Motorcycle Girl

Chapter 9: As Long as it Takes

Chapter 9: As Long as it Takes

I look down at her suitcase, her purse, and the look on her face, and I immediately open my mouth to defend myself when she walks into the apartment and starts hitting me with her purse.

"Mom!" I say, moving away from her.

"You. Not. Not. My. Son. Anymore. Who. The. Fuck. Do. You. Think. You. Are. Nathan!"

She keeps hitting me and I flinch away from her and stand there and take it. After almost a minute of her yelling at me, she throws her purse on the couch and slams the front door. "You..." she trails off, shaking her head. "You like that French girl, don't you? That's why you're so abusive to her. You abuse her. Have you hit her, Nathan?"

"No!" I exclaim. "No, I haven't hit her!"

"But you like her. You like her and your don't know how to express your feelings." She says. "You are a disgrace." She spats. "You forced her to stay in the house, used your strength to make her stay inside, and she's just a girl! She can't defend herself! You told her she's not a lady, called her a brat, and I'm sure the list goes on. Have you seen her today? Did you touch her today?"

Oh fuck yeah I touched her today.

"You're here to scream about me about French Fry?" I ask carefully.

"French Fry!" She raises her hand and hits me upside the head. "Nathan Reed! Who the fuck do you think you are!"

"She calls me little!" I exclaim.

"Why? You have a little brain, I think it suits you! You are being so disrespectful! You are just bitter because you'd never had sex."

"Mom!" I say. I see Odeletta's eyes widen slightly in the kitchen, and she starts gulping her beer.

Same, Frenchie, same.

"You've never had a girlfriend, Nathan." She says. "And if you're gay, you can tell me!"

"I'm not gay." I say. "Will you stop?"

"Why?" She demands. "No, I will never stop. Not until you turn into the respectful young man that I raised you to be."

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"Nathan, can I talk to you?" Odeletta blurts after a few hours. Mom spent the whole time scolding me and making me clean my room, the bathroom, and anywhere else. She forced me to vacuum the house and now she's rummaging through my kitchen to find something she can cook. I look at Odeletta.

I know she's hear for a reason more than coming to tell me she changed her mind.

"Uh..." I cough awkwardly as Mom looks at her. "Okay."

She walks into the living room, grabbing the blanket on the couch.

"Now you be nice to that girl." Mom says when Odeletta walks out of the apartment.

"Yes ma'am." I grumble.

Mason snickers, and Mom whips him with the dish towel.

"Mason, I'm sure Nathan can tell me some things I can beat you over." She says. Mason presses his lips together and stops laughing. I walk out of the apartment where Odeletta is wrapped in the blanket, waiting.

I shut the door and lean against the wall.

Her eyes study me for a long time.

"You...were you a virgin when you and I had sex?"

I swallow nervously and then nod my head.

"Really?" She asks. I nod again. "Well for somebody unexperienced, you really know what you're doing with...your hips...and hands...and...mouth." She says, mumbling the last part. She sits down in the middle of the hall and I sit down across from her. "But...you hate me."