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Taking Thomas
Date: 10/14/2014, Categories: Taboo, Author: MsMayhem, Rating: 12, Source: LushStories
My mother had recently remarried a very nice man, the corporate type you understand. He was kind, well spoken and above all, he treated my mother like a princess. Nothing was too good for her in his eyes, a good thing in my view. In the years since my father had passed, it seemed as if she had become a shadow of the person I remembered, gloomy, isolated and lost. I was more than pleased when the two of them married. Her happiness was all that mattered. With the wedding came a new home and a new stepbrother, both on the west coast of the United States. There were a few negatives to my new stepfather. One was his work ethic. He is a workhorse! Easily he maintained a sixty-hour workweek. Travel and countless number of meetings filled his days. The other meant my mother would now be home alone in California with my new unruly seventeen-year old stepbrother. My poor mom hadn’t been accustomed to raising a boy. Thomas was brazen and disobedient. I thought him to be cute, yes, but definitely spoiled and entitled. On two separate occasions he had wrecked his car, only for his father to buy him another without any sort of hesitation. Both of the incidents had been caused by his carelessness and showboating. As for Thomas’s grades they were an embarrassment to the word academia. A sad situation for a father so accomplished, who maintained high hopes for his only son. Granted, I had never been the ideal child in certain respects. But academically I had been steadfast. And now at ...