Chapter 8

Arriving at the tire shop around three miles from the hotel, Brown Sugar and Edna exited the vehicle and went tapping on the door of the little tire shop where a short husky looking fellow came from behind the counters and greeted them!

"What can I do for you today, ladies, I can tell you are not from around these parts, because I have never seen such elegant beauty around these parts before, and I have been around her a very long time!"

He said, while pleasantly gazing at the two female strangers standing in his shop!

It wasn't a welcome Brown Sugar was expecting, and quickly glance at Edna, reassuring her that he didn't seemed so bad after all, since his greetings had been so polite!

With nervousness Brown Sugar spoke out...

"Well Sir, Mr. Palmer, my name is Ann Cornelia Wilkins!"

Brown Sugar paused, reading his face to see if she could get some reaction from him, when she had said the name Wilkins, but Mr. Palmer just stood there waiting for what would come from her mouth next!

"And this is my very dear friend, Edna!"

Brown Sugar continued!

Now both of them were staring at each other, as if, they were trying to read each other's minds!

Impatiently, Mr. Palmer return to the other side of the counter, pulled his pants over his belly and sat back on his chair and began searching through piles of papers on his desk as if, the two women in front of him didn't existed!

Twisting her hands over each other, Brown Sugar began staring at Edna again while she moved her shoulders up and down, indicating to her that she didn't know how to break this news to the man sitting on the other side of the counter avoiding their presence!

Edna wasn't feeling intimidated by him; she could have easily ask him the questions Brown Sugar wanted to ask; but this was Brown Sugar's dilemma and she wanted her to deal with it the best way she knew how!

Mr. Palmer glasses were now on the bridge of his nose, and he began peeking over them, at the two women standing in his shop silently!

He then asked...

"You two statues are going to stand here all day looking at me like I am a mirror?"

It was a question that had Edna a little irritant but, she kept her cool and encourage her friend to say something to him about why they were there!

Clearing her throat and tilting her head back, trying to control her inner feelings, Brown Sugar asked quickly, as if she thought her mother's name would bring back some old memories rushing to his mind!

"Do you know Carol Wilkins... the lady who died some years back, in the big yard not too far from here?"

"Yes, I knew here... what about her?"

Mr. Palmer inquired.

"You really knew her!"

Brown Sugar said excitingly!

"Well, she was my mother!"

Brown Sugar continued!

"You were the child she died and left?"

Mr. Palmer asked with pure elation!

Now he was back on his feet and making his way from around the counter to get a good look at Brown Sugar!

"Ho my god Brown Sugar, you are all grown up!"

"You know my pet name as well?"

Brown Sugar asked surprisingly!

"Who you thought gave you that name; I did!"

Mr. Palmer fired back with a big smile on his face!

Now he had his arms around Brown Sugar, rocking her like she was his long last friend!

"You gave me than name?"

Brown Sugar asked while looking at him with questioning eyes!

"So you know that you are my father then?"

Brown Sugar asked in a more serious tone!

"Your father, your father, I am not your father, I was only a very good friend of your mother's because she use to pass here, to and fro, each and every day; because she use to plant her field across the river over there!"

Mr. Palmer explained as he pointed his finger in the direction of the river!

"Sorry to disappoint you, but I didn't know your mother in that kind of way... she use to pass here while she was pregnant with you and we became friends then, since I had just open my shop here! After you were born, you were such a pleasure to my eyes, and she would often stop by here and I would play with you and buy you whatever treats you wanted!"

"I am very, very sorry about your situation!"

Mr. Palmer expressed.

"Well, since you are not my father, do you have any clue of who my real father is?"

Brown Sugar asked sternly!

"Sorry, I don't know... I didn't pry into your mother's personal affairs, now I wish I did!"

Mr. Palmer stated as he shook his head disappointedly!

Hearing the disappointing news, Brown Sugar heart sank with sadness!

She somehow was hoping that this would be it; so she could cancel out the other two potential candidates; but they were still on her list, and needed to be found that very same day, if possible!

Thankful for all that she had learnt, it was now time to depart form the little tire shop at the foot of the bridge, owned by Mr. Jimmy Palmer who subsequently had given Brown Sugar his business card, encouraging her to stay in contact with him while bestowing upon her a warm embrace before she left his tire shop in search of the man whose blood ran through her veins!

