I guess I never really thought about my Mom remarrying after Dad left us when I was two. I don't remember him much so for all of my life it's been just Mom and me. I think she did ok raising me by herself. Well ok so I'm not grown yet but 19 is considered an adult to most people.
It was just after my eighteenth birthday that Mom introduced Jim to me. I could tell for a couple of months that something had been up with her due to her going out more and well you know, acting like a teenager.
Haha.
Jim was great. Right off the bat he didn't talk to me like I was some stupid teenager but like I had a brain between my ears. He also was not the type I'd envisioned Mom going for. Jim was pretty punkish... for an old guy. He even had his tongue pierced!
He caught me looking puzzled at that shiny thing in his mouth once. I think it was on the third visit of his to our house. He proudly stuck out his tongue to show me the barbell, "My son and I got our tongues pierced at the same time." That was when I first learned about Wolf.
Wolf was a couple of years older than me. Almost 21 at that time, I think. I didn't meet him until a week later... and this is that story........
"Kaylee can you get the door?!" Allison yelled to her daughter from the confines of her bath in the master bedroom at the back of the house. With a heaved sigh Kaylee got to her feet from her lazed position on the sofa. Long blond hair was tossed over her tank toped shoulder as bare feet shuffled to the door. The newly eighteen year old didn't expect what she saw on the other side of that wooden door.
He was what most girls her age would call drop dead gorgeous. Well, the girls that loved the punk look and Kaylee was one of those.... even if she did hide that fact from the few friends she had. Wide eyed the blonde girl just blinked at the boy with long wavy black hair and deep brown eyes. He cocked a grin to her and unhooked a thumb from his chain laden black jeans. "Uhh.. hello in there?" He questioned the sanity of that girl at that moment.
To Wolf, yes that was his birth name, the girl before him would be pretty... if she grew up a little more. His eyes traveled over her bare legs up to the short shorts she wore then over the nondescript tank top that mostly hid her curves, if she had any, due to it's plainness. When he was through checking her out as any red blooded air breathing guy would do he noticed her reddening blush.
"Oh... hi... do I... know you?" Kaylee managed to stumble out some words and could have smacked herself at how half witted they sounded. It's tough to drool and speak at the same time.
"Yeah is this Allison Colver's house?" Kaylee blinked several times. He was looking for her mother?
"Um, that's my Mom." She had just answered him when her mother, now fully dressed and accessorized came around the corner to the entry hall.
"Oh Wolf! I'm glad you found the house." She eyeballed her daughter then the boy and in her naturally cheery manner declared, "How lovely, you've meet Kaylee already! Kaylee, this is Wolf... Jim's son."
It smacked her in the face now, who this guy looked like. Oh look... a tongue piercing. Kaylee just nodded adding to her oh so charming repertoire so far.
Wolf just stood there full of a confidence that made Kaylee and anyone else around him notice. He gave her that half cocked grin and that raised nod that guys do to say the equivalent of the long greeting ... hey.
"My Dad will meet us at the dock. I'll drop you off on my way to practice." Wolf moved his eyes from Kaylee to Allison as he spoke.
"Oh good! Ok Kaykay..." Allison giggled. She always loved that pet name and expression for her daughter. Who cares that it mortified Kaylee just then. There she is: the personification of mortification. "I'm going sailing with Jim. Don't wait up!" There was that teenager streak again in her mother's demeanor and a giggle that was inherent for any female to know the meaning of.
Oh God!! They have sex!!
That thought just hatched in Kaylee's mind and from then on she didn't hear or see anything that her mother was talking about. Finally Kaylee was shutting the door behind her chattering mother and the soft clink of Wolf's chains... on his jeans.
Kaylee found herself in her room wondering what sex was like. Ok so it was horrible to picture your mother and her boyfriend doing it but Kaylee had no other reference. It wasn't that Kaylee was unpopular it was just that she was unknown... yeah that's pretty much the same thing. In school last year it seemed she was either invisible or trying to be invisible. Shyness was a curse in her case.
