Absinthe, Opium and Honor…Chapters 29.

Chapter 29.

I got out of the hospital with Ian coming to get me in his car with Sasha. Rick and Tommy would’ve come but Tommy’s truck would have been a bit much for me and my ribs. As it was there was pretty much everyone there at Ian’s for my welcome home party.

I was really surprised that they had one for me and really delighted to see Neela and Karin there too. There wasn’t even any tension between them and my friends since Sasha had said Karin’s saving me had gone a long way. Karin’s a little edgy though but there’s not a lot of men here in the way that might freak her out and hit her panic buttons. Ian’s an older gentleman and the host so she’s sort of good with him if guarded. She’s staring at Tommy and Rick a lot especially since they’re very affectionate with each other but they’re not the whole campy gay thing.

Tommy’s just Tommy and he made some really great stuff. Rick’s making a few jokes about how Tommy’s a definite keeper with being great in bed and a great cook. It’s actually a nice pot luck thing with people bringing stuff.

It’s funny how Karin stares at Sasha like she’s trying to see the guy there. It’s there but Sasha is three times as sensual as any GG I’ve ever met so she’s having a hard time.

Most of the girls bought and brought except Dina who brought Baklava and Tazatzki dip? And Victoria who made this desert that was raspberry jello and passion fruit with red roobios tea? But she topped it with a nice plain custard but topped with this mix of curry spices raw sugar and nutmeg...it was just a pinch but it was really exotic like Jello pudding and Jello if it came out of West-Africa. We all killed of those and you know it’s good when Sasha was getting the recipe.

I’m into my drinks with two nice glasses of white into me and now an absinthe with Sasha and even some of the others when I bring up.

“Does anyone know a really good lawyer?”

“Gonna sue the bitches.” Karin grins.

“No, I want to speak on their behalf and try and get the charges reduced.”

Silence.

Noel, Dina, Karin, Neela, Rick are all talking at once at me. It’s all protests.
“No!”
“They jumped you.”
“You nearly died!”
“No fucking way!”
“The bitches deserve it!”
“It’s was over some fucking man!”

Sasha and Ian just watch and get more drinks and Tommy is shaking his head and yet he’s smiling at me and gives me the thumbs up. Henna looks confused and Victoria’s curious.

I hold my hands up. “Just…just listen okay? I love you all for wanting me to get justice but I can’t just let this happen. I’ve read stuff in the paper and talked to the police.”

I sigh then look at each of them. “These girls are any older than any of us. Who the heck here hasn’t been so stupid that we haven’t done something like this, or just as stupid in a different way? I can’t just let these girls go to prison…prison guys with like a record that’ll ruin the rest of their lives.”

“Jamie they tried to kill you!” Karin and she looks pissed. “Over some fucking male!”

“No, I don’t think they wanted to kill me. I just can’t feel that way. Hurt me, hurt me badly yeah. But Kare we’re talking hate crime charges, Assault, Attempted Murder, premeditated and all those things…that are going on. This is federal time decades even and expulsion and after all of that a record for the rest of their lives.”

“They deserve it after what they did. Reap what you sow.” Noel says looking pretty pissed too.

“No, Look Noel say you’re not seeing this the way it really is? When the hell do we even know who we are at this age? I didn’t last year I was a totally different person than now. I just can’t sit back and let them get trashed by a huge, huge mistake.”

“So scot-free then?” That was Neela.

“No, I can’t get that even if I wanted to the Crown will go ahead with charges especially something this juicy. But If I can get the charges down with stuff off their records…like fines even if big fines and serious community service but I need them to have a second chance! God guys I just can’t let this go, I don’t want to answer their anger and hate with hate or anger of my own but with an open hand…It’s the only way that anything is ever really going to change.”

Rick comes over and hugs me. “Hey, I’ll talk to the guys see what we can do.”

Tommy nods. “We get enough students backing you and how you feel we might be able to sway the judge and the deans office.”

Karin’s frowning; Noel’s frowning but get their turns in hugging me. “You’re fucking too good Jamie…if this is really what you want we’ll back you.” Noel says Then Karin’s hugging me too and stares at me a little. “Are you sure, they did this over some asshole guy…” I give her a small kiss. “Lay off the guy, I heard all he said was that I was cute and dateable…we’ve never met and they took it too far not him….”

“But…”

“No…no butts he never got close enough.”

She rolls her eyes. “Jamie…”

“Seriously, Men haven’t fucked up the planet Kare, only some did and they had help.”

