It was still dark when I sneaked out of the Sheraton. I say "sneaked" because I'd promised my mom that I would spend the night before my wedding at home, in my childhood bedroom. I hoped that she hadn't stayed up for me.
I got home, sneaked up to my bedroom and pretended I'd been there all night. I was still awake when my mom peeked in on me at six a.m. I saw her smile and knew that she'd been deceived.
She went downstairs to stir up a breakfast of grits, bacon and eggs, my favorite since childhood. Then she came upstairs and hustled me out of bed, saying I had to be at the hairdresser in forty-five minutes.
"Hurry girl!! Go shower up!!"
I couldn't tell her that I'd already showered an hour and a half before. So I went and showered again. We wolfed down breakfast together, then she hustled me into my car and drove with me to the hairdresser, ten minutes away in a small strip mall. Hattie Jefferson had been doing my hair since I was a little girl. Mom was so excited. You might have thought it was her wedding day.
Hattie welcomed us. She wasn't usually open at seven a.m. She made an exception for me. She ushered us into her shop and locked the door behind us. There would be no other patrons this day. Hattie was going to do my hair and then attend my wedding.
While I was in the chair, I called Nicole and Lisa to find out what was up. Nicole sounded like she was drunk on dick. I'd never seen a heffah that could be so vibrant in public and such a sex addict in private. Once she got her cock injection, she was as mellow as a Parkinson's patient.
Whose dick was it this time? ARTIE. Somehow I'd thought Artie and Lisa were the ones booing up. No. Apparently, Artie had knocked both of them off last night. Nicole even told me a side story about the people in the room next door pounding on the walls as she loudly screamed her pleasure. Did she care? Not one little bit. Nicole cut off our conversation, saying that she and Lisa were sitting down to breakfast with 'the fellas'. She said they'd meet me at the church to help me into my dress.
I settled into the drudgery of a three-hour hairdo. I wanted to sleep but found I could not. Somehow my thoughts drifted into the vision of Nicole's sexual encounter with Artie. Not knowing how Mrs. Hotbox would respond, I tried to rid my mind of this vision. I didn't need another major clit flare up. Three hours ago my sleep creep with Kevon had gone unrequited. Nutless. That certainly was incentive for Mrs. Hotbox to act the fool.
"BITCH!! CHILL THE FUCK OUT!!!"
Try as I might, I couldn't clear my mind of the vision of Artie's dick. Was he hung like Mandingo? I thought not. It's impossible for a man to be that foine and have a twelve-inch dick, too. God doesn't work like that. In my mind I ratcheted Artie down to a nine-incher, like his friend Kevon.
Maybe he has a fattie? That's just as good. I could see that. A nine-inch fattie. Kevon is thick, but he doesn't have a fattie.
Mrs. Hotbox stirred.
I envisioned Artie moving up between my thighs with an erect nine-incher as thick as a Coke can. It had been sweating all day in his Calvin Klein boxers. I could smell it.
Mrs. Hotbox leapt.
Whenever I fantasized about sex (and I did this often), I always envisioned myself as a hymen guarding the gate to my vagina. I wasn't a hymen, per se. I was a woman, well, a girl. I stood guard at the entrance and demanded credentials from whichever tongue or penis that sought entry. Too small? Nope. Too skinny? Nope. Next!
In my fantasy/masturbatory world, if a penis was up to snuff, I granted entry. Then this smaller version of myself would watch as this penis, many times the size of my smaller self, eased its way into me. My smaller self would grasp this penis with outstretched arms, kissing its opening while wedging my body into the split just south of the urethra. It's a slippery perch, if you happen to attempt it. I shuddered there as the penis drove in and out of my snatch. This vision was often the animus behind my ardor.
So I'm sitting in the hairdresser's chair and I'm fantasizing about riding Artie's dick in and out of my own pussy. On one shoulder there's my better angel saying: "Shame!! This is not your husband!!" On the other shoulder there's a wicked angel saying: "Fug dat. It's a dick, ain't it? What dat got to do wit' Kevon?"
These two voices were always chattering at me each time Mrs. Hotbox had a flare up. Conscience, I suppose. Most of the time I already had that imaginary dick up in me. So the wicked angel won out. What was I gonna do? Say: "Pull out!"?
Fug dat.
So Hattie is washing my hair. She's got those nice fingernails. She's giving me a VERY nice scalp massage. Each time she goes to rinse I stop her.
"A little more, please. I noticed some flaking."
This was a lie. I was in the midst of a VERY nice orgasm, what with Artie's imaginary dick and Hattie's very real hands each doing their thing. Getting rinsed was analogous to asking Artie to "Pull out!!". And I didn't want that.
Finally I unleashed a telling moan. I gave a full body shiver. Hattie understood exactly what was going on. My mom thought I was in pain.
Hattie smirked at me. She shook her head, not wanting to be party to any lesbian engagement, even if only a scalp massage. I could see she thought I was imagining Kevon.
"Hold your horses, there, girlie. Save that for later tonite."
She moved deliberately to the rinse cycle. I slumped. My panties wettened. I sighed contentedly. Hattie shook her head. She remembered me as a snaggle-toothed little girl squirming in this same chair. And now I was having orgasms in her chair on the morning of my wedding. She smiled at me knowingly.
Having nutted, I fell asleep. The hours passed quickly. The next thing I knew, Hattie was shoving a mirror in my face, asking: "What do you think?"
Oh my god, was I fine? Yes. I was. Hattie nailed it. I had a twisty curl that fell down to my nostrils. She had my kitchen perfectly coifed along the edges of my forehead, ear to ear. It was straight at the top and curly along the sides and back. ANY amount of sweat or humidity or rain would nap it up. I AM a sistah, after all.
Hattie reminded me to move slowly the rest of the day.
"Whatever you do, DON'T git to sweatin'!!"
I already knew that much. She gave me that look again, as if to remind me not to go fantasizing about my wedding night, as I had earlier. I returned her look in kind. We were on the same page.
My mom covered my head with a scarf. She went to pay Hattie who, of course, refused acceptance.
"Chile, it's my wedding gift. I ain't got no money to give."
A rather expensive gift. This three-hour hairdo would normally cost about three bills.
I thanked Hattie profusely and slipped her a hundred dollar bill as a tip. She accepted it. I knew she would. My mom hustled me out to the car. We were on our way to the church.
"DON'T GIT TO SWEATIN'!!!" Hattie called after us.
Mom and I got to the church and started the process of getting me dressed for the ceremony. My aunties came drifting in. Even Teralynn and Jennie showed up well before Bea, Nicole and Lisa, probably because these latter three had "man" business to attend. My grandmother brought finger sandwiches, fresh fruit and Pepsi. She said we didn't want to be too full ahead of the event.