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You make life
better.
Whoa.
If there ever was a compliment to beat all compliments, it would be
that.
Sneaking into Tina’s apartment last night was a dumb idea. I didn’t
think it through. But I spent most of the night tossing and
turning. I couldn’t stop thinking about her. I kept wondering if
she was okay or what if she felt uncomfortable sleeping there after
what happened.
I made the quick decision to call a cab and head on over. I used my
spare key and typed in the security code. It went haywire when I
kissed Nat’s forehead thinking she was Tina.
All hell breaks loose.
Nat starts screaming. Tina jumps up onto the bed like she’s Bruce
Lee then throws herself on my back and starts choking me.
Yeah, not good.
Thank god Nat turned on the light otherwise I might’ve passed out.
I could feel Tina shaking against me but she had me in a tight
grip. Adrenaline gives people strength they didn’t know they had. I
didn’t want to hurt her so I just let her choke me. I’m surprised
I’m not purple this morning.
Then Nat refuses to leave and we had some weird sleepover in Tina’s
bed which is luckily a king. Just when I’m about to fall asleep,
Tina bursts out laughing.
I couldn’t help but laugh, too. Then Nat joined in. The whole thing
was pretty amusing, though.
Weird sleepover aside, I’m glad I was close to Tina last night. As
soon as we settled in bed, I felt calm wash over me. If I’m being
completely truthful, I’m glad Nat was there too. Because if I were
Tina, having two people I love in bed with me after a bad night
would have made me feel a whole lot better.
I’ve decided not to do anything stupid regarding Omarr. Killing him
will bring up a bunch of questions by the Sixes and I’m sure Tina
would know. I don’t want her to ever feel unsafe around me. I’m her
protector.
I’ll have to set up a meet with Uncle Jerm and work this out the
right way. But I swear to god, if that asshole comes near my girl
again I don’t know if I’ll be able to control myself.
I think I’ll have to talk to Tina about her kamikaze defense
methods.
And that damn clown car. One day, she’ll start to open the door and
it’ll take off without her.
I smile at this morning’s shenanigans but I quickly
sober.
Time to set up a
meet.
***

The store is still crowded
with potential blazer buyers. A lot of them see the price and
slowly back away. Which I can’t say I blame them; it’s a lot to pay
for one item.
Mimi and Lola are both at the store today because Nat asked for the
morning off to get a physical.
I asked if everything was okay and she said she thinks it is but no
harm in a check-up. Which I immediately approved of. You don’t mess
around with your health.
I walk out of the store room and find Mimi at the counter with an
irate looking She-Devil Sissy.
Son of
a Big Mac!
Just when I thought I was
having a good morning.
I walk over and ask Mimi, “There a problem, Meems?”
Mimi doesn’t take her eyes off Sissy but replies, “Just fine boss
lady. Sissy here wants to buy a blazer. I told her the price and
she freaked.”
Oh, woe is she! Cry me
a damn river!
This woman is becoming a permanent pain in my backside.
I turn to Sissy and say, “I’m sorry, Sissy. The blazers are
expensive but they are what they are. Take it or leave it. Do not
bring drama to the store.”
Sissy flips her platinum blonde hair over one shoulder and replies
“Fine. Two hundred and fifty dollars for a blazer, I must be out of
my mind. Whatever. Wrap it up.”
Holy
buckets!
Mimi charged her sixty
dollars more than I planned on charging. I’ll tell her off later.
Not that she’ll give a flying poop.
Mimi starts wrapping up her purchase when I remember something and
tell her, “Sissy, there is absolutely
no
refund on this item. You bring it
back and it won’t be like last time. I won’t be nice.”
Sissy glares at me. I take this as an
okay
and turn to head back to the
store room.
I halfway there when I hear Sissy yell out, “How did you do
it?”
What?
I turn and take a few steps towards the counter. I ask, “How
did I do what?”
She makes an exasperated noise. She says slowly, “Nik. I worked on
him for months and ended up with zip. How did you get him? You
pregnant or somethin’?”
The nerve of this woman!
I decide to be a little cruel. Which is never nice but this woman
is insinuating the only way I could have Nik is if he got me
pregnant.
I say acidly, “No, Sissy. I’m just not you. Which, not
surprisingly, Nik likes.” I lean closer and whisper, “Nik loves me,
Sissy. He
HH
told
me I’m
it
.”
I see her face flash painfully and without waiting for a response,
I turn and head back to the store room.
I didn’t like doing that. Sometimes I wish my mouth had a backspace
key.
