Friends And Suspects

4:30 AM-

It's early morning in Philadelphia.... Crime Doesn't sleep....a young woman's body was found lying on the street.

"African-American woman, 38, two gunshot wounds to the back of the head....from the size of the holes, I'd say it was a .40 caliber...Death was instantaneous."said a Crime Scene Investigator...

"From the body temperature...I'd say she was killed about three hours ago, a little after one o'clock." said Dr. Hazel Baylor.

"You're right...I'd put time of death at around 1:30...somewhere in that time frame." said Dr. Marcy Martin...

"What have we got here, a random street shooting?" asked Lt. Tragg....

"That's what it looks like Lieutenant....She wasn't robbed...Her Drivers License, Her Credit Cards , Her Debit Cards and about $500.00 in cash are all in her pocket book and she's wearing an expensive rollie on her wrists and her wedding bands...She wasn't robbed...And look at those earings...Diamond studs..."said Sgt. Brice..

"Crimminy....I know who this broad is.... That's Thelma Green....She's the wife of Assistant District
Attorney, Bruce Green....I know this broad..Oh my God....Anybody see anything?" asked Lt. Tragg.

"Nothin Lieutenant....I've had my guys knocking on doors in that condo...and all around here...Nobody heard or saw nothin...Nobody was on the street....This is Philly, this aint New York...We sleep after 2:00 AM in this town."said Sgt. Brice.

"Lieutenant! I found this in that trash can over there by them condos." said a plain clothes officer...It was a .40 caliber pistol...

"It was wiped clean...No prints...No nothin."said another police officer.

"Good Work, bag it and tag it..... This was a hit! Obviously somebody trying to get back at Green for puttin em away or somethin....I'll get to the bottom of this. Alright folks... get him out of here...and girls

get those autopsy reports to me ASAP!" said Lt. Tragg.

"Why?" said Dr. Hazel Baylor under her breath..."You never read them." she said. Her total disdain for this man was obvious.

Dr. Marcy Martin giggled at Hazel's remark...

The Body of Thelma Green was loaded into a white body bag. Zipped up and strapped to a stretcher...

and loaded into a waiting station wagon that would transport it to the Medical Examiners Office... It was going to be another one of those nights...or in this case ,early morning.

Some Hours Later -

We were up and about to eat breakfast....  We had Pancakes, Hash Browns, sausages, Fresh squeezed Orange Juice and Hot Coffee..

Olivia, Alfreda and I had prepared everything.

"Come and Get it everybody....Dig in.." said Alfreda..

"Everything looks and smells delicious, if I don't say so myself.." joked Olivia..

"I'm hungry enough to eat a lion..." I said, laughing...

"Wowwww, that hungry huh?" laughed Beverly...

"Hey , I was looking at the news on my Tablet...It says Assistant District Attorney Bruce Green's wife was found shot to death early this morning, off Broad Street, near Temple University.." said Nelson...

"Oh Nooooooooooo, what?" said Josie.

"We met her once... Remember, he introduced her to us, right before the trial started at the Press Conference.. I thought she was a nice lady....Too nice for him." said Bresha..

'" She was a very nice lady, Attractive too..Oh My Goddd!  Shot to death?" said Olivia.

''What was she doing in that neck of the woods that time of morning?...Green lives in East Oak Lane...." I asked.

"Well, he was out....He was at the same Rooftop Bar we were at..Maybe she went out too!" said Beverly..

"Or maybe she was STEPPING OUT!" said Nelson ruefully.

"Let's not think the worst....but I must admit...That could be a possibility..." said Olivia.

"If I were married to him....I'd Step Out...I'd drink too!"said Josie...

Beverly cracked up laughing...She high fived Josie and said "Me too!"

"I've got to run to the courthouse today....Anybody want anything brought back? From Sam Mother's?"asked Bresha.

"Actually we are ordering lunches on line from  Sam Mother's Diner, to be delivered.. Before you go, write down what you want...Here is a menu." said Olivia.

"Ouu let me see one too!" said Josie.

"I'm so glad we can order from Sam Mother's on line and have it delivered..." said Nelson..

"You get the meal, minus Lt. Tragg." laughed Beverly....

"Amen for that."laughed Alfreda.

"Hopefully, he's so busy trying to solve this latest homicide, that he hasn't got time to bug anyone." I said.

"Hope Springs Eternal." laughed Olivia.  We all cracked up laughing!

