THE PICNIC
Date: 2/9/2017,
Categories:
First Time
Mature
Taboo
Author: brianbigdogsmith
... their three k**s for that weekend. This meant that my nephew and my two, sweet, little nieces weren't at the picnic to fawn all over their Uncle Dan as always. I wasn't going to pass judgement on him or her. Shelly wasn't at the picnic either. We were separated ourselves then and had been for just over two months. She took Liz and Ellie, just after school let out, and went home to her mother's. And why? Because I caught her cheating on me with some asshole that sold leather-goods at the mall! Can you imagine that? I catch HER and SHE gets mad at ME and leaves? Anyway... the picnic... It was a bright, sunny day, not too cool in the shade or too hot in the sun. We were all at a city park with lots of trees and picnic tables and a beach, down the grassy hill, for the k**s to enjoy sunbathing and swimming. I was sitting at Mom's picnic table, enjoying one of the Bass ales I had brought after I had emptied the picnic contents of both my mother's and my uncle Ralph's car trunks. "Thank you, son," Mom said as she smoothed the red-checkered tablecloth over the lacquered surface of the picnic table. "I'm so glad you came... what with Shelly running off and all." "Oh, MA!" I protested, looking around to see that nobody was listening in. "I never trusted that one," Mom went on. "I could always see that she had a roving eye..." "It was partly my fault," I cut in before I took another swig of Bass. "YOUR fault? What did YOU do?" ...
... "I should have paid more attention to her, I guess." "More attention," Mom said with a sarcastic tone. "She should have kept herself busy enough taking care of you and the girls, Daniel." "Mom, Shelly was a good mother to the girls." "Good mother," Mom snorted. "Shelly was NEVER a mother like your s****r. THERE'S a woman who CARES about her c***dren AND her husband." "Yeah, Ma," I nodded. Mom tossed down the towel she had been wiping the tablecloth with and said, "And LOOK at what happens to the poor girl! Her husband drinks and is abusive to her and their c***dren and finally he moves out on her!" "I know, Ma. But it was a rough couple of years for Ted..." "Just moves out with not even so much as a how-do-you-do and leaves your poor s****r so devastated." "Well I don't know if she was exactly devastated..." "She cried for two weeks!" "She cries a lot, Ma." "With a no good husband like that, who wouldn't cry?" "Look, Ma. The last year has been tough on all of us." "Not as much on you, Daniel. You're strong. You can handle a little strife now and then. You've always been that way. But your s****r..." "Yeah. I know." "First she loses her father and then her husband..." "She'll survive. Ted's not DEAD. They'll get back together..." "You don't see her and talk to her as much as I do, son. You don't know. She's very distraught and ...