It had been 3 months since Ben and Keisha's encounter. They had begun seeing each other on a constant basis. Ben had gotten accustomed to jumping the fence that connected their back yards. And, Keisha would stop by Ben's house very regularly. They had not verbally made any commitments to each other, but they were officially a couple.
During this period, though, they had not had sex since their first experience. They'd had sessions of heavy petting and necking, but nothing more. It was reminiscent of pre-teens in junior high school, unsure of going past 1st base. It was as if they were waiting on who would make the first move.
It was the end to another Friday and the beginning of a restful weekend. Keisha pulled into the neighborhood and couldn't help but notice the number of police in the area. There was a County Sherriff's helicopter slowly and methodically circling above. When she saw the K-9 units, she began to get concerned.
As she pulled into her driveway a patrol unit creepily made its way down her street. She got out of the car and flagged down the police officer.
"What's going on?" she asked him as he came to a stop.
Five inmates had escaped from the county jail in the middle of the night. Three of them had been captured, but the two that were considered the most dangerous were still free. They had been spotted in the area by another patrol unit just a few minutes earlier. A sudden fear-filled urgency overtook Keisha as the officer advised her to go inside and lock her doors.
Keisha immediately went inside and made sure that all of her doors and windows had not been tampered with and were locked. The emptiness of being alone in the house sharpened her sense of hearing. The creaks of the house settling, the ice in the ice maker dropping into the bucket, the click of the starting motor on the A/C, the periodic increase of outside noise would startle her.
She tried to calm her worries and deafen the sounds by turning on some music. As she tried to start her dinner, she began to think to herself.
"If they break into the house, she probably wouldn't hear it because of the music."
She turned off the radio and tried to go back to what she was doing, but her nerves were beginning to unravel with fret. She picked up the phone and called Ben. Ben was on his way home from work and had not heard about the inmate escape. Keisha informed him about all of the activity going on in the neighborhood over the escapees being sighted earlier.
"Will you come stay at my house tonight?" she asked. "I don't want to be alone while they're still out there."
"OK, I'll be there after I stop at home." he told her.
"Why don't you just come directly here?" Keisha asked through her growing concern.
Ben told her that he needed to go home and pack an overnight bag. He also needed to change into some more leisurely clothing.
"I don't want to have to flip the clothes that I'm wearing inside out to put them back on tomorrow." he jokingly added.
A small sense of peace entered Keisha's mind as she told him to hurry. Keisha went to the patio door and unlocked it. That is how Ben always came into her house. She unlocked it so that he could just come in after he jumped the fence into her backyard.
It felt like time was standing still as Keisha waited for Ben to come. She stayed in the kitchen cooking dinner and watched the patio door for Ben to come. Every sound that she heard, she analyzed in her mind to decipher what its source was. Her anxiety was growing again as she looked out of her back window to Ben's house. She saw that he had closed the blinds to the windows and she could see lights on.
Long drawn out moments seemed to relentlessly pass and Ben had not come out of his backdoor yet. Keisha's eyes were more focused on the back of the house than the dinner that was now just about done. As Keisha studied the windows of Ben's house to try and determine which room he was in, the doorbell rang. In her mind, it sounded like the volume of the bell had increased a thousand time louder than it normally is. Keisha jumped in surprise from the sudden loud noise of the doorbell that contrasted to the smaller, subdued noises she had been hearing all evening.
"Should I answer it, or not?" Keisha wondered to herself.
She was cautious that it could be the escapees attempting to trick her into opening the door to gain entry. The doorbell rang again followed with a knock on the door. The thought of someone at her door brought distress to Keisha. She wondered, "Where is Ben?" as she gazed intensely at the backyard and at the back of his house.
The phone rang. Keisha flipped it over to see the number on the Caller ID. It was Ben.
"WHERE ARE YOU??!!" she chided him.
"I'm at the front door, trying to get you to let me in..." he sarcastically replied back.
Keisha went to the front door to let him in. Before she opened the door, she peeked through the window to assure herself that it really was Ben and that he had not been caught by the inmates who were forcing him to make her open the door. She let Ben inside and hurriedly closed and locked it as soon as he was through the threshold.
Keisha turned to Ben and asked, "Why did you come to the front door? I was waiting for you to come through the back."
"There are cops searching all around the neighborhood. The last thing I need is to be shot by a cop because he saw me running through backyards and hopping fences with a bag on my shoulder." Ben jested
Keisha laughed a little and began to feel a little relaxed now that she was not alone anymore. She turned the music back on and finished making dinner. They had casual conversation as they ate their meals and closed off the world outside of their realm. When dinner was done they commenced the process of cleaning the kitchen.
Keisha washed, Ben dried and put the dishes in their respective place as Keisha instructed. Ben was busy putting the last dishes in the cabinet while Keisha wiped countertops and the table. All the while, Ben was watching her as she went about her duties. He couldn't keep his eyes off of the way she moved. He observed every part of her body, each intricate detail of how it moved when she moved. A hunger had now come to Ben. He wanted dessert and he was in the mood for some "Keisha-a-la-mode".
He encroached behind her as she finished her chore. He wrapped his arms around her waist; his breath was thick on the back of her neck. Ben lifted the hair covering the nape of her neck and covered it with kisses that rained from the back of her neck, to the sides of her neck and her earlobes. He spun her around to face him and kissed her. Their lips collided in a kiss so deep and passionate, their souls seemed to be interlocked in the union of lips. They embraced and held onto each other in grips strong as reinforced concrete.
The interlude developed into a session of intense touching and rubbing while never slowing the action between their lips. Ben explored the taste of Keisha's kiss deeply as she did the same. Their embrace transpired to arms rubbing backs in an almost therapeutic manner. One of Ben's hands managed to disconnect itself from Keisha's back and fondled at one of her breasts. In the same motion, Ben brought his kisses to the front of Keisha's neck.