Chapter 5Jackie“Please, just lay here with me for a minute Thomas, the room is spinning and I’m getting sick on my stomach,” she whined.Thomas thought about lying there with her, but decided against it.“Look Jackie, you are making this harder than it has to be, maybe I’ll come back next week or something. See if you can postpone it for next week,” he said.“No, no, listen Thomas, I’m sorry. I haven’t had a drink since my overdose, I barely ate that sandwich, I mean if you really want to we can Thomas,” she said.“Well, what time is it? Actually it doesn't matter; I’ll wait for them downstairs. Try to get yourself together Jackie,” he said turning and walking downstairs.“That’s cool Thomas, give me a few. I’ll be down,” she said to his back.Thomas went downstairs, sat in the chair and waited, both for the insurance company, and for her to come downstairs.Jackie walked downstairs on wobbly legs; she was wearing the short robe and her red thongs only.She walked into the kitchen and fixed an alka seltzer, she returned and sat gap legged on the couch to reveal the red thong.“I’m sorry Thomas,” she said with her head down.Thomas stood and walked over to her.“Look Jackie, I know all of this happened real fast, but believe me it’s what’s best,” he said.Jackie had to try hard to bite her tongue; she didn’t want to ruin her plan.“Yea, I know Tommy, I can’t drink anymore, got a little tipsy, and I’m sorry, can you forgive me?” she asked looking up at him.“Yes Jackie, I can, come on let’s get some clothes on you before the Reps get here,” he said.Jackie got up slowly, making sure to stagger a little. Once they were up stairs, Tommy found her red dress and brought it to her. Jackie turned her back to Thomas as she staggered and fell on the bed, while she was trying to put her dress on. Jackie let Thomas help her up; she let a few tears fall from her eyes, as she apologized again and again.Thomas sat her on the side of the bed, looked down at her perfect sized DD breasts, and her firm thighs, and then a moan escaped him before he could stifle it.Jackie smiled deep inside as she acted like she was trying to get up, she wanted to press her body against his.Thomas stood still as she stood squeezed past him and walked to the bathroom. When she turned to look at him he exhaled. Thomas shook his head, walked into the bathroom grabbed Jackie by the arm.“What are you trying to do to me Jackie?” he asked half upset, mixed with lust.“Let go of me,” she said snatching from his grip.“I ain’t doing nothing to you, where is my dress?” she asked stumbling back to her bed.Thomas followed her and pushed her down on the bed.“I love Chrissy, what do you want from me Jackie? I’m sorry I hurt you, why are you doing this?” he asked as he kissed the swell of her breasts.Jackie wiggled her body beneath him as though she wanted him to move. The more she moved the more he kissed.Get off of me Thomas, if you love Chrissy so much, why are you kissing me?” she gasped.Thomas ran his hand down her body squeezing the firmness of her body. He stared in her eyes, then turned his attention back to her body. Rubbing and kissing her, Thomas started to undress when there was a knock at the door.Jackie grabbed the back of his head, pulling him back on top of her and kissed him deeply. Jackie began to gyrate her hips; Thomas let another moan escape his lips. Jackie started kissing him down his chest, Thomas was on fire, Jackie continued caressing and moving driving him over the edge. Then she, flipped him on his back, straddled him and looked deep into his eyes, she could see that he was at the end of his rope. He was just where she wanted him. Thomas pulled her to him and buried his face in her bosoms. Jackie continued to whimper and moan, turning him on even more. Jackie hopped off of him and started out of the room.“Wait Jackie, where are you going?” he asked out of breath.Jackie grabbed her robe, but didn’t put it on right away, “some ones at the door,” she said walking down stairs.Thomas dressed in only his jeans, which were unbuttoned and unzipped, followed her closely down stairs, with one hand he copped a last minute feel, before stopping her and kissing her deeply again.Kissing and caressing as they opened the door to find Christie Elliot standing there.Jackie turned slowly and smiled. “Hey Chrissy, I’m glad you could make it. We need to have a little chat, right Thomas?” she asked smiling.Thomas stood there in shock; he looked from Chrissy to Jackie.“What’s wrong baby, aren't you glad to see me?” she asked with tears streaming down her cheeks.