Gemini (22 page)

“You first,” I said, giving myself time to recover from that question.

Allison smiled and closed her eyes to think for a second.

“Okay…well, let’s see. Something that would surprise you…okay…well, I was once in the Miss Massachusetts pageant!”

“No fucking way…you…a pageant girl?”

“Yeah…my mother convinced me to enter and I actually placed third runner-up.”

“Third-runner up? There is no way that pageant is based on beauty then, cuz you would have won if that were the case.”

“Aw, thanks…but no…see, there’s this little thing called talent? And well, I guess they didn’t appreciate my rendition of
Wind Beneath my Wings.”

I threw my head back. “You did
not
sing that song?”

“I did…and it sucked ass.”

I lost it at her use of that term, which I used a lot too.

“Hey…but still third runner-up, it couldn’t have been that bad!” I said, wiping my eyes.

“Your turn,” she said.

I closed my eyes and thought about it.

“Okay…I know…something that would surprise you is that I have a bit of a musical past myself.”

“Oh yeah?”

  “My brother Caleb and I used to rap, actually. We had an amateur rap group as teenagers called Triple C.”

“Triple C?” she asked.

“Yeah…Triple C for Cedric…Caleb…Callahan. We thought we were the shit. I used to write the lyrics and Caleb did the beats. We had the baggy jeans falling off our asses and everything…Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch wannabees.” I chuckled shaking my head at the thought of how ridiculous we were.

Allison covered her mouth and shook in laughter, then shouted, “Rap me something!”

“Seriously?” I asked.

“Yes! Come on…show me what you can put together in three minutes,” she said.

My head fell back in disbelief and laughter. She was actually gonna make me do this?

“Okay. Three minutes…hold on,” I said.

I walked over to the hotel room desk and grabbed the pad of paper and pen.

Returning to the bed, I began to write down some lines, laughing to myself at how stupid this was, but I wanted to make her laugh and show her I was up for anything.

Allison stared at the screen for those few minutes smiling and giggling watching me write.

I looked at the alarm clock…my three minutes were up…so I returned to the  screen. “Okay…ready? This is for you, sweetheart.”

I quickly grabbed my sunglasses and put my baseball cap on sideways and began to sing, gesturing with my hands.

I met her in a diner.

Never seen a girl finer.

She gave me such a thrill.

I left a fifty-dollar-bill.

Left my credit card behind.

But you know I didn’t mind.

Took a Ride Unplanned.

Wrote her digits on my hand.

Found Out she works with my SIS-ter…

Before I even kissed her

She tasted so divine.

Now, I want to make her mine.

Allison’s face was in her hands and she was laughing so hard, that she had to wipe her eyes. I loved being able to make her laugh.

She lifted her blushing face. ”Cedric…Oh My God…I can’t believe you put together in three minutes! Thank you…that was awesome!” she said.

“You’re welcome, beautiful.”

After a pause, the mood got quieter.

I wish you were here, you know that?” I said.

“What would we do if I were?” Allison asked.

The images that flashed in my imagination were suitable for mature audiences only.

“Hmmm…let’s see. There’s this lovely mini bar over there. I might have offered you a frozen Snickers bar if you behaved.”

Allison laughed. “What else?” she said.

“Well, I could have interested you in a nice pay per view movie.” I joked.

“That sounds like fun. Where would be watching the movie?”

“I’d probably be in the bed and I’d make you sit over there on that nice hotel sofa across the room.”

“Oh really?” Allison’s raised her eyebrows in jest.

I laughed. “Ok, maybe not. Maybe I would have you right here next to me and with the way I am feeling right now, that would be really dangerous.

“How are you feeling, Cedric?” Allison whispered.

I paused and gave her the honest answer.

“I am feeling like I want to devour you.”

I was pathetic. One simple statement from this man and my underwear was drenched.

I gulped and was sure I turned red. “You want to devour me?”

             
“Yes,” he whispered. “Is that okay?”

His eyes were glowing. I wondered exactly what that meant and my body reacted to the possibilities.

              I nodded in agreement silently into the web cam, closed my eyes and sighed, feeling by body temperature rise.

“I can’t wait for Friday, Allison, but we never have to do anything you are not ready for…but as soon as you tell me you want it—”

I interrupted. “I want it, Cedric. I want you…all of you.”

I can’t believe I just said that out loud. It was the first time my thoughts escaped my head and it was like I vomited them right out of my mouth.

Cedric closed his eyes and let out a long slow breath and nodded slowly. “You have no idea how much I want you, Allison. God, from the moment I first laid eyes on you...”

We started into each other’s eyes at a loss for words.  Cedric smiled and had me really wishing I could jump through that screen. 

“Cedric, I remember the first time I saw you too, feeling connected to you.”

He shook his head and let out a deep breath. “I wanted to kiss you so badly that night in my car.”

