Mitch and his wife Trina went back to their jobs on Monday morning, both trying to pretend they were back in their normal, regular routines, and that nothing between them had changed. They'd each spent the entirety of Sunday thinking about the events of Saturday night, but their recollections were completely different.
First of all, Trina remembered not wanting to go to Harlem for dinner, but she went along with it for the sake of her husband. She remembered the embarrassment of watching Mitch trying in vain to stuff half a roast chicken down his gullet, the shock of learning her husband had been mugged on the way to the diner without him even knowing it, the fear she felt when her husband said he couldn't pay and was escorted out back by a couple of local thugs, the relief she felt learning that her husband's wallet had been returned, and the emotional and physical disgust she felt on the long cab ride home.
Most of the evening faded in Mitch's memory, but there were two things he'd never forget.
Leroy and Tyrone.
Those two sexy thugs.
The outlines of their two big, black cocks.
And the terror and exhilaration he felt as they stood over him, dominating him.
He still had the images of their dicks stored on his phone.
Trina went out to meet a friend for coffee on Sunday afternoon. Mitch waved her goodbye, and as soon as their apartment door closed behind her, Mitch's pants were down. He gazed at those photos and jerked off. He barely even lasted a minute.
Neither of the Harlem thugs messaged him on Sunday, though part of Mitch desperately wanted them to. As a matter of fact, weeks went by.
It was a few Tuesdays later when Trina came home late. She'd had a few drinks in the city after work and was feeling a little drunk, and just a little horny.
She blamed it on the tall black dude she saw on the subway ride home. He had earbuds in and eyes closed, clearly listening to music or a podcast and minding his own business, but his legs were spread wide, and she couldn't take her eyes off his crotch. Fuck, that thing was huge.
Mitch was on the couch watching the news when she arrived home. She kicked her heels off and approached her husband in search of dick.
"Hey, babe," she cooed.
"Hey," Mitch replied.
"What are you watching?"
"The news."
She grabbed the remote. "Boring!" She turned the TV off. "I'm feeling horny. Come to bed?"
He had no interest in fucking his wife right now. "Babe," protested Mitch, "I was watching that!"
Trina put him to the test. "What exactly were you watching on the news?"
Mitch tried to concentrate on what he'd seen. "A hard-hitting report about fair competition in the global agricultural market."
Trina pulled her skirt down. "And that's more interesting than this?" She touched her cunt. "My pussy hits hard, too."
Mitch knew his obligations.
For what he hoped might be the very last time, he followed his wife to their marital bed. He didn't want to fuck her, but he felt compelled to. Following some stilted foreplay, his four and a half inches eventually stood to attention. She lay on the mattress, legs spread wide. Awkwardly, he climbed on top of her, wondering how many push-ups he'd need to do before he was excused from duty.
"Are you in?" she asked. She wasn't sure and needed to check.
"Yeah."
He thrust forward and kissed her briefly. There wasn't any passion. This was a job to be done.
She imagined she was being ploughed by the black dude she ogled on the subway. She could barely even feel her husband's dick inside her, but she guessed the dude on the subway would've split her in half. As she imagined the man on the subway fucking her, she found herself moaning, despite her husband's inadequacy.
She quickly came, but it was nothing to do with her husband's performance. He reached a weak climax and was glad to roll off.
Neither were sure what to say. She was disappointed, and he was relieved. For each of them, this felt like the final nail in the coffin of their married sex life. As Trina rolled onto her side to go to sleep, she wasn't sure if she ever wanted to feel her husband's puny penis inside her ever again. What she didn't know was that Mitch had lost interest in her way earlier.
They needed to have a conversation.
A conversation about big black cock.
But neither of them had any idea how to approach it.
They didn't even know they wanted the same thing.
*
For now, Trina kept her thoughts and desires to herself. But on a quiet Saturday afternoon, Mitch travelled north. Trina was out with friends that afternoon. Under normal circumstances, Mitch would've spent the entire afternoon fapping to interracial porn. But today, Harlem felt like a magnet. He got dressed and collected his wallet, phone and keys.
He'd recently downloaded Grindr. He created a profile. He uploaded a single photo, but it gave nothing of his identity away. His profile photo was of him standing outside a building on the upper east side, but he'd cropped it so that the only part of his body visible was a slice of his torso on the edge of the frame.
His name was derivative and unoriginal, yet accurate -- 'whiteboi4bbc'. He expected to get swamped, ridiculed or ignored.
He took the green line to the elevated station at 125th street -- MLK Boulevard. This was the northernmost station before the line headed across the river into the Bronx. He couldn't ever recall getting out of the subway above ground before today. He walked down the stairs and headed west.
He made sure his Grindr profile was active. Within minutes, he could feel his phone vibrating in his pocket, but he was far too anxious to check.
He walked westward, past the old Victoria Theatre and stopped in front of the Apollo. He felt ashamed that he'd never been to the Apollo before; it was a mere half an hours' transit from his own front door. The venue was still in action, but he doubted it was still like it once was. He thought about all the important artists who'd graced the Apollo's stage over preceding decades. He imagined gospel singers belting it out on stage, soul brothers laying down the funk, smoke in the air and fights in the street. He took a photo of the venue's exterior on his phone.
But he wasn't here for music. He was scouting for cock, though he had no idea what he was doing and wasn't brave enough to articulate what he wanted. For now, he was just looking. His heart was pounding like a jackhammer and his palms were sweaty.
He grabbed a takeout coffee from a coffee shop nearby and sat on a park bench, cap on backwards, trying to look nonchalantly cool as he sipped the hot beverage. He wasn't sure what his next move should be.
He watched people pass by for a few minutes. After a while, he spied a well-built black man walking towards him. Surely this guy had a big dick. "Hey, dude," he waved.
The pedestrian looked at Mitch, momentarily confused. "Wait ... do I know you?"
"No, I don't think so."
"Then what's yo' fuckin' problem?"
Mitch checked himself. He wouldn't greet random strangers in his own neighbourhood, so why would he do it here? Rookie mistake. If he was approached in a similar situation on the upper east side, his likely response would be to just ignore the person rather than confront them, but this was Harlem, and the most likely outcome for him would be a busted jaw. He imagined calling his wife from the hospital. How would he explain to her where he was and what he was doing?
He remembered his phone had vibrated a few times when he got off the train. He checked it to see if anyone had tapped his Grindr profile. He spied the orange icon at the top of his phone screen. Fuck! A message! He eagerly opened the app and was immediately disappointed to find it was spam. Something about paying extra to boost his profile. He'd only opened an account recently, so maybe they were targeting newbies. He deleted the notification. The other two messages he'd received were texts from his insurance company, asking if he was satisfied with his level of service, and prompting him to fill in a survey.