Sometimes crazy events are remembered by where and when things happen. While my parents are on vacation I had hoped to have a usual, clueless, homework filled to the gun walls kind of time; intermittently excited by the presence of my best friend Samantha.
However, the last couple of days since she and me began our 'sexual studies' has turned my world upside down in more ways than I could imagine. How could anyone imagine that Samantha, a lady and now lover I know I still will disappoint in the end, would even show me the time of day beyond friendship...
Then came the part of Tabatha, Daisy, Aunt Matilda, plus the up and coming 'trip to the river,' that promises to even be more wild!
Sometimes things change, and with that change your world turns in an unexpected, wonderful and incredible new direction.
This day happens to be one of those times, and I would not change it for anything...
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Once again my folks had made contact via e-mail; the usual update with pictures of their vacation, along with the usual questions of school/friends/relatives/neighbors and the like. Dad being dad was right to the point in his questions: Is the house still intact? Have I burned the city to the ground? Won the lottery yet?
I sent back to them:
All is fine, Samantha is helping me with my studies; Aunt Matilda is coming by to make sure the house is still intact. She sends her love with full kisses and all, says she is seeing someone special and will have a new story tell you involving a motorbike and a ride for you dad in the sidecar.
I would love to see the look on his face when that happened!
I was soaking my feet in the backyard pool, listening to the gentle gurgle of the artificial falls and the breeze in the trees that block out the entire world, when dad texted me with a simple message - Listen to Matilda, she has a good bit of common sense; 'love and kisses' nearly gave me a heart attack son. Bad enough I walked off the end of the pier.
Now that gave me a deep, loud and long laugh; so I promptly e-mailed back to mom, asking that she send any pictures of dads walk off the pier.
She responded with a simple, curt, reply of "Shall do Benny."
"Who is Benny?" a voice asked at my shoulder...
I was startled so bad that Samantha just stood there, watching the expanding waves in the pool from where I half fell, half leapt into it.
When I managed to get back up to the surface; gasping, sputtering water from my lungs, only to see Samantha sitting there with a smile on her face. She just rolled her eyes and giggled, apparently she has been sitting there for some time behind me.
Great, I've manage to once again go and make a fool of myself.
"Who is this 'Benny' mentioned in the e-mail?" she asked for a second time.
"Uh..." my cheeks felt hotter than molten steel with embarrassment, "that is my mothers nickname for me since I was a couple of years old."
"I love it; it's so precious Benjamin....just like you are..." she gave out a short string of giggles.
"So may I call you that when it's just us together Benjamin?"
I nodded yes to her, knowing that she will not tease me constantly with that nickname; one promise I got from her is that no one else is to know of it. I figure there are some things for me and Samantha alone to share.
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I have to say one thing about floating around in a swimming pool, it gives you a rather unique perspective on the world; sometimes it also gives you that moment you need to see things as the way they have become...