“I know this looks bad, I have no excuse Chrissy, stupid---“Oh now you’re stupid Thomas, you see a little flesh and you can’t keep your hands off me and you blaming that on stupidity?” Jackie asked, almost screamed.Chrissy just stood there, even though she was mad as heck with Thomas, she couldn't believe that Jackie would go this far just to hurt her.“Go on Thomas, tell her, please tell her you’re sorry for hurting her. That we are going to always have this kind of attraction for one another. Chrissy we didn’t mean to hurt you, but if you hadn’t walked through that door when you did, girl, you would have been still knocking, ain’t that right Tommy Boy?” she asked laughing a little.Jackie walked over to Thomas, who had moved away from her and zipped and buttoned his jeans back up. Throwing her arms around his neck, Jackie tried to kiss him.Thomas, pushed her aside, ran upstairs, grabbed his shirt and stormed from the house, leaving Jackie and Christie staring at each other.“What’s wrong with him?” Jackie asked, now closing her robe.“You know what Jackie; there is something really wrong with you. You better get some help, I’m afraid if you don’t, you’ll wind up locked away somewhere. I feel sorry for you, I really do Jackie,” she said walking out.Jackie stood there laughing. “Honey ain’t nothing wrong with me, nothing that a little Tommy Webster can’t fix,” she hollered to Chrissy as she walked to her car.Jackie went upstairs, put back on her clothes and shoes. She called her friend and headed to his spot.Thomas drove like a mad man to Torrence’s apartment. He needed a drink and a shoulder to cry on. How could he be so stupid? Here he was living with the woman of his dreams, and he blew it because of lust. Thomas couldn't believe that he had been so stupid.Thomas hopped out the car and practically ran up the few steps leading to Torrence's front door. Without knocking, he opened the door and walked in, he stood motionless in the foyer as the adrenaline seemed to quickly leave his body. He was mentally and physically drained. Too much had happened over the last three months.“Hey man, what’s wrong, you sounded so upset on the phone,” Torrence said.“Man, I just, I just, I lost Chrissy man,” he said breaking down.Torrence was afraid to ask how, had she died, “lost her how?” he finally asked.“Come on man, talk to me. What happened?” he asked rephrasing his previous question.“I’ve got to be the stupidest man alive. I mean to fall for what Jackie did. I don’t know man, I let my, my, I let Jackie entice me and man I wanted her so bad. I mean worse than when we were together Torrence. She was running around there in a pair of little tiny blue jean shorts, I mean everything she did was just so. Not like she was throwing herself on me, she just walked in front of me swaying just so. She took a shower and, and,” he said swallowing hard. She stood there drying off, her back was turned and you know, I, I, don’t even think she was aware I was standing there at first. But, but, the way she bent down and lotioned her legs, I just wanted to, to take right then and there. Man all day she played with my head, I feel like a complete idiot Tee-man,” he said tears still streaming down his cheeks.“Look man, it’s happened one time or another to all of us. Don’t beat yourself up like this, what did Chrissy say, how did she find out, was she there, I mean why was she there, did you call her?” he asked totally confused and anxious to find out.“Naw, Jackie called her or they talked or something, I really don’t know, she just sort of showed up at the door, I had my hand on Jackie’s behind, was kissing her neck when she opened the door, man I didn’t even have on my shirt and my pants were unzipped. I went up stairs and grabbed my shirt, then I ran out of the house. I can’t even face her man, what can I say Tee-man, what can I say?” he asked earnestly.Torrence was hurt for his friend, because he got caught, caught with his hands in the cookie jar. There was no mistaking what Christie saw, what advice could he give a guilty man. The truth of the matter was plain and simple, there was no way of denying the fact that he was caught, and red handed to boot.Thomas just wanted to ball up in a knot and die, he loved Christie and the last thing he wanted was Jackie Lewis. He wanted to tell her how sorry he was, but somehow he felt that wasn’t going to wash. That she would feel as though he really wanted to be back with Jackie. Hurt and upset Thomas thought that the only thing he could do was move back in with Jackie, until he could get himself together.“I guess the only thing to do is go back to Jackie, huh? I mean what other choice do I have?” he asked.