Chocolate Flava by Zane Presents
Author:Zane Presents
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2004-06-28T04:00:00+00:00
The Shower
Reginald Harris
Another gray-tinged morning. Again his eyes open ten minutes before the alarm goes off, as he is awakened by…what? Anticipation? Workday dread? Sounds from the TV set, still on from the night before when he and his partner had fallen asleep watching the Olympics? On the screen now is the inevitable early morning infomercial, a gaggle of actors crazed with admiration for some inane product, some New Thing, the One Great Innovation No One Can Live Without. He rubs his eyes and groans.
He rises slowly from the bed. The movement does not cause his sleeping partner to even stir. The exhaustion caused by repeated twelve-hour shifts ties the sleeper to the bed as if by silken threads. Even the sharp buzz of the alarm has no effect. Turning off its drone, the still-drowsy early riser makes a mental note to try to wake his other half before leaving the apartment for work.
He goes into the bathroom, turns on the radio, pisses away the first hard-on of the day. Goes to the kitchen, winces in pleasure over a glass of grapefruit juice, and starts a pot of coffee on its way to perking. Returning to the bathroom, he sits, shits, stands, shaves. Turns on the water in the tub, measuring its temperature with a quick sweep of the hand, then turns a dial upright, changing the origin of the flood from faucet to showerhead. Another check to make sure the first bracing coldness from the pipes has subsided. He steps inside and begins to wash the previous evening from his skin.
The rush of water beats a counter-rhythm to the laid-back jazz of his favorite morning radio station. He runs a soapy hand across his chest and smiles, remembering the most recent episode of a cable TV show with an all-black cast he’d seen. It had begun with one of the male actors getting caught beating off in the shower. All of the men on the show were fine, but to him, this one seemed better looking than the rest. He was not sure why. Perhaps it was his thick but muscular body—so like his sleeping partner’s—or his mocha skin and smoothly shaven head. Or maybe it was the character he played, the image he projected: a solid, stable black man, hard-working, devoted to his family. All so very attractive and still so very rare to see on television. Perhaps, too, it was the all-too-quick shot of a bare, fat brown ass beamed across the cable wires for the entire nation to see that convinced him to give the actor his props.
He leans a shoulder against the wall of the shower and closes his eyes. I am the guy from the TV show beating off in the shower (a blur of water bouncing off a bald brown head). I am beating off in the shower with the guy from the TV show (a curving arm around bare wet shoulders, pulling close). I am in the shower beating off the guy from the TV show (warm drops of water licked from the neck, lips pressed together in a kiss).
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