This was even a longer ride, and now Brown Sugar and Edna were heading far-east trying and find one Phillip Morris in a community called Newberry!

It was said; he was working at the school located in the same community in which he lived!

Finding the school was easy but finding his address was another story, since Brown Sugar was only told that he was living in the same community as the school, but no one knew the exact address of where he was living!

Tirelessly and for hours, Brown Sugar and Edna walked around in the scheme community asking everyone whom they came in contact with, if they knew of a man by the name of Phillip Morris!

Sad for them, they had his name but, no physical descriptions were available so they could give a concrete depiction of what he looked like, to those they were making inquiries from.

Exhausted from their constant walking, Brown Sugar thought it best to go by the school and question someone there to see if they knew of him!

It was around tree in the afternoon and the school was almost dismissed for the day; and so the duo stepped into the school yard and began asking around if there was a teacher working there by the name of Phillip Morris; and sure enough there was!

He was a very tall dark skin man who came strutting down the corridors of the school, and was later pointed out by one of the janitors working on the grounds of the premises!

From a distance, Brown Sugar stared at the flamboyant figure with great intensity and concluded that he could never be her father, because there was nothing on him that said "father" to her!

However, she was fully aware that genes could be deceiving and wanted to meet with him regardless of what his structure and persona was looking like, because she knew, meeting with him would gradually bring her closer to her truth!

With dancing eyes Mr. Morris decided to meet with her, as he shook her hands and told her to wait for him just a few seconds, because soon, the school bell would be ringing relieving him from his duties!

Sure enough, three o'clock on the dot the school bell rang casing children to be bursting out of class rooms after classrooms, and disbursing everywhere on the grounds of the school premises!

Minutes later came the flamboyant figure walking briskly towards them; clutching his briefcase and sheets of papers in his hands; as he walked up to Brown Sugar, gesturing to her and Edna to come along with him, as if, he wanted to escape from someone or something on the school compound!

Now they were going through the back gate of the school and heading onto the residential property where it was said, he was living!

Finally, through the gate he stopped and asked...

"What can I do for you ladies?"

Brown Sugar was now feeling more confident and didn't feel the need to shy away from the questions she wanted answers to!

"It could only be a yes, a no, or a maybe so!"

She told herself!

"My name is Ann Cornelia Wilkins, and I don't know if you have the answers to the questions I am seeking after but, I was told that you could be a candidate for my father! My mother name is Carol Wilkins... do you know who I am talking about?"

Brown Sugar asked with searching eyes, hoping to detect some act of sincerity or honesty on his face!

Pushing the papers up under his arms and scratching his head with one hand, Mr. Morris mind wondered a far off, trying to figure out what part of him had slept with this young girl's mother resulting in this figure in front of him now!

Wasting no time, Brown Sugar brought his attention back to where she was presently, as she eagerly lashed out...

"She died quite a few years back leaving a toddler... a baby girl by the Cambridge Heights district... she had farm land across the river from what I've been told!"

Still not giving a definite answer, Phillip Morris began staring into Brown Sugar's eyes as if, he was looking for some lost ancestors within her to declare that she was his child, before he replied...

"Yes, I know who you are referring to now, but, if she was pregnant with my child, I wasn't told about it!

Looking one side of the street to the next, as if, not wanting to be seen and acting in a state of agitation as he boisterously asked;

"Do we have to stand here and have this discussion?"

"I'm not living too far from here, if you don't mind, you ladies can come with me so we can sit down and ash this thing out!"

Phillip Morris continued, as he flipped his head to the side, indicating for them to follow him.

Dead silence lingered for a while before anyone said a word!

Nearing up to his house Phillip asked,

"So where are you ladies living now?"

"We are living at Borrow Heights at the moment!"

Brown Sugar replied.

"That is a mighty long way from here, but what I actually meant was, where are you staying in Cambridge Heights?"

Mr. Morris clarified.

"Okay, we are staying in a hotel around five miles away from here!"

"You are really staying in a hotel!"

Mr. Morris exclaimed!

"That must be quite expensive!"

Mr. Morris continued, turning his stares at Brown Sugar, while looking at her from head to toe; as if to scrutinize how much money she had since she was only just a young adult!

