Nookie's Secret (Nookie 2) (Nookie Series) (11 page)

She rinsed her mouth and walked to the door. She looked out the peephole and her only thought was how sexy he looked in his jeans, shorts and wife beater.

Joy went against the voice and her head telling her no and opened the door. The first thing she noticed was that he had huge bandage on his forehead.

“Oh my God, what happened to your head?”

“Man some niggas broke in my house and robbed me. One of them smacked me with the gun.”

“Did you call the cops?”

“Naw I handled it already. I need you to come back and help me clean up.”

“Ok.” Joy ran into her room and put the clothes that were on the floor on. She back in the living room in three minutes.

Wayne had Joy drive to his house. It wasn’t that far, so in no time they were there. Joy parked and they got out.

“How did they get in?” Joy asked, noticing that there was no damage to the front door.

“The front door but I got it fixed this morning.”

“Ok,” she said and followed Wayne through the front door.

Joy walked in, looked around and saw no mess or damage. She looked in the dining area there were dozen of balloons and a huge cake. A dozen roses sat next to it. Joy covered her face with her hand. She couldn’t believe that he did this. It didn’t matter that it was a day late.

She turned around towards him. “What, the robbery story was a lie?”

“Yeah. I was mad busy yesterday and I felt bad.”

“This is wonderful. Thank you.”

He walked to her and kissed her cheek but she turned her face into a wet and juicy kiss. He lifted her unto the table and pulled her underwear off, leaving her skirt on. He unzipped his jeans and entered her. He held both her legs as he pumped in and out of her. He picked her up off the table and carried her to the bedroom.

He laid Joy on the bed and took his pants off. He got in bed, rolling onto his back and told Joy get on top. Joy eased down on his dick and watched him bite his bottom lip. He pushed up into her as she rode him slow at first and then picking up speed when she was about to cum.

“Shiiitttt,” she yelled out as she came.

A few more pumps from Wayne and he lifted Joy off him as he came. His chest heaved up and down as he caught his breath. Joy laid down beside him, stretching her the cramp she had in her leg.

“Can you get me some juice?”

Joy didn’t feel like moving but she climbed over Wayne and went into the kitchen. She saw a cup in the dish drainer. She grabbed the cup and then went into the refrigerator and fetched a container filled with juice. She filled the cup to the top. She walked into the bedroom, trying not to spill it, only to find that Wayne was asleep.

Joy put the cup to her lips and drunk the juice without taking a breath. She was wide-awake. She wanted to find out more about him. Instead of asking him, she searched through his stuff.

Starting with his pants pockets, she pulled out his wallet. His license read Dwayne Curry. He was thirty-two. There was nothing else of interest in his wallet. No pictures of his kids or a wife. She placed it back in his pocket. She went to his closest and looked at the clothes that he had but there was only jeans and sneakers.

She pushed her clothes aside and looked for anything hidden in the back. She came up empty. She stepped back and looked at the shelf over the rack, then noticed a shoebox. She reached up, grabbed the shoebox and went to the living room to open it.

Lifting the lid, she held her breath, nervous about what she would find. A stack of cards, together in a rubber band was all that was in the box. She took them apart and looked at them. They were driving licenses: each of them had Wayne’s face with different names and information.

Joy’s eyes opened in shock. She continued to go through the cards. There was one for every state. She couldn’t believe it.
Wayne might even be his real name
.

She wrapped the rubber band back around the cards, closed the shoebox and went to put it back. She almost dropped the box putting it back. She looked down and saw that it was a slit between the bedroom carpets that led into the closest. She looked behind her to make sure that Wayne was still sleep. She lifted up the carpet.

Under it was a piece in the floor that looked like it could be lifted up. She almost missed it. Joy went into the kitchen to get a butter knife. She came back, stuck it under and popped up the floor. Inside, there was an envelope with a disk in it. She pulled the disk out and saw her name written across it, the feeling of shock caused her to shake. She had to go to the bathroom because she felt like she was going to piss on herself.

