Turned Out Saga

by Angel M. Hunter

  Alexis watched Blue as she bent over while wearing a thong and noticed that on each of her ass cheeks were butterfly wings. She was entranced as Blue made them clap and made it appear as if the butterflies were flying. She watched as Blue stood up, faced their direction and placed her hands on her breasts. Alexis found herself wanting to reach out and touch. Hell, she wanted to experience a lap dance. However, wanting something and getting it were two different things. She wasn’t ready for that.

  Alexis turned to face Shamel only to find him watching her intently.

  “Why are you looking at me like that?”

  “You like Blue?”

  “What?”

  “You were so intense when you were watching her.”

  Damn, Alexis didn’t think she was going to be that easy to read. “I think she’s sexy.” Those words were not supposed to come out of her mouth.

  “Want me to call her over here?”

  She wanted to say yes but was afraid to. What would happen if he did call her over? Would everyone look their way?

  “You can always go into one of the rooms.”

  She really wanted to experience this moment to the fullest, but she just couldn’t bring herself to admit it out loud. At least not here while she was supposed to be on a date.

  “No, you don’t have to do that. As a matter of fact, I’m ready for the tour of the club.”

  Shamel stood and helped her up. “Come on, I’ll show you around.”

  Before they got far, Alexis heard someone say her name. She and Shamel turned around. It was Finn.

  “Finn, hi.” Alexis gave him a hug.

  “Wow, I didn’t expect to see you here,” he told her.

  Shamel cleared his throat.

  Alexis turned to face Shamel. “Oh, I’m sorry. Shamel, this is Finn, an old friend.”

  Shamel knew who Finn was; he’d thrown him out a time or two. As a matter of fact, Shamel wondered what he was doing there now, he was told not to come back there.

  They gave one another the head nod.

  “I haven’t heard from you about your car. I told you I’d get it fixed for you.”

  “I know. I planned on calling you this week actually. I’ve just been so busy.” Actually she hadn’t been thinking about it at all. She was going to take care of it herself. She didn’t feel like dealing with him asking her out and her having to turn him down. Two and possibly three men were enough. There was that, plus the armed robbery charge that scared the mess out of her.

  Shamel placed his hand on the small of Alexis’ back and it did not go unnoticed by Finn. “You ready?”

  “I’ll call you this week, okay.”

  Finn looked at Shamel who was shooting daggers. He wasn’t stupid; he knew that meant to get the hell out the spot. “Make sure you do that. I always pay my debts.”

  “I will.” Alexis turned to walk away but stopped when Finn said her name again. “Yes.”

  He couldn’t help himself, so he asked her, “Can I get another hug?”

  Shamel stepped in front of Alexis, “Get the fuck out of here.”

  Finn started laughing, turned, and left.

  “Damn Shamel, was it that serious?” Alexis asked.

  “How well do you know him?”

  She had to admit not well, she hadn’t seen him in quite some time.

  “Well, I don’t think you should get to know him any better. He’s trouble and I’ve had to deal with him on a number of occasions.”

  Alexis thought about what Champagne said when she told her to be careful and that there are some crazy men out there.

  “What debt is he talking about?” Shamel asked.

  “He hit my car the other day and he’s going to get it fixed.”

  “I have someone that can do that for you.”

  Alexis didn’t bother responding to that. It was something she was going to have to think about. Although she’d told herself she was going to “get what was hers,” she was well aware that to men, when they did something for you that required their finances it became something else. It was almost like you owed them and she needed to figure out a way to get it and not feel obligated. So she told him instead that she was ready for her tour of the club.

  Take her around he did. Dreams was bigger than it appeared and it was obviously upscale and done in good taste. There were several rooms and only a few were empty. There was a room where people were just sitting and having conversation. There was a cigar room, a room where what appeared to be a bachelor party was going on but she wanted to see more. Alexis was shocking herself because all of a sudden she felt like a voyeur.

  Alexis turned to Shamel, “Let’s go back in your office. I want to see what’s going on in one of the rooms where the door is closed.”

  “You sure about that?” Shamel asked. She’d already told him this was her first time at a strip club and he didn’t want to run her off.

  “I’m sure,” Alexis told him.

  “Okay, but I have to tell you, it be some shit going down in those rooms.”

  “I understand that.”

  “And you also need to understand that whatever you see stays here.”

  “I understand that also.”

  Shamel didn’t normally do this, let someone look at what was for his eyes only. Only a few knew that he had cameras everywhere except the bathrooms and those who knew wouldn’t say a word because they feared him. The reason he was doing it now was because he was hoping it would lead to them being physical.

  There was something about Alexis that turned him on the first day they met. Normally, if a female walked away from him to talk to another man, he would have embarrassed her ass and his, but this time he didn’t. He let it slide because he wanted to see her again.

  Later that night his boy even called him out on it. “Man, you let that girl play you. That ain’t you, what’s going on?”

  “Ain’t shit going on, there’s something about her, something different about her.”

  Of course True wasn’t trying to hear that. “Ain’t nothing different about no pussy. Pussy is pussy. The end.”

