Chapter 13
PENELOPE
Ienjoyed the beach so much that Zoo and I recruited the crew for a couples day on the water. Weeks from now, the weather would change and bring in cooler air, so we had to enjoy the outdoors while we could.
Most of the morning, I drooled over Zoo shirtless, showing off all his tattoos and attracting attention to himself with his fucking print. Mimi, Bri, and I called ourselves sunbathing while watching the men handle our lunch. Each of us wore the same expression on our faces—disgust.
“If she looks over here one more time, I’m gon’ drag a bitch on this beach,” Mimi grumbled. I understood her frustration. Sin…looking like sin, had the ladies a few feet away swooning over his cut-up frame.
“You won’t be dragging anything,” I quipped. “I’ll drag her for you, though. My nephew is doing good in there, and we gon’ keep it that way.”
“Exactly,” Bri added, distracted by Brooklyn. “I’ve never seen him with his shirt off. I’m baffled and amazed.”
Mimi and I snickered.
“When did he get all those tattoos?” she whispered to herself.
I busted out laughing.
“For real. Brooklyn seems so…civilized compared to his cousins.”
“Baby, that’s because he is more civilized than the two of those niggas. Sin is psycho and Zoo is certified. I’m sure Brooklyn is the one who bails them out when either one of them fucks up.”
We all cracked up at that.
“Thankfully,” I said, “Zoo and Sin didn’t turn out to be what I claimed they were in the beginning. I surely thought they were some gangbangers or something. Can you imagine? Us being with a few crazy-ass niggas like that?”
Raucous laughter drew our attention back to the men. They were laughing at something that had them rolling.
“Them…gangbangers? Lord, I’d be scared as hell,” Mimi grumbled.
“I don’t know.” Bri sighed. “Dangerous men be the sexiest.”
Both Mimi and I snapped our necks her way. “What?”
“I’m just saying.” Bri chuckled. “Imagine the dick you’d get after he just finished beating a nigga’s ass.”
“Oh,” me and Mimi chimed.
“Exactly. Mm. All that aggression in a room with the lights on and the only music is him diving deep.”
Bri had us in a trance, explaining what I knew was a fantasy she harbored for Brooklyn. The way he stopped what he was doing and made eye contact with Bri made us all shudder.
“You need me?” he called.
Clearing her throat, Bri shook her head. Brooklyn stared for a second longer before returning to the conversation he and the fellas were having.
We turned around and put our eyes back on the waves crashing the shore.
“As much as we wanna be mad that all these women are staring at our men, can you blame them? This is where the confidence we’ve always had has to be at its highest. Neither one of us wants to deal with a lying, cheating man.
On the same hand, we won’t treat them like lying, cheating men when they’ve been nothing but good to us. ”
“Tuh!” Mimi chuckled. “Zoo leaving yo’ ass knocked some good sense into you.”
“Shole did.” I cackled. “Now he’s got me eating out of the palm of his hand.”
Mimi and Bri fell out laughing. Thinking back to two nights ago when he took my virginity, I still shuddered at how alive my body had been. Remembering the way Zoo looked at me, the way he moaned, and the way he called my name… I was ready to hear it again.
According to him, he’d been taking it easy on me. We hadn’t had sex since, causing me to feel bereft. Sleeping with his dick tucked against my ass wasn’t helping the situation. I craved him, but he claimed my body needed to “recuperate”.
Recuperate my ass. I got tingles thinking about the way he’d eaten my soul. I needed more. One minute I was thinking about him inside of me, the next I was lifted off of the beach towel with my legs wrapped around Zoo’s waist.
“You ready to eat?” He kissed my lips and carried me to the rented pavilion. The fellas had a spread of hamburgers, barbecue chicken, salad, baked beans, and corn on the cob. Like the sweetheart my man was, he fixed my plate exactly the way I wanted it.
Zoo said grace over all the food, then everyone sat to eat.
Being with my sister and our best friend, in the company of three of the best men we knew, had me all smiles.
The year had been one of new beginnings for me, Mimi, and Bri.
To think we’d meet cousins who’d bring so much light into our lives was never a thought to us.
It was crazy how things happened sometimes.
“Bae, can you help me for a sec?” I called Zoo into the bathroom to “help” me lotion my legs. When he did it, he massaged the lubricant into my skin to perfection, working out any soreness or stiffness my limbs felt.
We’d made it to Zoo’s house a little over an hour ago from the beach. The rest of the crew would be over in a minute for us to enjoy dinner together. Today had been refreshing and fun.
