afternoon, and Edna hadn’t returned from Sunday church service yet. After two nights of smoking crack, Jada had just woken up, at four o’clock in the afternoon. She stumbled out of bed, and almost immediately felt the urge to get high. She started scratchingat her skin, itchy after two days in the same clothes. She needed a shower, and had hardly eaten a thing. But all she could think about was how soon she could get high again.
The doorbell rang, and Jada stumbled to answer it. When she opened the door and found Charlie standing there, she gladly ushered him inside. She had planned to take a shower, get dressed, and go looking for him. But now she wouldn’t have to go looking after all.
“Hey,” she said, smiling. Her mouth felt cottony and dry, but she licked her lips, happily. “Mommy ain’t back from church yet.”
Charlie gave Jada a once-over and shook his head. “You look a mess,” he said. “Go clean yourself up before your mother sees you like this.” Charlie knew that Edna was beginning to grow suspicious of Jada’s behavior and her appearance lately. He’d done his best to reassure her that Jada was too smart to do anything as stupid as use drugs. But with Jada walking around looking like the neighborhood crackhead, he was having a harder time convincing Edna that her daughter wasn’t slipping.
“I will,” Jada said. “But let me get you off real fast before I go wash up. Then you can give me a couple of dollars—”
“I’m not gonna fuck you in your mama’s house, Jada. You must be crazy,” Charlie protested, before sitting down on the sofa. He shook his head at her.
“I didn’t say you had to fuck me, Mr. Charlie.” Jada smiled at him again, and without further discussion, she dropped to her knees and frantically unzipped his pants.
“Stop playing, Jada,” Charlie protested, halfheartedly. “Wait till later on.”
But Jada ignored him. She knew that her head game was the best, and estimated that within five minutes tops she could make him bust a nut. Then she could go and get high while he hung around and waited for Edna to come back. Deaf to his protests, she engulfed him with her mouth, earning what she needed. His penis was limp, and she sucked all of it, until it began to grow inch by inch in her mouth. Still offering a weak protest, Charlie reminded Jada that her mother would be on her way home. But Jada was persistent, and she tightened the suction in hercheeks, sucking all of him into her mouth and establishing an intoxicating rhythm. His head fell back against the sofa, as he enjoyed the sensation of Jada’s warm mouth on his old penis. He closed his eyes, and held on to her head, pushing Jada down on his dick as far as she would let him. He felt the cum throbbing within his dick as it made its way to the head. Jada felt it too, and sucked harder as she felt Charlie about to cum. But Edna’s scream brought him out of his trance.
Jada pulled herself to her feet and faced her mother, wiping the spit from her chin, as Charlie came involuntarily. Edna stood crying in shock only feet from where Jada stood. The apartment door was still open behind her, and both Jada and Mr. Charlie wondered how they hadn’t heard her come in. Charlie sat with cum all over him, dumbfounded. He grabbed a nearby pillow and wiped himself off, quickly. Then he adjusted his pants and stood between the two women, wondering what the hell would happen now.
Edna charged at Jada, tearing, scratching, clawing, and ripping at her daughter’s face. “You dirty bitch!”
Jada was screaming, trying to block her mother’s wild blows. Jada had never seen her mother act so aggressively, and she had never expected her mother to hit her. Gone was the woman who always let the men in her life batter her both physically and emotionally.
“Edna, come on, now. Get off the girl, you’re hurting her.” Charlie tried to coax Edna to stop, but even he was hesitant to step into her pathway for fear of being
Summer Waters
Shanna Hatfield
KD Blakely
Thomas Fleming
Alana Marlowe
Flora Johnston
Nicole McInnes
Matt Myklusch
Beth Pattillo
Mindy Klasky