by
Koko Dee

"O.K. we're here." Katara said as she pulled my car I had let her drive into a parking space.

Turning the lights and the radio off simultaneously and then the engine, she looked me directly in
my eyes and asked, "Are you ready?"

"Girl what are we doing?" I asked.

"Observing." She answered as she flipped down the visor mirror. "We're exploring, discovering,
going on a little adventure, and having a little fun."

"I can't believe we're actually doing this." I scanned the parking lot and saw more people pulling
in as we sat in the car. Couples, groups and stags were all going into the 2-story brick building.
The neon light continued to flash "Tar-Jane's." That's Tarzan and Jane combined. It looked nice
from the outside but it was the inside I was nervous about.

Katara had finished applying her make-up. "I hope we didn't come here to sit in the car."

"No." I said. "It looks packed. This must be a good night to come to the club."


"Loni, if you don't want to go, we..."

"Katara come on, let's go in. We've been talking about this forever. It's no turning back now." I
looked in the mirror one last time and was ready.

"Good." She said. "I'm ready. If we don't like it, we'll leave. Agreed?"

"Agreed." I smiled. "We're open-minded women we can make the best out of anything."

We got out of the car, locked the doors and headed for the club's entrance. Katara and I have been best friends since junior high school. We've always been inseparable and have shared every secret and fantasy. She was closer to me than my sisters and I. This little secret fantasy we're going through tonight we've talked about for a long time. The night was pretty humid. I guess it was nothing unusual for the middle of July. "I hope it's cool inside." I heard Katara say.

"I do too." I replied as we approached the short line to get in the club. I looked at the different faces in line. Both black and white, tall, short, pretty and plain. "It makes you wonder doesn't it?" I whispered to Katara. She gave a little chuckle.

"Just as long as they don't wonder about us." We both laughed. "I hope we don't see anybody we know." She poked her lips out. "Shit, what in the hell are they going to say?" We laughed again.

"I didn't think about it like that." I said.

We finally reached the cashier. "Five dollars please." The cashier was a big breasted, platinum blonde with a friendly face. "Are you ladies new to Tar-Jane's?" She asked.

"Yes we are." I answered surprised.

"I thought so. I know every face that comes through these doors. Here you go ladies." She handed us one large, yellow chip each and said, "These chips will allow you to get one free drink on the house. Give them to any bartender or waitress. If you ladies need anything else, just let me know. My name is Honey."

"Thanks Honey." Katara said rubbing her chip like it was a piece of gold.

"You ladies have a good time." Honey went on to collect the five-dollar fee from the next customer.

We both stood to the side to take a look around the club. The dance floor was packed, the stools around the bar were full and just as I thought we were going to have to stand all night, I noticed an empty booth. I grabbed Katara's hand and headed toward the booth reaching it before anyone else. "Good job," said Katara.

Just as we sat down a waitress approached us. "You ladies want anything from the bar?"

"A glass of white Zinfandel." I said while handing her my chip.

"Make that two." Katara shouted over the loud music.

The waitress took Katara's chip too. "I'll be back with your drinks." She smiled and headed through the crowd to the bar.

"I like this place already." I commented. "Quick service, free drinks and it's cool in here."

"Plus," Shouted Katara, "they are jamming." She backed up her comment by bouncing to the
beat.

I looked out onto the dance floor and saw fine, nice looking men dancing with men and
decent looking women dancing with women. "I can't believe we are in a gay bar."

"Another chapter to the stories of our lives." Said Katara still bouncing and snapping her fingers.

The waitress returned with our drinks. "Everything o.k?" She asked.
"Yes, we're fine." I answered. "Thanks."

Later, the waitress returned with our second order of drinks. We stayed in our booth sipping our wine and talking about everybody. "Girl look at that." Katara said jumping back.

"Oh my goodness." I said. "I can't believe it."

"Loni, now that doesn't make any sense. Those brothers are too fine to be kissing each other like
that. That kiss is full of passion and they are deep into it. I wish I could get kissed like that."

When Katara mentioned passion, it made me think of Demarco. Demarco always put passion
inside of me and kept my panties wet I might add. Demarco had been my boyfriend for almost a
year. That is until my hot tail little cousin from Jackson, Mississippi came to stay with me for
awhile.