“Why didn’t you?” I asked.

“I should say it was because I had a girlfriend, but that wasn’t exactly it. I just didn’t have the guts that night. It would have seemed too random. We had just met.”

“And the night in Callie’s room?” I asked.

“I was
definitely
planning to drive you home that night and was dying to kiss you…but you ran, remember?”

“Yes.” I laughed. “I thought you had a girlfriend. It was a self-protective mechanism.”

              Cedric laughed heartily showing off his beautiful white teeth, which seemed even whiter on the web cam.

I didn’t mean to, but I yawned.

              “Sweetheart, it’s late for you. I know you need to work early tomorrow. Can we please do this again tomorrow night?” Cedric asked.

I loved when he called me sweetheart.

              “Absolutely.” I smiled. “Same time?”

             
“I am not exactly sure of my schedule tomorrow. So, I’ll text you during the afternoon and let you know what time to log on. Sound good?”

             
“Sounds great,” I said.

“Good night, Allison.”

“Good night, Cedric.”

Cedric touched his hand to his mouth and blew me a kiss before disappearing from the screen.

***

Mercury, your ruler, is receiving kudos from the Moon, Gemini, resulting in a jubilant day. Romance is in the air, as you crave fun and are easily entertained. Hang on and enjoy the ride!              

Well, Wednesday certainly didn’t start out like my horoscope predicted. The  afternoon spent with Lucas turned out to be quite eventful, but not in a good way.

As usual, I was dressed in my Wonder Woman uniform and superhero boots. Today, Lucas’s mother Pat asked me to take him out on a few errands. I drove with Lucas to a nearby small one level shopping mall. There was a Walmart inside and a food court where I could have Lucas eat an early dinner and practice using money to pay for his meal. (Yes, I was still wearing the uniform to the mall.)

Lucas liked to go in the mock hurricane machine, so I added the quarters in and let the wind blow in his face repeatedly until he tired of it.

We made our way over to the Chinese takeout restaurant in the food court, and just as we sat down, an indoor train that parents paid to have their kids ride in, started making its way around the mall.

              Lucas had always been sensitive to certain sounds, but for some reason, this particular train horn, really upset him. As the train approached, he got up from the table so fast and began running down the mall covering his ears.

             
I abandoned our food and chased after him as fast as I could, but he was such a fast runner.  I could only imagine what people were thinking: a grown woman dressed as Wonder Woman chasing after a grown man covering his ears.

Lucas tripped and fell flat on his face before I was able to catch up with him. He had a pretty bad gash on his forehead. By this time, we were far away from the train sound, so he had calmed down. I felt so badly for him but I couldn’t lift him off of the ground.

A mall security guard helped me hoist him up off the floor and a nice woman got me some paper towel to add pressure to Lucas’s cut.

I immediately called his mother to let her know I was going to take him to the walk-in clinic on the way home to make sure he didn’t need stitches. It was a pretty bad gash.

***

Pat met us at the clinic and we had to wait an hour to be seen. By the time the doctor came out it was almost 7:00 at night. My shift normally ended at 7:00 but I didn’t want to leave until I knew he was okay.

As I sat in the office as the doctor examined Lucas, my phone chimed. It was a text from Cedric.

Cedric:  Hi, beautiful. I can’t wait to Skype with you tonight. Would 11:00 your time be too late?

I would stay up until any hour to Skype with him.

Allison:  Not too late at all. Looking forward to “seeing” you.

Cedric:  I would tell you to wear something sexy, but a paper bag would be sexy on you. ;-)

Allison: If you could only see what I am wearing now.

Cedric: ????

Allison: Remember I told you about the 20-year-old man I work with? He has an obsession with Wonder Woman and I have to dress like her or else he won’t acknowledge me.

Cedric: LOL. Are you serious?! That is fucking awesome.

Allison: You should have seen me today at the mall chasing after him in it.

Cedric: Shit. I would have paid serious money to see that!

Allison:  I have to run…I am still with Lucas.

Cedric: Ok…talk to you at 11              

***

I finally got back to my apartment about 9:00.

Pat had insisted on buying me dinner at McDonald’s (Lucas’s favorite) before I headed home and thankfully, Lucas did not need stitches, because it would have been really fun trying to hold him down for that.

The first thing I did was take a nice hot shower. As I lathered my body with the foamy soap, I closed my eyes and imagined it was Cedric massaging me. I intentionally held off on touching myself down there because I wanted to do it after I got off of Skype, like last night when I gave myself the most intense orgasm I had ever experienced alone, because Cedric had gotten me so worked up. I closed my eyes and thought about his sexy stomach and that tattoo that drives me wild. I really needed to see him again. Friday could not come soon enough.

I got out of the shower and towel dried my hair. I decided to let it air-dry wavy tonight. I put on a fitted periwinkle blue long-sleeved cotton casual jersey dress and made up my face.