  Normally that would have been true but for the first time in his life, he was feeling like he wanted more with a woman and not just to fuck her. Don’t get it twisted, he did want sex, but he also wanted more.

  Oh, shit, does that mean I’m ready to settle down? Shamel wondered. In a way he thought he was. After all, he was in his midthirties. He was ready to have kids and when he looked at Alexis, not only was she so fine that he knew their babies would come out pretty, but she also had a head on her shoulders. There was also a quiet innocence about her. He’d been around enough women to know a thing or two. He was more than capable of reading them and summing them up.

  Once they were in his office, he closed and locked the door. Alexis sat down and waited anxiously with her heart racing.

  Shamel walked behind his desk, turned on the screen, opened a drawer, and pressed some buttons. All four screens came on. One obviously was on the main floor. Another showed a man getting a lap dance. One showed a group of women in a room together with a couple of dancers. The last room was one of a stripper sitting across from a male patron. They appeared to be talking and she appeared to be rubbing his dick through his pants. Alexis didn’t know what to focus on.

  “I’ll be right back,” Shamel told her.

  Alexis just nodded as she watched the screen with the woman and man. She wanted to see how far it would go. She wanted to ask Shamel if he had sound so that she could hear what they were saying, but she held back.

  “Want me to turn it up?” Shamel asked.

  Damn, is he reading my mind? “Yes.” I wonder what’s he’s thinking? Is he thinking I’m a freak?

  “Which screen?” He already knew which one because she couldn’t take her eyes off it. It was the one with Jada and one of her regulars. Shamel knew that some of his girls did extras for the patrons but that was their choice. It wasn’t something he asked them to do, they did it because
they wanted to and those extras included anything from masturbating, to touching and sucking. There were even a couple of the girls who let the men eat them out. Jada was one of the girls that had a special talent when it came to her mouth. He knew because he’d experienced it a time or two.

  “The one with the woman and man.” Alexis continued to watch as the woman stood up and started circling him.

  “That’s Jada,” Shamel told Alexis as he walked out of the office.

  Jada was now behind the man and she asked him, “What do you want me to do?”

  “You know what I want you to do,” he told her and he started to unzip his pants.

  Jada placed one of her hands on top of his. “Not so fast. What’s the hurry?”

  “Come on girl, stop playing.”

  She stepped in front of him.

  “You want me to suck your dick,” she told him. “That’s all you ever want me to do.”

  “That’s because you do it so well.” The man reached for his zipper again and Jada pushed his hands away.

  “Let me do it.” She got on her knees and started to unzip his pants as she licked her lips.

  Alexis was all into it, she had forgotten about the other screens.

  Jada unzipped his pants, reached inside and pulled his dick out. She then got on her knees.

  “Damn! I always forget how big you are.”

  Alexis noticed it too.

  “And thick,” Jada said as she licked the head like a lollipop.

  “Let me pull my pants down some,” the man said.

  “No. I want your dick only. Not your balls but this right here,” Jada told him as she gripped his dick and took the whole thing in her mouth.

  Alexis couldn’t believe what she was seeing as Jada’s mouth went down the whole length and width of him and came back up. Alexis wanted to put her hands on her pussy so bad but she knew she couldn’t because Shamel could come back into the office any minute. Am I really sitting here watching this and getting turned on? Alexis was shocking herself. Watching other people have sex was not something she was into and it definitely wasn’t something she’d thought she’d ever be into, but now she knew not to say ever or never. In the past, she’d never even considered watching porn, now she might give it a second thought.

  Alexis watched as Jada slowly licked the man’s dick, taking it all in. She watched as Jada licked and sucked on the head of it as the man closed his eyes. She watched as he threw his head back and tried to push Jada’s head down.

  Jada pulled his pants down farther and told the man to spread his legs. “I changed my mind,” she said as she started licking his balls and placing both of them in her mouth.

  Alexis watched as the man raised his ass up off the chair and she could feel her mouth water from the excitement.

  Alexis was so busy watching Jada that she didn’t hear Shamel enter the room.

  “She’s good isn’t she?” he asked causing Alexis to almost fall out of her chair.

  She turned around, looked at him and almost choked out the words, “Yes, yes, she is.”

  “Have you ever watched someone do this before?”

  “No, this is my first time.”

  “Well, you might want to turn back around and watch her make him cum.”

  Alexis didn’t want to continue watching in front of him but she couldn’t help herself, she was drawn in. She turned back around and watched as Jada moved her head up and down the length of his penis. When she got to the top she’d lick around the head of it and go back down. The man started moving his hips up and down. It looked like he was trying to push his dick down her throat.

  “I’m going to cum,” he told her.

  Alexis wondered what Jada was going to do. She didn’t have to wonder long because suddenly Jada replaced her mouth with one of her hands and cupped the other to catch the semen as it flowed out.

  Shamel was standing behind Alexis rubbing on her shoulders. Alexis was trying to catch her breath. Shamel was giving her time.

  When she got up the nerves to, she turned looked at him. “I can’t believe I just watched that. I’m embarrassed.”

