Pleasure or Pain

Part 1

Pleasure or Pain Part 1
Story challenge
J.Velvet

They love eachother they love eachother not.That was the story of their lives. For the past ten years the couple been on and off for the duration of their highschool life and after, from one messy situation to the next but unlike most would've done they stuck together. Now marked their ten year anniversary and Prize was looking to make it one Anita wouldn't forget. Always hearing her complain about her being labeled a baby momma he was looking to change the title to wife.
They had one lovely daughter Heaven who was five years old with another child on the way, Anita watched her friends get married and move along and yet she was stuck with Prize in a two bedroom apartment, a kid and his brother who was not only jobless but a messy person. She woke up some mornings looking at her hand wondering when the day would come when she would had more, and by more a wedding band, a house and white picket fence. She was the ride or die female, Prize wasn't always the most easiest man to get along with dropping out of highschool to pursue his dope boy ambitions he was knocked on a drug bust, and spent two years behind bars missing the birth of his daughter. Coming home his aspirations of being a trapper changed to him wanting to be a rapper.
"Rapping won't put food on the table, we can't eat your rhymes"
Anita said time and time again but Prize didn't let her kill his dream, he knew he put Anita through alot but saw a light at the end of the tunnel. Born Adrian walker he went by Prize starting from the age of fourteen when he was nothing but a highschool nobody who spent most of his days trying to pick up girls with corny lines. He had no game but lucky for him was a handsome man who just happened to have hazel eyes that the females fell for, and the ones who did came to find out his pickup game was nothing compared to his sex game. Bragging about himself he then started to call himself Prize for his unusual super long tongue he loved to use on females. Word got around about his sex life, and he became the man but his eyes was set on a certain female. Anita was grown for her age the only girl in highschool fully developed, and that made her look like she could pass for eighteen.
She was quiet up until that time. Focused on school, she played sports mostly track and soccer but due to her wide spreading hips and breasts decided to stop. What started as a fling for months turned into feelings then a situationship, they liked eachother but was too young to realize what love was. Prize was the only man Anita been with, naturally she became sprung over him and Prize knew it but also knew she wanted more than sex with him, and he wanted sex with every other woman in school.
So for most of the beginning years Anita spent nights crying over Prize while he went out and laid with other women, all he wanted was sex the only woman he cared about was Anita but he loved the game too much. He had his cake and could eat it to and he knew that no matter what he did Anita would forgive him and come back because she loved him. It wasn't too long after highschool Anita got pregnant, and no later than the first trimester Prize was gone taken up state on a drug bust.
Anita was then left alone with no money and no help. Nothing but a highschool diploma that meant nothing to the world since she didn't have a college degree, and was living with her grandmother who couldn't afford to keep up the house due to her Alzheimers. It was at that moment she made a decision to move out going to live with her friend Mary who went by her stripper name Passion.
Passion got Anita a job as a bartender at the local club Sweets. Time and time again the owner Will asked Anita to strip promising her she could be a main attraction but she refused just using the place as a way to get money until she found something better besides that she did pretty well at the bar due to loyal customers who didn't mind seeing her in a tank top and boy shorts serving drinks. On a bad day she averaged around three hundred dollars in tips a night. A bulk of that money went into a savings account that she would use for her soon to be child and since she knew Prize wouldn't be home for a while had to make sure she was prepared.
Even though she was mad at Prize she still went to go see him at least twice a month. She kept money on his commensary, kept him up to date with the pregnancy, and made sure he was good, and soon Heaven came.
From the moment she had the baby she informed Prize she was no longer coming to see him, and wouldn't bring Heaven to prison but would wait for him on the outside. Mad at her decision Prize understood and began writing letters to her. Writing soon became a thing for him as well as reading which caused his interests to move to rapping, and he was pretty good getting a following in jail. He used his boredom to spit rhymes in the yard while others lifted weights and played basketball. On his release he went straight to his boy Rich house and cut a track in the basement which was turned into a home studio. Rich used an uptempo beat that he sliced on his computer and Prize added his lyrics which talked about trapping and his life upstate, afterwards he went to the store getting the biggest Teddy bear he could find and a dozen roses and make his way to an apartment complex which Anita now resided. Knocking on the door he heard the tiny footsteps of Heaven who could barely talk.
"Who is it" Anita said.
"You know who the fuck this is, don't be acting all brand new since you gave me your number" Prize muffled laughing as he changed his voice.
"Umm what you mean since I gave you my number I don't talk to nobody, you sure you got the right address"
"Oh you wasn't talking about I had the wrong address when I was in them guts last night"
"WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU TALKING TO" Anita opened the door in a rage but quickly turned to tears as she looked at Prize standing there smiling.
"Omg you play to much"
She jumped in his arms giving a kiss with some tongue action.
Prize looked down to Heaven who was on his right side with a bottle in her hand tugging at his jeans. She never saw him before but she recognized his picture, Anita read Prizes letters and poems he sent to her, and
showed her pictures of him all the time. Prize picked her up swinging her around giving her the Teddy bear he brought her. Anita watched both of them play in the living room as she got dressed putting on her work uniform, she was now a security guard for a mall leaving the strip club behind.
