Family Friend
My family visits my mom's childhood best friend for Valentine's Day, and Marlene begins to seduce me after seeing my 18-year-old body.
Chapter One The drive down from Lansing took forever. Flat gray roads, half-melted snow piled along the shoulders, and my dad’s endless rotation of seventies rock made the air feel heavier than the sky pressing down on Michigan. He loved his road trips. The playlists, the gas-station coffee, the pit stops every hour just to “stretch his knees,” he was in dad mode. Mom rode shotgun, chatting about work or laughing into her...