1. The Favor


    Date: 6/18/2016, Categories: Taboo, Author: mandycandi, Rating: 31, Source: LushStories

    knew Tina and Nick to determine just who the “parent” was in their relationship. Though Tina held down a job and seemed to excel at it, the perpetual young girl inside her, combined with her already scatter brained, immature and ditzy nature, sprang forth and ran totally rampant. And this in turn compelled the disciplined, stoic and self-sacrificing officer and gentlemen within Nick to assume the parental role. Before he was eighteen, Nick was balancing the checkbook and paying all the bills. He was also doing all the shopping, cooking, laundry and housework. Most weekday mornings required him to wake Tina as she was usually hungover following an evening of bar hopping with friends after work. He made sure she ate a good breakfast, took her vitamins and then packed her a lunch in order to economize. On the nights she didn’t go out, he always had a nutritious dinner prepared for her. There were countless occasions where Nick had to go pick Tina up from a nightclub or an after-hours bar because she was too intoxicated to walk much less drive. Then they’d have to go back the following morning to get her car. More than a few times, Nick had to bail Tina out of jail for either public intoxication or public lewdness. Tina was constantly scheming! So much like a teenage girl trying to outwit her parents in fact that Nick sometimes couldn’t believe his ears with the outlandish tails she would concoct. He would find himself constantly reminding her that she was a grown woman ...
    approaching forty years old. But the pleading look in her eyes told a very different story. They were so innocent and so gentle. And very often, so lost. He knew the feeling all too well himself and it always melted him. Then there was the litany of men she dated. As she worked for a major movie studio, Tina was courted by a seemingly endless stream of struggling actors, alcoholic writers, controlling and abusive directors as well as Neanderthal-like stage hands, media morons and countless others. But regardless of profession or social status, each time a suitor showed up at the door, it broke Nick’s heart. And every time that Tina would come home crying or not come home at all for days on end crushed his soul and worried him sick. How many times did he have to come to her rescue and toss one of these worthless bums out on his ass? Far too many. And how many times did Tina sob in his arms and every fiber of his mortal being would cry out how much he loved her? Well, every fiber but his vocal cords. He never spoke it. An extraordinary young man, Nick managed all the household affairs as he raised his stepmother and still maintained a 3.8 GPA through high school. He also played soccer, ran track, kept a strict weight training program and practiced yoga. When it came time for Nick to go off to college, he had the choice of anyone of the United States Military Academies thanks to his father’s impeccable service record and reputation. He turned them all down. He had no interest in the ...
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