The young man known to his friends as "Baron Badass" was, at least in most people's minds, the top prospect in the nation when it came to highschool wrestling. The very small media world that approached it had taken a liking to him, charmed by his smile, his easy nature, and of course his left-over-from-middleschool nickname. He tried to ignore it. He didn't like to think too much about things like that, although the number of recruitment letters, offers, and even personal visits from college coaches made the fact in and of itself hard to ignore. Not that he hadn't earned it, of course. Throughout his school career, from 6th grade to 12th, he had lost perhaps six or seven matches, and those were typically either close results, flukes, or had occurred on days when he had some illness or another issue that prevented him from performing at his best. Put quite simply, he may not have liked to think about the fact that he was the best| in the country, but that was just because he didn't like to get distracted from his training. Think about it or not, he WAS the best highschool wrestler in the country.
Of course, the key thing about being a highschool wrestler, even a very GOOD highschool wrestler, is that it didn't change the fact that you were, nevertheless, a HIGHSCHOOL wrestler. There were certain things that came from being in highschool, wrestler or not, and the most notable one was the fact that you still lived at home. And, unless you were very lucky or very wealthy, you had to share the car with your parents.
Which is why Zigismund "Ziggy" Baron, the greatest highschool wrestler in the country, was pacing impatiently back and forth in his wrestling coach's office, listening to his mother drone on and on in conversation with the coach. For the last couple years, ever since the pair had started talking, his mother had taken to 'accidentally' buying track pants that were a little too small for her, and then having 'busy days' on days her had wrestling practice, which meant she had 'no choice' but to show up in an outfit that hugged her thighs like bodypaint.
It annoyed him, and not only because as a young man with raging hormones the sight of a woman, any woman, in pants that tight was exciting in ways that were not appropriate when it came to one's own mother. It also annoyed him because it meant that half the time when he had a meet or a practice or even just a bit of personal coaching after school, he was stuck like this, waiting to be able to just get on with the day, go home, maybe review some tape and then SLEEP, but instead his mother had to continue to talk to the coach, crossing and uncrossing her legs and laughing at the non-jokes that adults liked to tell each-other wh-
"Ziggy. Cut it out. I'm trying to talk to Michael, and all your pacing is distracting me," his mother instructed him.
He sighed, "Mom, I just want to go home."
"I just don't want to sit here listening to you and Coach go on all day."
"I'm not making you, you can go sit in the car, we'll only be a few minutes."
He sighed and took a seat on a bench, watching his mother and the coach continue their pretend non-flirting conversation. A few minutes was fine, perhaps, but even one minute was hours too long when it came to having to sit through - Or even think about - Your mother trying to get in the singlet of your wrestling coach. He just sat and watched, glaring at the pair, as they continued their conversation about... Whatever the hell it was they were talking about, he consciously tried to avoid thinking about the content of their conversations. Who would want to think about that?
To his relief, his mom finally started to stand up, "Okay, Michael, it's been wonderful, but I really have to take Ziggy h-" and then she stopped, "Oh, wait! I completely forgot, I was going to show you those photos I took from his last meet!" She exclaimed, reaching into her purse and pulling out her phone, "here we are. So I took th-"
"Dangit, Mom!" He yelled, "Can you PLEASE just GO?"
"ZIGGY!" She glared at him, "I'm showing Michael the photos, just a MINUTE!"
"It's been an hour! It's enough minutes, can we please just GO?" He asked.
"Come on, Baron," the coach said, "Just a few."
"Please, coach, I just want to go home."
"Just give us a few more minutes, Baron, I asked your mother to do this for me, and she was nice enough to do it."
"Come on, Coach, can't she just email them?" He asked, growing exhasperated.
"She's here right now, there's no need to wait around. So just wait, unless you want to solve things the way we normally do around here."
"What, you want me to wrestle you?"
"Of course not, Ziggy. I don't wrestle anymore. And this is between you and your mom."
"Oh, you told me about this!" His mother laughed, then raised an eyebrow and looked back at her son, "How about it, Ziggy, do you want to wrestle with your old mom~?" She teased.
He rolled his eyes, "Come on, Mom, no, I don't want to wrestle you."
"Oh, I understand that," she smiled, "I wouldn't want my mom beat me up either, if I was a big time top seed recruit~"
He gave an amused smile, "Mom, come on, you can't beat me."
"You sure~? I have before."
He blinked, trying to figure out what she meant. Then it dawned on him, and he sighed. "Mom, you beat me like ten years ago. I'm not 8 anymore."
"8, 18... Still not too old to lose to your mom~" She laughed. He glared at her, trying to avoid losing his cool, but quite frankly, his mother had been bugging him for far too long, between her flirting with his coach and her still treating him like a kid... Yeah, sure, he didn't want to wrestle his mom, what guy would? She was attractive for her age, she kept herself in shape, sure, but she was still his mom. On the other hand, what other chance was he going to get to finally shut her up somehow? Sure, no highschool guy would want to grapple their mother, but at the same time, no highschool guy could turn down a challenge from their mom either. And what teenager HASN'T thought about strangling their mom now and then?
"You know what, mom?" He finally asked, "Fine. Let's do it. Let's get on the mat."