Be Bad For Me(19)

Someone finished their game over in the corner and Rico and Gerald  grabbed the sticks and started raking up the balls. Rico and Denise were  too busy in conversation, so Gerald handed me his stick, then took the  other one from Rico.

"Ladies first." Gerald gestured for me to make the first break.

"Wanna break?" Annette turned around to ask Bianca.

"No, girl. You go ahead. You and Denise are the better pool players than  I am. Let me know when you get an easy shot and I'll take it."

With that, Annette lifted the triangle rack and positioned herself and  the stick over the pool table for the best shot. When she leaned over,  she could feel several sets of eyes on her body.

"Don't miss the whole thing, now," Gerald teased, as she prepared to break the balls.

She lifted herself up and smacked her teeth at him. "Like I said  earlier … you and your friend over there are gonna get your asses beat, so  why don't you step back and look, because that's what you're going to  be doing most of the time, anyway."

"Oooh! She sure did play your ass," Rico shouted out from the sidelines. He doubled over in laughter.

"Man, you supposed to be on my side," Gerald said.

Annette leaned over the table again and made a good firm break with her  stick. She got three balls in on the first play. She continued and made  two side pockets and a corner pocket before she looked up and asked,  "Are y'all takin' notes?"

"Damn, I guess you are good." Gerald was staring at her legs.

She smiled, thinking that was all he could do was stare. She liked being  a tease when she could. It made her feel good to know that she could  still get any man's attention. Maybe that's why Anthony got so mad when  she wore provocative outfits, like the one she had on tonight. Because  he knew that other men's eyes were looking at his girl and he couldn't  do nothin' about it.         

     



 

"I'm better than good," she teased, and decided to give Gerald a little  something more to look at. She leaned over again, knowing that her skirt  had dangerously reached the tops of her thighs and made another  difficult shot in the corner pocket.

Annette turned to Denise and handed her the stick. "I'm tired of whopping their ass, Denise."

Denise gladly took the stick from her and took her turn on the table. By  the time Denise got through, there were only five balls left on the  table. Rico and Gerald were huddled together talking quietly to each  other. No doubt about which one of us they wanted to get numbers from.  Annette knew she was off limits, so they could forget about getting  hers. Not that she would give her number out to either of them, anyway.  They were not her type at all, but she enjoyed teasing them, though.

"Bianca, your turn," Denise said, handing Bianca the stick. Bianca got  up, took the last sip from her margarita, and put some more chalk on the  stick. Bianca must have been tipsy off that one margarita she just had  because she barely got a ball in the corner pocket.

"Uh-oh, y'all time was almost up right there," Gerald said, moving closer to the table beside Bianca.

"Don't get too excited," Bianca said, holding up a hand.

"You just don't know … " Gerald said, shaking his head, eyeing Bianca's  breasts. Bianca prepared to make another hit. Just as she was about to  hit the ball, Gerald said, "You sure that's the ball you want to get?  See … if you hit the green ball … right there … you would have a better shot  at the orange ball … over here."

"What you showing her for?" Rico protested. "Do you want them to win?"

Gerald ignored Rico. Before moving around to help Bianca place the tip  of her stick on the cue ball, he asked, "Want me to show you?"

"Well, show me then." Bianca gave permission almost too quickly as  Gerald moved behind her and placed his hands over hers showing her where  she needed to hit the cue ball. She watched as Bianca pressed her ass  into his pelvis and nodded her head as if she was interested in what he  was telling her about hitting the ball. Nonetheless, they missed the  whole ball and Rico stepped up and took over the game. When Rico and  Gerald won the game, due to Bianca's miss, they had to give up their  table because some other people were waiting to play.

"I feel like another drink," Bianca mumbled, as they walked away from the pool table to another corner of the room.

Rico and Denise were still deep in conversation with each other and didn't even seem to care about them.

"Me, too," Annette agreed. That one margarita didn't even give her a buzz. "I'll go get some more drinks and be right back."

"You sure. I'll go," Bianca said, grabbing Annette's hand.

"No, I'll go," Annette said, and then she leaned down and whispered in Bianca's ear, "Besides, Gerald looks like he's into you."

Bianca smiled. "Hurry back."

With that Annette walked away in pursuit of the bar. What she didn't know was that she was being followed.

Annette was glad that she got out of the house tonight and wasn't  waiting for Anthony to call her. There was a possibility that he would  not even call her tonight and she would have been waiting for nothing.  If Anthony didn't answer his phone after she called him two or three  times, she knew that it was a wrap and that she might as well forget  about it and call him the next day. She hated that. She knew that she  shouldn't put up with that anymore with Anthony. But, in her heart she  knew that Anthony would never change his ways, but he still loved her  anyway. You just couldn't change men or teach an old dog new tricks.

Annette gasped when she felt a pair of strong hands that grabbed her waist from behind.

"You shouldn't make promises that you don't intend to keep." The warm, smooth voice caressed her skin.

She didn't have to turn around to know that the masculine, sexy voice  belonged to no other than Jordan. When she didn't say anything from  being so shocked, he continued whispering in her ear, "And you shouldn't  tease and seduce men and kick their ass on the pool table at the same  time. That could turn out to be a dangerous combination when you think  about. Have you ever been turned on and mad at the same time?"

Her temperature reached its peak. She needed a fan. Finally, she turned around to face him. "What are you doing here?"

"I was going to ask you the same thing."

"I'm here with Bianca and Denise."

After seeing him for the third time, she was still fascinated with his  looks. She decided that it didn't matter how many times she ran into  this man. She would still feel the same sexual tension that she was  feeling right at that moment.         

     



 

"I see that. Do the three of you go to clubs and parties and seduce and tease innocent men all the time?"

"Innocent. They were hardly innocent," she said.

"So, you do admit that you were trying to seduce and tease them?"

She watched his perfect set up lips move as he spoke the words.

"Why would I do that?" She raised her eyebrow. " Huh? I can't control  another man's feelings." She noticed that his hands were still holding  her by the waist and she took two steps back, lowering her chin.

"Where were you headed? Dance floor?" he asked.

"No, the bar."

"Me, too." He smiled.

She could hardly believe that he was headed to the bar as well since his  glass was still more than half full. She turned around anyway and he  closely followed behind her. When she reached the bar, she ordered two  more martinis, one for her and one for Bianca.

"Wow? Two drinks. Are you certain that you can handle all that?"

"One of these is for my friend."

"Okay." He took the rest of the liquor in his glass to the face and  ordered another. She began walking away and he had to quicken his pace  to catch up with her. "Do you feel like talking?"

Annette smiled at him and knew that nothing inside her wanted to say no. "Can I take Bianca her drink first?"

"Yeah. Want me come with you?"

"Yeah, I do. But only if you want to." She had a feeling that once she  and Jordan got to talking tonight that she would never want to stop. It  felt that way when they were talking at the ice cream parlor that night.

She walked back into the poolroom as Jordan followed closely behind her.  This time she ignored all the looks coming from several guys in the  room. They didn't seem to care that Jordan was on her tail. Rico and  Denise were nowhere to be seen, but Gerald and Bianca were intimately  huddled together in the corner.

Annette had to clear her throat to get Bianca's attention.

"Oh!" Bianca said, surprised when she saw Jordan standing behind her.  She reached out and took her drink from Annette. "How you doin',  Jordan?"

"Just fine, Bianca, and you?"

"Is TJ here?" Bianca asked, innocently.

"What do you think?" Jordan said, looking at her as if she should have already known the answer.