She purses her lips and I kiss her lips again. She does this little exhale and hugs me tight. “How…how do you do that…?”

“What?”

“Make the shit I can’t get to myself make sense?”

“Because, you want to stop hurting and hating care…you just need a candle.”

She moves and Neela replaces her and hugs me gently. “I know a few people who know a few people…I’ll ask around. You sure you want this? No one would deny you your pound of flesh.”

“I’m sure, I can’t be about the hate…this’ll wreck them but it’ll ripple out to their families…siblings…if they get sent to prison and stuff they’ll get labeled and those people will hate my guts without ever having met me.”

“They could’ve been raise haters you know.”

“All the more to show them, their families and others that we’re not like that.”

“You’re one of a kind Jamie.”

“Yeah well.”

She presses her breasts to mine and kisses me long and slowly and sweetly and I kiss her back. “Yeah well…take care of yourself Jamie…don’t push yourself.” she leaves with Karin and the others slowly do the same hugging me and leaving so I can rest.

Tommy and Rick are the last to head out taking some of the leftovers with them and Ian kisses me goodnight saying. “I’ll talk to some friends Jamie; I’ve been around a long time and know some people besides it might be sort of fun. I haven’t been political since the sixties.” he’s pressed against me and he’s thickening. “Thank you…and I’d love too but I’m way too sore for you…rain check?”

“Definitely…you know, you know a certain person here who really knows people.” He does that thing with his eyes to indicate Sasha.

She rolls her eyes. “I’ll talk to a few people…but just for you.”

We head to her place with Sasha insisting that I stay with her until I’m feeling a lot better and she carries the bulk of my things for me and she even makes three trips. Yeah I have the feeling that I might be staying for awhile.

It’s really nice to be taken care of though and the way that the people in my life have rallied around me really touched me deeply. In my old life I was way too much of a hurt and lonely and even angry person to really have this or appreciate it the way that I do now.

Sasha get’s me moved into her room with her and we take time getting things put away and it’s a big thing really with her having made real space for me in her closets and dressers and drawers. It feels like I’m moving it and the fact that she’s putting part of her life on hold for me.

“I really appreciate this; you’re going above and beyond Sasha.”

“No I’m not there are times that you are presented with choices whether to help someone or to keep just going on with your life and turn a blind eye to things. I love you Jamie, you are a real loving, living part of me and there’s no choice at all.”

What does a girl say to that?

“Thank you…” And as soft and as sweet as I can make it before I kiss her and keep it going over and over again until I move us to one of the chaise chairs and I sit carefully as I slip her dress off her shoulders and pull that lovely cock of hers out of her forest green lacy panties.

I might be sore and it might sting to hold me breath or breathe a bit more intensely but it’s actually nothing compared to how I feel for her and how much I love sucking her cock.

My first and the one I am most intimately familiar with and I can’t help the moan of lusty satisfaction as my lips slide over her so lovely so perfectly velvety hardness that I know so well.

I wonder if you’re with someone like this for so long that all of this doesn’t really get to be routine but more like…something you get ingrained into part of you? Does a wife or any significant other get so used to her lover, husband that after they’re gone it feels strange to be with someone who isn’t your love?

I think I’ll remember the intimate feelings of Sasha and me forever. There is part of her imprinted into my soul now.

Oh…that’s something I like? The people that we cherish, really cherish are like tattoos on the inside of us inked by love onto our souls.

I love the feeling of her nails slipping through my hair and grazing so sexily. I love the friction of her shaft sliding over my lips…that’s one of my favorite things because you can feel the act on you lips later for a while. I love that sensation and to kiss another person like that when they’re like that and add in lipstick….

And right now with Sasha in her lingerie.

It’s not long before we’re sharing a kiss with her flavors as she undresses me and guides me to her bed and there’s this really nice softness that wasn’t there before. She smiles at the look on my face.

“Bruised ribs suck, so I went out and got a memory foam mattress for us.”

“Oh…thanks, it feels pretty good.”

“So will this.”

Sasha is very gentle as we make love and even when it does hurt and everything it doesn’t because I sort of like pain…not any S/M stuff but this…it’s so like the pain makes the lovemaking because of what I’ve been through that much sweeter.

I cuddle into her afterward our bodies slipping together so well and I drift off. And I’m safe and happy and clear in my heart about what’s going to come out of this between me and those girls.

I’m going to be me, and I’m going to try because it’s important to my heart and who I feel that I should really be and how I should treat others.

I guess I want just to be an honorable woman.