Daytime Lovers by Ausin Mitchell - HTML preview

Chapter Two

Hugh Porter was in Keswick at the house of Valery Dennis that evening. She was a twenty-four-year-old woman. She had a two-year-old daughter living with her. But she and her baby father had broken up six months ago. They were sitting in sofas in her living room. They were both drinking fruit punch from a jug on a table in the center of the room.

“He wasn’t giving me any money and he was watching me. If I talked to a next man, he would get angry. He was keeping other women with me. I told him to go about his business and leave me alone.”

“So how are you managing now?”

“I made his mother talk to him and he’s now giving me money for Nyla.”

She was a tall girl with moderate breasts, a thin waist and wide hips. Many persons in Keswick considered her one of the best-looking girls in the community. He guessed her to be about five feet seven inches tall and she was copper colored. He had met her at a party

over there in August and they had started a relationship. His father

was in America, but his mother was living in Montego Bay. He was living in Jackson, five miles away, with his uncle, Garth, and his wife, Mildred.

“I like you, Hugh. You have so much stamina. Sometimes I wonder if after I leave, you don’t have other women going to.”

“After I do it with you, I just go home and go to bed.”

“Aren’t you a bit too old to be in school?”

He hung down his head and she was about to apologize when he said.

“I repeated at least two grades. I’m a slow learner.”

“I heard that you’re fooling around some big women like Miss Joyce and Miss Judy.”

“I have never been to bed with either of them. I’m good friends with both of them. I only have one girlfriend, Tena.”

“I heard that you’re a frequent visitor to the River Road hotel.”

He laughed.

“I’ve only been there about three times with her. All the students complain about the price they charge. They don’t give you enough time and if you spend a minute over your allotted time, they throw you out of the room.”

She burst out laughing.

“You said that you only have one girlfriend, Tena, but I don’t believe you. Not with your size, if I told any of my friends about how big you are they’d must want to try you out. Some of them might even try to take you away from me. I don’t think it’s a secret. That’s why I believe you’re going to bed with both Miss Joyce and Miss Judy. I don’t want to be in any fights with any woman over you. So, tell me if you have any other women apart from Tena.”

He shook his head.

“I only have her.”

“So, if you hadn’t met me, except when you saved up some money and took her up to the River Road hotel, you weren’t doing anything. How come you know so much about sex?”

“I had a neighbor named Miss Hortense. She liked me and used to invite me over to her house. She was a teacher. Because I was a slow learner, she used to pretend that she was helping me. When her man was away on the farm work program I was sleeping at his house in his bed.”

“Where is she now?”

“She lives in Canada.”

“When she returns home, doesn’t she want you to sleep with her?”

“I heard that she has a man over there plus she has her man out here. She hardly comes out here anyway.”

“There are things you’re not telling me. I think you’re still along

with her. I know women. She knows what you have, there is no way she’s going to come out here and don’t look you up.”

He didn’t tell her that sometimes when she came out here, they would steal away and go to the Hill View hotel. He didn’t want her to get jealous. He slept with her that night. She made him use

rubbers because she didn’t want him to get her pregnant or to pick up any sexually transmitted diseases. She told him how he had filled her up and he was now her man. He made love to her that morning, before leaving for his house. She admired how muscular his body was. He in turn admired how curvaceous her body was. It was raining in the morning when he left her house.

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Miss Judy White was a thirty-nine-year-old shopkeeper from the community of Jackson about six miles from Linstead. She was separated from her husband for the past five years because of unresolved marital differences. He accused her of sleeping with other men and she accused him of sleeping with other women. They have three children, two boys and a girl, two teens and one pre-teen, all living with her. She was a tall woman, around five feet seven inches, with big, but firm breasts, a narrow waist and wide hips. For the past three years she had been seeing George Minott, from Norris, two miles away. He operated a truck that hauled goods from Kingston to various parts of the island. He too had been married but was separated from his wife. They have two children, a boy and a girl, both teenagers. She was in her shop when Dalton Allen drove

up in his taxi. She knew that he was a taxi operator. He was tall and athletic looking. She knew that apart from wine, he neither smoked nor drank hard liquor. She guessed that he was about thirty years of age. She had heard that he was along with Linda Ray and her mother, Miss Betty July. He had on a polo shirt, jeans and was wearing a pair of sneakers. He had a cap on his head. As he came into the shop she asked.

“You want your usual stuff, Dalton?”

“You know the thing, Miss Judy.”

She threw out some wine into a glass before breaking and emptying two eggs into the glass. She gave him a table fork to stir the mixture. He dumped the contents down his throat in one swallow.

“You’re going to make worries tonight, Dalton?”

“I did it already.”

“It’s just eight o’clock. Don’t tell me that it’s so early you start working. Or you’re just gearing up yourself for some hard work tonight?”

He burst out laughing. Just, then another man, Owen Ellis, came into the shop. He was a truck driver living in Norris. The two men touched fists. He saw the broken eggs in a container on the counter.

“Miss Judy, you’re gearing up for George tonight?”

“It’s Dalton, I don’t know how many girls he has waiting on him, but he’s certainly on his way to making worries tonight.”

The two men burst out laughing and Dalton said.

“Still, Miss Judy, you really look nice though, I’m not telling any lies.”

She had on a black-tie head, jeans, a tank top and slippers. She

laughed.

“Listen, I don’t want Linda or Beulah to beat me up.”

“And you know that neither of them would do you anything.”

She laughed again and said.

“You can go on, you hear, Dalton.”

“So, Dalton, you don’t want a beer?” Owen asked.

“Give Miss Judy my beer,” he told him and went to his taxi and drove away.

Owen opened his beer and started drinking as did Miss Judy.

“I noticed that you didn’t ask him about Miss Betty.”

“I would have touched off a raw nerve in his body. He loves her more than either Linda or Beulah.”

“You like the way how she disappeared from up here after the rumors started circulating that she was pregnant for him. Check it out how long she’s been away now.”

She took some more swallows of her beer as did he.

“I heard that she had the baby at Jubilee. Most of the time she’s in town looking after it. Both Linda and Dalton know, but they don’t want to say anything.”

“But all of them said she was working down there as a nursing assistant.”

“She just got transferred after she got pregnant. It was she who begged for it,” he said. He finished his beer and left the shop for his truck and drove away.