“Yes.”
He chuckled. “Parents are so funny when it comes to their children and sex.”
“I understand on a conscious level he is not only an adult now, but will have had sex on his mind for a few years. I also know nothing short of an act of God could stop a teenager from having sex…maybe not even then. However, there is still a part of me, unreasonable and stubborn as it is, that refuses to stop seeing him as this little kid,” I said with a frown. “Charlene has never been sentimental, but I wonder if she looks at him now and still sees him as the eight-year-old boy with dirty fingers, or the six-year-old with missing front teeth.”
“I’m sure she does; I keep having odd moments myself, so I’m sure his mother does.”
I was surprised. “Really?”
“Yeah,” he said with a chuckle, crossing his arms. “It’s only happened a couple of times, and one of them wasn’t even about him, but it’s like…slipping back in time against your will. One minute I’m looking at this eighteen-year-old who I need to see as a man, and the next I’m seeing him at ten years old, trying to scare me with that snake.”
“He was so upset when you weren’t bothered, and were right about it biting him,” I said with a sudden laugh. “I had forgotten about that.”
“And he looks enough like you, I had a weird moment where I wasn’t seeing him, but I’d swear I could see you at his age, and crystal clear too,” he said, with a shake of his head. “It was weird because it really looked like you, some bizarre hallucination.”
“Did I look good?” I asked lightly.
“Well, if my mental image of you at that age was accurate, then yeah, you at that age would have looked real good to me. Then again, I would have been what, twelve or thirteen when you were eighteen? You definitely would have looked good to me.”
“Hmm, a lot of people look good when you’re thirteen.”
“True.”
“So, he’s good? He’s doing well?”
“He’s doing great,” Reggie said, pushing away from the table and moving to the chair next to mine. “He’s getting comfortable, little by little. I thought he might find the courage to go into the springs like most of the guys do, but he backed off and went for the shorts from what I heard.”
“What you heard?”
“Well, I haven’t been following him around,” he said with a snort. “And I don’t know, he acted…strange when I suggested I would join him if he was nervous.”
I smirked. “That makes sense.”
“Does it?”
“Yes. He may not see you as a stepparent, but there’s bound to be some borrowing from that line of thought in his head. Maybe more like an uncle. Would you want to see your uncle naked?”
“My uncle was as ugly as a deformed hog’s ass,” Reggie said with a laugh. “Not a sexy man in his prime with a great body.”
“I would be tempted to agree with you, but I’m afraid if I feed your ego, your head will swell and you won’t be able to fit through the doors,” I told him with a roll of my eyes.
“So, what you’re saying is that you think I’m a sexy man in his prime with a great body, but stubbornness is keeping you from admitting it to me,” he said with a grin.
“You also have a great ass,” I told him, enjoying the surprised look on his face. Clearly, he hadn’t expected me to deliver a genuine compliment. “And a very nice cock as well.”
“Okay, I wasn’t prepared to be turned on by you using the word cock, but here we are,” he said, and the look on his face told me he hadn’t thought that sentence through and had just blurted it out. “Wow, that was…direct. But in my defense, you are sitting there all…you.”
“All me,” I said, glancing down and side-eyeing him. “Shirtless?”
“And you know?—”
“Do I?”
He eyed me suspiciously before grunting. “You’re trying to get me to say it, aren’t you?”
“You can say whatever you want and not say whatever you don’t want.”
“Fine, yes, because you’re sitting there shirtless. So I can see the hair on your chest and a little on your stomach, and I can’t decide if I want to run my fingers through your chest hair or run my tongue down your stomach. And since you’re in sleep pants, there’s probably no underwear, which means it would beeasy as hell to get to your dick, which is…even more obvious now because I can see you getting hard…also, you have an amazing dick.”
