She was part of an all male road
Nathan and Vick were floated in
crew, repaving highway 251 through
first thing Tuesday night, being put
the desert; working the swing shift due
directly under Wendell with Natalie.
to the triple digit-heat during the day.
They had heard there was a lone
The guys on her crew saw her as one
female on the road crew, but like
of them, often inviting her to throw
everyone else, just assumed she was
back a few beers when they knocked
some badass lez trying to prove her
off early, inviting her to poker night,
manhood by hangin’ with the boys.
and NFL, NBA, MLB parties and the
Didn’t bother her one bit what they
family barbeques they had on the
thought of her, she didn’t live for them.
weekends. Natalie had no problem treating
The weekend was rolling up fast and the highway would be crowded
them like her brothers, after all, she
with travelers trying to reach one
spent so much time with them, knew
destination or another in a hurry; so
their families as if they were her own
with the added crewmembers and
and knew many of their secrets;
added equipment, the progress
secrets that she kept like a priest
doubled up. By Friday, the repaving
during confession.
was complete and they would have
There were rumors and
the holidays off to relax. Wendell did
grumblings that their numbers would
what he did best, planned a weekend
increase on swing even though they
barbeque and invited the newest
were ahead of schedule. The powers
crewmembers to join in.
that be wanted the roadwork done as
They shut down early Friday
soon as possible so the traffic could
and decided to meet at the sports bar
return to its normally heavy flow, so
for drinks. Natalie opted not to meet
the weekend crew was added to the
up with the crew wanting only to go
fivers so they could finish before the
home and take a long hot bubble bath
holiday rush.
as she asked for a rain check.
“See you tomorrow, lil sis,” Wendell asked as Nat clocked out and headed out the door; praying she could catch the last bus home? She never responded as she absently drug her bone-tired body out the door. “Damn,” she muttered under her
walked around to open the door for her; she was still a lady. “Thank you so much,” she said plopping the back pack in her lap.” “No problem,” he said, putting the car in gear and heading in the direction she told him. They talked
breath, the bus had run early and she
very little as he drove to the other side
had to make that long trek home. Nat
of town, wondering how she made it to
was too damn tired to deal with this
work without a car. “Whoa, you would
shit; how long would her car be out of
have had a long walk,” he said as he
commission anyway, she wondered
finally turned up in the driveway.
near tears as she slung the back pack over her shoulder and began to walk. Nathan was one of the last ones to leave the site, deciding not to head
“Thank’s for the ride; can I give you gas money or anything,” she asked, beyond tired? “Naw, thanks though; I just live
over to the sports bar. Even though
about two blocks past here. So if you
he had a few days off before the shift
ever need a ride, let me know,” he said
change, he was too tired to hang out.
as he opened the door for her, and
He watched her cross the driveway as
watched her until she was safely
he pulled out of the lot, rolling down
inside. Even in the baggie jeans and
his window. “Hey Nat, you need a
Tims she wore, and the oversized
ride?” he asked hesitantly.
sweatshirt, you could tell she was a
She almost declined his offer.
woman; whatever way her gate swung.
“If it’s not out of your way,” she said, relief filling her voice. There was nothing masculine about her voice, he thought as he put the car in park and
Nat dropped the backpack on the table and headed straight to the shower. It was too hot and she was
dusty and sticky and tired; she had no time to take a bath, because she still
Natalie couldn’t remember the
had to hit the books. Her balancing
last time she had a free day as she
act was beginning to wear her down.
moved around the apartment. All her
Thank goodness they finished early.
homework was done, she had no real
She had maybe two months to keep
cleaning to do as she dropped her
this up, and then she could quit the
books back into the back pack, had a
road crew for good. It was a lesson
light breakfast and headed for that
well learned, but a lesson all the same.
long soak she promised herself last
She did the job, the deal was done;
night.
and Mr. Kissum would have to move
By noon she was dressed like
her like he promised if she could hang.
she was going out on the town, high
She more than proved she could hang,
heels and all, strutting around the
outlasting quite a few of the men on
place like she was a runway model; it
the crew.
was definitely a woman thing as she
She felt better now, finally sitting down to dinner and opening her first book. She would have a few extra
checked herself out in the full-length mirror. The doorbell caught her off
days to finish up her term papers and
guard as she walked back up the
study for her exams, so she did
hallway to answer, wondering who it
appreciate that. Her mind kept
was ringing her bell. He stood there,
wondering back to the brief
surprised, mouth open and staring as
conversation she had on the way
she opened the door. She wore this
home; appreciating Nathan for the ride
sexy short kimono type number, the
and for not being too nosey. He was
colors playing off her gorgeous tan,
pretty cool; she thought as she shut
legs that looked like they would never
down and went to bed. Tomorrow’s a
stop and heels that really accentuated
new day, she thought as she drifted
her muscular calves and sexy ankles.
off to sleep.
