"So, what happened with Tina Friday night? Did you score or what?" The words came through Nate's headphones as he surveyed the area through a scope.
"Of course, I did," he lied. The truth was Tina had moved on to some other dick weeks ago. But the squad of guys he played with online didn't need to know that. He didn't know them in real life. They would never know. All they needed to know was, he couldn't play on Friday nights.
"So, let's have some details." Another voice asked. He knew all these guys by username only. But it was pretty standard for them to swap sex stories while they did their campaigns obviously it was his turn.
"We hit up this new club downtown. Dancing always makes her hot. She likes the attention."
"We got company coming from the south." He watched from his vantage point while his squad moved to intercept the threat coming in.
"Friday night the place was hot and crowded and every guy with a pulse kept grabbing her ass."
"Why didn't you bust someone's head?" PetersBuilt69 interrupted.
"Because it's good for me." Nate laughed. "The more guys that want to grind on her the hornier she gets. She was wearing this mini skirt that showed her incredible legs so there were guys lining up to cop a feel. She was so hot she fucked me in the front seat of my car before we even left the parking lot."
"Damn."
"Yeah, those miniskirts come in handy." Nate laughed
"What does this chick look like again?" RockHound asked.
"She's hot, tall with long legs five nine and a stacked D cup. Long dark hair and brown eyes."
"I call bull shit," Ahole26 spoke up for the first time, and several of the squad hissed at him. "Prove it."
"Why should I? I don't really give a shit if you believe me or not."
"Come on man take pity on the eternally single. Upload a pic to the group chat."
"Yeah, I'm sure she'd really appreciate you losers jacking off to her pic."
"If what you say is true she'd probably love it." Someone laughed.
"I tell you what, I'll get a pic for you perverts but it's gonna cost you 20 bucks each."
"Fine but it's gotta have a newspaper or something so we know it's a pic you took and not something you googled."
"No problem." He had a layout he needed to do for his photography class anyway, one extra picture was no big deal.
Nate heard the front door slam and pulled his headphones off to listen. He didn't hear anything else, but the slam didn't bode well. The campaign was over so he signed off despite the complaints of his fellow gamers.
He found her in the kitchen downing a glass of wine. That definitely didn't bode well.
"How'd it go?"
She looked at him and poured another glass of wine. "He got another continuance."
Nate did his best to hide his irritation, he knew it wouldn't help. His dad seemed to think that dragging the divorce out for as long as humanly possible was the best strategy. He hated the man for a number of reasons this only proved his hatred wasn't misplaced. "I'm sorry."
She shook her head and he could see her biting her lip. She did that every time she was trying not to cry. He hated to see it. It hit him right in the gut every time. "I expected it." She took a big gulp of the wine. "I did not expect him to bring her to the hearing."
"Seriously?" He couldn't believe that the man was a big enough asshole to bring his current girlfriend to his divorce hearing, but it shouldn't have surprised him in the least. After all the same man had taken his wife's chemo treatments as not only an opportunity but an excuse to cheat.
"Yep." She downed the rest of the glass. "Adding insult to injury was our theme for today."
Nate moved forward and put his arms around her and she hugged him back squeezing him. He could feel her fight for control she hated to cry especially in front of him and he knew it. This whole situation pissed him off. Not quite as pissed as he'd been when he'd held her hand through her cancer battle but still pissed.
"Mom, you are ten times hotter than she is."
"She's twenty years younger than me," she huffed.
"Doesn't matter. You're still hotter."
"You have to say that." She rolled her eyes but at least she smiled.
"No, I don't." He laughed, "Trust me I am in no way required to describe my mom as hot." He wasn't required to say it but it was the God's honest truth. It wasn't his mediocre ex he'd been describing to his horny gamer friends.
She laughed at that and he grinned.
"Thanks for being here, Nate. I don't know how I'd get through this without you."
"I'm glad I'm here too. But you'd get through it. You're tougher than he is too." He reached past her and pulled a wine glass off the rack. He filled it and topped hers off as well.
"You're not old enough." She admonished but he took a swallow anyway.
"I've got two more months. You really want to get into semantics? Besides, you and I both know this isn't my first drink."
"No!" She covered her ears, "Don't tell me! I don't want to know!" She cried laughing.
"You're my baby I'm not ready to hear anything else."
Nate smiled even as he took another swallow. "It's grape juice, Mom," he said and winked at her.
"Right." She shook her head but made no move to take the wine. "Did you make it to all your classes today?"
"Yep, and wrestling practice too." He watched her look through the fridge.
"Have you eaten?"
"Not yet. Listen, speaking of classes, can you help me with my photography class?"
"Me? How can I help?"
"I need a model."
"Ha! For what a senior citizen shoot?"
"No, it's a layout on the female form."
"You're serious?"
"Of course."
"Nate, why don't you ask one of those girls always fawning over you after your matches?"
"I wouldn't want to give any of them the wrong idea."
"Yeah, okay that's probably not a good idea," she laughed. "But I still don't think I'm the right choice."
"Mom, you have to get him out of your head. He's an asshole and a cheating bastard. You are hot. Way hotter than that twenty-two-year-old bimbo who's only interested in him because his limp dick comes with a hefty bank account."
Her jaw sagged in surprise and she stared at him wide-eyed.
"I'm serious. You need to get out and start dating again. Get your confidence back."
"The only men interested in women my age are twice my age," she laughed.
"Or half your age." He'd quit letting his friends come around in high school because they all wanted to try to nail his mom. Sandra Walker was the stereotypical MILF and she had no idea.
"Nate, you're crazy!" She laughed. She wasn't taking him seriously and he was getting frustrated.
"I'm going to prove it to you. I'm getting my camera." He didn't wait for her to agree or protest. He had something to prove now. Mother or not she was the hottest woman he knew if he had to take some pictures for her to see that he would.