I nervously tapped my pen against my journal, thinking about how to put my feelings into words to write what happened today. I had written all of today up until... Nora walked into the closet.
I scoffed, giving up after a minute of pondering and slamming my journal shut. I needed some more insight on the situation. Luckily, my dad had come home for lunch mid-work, which he did every now and then around the time I came home from school.
If it wasn't clear by now, my parents were workaholics. My dad co-owned many apartment buildings, stores, and restaurants in town. Funny enough, my mom was a real estate agent, so they ended up working together on certain projects from time to time. They were barely home as it is, only coming home for dinner then going to their room or study to finish up more work.
Needless to say, it was lonely sometimes.
I walked out of my room, wearing my usual satin light pink pajama set in the form of a tank top and shorts with a pattern of red cherries and red stitching on the hems.
I opened the study, finding my dad munching on a sandwich with one hand while he texted with the other. I felt uneasy, never having interrupted him while he was in his study like this.
"Uh, Dad?" I asked, my voice loud against the silence of his office.
"What do you want, and make it quick."
I left the door open as I approached his desk. "I wanted to ask about how you and mom met."
He stilled, slowing his chewing and putting his phone down, looking me in the eye with slight confusion. He swallowed his food and said, "What about it?"
"Well, I mean, you guys talk about it every anniversary at the parties - about how you disliked each other then built an amicable friendship and this and that..." I trailed off, chewing inside of my lip as I tried to word myself correctly. "But how did you get her to go out with you?"
"Ah. Is this about a certain boy?"
I tensed, but tried to appear relaxed. "You can say that."
"Well, if you must know... that story we tell every year is mostly... false." My dad smirked to himself. My eyes widened in surprise.
"What?"
"Your mom and I agreed to make up a better sounding version for our clients and family friends, but yeah, that whole story about courting and waiting until marriage is utter bullshit." He brazenly said, chuckling to himself about the whole thing. "Your mother and I absolutely loathed each other. She was the goody-two-shoes and I was that jock jerk guy, you know. We never even ran in the same circles, I just knew she was the geeky smart kid."
I paid attention, eager to hear the truth. "So how did you two actually meet then?"
"Surprisingly enough, it was at a high-school party I threw." My dad mused. "She had this red tight dress that showed off her legs, and it matched with her huge red glasses. Got my attention right away. I, of course, wanting nothing to do with her besides smacking pelvises-"
"Okay, gross wording." I murmured.
"What? You wanted to hear it."
"Right. Continue, please." I urged.
"Okay. I just wanted to fuck. She didn't wanna have anything to do with me, but I wouldn't stop trying. In a respectful way, of course. Then when I got her to talk, she was actually pretty... funny. Interesting. She couldn't stop rambling about whatever question I asked her." My mom today didn't seem like the rambling type. She seemed cool and collected, always ready to have an answer to whatever someone said or asked. "After a while, she asked to see my room. Wanted to see what my quote, unquote, 'twisted mind looked like in real life'."
I smiled, amused. "She saw your paintings, didn't she?"
"I showed her to my workshop/room, yeah. On one half of the room was my bedroom, the other half was my art stuff. It was a mess, really. I was so focused on getting some ass that-"
Ew.
"-that I forgot about how I never showed people in my room at all. I usually picked them up in my car or something. Once she saw my room, she was completely fascinated in the art I drew. It's like she couldn't believe my jock persona could ever have another side to it."
"Aww."
"Yeah, well, it gets a lot less sweet from there. And believe it or not, she was the one to make the first move."
I cocked my head in intrigue, "How?"
"First, she told me how much she hated me, how much she could never be with me and hated even being around me. But then... she told me she wanted to experiment with me."
"Huh, who'd imagine that?" My mom was all about ethics, morals, family values nowadays. She'd instilled them in me from childhood, as well as our religious beliefs, with my dad mutely agreeing even though I'm pretty sure he didn't believe anything of the sort.
"Next thing, we're sitting on my bed and she's trying to figure out how to kiss me."
"Mom didn't know how to kiss?"
"Nope." My dad leaned back, a small smirk on his face. "I had to teach her how to kiss. How to make out, what felt good to me and what felt good to her. It was all communication and learning-"
Funny enough, Nora seemed to know everything about female anatomy at this point. She read my body like a book...
"Before we knew it, we couldn't keep our hands off each other. But there was one problem - we fell in love."
Well, that wasn't going to happen for me.
I didn't even know Nora like that, I just knew I felt lust for her. "Okay, but how did you actually get her to..."
Fuck, how could I word this? I wanted Nora to listen to her, to do what I wanted instead of Nora just dominating me entirely.
"Get her to what?"
"Okay, my situation is very different. This person..." I let out a small huff of annoyance, looking away as my cheeks reddened in embarrassment. "... this person likes to be... the top."
"Oh, we're having one of those talks." My dad whispered in mortification.
"Dad, come on."
"Okay, okay. I'm listening."