She fixed everything the way she found. After hiding the disk in her bag, she got in the bed beside Wayne. She tried to tell her self to act normal until she could get home and see what was on the DVD. She moved over as far as she could away from him and listened to his breathing. She thought about waking him up and asking him to take her home.

After twenty minutes of trying to stay still, she eased out the bed and went into the living room. She got the DVD back out her bag and went to the TV. She grabbed the remote and turned the TV on, placing it on mute. She stuck the disk in and waited.

She saw Wayne’s bedroom. The front of the bed was in view. Next, she saw Wayne carrying her in. He removed all his clothes and then removed all of Joy’s. Joy’s eyes grew wide with shock. She had her hand over her mouth to keep from making any noise. In the video, Joy’s eyes were closed and her body was limp.

She remembered the day that she woke up and couldn’t remember what happen. She now knew why. She watched as he had her sprawled out on the bed. He held her legs apart over her head and had sex with her. She watched until the end, where he pulled out and came in his hand. He left out the room and came back on the screen with a rag and cleaned Joy off.

Joy took it out and put it back in her bag. She turned off the TV. Something sick inside of Joy was turned on by what she just saw. Most people would freak out, but Joy wanted to know more about what Wayne was into.

Chapter Twenty-Six

Joy nabbed her phone out her bag and went back into the bedroom. She put the phone on vibrate then went to Wayne’s pants and got out his phone. She fumbled the phone as she looked at Wayne to make sure he was still sleep. She watched his chest move up and down for a few seconds. She dialed her number form his phone and looked down at her phone. His number still came up block. She thought that he was blocking his number when he called her but it was listed as blocked.

She was tried to see if the number to the phone was listed somewhere in the phone when someone called. The name Tee flashed on the screen. She fumbled, trying to silence the phone before it woke Wayne up and accidentally answered it. She put the phone up to her ear and listened. Joy thought that maybe it was a girlfriend or something by the way the person shouted in the phone.

“Daron, I been calling you. Why you not calling me back? I want that done tonight,” the woman shouted. Joy didn’t need to listen anymore. She recognized Tanya’s voice and she knew that she walking about her. She hung up the phone and went into the kitchen. Joy paced back in forth and wondered what they had planned for her.

She heard Wayne call out from the bedroom. She jumped at the sound of his voice. She tried to fix her face and make sure she had a calm expression before she went back into the bedroom.

“Damn, I aint mean to fall asleep. You ready for me to take you home?” he asked as got up and walked to the bathroom. Joy used that opportunity to run in the kitchen, grab the biggest knife she saw and put it in her bag. She sat on the bed when he came back.

“You aight?” Wayne asked.

“Yeah. Why?”

“You got this funny look on your face.”

“No. I’m good. Just a little tired.”

“Ok. I’m sorry you didn’t even get a chance to cut your cake but you can take it with you.”

“Ok.” Joy said.

“You sure you okay. You being kind of short.”

“I’m good.”

Joy followed behind Wayne out the bedroom and watched him pick the cake up, grab the balloons and they left out. He placed everything in the back seat of the car and they got in.

She waited for him to start driving. She reached over and started rubbing his dick through his jeans.

“Girl, what you doing?” Wayne asked getting excited.

“Nothing, keep driving.” Joy undid his buckle and zipper, pulling out his rock hard dick. She stroked it with one hand as she reached in her bag for the knife. She wrapped her hand around the top of his dick and placed the knife at the bottom. When Wayne felt the coldness, he jumped. “What the fuck?” he looked down and nearly shit his self.

“Don’t stop driving.” Joy demanded when she noticed he slowed down.

“Joy what’s happening?”

“What’s happening is, if you don’t tell me what the fuck is going on I will cut this little muthafucka off.”

“Joy you tripping. Let my shit go.”

“Daron, I’m not repeating myself.”

“Shit. How did you…?”

“That don’t matter. I know more than you think I do. Start talking,” she tightened her grip.

“Aight look. Tanya’s my cousin. She wanted me to come down here and fuck with you a little bit. It was her idea about the laxative and to leave you stranded down AC.”

