This story uses italics to represent personal thoughts of characters.
***Author's Note***
This story is the beginning of a series (length, yet to be determined). It is the first story I have written and obviously my first submission.
I would like to credit findingmyvoice with editing and proofreading my story. She not only did a great job making suggestions alongside of her edits, but gave me confidence that my story was worthy of being posted. Thank you findingmyvoice, for sharing your knowledge and editing skills.
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Shane set his duffel bag down by the door and promptly removed his shoes. He just wanted to take a nice long shower after returning from the gym and then relax for the night from his busy work week. His job involved a lot of travelling, all across the country, spending a day here and two days there.
Shane was 38 and lived alone. There were a few women in his lifetime that he could see himself settling down with, but he couldn't bring himself to commit to such a long-term relationship and chose to remain single. His mother was concerned that he didn't want to have a wife and children. She would tell him frequently about the joy a child and a doting wife would bring to his humble life. To add to the turmoil, his father egged him on to get married and have a child in order to carry on the family name.
Reaching into his bag, Shane drew out his clothes that he had changed out of when he hit the gym after work. He threw the crumpled mass into the hamper as he reached the bedroom, and began to strip out of his workout attire. As he removed his clothes and placed them in the hamper, he looked at himself in the mirror. "You just keep getting better and better," he told himself. Thoughts of Bruce Lee entered his head as he compared his ripped abs to the vision.
Shane stepped into his shower which seemed like an empty auditorium. The shower could easily fit six people comfortably. The price you pay for being an eligible bachelor who makes decent money, he quipped to himself. He turned the faucet on, and thanks to his instant hot water heater, walked into the steamy mist which immediately filled the glass enclosure.
While he was washing his face, he heard the familiar ring of his phone, which he had placed on the granite countertop. He tried to quickly rinse his face to answer the call, but was unable to grab his phone before it fell to the floor due to the vibration. "Thank God for Otter Box," he said aloud as he quickly dried his hands before retrievinge his phone. He knew from the ring tone that it was his mother calling him. No matter how the conversation began, it always ended with his mother saying, "You need to find yourself a nice woman to settle down with."
"Hey Mom. Sorry I didn't answer right away. I was in the shower. Is something wrong? You usually don't call me after dinner time."
"No, honey. Nothing's wrong. I received a piece of mail for you concerning your 20th high school reunion this weekend. I thought I would call and implore you to attend. Nothing would make me happier than to see my baby boy. It's been nearly 5 years since you have been home."
"Mom, we see each other more than once every 5 years," Shane reminded her.
"Yes, I see you often, but it is never here in your home town, in our home. Please tell me you will consider it, at least for your mother's sake?"
Shane reminisced briefly about all of the people he went to high school with. "You do realize one of the reasons I moved was to get away from all of those people, don't you? I'm not on any of the social media sites just so I don't have to be contacted by them. I'm not interested in catching up with people I hardly spoke to anyway. I keep in contact with a few friends I consider to be close from school."
Shane's mother countered, "You always got along with Steven, and I know you would want to see Miss Jenkins. You had a huge crush on her. You remember your senior English Literature teacher, right? I know for a fact she will be there."
Suddenly, an image of a firm round ass came to mind. He remembered the way Miss Jenkins would bend over to pick up the dry erase marker whenever she dropped it while writing on the white board. Sometimes he thought she was doing it on purpose just to tease him, giving him a reason to run home and spend a few minutes jerking off. A sweet ass wasn't her only asset. She had perfectly shaped breasts. Not too large, yet big enough to show her ample cleavage with her low cut blouses. He started to wonder what she looked like now, 20 years later. Maybe she got ugly and looks old. She was only six years older than him when she landed the teaching job just after graduating with a Master's in English Literature. Maybe she's still sexy as hell, he said to himself.
"I'll tell you what. I will come home to visit you, but don't expect me to go to the reunion. I haven't made up my mind about that yet. Tell Dad I expect a warm reception with a bottle of scotch and two shot glasses when I arrive tomorrow. I'll probably get there just after lunch."
"It's a deal! I miss you dearly. Now tell me, have you met anyone yet?"
"You need to give up now mom. I'll let you know just as soon as there is someone in the picture. I promise you will be the first to know."
Shane hung up the phone and placed his head under the water raining down from the shower head. Thoughts of Miss Jenkins flashed before his eyes. He couldn't help himself. "Once for old time sake," he muttered. With that he started to stroke his semi-hard cock, bringing it to full attention. Lathering up some soap as lubrication, he jerked off in the shower until he shot a large volume of cum and watched it wash down the drain.
After arriving at his parent's house the next day, Shane looked around at the neighborhood. Nothing seemed to change in this small town. He bet that old man Rafferty still sat on his porch with his shot gun full of rock salt, waiting to blast it at some kid's ass for trespassing across his farm to reach the lake on the other side of the hill.
After his mother stopped mauling him, he took a seat next to his father on the back deck. One shot glass was full while the other only contained small droplets of scotch, indicating it had recently been emptied.
"Started without me I see."
"I couldn't wait all day for you," his father said gruffly.
They all got caught up with what had happened in their lives since the last time they were together. Shane's father had retired early this past year and spent most of his time in the flower beds, and keeping up the property. Mom did what she normally does. She spent her time volunteering for church functions, hanging out at the salon talking to the 'girls', and making sure her husband was well fed and appreciated.
As he was taking his things to his old room, his dad said he wanted to show him something after he got settled in. Shane returned downstairs to see a large box sitting on the table. "I found this box in the closet when we were doing some spring cleaning. It's all your stuff from growing up that you left here. I thought, with the reunion and all, you might want to take a trip down memory lane or something. Besides, it's time it gets out of my house and into yours...or the trash, whichever you decide," his father joked.
"Thanks Dad. I'll take it upstairs with me and rummage through it. I'm sure most of it is just little stuff I have outgrown."
Shane set the box on the bed and began to pull items out, one at a time. Just as he thought, there were bowling trophies, some papers he wrote, and for whatever reason wanted to keep, and his senior high school year-book. Out of curiosity, he opened the book and laughed at how dorky some of his classmates looked, especially himself. He was by no means built and was rather scrawny. Shane wasn't sickly looking, but he sure looked like a wimp compared to many of the other boys in school. A folded piece of paper dropped from within the pages of the year- book and landed on the bed. He immediately recognized it. "The List," he reflected.