II-

THE COURTHOUSE WAITING AREA-

Bailiff Tyrell Jones sat in the waiting area..He was distraught this morning...He couldn't believe that Thelma Green was dead...a victim of the random street violence that was plaguing the city. He was distraught....Thelma had just left his apartment....Again, she had stayed with him too long...He felt partially responsible.. She had parked her car a block away to throw anyone off that might have been following her. She told him in those last few days that she felt as if she were being followed.

He saw Bresha Billips from a distance...He and Bresha had developed a friendship over the years...He was a Bailiff...He had been in court when Bresha and her associates... Olivia Bennett-Alexander ,Beverly West, Nelson East, Josie Boyd bailed a client out.

 

When he first met Bresha, he discovered she was an intern..She had just recently graduated from law school and passed the bar...she was interning for Olivia and her associates...

He was one of three bailiffs who really liked Bresha's  sexy body...but unlike the others who just smiled salaciously at her...He actually talked to her about things..He had recently graduated from Temple and he wanted something more for himself than being a Bailiff...She talked to him when she saw him in court and was overjoyed when he passed his LSAT's and got accepted at Middleton Law School, where she had attended..  He was equally overjoyed when he heard she was no longer an intern , but a full associate attorney of Olivia and Beverly's law firm...She deserved it!  She worked hard.

The last time he saw her , he told her he was one month from graduating...She was overjoyed...She said to give her the date and she and her husband would be attending..

He respected that Bresha was married... Unlike Thelma....He hated Thelma's husband, who was snooty and treated the Bailiffs like dirt...Talking to them as if they weren't even human at times... When he was making love to Thelma in his apartment, he was also secretly getting revenge on her snotty husband, Bruce Green.....

But he liked Thelma...She was good people...He wondered who could do a thing like this to her...

"Hi Bresha....Where is the rest of your tribe today?" said Tyrell Jones.

"Oh they are home, chillin....I'm only up here because I had to refile a brief in another case...When you become an Attorney, you'll see...It's not all glamour and spotlight...In fact, most of it isn't...Most of it is dull grunt work like this , that has to be done...Say....not too long for you huh? Another month.." said Bresha.

"Yeah, I'm real jazzed about that...Hey did you hear that uh Thelma Green , the wife of ADA Bruce Green was shot to death last night?" he asked.

"Yeahhhhh we heard that!! You know we had just finished a battle royale with him in court last week..He was really pissed that we beat him...Couldn't bring himself to admit that he just got outlawyered...said we used sex appeal to win the jury over...and that we bended and twisted the law...With that weak case he had...I'm really surprised we couldn't beat him in the preliminaries."laughed Bresha.

"Bree, could I talk to you?   I-I feel as if I have to unburden myself....I-I can't , I-I don't talk to anyone else around here..."said Tyrell, whose eyes were welled up with tears...

"Tyrell, you're crying....What's wrong?" asked Bresha..

"Bree, I LOVED HER!!!   I LOVED HER!!!  I DIDN'T wanna love her, but I was falling in love with her...WE HAVE BEEN SLEEPING TOGETHER FOR SIX MONTHS!!!!! It started as a little flirtation.. She'd come down here with her husband....All of the bailiffs and court clerks hated her husband...Bruce Green...He thought so highly of himself...He tried to flirt with and date all of the female Bailiffs ,Court Clerks and Police officers down here...None of them took him seriously...We all thought he was a big jerk...Male and Female alike...He always spoke to us so dismissively and disrespectful....

She on the other hand..was as sweet as pie and attractive too....We all wondered how a guy like him lucked up and got a woman like her...."said Tyrell.... "It began with a look here and there... She'd catch me checking her out and smile...She'd wave at me... Soon we started having little conversations...Just like me and you used to have when you were an intern...before Olivia made you a full associate...about my schooling.  She thought it was admirable that I had dreams and ambitions that went beyond being a bailiff... She was over the moon when I started law school...

One morning, when her husband was in court, She motioned for me to come into the Judges Chambers and close the door..

We kissed and made out like two teenagers for hours....That's how it started....Just kissing, just me opening her blouse and unhooking her bra...her fondling me...but it got deeper...

On my days off...

She was at my apartment...

and it was all the way live....

and we made love all morning and into the afternoon.... It was only like once a week...She'd take off from her job....She was an attorney at the Women's Center down near Penns Landing....and I was off...But then it became two days.... and then three, I'd take off , she'd take off and we were up here doing the nasty every chance we got...

