Adapting to civilian life is almost as difficult as the adaptation to army life. The hundred-dollar mustering out pay was quickly dissolved. With no income Jack just hung around. Robert’s Trade and Technical School was right up the street and beckoning for newly discharged veterans to use their benefits to get a government financed trade. He opted for diesel repair. He learned quickly but after about a month the nightly trips to the registrar’s office pained Jack’s ass. After a while he quit under the pressure and just began to hang around again.
Jack’s dad was now in the hospital being treated for tuberculosis. Duxie hadn’t saved one dime of the three years of checks Jack had sent home. While hanging out one evening Jack met or at least saw the "Black Pearl". This girl was to be from that day the mold of preference that guided him for many years to come. JoAnn, JoAnn. When Johnny Mathis said "Maria, the most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard", he could have been talking about Jack’s black queen. The feelings were mutual. Every evening they walked for miles basking in each other’s sunshine.
If ever there had been love at first sight this was surely it. She was what would today be described as "phat". Not skinny nor fat, just phat! She was going with a fellow from her hometown and told Jack of her son, Eugene, named after his father who was her current beau. At about this time the winds also brought the scents of a cake being baked by a one-time sexual encounter.
It happened just months before Jack’s discharge from the army. In the living room of the Hobart’s, Jack had consummated an uneventful, well almost, seated act of sex. Yes they actually sat facing each other while getting it on! This was only Jack’s fifth. The timing was all screwed-up. He had many more seeds to sow.
Jack and Jo fell more and more in love and they decided to abort the fetus she now carried. She wanted to start anew with Jack and he felt the same way. Rose, Jack’s sister had Jo sitting in a hot water tub of dried mustard or something. Part of the old ancient "get rid of a baby" method. Using a portion of the second half of the Army’s $200 mustering out money, they purchased a bottle of liquor. This plus the hot bath weakened JoAnn and was supposed to bring down the fetus. It didn’t work!
For weeks the new couple spent afternoons on the bed in the small bedroom, part of the railroad flat. She taught Jack more about making love to a woman than he had ever known. Yet they didn’t have sex. One day Edna, the girl’s mother came home unexpectantly. Jack and Jo so involved in each other they didn’t hear the diminitive lady enter the room. JoAnn was measuring with her stretched thumb and forefinger Jack’s hardened tool. Softly counting, the word "eight" became muffled when her eyes met with her mother’s. Jack, with his own eyes closed to the extreme pleasure, lay wondering why she had stopped counting. When he found out he nodded "Hi"and " ‘Bye" simultaneously, rose with the tremendous bulge in front of him and headed upstairs to his apartment. They continued to meet daily, glad they hadn’t been undressed when her mom had walked in on them.
One day Jack came downstairs to JoAnn’s pad and they began the ritual of their tender lovemaking. Jack had never had this much fun before with his clothes on. He wasn’t too bothered when JoAnn got up from the couch and went down the narrow hallway, unconcerned he let his hardness go away.
Upon hearing his name called, Jack quickly consumed the space to where he heard his sweetie’s voice. The baby-doll PJ’s that had so often encumbered his hands had been tossed aside. The black, nubile queen lay with legs asunder. Jack swallowed hard against the lump in his throat. He hungrily devoured with his eyes the sight before him. Something strange was happening to Jack. The flagpole that had always stood so tall was now at half-mast. He wanted the ebony- hued body that lay there before him, but the limp wad in his pants was letting him down. Rivulets of salty sweat rolled down his hairless jaws. Cajoling and talking to the lifeless mass now in his hands, he kneaded and skinned back his soft meat. Alas, nothing was working. His purple majesty wouldn’t become serviceable no matter what.
Maybe it was fear in the back of his mind that JoAnn's mother might again enter the room. Nevertheless, the hardness never returned. This was the last time this was ever to happen between them. From that day forward the sex they had was nothing short of fantastic. From a mere first kiss to the time when JoAnn first introduced Jack to anal sex and its tremendous possibilities. She was the same age as Jack, but far more worldly. After failing to unite the first time, the next time was well worth the wait. Like a doting mother, JoAnn lied and comforted her lover lying to him that failures were common.
In the darkness Jack circled her mouth with fast, fleeting kisses. His kisses deepened, overwhelming her, stealing her breath, making her heart race as he invaded the moist hollows with his tongue, seeking, drawing, caressing. Her mouth was his and he indulged himself freely. Abandoning it at last, to trail light feathering kisses against the neck and smooth curve of her shoulder. Lost to his passion he covered her face with kisses, her throat, the mounds of her breasts. But he could stand no more. His supreme needs overwhelming him. He shifted his position. It with one swift trust he was deep inside her. Complete possession raised him to new heights of elation as her moist warmth closed around him. Plunging deeply, powerfully he brought her quickly, efficiently to the edge.
The uptown motel "Roy's Plaza" became the usual meeting place for this couple in love. It was here that the Nubile queen first led Jack down the road to Hershey Highway. The two star-crossed lovers were lip-locked in the stench of the over-used windowless room. Still very young, very inexperienced, imagine Jack's surprise when she offered him this sought-after treasure. Jack had no idea what to do with this wrinkled little orifice. He didn't want to mess this up. He didn't.
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