Edna quietly observing what was going on and did not want for her friend to reveal to a complete stranger that they had come into some money; so she quickly jumped into the conversation and commented...

"It is a bit expensive but, we have been saving up a very long time so we could get here!"

"So what type of work do you ladies have?"

"I am a teacher just like you are, and she works as a customer service representative at a pharmacy in our town!"

Edna responded.

Looking to find truth on them, Mr. Morris nodded his head as he said... "Ho, I see; one is a teacher and the other handles the customers at a pharmacy!"

The tone in his voice told Edna that he didn't believe what they were saying so she offered to show prove since she had always carried around with her a duplicate of her teachers certification in her purse!

He was close to his yard gate now and mentioned to them that his house was the third gate from the corner, causing Edna to refrain from taking out her teaching documents from her purse and took keen notice of the magnificent structure a stone throw away from them!

Immediately, she thought that he might have come into a vast inheritance also, or, that he was doing more than just teaching to make a living!

There was no way he could afford such a mansion on a teacher's salary even if, he was teaching for a hundred years!

It was definitely big shots, bi business and big living taking place there!

As Mr. Morris opened the gate, Edna could tell that his mind was working overtime by the look on his face, but she presumed it to be, about his possible new found daughter!

They entered through the large brown doors, and then into the very large and magnificent living room where they were invited to be seated, as Mr. Morris went away from their presence into obscured quarters for what seems like a forever moment!

He was gone long enough, allowing Edna and Brown Sugar ample time to peep around the museum like living space with all its various artifacts; that seemed to be a hundred years old or more!

Every single kind of figurine was situated in that house telling stories from the birth of Christ to the ancient harlots who dwell on the streets of Rome in the mediaeval centuries!

Sucked in with the interest of what seemed fascinating to them, Mr. Morris return to the living room completely naked, with only a green bow tied wrapped around his penis and another around his neck, as he laughing shouted out...

"Who wants to play daddy dearest!"

"Or we should play teacher and student, first!"

He shamelessly went on!

Shocking and screaming, Brown Sugar grab for Edna's hand and sank her face into her bosom like it was a life savoir; not wanting to see the lengthy masculine piece of flesh hanging between Mr. Morris's legs with the green bow-tie wrapped around it as though it was gesturing a smile!

"Why are you screaming down the place, you haven't seen one of these before?"

Mr. Morris said jokingly!

"Mother dearest, please tell your daughter to stop the noise and come and play with her father's lengthy document!"

Mr. Morris continued nonchalantly!

"What is the hell wrong with you, how can you be so unsympathetic, so hard-hearted, so god damn insensitive to strangers seeking answers to their problems!"

"I tell you... what is your name, again?"

"Edith, you are doing a fabulous job as a mother to this pretty little whore who refuses from undressing me... come over here and play with daddy's balls!"

Mr. Morris went on!

Pushing Brown Sugar aside, Edna blurted out on the top of her voice!

"My name is not Edith, my name is Edna and my friend is not a whore! She doesn't even know what it is like to be with a man, so don't you dear stand there and call her names when you don't even know anything about her; you sick bastard!"

Not phase by her tone of voice, Mr. Morris glided over to one of the very large couches and jumped onto it like he was a spoiled brat who didn't have any care in the world!

His hands now touching his lengthy flesh, Mr. Morris had his large flesh in his hand massaging it as he brought it to a state of arousal while he invited Edna and Brown Sugar to take turns pleasuring him!

"No you sick bastard... we are not here for that; she is here in search of her father and not to partake in your sex games!

Edna lashed out furiously!

Hand in hand Brown Sugar and Edna went towards the large brown door to let themselves out, but it was locked and no keys were insight to open it!

Storming back to the living room to confront their capturer and demanded that he opened the door right away and let them out, they found him still playing with his flesh and ordering them to join him, so he could be pleasured by whatever worked best for them!

Edna who wasn't really a friend of the opposite sex, grew even more angrier and began screaming on the top of her lungs, for Mr. Morris to come and open the door and let them out; and when he wouldn't budged from where he was lying, she began throwing his artifacts all over the house!

Edna began looking for the grandest pieces of artwork that were heavy enough to break open one of the windows and then let themselves out of the house!

