Page 6 of Mama's Boy
“I’m hanging up now, bye Mom.”
The phone rang almost as soon as he hung up.“You want me to pack you boys a lunch?”
“No, Mom.Rowan’s taking care of it.”Chase sighed and said, “I’ve got to go.If I want to go out on Saturday, I have to write another chapter today.Bye, Mom.”
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Friday Afternoon
Chase spent most of the morning cleaning his small house.It wasn’t very messy with just him but it did get dusty although why he was dusting the top of the refrigerator he didn’t know.Well, the guy is over six foot and hot, don’t forget hot.
The phone rang and he looked at the clock, it was 2:15.
“How was the lesson?”Chase put his phone on speaker.He sprayed the Pledge onto the coffee and end tables.
“I drove around a development today.I did very well if I must say so myself.”Chase ran a dust rag on the tables, being sure to take off the lamp and dust beneath it.
“What did Mr.Schwartz say?”Chase put the lamp back onto the end table and started on the coffee table.
“He’s making an appointment for my driving test in three weeks.On Sunday we start parallel parking.”
“Isn’t it a little expensive to have a lesson every day?”Chase frowned.Maybe he should arrange to meet the mysterious Mr.Schwartz.
“Oh, no.I stopped paying for the lessons after the first one.”Chase flopped back onto the couch.He knew his mother was an attractive woman when she put her mind to it.From the sounds of this, she was all in.
“That was nice of him.Maybe I should go with the two of you when you’re getting the car.”He didn’t want someone taking advantage of her.After all, she was his mother.
“Now listen here, Chase Summers.I am perfectly capable of picking out an automobile.I helped your father do it for nineteen years.Just because I lived in the city, doesn’t mean that I don’t know what’s what.”
“Okay Mom, so shoot me for trying to protect you,” Chase blustered.
“You were always such an obstinate little boy.”Chase rolled his eyes.
“Mom…just be careful, all right?”Chase put down his can and took the rag to the last table.
“I’m going to hang up.I have to press my blouse for tomorrow.”
“Bye, Mom.”
Chase hung up the phone shaking his head.Sticking the cell phone on the coffee table he’d just finished the dusting, he sat down in his recliner, put his legs up and grabbed his laptop.You have to do another chapter today, so get cracking.
Chapter 3
Saturday
By 9:30, Chase had worked himself into a state.He broke two pencils and had a Band-Aid on his finger from poking it on the end of a paperclip.The house was clean, he packed some cold water in a small cooler and his beach towel sat on the top along with an additional towel to dry himself should he go into the water.Chase tried to do something with his hair but all he managed was to make it look greasy.He took another shower and left his hair flopping in his eyes as usual.
He always threatened to get a crew cut but couldn’t bring himself to do it.Well, he liked what he saw at the grocery store, don’t fuck with success.
The doorbell rang.He peeked out the blinds and saw Rowan waiting.Taking a deep breath, he opened the door.
“You’re just as cute as I remembered,” Rowan said as Chase invited him inside.Chase’s answer to all compliments was a blush.
“I put some water in a small cooler.I can drink a lot of water on the beach.”
“Thanks, I was going to stop to get some more water but I didn’t want to be late.”
Thank God he decided to come here instead of getting the water.My nerves wouldn’t have stood him being late.Chase picked up his cooler.