“Did I leave something in your car?” she asked embarrassed that he saw her like that. “Ummm, no,” he stammered, “I’m sorry. Wendell said he forgot to
before answering his question with a question. “About that,” she went on, “please don’t tell anyone.” “Only if you’ll go out with me
pick you up for the barbeque; said you
tonight,” he half asked, half bargained
needed a ride and asked if I could pick
with her.
you up.” He was finding it hard to
“I don’t go out here.”
compose himself as he spoke; just her
“Okay, you pick the place; just
legs alone had his mind racing. “Damn,” she blew out, “I forgot
say you’ll go tonight; deal?” Natalie was stuck; not that she
about that. Come on in, do you have a
minded being put in that position. It
few minutes I’ll go change.”
had been a long while since she had
“No problem,” he said stepping
gone out; school and work kept her
around the door. He took a seat on
too busy and too tired. She didn’t see
the sofa next to the door, as she ran
any harm in going out with him; as
down the hallway in her heels.
long as it wasn’t in town. “Deal,” she
“Damn,” he mumbled under his breath
answered as they pulled up in front of
as he adjusted himself once out of
Wendell’s house. “Remember Nathan,
sight. Not five minutes later she came
you promised.”
back up the hallway in baggy jeans,
“I got you, sweetie.”
and an oversized sweater; but her hair
They walked around to the side
was still pinned up. “I’m ready; thanks for waiting,” she said still somewhat embarrassed. “Were you going somewhere,”
gate letting themselves into the back yard, finding Wendell and Glo squabbling near the grill. Nat walked up and hugged Gloria and Wendell like
he asked as he opened the car door
family; thanked Nathan again for the
for her to get in? She waited until he
ride and bounced off to find the kids.
had gotten in and started the car
“So Nate, you found her place
wasn’t much different from nightshift;
okay?” Wendell asked somewhat
hell that’s where all the shit started.
distracted.
But her niece was more like their
“It was no problem sir; I gave
daughter, so when the guys did go too
her a ride home last night; after she
far, he pulled their chain. “So, what do
missed the last bus.” Wendell and Glo
you think?” Wendell asked as Nathan
both lifted an eyebrow as he spoke.
finished his beer and Glo handed him
“Can I ask you something? I mean,
another one; picking up on a certain
strictly between us?
vibe Wend was obviously missing.
“Shoot man.” “Is she….you know…is she g…?”
“It would be cool to hang out sometime, I guess,” he responded taking another drink; the vision of her
“Naw man, she’s not. She just
rockin’ that dress popped back in his
lets the guys think that so she won’t
head. “Thanks for inviting me and
have to deal. You know how it is.
Vick over though,” he said quickly
They real hard on her now; imagine if
changing the subject. He had a date
they knew.”
tonight with her and he was starting to
“I got it, ‘cause we been hearing some stuff on dayshift; stuff that ain’t
feel like he said too much already. The rest of the afternoon
cool.” He had gotten Wendell’s
passed by quietly with one college
attention; maybe it was Nathan’s
game after another being watched, a
interest in his niece, maybe it was the
few people down in the game room
gossip on day shift; but whatever it
shot pool and played cards and
was Wendell the protector kicked in.
dominoes; while Nat kept herself
“Like what,” he asked as Gloria came walking back up with the tray and two beers? They listened intently
occupied between Glo and the kids, checking in on him now and again. Each time she would peek
to the usual bullshit that Nathan had
around the corner at him, he would
been hearing on day shift which
give her that sly look, drop little hints,
wondering if she was just as amused
agreed he would pick her up at nine.
as he was; or annoyed. She would
That gave him a couple of hours to get
hold her breath each time she saw him
ready and just chill. For some reason
interact with the others; his slightest
he was getting nervous, even though
gestures sending her mind in
he had spent most of the day around
overdrive.
her; he now was feeling nervous as
He would mouth a few “what if’’s” in her direction, wink and smile
hell. Nathan was at her house at nine
as she would ease up to him and
sharp as she came strutting out of the
whisper in his ear; “ a promise is a
front door to meet him in a clingy teal
promise.”
and black number and matching
“I got you.”
stilettos. If he thought she was bangin
Finally she tracked him down to
in the kimono, she was all out sexy in
tell him that Glo would give her a ride
this one that dropped just below her
home if he wanted to hang out a little
knees.
while longer, thanking him again for picking her up. He was more than ready to go;
“You look nice,” Nat said as she got in the car. “Thank you, so do you,” he
had been ready for a while. All he
replied, not able to take his eyes off of
could think about was their date, even
her. “So, you ready for this?”
if he was forcing her to go out with
“The question is; are you ready
him; not even able to follow half the
for this?” she asked proceeding to
games that were playing.
give him directions. The drive was
He tried to let her out of the
about 45 minutes to an hour, she told
date, if she didn’t really want to go;
him; asking if he didn’t mind going out
but she insisted that since he kept up
of town.
his end of the deal, even with the
“Don’t mind at all,” he said
mental foreplay, she would keep hers.
looking forward to something different.