Tears fell out Joy’s eyes. She was more angry than hurt. “What about this?” Joy said, holding up the DVD. Daron’s eyes open in shock.

“How did you get that?”

“Call it luck. Now answer my question.”

“Yeah.”

“What are you supposed to do to me tonight?”

“I was supposed to plant a gun with a body on it in your apartment. Then make an anonymous call to the cops.”

“Why was you so willing to do all this?” Joy said, starting to get choked up with emotion.

“At first it was for money. She was going to pay me five thousand. I couldn’t go through with it. I was starting to like you. Joy, I’m sorry but you got to believe me.”

Joy wanted to believe him but she knew that she could never trust him. The feeling of worthlessness consumed her. She knew nothing would ever be different for her. She would never have the feeling of complete happiness. Daron was still driving. Neither one of them had any idea where they were.

Without further thought, Joy grabbed the wheel, causing him to lose control and run smack dead into a Dunkin Donut’s. The last thing] Joy saw was a blinding light as she felt glass tear into her face, neck and arms. There was an intense shooting pain through her body then she felt nothing as darkness engulfed her.

Two and a half years passed since that night and Joy thought about it everyday. She had no choice and it served as a huge reminder. Daron walked away with no injuries. Joy was paralyzed from the waist down and had to serve a life sentence for causing the accident that killed a father of three children. The car not only hit the side of the building but a man standing in front of it.

“Williams, you have a visit.”

Surprised, Joy rolled herself towards the visiting room. No one ever came to visit her. She didn’t even have anyone listed, so she knew that it was probably a mistake. She would get down there and they would tell her to go back.

When she rolled through the door she thought she was hallucinating. On the other side of the glass stood Kevin, holding a little girl’s hand. She was a spit image of herself and Joy knew right away that the girl was her daughter. Kevin had a long scar from the top of his head all the way down under his chin.

Joy was speechless. She couldn’t stop staring as the correctional officer moved the chair closer.

“Kevin? I thought you were dead,” she cried. She looked from him to the little girl and back at him.

“Almost. I was shot twice in the head. I was in a coma for six months. When I came out of it, I had to learn how to do everything again.”

“Oh my God. Was that you who kept calling me?”

“That was me,” he wiped the tears running down his face with the back of his hand.

“Is this…?” Joy stopped; she realized that she didn’t know her own daughter’s name.

He nodded his head, ‘Her name is Aminah.”

“Aminah,” Joy repeated, looking down at her daughter. The little girl hid behind Kevin, sneaking peeks at Joy, “How did you find her?”

“It was hard. When I got better. I tried to find you. I hired a private investigator. He couldn’t locate you at first but did found out that you had a baby that you abandoned at the hospital. After hearing that, I hired a lawyer to get custody of Aminah. I had to take a DNA test and once it showed that I was her father, custody was awarded to me.”

Joy was stunned.

“When the PI told me that he found you and where you were, I debated for months whether I should come up here. I almost didn’t come but I wanted you to see what you will miss out on. You see this beautiful child you threw away?” Anger creped into his voice.

“But Kevin I thought you were dead,” Joy screamed in anguish.

“You can continue to think that because from this day forward, you will never see or speak to me or her again.” Kevin got up, picked up their daughter and walked out the room.

Joy watched them leave and the thought hit her that the real reason for her unhappiness was her selfishness.

Alternate Ending

An intense feeling of regret overcame Joy. She couldn’t believe what she walked away from. She should have loved her child enough, not abandoned her. Joy never wanted to be like her mother but realized that she was just like her.

The longer she sat, the more the pain pierced her heart began to overwhelm her. What would her daughter think? Would she feel the same as Joy felt for her mother?

After Joy woke up in the hospital and found out she was going to jail and would never walk again. She thought jail was the lowest moment in her life but this was far worst. Joy chalked up her situation as being karma from all the bad things she’d done. She didn’t feel like she wanted to die. Seeing Kevin with their daughter was too much for her to deal with. It was like she was being smacked in the face with all the regrets and disappointments that happened throughout her life.