Frighten and exhausted Brown Sugar began pleading and begging while she expressed that she was only in search for her father, and she didn't travel all this way for this to happen to her!

"What if you are my biological father, you will live with this on your conscious knowing that you have slept with your own daughter and also her mother!"

"How could you face all those children you tech all day in the school knowing that you have slept with your own child... is it gasoline that runs through your veins... sir I am begging you, please let us go and I won't bother you again!"

Mr. Morris was now sitting up on the chair with a shock look splattered all over his face!

He was just about to say something when Edna grabbed a clothing iron made from the very heavy cast iron, and threw it at the window as hard as she could, hoping to crack it open but, it didn't do the job, and only sent off a ridiculous sound on the outside causing the neighbors to start asking questions!

Sitting up in the chair with a concern look on his face, Mr. Morris lashed out at Edna, demanding that she stop throwing things around the house and has a seat!

He wanted to leave from where he was and go get some clothing to cover his nakedness, but he was pinned down with shame and guilt as he realized that Edna and Brown Sugar wasn't one of his playmates, who he sometimes swings with and carried out sexual role plays in his house!

They were earnestly and genuinely seeking answers to legitimate questions, and he was in total shock!

Now he began reaching for a pillow to cover his manhood, as he began asking Brown Sugar what year was she born and where had she been all this time!

The memories were now flowing and Mr. Morris began reflecting on the time he had a sexual encounter with Ms. Carol, Brown Sugar's mother, like he had often done with so many other women in his life which usually result in him paying them huge sums of money, especially, when the activity involved role play of twosomes and threesome!

As he revisited his bygone years, and recalled the sexual activities he had with Ms. Carol, and calculated the year Brown Sugar was born, he concluded that he could never be her father, since he and Carol use to have their sexual rendezvous in much earlier times before she had gotten pregnant!

Even though, it had appeared to so many that they were still playing hanky-panky in the sacks, because of the way they would greet each other with hugs and kisses in public spaces!

Pressing for honest answers, Brown Sugar asked with sorrow and passion in her voice...

"Are you sure?"

"I really don't want anything from you I am just trying to know who my real father is and meet any siblings if there is any to be met!"

"Of course I am sure, look how ugly I am and look how beautiful you are; child, I could never be your daddy! I don't even know if my little swimmers can make a cat, much less a beautiful human being as pretty as you!"

Mr. Morris said trying to bring some comfort to the sorrowful and depressing situation!

"All these years, no female has called my name saying that I have gotten them pregnant and I would be more than happy to leave this place to them! But, one of these days I might just adopt you, and if you should ever find him and, he doesn't want anything to do with you, come back to me and I will adopt you!

Mr. Morris said jokingly and shyly, but meant it to be very serious!

Shamefully, he tried removing himself from the couch and retreat back to where he had gotten himself undressed but, found it difficult to do so because of the disheartening and disgraceful situation he had found himself in!

Frist, he grabbed a pillow for the front portion of his body and then another for the back, trying to cover what wasn't meant to be expose to total stranger but, when he had realized that they had already seen all his nakedness, he threw the pillows aside and hurried to his bedroom to get dress and regain a little dignity.

He wasn't gone from the living room for too long when the police came and began beating down the door to investigate what the neighbors had reported to them! And with a strange looking key, Mr. Morris returned to the living room, open the door and told the officers that everything was alright there!

With all the broken artifacts laying on the floor and the shifting of furniture all across the room, the police began to think otherwise, so they push the door wide open to find Brown Sugar and Edna standing in the middle of the living room shaken and confused!

"Are you ladies alright?"

The officer asked firmly, as he gazed around the monstrous and strangely d閏or room.

Unsure, if they should give a direct answer to the officers, since Mr. Morris had spoken his peace and brought some resolution to the situation Edna decided to express to the offers their reasons for being there, and all that had occurred while they were there!

"I want to know if he had assaulted you in any way... did he lay his hands on any of you; ladies?"

"No he didn't touch us, but he wouldn't open the door for us to get out of the house when we had asked him to!"

"Officers, you know me... you know I wouldn't hurt a fly! I sincerely thought they were some of my friends from out of town who had come here for us to have a good time! I didn't know they were actually serious when they said they were looking for their fathers!"

Mr. Morris said trying to defend his actions!