So he dropped her off after they
He had grown tired of hangin’ out in
town with the same people doing the
home as if they were trying to outrun
same old thing; so he was more than
the storm.
ready for something new. And Natalie
“I asked you out, remember;
did not disappoint as they walked into
this is still a date,” he said laughing,
the club, took a seat and had a few
“besides, you ain’t one of the homies;
drinks before hitting the dance floor.
at least not tonight.” It was almost
She was off the chain, he
impossible to place their order, they
thought, a totally different person. He
were laughing so hard. Then once
was right when he told Wendell she
again they were back on the road,
would be cool to hang out with, he
heading back to town.
didn’t have a care in the world while
“Why did you get separate
they were there, didn’t have to
bags,” she questioned him, “are you in
constantly watch his back. Little did
a hurry to leave?”
he know that when he threw down that
‘Not at all,” he responded. He
challenge, she would go all out to call
just assumed that she was ready to
his bluff. “It’s the simple pleasures,”
call it a night as he pulled up into the
she whispered in his ear when she
driveway; grabbing her hand as she
moved in closer on the dance floor; a
reached for the door handle. “O.k. so
loaded response to a question not yet
hope you had a nice time tonight.”
asked. She had his mind in overdrive. The night ended rather quickly and they were back in the car heading back to town when she asked if he
“Come inside,” she said opening the door and getting out. Challenge accepted. Nathan followed her inside
wanted to stop and get something to
watching her hips swing back and
eat. She hadn’t eaten since this
forth like a sexy round pendulum
morning and she was starving. “My
hypnotizing him into submission.
treat,” she said as he pulled into the
She led him over to the sofa
drive-thru; she wanted something
sitting their bags on the coffee table
quick so they could hurry up and get
as she flitted around the room lighting
candles, turned on soft jazz music and
and he loved it. “I could offer you the
returned to sit down beside him. She
same out you offered me earlier,” she
tore each bag open laying it out
said sliding off his lap; or…” she
around the order like little paper
reached behind her unzipping her
tablecloths and began to feed him.
dress, letting it fall to the floor.
“So…what made you ask me out?” she asked out of the blue. “A lot of different things,” he
He stood up, taking her in his arms and kissed her gently at first, caressing her back and stopping just
said, thinking how he could respond to
above her firm behind. “Or…” he now
that without offending her. “I’d see
whispered in the curve of her neck,
you around; sometimes catch you
flicking his tongue across her ear lobe;
leaving work when I was coming in;
unaware of what she was about to do
just thought you’d be cool to hang out
as he felt his pants slip below his ass,
with.”
felt her nudge him back down on the “But…?’ “No but; well, when you came to
the door in that dress; yeah, that was the icing on the cake.” “The icing, hunh?” she
sofa resuming her seat in his lap. “Or, baby, you can stay here and relax; enjoy the ride. There was no turning back as she slipped his shirt over his head,
whispered as she leaned over and
kissed her way down to his hardened
kissed him, slipping her leg across his
nipples, sucking and nibbling until he
lap in the process. “And what would
was way past aroused as she slowly
you consider this?” she questioned
wriggled in his lap, feeling him swell
flicking her tongue across his lips, his
against her.
arms automatically slipping around her
He couldn’t hold back, was too
tiny waist.
far gone as she continued her little
His mind was racing, should he pull
adventure in overt stimulation, smooth
her closer, return her kisses; hold her
jazz caressing his senses as she;
at a distance, run; he was caught up
twisted her body just so. He was
done, had cum before he even entered
so he could better control the tempo
her. “You can’t tell the guys about
and just let her ride. Natalie didn’t
this,” he murmured as he shuddered
disappoint as Nathan exploded inside
against her.
her, as she jerked and bobbed on his
“Hmmm…relax. I got you boo,”
dick, threw her head back, clawing at
she said with a sly wink, reminding him
his bare chest as she came, one
of this afternoon. What was it he said
orgasm after another ripping through
to her?
her like an out of control inferno. She Nat wasted no time, foreplay
shook as he wrapped his arms around
would have to be after play for her as
her, pulled her into him, and held her
she lifted herself just enough to free
until it stopped.
his dick from his boxers, pulling her
She climbed down out of his
silk panties to the side as she slid him
lap, took his hand in hers and led him
deep into her box, slipping down his
down the dark hallway to her room,
pole. Even it his relaxed state, he was
blowing out the candles along the
well endowed as she shifted to take
way. Outside the rain came down, the
him in.
thunder boomed as the lightening He recovered well, she thought
ripped across the sky; inside the storm
as he grew hard as her slick warm
within raged on as he made love to her
walls embraced his manhood; rising
over and over again, twisting and
up slightly as he placed his hands
turning in each others arms locked in
between their bodies, spreading her
the most erotic game of twister.
legs even wider. He cupped her ass,
Nothing was taboo as they tried any
lifting her up the length of his pole
and every position imaginable and
before letting her descend all the way
some that weren’t; loving beyond their
down, the silk panties adding a
physical capabilities until they were
different sensation for him.
spent as the sun crept through the
He was on the edge as he lifted her up his shaft, shifting beneath her
window.
She watched as he slept, smiled as she traced the outline of his face, bent and kissed him on the lips, before sliding down beside him and closing her eyes, listening to the rhythm of his breathing until she drifted off to sleep.