But I don’t want to think about none of this right now, which is why I bend over and get my tube sock from under the mattress and politely put it on with my left hand, then use my right one to slide it up and down my penis until I see myself expanding, filling it up. The friction is getting it warm. Now warmer. I kick the covers off, ’cause it’s starting to feel like somebody turned the furnace up all of a sudden. I need this: The heat. The friction. The juice. All of it. So I close my eyes and completely erase this nasty-ass apartment and everything in it.

“Yeah, baby.”

I knew Halle Berry wanted to suck my dick the minute she laid eyes on me. But why wouldn’t she? I got a pocketful of money, credit cards falling outta my wallet, and my Benz is parked out front. Shit, I smell good. And look even better than I smell. “Come on, Halle. Take it.” And don’t she take all of it?

“Oh, hell, yeah!” That’s my girl. Halle, you working it, baby. Goddamn! She can perform miracles with those lips, I swear to God she can. I’m feeling smooth and hot, like a blister getting ready to pop, like the bristles of a hot soft brush is tickling me only it ain’t funny but I’m grinning from ear to ear ’cause . . . Watch out, Halle! Toni Braxton said she can suck it better than you! Move over, girl, and let Toni do her thang. She told the whole truth and nothin’ but truth!

I wanna look down, but I don’t wanna open my eyes. I feel her stroking it like she’s familiar with it, like she in love with it, like she been waiting to kiss it, touch it, hold it, and stroke it all her life. I whisper, “Take your time, baby.” I’m starting to tingle. It’s spreading through every single one of my veins, all the way out to the curve of my fingertips. Damn. My dick is throbbing. It wants to scream and tell the world how good it’s feeling right now. Now I’m icy hot and some kinda electric current is shooting through my body and working its way down.

“That’s it, Toni!”

I love the way she’s singing to it.

“Work it, baby.” It’s moving to her beat. “Come on, Toni, hit any note you want to. Make it jump. That’s it! Yeah yeah yeah, Toni, that’s IT!”

I feel the sock getting wet and my body sinks into this raggedy-ass mattress, since I’m now back in the real world, but I can’t open my eyes until I at least kiss Toni and Halle and lick their pretty nipples and thank ’em for being at my service tonight. They thank me. They wanna curl up here and spend the night, but I say, “Y’all both can’t stay. It wouldn’t be right.” What a jam I done got myself into, but, hell, I can’t choose, ’cause I love ’em both.