I had always heard that every white man want to try a black woman at least once. Though I never really bought into that the theory, I myself had my own curiosities about white men.
My name is Jaquline, but my friends call me Jackie. I like to think of myself as a pretty open minded, modern woman. I've never had any problems with interracial relationships, but I had never had the guts to try it out for myself. In my line of work, waitressing, I've come across a ton of people. I've been asked out by all sorts of people...white guys, black guys...and to my amusement and flatter, even a couple of women, but I've always dated black guys, because that's what I was raised to do.
"Find yourself a strong black man" my mother would always advise me, and I always strived to do just that, but that doesn't mean that it was always rewarding. The guy who seemed like Prince Charming, sometimes turned out to be just the opposite. I've had them all...the scholar, the blue collar worker, and even the gangster type thug. I felt like I had dabbled in every type of "brother" that ever existed.
After my last breakup, I had taken a vow just to be on my own for a little while. No more nursing and pampering a man for a little while. I needed time to concentrate on myself...ya know... go out with my friends a little bit more... pamper myself... focus on me. Well, a "little while" stretched into two long years.
The first year was kinda hellish. It was hard to get used to not having sex. I hadn't realized how much I enjoyed it until I wasn't getting it any more. I think that during that first year, I rented more pornos than the law should allow and I always seemed to find myself masturbating on the couch by the time I was fifteen minutes into the video.
My second year was a little easier. I had gotten to the point where I was only playing with myself once or twice a week and then it even died down to every once in a while. I felt like I was becoming more liberated and I didn't need sex anymore... Mark proved me wrong...
Mark had began working at grill where I waitressed about a year before I did. He waited tables sometimes, but he was also a part-time bartender. When I had first gotten hired, he even trained me for a couple of days on the floor. He was a pretty nice guy, but after my training, we didn't really talk much outside of work. We spoke when we saw each other and helped each other out when necessary. However as time went on, we became more acquainted and the two of us and a few other coworkers would hang out a local pool hall after work every now and then.
I had always though that Mark was cute in a slacker sort of way. He was about 5' 11", very slim, and had brown eyes and reddish- brown hair that he kept pulled into a pony-tail that fell just past his shoulders. He talked in a relaxed tone that made it seem like he was never in a rush to do anything. He joked with everyone and was a major shit-talker once you got to know him. He was a really cool guy though. In spite of finding him cute, I never thought about him in a sexual manner. What good would it have done anyway? He had a girlfriend who he had been with since I had first met him... and she was gorgeous!!! Tall, slim, with blonde hair that cascaded nearly to her waist which was impossibly small. Her breasts seem to beckon mens attention and she had killer legs. What drove me nuts, is the fact that she didn't even seem to know it!!! She was a really nice girl, so I couldn't help but like her (pretty bitch!)!
Though, I don't think that I am in her league, I'm not that bad off myself. I'm a little on the short side...only 5 feet two inches, BUT, I think my package is still okay. Not the best, but not that bad. My pride and joy is my hair that reaches the middle of my back (no hair weaving). My breast are a decent size, I think... 36 C (not as perky as I would like, but they don't point at my feet either)... My stomach is a little round though...Not fat and saggy... just a little bit of pooch there. I think I have nice legs and a nice ass too ( nicely curved, but not a big big bubble).
However, I still don't think that I could compare with a woman as beautiful as Mark's girlfriend. I guess that's why I had never entertained any thoughts about being with Mark. What red blooded white guy would ever consider a simple girl like me when his own woman was beautiful enough to be a model?!
But I never considered myself attracted to Mark, right???... Yeah right... Let's get real here!!!
After getting to know Mark better over the span of a few years, I liked him a little bit more and a little bit more. For a while, I had a crush on him, but he had a girlfriend and I had a boyfriend at the time. After a while, I got over it...or so I thought. The day after breaking up with Tony, my last boyfriend, Mark was actually there for me to listen to my moan and groan about the relationship. He told me that everything would be okay and we just talked for a while. He soon had to leave though because he had promised to take Jessica out to dinner. I gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek before he left and that was the end of that...
