This story involves a middle aged woman and a friend of her daughter who is 18.
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"I'm telling you I don't like it," Tom Rodman said to his wife as they looked out at the pool where their daughter Amy was splashing around with her friends, his contempt for the one in particular, 18 year old Wayne Strait never more obvious. "He's nothing but trouble for Amy. Mark my words."
"He's a nice enough boy," Mimi Rodman replied as they watched the harmless frolic of the teens. "Not the sharpest knife in the drawer I'll admit but the others really likes him. Maybe he gives them discounts on sodas or something."
"He's too damn old for her, and stop calling him a boy for crying-out-loud. He's a man - he's 18. What the hell kind of 18 year old man hangs around a bunch of girls?"
"They're all just swimming. He works down at the store in town and they invited him up to swim," Mimi explained. "You know it's possible to go through life without your mind being in the gutter. Maybe you should try it sometime."
"Yeah, maybe," Tom snarled as they watched the teens climb out of the pool dripping wet, the hair on Wayne's legs plastered to his legs and so thick it made his lower torso look black. "Still looks strange."
"Lot of things look strange around here," Mimi mumbled as her disgruntled husband didn't even pretend to be listening, proving his lack of interest in her extended past the bedroom these days.
"Next thing you know Amy will get knocked up and you'll be a Grandma, and that clown can't afford it on his stock boy salary," Tom said as he prepared to take off again.
"What are you talking about? I've never seen him do anything but swim, and Amy is only interested in those guys in that group One Direction," Mimi explained. "If they show up with towels then I'll close up the pool."
"I should stick around to make sure," Tom Rodman mumbled.
"Leaving again?" Mimi asked, this pattern of her husband taking off on Saturdays becoming a habit. "Nice sunny day like this?"
"I told you we're way behind on that west side development, and the boss is paying attention as far as who's putting in the extra work," Tom Rodman said as he grabbed his briefcase and left after casting a dirty look towards the deck.
"Bye my love," Mimi said sarcastically to no one as he departed without a kiss, and as she looked out at the target of her husband's bizarre animus, she smiled when she looked at the outline in his wet shorts. "I know why you hate the kid so much. Tom Rodman's penis envy strikes again."
The bright orange trunks Wayne was wearing weren't anything suggestive at all, but the baggy drawers did cling to the skin when wet, and Mimi didn't have to use her imagination to deduce there was something rather eye-catching about Wayne that her husband was probably envious of.
"Looks like a a penis only bigger," Mimi said to herself as she leaned against the sink, a cabinet handle hitting her crotch just right and making her sigh.
Mimi decided to go out and join her daughter and their friends so she went to the bedroom and packed herself into her very modestly cut one piece bathing suit, cursing herself for not going to the Y all winter like she had planned because the 30 pounds extra she had been carrying was still there.
"See Tom," Mimi told her absent husband before going outside. "You'll be happy to know that I'm chaperoning our daughter's pool party."
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"Ignore me gang," Mimi announced to her daughter and her friends as she joined them on the deck, sucking in her stomach as best she could when she saw Wayne staring at her, only this time he wasn't gawking at her chest like usual but lower. "I know you don't need me to be out here but it's just too nice to be inside."
"That's cool Mrs. Rodman," Wayne told her as Mimi sat in the chaise and leaned back, only just then realizing what the boy had been looking at.
"Dammit," Mimi Rodman mumbled as she adjusted the leg opening of her bathing suit so that her pubic hair wasn't sticking out.
Normally Mimi liked the goofy attention her daughter's friend gave her, only wishing that she was younger so she could give the kid a better show.
"Poop," Amy Rodman said when her phone went off, and after a brief conversation with her girlfriend Melissa the two took the phone inside to continue the chat with the caller.
"Back in the olden times we got along without a phone in the ear half the day," Mimi said to Wayne as he moved to the chair next to her. "That damn phone might as well be attached to her ear. Where's yours?"
"I turn it off," Wayne said. "Don't need the interruption."
"Good for you," Mimi said as she shielded her eyes to look over at Wayne.
"Want me to put suntan lotion on you?" Wayne suggested.
"No, thanks anyway. I'd like it but if the girls came out they might get the wrong idea," Mimi said, the idea of this 18 year old's hands on her making her tingle.
"She's probably going to be on the phone for an hour with Chelsea anyway," Wayne replied. "There's some kind of drama going on with one of their friends. Kid stuff, you know?"
"I vaguely recall," Mimi answered.
"Was that Mr. Rodman leaving before?"
"Yep."
"He does that a lot - leaving on Saturdays," Wayne mentioned. "He work a lot?"
"That's what he says," Mimi answered.
"I don't think he likes me very much," Wayne suggested.
"I think he's jealous of you," Mimi chuckled.
"Why?"
"You don't have to suck your gut in when you wear a bathing suit for one thing," Mimi retorted, and although she was tempted to add the bit about the bulge in the lad's trunks, instead she noted, "I think he might be jealous about your hairy legs too."
"Hair isn't cool these days," Wayne noted. "One woman I know wants me to shave my legs."
"Oh brother."
"I like hair," Wayne added as he glanced down towards the leg openings of Mrs. Rodman's bathing suit to see if any hair had escaped again
"Me too," Mimi replied, fidgeting at the boy looking at her too-full thighs. "I think it's more a case of Tom being afraid you're going to corrupt his daughter."
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah, he thinks you're too old to be around Amy," Mimi said, choosing to let the kid know what was up. "He thinks you might get her pregnant."
"Pregnant?. No way. She's just a kid I know from the store. I don't play with fire," Wayne explained. "Tell him to relax, if you ever see him again that is."