The Fire Went Wild (Home is a Fire Book 2) by Jordan Nasser

Author:Jordan Nasser [Nasser, Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: XXVII Media
Published: 2015-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

I met my dad after school at Zen Yoga, downtown. I’d tried a few yoga classes in New York, but I was always so busy that I never had any real consistent time to devote to a practice. I wasn’t sure that now was the time to start, with all the hectic things happening at school, but Johnny convinced me that I should give it a go. He said it would “align” me. Plus, he was looking for bonding experiences, and most of my ideas centered around drinking alcohol and eating fried food. I suggested jogging, but he claimed a knee injury, so here we were.

“Hey, Johnny,” I said as I walked into the door of the studio. I was having a hard time calling him “Dad,” and it kind of made me laugh to call him “Johnny,” so it sort of just stuck.

He stood up from the couch near the reception desk and gave me a half man-hug and asked, “How was your day?” We took off our shoes and made our way into the main room. We grabbed two mats and placed them in the back towards the corner. If I was going to make a fool of myself, I figured I could at least try to hide my shame in the back row.

“Oh, you know. Same old, same old,” I said, as I sat down on the mat and began my preliminary stretches. “Made my way through an angry mob with pitchforks, kids harassed me in class, Bammy dropped a bombshell at lunch, and now I’m hanging out with a man I haven’t seen since I was too young to remember. Pretty standard, I guess.”

He smirked. “Smart ass. You get that from your mother’s side of the family.” He was standing, trying his best to touch his toes and loosen his back.

“Derek! Hey there!” Tammy walked in the door with a group of girls from Chesty Cheese. Dressed in ripped t-shirts and short shorts that left little to the imagination, they placed their mats in the row in front of us. Tammy reached down and gave me a hug, exposing her best assets a bit too much. I thought Johnny’s eyes were about to pop out.

“Tammy, this is Johnny. He’s… my dad. Johnny, this is my friend, Tammy.”

“The stripper,” she laughed, as she offered him her hand. “Derek’s just too polite to throw that part out there. But I kind of like the shock value of it, don’t you?” She winked at him as she said it. She knew how to play to her audience.

“Oh, yes, most definitely,” he said, taking her all in. “We said ‘exotic dancer,’ in my time. So how do you two know each other?” He pointed his finger back and forth, quizzically.

“Oh, Derek’s a regular down at Chesty Cheese where I work. Y’all should come down some time! It’s a blast. We’ll see if Peaches has any father/son specials.” She laughed and placed herself on the floor, stretching her legs before the class began.

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