Daytime Lovers by Ausin Mitchell - HTML preview

Chapter Three

 

Dalton was now in Leeds district, a mile from Jackson. He was at the house of twenty-one-year-old Jassette Ryan. She was a short

copper-colored girl with a rounded body, moderate breasts and great legs. Now he was in her bedroom resting up after making love to her. They had done it already and were basking in the afterglow of their lovemaking. He went and took off the latest condom before taking a bath. When he returned, she asked.

“Can’t you stay with me tonight? We can do it again in the morning.”

“Beulah asked me to buy some food for her.”

“I know you’re lying. You’re going to look for Linda.”

But he shook his head.

He took out some money and gave her. She was still sulking when he went out to his taxi and drove away.

***

He was now in Lobbans district a mile away from Leeds. Miss

Betty was in her house when he came. She was a forty-two-year-old woman. She was about five feet six inches tall. She was copper

colored with big, but firm breasts, a narrow waist, wide hips and beautiful legs.

“Miss Betty where is Linda?” he asked as he came onto the veranda where she was sitting in one of the plastic chairs.

“She’s gone up to Cynthia’s house over in Norris. She said she wanted her to fix up her hair for her.”

“I don’t believe it’s there she’s gone. She’s gone to look for Milton. I have a good mind to go up there for her,” he threatened.

She held on to his hand.

“It’s all right, Dalton. You’ve come here and don’t see her so what are you going to do, go home empty handed?”

He looked at her and laughed. She was dressed in a cut-off-jeans-

jeans shorts, a short sleeve shirt with the tails tied into a knot across her waist and slippers.

“When did you come up here?”

“I came up this morning on Danny’s bus.”

“When are you returning?”

“I’m returning in the morning, don’t forget that I’m a working mother.”

She thumped him in his belly, and he laughed.

“How is Russell doing?”

“He’s doing okay.”

“Why don’t you come home permanently? Ask for another transfer and bring him home. Let them talk all they want.”

He took her hand and led her into the house. They sat in sofas opposite each other.

“I’m a big woman to you. I shouldn’t be doing anything with you.”

“But you always told me how you like me. I know that your new man is much older than me.”

“But you’re my daughter’s baby father.”

“I’m not leaving you, Miss Betty.”

He put his hand around her shoulders. She didn’t resist him when he started touching her in her most sensitive areas. They made love for the first time in several months. Later they were talking in her bedroom. Outside it had started raining. She got up and went to take

some ‘welcome’ mats off the veranda. She returned to the bedroom to him.

“It was a big risk that I took having that baby for you. People were scandalizing me all over the place. Even when I got transferred to Jubilee some of the nurses were criticizing me.”

“The boy is alive and kicking and we’re back together again.”

“This is something I don’t want to go through again. Right now, I live in Portmore with my son. I’m not coming back up here for now. I have lost so many friends. My two daughters in America are vexed with me. Whenever I come up here, Linda behaves as if she wants to curse me.”

“Are you going to stay permanently in Portmore? Remember this is your house.”

“I don’t know what I’m doing yet. All I know is that I won’t live up here for the foreseeable future.”

“So how will I get to see you?”

“Roy, my new man, is a haulage contractor. He has to carry goods all over the island. He doesn’t come home many nights. I’ll call you on your house phone and tell you when to check me. But we have to be very careful about it because he has friends always checking up on him.”

“I think I might want another baby from you.”

She laughed and said.

“You have got to be joking. If I was going to have any more children, I would have it with Roy. I swear Russell is the last child I’m going to have. I’m going to let the doctors tie me off. I think Linda went up to Milton’s house because she hates me for what I’ve done.”

“Were you and she quarrelling before she left?”

“No, but I saw the look on her face.”

“So, if I want to come and look for you and Russell, it has to be a day in the week?”

“Dalton, although I love doing it with Roy, you are the better lover. You last longer and you fill me up. You leave no part of me untouched.”

He took her again that night before going home. When he reached and went inside his house all he could hear were snores. He looked in on the children, they were sleeping peacefully. He went into his bedroom and undressed quietly. He got into the bed beside Beulah, soon he was fast asleep.

***

Linda was up at Milton’s house in Norris, and they were resting up after another session of lovemaking. She was a tall woman, of brown complexion. She had moderate breasts, a narrow waist, but wide hips. She was twenty-three years of age. He was a copper-colored man of average height and build. He was a taxi operator. She worked at a pharmacy in Linstead. He was married to a nurse, but she was in Canada with their two children.

“Where is your baby father, Dalton?”

“I can’t tell you how much I want to leave him, especially after he got Miss Betty pregnant. She denied it and went to Kingston to work. She rented a house in Portmore and was hiding from us when she was pregnant, but I know everything.. It’s a secret between him and her. The only person who said she saw the baby is my cousin, Brittany and she didn’t want her to see him.”      

“Are they still together?”      

“She came up this morning. She’s supposed to go back in the morning. I didn’t ask who she left to look after the baby, the way I’m vexed with her.”

“She used to be so big in the church and look what Dalton did to her.”

“He didn’t do anything to her, it’s she who did it to herself. I didn’t even know when he and she started. I only heard the rumors that she was pregnant for him. I asked her and she denied it. Then she got a transfer and moved to Kingston. Up to now I don’t know why she got transferred. She said it was the Ministry who did it, but I heard that it was she who requested it.”