Some guys took interest in her but it was a bit of work to get Kaylee to open up and talk to them. Her first kiss had been awkward and quick. She'd developed physically with curves that most girls would envy but she hid them under ill-fitting clothes so as not to draw attention to herself.
Now though Kaylee wished she had a boyfriend because the summer was boring so far. Three hours into her mother being gone the doorbell to Kaylee's house rang again. Cautiously looking through the stained glass window at the top of the door she spotted that dark wavy hair.
"Hi, again." She actually managed two syllables after opening the door to find Wolf there in the dark of her porch. He had a pizza in hand and that grin on his face.
"You're Mom wanted me to check up on ya."
More mortification. Kaylee blushed profusely while Wolf came in and made himself at home. "Yeah well, I'm fine. You didn't have to come by." Kaylee took the defensive, as per written instructions in the teenage manual.
Wolf sank onto the sofa and set the pizza down on the coffee table. "I know." His answer while opening the box. "Got some soda?"
And so it turned out that Kaylee and Wolf started talking.
She found out that he was out of school and in a punk rock band. He found out she was going to graduate a year early and was really smart... and quiet. The conversation lingered slowly around watching music videos until it was near midnight.
The sound of a car outside roused Wolf from reclining on the sofa and Kaylee from laying on the floor near the TV. "I guess our parents are home." She sighed and again the flash of the thought of them having sex passed through her mind. She shivered and shook her head.
"Yeah you know... when they get married... we'd be steps." Wolf chuckled highly amused at the thought.
"Married?" Kaylee's jaw nearly hit the floor.
Six months later the wedding was a crazy, wonderfully happy, and everything Allison could have wanted. Kaylee was fine with it, she even liked Jim quite a bit. As time had passed she found he was an open person whom she could really talk to and he didn't judge her or make her feel invisible.
The wedding reception was a real party. Drinking, dancing and much laughter. At one point, Kaylee didn't know who, but someone got the crowd into thinking it would be "cute" to see her and Wolf dance together. They were urged on and when their parents got wind of it none would hear of any refusal.
Kaylee looked nervously up at Wolf as his hand slid around her satin covered waist. She could understand why all her friends thought he was cute, if he only didn't have so many piercings and wore such odd clothing. Except, she liked the way he looked piercings and all.
Wolf had already, more than once, eyed Kaylee appreciatively. She really looked beautiful all dressed up. He had the quick thought of messing up her coifed hair and with a chuckle dismissed it.
"What's so funny?" Kaylee asked as they had the obligatory dance. He smelled nice.
"Nothing." He paused then added, "You look really pretty." He gave her that grin of his. The one that could get him anything he wanted from just about anyone.
She gave him a puzzled look back. "And that's funny?"
"It could be." Was his answer just as the song ended and the 'aww cute' 's and the applause sounded. Wolf went his way and Kaylee hers for the rest of the evening.
Life changed a bit. Jim and Wolf moved in to Allison and Kaylee's house due to the fact it was huge and had as Wolf called it a, "Killer place for the band to practice" aka the garage.
Wolf ended up in the bedroom across from Kaylee's. Soon it was a punk/goth mecca complete with black paint on a couple of the walls. Jim was very supportive of his son's endeavors so at the age of 21 Wolf had permission to not attend further schooling and was only mildly pushed into getting a job. That job had him working at a music store... surprise surprise.
The winter had been spent with the four of them getting used to each other and setting up the house. The air was still chilly but held a promise of spring one day as Kaylee got up to get ready for school. Both her Mom and Jim left way early for their jobs so she figured it was just her and Wolf.
Wolf, per his usual habits, would still be sleeping in... gawd she was jealous of that! Walking down the hall and trying to be quick about it Kaylee flipped on the light to the bathroom and proceeded to take a hot shower. Amidst the steam and spray of the shower she didn't hear the bathroom door open.