by Pepper Pace
Gio sat up and straddled her as he reached into the drawer of her beside table for a condom.
But he was in no hurry to enter her. There were many more things to feast on first.
~Six Months Later~
Sidney was filming a video of herself as she hurried to her bus. Her viewers really liked seeing a day in her life. She hadn’t been sure that they’d be entertained by watching her casual musings as she went to the grocery store, or cooked herself a quick dinner. But she always got the most views with the videos that featured real time of her.
Her European series of videos had been successful and had gained her the first few thousand followers. But then she began filming her make-up tutorials and the subscribers flocked to her. She was blown over by all the positive feedback in her comments. Surprisingly to her was that the majority of her comments weren’t about how good it was to see a dark skinned female vlogger, but about how refreshing it was to see a vlogger carrying herself in a classy, mature manner. YouTube was saturated by vloggers who acted like children—most probably because the majority of them were. But she took pride in being classy in all the ways that she led her life. That was one lesson that she’d learned from her short time in Europe. She had to be the one to take control of life or it would take the control of her.
“This is my last day at the office and I don’t want to miss my bus!” She said into her camera. She had long ago stopped being embarrassed about talking into a camera while out in public. She had seen a few of her earlier videos where she’d been clearly uncomfortable and it had affected the quality of that video. No. Her subscribers were too important to her so she forced herself to do better, to remain natural and to forget that she was basically running around the city holding a camera at herself and talking into thin air.
Once on the bus she turned off her camera and began her morning Skype.
“Are you still awake, honey?”
“Yes. I waited for you. Here’s your goodnight smooch.” Gio puckered his lips and made a smooching gesture as if he was sending her a kiss.
“I’m sorry! I was vlogging this morning trying to film my last day of work. Muah!” She kissed at the camera.
“You look good. I like the shimmery stuff on your eye.”
She laughed. Shimmery stuff on her eyes. The lady in the seat across the aisle from her gave her a suspicious look and she lowered her voice since she was now that annoying obnoxious person that talked on their cell phone while in public.
“Uh…that stuff would be called eye shadow.”
“Yes, of course. I should learn the proper terms since my girlfriend is the newest YouTube make-up guru. When do you want to upload this video?”
“Is two days too soon?” She asked and held her breath.
“No, I can get it edited in just a few hours. It’s a good thing that my schedule is clear.”
“Yeah, I didn’t know I’d be asking you to be my personal editor and producer. You just know how to do everything so well.”
“I try.”
“Okay, babe. Get some sleep and I’ll send you the videos tonight…well your morning, my tonight.”
“Okay, honey. I love you.” He replied.
“I love you, too. Ciao.”
“Ciao.”
Sidney finished her last day of work in what seemed like a flash. When she had first started working at the company she had viewed her job as drudgery. But after returning from Europe her outlook had changed.
She had changed her attitude while dealing with work—viewing each customer as an individual instead of a task. She had decorated her apartment with cute, inexpensive items that made her feel comfortable. A colorful throw rug that reminded her of Barcelona brightened her small living room, and fur pillows and a plush white throw made her think of the afternoon that she’d spent in a French apartment making love and eating cheese and fruit.
Pictures of her, Gio and her travels hung on her walls and on every surface so that coming home felt like being on vacation.
She wouldn’t miss the job, but after her change of attitude they definitely announced that they would miss her.
Sheena was waiting for her when she got off work. She didn’t want to carry her box of belongings on the bus, so Sheena was going to pick her up in her car and then they were going to catch dinner.
Sheena went on about a guy that she’d met that seemed too good to be true. Together they speculated on whether or not he was married and when they got to the restaurant Sheena talked her into sending him a Facebook friend’s request to his account, which was marked private.
“Why is his account set to private if he doesn’t have a girlfriend or a wife?” Sheena said after ordering a drink. “He’s got something to hide.”
“Maybe he has kids and doesn’t want to share pictures of them.” Her mother had a Facebook but it was set to private for that exact reason.
Sheena dismissed that idea. “No. I don’t trust him. You know how men are. Look at what happened with Wesley.”
“It doesn’t have to be something bad. And besides, Wesley didn’t turn out to be so bad after all.” Sidney sipped her sparkling water. Sheena said that she was being ‘extra’ for always asking for sparkling water.
“He stalked you all the way to Europe.”
“Well there was that. But I haven’t seen sign of him since.”
“We should stalk his Facebook page.” Sheena said quickly.
“Oh God, no. Absolutely not.”
“Oh come on. You can’t really be saying that you’re not curious.”
“I’m not. Besides, I’ve moved on.”
Sheena rolled her eyes. “The Italian. Mark my words, a man that fine is not trying to keep it zipped in his pants. You know how men are. I’m going to check Wes’ Facebook.”
Sidney didn’t allow her friend’s low opinion of people to effect her. She was the one that knew Gio and she knew that she trusted him completely.
“Oh HELL naw! Look at this!” Sheena exclaimed loudly.