Aunt Phyllis called me before Kenyatta graduated from high school and said she couldn't
deal with Kenyatta's grown butt anymore. She wanted to know if I could take her in. Aunt Phyllis
hoped a change of scenery would help. It was going on Kenyatta's third week of living with me.
One day while I was at work I decided to take the rest of the day and the week off to spend more
time with Kenyatta. I wanted to go shopping with her and talk to her about the proper way to
dress for an interview. She had talked about getting a job for the rest of the summer and we both
agreed a job at a fast food restaurant wasn't ideal. There were plenty of office jobs available in
our area and if she prepared herself, she could land a good one.

When I got home, I hung my purse on the closet door and went into the living room where Kenyatta normally laid on the couch watching television. She wasn't there so I headed to my bedroom. As I got to the doorway I heard, "You want me to go faster Big Daddy?" I knew that down south accent belonged to Kenyatta, but who did she think she was having some little boy from the neighborhood in my bed?

"Yeah, do that thing for Big Daddy." That was no boy from the neighborhood that was
Demarco. I stepped inside the room and saw Demarco and Kenyatta butt naked in my bed with
Kenyatta on top of Demarco pumping faster than a jackrabbit in heat. All hell broke loose. I
ended up chasing Demarco out of the house naked with a knife.

Later that night I dropped off a box of his cut up clothes on his momma's front porch and spray painted "child molester" in red on his white Lexus. As for Ms. Jackrabbit, I drove her back to Mississippi and dropped her off at Aunt Phyllis' door. I came home from Mississippi and said to hell with men and trying to be in a relationship.

"Here you go ladies." The waitress sat another order of drinks down at our table.

"There must be a mistake," Katara shouted over the music, "we didn't order this."

"Complements from the two at the bar." The waitress pointed to the crowed bar where two
ladies lifted their glasses to us.

Even though I was in shock, I smiled and raised my wineglass as a gesture of thanks. Katara did the same. "We're going to have fun tonight." Katara said laughing and sipping her drink.

"They don't look gay to me." I said still looking over at the strangers.

"How many times have you had a woman send you a drink in a regular club?" She asked. "Besides, how are they supposed to look?"

"You know hard, thuggish, wear short afros and men's clothes."

"Loni, I'm shocked at you. That's like saying all black people are on crack and live in the ghetto.
Or we all eat pork and are on welfare."

"I guess you're right. I just didn't expect them to look like that."

We looked back to the bar but our mystery ladies were gone. "Oh well, at least we got another round of free drinks." Katara said taking another sip of her wine.

Before I could respond, the two ladies were standing in front of our booth. "Mind if we join you?" Asked the one with the Halle Berry haircut.

"No, not at all." I slid over to make room for them in the booth. The disc jockey put some slow jams on which made it a little easier to talk.


"Well, I'm Diamond." Said the one with the long micro braids. "And yes that is my real name. I have two younger sisters, Ruby and Pearl and my mother's name is Jewel."

We all laughed. "I'm Katara and this is Loni."

The one with the Halle Berry haircut spoke up next. "I'm April, no May or June, I have all brothers." We laughed again.

"Thanks for the drinks." I said holding up my half-empty glass.

"Yeah, thanks. That was pretty cool." Katara said.

"No need to thank us, we just wanted to let you ladies know we were peeping you out." Diamond said smiling.

"So tell me Katara, " said April, "is this your first time here?" Diamond and April must have already talked about which one of us they wanted. I could tell by
the way April was looking and lightly flirting with Katara.

"Yes this is a first for both of us." Katara replied.

"That's safe to say you two aren't together?" Diamond asked.

"No, not like that. I mean not as a couple." I was feeling a little nervous.

"That's good." She smiled. The thumping bass sound of house music began to play and the dance floor began to fill up. "Let's go upstairs." Diamond shouted over the music.

We all shook our heads yes, grabbed our glasses and purses and followed Diamond. We got upstairs and we could still hear the music, it just wasn't as loud. There were tables, chairs and also a few pool tables and dartboards. Off to the side was a kitchen where food could be ordered and in the back was another bar. The bar was filled with people talking and drinking.

