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The Tease (Part 2)
Date: 11/10/2017, Categories: Voyeur, Author: Adamgunn, Rating: 5, Source: LushStories
we sat on the curb, she yelled encouragements to the children. "You're actually enjoying yourself." "What's not to like," I answered. "you've got a nice family." "You should have seen us when I had my abortion, it was hell around here." "You had an abortion?" "While I was in college. I was just sloppy. For a week, it was a constant uproar, everybody seesawing back and forth, not sure whether I should have the baby or not. Of course, everybody said it should be my decision, and in the end it was, but then they'd put in their two cents. In the end, my mother held my hand while it was done, and Julie and Dad couldn't nurse me enough for the next two days." Silence for fifteen seconds, I didn't know just how far I could take the subject. Finally, "Are you sorry?" ". . . Yes . . . No . . . He'd be fifteen now, I'm convinced it would have been a boy, and I wonder what he'd be like. Of course, my life would have been so much different, and I'm happy with the way the rest has turned out. I don't know." Her eyes misted up, I put my arm around her back, she leaned into me. Soon Josh rode past, yelled, "Watch, Aunt Audrey," and she smiled at her nephew. The vulnerability was suddenly over, her smile was back. Dinner was around the dining room table, cut crystal - perhaps antique - and good silverware. I was alerted to the fact that it was used every month, a tradition. Afterwards, Bill took me out back where he smoked a cigar, and he probed me about my politics, relieved when he found ...