“What?” Sidney asked. Sheena showed her the phone. It was opened to a Facebook page in which Wesley was the center of a profile picture with a pretty black woman and a cute toddler.
She stared at the picture until Sheena exclaimed. “It says he’s married to Tenesha! He didn’t divorce that bitch. And look at that baby! It is way too black to be his, with that nappy little Afro.”
“Oh Sheena! That’ so mean. The baby is cute and Wes knows it’s not his. If he decided to work it out with Tenesha then good for him. It means that he’s not worried about what I’m doing.”
Sheena just stared at her. “You really are fine with leaving behind that man and all that money.”
“I really am fine. Now I have to film some content for my next video. I’m trying to do this whole spend the day with Sidney video.”
“Oh my God, please do not put me in that video.”
“Girl, I am not going to do that to you. Just give me a sec.” She pulled out her iPhone and turned on the camera in order to announce that work was finished and that she was out having dinner and drinks with her bestie. She toasted her viewers with her glass of sparkling water and then Sheena bogarted her way into the shot by raising her glass of Henney and coke and announcing that she would toast them with a real drink. They laughed and joked for a minute before she turned off the camera so that they could enjoy the remainder of their evening.
They wouldn’t have too many more opportunities to do this. Sidney’s travel Visa had been approved and she was finalizing her plans to take the plunge, which included quitting her job and devoting herself to being a fulltime YouTuber.
When her video uploaded two days later it rapidly became her most popular video to date.
She had spent hours marveling at the fact that she had hit the fifty thousand subscriber’s mark and over one hundred thousand views just by showing herself doing things that she had done a thousand times before.
She did gain valuable insight, though, which is that vide
os sometimes had the ability to capture a reality that emotions and loyalties sometimes clouded. Many of her followers had commented that the lady in the video was fake, that she was side-eyeing her, and not to trust her because she was not a real friend.
They had seen all of that in one minute of video while she had missed it in years of friendship.
Epilogue
~Six Weeks Later~
When Sidney stepped off the plane, for once she wasn’t holding her camera ready to vlog. This experience was one that she wanted all for herself. She entered the terminal and looked around anxiously. But she couldn’t miss the big Italian man with the light amber colored eyes and killer smile.
“Gio!” She ran to him and hugged him. He lifted her off the ground long enough to kiss her—which ended up being a pretty long time. People passed them, smiling because in Naples Italy, public displays of affection was common unlike where she was from, where their unique appearance might have drawn the wrong type of attention.
“I missed you,” she said when he finally let her back on her feet.
“It’s only been little more than half a year but it seems like so much longer.” He took her hand. He had missed having her hand in his and walking with someone that he loved. “Come on. It’s been a long flight and I’m sure that you have to pee.”
She laughed. It had been a long flight but she still welcomed seeing all the sights along the way to Gio’s house.
On the drive to Sorrento Sidney asked again even though she’d asked ten times over the last few months when she’d first came up with the idea.
“Are you sure that your roommates won’t mind me staying with you? It’s a six-month visa. That’s a long time to have a houseguest.”
“No, they really don’t. Justin’s parents come to visit every summer and I always give them my room to use since I’m on the ship eight months out of the year anyways. And Patrick’s a pilot so we’ll barely see him. Besides, if we’re really going to turn your channel into a travel and lifestyle vlog then we’re going to be travelling all over Europe so we probably won’t be spending much time at my place.”
She gave him an appreciative smile. “Thank you for coming with me. I know you planned to take a year off after the cruise season ended but your last day on the ship was just two days ago and you haven’t had any time to yourself.”
He kissed the back of her hand. “This time with you is time to myself. This is what I’ve been looking forward to since I dropped you off at the Barcelona airport months ago.”
She got comfortable and then reached into her purse for her camera. This would be the beginning of the first video in her Black Girls that like to Travel series.
“I’m finally in Naples and I’m on my way to my boyfriends house. You’ll be seeing him a lot since he’s going to be travelling with me. His name is Super G-“
Gio could be heard laughing off camera. She turned the camera on him. “Introduce yourself to my viewers.”
He grinned and then bit his lip as he tried to decide what to say.
That ten seconds of video gained Sidney her next fifty thousand subscribers and her first one million views...but not her last.
“Anna and Tomas are throwing a huge dinner party tomorrow to introduce you to Amalfi.” Gio said once the camera was turned off. “There will be artists, musicians, a certain Michelin starred chef-”
“Oh! Anna and Tomas are the best!”
“To save some space in our bellies in preparation for tomorrow, we will eat like birds today.”
“Agreed,” she gave him a side-long glance. “Besides. I have a feeling that we’re going to be much too busy tonight to do any eating.”
“Mmmm,” he groaned. “We have a long drive, my love. Let’s not talk about it…”
She wouldn’t talk about it, but she couldn’t stop thinking about it. She hadn’t seen his fat cock in months. And now that she was on birth control again she would be able to see it, ride it, and taste it without ever seeing another condom on it.