We found an empty table near a wall that looked over on the dance floor and half of the first level. We ended up ordering food from the kitchen, more drinks and talking about everything
and everybody. We were all laughing and clowning like we had known one another for years.
April and Katara seemed to be having private conversations at times like Diamond and I. "Loni,"
Diamond leaned into me whispering, "do you and Katara get high?"

"On weed nothing else." I whispered.

"Girl that's all we do. We're not crack heads or nothing." She laughed.

"You have some weed now?" I asked suddenly feeling a craving for some.

"I have some back at my apartment. I only stay a few minutes from here if y'all want to come back to my place."

"Yeah, we can do that."

"Well, tell your friend and I'll get April."

I leaned over and whispered to Katara that we were headed to Diamond's place to get our smoke on. She was cool with that idea.

"Everybody ready?" April asked standing up.

"Yeah." We all said in unison.

"Katara and me will follow you to your place." I told Diamond.

We grabbed our stuff and headed for the stairs leading back down to the first level and out the door to the parking lot. "I'll pull out to the exit side of the parking lot and wait for you to follow." Diamond said. "I'll be in the blue Tracker."

"I'll be following in the red Nissan." When Katara and I got in the car she screamed. "Girl, I can't
believe we've been picked up by women!"

"What do you think is going to happen?" I asked while putting my handbag under the driver's
seat. "I don't know."

"I see you and April are getting along quite well." I teased.

"She's pretty cool. I could see us hanging out sometime. We have a lot in common." She leaned her seat all the way back as I pulled out of the parking space.

"Would you let her sex you?" I asked.

"Hell yeah! She told me she could eat my pussy better than any man could. That I would like to see."
"Oooo, you so nasty." I laughed.

"I saw Diamond put her hand on your thigh and touch your hair." She glanced at me and laughed.

"I asked who braided her hair and she told me she did it herself so we got to talking about her doing my hair one day. She's a co-owner of a braiding salon."

"O.k. So why she put her hand on your thigh?" Katara joked.

"Shut up." I said.
We were pulling into a big parking lot on the side of a tall high rise apartment building. Diamond stopped her car and ran back to mine. "Park here close by the main door and meet us in the lobby. My parking space is underground where assigned parking is for the tenants."

I told her all right and watched her walk back to her jeep. She was sexy. Her and I were the same height, five feet seven inches. She had a medium honey brown complexion and dark brown eyes that almost looked black. She had on a short blue jean mini skirt outfit that showed off her pretty legs and thick thighs and a blue jean backless halter top that let her midriff peek out.

I couldn't believe I was looking at another woman like that. Katara and me had talked about stuff like this before, but I never thought I would actually be going back to a woman's house after a night out in a club.

"I hear these apartments are real nice." Katara said breaking my train of thought.

"I heard that too." I pulled into an empty space and turned the car off. "Well, are you ready?" I looked over and asked Katara.

"Yep, you?"

I thought for a moment. "We've had a good time with them so far. It's no need of turning back now."

"If anything happens, at least you don't have to worry about getting pregnant." She laughed
hard.

"Shut your drunk ass up."

We got out of the car and met Diamond and April in the lobby. Diamond's apartment was on the 12th floor when we got settled in her living room the view from her balcony was beautiful. Lights all across the city were dancing and shimmering like brilliant cut jewelry. Diamond turned on the radio and the disc jockey was still jamming, kicking out remixes.

"Do you sill have those coolers?" April asked Diamond.

"I sure do. I forgot they were in there. Go get them for everybody." Stepping out of her shoes she said, "I'll be back, I have to get the stuff from my room." She said referring to the marijuana.

April returned with two four-pack coolers. "This is left over from a get together we had a few days ago. Get some."

Diamond came back into the living room with a small wooden box with a lid. She pulled out two pre-rolled joints and a lighter. "Here, fire these up." She said handing them to April. "I'm going to find those incense I had earlier."

"Look in your room on the nightstand." April shouted out while lighting up a joint and taking a
hit. She handed it out and Katara took a hit or two and passed it to me. Diamond came back with
the incense sticks already lit giving off the nice smell of Egyptian Musk. I passed the joint to
Diamond and watched her lips gently wrap around the white cigarette like paper. Her red painted
lips looked so sexy I began to wonder what they felt like.

