This is the first part of a four part story that chronicles events taking place in mid-1970s New York City when free-love, drugs, sex and Rock & Roll dominated the American youth culture. In this part an accidental meeting between Jordan and his former lover sets a chain of sexual events in motion. He introduces her to his current lover with startling results.
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Part 01: It Was All Mine!
"Voulez-vous coucher avec moi (ce soir)?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?"
The open window allowed more than just the warm summer breeze to enter my studio. The volume dopplered as the car approached, and in the mixture of pre-dawn and streetlight I could see the convertible with its top down and hear Labelle's voice echoing off the adjacent buildings.
"Gitchie, gitchie, ya ya da da.
Gitchie, gitchie, ya ya here.
Mocha Chocolata ya ya.
Creole Lady Marmalade. Voulez-vous coucher avec moi (ce soir)?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?"
"Do you want to sleep with me (tonight)?
Do you want to sleep with me?"
Man, that one's a keeper, I thought, absently humming the tune. That struck me as odd because it really wasn't my kind of music. I'm more of a Herbie Hancock/Chick Corea/Stanley Clarke jazz-fusion kinda guy. Disco, as a genre, sucked. No matter, though - good music will always be just that - good music.
As the car moved up East 7th and crossed Second Avenue, the sound trailed off and eventually faded. Ronnie stirred under the thin cotton sheet and a long, elegantly tapered leg emerged, glowing in the ambient light. Her cocoa-hued skin still showed traces of the massage oils that we'd used with such incredible effect a few scant hours before. The supple curves of her feminine form coupled with the random drape of the sheet formed and re-formed like an undulating erotic sculpture as she turned in her sleep.
Seating myself in the butterfly canvas chair, I reached over and grabbed one of the joints we'd rolled earlier and flicked my Bic.
S-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-t-t-t!
I held the pungent smoke in my lungs for as long as I could and then exhaled, watching the vapors dance in the first rays of morning sunshine. The thoughts raced and jumbled in my sleep-deprived mind as I tried to sort out the last 36 hours. I took another hit. Did all of this happen in just the last day and a half - or did it begin long before that?
Ronnie stirred again and mumbled something I could not decipher. Why her? Why now? And why did she have to bring up Cassie?
Glancing around my Spartan quarters I had no choice but to smile.
The move from the sub-let on 96th and West End to the top floor of this five-story walk-up in the East Village had been a good one. Located just across the avenue from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, it was a hell of a lot easier commute for a grad student (make that former grad student) than it was taking two trains back and forth every day. The studio was miniscule but it boasted a galley kitchen and a separate bath.
When I'd lived with Jenny on East 38th and Third Avenue I'd moved into her spacious apartment in a building owned by her folks. When Jen and family got back from their summer in Europe she announced simply (and finally) that our affair was over and I needed to "hit the bricks". After that the sub-let on the upper West Side lost all its charm when one night, without warning, my lover Cassandra failed to come home. So I moved.
Let's see - I had two king sized mattresses piled one on top of the other, a bookcase, a coffee table, a single four-drawer dresser, a 13" black & white analog TV, a stereo AM/FM table radio, the canvas butterfly chair I currently occupied, two kitchen tables made from a plywood 4X8 psychedelic painting I'd done several years earlier, a long-legged stool from my father's sewing machine factory, kitchen stuff I'd collected during my travels plus my books and clothes. That's all of it. Spartan - you better believe it - but for the first time in my young adult life it was all mine - and I loved it!
Part 02: Sherry's Seduction
S-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-t-t-t!
Another long toke on the joint and my thoughts shifted to a point several months ago when I'd dropped out of grad school and wound up working for an insurance company in downtown Manhattan. Commuting home one evening I bumped into a former lover named Sheryl.
Sherry and I shared a checkered past. We'd dated each other while we were still in high school. In fact she was the first girl that I'd "gone all the way with". At the time it felt more like a weird out-of-body experience than a healthy sexual one. We hadn't seen or spoken to each other in quite a few years and I was initially confused by the warmth with which she greeted me. Truth was we hadn't parted on good terms but that was obviously behind us as she wrapped her arms round my neck.
Sheryl, already an accomplished artist, was studying graphic design at the School of Visual Arts. She told me that she'd married and was living in Queens but it would be perfectly alright for me to call and for us to hang out. She made it very obvious that she was thrilled to see me and wanted to make plans to come over so that she could show me her portfolio. Yeah, right! No doubt that wasn't all she wanted to show me. I said we'd stay in touch.
It was bitter cold the morning that Sherry came to my apartment. Having spoken to her several times since our chance meeting on the subway I wasn't the least bit surprised that, even with the snow falling heavily throughout the city, Sherry was eager to make the trip in from Queens. She'd barely gotten out of her coat and removed her boots when she whipped out several "dubes" and a small zip-lock bag of pearl colored rocks. I lit the first joint while she fished out a small circular mirror and poured out the contents of the bag. She produced a razor blade and proceeded to chop the crystalline rocks into a fine powder, then arranged them into parallel lines.
"Have you ever done coke?" Sherry asked with a wicked smile, "You know that it enhances absolutely everything, don't you?"
"Like what?" I replied, flashing an equally evil smirk.
"You'll see - now get your sexy ass over here!" she demanded.
Within seconds I felt the numbing sensation in my nostrils and the drip down the back of my throat. Sherry wiped the residue from the mirror with her finger, stuck it in my mouth and rubbed the crystals between my upper lip and gum. The combination of the smoke and blow was exhilarating.
I don't remember which of us made the first move, but suddenly our mouths were locked together. I unbuttoned her blouse, unbuckled her belt and tugged on her zipper. I knelt before her and peeled off her skin-tight jeans, pulling off the silken panties - already moist with anticipation. I lowered her onto the mattresses and stripped naked before her eager gaze.
"My, how you've grown," she exclaimed, and took my throbbing manhood into her warm, wet and waiting mouth.
She sucked cock like a professional. Not wanting to climax too quickly, I pulled out of that luscious mouth and pushed her back onto the bed. Reaching down I grabbed her ankles and lifted her legs straight up. I dropped to my knees, burying my face in her now sopping wet snatch. She moaned and groaned her approval as I moved my tongue up and down her slick slit, separating the labia with my tongue and probing deeply into her love tunnel. Her pussy had the most intoxicating scent I'd ever experienced, filling my head with unbridled lust and desire.
I found her hooded jewel, pulled back gently with my fingers and exposed her delicious clit. I took that fleshy pearl into my mouth, sucking hard, grazing it between my teeth. The reaction was electric as her juices poured onto my tongue and into my waiting mouth. I lifted myself from beside the bed and positioned myself between her legs. Rubbing the swollen head of my dick between her engorged lips, I thrust effortlessly into her womanhood. The walls of her cunt seemed to grab onto my shaft, pulling me inside more deeply than I'd dreamed possible. I withdrew until just the helmet remained inside, then plunged back in, repeating this over and over until Sherry raked her fingernails down my back to my ass, slamming me into her violently. Each downward thrust of my hips was met with an equally intensive upward thrust from her.
We fucked with utter abandon. The familiar mellow high of the marijuana was juxtaposed with the intense rush from the cocaine and it made me feel like a huge, voracious jungle beast - no - like the gargantuan mythical beast King Kong. I threw my head back and roared - beating on my chest like the sexual predator she'd unleashed. My display had a hypnotic effect on my lover's desires because she screamed in response,
"Jordy baby - put that incredible monster in my ass!!! I want your cock in my ASS!