Taking the Edge Off – Part 2

‘I don’t mind.’

‘But your mother must ask. You were falling for me? Really?’

‘I’m sorry mom, it’s not like I could help it.’

‘Well sex does do that to people who have a close connection. It’s pretty standard, which is kinda sad now that I think about it. But we had sex and it happened. There, I said it.’

‘Yeah we did…’

‘I actually have a confession myself,’ she offered to disarm him, just in case she was prodding too hard or too soon.

‘You do?’

‘I fell for you pretty hard myself.’ And she had said it with a sweet smile and without a shadow of regret.

‘You did?’

She nodded. Her smile widened into a shy grin. It wasn’t in her character to be shy. Not around her own son. ‘And I enjoyed it. I couldn’t imagine falling for a sweeter boy and in all honesty it made me feel like a teenager again.’

‘Wow, I had no idea,’ Michael said and stopped to think back.

‘But it was only when we started fighting and distancing that I realised, so it probably hurt more than it should have. It’s okay though. Moms and sons aren’t really cut out for that. But you really compared her to me?’