We sat around drinking our coolers, getting high and feeling the moment. The soothing drug began to settle into my body. Making me feel calm and relaxed. I could feel the tingling sensation running to my toes and back up again.

Diamond and me had stretched out on opposite ends of the couch. April had laid her head on
Katara's lap on the loveseat. No one was really saying anything, just listening to the radio and
being in our zone. "Where's your restroom?" I looked down on the other end of the couch to
Diamond.

"Down the hall, first door on your right." I slowly got to my feet and slightly staggered
down the short hallway to the bathroom. I closed the door and quickly pulled down my panties
sitting hard on the toilet. I realized I had all of those drinks at Tar-Jane's and here and I hadn't
been to a bathroom all night.

I sat on the toilet peeing and thinking how I got to where I am. Leaving a nightclub and going home with a woman. Just thinking about it made me shake my head and laugh. Maybe it was the weed that did that, I don't know. What I did know is that this is one crazy night. After I finished in the bathroom I opened the door and turned the light out and across the hall was Diamond in her bedroom with nothing on but a pair of sheer bikini cut sky blue panties.

This weed was making me horny. She was reaching up on a shelf in her closet so I got a side view of her full honey brown breast and an erect nipple. I moved closer and moved in the doorway of her bedroom and that's when she noticed me standing there. "Are you all right?"

"Yeah, why?" I felt nervous.

"You've been in the bathroom for twenty minutes."

I was relived to know she didn't notice I had been staring at her. "I didn't know I'd been in there that long. It only felt like a few minutes."

She pulled a short sleeve oversize shirt over her head. "I told everybody to spend the night here. It's late and we've done a lot of drinking and stuff. Is that o.k. with you?"

I was trying to keep my thoughts together and get my hormones in check. "That's cool. Thanks."
I responded.

"You can change into that t-shirt." She pointed to a shirt on her neatly made up bed.
"I'm taking these out to Katara and April. I'll be right back." She walked out the room and
closed the door behind her.

As I started to undress I still couldn't believe I was doing this. Katara and me had talked about something like this before but had never come close to doing anything we're doing tonight. I removed my black mini skirt and laid it on the seat of an empty chair in the corner of her room. Since I couldn't stand to sleep in a pair of thongs, I removed those too.

I had just taken off my black tube top when Diamond walked in. "O.k." She said ignoring my
nakedness. "I got us a bowl of microwave popcorn, some warmed up leftover pizza, some potato
chips and some fruit punch. Oh. I almost forgot." She said sitting everything on her dresser and
unfolding a napkin. "My last joint. I wasn't going to let those two smoke up all of my shit." She
laughed and plopped down on the bed while lighting up the joint.

I put the t-shirt on and grabbed the bowl of popcorn. "Are they sleeping yet?" I asked wondering what Katara and April was doing.

"No. They're in the kitchen getting something to eat." She passed me the other half of the weed, turned on the television and started flipping through the channels with the remote. Beverly
Hills Cop II was on so we decided to watch that.

We were just sitting around eating, talking and catching bits of the movie when I just had to ask. I needed to know more about Diamond on a sexual level. "Are you gay or bi?" I blurted out suddenly. She sat and thought for a moment.

"I'm neither." She looked at me with her half-closed eyes.

"You're straight?" I asked confused.

She giggled. "Let me see if I can make this long story short." She threw the pizza crust on her plate and got comfortable under the sheets. "I met Ricky when I was young and right out of high school. I was working at a fast food restaurant when he came in and I took his order. We got to talking, exchanged numbers and within no time we became a couple. He was older than I was and he was a hustler so he always had plenty of money. He told me he felt his woman shouldn't have to work so I quit my job. The first year of our relationship was great. He bought me everything from clothes to jewelry, even got me my first car. We traveled everywhere too. L. A., Miami, different parts of New York or Atlanta. Sometimes it would be me, him and a few of his friends getting on a plane to go to a major sporting event, like boxing, an NFL game or something. Sometimes it would be just me and him going shopping in another city just for the hell of it.

