Daytime Lovers by Ausin Mitchell - HTML preview

Chapter Six

Hugh had always liked Miss Judy and Miss Joyce. Both women were separated from their husbands for one reason or the other. He guessed that Miss Judy was in her early forties and Miss Joyce was probably about the same age. Miss Judy’s man, George, was a haulage transport operator. Miss Joyce’s man, Wesley, was a minibus operator. He would sometimes visit and run jokes with the two women. Then there was the dressmaker, Miss Collette and Miss Helen, the librarian at the branch library. Both of the latter women had their men friends. He was down at Miss Judy’s shop that Wednesday after school and he was talking to her.

“I heard that you fill up any woman you go to, Hugh.”

“That’s what most of them tell me.”

“Tell me about a big woman you went to and satisfied her.”

“I have done it lots of times and with many women too. I don’t want you to tell them that I told you that I slept with them.”

“I won’t tell them that it was you who told me so.”

“I’ve been to bed with Miss Hortense and Valery. I used to go to Miss Beatrice from Leeds.”

“You slept with Miss Beatrice already? That woman could be your grandmother. Are you still going to bed with her?”

She broke into laughter. He hung down his head, but she paid him no mind.

“She ran me away after her husband returned home and she went back to him. She isn’t that old, she’s in her late forties.”

“I have to find a way for us to get together. George is watching me bad. If he’s around I can’t make a move without him wanting to know where I’m going.”

“Does he believe you’ll give it away?”

“When I want a man if he isn’t around, I’m going to find one for myself. Sometimes, he has to haul goods to the country, and I would go to the Hill View with a man. I heard that you’re along with Stacy too.”

“I’ve checked her, but she turned me down. Errol is her man.”

“I know that you like her. How come you let your friend get her?”

“She’s very beautiful and sexy. She said it was because he was better looking than me.”

“Is it me or she you’re looking? Don’t I look sexy too?”

“You’re drop dead gorgeous, Miss Judy.”

She was wearing a navy-blue jeans pants, a tank top and slippers.

“Every man who comes to my shop wants to sleep with me. I have to run away some of them. But I really like you, Hugh. George is going to Montego Bay from Friday evening. He won’t be returning until Saturday night.”

***

Friday night, they went to a party over in Keswick. Hugh was wearing a short pants, sports shirt and slippers. Miss Judy wore a cut-off-jeans shorts, polo shirt and slippers.

“Hugh, we can’t look too comfortable. I think we should dance with other people to not make it look too suspicious.”

Both of them went to dance with other persons. She sent him to buy food for both of them and they sat and ate it. After that they went back to dancing. At around two o’clock that morning, he went to sleep with her down at the Hill View hotel. Afterwards, they lay in

in bed savoring the afterglow of their lovemaking.

“Hugh, I want you as my little boyfriend. How available are you though? I know that you are along with Valery, Jackie, Paula, Tena and now me. Anytime George is gone to the country, I’m going to make you come to the house. Hortense and Beatrice taught you well.”

“Tena has left me. Valery is my main woman now. I’m cheating on her with Paula and Jackie. I learned a lot from Miss Hortense and Miss Beatrice.”

“What about those teachers that you were going to. I heard that you were like their sideman. If one night one of their men didn’t show up, you were always on standby to help out.”

He burst out laughing.

“It was mostly on weekends.”

She laughed. Both of them went to have a bath before leaving the hotel.

***

There was a party in Jackson that Saturday night. Dalton was there with Linda. He was wearing a jeans pants, a sports shirt and sneakers. Linda was wearing a jeans skirt, tank top and slippers.

Dalton was dancing with Linda when he saw Jessica Jones. He couldn’t believe how she had developed. What a woman she had developed into! She was sexy beyond belief. He knew that two years ago she had a baby for a guy from Keswick. But he heard that they had broken up. He knew that the guy she was dancing with wasn’t her right man. He had heard that she had sent that guy packing.

“Linda, I just remembered that Ralph gave me a message to give Jessica,” he told her as the song they were dancing to finished playing.

He went over and started talking to her.

“Jessica, what a way you look sexy.”

She came into his arms, and they started dancing. Two songs played

and Linda seeing that he wasn’t returning, came and tried to pull him out of her arms.

“What are you doing, Linda? He’s not your man, so I don’t know what you’re trying to take him away from me for. He lives with his woman, not you.”

“Go look a man of your own and leave him alone, girl.”

“Linda, come go home. I was just dancing with her. I wasn’t looking her. I was going to come back and dance with you.”

“You just said you were going to give her a message, not to dance with her. I want to stay at the party and enjoy myself some more.”

So, they stayed and didn’t leave there until after one o’clock. He had

taken her home and they had reached her gate now.

“Aren’t you going to stay with me tonight?”

“I have to go home. I don’t think Beulah knows where I am.”

“Whose fault is that? You want to go back to fool around Jessica. But it’s all right.”

She pushed the car door open and slammed it back after getting out. He drove back to the party. When he reached there, he saw Jessica

sitting on a bench all by herself. He took a seat beside her.

“What did you do with Linda? I thought you were going home to sleep with her.”

“When she was leaving, she was almost asleep on her feet. She told me that she wanted to sleep so I just took her home.”

“She was cutting her eyes at me.”

“I don’t think she meant anything by that.”

“Is it true about you and Miss Betty? I heard that she had the baby at Jubilee and is hiding it down there.”

“What she told me was that it was the Ministry who wanted to transfer her to Kingston because of a shortage of nursing assistants down there. I was never along with her. I don’t know where people get that from. She and her man, Roy, live together in Portmore.”

She behaved as if she didn’t believe him.

“So, she isn’t coming back up here to live?”

“Linda would know more than me.”

But she didn’t ask him any more questions. They got up and

started dancing together. Later he bought food and drinks for both of them and they sat and had it. They resumed dancing again.

“From I saw you at this dance, I wanted you. You’ve put on weight, but in all the right places.”

She burst out laughing.

“From I saw you enter the party I wanted you to leave Linda and come to me. Once I saw you down at Miss Judy’s shop, sucking eggs and drinking wine. What was that for?”

He burst out laughing.

“I usually do that when I’m going on a mission.”

“Did you do any of that tonight?”

“I didn’t know I’d meet you.”      

They returned to dancing. At about two o’clock they left for the River

Road hotel. They spent about two hours there making love before he took her home. When he went into his bedroom Beulah was snoring. He decided not to wake her and crawled into bed beside her, soon he was snoring.