Everyone is 18+ in the this story of love and lust with family.
I rode the short bus in school and am dyslexic and use software and editors to make it easier to read.
I fell for a Librarian.
Book 1
What a weird old building our downtown Julia Ideson Library was; it was built in the 1920s like a fine Spanish Mission, and it's marble halls and grand columns were closer to a palace. Or that's what I felt at seven holding my Moms hand as we looked for books to help me learn to read.
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I must have been ten when on her day off she took me to be a reading hour was not sure if my Mom lucked into the children's reading hour or knowing my Mom, she asked someone about it, but for most of the summer when I was a kid, every few days, Mom got home from a double shift working for a jerk of a guy, then she would take us to get a book for me to read. We rode two buses there one way; when I tell you I do anything to make my Moms life easier, I am doing it; please help or get out of the way.
A stairway went up and stopped at a dead-end wall and turned right it was covered in a mural of a Spanish village in the hills at the libraries lobby. It was done in the 1930s by an artist working for the WPA in the thirties. The painting was done as if the stairs walked up the hill to the village. So I knew that's where behind the secret door a portal lay. Behind that, they kept the baby dragons that would make us rich by helping us make our dreams come true; that's what my Mom told me.
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I'm eighteen now and motored downtown to the old building has been remodeled so many times. I was informed that there were whole rooms that disappeared from the memory of all but the most senior librarians by 2010. Now I had to make and print charts for a book report for my high school history class. My grade for the year hinged on this report; I was trying hard to overcome two in-complete grades. My widowed Mom could not pay the bills this month, so we ate rather than have the internet at home. Not the first time, and I am sure it won't be the last.
I could do my school work in the Air Conditioner at the library riding my black and chrome 1990 Honda GB500 'Tourist Trophy'. It's a classic, not that it ever wanted to be one; it was just an excellent bike for friendly people, a cafe racer. For an older bike with high mileage, it runs fast, stops slowly, and still gets great gas mileage. It has yet to need service other than oil and gas. While looking sexy, damn, that's good enough for me.
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I'm sure it was the main reason I got to kiss my first girl two months after getting the bike, pulling up to a party on my black beauty at forty-five miles per hour, making some noise stopping.
OK, truth time. I rolled up on my Honda. I had it a few months getting it on my eighteenth birthday; it was my Dad's first before I was born; he died by a drunk truck driver in the family car when I was five, and my Granddad took over a dozen years restoring it to new.
I pulled up to park on the sidewalk, and half the hot girls at my school were on the front porch drinking beers around a keg. I gagged a bit; I got so drunk and passed out last year that they drew a dick on my face with a Sharpe; not doing that again. The look on my Mom's face when she saw my dick face, wait, that sounded wrong.
I turned the Honda off, pulled my gloves off, and stuck them between the side mirror and brake fluid reservoir on the handlebars. I unstrapped my silver glitter black full-face helmet, pulled it off, and hung it on the bike's mirror; I unzipped my cool, used black leather jacket, a gift from my Mom. I run my fingers through my long blond hair combing out the tangles. I feel the hot ladies eating me from afar with smoky eyes and lipstick-covered broad smiles; being too cool for school was a hot sign.
I stand up from sitting on the bike and toss my leg to the side to dismount the bike. This was the exact second I lost all of my cool and was forever destined to be a damn high school dork. As I stepped off my Honda, it fell over on me, knocking me sideways and off my feet and tearing the crotch of my jeans. My Honda landed on me and pined me to the ground; all my cool split, as did my pants. I hear laughter and words. "OH, what a dumb-ass; cool my butt."
One of my friends and classmates since fourth grade Patrice ran up, helping me pick my bike off me, and we put it on the stand. Damn, I missed that part and went into the party laughing at the poor kid who forever lost his cool at that party. Oops, damn it, that's me.
Later when Spin the Bottle was started, my friend Patrice probably took pity on me, and we spun the bottle for my first kiss that was not my Mom. Wow comes to mind.
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I've had my used motorcycle now a year, and by my birthday, a year later, my nineteenth, I motored over twenty thousand miles on it so far this year alone. It meant Freedom to me, not having to stay home at our apartments.
It was an easy trip downtown on the parkway, as I can skip the freeway if traffic is too bad. I've been to the library several times to hang out and read all the fantastic books that made my world less complicated. Sometimes a book can be a good friend or even a good teacher The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort comes to mind. I found it an excellent guide, even though it was dated when I read it.