  Shamel stood in front of her and she let him pull her up. “Ain’t nothing to be embarrassed about.”

  They were standing so close to each other, Alexis could feel the need for sex radiating off their bodies. I’m a whore . . . I’m a whore, Alexis couldn’t help but think to herself. Okay, I know I’m being ridiculous but it’s like all of a sudden my libido is out of whack. Alexis wondered if making love with Thomas had opened up a whole new world for her. Or had she always been a freak in disguise?

  “How do you deal with seeing this every day? Does it excite you or are you immune to it?”

  “It depends on the moment.”

  “What do you mean?”

  Shamel placed his hands on Alexis’ waist and pulled her into him. She could feel that he was hard. “I mean like now, watching you watch them and get excited turned me on.”

  It was at this point that Alexis asked herself how far she wanted to go and the truth was she didn’t know.

  Alexis cleared her throat and took a small step back.

  “Am I making you uncomfortable?”

  Alexis looked up at him and he could see that a kiss was coming.

  Shamel normally didn’t kiss, it wasn’t his thing. He always thought kissing was for wifey, only this time he did. He bent his face down to meet hers, while pulling her back into him and placing his mouth on hers. He let her lead the kiss and was surprised at how much he enjoyed it.

  When they finally broke apart, Alexis looked at him and told him, “I should go.”

  “Why?”

  “Because I might do something I’ll regret.”

  “Why would you regret it? I’m grown. You’re grown. We can do what we want to do.”

  Alexis hesitated before answering. “This is true but it can wait. We can wait.”

  To Shamel that meant she had already made up her mind to let him make love to her. It was a known fact that a woman knows almost immediately if she’s going to allow a man inside her and it appeared Alexis was.

  “I understand,” he told her, “but you don’t have to leave.”

  Alexis shook her head, “No, I think I’d better leave.”

  Shamel looked at one of the screens and spotted Shay still in the club. “All right, I understand. Let me walk you out.”

  Alexis stepped back and let him lead the way while thinking, What the hell am I getting myself into?

  Chapter Forty-three

  Let the haters Hate. They’re just mad because they know your power.

  Saturday finally arrived and Alexis was exhausted. Between seeing Thomas the week before and then hanging out with Shamel at Dreams the day before, she’d had a busy two weeks. And, it wasn’t slowing down. This was the night she was going to Maya’s for the book club meeting and Maya’s brother was supposed to show up. Truth be told, Alexis didn’t feel up to dealing with another man. Two were enough.

  She had an hour left before her day was over. She wanted to hit the gym for an hour and call the contact numbers for Shay. She wasn’t calling to reveal what she’d learned about Shay. She was going to say she was calling because Shay had not come to school with the hopes of speaking to her. Alexis needed to find out what was going on and if there was anything she could do.

  Alexis picked up the phone and dialed the main number that was on file. It said it was the house phone. She wasn’t surprised when there wasn’t a ring and she heard the operator saying the number was disconnected. She hung up and tried the other number, which said it was the number of an uncle. That number was also disconnected.

  Alexis now had to make a decision. Was she going to take the next step and drive to the address that was in the files or was she going to let it go? Before she could make up her mind there was a knock on the door.

  “Come in,” Alexis called out.

  In walked Victoria, one of her favorite students. Victoria was on
the honor roll for the first time that school year. She was a sophomore trying her hardest to get a scholarship. So when she walked through the door with a long face, Alexis was concerned.

  “Hey sweetie, what’s wrong?”

  Victoria plopped down in the chair in front of her desk. “My mom is driving me crazy.”

  This was nothing new to Alexis. Most mothers drove their teenage daughters crazy. “Why, what’s going on?”

  “I don’t know. She’s been talking about killing herself and killing this man she used to see.”

  “She actually said that, those were her exact words?” As a therapist whenever Alexis heard the word suicide or whenever someone hinted around about it, she knew to be alarmed and she knew it was a call for help.

  “Yes, and I don’t know what to do about it.”

  “Do you know what man she’s talking about?”

  “I have an idea but she won’t really say. All I know is she’s scaring me and I need you to go speak with her.”

  “Me?” What the hell was Alexis going to say to a grown-ass woman? All she could do was give Victoria a number for her mother to call and a card of a woman who would actually come to their house.

  “Please Ms. Houston . . . Please will you talk to my mother?”

  “That’s not what I do, Victoria. I don’t counsel parents, I counsel teenagers. I can refer you to someone else.”

  “So you’re just going let my mother kill herself.”

  Alexis wasn’t stupid. She knew what Victoria was trying to do. She was trying to guilt her but that wasn’t going to happen. “No, what I am going to do is call a friend of mine that specializes in this kind of thing and have her call you.”

  “But I’m asking for your help.”

  Shit, this was the kind of thing that came with the job. She knew that she would come across parents who had less sense than their kids but that wasn’t her fight. Her fight was for the kids.

  Alexis opened her desk and pulled out a card, she handed it to Victoria. “Call her and tell her what’s going on with your mother. She can help you.”

  Victoria didn’t even bother to answer. She just snatched the card out of her hand and marched out the office, slamming the door behind her.