“You have plenty of choices Tee, you could stay here, or you can go and try to apologize to your woman, or you could hang out at Twan’s crib. But if you go back to Jackie, you’ll never get Christie back, man.”“Yea, I guess you’re right. I have a confession to make, right now I want her so bad, it’s like I needed to have her, I guess to close this chapter of my life, does that make sense?”“Not really, at least not to me,” he answered as Thomas protested.“Listen man, she really worked me over, she wasn’t overtly obvious with her seduction. It was well planned; she operated her seduction like an extension of her own body. Like she gave it life, man, she worked me. I have never been worked like that before in my whole life, man, I’m close to forty and I tell you no woman, no woman has ever had me, had me panting like I was. I was with that woman for almost nine years and I have never seen that side of her before. What am I supposed to do now? What now Tee-man?” he asked afraid.Just as Torrence was about to answer Thomas’s cell phone rang.“What am I supposed to say Tee-man, its Christie?”“First answer the phone man, then tell her how sorry you are and try to move on,” he replied.“Hello,” he said feeling sorry for himself.“Hey Thomas, where are you?” she asked.“Sitting over my man Tee’s house, look I know you don’t want to hear this Chrissy, but I’m sorry. I never meant for things to go that far, and there isn’t any excuse. It’s not like I don’t know how to control myself. I knew better, but I let lust take me there and I hope you can forgive me.”“Thomas Jackie planned this, she called me, and she said she was upstairs, trying to maintain herself. But that you were looking at her, and she felt that you wanted to touch her and she wanted you. She said that she was taking you back. I came as fast as I could,” she said.“We didn’t have sex Christie, yea we kissed and touched, but we never got any further than that. I’m glad you came; otherwise I don’t know what would have happened. There is no way I could have faced you after that,” he said.“Thomas come home, I want to talk to you face to face,” she said silently crying.“Are you sure Christie, I never meant to hurt you, I love you so much girl. I will stay away; I’ll leave you alone if that’s what you want. I shouldn't have done this to you; I’m not a man out here trying to sleep around, I swear to you I’m not. I’m sorry Christie, God knows I am.”“Please come home Thomas, we can talk about this, we can work it out. When ever we have a disagreement of any kind, we will sit and talk it out. Even if we decide to go our own separate ways. I can’t deal with this like this, come home and talk to me please,” she said.“I’ll be there in a few minutes,” he said ending the call.“She wants to talk to me man, what do you think that’s all about?” he asked.“Well, all you can do Tee is go to the house and see. I mean, even if she wants out, she’s a sensible woman; she wants to sit down and talk about this face to face. Give her what she needs, she wants to talk to you,” he said.Thomas stood up, shook Torrence’s hand and walked outside. “Hey man, thanks for listening, thanks for being my friend,” he said.“Yo’ man, you’re like my brother, I’ll always be here for you, and you just continue to be there for me as well, that’s all.”“You right Tee-man, I’ll holla at you later,” he said jumping into his car.Just as Thomas was pulling off Jackie called.“What do you want, haven’t you caused enough trouble for today?” he asked heated.“No, because, my body is still calling you, I went to see my little friend and everything. I couldn't function, I was thinking about your kiss, and your touch. You know can’t nobody do me like you do Tommy Boy,” she said.“Look, I’m going home, my baby called and told me to come home to her, do you hear me, to her. You can forget it Jackie. I made a terrible mistake this afternoon. I’d be a fool to let you, make me loose the only thing left in this world other than my parents that I care this deeply for,” he replied.“Yea, I hear you…. I’m just laying here thinking about you, about the way you looked at me, the way your mouth felt on my body. Well, you go ahead Tommy Boy, run to your woman. Don’t let anything about me, or this afternoon stand in your way. Hey, I love you Thomas Webster, wish I could feel you right now, good night baby,” she said ending the call.Thomas stared at the phone, he could feel his nature rise, man he wanted Jackie so bad. He knew it was because she had aroused him earlier. Thomas drove like a mad man; he wanted to get to Christie before he drove to Jackie’s house. He turned up the music, thought nothing but good thoughts about Christie. Then Sista Big Bones came on. He struggled to drive home; he kept imagining Jackie dancing in her room. Thomas made a detour and pulled up in front of Jackie’s house. Jumped out the car, ran up the stairs two at a time. He banged on the door.Jackie smiled as she came down stairs wearing a black sports bra and a pair of black boy shorts.When she opened the door, she stood there staring at him, before she unlocked the screen door.