I'm back with another chapter in the Mom's Big Bed Series! This time, all the female relatives help Ian prepare for a Friday night date over the course of four days. Enjoy and if you like what you see... don't forget to comment and vote!
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MONDAY
The Alarm went off at 6:00 AM. I jackknifed upright in bed between Mom and Grandma. My Grandmother rolled over and shut the alarm off and Mom nudged me in the ribs get up and at 'em. We let Grandma sleep a little longer while we pulled on running attire and went for another morning three miler.
This time there was no sex at the half-way mark. We just turned at the billboard and came home. We went straight into a half hour of weights and then Mom gave me a smack in the ass and told me to hit the shower. It was 7:10 now. I had time for breakfast with my mom and grandma (who had done her morning yoga routine with my mom while I was cleaning up for school).
Grandma said that after breakfast she was going to get back in her Volkswagen bus and make the drive back her teepee for fresh clothes and pack as though she'd be with us for a few weeks. She had a few ancient hippies who watched the place from time to time (you might call the free-loaders or squatters), and she said they agreed to look after the property and keep the raccoons out of it while she stayed with us. I assumed, "watch the place," meant "live in it for free" and eat everything in sight while smoking up all her shit but she told us she'd had them look after the place before and she hadn't had too much trouble from them.
Mom said she'd drop me off at school and then she'd come home afterwards and shower up before getting off to the office. We live close enough to my old high school that back then, I could either walk or she'd give me a lift there. My car was always an option but it was at the moment a "work in progress" and until me and my friend Keith got it back together, it was going to be in the far corner of our three car garage up on blocks. I needed to generate some income to alleviate my "transportation issues." It was bad enough I was going to be living at home while in college - did I have to make it unbearable by having the women of my family drive me everywhere?
Anyhow, Mom said I would probably need to walk home from school. No biggie for me there. An extra fifteen minutes wouldn't kill me. She told me that she'd text me if she had any changes but she was certain she would be at the office for a while as a late start meant a late end for the day for her. Mom drove me to school and as I got out of the car she had some words of advice for me.
"You know that hickey on your neck Ian?" she said as I stepped around to the other side of the car to kiss her goodbye. I nodded.
"Well," she whispered, "that is going to be a ticket to popularity this week for you. Milk it for all its worth!" I looked a bit confused.
"Silly," she said wrinkling her nose at me, "you know people are going to see it. You need to act like it is no big deal. You're gonna be pressed by people about it and you should just toss around a made-up name. Let them press you for a bit and then let it out that 'Holly' did it to you."
"HOLLY?" I said, "Tanya's Mom? But she didn't have anything to do with this." Mom looked at me like I should have gone to school on the little bus.
"Ian," she said being patient, "you are just pulling a name out of the sky and tossing it to them. You, tell them about some girl named 'Holly,' an older chick met you on Friday and how you both 'hit it off!' It won't be a lie that an older woman did it to you. You are just going to make like she was nineteen or twenty...oh, and make sure she is not from around here in your story! Oh and now I have a question; who is this girl you want to get at the end of the week for a date?"
"Michelle Nicoletti," I answered.
"Well," Mom said, "let the rumor mill work itself a bit and then talk to her late today at school about Friday night and see what happens. Now give me a kiss!" I leaned into the car an gave my mom a "little boy" smooch on the lips and she pulled my head close and slipped me the tongue for the briefest of seconds! I had to look left and right to see if anyone in the other cars saw...they hadn't. I was lucky.
"That is for TONIGHT," Mom said, "oh, ...and that reminds me. You have 'date practice' this evening at six with Auntie Maria. She is going to take you on a car date. You need to get your studies done in study hall like you usually do!"
"I will Ma," I said, "bye!"
"Bye hubby!" said Mom before she winked and drove off. I had to look around again to see if anybody was listening but again, everyone was too wrapped up in getting into the school or yacking with friends to worry about, what "Ian's Mommy" said to her son before she drove away. I headed to homeroom.
It went just as Mom predicted. I was asked by somebody (a dude name Chris with a big mouth), about my hickeys. I said they were nothing. He immediately pointed them out to a girl named Veronica who had an even bigger mouth.
Again I made like they were nothing but I pulled my head down into my sweatshirt hoodie-top like a turtle and they razzed me. That was all it took. After bell for first class and we were out in the hallway, Chris went one way and Veronica went another day. The viral nature of school gossip took over and for me it was like I was letting gravity, wind, or sun power work for me! I really didn't need to do anything.
By second period bell, I had people coming up to me and asking me who "her name" was. I leaked to another big mouth named Jerry that her name was Holly and that she was an older chick who I'd met on Friday and then we saw each other Saturday and even Sunday before she had to drive out of town. I then headed off like I was late for class. Jerry's big mouth and the ability to exaggerate did the rest!
I ran into my closest friends Keith, Eddie, and Eric. We were pretty tight and still are even to this day. They asked me where I had been. They didn't see me walk into the schoolyard that morning. I told them I had a late breakfast and had caught a ride just in time for the bell to homeroom. Then Eric broke the obvious tension and asked the question as he pointed at my neck wounds,