She was getting careless, reckless...She was coming over and staying well into the night hours, leaving here at 9:00 pm, Midnight even....I told her, I told her we should cool it...He had to be getting suspicious....She told me she thought she was being followed by somebody the last few days...and then last night....We made love until midnight...She took a shower and had a change of clothes even...and she left around 1:00 am...She had parked her car two blocks away, to avoid suspicion if in fact she had been followed and she was shot , just inches away from her car...

I'd hate to speculate Bree, but I think he had her killed.....I really do..." said Tyrell, who was shaking with grief now and crying profusely....

Bresha held him in her arms and rocked him back and forth.... She smelled so good, her skin was so soft and her shapely breasts were so plump and bountiful...He was almost getting turned on, being held like this...He was caught up in the moment and attempted to kiss her, but she pushed his face away...

"Ugh Ugh......Tyrell, I'm serious now...Keep what you told me to yourself.. If no one knows about you two....Keep it that way...." Bresha whispered to him...

At the M.E.'s Office.... Dr. Hazel Baylor and Dr. Marcy Martin escorted Assistant District Attorney Bruce Green and Lt. Tragg to the room where his wife's body lie on the table...because of the damage the bullets did...Her face was nearly gone....

""Right this way sir....Sir I should warn you....The body is in horrific shape right now...Why don't you wait until we can at least reconstruct her face..." said Hazel.

"Yes...really Mr. Green." said Marcy..

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, I WaNT TO SEE HERRRRRRRRR, I NEED TO SEE WHAT THAT MONSTER DID TO HERRRRRRRRRRR, OH OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

LAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWD!" he cried out.... It was almost convincing, except that it was a little too much.....It was an act and except for Lt. Tragg, everyone else could see it...

"OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"he cried out...

Doc Gibbons, the cheif Coroner watched him with a lot of skepticism....

"He's really laying on the sauce aint he?" he whispered to one of the morgue attendants , who smiled slightly...

''Don't you worry Bruce...Don't you worry...I'm clearing my desk...If it's the last thing I do...I'm going to bring the killer of your wife to justice!" declared Lt. Tragg..

"Oh for the love of pete." said Doc Gibbons , under his breath...

Marcy and Hazel smiled wryly....

III-

Bresha came back to our Office/Duplex....

We decided to eat our lunches upstairs in Olivia and I's domicile..

We had Burgers, Hot Dogs and Onion Rings..

Bresha got back in time, just minutes after the food was delivered..

"Listen...I've got some Tea for you....but you've got to promise me, it stays in this room..and goes no further....Not even to our friends and neighbors just yet.." said Bresha.

"Ummmmmmmmmmmm Ummm UMMMMPH....That's the good kinda tea." laughed Alfreda..

"Dish Girl Dish." said Beverly.....

"Yes, you've got our curiosity tweaked." said Josie..

"You've got my curiosity tweaked...Dish Girl, Dish!" said Olivia.

Bresha told us all about her friend, The Bailiff, Tyrell Jones, and the bombshell he dropped in her lap about sleeping with Mrs. Green for close to six months or more and her being shot just two blocks from his apartment complex at 1:00 in the morning after leaving his bed.....and his belief that her husband knew it and had her executed by a hit man!!! She told us that she told him to keep that story to himself.

"You advised him correctly....WOWWWWWW Sleeping with Mrs. Green for six months...."said Olivia.

"Seee? I knew she was stepping out....But damn....why stay out so late?? 1:00 am in the morning..Any man would have been suspicious..."said Nelson...

''When it's good...It's Good!"laughed Olivia.

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmm HMMMMMMMMMM, I know that's right!"said Alfreda, laughing..

"OKAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?" said Josie, high fiving her....

"YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" said Beverly looking at her husband, Nelson...

who smiled sheepishly....He remembered when they first started dating...how she would come to his apartment and overstay her time and just stay with him until the morning.. or how he would come over here and overstay his time and wind up going to work in the same clothes he wore the day before..

Yes, Olivia was right...When it's good...It's good! he thought and chuckled..

"You of all people know that's true Nelson." I said, remembering me and Olivia chuckling and looking out the window as he hurried to his car and rushed to work ,after spending a weeknight with Beverly...

How nice it was for him now to be married to her and live with her...and be working for us.

"The news said she wasn't robbed...She had $500.00 cash on her and all of her credit and debit cards and was wearing an expensive watch....This does look like a hit...and just two blocks from the bailiff's apartment..WOW!  Lt. Tragg should be looking into that and he shouldn't have let it get out that she wasn't robbed..." I said.

