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He nestled my throat so he could press his lips to my skin. Things were getting out of hand. I wasn’t sure how far I wanted to go with Cal, but I loved how his was making me feel. Breathless. Excited. Wanting more. Scared out of my mind.
Then we heard the front door slam shut. He turned his head towards the door. My skin cooled where his lips had just been. “Mom’s home,” he groaned.
Cal rolled to the side of the bed. “Come on,” he said. “I want to introduce you to her.”
I had excited Cal. I knew that even though I didn’t have a lot of experience. I didn’t have anyone to talk to about what had just happened between us. He said he wouldn’t rush things, but I was torn between wanting more myself and being afraid.
I straightened my hair and followed Cal to the living room. His mom was the female version of him. She looked up when we entered the room. He laced his fingers through mine sensing my uncertainty. The hesitation in my step.
“Mom, my girlfriend Abby. Abby, my mom, Dana Cooper.”
She smiled. Her eyes like his warm and inviting put me at ease right away. “Well Abby, it is nice to meet you. Cal never brings home a girl so you must be special.” That one honest statement made me feel so much better about things with Cal.
She was much shorter than me. I don’t know how she produced such a large son. His father must be tall, I assumed. I smiled at him. Cal wasn’t looking at me though. He was looking at his mom.
“How’s Rhonda?” He asked.
She laid the things in her hand on the table and put one hand on her hip. The other hand went through her hair. “Same. She’s down.”
Then Cal glanced at me. “She was six months pregnant,” he explained.
His mom gave me a sad smile. “She had felt her son move. She’s pretty depressed right now.”
“I’m so sorry.” I didn’t know what else to say to them.
“You guys should go over and visit with her. I was just going to order pizza but maybe a visit from you and Abby would cheer Rhonda up.”
“Are you sure that is a good idea?”
“I think it is a great idea.” His mom was shooing us out the door. “New blood will do her a world of good.”
Cal stopped his mom, explaining he needed shoes and he had to get my my glasses. No awkward silence between me and his mom. She started firing off questions. “How did you and Cal meet?”
“English. He sits by me.”
She nodded. “That’s his best subject. What’s yours?”
He was caught. I turned and gazed at him as he returned to the living room carrying my glasses. His mom looked between us. “What did I say?”
“I uh, well…”
“Calv
ert, what did you do?” She asked folding her arms across her ample chest as she stared down her son.
He was even more unhappy that she had used his full name. Then she smiled at him when he explained about asking me to be his tutor. “My son, the charming one. Abby, he doesn’t need a tutor in any class. Don’t let him fool you.”
“I won’t ever again,” I replied shaking my head at Cal.
We left their house and drove to an apartment across town. The community was cute. We drove around a pond that had swans and ducks swimming near the shore. I watched as Cal made his way around a circle and through tight, two-lane, roads until he parked in front of a white painted brick building. We ran up two flights of stairs and Cal knocked on the door at Apartment 401.
Rhonda’s fiancé answered the door. “Cal, great to see you man.” He appeared tired. It had been a long few days for this couple. Beneath the tiredness I could see the sadness.
I felt so awkward. I thought maybe we were intruding. At least I was. Rhonda might be happy to see her brother but not his girlfriend when she had just suffered a tragedy like this.
Rhonda was sitting on the sofa in her pajamas a fuzzy purple blanket over her legs. At first, she was turned to the patio doors but when we got to the living area, she faced us. A sad smile crossed her face. Then she pulled up her legs and offered us a place to sit.
“So, you’re Cal’s girl?”
