wit you baby. I know it wasn’t perfect or the first you probably had in mind but—”
“It was actually more than I could ever imagine.”
“Don’t sweet talk me baby.”
“I’m not…it was the perfect first time and I wouldn’t have wanted to experience it with anyone else but you. Waiting was the best thing I could’ve ever done.”
“Well in that case,” Adair threw the cover off their naked bodies. “Round seven.”
DECEMBER 25, 2010
Sabine didn’t live on campus but really close to it in some of the apartments owned by the university. So, the property was basically still considered a part of the school. Everyone was practically gone while she and a few other students walked the ghost grounds.
Sabine: Merry Christmas! I hope you’re having a good time with your family.
Adair told her he had a big family and would definitely be spending the holidays home.
He missed his mother and brother which she found cute.
Sabine wished she came from that type of background rather than what seemed like a good upbringing to some.
Money wasn’t everything and although she’d always gotten everything she wanted, there was a great shortage of the things she needed.
Adair: I am baby. Merry Christmas. Wyd? You having fun with your family?
Sabine may have told him a little white lie about going home for Christmas. She didn’t want him to activate his superpowers and try to fix what was deeply broken. This year, Sabine just would rather be alone.
Sabine: Yea, we’re having a blast.
For twenty minutes she awaited his reply only to receive nothing.
Once Sabine arrived home, she dropped all her belongings by the door and went straight to the bathroom cutting on the tub faucet. She wanted a soothing bath, something fulfilling to eat then a nap.
An hour later, she was thoroughly relaxed and waiting on her food—sushi to be delivered. She kept checking her phone periodically to see if Adair texted but nothing.
Bzzz! Bzzz!
“Oh boy,” she sighed, as mother flashed across the screen. “Hello mom.”
“I still don’t understand why you decided to stay at school for Christmas honey.”
Parthenia couldn’t hold water to save her life.
In the beginning it was strange how she adapted and loved her father’s mistress however over the years, it simply became something everyone knew of yet didn’t talk about.
Parthenia loved spending time Marie even against her mother’s wishes.
It started as Charles just taking her along on trips to visit Sabine then somehow, she’d bonded with his then secret lover.
Unconventional wasn’t even the word when it came to their family.
“I just don’t feel like driving and…”
“And what?”
“I’m not in the mood to pretend.”
“Sabine, what your parents have going on has nothing to do with—”
“It absolutely has everything to do with me and you don’t have any idea how seeing you let daddy come and go as he pleases affected me!
It’s so beneath you mom! He goes home to Karen every night.
He’s never once given you the courtesy of even an overnight visit.
My Christmases, Thanksgivings, Easters, everything was spent over there when I just wanted you!
I wanted to spend the holiday with my mom and even now.
You’re not calling for me to come home to you, you are calling because I have to show face at their stupid annual Christmas party where I have to act like someone else birthed me.
Love on her, smile at her, put on this act and the fact that you don’t care all for the love of a man! ”
“How…” Marie took a deep breath and Sabine felt awful because she knew she was hurting her mother’s feelings. “How your father and I manage our relationship is none of your business. We parented you the best way fit for his career. You’ve never had a worry in the world—”
“His career…oh my—” Sabine’s eyes rolled to the ceiling. “It’s none of my business yet I was a part of the circus. Five years old and I’m confused why I have to call some woman mommy in front of cameras while you coach me that it’s okay!”
“You know…I don’t think it’s such a bad idea that you stayed at school for break.”
“Mom—”
“No, let’s try this conversation again in a few days and hopefully you’ve come to your senses and find the respectful child I raised because I don’t know who the hell I’m speaking with right now.”
Sabine took the phone away from her ear realizing her mother had hung up on her.
They’d gotten into it in the past but that was by far the furthest that Sabine ever expressed her feelings.
She loved her father and mother, hell even her stepmother, however the way they went about bringing her into the fold of their dysfunction wasn’t fair nor did they consider how it would affect her mentally and emotionally.
Knock! Knock!
Grabbing two twenties from her purse, she prepared herself for a quiet night of spider rolls and Netflix.
DECEMBER 31, 2010
3:25 PM
Sabine spent the whole winter break alone. It was now New Year’s Eve and Narri was insisting she come to back campus, and they bring it in together.
“No, stay with your parents, Nar, I promise I’m fine.”
“Had I known you didn’t come home; I would’ve never left! I can’t believe you!”
“I’m sorry, I just couldn’t deal with my family. Acting as if everything is perfect when it’s far from it. Do you know my dad actually called and said I offended my mom?”
“What? Marie—”
“No, he was not referring to Marie.”
“Oh my gosh, are you serious?! I’m so sorry friend. Please…let me come there and we can watch the ball drop together, kiss like we always do—”
“Now you are not supposed to be repeating that!”
“Well shit, there isn’t anyone around and I am not ashamed of kissing my best friend in the whole entire world.”
Sabine smiled appreciating Narri more than she knew.
“I promise, I will drive there New Year’s Day, and we can get a room somewhere and kiss all you want.”
“Okay! You better not stand me up!”
“I won’t lezzy.”
“Again, I’m not ashamed,” Narri repeated, and Sabine knew she was telling the truth.
They somewhat “experimented” as teenagers.
They practiced kissing on one another and Narri swore she’d yet to meet a man that kissed better than Sabine.
It was a secret they kept because no one would understand their dynamic.
They weren’t lesbians or even had those type of feelings for each other nor the opposite sex, they simply liked kissing.
Sabine would never admit to Narri that Adair had knocked her out of the water.
6:33 PM
“Shoot, shoot, shoot!”
Adair was trying to Skype with her and the jig would surely be up. She didn’t want him to know she stayed home nor explain why. He knew about her family but not everything in depth.
The call stopped then started again at the same time she received a text.
Adair: Answer the muthafuckin phone!
Sabine unhooked her laptop running to her dining room table. She set the computer facing the chair closest to the wall that had nothing on it hoping he wouldn’t be able to tell she’d never went anywhere.
“Hey!” she waved, a little out of breath from holding it while panicking.
“Sup baby, look,” Adair turned the camera. “Say hi to momma.”
“Your mom—hello…” Sabine smiled not believing she was meeting his mother. She repeatedly ran her messy hair behind her ears. “Hello ma’am, how are you?”
“Ma’am! You can call me Pam girl, I’m just as young as you.”
“Ma, go head wit that.”
“Boy shut up! So you the infamous Sabine, all he do is talk about Sabine this and Sabine that. I told him he should’ve brought you down with him if he so in love.”
“Ma!”
“What?!”
Sabine’s gasp got stuck in her throat hearing the “L” word.
“Well, it was nice to meet you honey chile, my son givin’ me the look like I said too much. Don’t be a stranger baby.”
“I won’t, it was really nice meeting you.”
Adair turned the camera back on him and she could see more people in the background. It looked to be a party happening.
“My bad baby, ignore her but what you doin’?”
“Oh…nothing, just…relaxing.”
“That’s wassup, I miss you.”
“I miss you too.”