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I laughed. I didn’t want anything to happen to the Impala. I knew how much he loved that car.
“I parked on the street behind yours and walked through the neighbor’s yard. I’m agile luckily. He has a chain link fence I had to hurdle. Now tell me what is wrong.”
I didn’t want to tell him what they said about him. I made it clear that I trusted him before I did. I didn’t believe what they said but I had promised to tell him everything going forward. He tugged my chin up, forcing me to look at him when I struggled over the word pussy. His eyes were intense.
“It’s a game Abby that these girls like to play. I wouldn’t date Delia, so she snagged Johnny. I don’t like their games or their snobbery. I don’t like the little clique they have.”
Then he kissed me. “I told you I would wait as long as you need. Abby, sex is sex. It feels good but I want the next time to be with someone I love. I want it to be with you.”
The next kiss was fierce. It was hot. It made my toes tingle when Cal stuck his tongue in my mouth, sliding his across my tongue. “You feel it too Abby, don’t you?” He asked when he broke the kiss.
I did.
“When it’s right, it will happen,” he breathed against my lips. I could feel his heart racing heard beneath my hand. My own pounded in my chest.
He rested his head against the chase. I put mine on his chest and listened to the thundering of his heart slow to a steady gallop. “I love you, Cal.”
“I love you too, Abby.”
We made one mistake. We got too comfortable and fell asleep. The early morning sun peeking through the curtains at the window hitting me directly in the eye woke me.
“Ah shit,” I whispered. I hopped up. “You have to go.”
He stretched and yawned. Then he too realized that it was morning. He looked at his watch. I grabbed his wrist and looked too. Seven am. I might get lucky. No one could be up this early. Mom was up first every day of the week but seven was early for her too.
I kissed him at the door to the pool house and we slipped outside. Then I watched Cal slip over the fence with such ease that I was jealous. I would have face planted, upside down hanging from the top of the metal pole.
I circled the fence and went through the mudroom door into the laundry room where I met my mother closing the lid to the washing machine. I knew it was no accident. She had seen me and met me here. Shit.
“Abby,” she said. She wasn’t happy but she wasn’t like Dad. She was willing to listen. Dad grounded first then asked questions later. “I don’t need to ask where you’ve been. I saw you walk out of the pool house with Cal.”
“Dad up?” I asked.
“Nope,” she replied. “What were you doing out there?”
“We were talking and fell asleep.” Honesty is always the best policy with my mother. She and Dad had been harping on that for years.
My mother wasn’t like my Dad. She was shrewd. The difference between them was she had an open-door policy and made herself available and listened to us where Dad blew his stack which made it hard to tell him things.
“Mom, I love Cal.”
She took a step closer and caressed my cheek. “Honey, I won’t try to tell you that you’re too young or you don’t understand those feelings, because it wouldn’t do any good, but you can’t be sneaking outside and sleeping all night with him. Your father would…well he would not understand.”
“Do you believe me that nothing happened? We didn’t mean to fall asleep.”
I was being honest about that.
“I do believe you. I don’t want to keep things from Dad, but I will this time. Don’t do it again. I like the effect that Cal has on you.” Mom smiled at me.
I did too. I was coming out of myself, little by little. Growing and changing. Feeling more confident. His family had a good effect on me too.
“I like it too.” I grabbed her and hugged her hard. “Thanks Mom.”
“Abby, just tell me if you need birth control. I don’t want you to have sex this young. I’d much rather protect you than have a teenager who is pregnant.”
“I will Mom, but we aren’t having sex.”
“Okay.” She sighed. I knew she wanted to say more. Same thing as before. It was so easy to give into temptation when the feelings were strong. I know. I knew. She knew too and understood all these things. She was once a teen too. I got it. I had heard it before. I wanted to wait though. I wasn’t ready for sex yet.
