MEETING AT THE MIXER, SHADELRA [free ebook reader for pc txt] 📗

"I just want to say i love you like a brother and i'm sorry that it didn't work out with cherish" freddie continued. "But if you put it in the lord's hands he will see you thru this and any other heartache or roadblock that life will throw at you." Freddie got up and went out the door. Raymond got up and went into the bathroom. He looked in the mirror. "Shit, i'm gonna be alright. i'm gonna go to the strip club tonight and make it rain" he said out loud to himself. He got into the shower and gave himself a shave. Raymond pulled up in the parking lot. It was saturday night around twelve o'clock, the witching hour. A couple of his co-workers had told him about this new spot on the other side of town. "Yeah, go hit that spot up. Them chicks in there are some dime pieces, bodies tight like coke bottles." Raymond decided to check it out. He was feeling real good from the Jack Daniels earlier, plus he had put a blunt in the air so he was "balanced out." He paid the ten dollar door fee to get in the spot. He went straight to the bar, ordered a rum and coke and took took a seat near the stage. The spot was hot with beautiful women with sexy bodies. Men left and right were stuffing money in thongs with no care, breasts and booty all in their face. Every man in there seemed to be enjoying themselves except one. "For some reason i'm not feeling this" raymond thought. Different women came up to his seat offering lap dances or thrusting their bodies up against him, but raymond wasn't feeling them. Everytime he looked up at one of these women, the only thing he thought about was cherish. "This isn't even me anymore, i guess this is a sign." Raymond was about to get up and leave when the deejay announced the featured stripper. She went by the stage name of "honey", and she was about to perform next. "Well first let me finish off this rum and coke" raymond thought sitting back down. The deejay started to play "honey love" by R.KELLY, as raymond sat sipping on his drink. He closed his eyes and listened to the song remembering the first time he saw cherish and the times they shared. "Man, i got it bad, let me get out of here and take my ass home" he thought. As he opened his eyes up, he realized the men in the club were the most excited they had been all night. "This chick must be the baddest one out of them all" he thought as he got up to take a look. When he did get a glimpse, he saw a familiar sight. Those pretty green eyes that he was hypnotized by a couple weeks earlier, were staring right back at him. Up on the stage with nothing on but a thong filled with dollar bills was cherish. She was looking dead into raymond's eyes. Her eyes were filled with hurt, embarassment, anger, a mixture of emotions. Raymond stood there shellshocked for a moment, notmoving until a brother in the back of him said, "Nigga, sit your ass down i can't see that bitch fat ass!" Cherish reacting to what the man said, started moving her hips slow to the music, but raymond could see the hurt in her eyes. "Nigga! sit down i wanna get my turn!" the man behind raymond said. This drew the attention of the security who were slowly edging there way over. Everything came to a head at that point for raymond. He looked at the woman he loved shaking her ass on stage, looked at the empty glass in his hand, then turned around to the man talking shit. He quickly threw the glass at the man's face. The man was stunned momentarily, which gave raymond enough time to jump over the table to slam the man's head into the floor. Raymond was on top of him about to beat him down, when he heard that angelic voice say, "raymond no!" He turned around to see cherish who had jumped off the stage, looking concerned, tears running down her face. The sight of cherish hurt over his actions snapped him out of his rage. He was about tio say something to her, but then the club's bouncers bumrushed him and threw him out of the club face first.


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The next morning raymond woke up with his whole face feeling like it was on fire. "Ouch" he said as he gently touched his face. He got up and looked in the mirror to see the damage. Not as bad as he thought, but the right side of his face was swollen. Raymond sat down on the toilet and reflected on the previous night. "It was one of the worst nights of my life" he thought to himself. "Not only do some muscle bound cats throw me out of the club, but the woman i love is stripping for complete strangers!" He put his hands to his face. "Oh god! i'm in love with a stripper!" He started to cry, wondering why these things happened to him. "Why me god, why put me through this?" Suddenly, it came to him. He had asked god why him, but he realized the answer. Thru it all, yes he had met a beautiful woman, he thought he had found true love, but something else happened in the last month or so. Raymond had realized he had established a relationship with god. Even though it was in the beginning stages, he enjoyed the church, the prayer, he enjoyed the fact that his spiritual side was evolving. "That's why i didn't feel that strip club" he thought. He now knew once he took a couple of steps toward god, god would meet him halfway. "Okay father i understand now" he said out loud. Raymond got up, wiped his tears away and proceeded to get ready for church. It was a rainy sunday morning, but raymond's smile was brighter then a hundred suns. He had found a radio station which played modern gospel. He felt good the best he had felt in a long time. "Everything's going to be alright, as long as i put it in god's hands" he thought. As he pulled up in the parking lot, the rain was coming down pretty hard. He looked down at his watch, he was only five minutes late. He jumped out of the car with his umbrella and hastily ran to the church's entrance. When he walked into the church's foyer, there was cherish 's green eyes looking back at him. She looked like she didn't sleep a wink all night. Her eyes were puffy and red, but she still looked like an angel to raymond. "Raymond..I ..." she tried to say, but couldn't get it out. Raymond smiled, took her hand in his, and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "You ready to go praise the father together?" he asked. "After that, maybe we can go get some pie, some coffe, and talk." Cherish smiled when he said this. "Yes, i would love that." She squeezed his hand hard as the usher led them down the church aisle, hand in hand.


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Publication Date: 10-04-2009

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