She went into the next room to sleep with her baby. In the morning they made love again before he dropped her home.

 

Chapter Four

 

Hugh was again at Valery’s house that Saturday night.

“It’s a party you want us to go to, Hugh?”

“It’s being kept in Norris.”

“I love to party, and my boyfriend loves to party too. I don’t want any man who can’t party. Shy guys aren’t for me. I like guys who can tell me up front what they want. Let me find out from Jackie if she’s going out.”

Jackie’s house was just next door. When he saw her, he was awe- struck. Her breasts were huge, she had a narrow waist, but wide hips. He thought that she was probably an inch or so shorter than Valery and she was about the same complexion. She gave them seats on her veranda.

“Jackie, this is Hugh. He’s my new boyfriend.”

“I saw you and him before. Why have you never introduced him to me before now?”

“I didn’t want you to snatch him from me.”

Both girls burst out laughing.

“Does he have money? I only like guys who are rich and not afraid to spend money on me.”

“Well, he’s still in school. He’s an over age school-boy.”

“Not interested, Val.”

She agreed to keep the baby. When they were leaving, she winked at him, and he smiled. He knew that if he played his cards right this girl would soon be his. She would be glad to rent a room in any of those two hotels for him to make love to her. They were back at Valery’s house now.

“Do you like Jackie? I saw her winking at you.”

“Of course, I like her. That doesn’t mean I want to be along with her.”

“I regard you as my man. Not because you don’t have any money to give me, I’m going to say that I don’t want you. I don’t go to bed with men that easily.”

They were on the veranda of her house talking. He was drinking some lemonade that she had given him while she was having some fruit punch.

“I know you want to be along with her, but I’ll fight her over you.”

She flaunted her body at him.

“Why all of a sudden, you’re getting so agitated because she winked at me?”

“Because I know her, and I know you. She doesn’t mean what she was saying that she only loves rich guys. You know how many nights I have baby-sat for her. That girl is a sex maniac. She has a permanent room at both the River Road and Hill View hotels. You know how many times I’ve passed her on the Keswick and Jackson back roads with all sorts of men.”

“Is she a prostitute?”

“She’s just a sex maniac, that’s all I know.”

She went inside for her baby and took her over to Jackie’s house. She returned, had a bath and he and she left for the party. He was dressed in a short corduroy pants, a sports shirt and sneakers. She was dressed in a jeans skirt, a tank top and slippers. He was dancing

with her when he saw a girl he knew. She was Lavern Mills. She winked at him, and he smiled at her. At around twelve o’clock when

he and Valery were sitting down, eating and drinking, she came over.

“Hi, Hugh and how are you, Valery?”

She came and gave both of them a hug.

“I haven’t seen Hugh since I left school three years ago. I work at Creary’s Pharmacy in Linstead.”

She gave both of them her card before going over to the man she was dancing with. He and Valery went back to enjoying their food.

“I have money on me to rent a room up at the Hill View hotel later on tonight,” he told her.

“I’ll pay, you’ll need that money later on. I don’t like how Lavern was looking at you. Were you along with her in school?”

“She was two years ahead of me.”

“My gosh, Hugh. I think you’re going to too many women.”

“I am a slow learner, that’s all. I thought I told you that already.”

“I’m a credit officer at Bindy Oakley Finance. I didn’t go to school to waste my time like you’re doing.”

“I just have Tena and you. I used to sleep with a few female teachers, but I’ve stopped because this is my last year in school.”

They left the party at around two o’clock that morning for the Hill View hotel. They spent the next two hours making love. Afterwards they decided to sleep there.

***

Sunday morning, they had breakfast there before leaving. He spent most of the day with her. He helped her cook her dinner. It rained all morning but eased off in the afternoon. They were sitting in her living room talking.

“If you leave school and get a good job, I’ll still be along with you. I would even have a baby for you. I’m still suspicious about you and women like Miss Judy, Miss Joyce and Miss Stacy. I heard that Miss Stacy loves the young guys.”

“I told you that I only have you and Tena.”

“But you said you and some female teachers were friends. Who were they?”

When he hesitated, she said.

“It’s all right, you don’t have to tell me. I have my own ways of finding out about these things.”

“I used to be along with Miss Pringle, Miss Norman and Miss Marsh. All of them used to teach at the Keswick primary school.”

“You used to sleep with Dahlia Marsh and Opal Norman? When was that?”

“About two years ago.”

“Those two girls used to go on like they were any big thing, and they were sleeping with a schoolboy. As for the one Grace Pringle, I’m sorry I can’t see her to curse her.”

“Don’t tell them that I told you so.”

“I wouldn’t do that, Hugh. I still think you are or used to go to those women and Miss Stacy. Those women are easy to go to bed with, it has always been rumored. So, if one of them offered you, would you take it?”

“They know that I’m seeing you and they have their men sleeping with them.”

“You should be giving me money, but I’m prepared to wait until you leave school and are working.”

He left her house at around nine o’clock that night. He took a route taxi back home to Jackson. His uncle’s wife told him that Tena had come to look for him. He went over to her house to see what she wanted.

“Where were you the whole weekend?”

“Don’t question me about my whereabouts. I thought I told you so already.”

“I know you have a woman in Keswick, sleeping with. People tell me that they’ve seen you and her coming out of the hotel over there. I saved up enough money for us to go to the River Road, but I won’t until you tell me the truth.”

But he refused to tell her where he was on the weekend.