Just the Three of Us by J.M. Snyder

Author:J.M. Snyder [Snyder, JM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Published: 2013-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Alone with his son in the front seat of Lane’s Jeep, Remy mulled over the first morning the three of them had spent together. There had been more laughter than the night before, that was for sure, but Braden still seemed a little moody around Lane. Remy wondered if Lane was right, and Braden was mad because he had seen the two men kissing in Kate’s kitchen. Would that be enough to spoil his mood and turn him against Lane before they were even properly introduced?

Remy thought maybe it was.

He tried to imagine how he would have felt at Braden’s age, but it was difficult to do. Not only was his childhood so far in his past that it was hard for him to recall ever feeling any different than he did now as an adult, but because his parents had been married. He had never lived with just his mother and only seen his father on weekend visits. He had never seen anyone other than his mother kissing his father, and when they did it in public, he was no more angry or embarrassed than other kids were when their parents showed affection to each other.

Braden knew Remy and Kate both loved him very much—they told him often enough—but that they no longer loved each other. It had taken Kate a while to get back into dating, but in his son’s mind, Remy must have never appeared to be seeing anyone. There were no other women he brought around, no one he introduced as a “special friend,” no indication that Remy had a life outside of his son’s until yesterday. Until Lane.

Was it because Lane was another guy that Braden was so upset? With gay rights always in the news anymore, he didn’t understand how anyone could still be shocked to discover two men dating. But at eight, Remy hadn’t paid attention to current events—he couldn’t recall any one thing that had happened when he was that age. His earliest memory of watching the news on TV with his family was when the Challenger exploded, but he was twelve when that happened. Sixth grade. He was home from school with the chicken pox, and his father had called his mother from work to tell her to turn on the television. When Remy went back to school the following week, they had an assembly with a real, live astronaut to explain the disaster to the children.

But he couldn’t recall anything before that. At least, nothing newsworthy. If he looked the year 1982 up online, he might could find something that would jog his memory, but he wouldn’t be sure it had been something he remembered when it happened or something he’d learned later as an adult.

Still, Remy had hoped his son would be more accepting of him. He didn’t want to say his lifestyle, because being bisexual wasn’t a way of life; it was life. For as far back as he could remember, he had always been attracted to both genders.

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