She couldn't help but notice how big Prize got since the last time she seen him, he gained weight but not too much to be considered fat just solid. His arms got bigger, and she couldn't help but notice the bulge in his sweatpants, her hormones were raging since she hadn't had sex in years promising to remain faithful to her man.
"When you done come play with me"
Prize looked over at Anita as she walked back to the bedroom taking off her shirt. He already knew where it was headed. He put Heaven down in front of the TV as she immediately began to watch SpongeBob and walked to the bedroom. Anita lied naked across the bed with her legs spread wide.
"You know I miss that tongue"
Prize went to work taking his shirt off diving between her legs. From one end of the room to the next they made love, on the floor to the top of the dresser in front of the mirror switching to different positions. Anita called out of work to stay home with him for his first night out. From that point on they were a team but Prize lacked the passion of working, he believed in his music and knew one day it would make him a star but Anita was more concerned about the rent.
Having her hours cut at her job she struggled to pay the bills, and Prize contributed when he could from doing local gigs but it wasn't much.
After being out for months he started to go back to his old ways, his lust for females was stronger than ever, and being a rapper drove them wild. He went from being home every night to coming in four-five in the morning. The signs began to show from marks on his neck, and sometimes he was drunk as a skunk which highlighted nights spent in the studio or at the strip club with his crew. Anita suspected he was cheating but had no proof until she found out she had gonorrhea. She kicked him out for about a week but he came back bearing gifts, and money to win her over, and the cycle began they would argue he cheated and they broke up but got back together and in between the fighting and cheating Anita became pregnant making her income drop again since she was having a high risk pregnancy. Prize picked up the slack for the most part hustling his music trying to pay the rent which he still wasn't able to completely cover and made matters worse inviting his brother Leslie to stay. Leslie was just like Prize a womanizer who had no education and made ends by doing tattoos.
A talented artist but lacked ambition not completely focused on taking advantage of his gift trying to progress. He stayed out late, ate all the food and played Xbox into the early hours of the morning before heading off to clients houses if he had any appointments. Anita couldn't take it anymore she was barely able to work and now was taking care of another person, Prize refused to get a real job but he was looking to make it up by surprising her with a ring. Five months he spent saving to buy her ring, a beautiful custom made diamond piece that had the words I love you engraved on the inside. He knew he wasn't the best and as of right now was barely able to keep his family afloat but had news for Anita that he thought she would like.
After years of doing local gigs and making mixtapes his hard work finally paid off getting noticed by an independent record label Gutter records who were looking to sign him. The deal set up included him going on tour opening up for various acts as well as helping him produce his first LP. He smiled at Anita as she ordered the lobster tail combo with shrimp and mashed potatoes, her favorite dish from Red Lobster. Prize was good at getting back in her good grace knowing she loved food he used it to his advantage always cooking for her or taking her out to eat and since she was pregnant her appetite increased.
"You know I love you right"
"Boy, what you do now" Anita said stuffing her face with cheddar biscuits.
"Nothing I think I just don't say it enough, and I know these last couple months been hard but it's gonna get better trust me I have a plan"
"What plan? Have you even attempted to look for a job, no I don't think so I mean I respect your hustle lord knows I do but ten years, ten years we been together and I see so much in you and I would like for it to be....."
"Real" Prize said finishing her sentence as he pulled out the engagement ring.
"Is this a joke"
"No, I love you girl, and I'm doing something I should've done a long time ago and that's make you my wife"
Anita began the waterworks as the waiters congratulated the couple after Prize bent down on one knee placing the ring on her finger. Any reason Anita was mad about she forgot at that moment as she gazed at her ring, she was finally about to become a wife, and not just some baby momma as she put it. They finished their dinner leaving to go home to finish the evening right. Prize cancelled all plans and chose to commemorate the evening catering to his fiance.
"Im going to suck the shit out of your dick"
Prize grinned as he couldn't wait, he hadn't touched Anita in weeks not cause he didn't want to but because she was mad at him after finding text messages in his phone from Domino's pizza. He been in the dog house for a while, and Anita was petty teasing him sleeping naked and even masturbating in front of him not allowing him to touch. The ring was enough to get him back on her good side as he finally took the hint she was giving for years. They walked down the hall to their door taking out the keys.
"We fucking right" he said.
"Hell yeah boy it's been six weeks"
"Damn and you allowed six weeks to go pass and not give your man none, that's how you gonna do when we married"
"Please, fuck up again it's gonna be months next time"
Prize laughed as he opened the door to Leslie half naked in his boxer briefs getting head on the couch. He immediatly stood up as they were caught.
"Bro what the fuck" Prize said giving a mean glare as Anita stood there with her eyes covered shaking her head.
"Leslie what the fuck" she replied.
The woman stood up grabbed her clothes getting dressed as she looked over.
"Prize"
Anita uncovered her eyes looking at her.
"How she know your name" she asked as Prize stood there staring at the woman with a surprised look on his face.
"How do I know him, he's my baby father"
"Wait baby" Anita said.
"Oh shit, listen my bad bro I'm a get out ya way but this shit crazy you got a baby by my brother? Know what don't answer that I'm out"
Leslie grabbed the rest of his clothes and went to the bathroom.
"Well well well after months of trying to put you on child support I finally find you, hi boo" she said folding her arms.