"At the beginning of the second year I became pregnant and he was furious about it. It seemed like the moment I told him I was pregnant he immediately started treating me bad. We had been living together and he stopped coming home, was lying and cheating. He didn't want me to tell anybody I was expecting. Women were calling the house cursing me out and telling me he was sleeping with them. So much shit was going on that by the end of my third month of pregnancy I lost the baby. I was so hurt because I loved Ricky with everything I had and I thought having a family would be the perfect thing for both of us."

"What did he say when you lost the baby?"

"He didn't say anything. He continued to lie, cheat and stay away from home. That's when Dana
and me became friends."

Getting under the sheets I asked, "Who is Dana?"

"Dana was this chic who lived across the hall from Ricky and me. She kept telling me I needed to
leave him but I told her I didn't have any money or anyplace to go. Dana was also the only black
dancer at The Blue Flame on the north side and she told me if I wanted to make some money she
could get me in. I thought about for a long time. I kept seeing the amount of money she was
bringing home and finally one day I told her I wanted to try dancing.

"Whenever Ricky wasn't home, which was a lot, I would go over to Dana's house and she would help me practice. She wanted me to be prepared when I auditioned for the club's manager. When I went in for my audition the club manager and owners liked what they saw and hired me on the spot. I started dancing that same night. After I got comfortable dancing, Dana came up with this idea for the two of us to practice and do a routine together. She said we could do something real sexy and provocative to make more money. I agreed.

"We became the two top performers in the club because of our routine. Then one night Dana told me she was going to be moving and since Ricky was still doing his own thing did I want to move in with her and be her roommate. At first I kept saying no, I was scared. Ricky didn't even know I was stripping and dancing. How was I going to move without him finding out? I told her I couldn't make it on my own but she told me I wouldn't be on my own, I'd be with her.

"She finally convinced me to move and one day we rented a u-haul, got some of bouncers from the club and loaded up everything in one trip. I took all of my personal belongings and left everything else for Ricky. I wanted to completely break away from him. When we got to the new apartment it was nice and big but a one bedroom. I didn't trip off of it. I figured we'd work out the sleeping arrangements later. We went out to celebrate our move. We partied all night from club to club. We were drinking, getting high, men were giving us money,and buying our drinks. I felt so free and relaxed. It was about 5:30 in the morning when we got home. We went to the bedroom and finished smoking the last bit of weed. That's when it happened."

Diamond stopped talking like she was replaying it all back in her mind.

"What happened?" I interrupted her thoughts.

She looked at me with those dark brown eyes and said, "Girl, Dana told me she wanted to make love to me." Diamond started laughing. "I said What? You must be crazy.' She said that she wanted me for a long time but just never knew how to tell me."

I propped myself up on one elbow and asked, "She never told you she was gay or bi-sexual
or whatever?"

"No! She never told me anything. Then when I thought back I realized she never had a boyfriend
and whenever men would try to talk to her she acted like it was no big deal. Then she told me
that's why she wanted me to get away from Ricky. She couldn't stand the way he treated me and
she knew she could treat me better. She said that's also why she came up with our dance routine
at the club so she could be near me."

"What did you do?" I asked.

"I just laid there. I was in shock. I had never had a woman tell me anything like that. The next thing I know she was kissing me and slowly removing my clothes. I thought Ricky was the best, but I ain't gonna lie, Dana made love to me like no one else." She giggled as she thought back on the moment.

"What happened after that? What about Ricky?" I had to know.

"I didn't see Ricky for about two months. I ran into him at the shopping center. He was begging me to come back home, telling me how sorry he was and he realized how much he loved me. He admitted he was afraid to have a baby since it was so much of a responsibility. I told him about my dancing at the club and about my involvement with Dana. He couldn't believe it and for awhile even after seeing it for himself, he refused to leave me alone. Even to this day when I
see him he talks about us getting back together and him making up for what he did. I don't want
that boy after he took part of my life away from me and for being the reason I lost my baby."

"What happened to Dana?"

"I really fell in love with her. She treated me like a queen. I didn't have to worry about a thing.
Then all of a sudden she became possessive. I couldn't go anywhere or have any friends. She
thought I was cheating on her with everybody. I had to quit dancing and move out of the
apartment. That's when I started braiding hair. From the money I was making I was able to go
into a partnership with this older lady named Ms. Velma and open up Oasis Natural Hair Salon."

"Whew!" I said lying back on her pillows. "I thought I had drama."