Two years later, it seems the tables had turned. He and Jessica had gotten into a huge fight over some bullshit or another and I was there for him to vent. We had become such good friends and visited one another often. He had once told me that Jessica was a little jealous of me sometimes, but I laughed it off and said that she had nothing to worry about. But looking back, I guess she did after all...
The night of their big argument, I got a call from Mark:
"Hello?" "Hey, Jackie," he said to me. "Are you real busy tonight?"
"Nope," I answered. "What's up?"
"Jessica and I just broke up," he informed me. "I need to vent. Do you mind having some company tonight?"
"Only if you bring along a pepperoni and cheese pizza from Vino's," I bargained, knowing that I would welcome him regardless of whether he had pizza or not.
"It's a deal," he said before we said our goodbyes and hung up.
I was shocked. He and Jessica always seemed so happy. I mean, they seemed like the perfect couple. It must have been something major for them to break up. For some strange reason, I went to my bedroom and checked my appearance in my mirror. My hair was a little mussed, so I brushed my lengthy tresses and pulled them up into a clip. I then added just a touch of lip gloss and rubbed my full lips together. I had actually thought about changing clothes, but I scolded myself for being an idiot. My FRIEND and his girlfriend had just broken up. My job was to console him, not get cutesy for him.
I made my way back into the living room and channel surfed until he knocked on my door. The first thing that I noticed when I opened the door was his hair!... Or lack of...
That long hair that some of women at work raved about was gone! I had only seen it down twice and I thought it was gorgeous also. Now, all that remained was soft waves on the top of his head. "What did you do?!" I exclaimed, dragging him into my apartment.
"Isn't it obvious?" he said sarcastically.
"Don't be an asshole," I warned him as I closed the front door. "What in the world made you cut it all off?" I demanded.
"I had an interview at the company that I was telling you about," he informed me. "I had to go with the professional look."
"Cutting off all of that beautiful hair was kinda drastic though," I argued as we both sat down on the couch. "What if you don't get the job?"
"Then it'll grow back," he said simply with a shrug of his shoulders. "It's just hair, Jackie."
"I know," I said, "but I never got to play in it."
"I didn't know that you wanted to play in it," he said, looking at me with one raised eyebrow.
"What chick at work didn't want to play in your hair," I debated.
"Really?" he said as if he didn't know that his hair was a hot topic at work. "Sorry," he said with a short laugh.
"Whatever," I said as I opened up the pizza box. "Like you said, it'll grow back." Then I changed the subject. "So, what happened with you and Jessica?"
"You gotta beer?" he asked suddenly.
"You know where they are," I told him. As he stood up I told him to bring me wine cooler while he was digging through my fridge. When he came back with the drinks, he passed me my cooler and opened his bottle of Bud Light. He took a breath and dived into his story about how things had started getting rocky for him and his girlfriend. I only half listened as I noticed how handsome he was with the new haircut. It gave him a more mature look and I actually liked it in spite of my earlier fantasies about running my fingers through his hair.
But who was I kidding? There was no way the he and I would ever hook up. First of all, I wouldn't even know how to approach him and secondly, I didn't think that he had ever even had a notion to date a black chick like me. I shook my head a little to clear my mind so that I could pay him a little more attention as he vented about how Jessica was not as perfect as everyone thought.
"...and the sex wasn't the best either," I heard him say.
"Damn," I said. "Sorry to hear that sweetie. I don't know if I could stay in a relationship if the sex was bad."
"Well, it wasn't horrible," he amended. "Sometimes it was just... I dunno.."
"Not the best," I filled in as I picked a piece of pepperoni off of a now cold slice of pizza.
"Yeah," he confirmed. "How would you handle bad sex?" he asked suddenly.
"I don't know," I answered. "I haven't had sex in over two years," I confessed.
"What?!" he said with a bit of amazement. "Why is that?"
"I've sworn off of men," I told him.