It was the fall of 2001. Some of my girlfriends and I had decided to go to a local professional wrestling event. The main event that night was between somebody named Buff Bagwell and this massive guy named Onyx. If anyone reads this and remembers that card, you'll remember me. It was not this match that got to me. Actually it was a match much earlier in the show. It featured a guy named The Big Voodoo Daddy. He wrestled some guy, if memory serves me right, named "Loverboy" Dennis Condrey. Well, "Loverboy" was not anything like his nickname. He looked like a big, burly trucker guy. Maybe he was a good looking man in his younger days but when I saw him, I thought that he should've been retired.
The Big Voodoo Daddy was something different all together. After seeing "Loverboy", I figured it was another old timer. I laughed when I first heard his theme music, it was a Dr. John song and for the love of me I can not remember the title. I expected a hokey comic book character. Uh, no. He was anything but. He stood at 6'4" and was very well proportioned. Definitely a body builder-type. He wore beads, giving them out to the ladies at ringside. His gimmick was a bizarre marriage between a voodoo doctor and a stripper. Very Mardi Gras.
We started hooting and hollering, as most of the women did. Gyrating his hips, posing, and dancing on his way to the ring, the Voodoo Daddy was certainly living up to his name so far. I remember telling my friend, Hannah, that he could be my daddy anytime. He looked in my direction, smiled, and pointed at me. As he walked over to where we sat, I figured it was for some a much younger girl. When he reached for me and put the beads around my neck, he leaned in and gave me a kiss, all to the delight of the crowd.
The match was very one sided. "Loverboy" performed what they call a dropkick. In my "Daddy's" abdomen. There were other various tactics pulled. The Voodoo Daddy fell for every one of them early on, but quickly turned the tide. I remember screaming hard, seriously flirting with him, every time he looked my way or came outside of the ring to where I sat. He smiled and winked before heading back into the ring in one instance. He delivered his finisher, something the fans chanted as the Fleur Di Lis. After the match, he came over to where I was sitting and we spoke briefly.
He asked my name, which I readily gave. He further asked me what I was doing tonight after the matches, to which I had no answer. He informed me to stick around until the end of the show in order to take me to dinner. I gladly accepted and all my girlfriends began to gush over me like the quarterback had asked me out after a huge homecoming victory. Now you can understand why I was barely interested in the other matches.
I stayed after the show was over, patiently sitting for a good ten minutes, before I saw him emerge from what I assumed was the locker room. Jp Stephens was his real name. He was simply delicious. He wore faded Calvin Klein jeans and a very form fitting, ribbed Perry Ellis t-shirt.
Jp was a perfect gentleman. He opened the door for me, bought me dinner at Chris Ruth's, and we finished up dinner with a stroll on the boardwalk. He was much more than a handsome man. He graduated from the University of Tennessee-Martin and was a stripper during college to pay his way through school. I remarked at how well it seemed to pay off for him. He was getting out of the wrestling business because of the time spent on the road, no insurance, and the abuse his body had already taken. He was interested in architecture and structural design. Definitely did not see that coming. Usually guys like him major in Physical Education or get a trophy degree. I also found out that his girlfriend of about eight years had cheated on him while he was on a road trip. He had come home early because of a broken kneecap and found his fiance in bed with his best friend. He was devastated and this helped to finalize his career choice.
I told him about my life, my divorce and my recent return to college to get my degree. It was easy to talk to him, easy to listen, and engage him in intelligent conversation.
We sat on a bench discussing all of this and more, when he leaned in and kissed me softly on the lips. I was welcomely surprised, having wanted to possess those lips and body from the moment he came into my line of sight for his match. He explained that he had been wanting to do that since dinner and asked if he was being too forward. I joked, telling him that he was not being forward enough. He had a hearty laugh, full of life and indicative of his nature.
As we walked back to his car, he wrapped his arm around me. I didn't object. Opening the door for me, I slid in and wondered how I could bed this massive hunk. The insides of my thighs were hot and wet. It was definitely his looks. He smelled like a man should, too. My pheromones were in overdrive!
Add to that our lively conversations and his politeness and I feel that it was easy to understand why I was so hot for him.
He got into the car, turned it on, and asked me where he could drop me off.
I looked at him and asked him where he was staying. A Ramada Inn. That wouldn't do. I gave him the directions for my place, which was another twenty minutes away. I don't know if he had gotten the idea yet. If he did, Jp was not letting on.
We pulled up to my apartment and he got out, opened my door and walked me to the stairs leading to the front door of my building.
Once there, I inserted the key and unlocked the door. I looked back at him, longingly, and asked him if he wanted to come in.
He did not refuse.
We entered together and walked up the stairs to my apartment. He stayed a step behind me and I wondered how delightful his hands would feel as I slammed him into the wall and kissed him mercilessly.
With my apartment ahead, I told him we were here, and told him thank you for a marvelous evening.
I unlocked my door and opened it. I asked him if he wanted to come in. He looked at me curiously. Surely he had to know what was on my mind. Didn't he?
Fuck it, I thought.
I flung myself into him, standing on the tips of my toes to wrap my arms around him and pull him to me so that I could gain better access.
The kiss started softly, a whisper of promise to things yet to come. I hoped to encourage him with this. When his mouth opened in response to my bold act, I took advantage and dipped my tongue in. My brain went into overdrive, conjuring lust filled thoughts as I slowly made love to his mouth, leisurely slipping my tongue around his in a blatant mimicry of sex. I caught his lip between my teeth, and gently sucked on it as I watched his eyes languorously open.
I pulled away from his lips, drawing my lower one in, suckling on it as I thought how delicious he would be.
"Will you make love to me?" I asked. He nodded, His deeply set blue eyes looking dazed.
A growl of victory sounded deep in my throat, "Good."