“I thought you were going home to your woman Tommy Boy, ” she said unlocking the screen door. “Plus I have company on the way over here,” she said protesting his stares.“Please Jackie, I don’t know what you did to me earlier, or if it was the fact that you really didn’t do anything. I want you right now, I have to have you Jackie,” he said as he reached out and grabbed her.Pulling her body close to his, he devoured her mouth, kissing and sucking. Jackie, he breathed, “please baby, please let me have you, please,” he begged.“Thomas, stop this,” she said pulling from him. “Look, I don’t want no trouble, what I did earlier was just out of spite, right now I have some one special coming over. Please leave Thomas, please leave,” she said.“But I thought, I thought you wanted me, thought you loved me,” he said confused.“Okay and sleeping with you tonight is going to change what? You will then go home to your woman, and that leaves me where Thomas? Naw, no thanks,” she said holding the door opened.“Good night Tommy Boy,” she said with her head down.Thomas tried to reason with Jackie, tried to get her to understand, but what could he really say? Everything she said was the truth, he wasn’t leaving Christie. He knew he wasn’t and she was right. Thomas walked out of the house. Jumped in his car and drove home to Christie.When Thomas arrived at the house, he still couldn't get Jackie and how she looked in those boy shorts out of his mind. He knew he had to, because he was concentrating too hard on wanting her.“Hey baby,” he said when he walked in.Christie sat in the dark in the living room. “Hey baby,” she replied.Thomas turned the lamp on, to his surprise Christie was sitting there crying.“Baby, I’m sorry, I swear I never meant to hurt you. Please forgive me Christie, please,” he said.“Thomas, where have you been? I mean, I called you over an hour ago, please tell me you haven’t been with Jackie?” she asked.“I went by there, I had to know why she did this, and do you know she rushed me out of the door, talking about she had someone special coming over and she didn’t want me there when he came,” he said in amazement.Christie stared at him; she couldn't believe she was hearing this. “Thomas are you freaking kidding me? I mean I have been waiting here to tell you that I forgive you for what happened today, and that I know she set you up, and you went back there, back to ask her why? What part of crazy are you? Don’t you realize that she just wants to hurt you, hurt us?” she asked.“I do now, in some sad sick way Christie, I believed she really wanted me back, and although I would never go back to her, I thought she might break down and tell me why she did this,” he lied.“Oh okay, I guess I should feel better then huh? I should thank my lucky stars that, that, that, her sick psychosomatic, psychotic acts of revenge were sated by the fact that she threw you out for another man, whew, glad that’s over,” she said storming away.Christie turned around and stared at him.“You know, I think the two of you belong together Thomas, she’s had you under her spell for a long time, and now you just proved to me, that no matter what, you’ll always be under her spell. Good night Thomas, I’m not going to throw you out, I’m not that kind of a woman, but I think it best that you go back to Jackie. You are lost without her, and her mind games, they say keep it interesting and I guess she wrote the book on head games.I’m going to clear my head, I think you both are sick, do what ever you want to for the night, but by tomorrow, we will need some serious space Thomas” she said heading upstairs.Thomas dropped his head. He was loosing Christie and it was all Jackie’s fault.Thomas stormed from the house, mad, hurt and confused. Confused because right now he was jealous, real jealous of the fact that Jackie had thrown him out for another man and now his woman had made it real clear, too clear in fact that she wanted no parts of him as long as he was still connected to Jackie.Thomas knew he had to end it, and end it tonight.
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