"Oliver, welcome home! Sit down. We have company!"
I was on a visit home to do laundry when my parents met me at the front door and told me to sit down. We had a visitor.
I dropped my dufflebag at the front hall and sat in the arm chair. My parents sat on the couch, beaming at me. I heard someone leaving the hall bathroom so I looked up to see a large, portly nun walk into the living room. Sister Mary Catherine, from our parish. She was in her 50s and looked like Melissa McCarthy, always smiling and cheerful. I remembered her from kindergarten.
"Oliver! Remember Sister Mary Catherine?" My mom smiled.
"Um, yes." It had been years since I had gone to church.
"Oliver! Sweet boy, Oliver! So handsome now! So big and strong!" Sister Mary Catherine sat in the other arm chair.
"He must have grown a lot since you last saw him, Sister! How many years has it been?" It was my mom's way of poking at me for not going to church.
"Oh!" the nun blushed and looked at me. "Oh, actually, I saw Oliver last week!"
"Oh! Where?" my mom asked.
Oh shit, I thought. There was this creeping realization that maybe Sister Mary Catherine...
She smiled, "I saw Oliver in my art class! He was one of the models there!"
Shit!
"Model? My skinny son a model?" My mother laughed. My dad laughed too.
"It was for art class. And who was the young lady with you, Oliver?"
My mouth was dry, "Um, Mia."
"Mia! That's right! Oliver and Mia! Such a handsome couple!"
"What kind of class, sister?"
"This was anatomy. Our parish sponsors a class with the university and they bring in models for us to sketch."
"Goodness!" My mom laughed, "You were nude, Oliver? Why are you modeling? You need money? You have a scholarship!"
Too many questions, I gulped. I couldn't tell my parents I had lost my scholarship. I couldn't tell them I modeled for money demonstrating sex positions. And looking at the nun's smiling face, I couldn't tell them I was fucking on stage in front of a bunch of nuns!
"I, uh, I did it for extra credit."
"Son," my dad began, "If you lost your scholarship, you better tell us. Now answer your mother - were you naked doing this modeling?"
"No! Gee, dad, leave me alone!" I looked at the three of them. I felt trapped.
"Calm done, Oliver," the nun said. "The art class is confidential, private, and of course, intellectually stimulating!" She winked at me.
My mother kept on, "But what goes on in this class? I want to know what..."
"Gee, mom, none of your business!" And to the nun, I yelled, "Keep your trap shut!" I jumped up from the chair, grabbed my dufflebag and ran down to the basement laundry room. The laundry room is clean and organized, the way my mom wants it. Being in the basement, there was a chill in the air. I dumped my clothes into the washer and decided to strip off what I was wearing to add to the load. Shivering a little, I grabbed a clean towel from the dryer and wrapped it around my waist, then I hopped up on the folding table.
A moment later, my mom yelled down, "Oliver, Sister Mary wants to talk to you."
"No! I'm doing laundry!"
"Be nice! I think you need to talk!" I heard the creaking of the stairs as Sister Mary Catherine descended.
"Oh my! Oliver, there you are nude again!" She laughed.
"Sister, sorry but can you leave me alone. Do you know how humiliating it is?"
"What? That you modeled your beautiful God-given body? That you modeled in front of your old kindergarten teacher?"
"Yeah, all of the above. I didn't tell my parents I lost my scholarship. Otherwise I wouldn't be modeling."
"Oh, I see. Yes, the scholarship is important." She walked around the folding table and shocked me by touching my shoulder. "You were always a cute boy, Oliver. Italian boy with big brown eyes and brown hair playing with your fingers and toes. Look at you now! Tall, handsome, big feet, big hands." She leaned in to whisper in my ear. "I loved watching you make love to that Asian girl. You were so driven. Your body was sweaty and you muscles were just... we marvel with God's design. We could see how every inch of you fit. I drew a couple pictures of your organ. That Asian girl - my, how she enjoyed your... rogering."
Rogering? Funny word. My mouth was dry again. It was so weird having a nun talk to me like this. I shrugged her hand away. I was uncomfortable sitting like that with nothing on but a towel.
"Thanks, Sister. I should leave."