***

Nat comes back in to the
store sometime after three. She doesn’t stop to look at anyone,
just walks on through to the store room and ignores the greetings
we all yell out to her.
That’s
odd.
Nat is a people person. Even on
the worst day she’s at least mildly social. I decide to
investigate.
I walk over to the store room and just as I’m about to knock I hear
muffled crying come from behind the closed door.
My heart clenches painfully.
Oh
God.
What if the doctor’s appointment
went bad? What if she’s really sick? Or even dying?
My face pales and I start to sweat.
No way in hell I’m losing Nat without a fight.
I barge into the store room, close the door behind me and lock
it.
Her back is to me and she’s quieted down a little but I can hear
her sniffle. It takes a lot for Nat to cry. She isn’t a sooky baby
like me.
I walk over to her and put an arm around her. She places her head
on my shoulder and howls out uncontrollable sobs. Of course, this
means I cry quietly right along with her.
Still sobbing she sputters, “I can’t…I can’t have them. I thought I
was but then I wasn’t and now I can’t have
them.”
Uh,
Wha…?
I hold her and coo to her until
she calms and I try to decipher what she just said.
“What’s the matter, honey?” I ask quietly.
She straightens a little and replies, “I thought I was pregnant.
Ghost would’ve been the father.”
I balk.
Oh Em Gee!
Nat being pregnant would be awesome! She
absolutely adored kids. I know she wants a lot of them.
I say, “Well, honey, that’s nothing be upset about. That’s…”
She interrupts me “No. It would’ve been fine. I would’ve been
happy. But the doctor did an ultrasound. I’m not pregnant. But he
found over
eighty
cysts on my ovaries, Tina. I have PCOS.”
My face falls and I put a hand to my chest.
She isn’t pregnant. They did find something.
She tries to be strong but her lip is quivering. “The doctor says
it’s a high probability that I won’t be able to have children.
Like, ever.” She looks at me through glassy eyes. “I’ll never have
kids, Tina. And that sucks so bad. Eighty fucking cysts. That’s why
my period didn’t come.”
Oh, God. You
totally suck sometimes.
I cry right
along with her. I pull her close and coo, “Oh, honey. There are
options for people who can’t have children. We’ll research
everything we can. We’ll call specialists and doctors. We’ll go
online and talk to other people with PCOS. We’ll figure it out! I
promise.”
She nods into me. After a minute I gasp lightly and smile.
I whisper, “I’ll have your baby for you.”
Her body stiffens and she lifts her head. Her pretty face is
distorted by sorrow and I don’t like it.
She whispers back, “You’d do that for me?”
I nod, “Yes. Absolutely. No question. I don’t think I’d do it for
anyone else but you’re my sister. So, yes.”
She bursts into tear again and we cry together.
Mourning her loss. Celebrating our friendship. Together, like
always.
Take that, PCOS. You can’t win.
***

I’m finishing some
paperwork when I hear the familiar
clip
clop
in the hall.
I smile.
My baby has come for a visit.
I walk to the office door and just as I get there, I see her
smiling face grace the doorway.
Smiling big, I step closer, grip her hips and lean down to kiss her
neck.
I place slow, sensual kisses on her neck and she sighs. Her hands
move to my shoulders and squeeze.
Still working on her neck, I ask, “Baby, you need something?”
She stills for a second then replies, “You know, all of a sudden, I
can’t remember.”
I chuckle and squeeze her hips. She pushes at me slightly til we’re
just inside my office.
She whispers, “I need you.”
I lift my head and flash her the dimple. I say, “You got me, baby.
You’re my heart.”
Tina gets a gooey look on her face and puts a hand on her chest.
She shakes her head and straightens. She steps closer to me and
says slowly, “No, babe. I
need
you. Like, now.”
Well, hot damn!
My baby needs
me! I like that.
She walks backwards, closes the office door and locks it, smiling a
sultry smile all the way.
I’m already harder than a rock. Tina and I have had sex a few times
now and it’s always bangin’ but she’s never come to me for a
nooner. I
really
like this.
She walks up to me and undoes my belt and zipper so I’m open and
bare. Steps back a few steps, lifts her skirt and slowly lowers her
panties. Then walks over to my desk, puts her hands on it, turns
her face to me and lightly shakes her perfect ass at
me.
Fuck me! It’s
on!
She giggles when I run to her. I
lift her skirt and kneel behind her. I take my time kissing her
perfect behind. I squeeze and lightly spank her cheeks. They turn
rosy.
Nice.
I stand and she turns to me. She lays wet, sexy kisses on my neck
and softly sucks at my pulse point which feels amazing. My cock
jumps. She lowers herself til her head is lined up with my crotch.
