Double Dirty Outlaws: A MFM Romance
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“Oh,” says my dad, his tone of voice dropping back down more to his normal tone of voice. “I’ve been reading about you and your relationship…”
“Oh no,” I say, groaning. “Listen, Dad, man, I can’t have this talk right now. I’ve got to keep my head in the game. I don’t need a lecture about my lifestyle right now.”
“No,” says my dad. “It’s nothing like that. I just wanted to say I’m proud of you.”
“You… what?” I’m completely flabbergasted.
“Yeah,” says my dad. “I’m so glad you’re happy now. I’m just… I just wanted to say I’m proud of you.”
“You’re what?” I say. Now I’m completely shocked. My dad hasn’t said anything like this to me, not even when I got drafted to my first pro team.
“Listen,” says my dad. “I haven’t always been the most supportive.”
“You can say that again,” I say.
“But…” says my dad, apparently not knowing quite what to say. “It just means a lot to me that you’re happy. I watched one of your most recent interviews where you came out about your relationship.”
“I couldn’t really avoid it,” I say. “It was already in the news. I thought I might as well talk about it, you know?”
“Yeah,” says my dad. “Anyway, you looked so much happier in that interview than I’d ever seen you. I know this is the life you chose and I know it’s the life for you.”
“Wow,” I say. “Dad, I just don’t know what to say… This means a lot to me.”
“Thank me after the game,” says my dad.
“You want me to call you?” I say, confused.
“I’m going to be there, dummy,” says my dad.
“You’re what?”
“Yeah,” says my dad. “Me and your mom are coming to the game. Colton and Aly set it all up. We’re going to meet their parents and everything.”
“They didn’t tell me anything,” I say. “But honestly, it’s a nice surprise. I’m glad you’ll get to meet them.”
“Break a leg, son,” says my dad.
“That’s not what you say to football players,” I say.
“Close enough,” says my dad, hanging up.
I’m at the stadium now. I like to get here earlier than everyone else.
I head into the room and toss my duffel bag down on the concrete floor. There’s a lot to think about—all of our parents meeting one another. Is this good or could it be disastrous? I’d never want it to happen…but now that my dad says he’s cool with the relationship, well, maybe it’s going to be a good thing after all. A real blessing in disguise sort of thing.
No one else is here from the team yet, so I strip down and head into the showers.
I’ve got the water heating up, the steam starting to pile up around me, when there’s the noise of the door opening.
“Who’s there?” I say. “Coach, is that you?”
“Zach?” comes Colton’s unmistakable voice.
Colton appears in the showers and shakes his head. “Wrong locker room, Zach,” he says, grinning at me.
“No way,” I say. “This one’s for my team.”
Colton looks around, startled, suddenly realizing he’s in the wrong room.
“Guess you’re right,” he says.
I nod. “Good luck out there,” I say.
“You too,” says Colton. “Did you hear about the parents thing?”
“Yeah,” I say. “Didn’t know you guys had set it up.”
“Aly and I thought it might be a nice surprise, since you never talk about your parents and you hardly ever talk to them.”
“But are your parents cool with it all?” I say. “I mean, last time we were there, they kicked us out of the house and I think your dad threw some stuff at us.”
Colton chuckles. “That’s almost normal for him,” he says. “But… yeah, he’s starting to come around a little bit… The sheriff paid him a visit and let him know all about what you and I did for him, how we were trying to take on that whole gang by himself. And he feels pretty bad that Aly got mixed up in the whole thing on his behalf basically.”
I chuckle. “Well, that’ll do it,” I say. “We did kind of save his ass. And Aly’s mom? She’s coming too?”
“Yeah,” says Colton. “I think she’s over the whole thing. She decided that her daughter having two famous boyfriends who are also rich is better than having none at all.”
I laugh. “That’s logic for you,” I say.
Colton claps me on the back and heads out the door, over to his own locker room.
A couple minutes later, the rest of my new team streams in from the doors.
“Zach!” shouts Coach, who’s always announcing his presence by yelling and screaming, and sometimes throwing his clipboard. “You better be ready to give ‘em hell.”
“Yes, sir,” I say, giving a mock salute, stepping from the shower dripping wet.
“Put that thing away,” says Coach, looking down at my crotch. The rest of the team laughs. I’ve made friends quickly here, with the exception of Coach, but he knows I’m such a good player he gives me plenty of free reign. They traded a hell of a lot of good players for me and they’re paying me even more money than I was making before—they can’t do without me, and that’s a good feeling. I know Colton and Aly can’t do without me either, and I can’t do without them.
Aly
“Is this the one where they try to put the ball in a basket?” says my mom, tugging on my sleeve.
“Mom, come on,” I say, smiling in exasperation. “You know that’s basketball.”
“Well, I don’t know,” says my mom. “But I’m sure that your boyfriends are going to do a great job.”
I laugh. “When did you become so accepting of all this?”
“Two’s better than none,” says my mom, smiling at me.
“That’s what I said,” says Zach’s dad. “Isn’t that right, Suzy?” He pokes his wife in the ribs and she giggles.
“That tickles,” she says.
“Shhh,” says Colton’s dad. “The game’s starting.”
I’m sitting in the best seats in the stadium with my mom, Colton’s parents, and Zach’s parents. This is the first time they’ve ever been together, and they’re getting along well… almost annoyingly well. They’re all cracking jokes and they won’t even stop, not even for a minute. Even Colton’s dad, who counseled us all to be quiet, won’t stop cracking jokes.
No one seems to care now that I’m dating two men or that we’re all living together.
“Times are changing,” says my mom when I question her about it.
I think, really, that their change of heart had an awful lot do with the fact that the two of them saved the whole town from that gang. Not only is Colton’s dad really thankful, but my mom is too. She’s not as scared any more to walk around town.
“Hell of a throw,” shouts Colton’s dad, waving his arms and standing up.
“Damn right!” shouts Zach’s dad.
“What’s going on?” says my mom.
“No idea,” I say. “One of them threw a ball.”
“I thought you knew all about football,” says my mom. “You were always watching those games.”
I chuckle quietly to myself. “That doesn’t mean I know anything about the game,” I say.
And it’s true.
I watch the game as best I can. But I can only concentrate on Colton and Zach and how hot they look in their football gear, all sweaty and muscular, their asses looking incredibly hot in their tight pants… I barely have time to pay any attention to who’s throwing the ball and where they’re throwing it to.
Football has never been my game, but football players certainly are. After all, I’ve got two of them all to myself.
“Why don’t we all go out for dinner?” says my mom, as the dads cheer along to the game.
“Sure,” I say. “But it’s going to have to be an early night.”
It’s got to be an early night because Co
lton, Zach, and I have a lot of important business to take care of in the bedroom, and it’s going to take us all night long. We need to get the earliest start we can.
THE END
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