“You two, knock it off,” my mom says, looking between the two of them.
“What’s really going on?” Brenda asks.
Please don’t say anything yet, please just make something up. There are a million excuses that he could use right now, let him pick one of those. Tenn looks at me and smiles. Not one of his shit-eating grins, but a genuine smile. Fuck.
“Well Regan finally realized I am crazy about her, and luckily for me she decided to give me a shot,” he says, squeezing my knee under the table.
The noise level is louder than the kids when Santa comes to visit. The parents all take turns hugging each other, and I can’t even make out what the hell they are saying.
I look up at Tenn and narrow my eyes. Maybe he’s forgotten that now I can punish him by not putting out. “Happy now?” I groan.
“Very,” he says, kissing my lips.
“Oh holy shit, look at that. They’re kissing,” my mom squeals.
“How did this happen? I knew it, Tennyson,” Brenda says, smiling.
Linking our fingers together, he kisses my nose before beaming at our parents’. “I called her a fucking idiot and kissed her.”
They all laugh, and even though I’m annoyed, I can’t help but join in. I mean, who calls someone a fucking idiot before kissing them the first time? Only Tenn.
“When did this happen?” my mom asks, radiating excitement.
“Just the other day,” I say.
The excited babble keeps continues, and I just sit there, taking it all in. I didn’t realize that everyone thought we should get together and saw the way Tenn looked at me. Why the hell didn’t someone just say something to me, make me open my eyes?
Tenn laughs at their excitement. “So this is what I want cleared up. I slept around, a lot, even though I wanted nothing more than to be with this beautiful woman.” The moms oh and ah, but I’ll admit it makes me blush. “She doesn’t think I was waiting in the wings for her because of that, but I would be a virgin if I knew that eventually I’d end up with her if I gave up sex.”
“Regan, listen. You can’t worry about the sex life of anyone before you are together. That’s in the past, and if you focus on the past, you’ll never be in the present. You slept with guys, Tennyson slept with women, it’s all part of life. Just because he was physical with someone, doesn’t mean it was emotional. Let that shit go, darling,” my mom says.
“She’s right. Jealousy has no part in a relationship. If it’s there, things won’t work,” Brenda says.
I knew all this, but if it makes Tenn feel better then fine. My mom does have a point, a non-sexual related one for once, and Brenda is right about jealousy. Maybe I was jealous when Tenn was with these other women because I wanted it to be me, but I’m sure as hell not jealous it ever happened.
I look up at Tenn, and he immediately turns his head to me. “Feel better?” I ask with a smile.
“I will soon,” he says, grabbing my hand under the table and putting it on his cock.
“Regan, was it Tennyson’s meaty cock that finally made you realize what you were missing out on?” my ever so blunt mother asks.
“Yes, Mom, that’s exactly what it was,” I say, laughing. Only because it is what led to the whole thing.
“I knew it,” she yells, slapping her hands on the table.
“I’m done. We’re done. Thanks for your help, but we are getting out of here,” I say, standing up.
Tenn gets up, putting his arm around my waist, and we say our goodbyes. Once outside he glances down to me and grins.
“Tennyson, you better make my daughter see stars,” my mom yells out the fucking door.
Keeping his eyes locked on mine, he whispers against my check, “Oh I will, over and over and over.”
We get out of the truck and he lifts me up, tossing me over his shoulder. I don’t know whether to hold onto him or my dress, but instinctively I grab onto his shirt.
“Tenn, what the hell are you doing?” I shriek.
“Getting us inside faster than your little legs will carry you,” he says, smacking my ass.