"Every once in awhile Dana comes into the salon to get her hair braided but we keep it on a
business level. I don't want to be bothered with her either. So to answer your question if I'm
straight or gay, I still have to say neither. I was once in love with a wonderful man who at one
time treated me like I was the only woman in the world. I also was in love with a great woman
who treated me like a queen. They both messed up and I know one day I will love again. It could
be with a woman or a man. I guess I'm open to anyone that will show me love. Do you know
what I mean?"

I thought for a minute and I guess I could see where she was coming from. She then looked deep into my eyes for what seemed like forever and then she smiled, leaned forward and softly began to kiss me. Instead of pulling back, I leaned into her letting my lips part and my tongue meet hers. Slowly and gently our tongues tangled. I liked the feel of her full lips on mine. She was sucking my bottom lip like it was a piece of hard, sweet candy.

She gently mounted me as I lay on my back. Her hands roaming my body, me wanting to touch her but being afraid. "No. I can't." I whispered.

"Don't be afraid." She said. "Let me love you." She raised my shirt up to my neck and slowly over my head. She began smothering my body with soft, moist kisses. My ears were nibbled, my neck was licked, my breasts were caressed, my stomach, my navel were loved and just when I thought she was going into the garden of pleasure, she began kissing me again. I felt her sheer panties slowly grinding into me, making that special area between my thighs wet. I cupped both of my hands around her waiting ass and began to grind back. She gave a low moan from deep within. "That's it, relax and feel the moment." She whispered.

I let my hands wonder and become familiar with her body. She helped me remove her nightshirt and from the glow of the television I could see the outline of her sexy body. Her ample breasts hung over me looking like sweet, ripe melons. I let the tip of my tongue reach out for an erect nipple. Over and over my tongue played with her nipples and made them hard like smooth stones on a sandy beach. I don't know if it was the weed or the drinks I had earlier but I was beginning to feel bold. I ran my fingers around the rim of her panties and pushed them down until she removed them.

Once again she began her journey down to my love valley. I held my breath until I felt her tongue
gliding up and down on my clit and then she fully took it in her mouth and sucked on it like it was
a piece of ice on a hot summer day. Demarco needed to get with her and take notes. Her tongue
went in and out of my pussy making me wetter than I've ever been. I could feel my clit throbbing
like it had a heartbeat. She was like a magician and her tongue was the magic wand. Just when I
thought I had reached my peak, she turned me over on my stomach and put my ass in the air and
ate me out doggie style. Within moments my body started to shake uncontrollable. I was cumming
and it felt good, much too good. "I'm cumming!" I said in a raspy voice. "Diamond I'm
cumming!"

My words fell on deaf ears. She continued lapping at my pussy like a hot, thirsty mutt in
the summer finally getting a cold bowl of water. I tried to push away from her hungry mouth but
somehow she had a grip on me and I couldn't move. I thought I was going to lose consciousness.
The only thing I could do was to bury my face in her pillows and moan and scream with pleasure.
I was dying from ecstasy and I was getting weak.

All of a sudden we both collapsed. She crawled up beside me and I turned onto my back. Both of us catching our breath as we got comfortable. I laid there for awhile thinking about this unforgettable experience. Questions filled my head. Does this make me gay or bi-sexual? Is this a one-night stand? What if she wants to do this again and I don't? What if I want to do it again and she doesn't? I wonder if April and Katara did anything.

Diamond broke the silence. "Did you enjoy yourself?"

"To be honest with you, I did. I'm sorry I didn't get the chance to at least try to please you."

She got closer to me and said, "don't worry," She took my hand and guided it to her love nest, "I was definitely pleased."

I touched between her thighs and discovered she was just as wet as I was. "How did that happen?" I asked shocked.

"I'll explain it to you one day. That is if you'd like to spend more time with me."

"I'd really like that." I said.

"Well, let's continue making your first experience more memorable. Let's go take a bubble bath by candlelight."

I was all for it. We exited from her pussy scented room and headed across to the bathroom. I could hear Katara moaning with pleasure and I knew she was having fun too. As I watched Diamond light the candles in the bathroom I was happy I took my sexual experience to another level and was already looking forward to Diamond and I becoming closer friends.

THE END

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