but I saw them by accident. I’ll never forget the look in her eyes, she knew that I knew what was going on and I wasn’t going to just walk away. One night he scared her so bad she called Bryan and asked if we could come to her dorm. Nothing happened that night between us she actually went running right back to him that same weekend. Felt like she had ripped my heart out and stepped on it. Pissed me off so bad I couldn’t stand to look at her. After graduation she broke up with him but that didn’t stop him from trying to get to her.” He told me about the fire at the fitness center then about the Ronnie guy breaking in to moms house.
“She fucking shot him? Like pulled the trigger and put a hot bullet in him?” I was shocked. I knew mom could take care of herself but never imagined she would do something like that.
Dad held up two fingers, “Twice,” he grinned, “Here and here.” He pointed at his shoulder and the inside of his groin. “Prez wanted to watch him bleed out but I was the one that let the dumbass live. I know you’ve heard your mom’s nightmares from time to time or noticed how jumpy she gets at night. Should I have let the motherfucker bleed out…probably, but if your mom has to suffer with what he did to her then he can suffer from what she did to him.”
I opened my other beer the same time he did, “Holy shit,” I shook my head, “So what if she would have kept going back to him?”
Dad shrugged, “I wouldn’t have let her. I won’t lie Ryder I fucked another chick or two while your mom was dating Ronnie then when she broke up with him she tried to date another guy. The pull your mom and I had toward each other was unlike anything I had ever felt before. I knew that it would be just a matter of time before she realized she couldn’t keep ignoring her feelings for me. Don’t keep ignoring Harley or she’ll move on. Talk to her and be her friend, but whatever you fucking do. Don’t knock her up, I think Bryan would kill you.”
I sat there silent, “I can’t talk to her though.”
He laughed, “Sure you can just be her friend.”
I snorted, “Right. I’ll remember that when she brings some dick weed home from college.”
“Believe it or not I don’t think she’ll do that. I think being away from you will make her realize that she feels the same way about you.”
We both finished our beers, “Enough of that heavy shit, I have things to finish.” I grinned at dad.
“Not coming to dinner again I take it?”
“Not tonight, I will next weekend.”
He nodded his head and walked out of the shop. I debated on calling Harley back and talking to her but chose not to.
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My first trip to a bike rally had been a huge success and gained me several more clients so getting things ready for the next one was top priority. This bike rally was the biggest of the year, thousands of bikers would be there. Along with that came lots of booze and hot chicks. I had already planned on setting up an airbrush booth to do body paint for that exact reason. It would be an easy way to make extra cash.
Two of the Rail Riders club members went with me, I laughed when dad and Bryan had to go out of town to a convention with mom and Theresa that week. Luckily the guys that rode down with me were single and planned on having fun too.
When we got there, hundreds of bikers milled around looking at different bikes. Some of the custom paint jobs were badass and sparked different ideas for me to try. We found the tent that I had rented and quickly set up the airbrush kit and body paints. Within a half an hour I had three hot women waiting for me to paint them.
“What will it be?” I asked the bleach blond woman that had tits the size of cantaloupe barely held in by a leather bikini top.
“Well,” she dragged a finger between her tits, “I want something that makes it look like I’m wearing this top but I don’t want to