My body was beautifully golden from the sun as was Zoo’s.
After showering together, he moisturized his body while I stood under the water, admiring his fine ass with his locs piled on top of his head.
What made me smile was him donning my chain before he left the bathroom.
He never went a day without wearing it. I never went a day without wearing the locket with his picture in it.
“Yeah, baby, I got you.” Without question, he plopped me on the bathroom counter and poured a dab of lotion in his palm.
He started with the sole of my foot, dragging a moan from my lips as he kneaded my arch.
The deeper he kneaded, the wetter I became.
As his hands moved up my calf, behind my knee, and to my thighs, I squirmed even more.
“You’re moanin’ like I’m inside you.” Zoo’s husky voice stroked my sex, causing her to react.
“I want you inside me.”
Zoo pulled me to the edge of the counter and skimmed his hands up my bare thighs.
“Lemme handle you right quick,” he mumbled while freeing himself from his ball shorts. I ran my hands up his bare chest, salivating over his muscles and the way he hissed under his breath.
The bulbous head of his dick poked at my slick center. Chewing at my bottom lip, I grasped onto his shoulders and sexily whimpered as he pushed into me.
“Fuck, I miss you,” he crooned in my ear. “I’ve been cravin’ my pussy since you let me in.”
“Then, why haven’t you been in me?”
Zoo pushed deep, causing me to gasp. He bit into his bottom lip while grilling me.
“Fuckin’ with me, you’ll be on this dick all muhfuckin’ day and night.
I let you heal so you could get this.” He pushed my thighs back, draping them over his shoulders before he pushed so deep that my eyes bugged, and the breath left my body.
My spot cried out in pleasure, spilling my essence before I could catch my next breath.
“Zoo!” I shrieked. He was deep as fuck, in another world, sucking on my titties and pummeling the lining out of my box. It felt so good though. My toes curled, and I could no longer see, but the feeling of flying took over.
“Baby, fuck… I love fuckin’ you. I love makin’ love to you.”
Zoo moaning in my ear had to be the sexiest shit ever. My pussy clamped around his thickness, contracting so beautifully.
Faster, he pumped into me.
“Mmm!” he grunted.
Somehow, I ended up off the counter and up against a wall.
“Shit, Pen!”
Zoo slid me up and down his dick with his head thrown back and eyes closed in ecstasy as my body hugged him impossibly tight. I clawed at his shoulders and gasped.
“Yeesss!” I wasn’t sure how to describe the way I melted all over him. From the top of my head to the tips of my toes, and all in my insides, I melted for this man.
“Fuck!” he roared. It took forever for us to come down. His head rested on my shoulder, and he still had me up against the wall.
“Let’s hop back in the shower,” he said, but didn’t make a move towards the shower.
Giggling, I replied, “That sounds like a setup.”
“It is.”
Just when I thought Zoo and I were about to start all over under the hot spray of the shower, the doorbell rang.
ZOO
On the deck, Sin, Brooklyn, and I sparked up, filling the air with the finest scent. I needed this blunt after fucking the life out of Pen. A nigga was drained, full, and ready to call it a night, so that I could cuddle with my woman.
The life I had before Pen was a distant memory. The bitches I fucked before her were an even more distant memory. I couldn’t see myself anywhere but where I was at this present moment, chilling with my cousins, thinking about the day we all had on the beach, enjoying life.
Friendships were one thing but having a bond with two people was another subject. Friendships could come and go, sour, and disband. Bonds could never be broken, not with the living. A bond was forever. That’s the relationship I had with my cousins and now Pen.
“I bought the ring,” Sin spoke.
Brooklyn chuckled. “Of course, you did.”
Sin blew out a lungful of smoke and grinned.
“How does it feel?” I asked. Two sets of eyes darted my way.
“What you thinkin’ about? Getting married?” Brooklyn’s voice carried across the yard.
“I’m sure they heard that,” Sin grumbled, referring to the women in the house.
I shrugged. “What other step is there after finding the one you wanna be with?”
Crickets and frogs were the only things sounding off as Sin and Brooklyn stared at me.
“You put some coke in this shit? I must be high as fuck,” Brooklyn said, ashing his blunt.
Sin and I busted out laughing.
“How the nigga that claimed he didn’t want love, end up in love before me?” he ranted.
“Oh, so you’re not in love with ol’ girl?” Sin questioned.
Brooklyn faltered. “Nigga, you know what I mean. How the nigga that swore he wasn’t gon’ ever be settled down end up settled like a muhfucka?”