"Let's not forget who we are talking about..." laughed Olivia.

ONE WEEK LATER-

''We haven't been here in a lonnnnng time...and especially not with our whole group.."said Beverly...

It was a that rare Wednesday Night  when nobody had a court date or anything imminent planned...We all decided to go to the old Brewery we used to have a drink in back in the early days... We had been here with Yvette's group, but never with all of us..

"Yes Neicy Poo, this was a great idea." said Olivia.

"I loved it here...reminds me of the early days, when I first arrived in Philly." I said.

"Yeah, those were some good times....I'm glad we aren't stagnant...We flow to many fine places...That keeps a certain Police Lieutenant off of our trail and out of our hair."said Nelson wryly...

"Yeah, for real...I love this place." said Josie.

"Yeah me too! especially since they serve food now." said Paris.

This was Bresha's second time here...Back when she was an intern and before she and her husband, Tony started dating....She actually came here with Tyrell....They had had a nice time...

They had kissed for close to an hour in the parking lot....before both getting in their cars and driving home... They never dated again... It was a nice memory... By the time they saw each other again....He had enrolled in law school and she was engaged to be married and a full associate of Olivia and Beverly's law firm.

Her husband Tony was here for the first time...He liked the place..

"I remember us all, your team and my team coming here after we'd come back from Houston or San Diego or somewhere we'd been... It has been a long time...but nice to be here..."said Yvette.

"Yeah and you and I came here a few times by ourselves." said Gary. 

"We did too Bee Bee. remember?" said Keith Jones..

"Yeah and we came here with Sofia and Kahlil and Jessica and Chip, the last time we were here.."said Bee Bee.

"Oh yeah, that was around Christmas, two years ago...The six of us came here.."said Sofia.

"We were celebrating just being married, having new homes on a new street and being neighbors."said Kahli, smiling..

"Danny and I came here too, right after we got married." said Jade.

"So we've been here since you all." said Danny.

"I used to come here back when this place first opened...I was the only Black Attorney in the crowd then." said Virginia.

"I've been here a few times myself..." said Jetty...

"I remember you brought me here right after uh we decided to see each other on a regular but discreet basis...HAHAHAHA, remember those days Horny Toad?" laughed Alfreda.

"I sure do....Who would have thought then that one day we'd be married.." laughed Rockland..

"I know right?" laughed Alfreda, rubbing his hands softly...

"This is a nice spot....I've been here before." said Jazzy...
 

"Yeah, you and me came here a lot as friends...This used to be our chill out spot, remember?" said Dabnis.

"Same Here...I've come here with Olivia and Beverly....My first time here in a long time.."said Kayla.

"I'm just glad we are riding back on the buses and don't have to drive...This is a ways from home and I remember getting toasted in here and having to make that drive home...It's a wonder I didn't get busted for DUI." said Ray...

"I remember having to open all four windows of our car in the dead of winter, so that we both stayed awake and alert while driving home after a night in here."laughed Jessica.

"Tonight we are riding home on the Buses...we don't have to worry about that...We can get ripped."laughed Chip.

"Not too ripped...We still have to go to work tomorrow." joked Natalie, who had been here with Brooke many times..

"Yeah that's right...This is Wednesday night." laughed her husband, David.

"Shame this isn't Friday Night...We had some times in here after hours, didn't we Nat?" laughed her best friend, Brooke.

"Here's to having a great time tonight" said Sean, raising a glass..

"Here comes another round of drinks." said Zoey

"And Food.." said her husband, Lem.

Another round of Beers arrived..

along with Honey Barbecue Wings

and Lemon Pepper wings..

While we were enjoying a hot muggy summer night in the city...Another whole scenario was taking 

place in another part of the city.

At The apartment complex where Tyrell Jones lived..

Lt. Tragg and a Tactical Squad, took the door of his apartment off the hinges and arrested him....

"YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR THE FIRST DEGREE MURDER OF THELMA GREEN, SCUMBAG!!!   YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT...ANYTHING YOU SAY CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU IN A COURT OF LAW....YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AN ATTORNEY, IF YOU CAN NOT AFFORD ONE, ONE WILL BE PROVIDED FOR YOU.....DO YOU UNDERSTAND THESE RIGHTS AS I AM READING THEM TO YOU SCUMBAG??" screamed Lt. Tragg!

"I'm a third year law student and I'm a Bailiff at the courthouse...I think I understand Miranda rights."said Tyrell..

ADA Bruce Green was there.....

"SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU'RE THE BUM THAT KILLED MY WIFE EH?   I'M GONNA PUT YOU UNDER THE JAIL, I'M GOING TO MAKE SURE YOU GET A NEEDLE!" he said..

"I WAS SLEEPING WITH HER, BUT I DIDN'T KILL HER ....YOU DID THAT SIR!" snarled Tyrell..

"WHY YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" said Bruce Green, who cracked Tyrell in his jaw....

"Hey Hey Heyyyyyyy....Boys, get him out of here....Cool it Bruce....We got him...Now cool it."said Lt. Tragg...

This was all caught on Television, as Lt. Tragg had the press out in full force to see him make the arrest...

IV-

NIGHTFALL!!

Olivia and I were in our bedroom.. We all were safely in our homes after a nice night out at the Brewery..

"Nice Night huh husband?  It's been a week since that grueling trial and I for one have been enjoying the nice easy days..."said Olivia..

"Here is to easy days and hot sexy nights." I said.

"Yesssssss hot sexy nights." laughed Olivia as I took her into my arms...

"UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM" I moaned...

We kissed passionately....

"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!  WOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU, this is going to be a hot one."she said.

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" I moaned quietly as we kissed....

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I lovvvvvvvvvvvvve being Mrs. Alexander." she moaned..

I helped her undress and she helped me undress...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MYYYYYY GODDD! OLIVIA!" I moaned.

Olivia stared in my eyes kind of strangely... She slowly ran her hands down my leg, felt my erection and squeezed it a little bit....Her eyes grew wide and she looked at me...

"Whooooooo...I guess you' love being Mr. Alexander too!!!" she whispered...and then giggled. "You are always HAPPY to see me.." she laughed...

"Myyy goodness. LOOK AT YOUUU!" she said...

I slowly slipped her panties down......

''Ouuuuuu Liv, these are pretty...."I said.

"I'm glad you like these...All my panties are pretty."she giggled.

"YES THEY AREEEEE!" I agreed,

"Oh My God....Look at youuuuuuuu." she said.....

"Look at you baby." I said as I unhooked her bra and began sucking on her breasts....

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...." she moaned...

She moaned , all the while holding my penis with both of her hands and rubbing it....

I kissed her, thrusting my tongue practically down her throat and rubbing her breasts...I could feel Olivia trembling....and moaning softly....

I eased her panties off of her and laid her across the bed....

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! OH MY GODDDDDDD!" she gasped as I pulled her legs apart and entered her...

I stared down into those gorgeous brown eyes of hers and I entered her like nobody's business...I wanted to savor this experience, I entered her softly and gently and began to stroke her softly and slowly....She moaned and put her arms around my neck and drew me closer to her..She wrapped her legs around my waste and we began to move in a slow, yet deliberate rhythm for quite some time.

I couldn't get enough and neither could she...

''Ohhhhh my Godddddddddddddddd, oooHHHHHHHHHHHHH......Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..." she moaned ..."Don't Stop...Don't Stoppppppppppp...please...don't stopppp." she moaned, which turned me on more...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THIS IS SOOOO DAMNNN GOOOOD!" I moaned...

"Oh yes...ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu yes..." she cooed...

So I took my time...I made slow, steady sweet love to Olivia for  EIGHT TO NINE HOURS!

"OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!  MISTER ALEXANDER!" she moaned..

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MRS ALEXANDER!!!! " I screamed out...

She matched me thrust for thrust and even bit my shoulder at one point...She was so soft...so moist and smelled so good...I was losing my mind....

We made sweet passionate and intense love for another THREE MORE HOURS!!...

Olivia began to shake and gyrate and tears began to stream down her face....

"It's sooooooooooooooo goooddd...Oh my godddddddddddddd it's soooooo gooood! AND YOU NEVER GET ENOUGH!!!! OHHHHHHHHHH! "she moaned... 

She was so moist, so soft...I was losing my mind....

When we both finally came....We were drained....

"Donnie Ray, We are like newlyweds...hehehehehee." she giggled.

"I feel like this is the first time, everytime I make love to you....."I said.

''So do I Donnie Ray..So do I....WOUUUUUUUUUUUU!!"said Olivia lying on my chest.....both of us slowly drifting off to sleep...

Meanwhile at this moment.... our next client, ( unknown to us) Tyrell Jones sat sweating in "The Fishbowl, the nickname the detectives gave the interrogation room...

Pondering his uncertain future...

(TO BE CONTINUED)