After a few minutes of quiet Gio suddenly started talking straight out of the blue as if he had been having an internal dialogue.
“Okay, but I did bring a blanket just in case we can’t make it to the house.”
She looked at him quickly. “I can’t make it to the house.”
“I can’t either.” Gio began searching for a safe place to pull over. He found a small road and they drove down it for as long as their patience could manage, which amounted to about three minutes.
When they stopped they were near a grove of trees whose branches were dipped by the weight of lemons.
He through the blanket on the ground the minute they were concealed among the trees. Sidney began to lift up her blouse in order to remove it.
“No. Don’t undress. Just pull up your skirt and take off your panties.”
His pants were already lowered and he held his erection at the ready.
“Yes,” she moaned and then lifted one leg to wrap around his body. Gio lifted her easily so that both of her legs were locked around him.
“Are you wet for me, sweet Sidney?” he moaned into her ear.
“Since the airport,” she confessed breathlessly as he kissed and nipped her lips.
“Then reach between us and take me inside of you.”
She did, but not before taking a moment to stroke his hard, thick shaft. When she finally guided him home, her hot slick opening enclosed him tightly.
Gio groaned deliriously as he hefted her up higher and thrust into her. He knew how to expertly work his strokes so that he hit every portion of her canal while also teasing her clit when he slammed upward.
Sidney buried her face against his neck as her fist gripped his shirt. Her throat felt sore from her constant cries of pleasure. She pulsed around his punishing thrusts until her pussy could take no more.
He felt her clench tight as if sucking him in and then he felt her climax amidst cries and shouts of pleasure.
Gio pressed her gently against the trunk of the tree so that he could gain better purchase when he rapidly thrust in and out of her spasaming pussy. He finally allowed himself to cum as well, the sensation of being raw, flesh to flesh was unbearably exquisite. She was like molten satin. He came inside of her, knowing that his seed filled her until it dripped from her.
“I love you so much, Gio.” She kissed him while they stood leaning against the tree.
He was still trying to catch his breath but he couldn’t stop kissing her either.
“I love you, sweet, beautiful Sidney. I want to tell you something but I wanted to wait until you were here.”
“What is it, babe?” she asked, nervous about his suddenly serious expression.
“I began thinking about what I want to do for a career now that I’m officially retired from the cruise industry. My plan was to work as a family butler. But I don’t want to do that anymore.”
“I thought you liked being a butler.” She said.
“I do. I want to still be a butler. I just want to be your butler.”
She grinned. “You want to be my butler?”
“Yes,” he nodded seriously.
“Well how would that work? I can’t afford you, honey.”
“Yes you can. I’d take my payment in sex-” she laughed. “-and I can already see that your YouTube channel will be amazingly successful.”
She studied him. “If you’re my butler than that means you’ll have to be my constant companion when I travel.”
He glanced away before looking at her again. “I don’t have to be your constant companion. I just need to be able to fulfill all of your needs wherever you are. Which is where my many connections come into play. If you need to rent a flat in London, I have a connection that will give you one rent free for a month because I get him on the ship once a year for free. You can fly locally for free because I happen to have a pilot roommate-”
“I’m beginning to see the benefits of having my own butler,” she interrupted. “But what
are you not telling me. Tell me, sweetheart.”
“My biggest wish would be to become your butler and your constant companion. Mi familia. Mia moglie.”
“Your family and your…what was that last thing?”
He looked suddenly unsure. “My wife.”
“Oh my God. You just asked me to marry you?”
“Yes.”
“But I can’t tell my kids this story! I’ve got semen dripping down my leg and your dick is still hanging out!”
Gio threw his head back and laughed so hard that tears began to stream from his eyes.
He hugged her. “I love you so much. Okay, pretend that I didn’t ask you that. I’ll ask you later-”
“Wait! You already asked me and I say yes! We’ll just come up with a different story.” She looked up at the lemons on the branches directly over her head and then she had the story. “This is what happened: On the drive from the airport to your place in Sorrento we stopped to pick lemons and you asked me to be your wife.”
“Is that the YouTube story?” He asked with a smirk. He reached up to pick a lemon for authenticity.
“For YouTube and for our kids and for our grandkids.” She said.
He bowed slightly. “Your wish is my command.”
The End
PEPPER PACE BOOKS
STRANDED!
Juicy
Love Intertwined Vol. 1
Love Intertwined Vol. 2
Urban Vampire; The Turning
Urban Vampire; Creature of the Night
Urban Vampire; The Return of Alexis
Urban Vampire; The Final Battle
Wheels of Steel Book 1
Wheels of Steel Book 2
Wheels of Steel Book 3
Wheels of Steel Book 4
Angel Over My Shoulder
CRASH
Miscegenist Sabishii
They Say Love Is Blind
The Throwaway Year
Beast
A Seal Upon Your Heart
Everything is Everything Book 1