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Gram snorted. “How did you ever get pregnant, Kat?”
My mother rolled her eyes at Gram. “He has no problem with passion mother.” I did not need to hear this coming from my mother about my father. “It’s intimacy that he has a problem with.” I groaned which made my mother laugh.
“So, what are you two always talking about that I’m left out of?” My mother asked.
I wasn’t sure what she was asking.
Gram cleared her throat.
“I know Abby,” Mom said. She eyed me that way a mother does when she knows. “You talk to Gram about things you won’t talk to me about. The same things that Tyson will tell me you won’t. I don’t understand why.”
“Mom I don’t think Ty talks to you about everything.”
She scoffed at me. “I do happen to know that he has had sex. He just doesn’t want his father to know.”
I was surprised. “He used protection,” she added. “I knew at the end of the school year, after the party when it happened. He needed someone he could talk to about it.”
He hadn’t told me until recently. He was closer to my mother than I thought.
“So, why do you feel that you can’t come to me like Tyson does?”
I didn’t have an answer for her. There wasn’t a thing that I couldn’t tell my grandmother, but my parents were another thing.
“He’s worried about you and Cal,” she added.
I rolled my eyes to the ceiling at that statement. That was an understatement.
Gram cleared her throat again. I peeked around Mom at her and she was encouraging me to talk to Mom with her eyes. Making that sideways motion with her eyes that said, talk to her.
“Tyson saw us in the driveway this afternoon,” I said feeling more than uncomfortable.
“And,” Mom said her tone was not judging but gentle. She wanted me to keep telling her about this incident although I had a feeling that Ty had secretly told her.
“Cal’s hands were on my butt holding me. Ty completely overreacted. Shouting about him groping me in broad daylight so what was I letting him do to me at other times. That made Cal angry.”
Mom nodded like she understood. “Abby it isn’t easy when Ty’s been your protector your whole life to suddenly let go of that role. I did tell him that he needs to respect your ability to say no to a boy and he needs to
respect your relationship with Cal.”
“So, he did tell you?” I was irritated at them both.
“He did.” She chuckled. “He’s been complaining for weeks that he’s always got his hands on you. Kissing you. That he wants to break Cal’s hands. I recommended that he not hurt Cal, so he didn’t make you angry at him.”
I glanced at Mom with my mouth open. “Cal is bigger than him.”
“I know that. I didn’t want to hurt your brother’s pride too much by telling him he might get his ass beat, Abby. While your brother isn’t small, Cal is much larger.”
She smiled at me. “I remember my first love.” She caressed my cheek.
“It wasn’t Dad.” I gasped at her, mouth open. Mom had surprised me with that admission.
She dropped her hand to her side. “No, it wasn’t. It was a boy in high school. We dated from the time I was sixteen until we graduated and went to separate colleges. We even tried that first year of college…” She let her voice trail off for a moment.
Then she looked at Grandma who patted her leg, comforting her. I realized then how hurt my mother was over this loss. “Abby, I wanted it to work so badly. He was my first. He meant everything to me.”
Mom sounded so sad that I reached out to her and took her hand holding it in mine. She smiled at me again.
“His name is Will Larson.”
