Little shorty: Short Story Time!
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Good day all!
Friday is upon us and we should all be so happy! And why not? The weekend is here, and it’s a holiday weekend at that. A holiday weekend that I might be doing some heavy reading and writing on soooo in that respect, I’ll be working (“working”).
Apart from that, I do have something I want to share. I hope you’re up to reading it *enter smiley face*.
It’s a short story I barely finished some time ago. I really thought I was never going to finish it because I was making it more work than it needed to be, and trying different ways to create the story (note-taking, writing pieces of it here and there, etc.). I found that I need to just do things my way and just be accepting of my own process. So I did, and I finished it and it’s just there. Just sitting in the file where I story short stories that I’ve finished or haven’t.
I’m ready to share a piece of it though because it’s the right thing to do and I don’t want to keep it to myself, I have got to let it out!
A short introduction: this story is about a young working woman (Vanessa) who meets a seemingly well put-together young working man (Jay). She’s warned that he may not be good for the type of relationship she wants but she pursues him anyway, ending up in a relationship that’s full of unpleasant surprises and unhealthy choices. It ends in a bit of sadness, but not everything ends with happily ever after.
Without further ado, here is an excerpt of Breaking Down:
Vanessa was feeling high on the waves of a heat that was building, rising from a deepness inside of her. Her body swallowed the warmth as it plunged in where she couldn’t reach, her hips directing it as it did. The energy intensified as she could feel it taking over her senses, slowly but surely. Then finally, almost unexpected, the feeling burst from deep inside of her; out of her mouth in a peaked moan, almost a scream. She was caught in that savory moment before she allowed her body to fall forward, resting on top of Jay’s sweat soaked body. She didn’t feel the sweat forming on her back until a bead rolled down the side of her hip. She absorbed the high from the love session, languidly laying kisses on Jay’s chest as she laid there, tasting the salt on her lips.
“I think I’m in love with you,” Jay sighed, his fingers finding her scalp underneath all of the curls, massaging it. It was his favorite thing to do whenever they laid together, almost like it relaxed him to do it. She allowed it because it felt good, and he didn’t mess up her hair anymore than it already was. He could smell the coconut hibiscus in her hair from her washing it earlier that week. He reveled in that smell.
Vanessa slowly rose her chest up from his body, head turned up to look at him. “You’re hilarious,” she giggled. She knew he couldn’t really mean what he said, even with what Gladys told her about him some time back when they met. ‘He’s a serial monogamist,’ Gladys’s voice repeated over and over in her head. Vanessa wasn’t sure how to feel about it, but she knew she liked him. She originally thought it was just going to be a little friends-with-benefits situation, but it immediately turned into a sleepover-every-weekend deal. She didn’t plan on it, but here they were. She couldn’t lie and say that she didn’t enjoy Jay, because she obviously did, but she knew it could spell trouble if she fell for him and he started shying away. It seemed to be the pattern she was used to and abhorred. She didn’t feel like going through all of that again.
No sooner had those thoughts started taking shape in her mind, she felt her energy shift. She began to pull away from the moment as soon as it came to be, and then physically pulled away from Jay. She slipped off to the side of him, laying beside him, shoulders barely touching. He could feel the change in her mood.
“Hey, what’s wrong?” Jay touched her arm with his fingertips, trying to reel her back into his space. It didn’t work.
Vanessa just shook her head and forced a little smile. She turned to look at him. “Nothing’s wrong. I just didn’t want to keep laying on you with all this sweat on me, it’s nasty.” She lied. The sweat wasn’t nasty, it actually turned her on. She was starting to feel the tugs of insecurity that she always felt when things were going good, too good. She knew somehow it always went sour. Nothing good ever lasts.
“Do you smoke?” Jay asked Vanessa as he rolled a joint full of marijuana. Vanessa nodded, watching him place the joint in between his dry but full lips, then flicked the lighter—flames coming to life. He touched the flame to the tip of the joint and the tip glowed with the embers of burning weed. He inhaled deeply, holding it for a few beats, then the smoke slowly escaped from his nostrils as he passed it to Vanessa. She was more than well versed in the art of smoking the “ganj,” and it showed. She let the smoke fill her lungs as she took it in deep, exhaling patiently. She passed the joint back to Jay, abiding by the rules of sharing a joint or blunt (puff, puff, pass). They took the moment in silence—puffing and passing between them, no words, only touches of arm and leg here and there. Vanessa welcomed this peacefulness. She felt bad for letting her thoughts get the best of her earlier so she felt like this was needed, to lighten the tenseness she was feeling within herself. It died down but it still remained there, just tucked in the corner of her mind.
As the joint was about to die, Jay took the time to grab Vanessa close to his side of the bed and kissed her gently on her forehead. “I meant what I said earlier. And I don’t think it, I know it,” he spoke into her skin while laying another kiss on her. She didn’t need to reply, just inhaled the good stuff, and exhaled a giddy grin laced with thick smoke.
I’ve actually posted the entire story on Wattpad. You can find it here at https://www.wattpad.com/549872435-breaking-down and please read it if you can. I don’t think you need to be a member to read it, but if so you might as well sign up!
Or maybe I’ll post it piece by little piece here!
I have to get going. Let’s do this again sometime, yeah? See you next week!
