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“All for you, Pooh.” His voice was low, steady, and certain. Like he would do it all again just to see this reaction from me. My reaction filled his soul, making him happy because he had made me happy. “Baby, this is amazing… like I cannot even speak because this feels fake.” He kissed my lips softly and then held my chin. “Bleu, I always wanna keep you on your toes. Never want that smile to leave your face and see the world with you.”
It was fucking perfect, with tattoos covering every inch of his body, except his midsection. His beard was neatly groomed, my favorite thing about him. His pink lips poked out with no expression on his face as he prepped the shower for us. His face was relaxed, showing his laugh lines, or better yet his scowl lines. His chain rested around his neck while he walked back and forth across the bathroom while I watched him. The few beauty marks and freckles donned his face, near his eyes. As much as he looked like his brother, he had his own uniqueness about him, too.
“What are you scared to say to me, baby?” I asked, softly caressing his face as I continued to stare into his dark brown eyes.
“Wanna know something?”
“Tell me something, Bleu… feel like I’m about to have an anxiety attack.”
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“I could have her if I wanted her, Bleu. I don’t want her that way anymore, and shit, maybe I was never supposed to have her. I was gonna sit in the crib that night until Beans told me Greene was at her dinner.” “And you found me.” “I found you, Pooh.” He kissed my ear, and I giggled while he squeezed me tighter, as my legs wrapped around him.
“I wanna be a supporter… a provider… I wanna love you, Bleu. I don’t want to be a stranger to you anymore, or a friend.”
Landon Caselli wasn’t falling; he had already fell. Head over hills with me, a regular girl from Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Not the models and pageant queens he could have on his arms. He fell for the book worm who loved to talk to her camera, play Sims, and had a zest for life. A woman that didn’t want to have kids. He fell for me.
“I… I love you, Landon,” I moaned into his ear, and he pulled back and looked at me.
“I love you, Bleu.”
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A woman that didn’t realize she had changed up my world. How I thought, or what I thought I wanted. She was so secure in who she was and what she wanted, that it made me need her. I wanted her. Craved her.
Who the fuck needed a birthday cake when I had pussy right in front of me? Pulling her closer to me as I slurped her juices. My pussy.
Yeah. I was gone.
“Dennis told me he felt some kind of way.” I held the phone away from my ear. “Who the fuck is Dennis?” When I was over his house, I remember Jeffie and Corleon kept mentioning Dennis, but I wasn’t even tapped into their conversation. I was more concerned with why I was there. I was met with silence again. “My fucking son.”
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“Not at all… had me thinking of changing that Perkins to Caselli.”
“Excuse me, Pooh.” I removed her from my lap and then walked back over toward where everyone was standing. People were between taking pictures or in the gift shop that was near the top of the view. Navy was still talking to her parents as I shoved my hands into my pockets feeling overwhelmed. They got me a cake. A shared cake with their daughter.
“Can’t even tell you how I feel, Pooh.” She hugged me and looked right up at me. “You feel loved… that feeling of knowing someone cares about you, thought about you, and wanted you to know it.” “Why they do that?” She smiled up at me. “Because they see exactly what I see.” “What’s that?” She hugged me tighter. “A good man that wants to love and be loved. You want to feel what you’re feeling, but because you’ve never experienced it before, you’re scared.”
I rubbed her face and kissed her lips slowly. “I’ll get a vasectomy.” “Excuse you?” “It’s like a ten-minute procedure for me and I’m awake. You already have to go under; I don’t want you having that extra pressure on you.” She reached up and grabbed my face. “I couldn’t ask you to do that.” “You not asking me to do it… I’m offering. Bleu, I want you. If this is what I have to do to protect us, I’ll do the shit.”
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I wanted Navy and everything that came with her. Her family, I wanted them to be mine. My feelings were so strong that it had me second guessing myself. Trying to talk myself out of feeling this way about her. Every time I called myself creating some distance, I only wanted her more. She was who I wanted to be with, and if children weren’t in our future I could live with that. Spending my life with a woman that loved me, while traveling the world was good with me.
I was on the points of my toes, holding onto the balcony while he held onto the back of my neck, and all I kept screaming in my head was I’m never leaving, I’m never leaving.
My mother was back home in Brooklyn praying for me to have a safe trip, while I was on this island with this man’s hand around my neck, and sitting on the edge of a balcony getting fucked.
“E-fucking- nough! Damn, we waiting to leave and you fucking up there! We can hear you!” Beans hollered from below, and I slapped my hand over my mouth. Landon wasn’t fazed, as he continued to move my body on his dick. “Beans, they’re…” I heard Greene come behind him. “They’re fucking, Grizzle… I ain’t trying to hear all that shit when we supposed to be leaving… damn!”
There was always something happening, always something to do. Even when you planned not to do anything, something always had to get done. When I was younger, I used to hate to sit in the house doing nothing. As an adult, I realized that not too many got that option.
“I get it, bitch… damn. You and Don are both freaked out… got it.”
“I love you, Landon. Sounds crazy, but I do. I only have this feeling right here for you.” I placed his hand on my chest as he looked at me. “I love you, too, Bleu.” He kissed my lips and held me tighter against his body.
“Being serious, you a down-to-earth guy, G. I’m protective with my little girl, but I also know I trust her enough to make decisions for herself. If my mamas is rocking with you, then me and my baby gonna watch this unfold. Hopefully, the vibes this beautiful island brought us at the start of our journey within love blesses the both of you. You have our blessing and our guidance if you both need anything.”
His fingers swiped on the screen and then the phone started to ring. “Well, look who isn’t being a complete child. Are you going to be in Vegas?” Kennedy answered. As if she was standing by her cellphone waiting and praying that he would call her. “Yo, Ken… my baby wanna know why you texting me still?”
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Landon had spent so long confusing intimacy with sex that he didn’t know how to give himself to someone without taking something in return. I didn’t want his body tonight; I wanted the part that he had never given to someone. The part of him that many wanted after he nailed them to the mattress and had them screaming out every higher power they believed in. I wanted the part of him that everyone couldn’t have or experience. The part of him that knew how to feel. That wanted love and was curious about it, too. The side of him that had never experienced or witnessed it in true form. I wanted
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yes it’s something about aftercare and finding ways to show intimacy without sex that brings the relationship together
“I don’t know how to do that soft shit,” he said low, his voice almost breaking. “I want to try with you, Pooh.”
Hearing his voice slightly crack made my chest tight. I leaned down, resting my forehead against his. “All I want is for you to always try. I’m patient, Lan.”
Watching as he allowed himself to feel, not being tense or flinching. He just let me love him without stipulations. That was intimacy.