She palms my hard length, stroking it up and down before taking me
into her mouth. She works me so good. My eyes roll back and I
groan.
This is Sexy Tina. I love all my Tina’s but I really like Sexy
Tina.
She takes me deep into her mouth and hollows her cheeks on the
release. She does this repeatedly.
Fuck, I’m going to come.
Oh, no
you don’t!
I put my hands under her arms and lift her. She gasps when I turn
her and push her a little forcefully onto the desk.
Luckily, Tina is wearing heels, otherwise this never would
work.
I lift her skirt, bend my knees a little, hold my cock and prod
gently til I find her entrance. I carefully work my cock up and
down her slit, coating it with her arousal. When Tina pants, I know
it’s time. I slowly drive the head of my cock into her
pussy.
So fuckin’
tight!
You’d think I’d get used to
it.
Nope, no getting used to perfection. My baby is perfect.
I push myself in inch by inch. I hold Tina’s hips and pull her back
so we’re ass to crotch.
Can’t get a better feeling than this. No ways.
I still for a moment before pulling back slightly and thrusting
back into her. Hard. She moans and I can’t stop myself from
gripping her hips and fucking her hard. I pound into her. I look
down and see her rosy ass which is jiggling with every
thrust.
Oh, man. So
good.
I ask ,“You like that,
baby?”
She pants her reply ,“Ohhhhhh. Yes, Niki, I love it. Faster, baby,
I’m close.”
I love when she calls me Niki.
I pound into her harder and faster. I feel her tighten around
me.
She feels like heaven when she comes.
I feel my own release dawning. Tina grinds her ass back into me.
She moans quietly and I feel her contract and release around my
swelling cock.
Heaven.
And that’s that. I grip her hips tight and pull her back into me. I
groan as I jerk my own release and fill her with my seed. Tina
rests her head on my desk and I hold onto her. We both pant softly
and I feel Tina’s body shake. I look at her sideways turned face
and she’s laughing.
She says, “That was my first nooner. Ever.”
I chuckle as I slowly pull out of her. I ask, “I like being your
first at something. How was it, baby?”
Still bent over my desk, I hear her sigh and she whispers, “The
best. Everything with you is the best.”
I clean myself before I bring some tissue and wipe her clean. I
ball up her panties and put them in my pocket.
I decide it’s time to bring up a concern I’ve had for a little
while.
I pull Tina to stand and hold her tight. She wraps her arms tightly
around my waist, sighs and rests her head on my chest. I smile.
This is what love is. Simple pleasures and all that.
I clear my throat and ask, “Tina, sweetheart, should I be preparing
for a baby?”
Tina’s limp form goes so rigid I think she might just take off like
a rocket.
She replies quietly ,“No, Nik. I have a birth control device in my
uterus and it’s good for another two years. But while we’re on the
subject, when’s the last time you were tested?”
A fair question.
I answer truthfully, “After the last time I slept with Sissy. I’m
clean as a whistle, sweetheart.” I smile down at her worried face.
“I’ve never had sex without a condom, baby. You’re the
first.”
Her eyes widen and she whispers, “Really?”
I reply, “Really really.”
She smiles up at me. I’m just about to kiss her when she jerks back
and says, “I’m clean too by the way! I got tested after…after him.
And I’m squeaky clean. And no. No babies.”
That last statement sounded a bit too sharp for my liking.
I grip her tight and rub her back. I ask, “But you want children
someday, right?”
She backs away from me. Her face voids and I get the feeling I’m
not going to like her answer.
She shakes her head, swallows hard and says slowly, “No, Nik. I
decided not to have children. And no, there is no changing my mind
about it. This wasn’t a decision I made easily. Believe me.” She
finishes on a whisper.
Well,
shit.
I want kids. I was thinking
that Tina would be the one to give them to me. This is a blow to
the gut for me. I was excited at the prospect of children and I
wanted to be a daddy to Tina’s beautiful children. It’s all part of
the fantasy in my head. Tina is my wife and we live together in a
nice house with three kids and a dog. The dog was actually Bear but
that isn’t an option now.
I’m stunned speechless. I don’t know what to say. I’m so
disappointed right now.
I obviously don’t hide my disappointment well. I catch Tina’s
shining eyes and she says, “I understand if this changes things for
you. I really do. Just think about it and let me know if this is
still a relationship you want to be a part of. Because I won’t have
children. Or adopt. I… I just can’t.”
She sounds tortured.
She turns and walks out of the office. I don’t follow her.
This really does change things.
I need time to think.