Another boring day at Carleton University. The Capital of Canada can be a quirky environment. The only place on the planet earth where I can feel both invisible and the object of unsaid, unuttered hostility at the same time. Even on a campus teeming with East Indians, Arabs, Chinese and others among throngs of Caucasian students, being Black and male makes one stand out. I would have thought I'd be used to it by now but I'm not. My name is Jean-Luc Thomas. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Haitian immigrant parents. Now residing in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. Odd? I know. Welcome to my life.
The Mac Odrum Library, forever a beehive of activity inside Carleton University. I sit at a computer terminal on the second floor. I log onto Fetish Life, a website that's popular with men and women interested in the BDSM lifestyle. Imagine a social network but with sexual freaks. For months now I've been chatting with this fairly interesting person. Mademoiselle Antilles. A Black woman living in the City of Winnipeg, Province of Manitoba. She was one of the first people to add me as a friend on the site. After nine months, I only have twelve friends and Antilles is the only one I speak to regularly. We've gotten to know each other fairly well. I know she's twenty two years old, and attends a school in Winnipeg. Oh, and she's of Haitian descent too. That's cool, I guess. I consider myself Haitian-American but although there are lots of Haitians in Ottawa, I feel quite alone in the Canadian capital. It's not my scene. I'm a Boston guy through and true.
Mademoiselle Antilles, who early on told me to call her Sylvia, can actually relate to my pain. She was born and raised in the City of Montreal, Province of Quebec, but moved to Manitoba because she won a scholarship to a school down there. There aren't a lot of Black folks in Winnipeg so she feels quite alone too. I can totally relate. Not that Ottawa is anything like Winnipeg. In Ottawa we have lots of Black people. Somalis. Haitians. Ethiopians. Jamaicans. Nigerians. Kenyans. And so on. I type a greeting to my lady friend, and we start chatting. We go through the usual riff raff about school, and the family. My father, Jean-Paul Thomas moved to Boston, Massachusetts, from the City of Cap-Haitien, Republic of Haiti, in the 1980s. He studied at Northeastern University, where he met my mother Altima Jeanne Saint-Preux. They got married and had little old me one bright day in early January 1987. My father's younger brother Mathieu Thomas moved to Ontario, Canada, around the same time I was born. He married an Irish lady named Mildred O'Shea and they had two daughters together, my cousins Maeve and Lillian. When I royally fucked up at Northeastern University in Boston and got kicked out, my parents sent me to live with my uncle in Canada. I enrolled at Carleton University, switching my major from Criminal Justice to Criminal Law.
I no longer live with my uncle. The guy's a jerk if you ask me but I'd never tell my parents that. They think my uncle Mathieu is a sweet guy. I have my own place in Vanier, not too far from downtown Ottawa. I work part-time as a security guard on weekends. I go to school full-time. I have one boring life. On Saturday mornings I attend a Haitian Adventist Church located not far from the Rideau Shopping Center in downtown Ottawa. All this I already told to Sylvia, also known as Mademoiselle Antilles. We talk about more fun stuff. She's kind of disappointed about a white guy she'd been dating, Lloyd something or other. He kept dodging the question when she asked to meet his parents. Apparently, she broke up with him recently. I tried to be there for Sylvia and comfort her. I kind of saw her breakup coming. For weeks now she'd been complaining about Lloyd and how he reacted, or rather, failed to react, when white folks would stare at her with hostility while they were out in public. I have dated a few white girls at Carleton University, and one East Indian gal. I'm through with interracial dating. Non-Blacks don't get it when we tell them what we go through. I'm single now, and I'm okay with it.
Mademoiselle Antilles went on and on about Lloyd, and I tried not to fall asleep at the computer. I was that bored. Finally, she said something interesting. She told me she was coming to Ottawa, and she wanted to have some fun. When I asked her what kind of fun she meant, she told me she hadn't used her strap-on dildo in months and wanted to make up for lost time. Hot damn. I was smiling from ear to ear when she told me that. I told her that I could definitely help her out. I've been masturbating to Mademoiselle Antilles pictures online for months now. She's got dozens of them. Always she wears a mask, but nothing else. Shots of her crawling on all fours, exposing her pussy and ass. Pictures of her wearing a strap-on dildo along with cowboy boots and a mask...and nothing else. Oh, yeah. This gal looks really hot. She describes herself as five-foot-ten, but I think she might be taller than that. And she's got the most amazing chocolate skin. I've got a thing for dark-skinned Black women. Especially the ones in the fetish and BDSM lifestyle. And they don't get any hotter than Mademoiselle Antilles.
I went to bed that night with a smile on my face, and a throbbing erection in my pants. Three days later, I went to Ottawa International Airport to greet Sylvia Dupont, also known as Mademoiselle Antilles. Man, her photos didn't do her justice. She looked really good. Clad in a bright red tank top and blue jeans, Sylvia looked really hot. The University of Manitoba jacket she wore fit her really nicely. She wanted to stay at hotel but I insisted that she stay at my place. When she seemed reticent, I scanned a photo of my Ontario Health Card along with my Carleton University Student Identification card. I sent both to her. So she could know exactly who she was dealing with. That gesture of good faith moved her. That's why she was coming home with me.