"But why you wouldn't open the door when I asked you to?"

Edna lashed out!

"As I said before, I thought you were my friends and these are the types of games that we play when they are here... I was only having some fun with them! I truly didn't mean to cause them any harm, honestly officer! I am a teacher, and a little freaky as they might say but, I am not a murderer or a dangerous criminal, everyone knows me and knows that I love to have fun with the females; that's all!"

In the meantime, Edna stood convicted in her mind, body and spirit as Mr. Morris pleaded his case to the officers because she knew that she had somewhat taken advantage of Brown Sugar's innocence in times past, and found herself wanting to forgive the stranger even though he had rock her heart with fear, as she wondered what he could have done with them if his mind was in a different place like that of a sociopath!

Pointing his hand towards Brown Sugar Mr. Morris candidly spoken...

"Look at her, don't you see how beautiful she is, why would I want to hurt such a beautiful creature like this? Ask her officer, I just told her; if she finds her father and he does not want anything to do with her, then by all means, I will adopt her; and I sincerely meant every word of it too!"

Mr. Morris proclaimed excitedly!

Hearts were now softened and minds had come to an understanding causing forgiveness for any actions taken earlier on, therefore, allowing the police officers to resign from that environment and went on to the next!

With the police absent from the scene, Mr. Morris turned his attention to Edna, with his eyes bulging wide open, as he asked frivolously!

"Woman, look what you have done to my place, who is going to clean up all these broken glasses and splinters all over my living room?"

"You ladies have to come back here and help me clean up all this mess you have caused here, anyway, I am glad you broke some of these damn old accoutrement because they were only here gathering dust and even frightening me, sometimes at nights; happy riddance to some of them all the same!"

Mr. Morris expressed, as he invited the ladies to have dinner with him!

In the spirit of adventure, Brown Sugar wanted to have dinner with the man who could have been her father but, Edna on the other hand, didn't want to because she considered him to be creepy!

She wanted to return to the hotel, grab something to eat, take a shower and jump into bed!

Needless-to-say, she try appeasing her girlfriend and lover, and stuck around to eat with the stranger who they had hardly known, but their decision to stick around and share a meal with him had allowed them to forge an everlasting friendship with Mr. Morris, securing them a decent and inexpensive place to stay whenever they decided on visiting Cambridge Heights again!

With the sun on its last lap, Brown Sugar and Edna decided to leave the company of Mr. Morris after helping him with the cleaning up of the broken glasses from his living room, and return to the hotel intending to get some rested for another day's journey!

As they exited through the large wooden brown doors of his house, so were all the neighbors coming out and covertly peeping to see what the strangers looked like who they had to call the police to rescue, and with the nosy glares pressing towards Mr. Morris front porch with great intensity, Mr. Morris shouted out to all who he could observe watching him...

"This is my daughter, she came to see me, see how she is beautiful!"

As he pointed in the direction of Brown Sugar while she and Edna barely waved their hands at the concerned neighbors, as they left the gigantic and luxurious premises of Mr. Phillip Morris with great disappointment but somewhat enthused!

It was a day filled with adventure, drama, and excitement; and as Brown Sugar and Edna made their way back to the hotel room to shower and get some rest; they prayed to God that tomorrow wouldn't be the same as today when they went in search looking for Mr. Byron Cook; another potential father on her list!

Night had already shown its darkness when they arrived back at the hotel! They made it back there a little after eight p.m. and for the first time since they had left Borrow Heights, Brown Sugar and Edna decided to share their bodies and pleasure themselves cooling off all the stress, anxiety and exhaustion they had encountered that day!

After taking their showers, it was hours of pleasant pleasure before either one of them went sleeping!

It was a night of passion... they wanted each other more than ever before, and since there were no distractions around them, or sharing of sexual pleasure, Edna took the time to kiss, lick, nibbled, and suck all over Brown Sugar's beautiful body like she was enjoying her favorite dessert of smooth vanilla ice-cream with dashes of nuts sprinkled all over it to keep the crunches going!

Finally done with the pleasures of the flesh, the two love birds went off sleeping and didn't open their eyes until nine a.m. the following morning!

It would be another morning to climb mountains, thread through villages and cross over bridges so as to find anyone who might look like her or knew anything about her flesh and blood than she had known for herself!